{"id":16877,"date":"2026-05-18T07:44:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T07:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=16877"},"modified":"2026-05-18T07:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T07:44:29","slug":"sometimes-the-easiest-riddles-are-the-ones-that-trick-us-the-most-this-short-iq-test-looks-simple-at-first-but-it-is-designed-to-make-people-focus-on-the-pattern-instead-of-reading-the-question-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=16877","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes the easiest riddles are the ones that trick us the most. This short IQ test looks simple at first, but it is designed to make people focus on the pattern instead of reading the question carefully.!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trick in the riddle is hidden in the first sentence. It says, \u201cJohnny\u2019s father has five sons,\u201d so one of the sons is already named: Johnny.<\/p>\n<p>The other four sons are Zaze, Zeze, Zize, and Zoze, which makes people assume the last name should follow the pattern as \u201cZuze.\u201d But the correct answer is Johnny himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The trick in the riddle is hidden in the first sentence. It says, \u201cJohnny\u2019s father has five sons,\u201d so one of the sons is already <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=16877\" title=\"Sometimes the easiest riddles are the ones that trick us the most. This short IQ test looks simple at first, but it is designed to make people focus on the pattern instead of reading the question carefully.!\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16879,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16877\/revisions\/16879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}