A new brainteaser claims only people with high IQs can solve it in three seconds.
The picture puzzle challenges viewers to guess the name of a country by combining three images to create the name.
This picture shows an image of a frying pan, the letter ‘A’ and an emoji of a mom standing behind her child.
If you succeed in piecing together the country name in the allotted timeframe, it indicates that your intelligence score is 140 or higher.
These kind of puzzles can tell you a lot about how you think and view the world and can help you develop problem-solving and logical reasoning skills.
Only people with an IQ of 140 or higher can piece together the country name in three seconds using these images
To solve this brain teaser, viewers will need to study the emojis and symbols closely to come up with the closest possible name that comes to mind.
The answer is formed by piecing together pan – a – ma to form the country name Panama.
If you didn’t get the answer in the three-second timeframe, don’t be discouraged by having an IQ less than 140.
The average IQ – which stands for intelligence quotient – is about 98 in the US, with men averaging 99 and women coming in at 97.
Gifted people often get an average IQ score of 120 to 140, but only about two percent of the US population scores more than 130, giving them genius status.
Brain teasers are used to improve a person’s logic and problem-solving skills as well as enhancing your concentration and spatial reasoning.
It requires the individual to use logical thinking to answer the question correctly which reinforces the connections between the person’s brain cells, improves their mental speed, and can improve short-term memory.
Brain teasers can benefit people by improving their logical and spatial reasoning skills and consistent use can increase IQ by up to four points
Studies have also shown that brain teasers prevent cognitive decline and increase a person’s mental agility or ability to process information quickly.
A lesser-known benefit is that the combination of developing those skills will improve your IQ.
A study conducted by the University of Michigan found that people who worked on challenging brain teasers for at least 25 minutes each day increased their IQ by up to four points.
These games also work both hemispheres of your brain – the left which controls your logical and analytical thinking and the right which is in charge of creativity.
The brain is like a muscle and those who work it out regularly with brain teasers will be more intelligent in the long run.
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