National Geographic posed a tricky puzzle on its US TV show Brain Games that’s stumping adults everywhere — but kids have no trouble working it out instantly.
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Look at this picture of a school bus. If the bus were to move forward, which direction would it go in?
Would it head to the left or the right?
According to the show, 80% of kids under 10 used common sense and logic to quickly work out the puzzle from visual clues.
Adults, on the other hand, tend to over-think things and consider many visual and sensory clues before finding themselves, well, stumped.
So, how can you work it out? First think where the bus doors are; they must be on the other side of the bus.
Then, if you remember that people in the US drive on the right side of the road — and we now know that the doors are on the right side — the bus driver must be at the front on the left-hand side. Right?
So which way is the bus going? Left, of course.
