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• Mentally review the names of the people you met at the
last social event you attended. Match their names and
faces with a fact you found out about them.
• Add the digits on the license plate in front of you at a
traffic light. Then multiply the digits. Decide which is
greater, the sum or the product.

• Add the digits of the license plate. Then add the digits
of that sum. Continue adding until your sum is a single
digit. Then divide the license plate number by 9. The re-
mainder, if any, will be the same as that single digit.
• Determine the best poker hand from the numbers on
the license plate of a van.
• If there are letters on the license plate, see how many
words you can form that have the letters in the same or-
der, in reverse order, in any order. For example, if a li-
cense tag has the letters AFD on it, you can find the
name Alfredo.
• If there are letters on the license plate, create an acrostic
for the letters. An acrostic is a sentence in which each
word begins with a letter in the list. For example, if a li-
cense tag has the letters AFD on it, make up a sentence
such as Arnold feeds dogs.

Caution: Do not perform any of these license-tag activities
while your car is moving, unless you are a passenger!
• Look at a scene, say, in a picture or out of doors. Close
your eyes and try to recall as many of the objects in the
scene as you can for one minute. Try this specifically
with a room in your home.

• Look at that same scene and find connections among
the items in the scene. How many objects are trees?
How many are manmade, and so on.
• Pick up a crossword puzzle from the newspaper and
try to fill in just one word.
• At the checkout counter, if you are purchasing just one
item, try to predict the amount of the sales tax. To do