Conclusion time!

I was pretty cruel on the testers asking them to after 1-month vacation what they remember about the questions and answers. And more importantly what they think was important for them. And did this one-by-one as I told them what had thought of their answers.

Most of them did not remember much from the first look - but after reminding of the questions they seemed to recall the ideas behind them. Which is very good. I did not expect them to remember everything but to recall it when something triggered it.

Due to the voting of the best answers (to win a case of beer) one important trend was noticed:

"The winning answer does not have to be the most correct on, but it needs to be very well expressed."

Which in my mind goes a long way. When situation is complicated and the solutions are all not-so-good and/or confusing - the most understandable version is used.

For example:
When somebody asks You
"Where are the long arm and short arm of the chronometer pointing?"
Would you know to tell the time?


On the whole everyone agreed that these questions are good exercises:
*) Reminding to look stuff from another angle
*) Getting out of daily routine
*) Making their mind work on different things than usual.


I hope this has been good experience also to those following this blog.
New questions are coming soon...


PS. Changes for new "season" no winner will be selected each time, all votes that testers answers get over the 8 questions will be counted and whoever gets most - wins.
(Secret vote, naturally).