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Thursday 10 February 2011

Frog Leap Puzzle

You might have seen this Frog Leap Test. A friend sent it to me last Sunday. It was driving her crazy and she wanted me in the passenger seat losing my mind right along with her.

Try it. My theory is that the younger your brain is the easier it will be for you to get the frogs all to change places. Alternatively, if your brain works the way the brains of second graders in China do, you'll do fine.
I managed it twice, and couldn't figure out how I had done it.

If you find yourself obsessing (as I did) here's the solution: 
...which I had to watch innumerable times to reproduce it.