NATIONAL Geographic have created a puzzle which is leaving people perplexed as
they can’t figure out which direction the bus is going.
It’s a commonly used brain teaser which tests school children’s logic skills
and the majority are able to solve it with ease.
But, it’s a completely different case for adults, as many struggle to identify
which direction the bus is travelling in.
The teaser, created by National Geographic, shows a yellow bus with identical
windows, making it difficult to determine which end is the front or back.
In order to solve the tricky puzzle, participants have to work out which end
of the bus has passenger doors.
The correct answer for people in the UK is that the bus is travelling to the
right; this is because we drive on the left hand side of the road.
However, if you’re from the US or other countries that drive on the right, the
opposite would apply and the bus would be travelling left.
The popular puzzle features in an episode of the National Geographic’s Brain
Games TV series and 80 per cent of children under 10 tested solved it
immediately.
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Although the teaser is fairly old, it’s recently popped up on social media and
many adults have admitted to finding it difficult.
This is believed to be because kids are better at using visual cues and old
experiences to interpret images and situations.
Research from University College London and Birkbeck, University of London
revealed that kids under 12 perceive visual information differently from
adults.
Adults often use various different kinds of visual information and sensory
cues to form judgements, while kids use the first visual cue.