Working Memory, a cognitive system that can hold information temporarily, is important for reasoning and the guidance of decision-making and behaviour.

Name the Flowers

Just for fun, the names of these flowers have been turned into anagrams (a word or phrase made by rearranging the letters).

Could you name at least five of the flowers?

How Many Socks?

Bart is a sock fiend!

He just throws them in a drawer – ten white socks and ten black socks are all jumbled together.
The socks are alike except for their colour.
If Bart closes his eyes and pulls out socks without looking, what is the smallest number he can take out and still be sure he has a matching pair?

Delete and Make More Words

Write the word SNOWING on your paper or screen.

Now delete the letter N to make SOWING. Can you now keep deleting one letter at a time, always creating a new word, until you have just one letter left? That will be a word, too.

Kitten Challenge

Two mothers and two daughters are admiring three adorable kittens in the pet shop window.
They each buy a kitten and leave the store with their very own kitten.
No-one has to share a kitten.
There were only three in the store.

How can this be?

The Totem puzzle

Look carefully and the Totem and imagine you are looking down on it from directly above. Which of the three shapes below would you see?

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