Below you'll find a number of lateral thinking puzzles to help you think outside the box in writing and in life. These puzzles came to us as part of an e-mail forward, and though we've done our research to discover where they came from, they seem to be unattributed.

Good luck and enjoy!
 
      man 
1. ----------
      board

      stand
2. ------------
          i

3. /r/e/a/d/i/n/g/

4.     r 
     road 
       a
       d

5.  cycle 
     cycle 
     cycle

    0 
6.  -----
    M.D.
    Ph.D.

    knee 
7. light

    ground 
8.  ------------
    feet feet feet feet feet feet

9. he's X himself

10. ecnalg

11. death ..... life
 
12. THINK

13. ababaaabbbbaaaabbbb ababaabbaaabbbb

Answers:

1) man overboard
2) I understand
3) reading between the lines
4) cross road 
5) tricycle
6) two degrees below zero
7) neon light (knee - on - light)
8) six feet underground
9) he's by himself
10) backward glance
11) life after death
12) think big
13) long time no 'C'

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