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Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Cross the river.

Here's a game that is sometimes used as a form of IQ test to job applicants in Japan.

The goal is to get everyone across the river. Since the first screen is all in Japanese, here are the rules:

1. Only 2 persons on the raft at a time.
2. The father can not stay with any of the daughters, without their mother's presence.
3. The mother can not stay with any of the sons, without their father's presence.
4. The thief (striped shirt) can not stay with any family member, if the policeman is not there.
5. Only the father, the mother and the policeman know how to operate the raft.

Click on the big blue circle on the right side to start.
(LINK)

Don't worry, it's not impossible.

RiverIQ

4 comments:

Chang Kim said...

Do about five of these in 30 minutes, and that's one section of the LSAT. :)

Miss Lala said...

raising their arms? that is all the payoff you get? they could have at least programmed a little dance sequence or something. i mean geez, i just saved their lives by safely getting them across the river for pete's sake. where is the love!?

Anonymous said...

The sweet smell of victory! I agree with miss lala about the lack of love. Not even any cheesy music to go along with the arm raising! It would be great if Godzilla stomped them after you helped them across!

Anonymous said...

I was more interested in seeing the dance at the end, so I just went ahead and found someone else's blog that has the sequence to complete it. What does that say about my IQ?

http://www.bloged.co.uk/archives/001412.php