11 h. ago Only 1% of people can solve brainteaser with hidden message leaves many baffled

A tricky brainteaser has left social media users scratching their heads as they try to make out the hidden message in the peculiar image - but can you solve it?

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3 d. ago Only tiny amount of people can solve 'impossible' candle riddle that's actually simple

Only five per cent of people can actually solve this brainteaser - but it's not as hard as it seems. All you need is a sharp mind and the IQ of a mini Einstein to see through this question

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4 d. ago Handbag brainteaser has people stumped and only a genius can solve it

A brainteaser found in what appears to be a children's magazine has grown-up Brits going 'insane' as they struggle to find the correct answer. Are you able to solve this one?

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5 d. ago People left scratching their head over viral maths problem for child

A popular maths social media account, called @Mathclass88, posted the equation on Twitter, where people from all over the world filled the comments section.

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1 week ago ‘These are Ukrainian lands’: people in Donetsk pour scorn on Putin’s territorial demands

In Kramatorsk, 12 miles from the frontline, daily life goes on amid the constant threat of attacksIn a branch of the Ukrainian coffee chain Lviv Croissants in the frontline city of Kramatorsk, there is a noticeboard where people leave coloured Post-it notes with simple hand-drawn messages. One just says “Kramatorsk”, with red hearts below and a yellow and blue semi-circular fan above, the colours of Ukraine.Among those looking at the notes is Bohdan, a 26-year-old, who has been serving in the army for the past three years. The soldier, now in logistics, has chosen to spend his one day off in Kramatorsk with his dog Arnold to photograph for himself recent Russian bombing on a city where he was based for 18 months. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Discounty review – cozy shop life simulator takes satisfying approach

PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox; Crinkle Cut Games/PQubeDon’t be fooled by the graphics, there is no twee, relaxing vibe in this intense and work-heavy game where you are taken in by your aunt and put to work in her supermarketWe are thick in an era of retail simulators. In the comet-trail of Stardew Valley, a genre is now fat with titles wherein a protagonist restarts their life and career in a bucolic, quasi-rural landscape and undertakes a blue-collar job. They get to know the local people, interfere in some lives, solve some community issues – maybe even a mystery or two. Maybe even get married. In a way, they are all Harvest Moon’s pixelated offspring – but Discounty, Crinkle Cut Games’ new offering to the genre, tackles the cozy shop life simulator a little differently.In Discounty, you are taken in by your tricky, cantankerous aunt and are put to work in her branch of a franchised supermarket. A fascinating approach, given that the road less taken through Stardew Valley involves priori...

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1 week ago The Thursday Murder Club review – Richard Osman bestseller provides solid, star

There’s much to enjoy in this adaptation of Osman’s ingenious book, with Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley, Celia Imrie and Pierce Brosnan as the senior-citizen X-MenRichard Osman’s phenomenal bestseller from 2020 was an ingenious, accessible, good-natured book, which helped rebrand the English detective novel as “cosy crime”, started a celeb-copycat publishing trend and, being about four elderly people in a retirement community rising above ageist condescension to solve crimes, spoke eloquently to the shut-in frustrations and escapist yearnings of the Covid age.Now it has been adapted as a funny and likable, if slightly bland, comedy-drama for Netflix, which as one character amusingly and pre-emptively comments, feels just like a Sunday teatime TV crime drama. There is nothing new about these nostalgist leanings: Agatha Christie has after all been a solid film and TV export for more than half a century. Screenwriters Katy Brand and Suzanne Heathcote adapt the novel and director Chris Colu...

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2 w. ago ‘He gave me a massage. I’ve never been in more pain in my life’: Terence Stamp remembered by Paul Andrew Williams

The writer and director of Song for Marion recalls moments of bravado, tenderness and alarming physical fitness with the late actor We sent Terence the script for Song for Marion, and he just turned up at the office. He buzzed the door and said: “Is Paul there?” There was a new person working in our office at the time, and she said: “No, no one’s in at the minute. Who’s calling?” He said: “It’s Terence Stamp.” And then she was like: “Well, he’s not here, shall I leave a message?” She didn’t invite him up or anything. She left him standing there. And he didn’t give a shit about that, to be honest.Me, Terence and Gemma Arterton, who played the music teacher in Song for Marion, went to lunch at a vegan cafe in Shoreditch. His character, Arthur, was someone who loved his wife (played by Vanessa Redgrave), and would do anything for her, but always moaned, was always cantankerous, and found it very difficult to show any form of love to his son. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Only people with sharp eyes can solve 'irritating' optical illusion in seconds

You could easily spend a while staring at this tricky image, but are you able to work out what's going on in the 'irritating' optical illusion within a few seconds?

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3 w. ago Simple math equation leaves people bewildered as they forget 'golden rule'

The internet is torn over the elementary-level math equation, with people suggesting conflicting answers based on their approaches.

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3 w. ago Only top two per cent of people can solve this 'genius' brainteaser

A maths professor has shared a tricky geometry question with his followers on social media and has claimed that only the top two percent of people will be able to solve it - but can you?

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3 w. ago Tricky riddle leaves people confused as only certain hobbyists can solve it

A fiendishly difficult riddle has left people scratching their heads as they struggle to work out the answer - but it can be solved easily by those with a certain hobby

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3 w. ago Baffling riddle can only be solved by people who enjoy specific hobby

People have been left scratching their heads over a baffling riddle that seems 'impossible' to solve - but those who enjoy a specific hobby could solve it easily

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3 w. ago Only 5 per cent of people can solve 'impossible' animal problem

A tricky riddle circulating on social media asks people to figure out how many horses a farmer has - and the answer might not be as obvious as you think.

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