Brain Game

Find the Mystery

In this Playground, you’re exercising your ability to notice what you don’t know and become interested enough to pursue it.

AI says, “This Brain Game exercises a somewhat different curiosity muscle. The first Brain Game (“I Wonder”) says, essentially, “Here’s something interesting. Explore it.”

This Brain Game says, “Here’s something ordinary. Discover what’s interesting about it.”

I think that’s especially appropriate for The Thinking Gym because highly curious people don’t necessarily live in a more interesting world than everyone else. They notice that the world they’re already living in is interesting.“

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Curious about the Find the Mystery Brain Game? Copy and Paste this prompt into your favorite AI Chatbot, and follow its instructions:

Describe an ordinary situation, object, place, or activity in about 100 words. Don’t deliberately make it mysterious or tell me what’s interesting about it. My job is to examine your description and identify at least five things that make me curious. I’ll tell you what I’d like to know more about and why. Don’t answer any of my questions until I type “DONE”. Then evaluate my choices for depth, originality, and variety. Finally, point out three potentially fascinating mysteries hiding in the description that I overlooked. Copy Prompt to clipboard