教你回答面试官提出的奇怪问题

'The main skills being tested by brain-teaser questions are problem-solving and creative thinking - and while there's no right or wrong answer as such, there are good and bad ways to handle them,' says Rob Williams, a chartered occupational psychologist and author of "Brilliant Verbal Reasoning Tests".
《言语推理测试》的作者，特约心理学家罗布.威廉斯讲到：“那些类似于脑筋急转弯的问题主要考察解决问题的能力和创造思维的能力。这些问题是没有正确答案或是错误答案的，只有你回答得好不好的判断。”

'The most famous brain-teaser question is, "Why are man-hole covers round?" A good strategy is to rephrase the question. So try explaining, "Why aren't man-hole covers square or rectangular?"Think about what would happen if you lifted the cover up, turned it sideways and dropped it diagonally through the hole. This actually gives you the answer since a round man-hole cover won't fall through its hole!'
“最经典的脑筋急转弯问题是‘为什么下水道井盖是圆的呢？“回答类似问题的策越是先换一种方式复述问题，‘为什么不能做成方的或矩形的呢？’试想一下，当打开井盖，将它转到对角，再盖上去，这时井盖可能盖不下去，所以井盖要做成圆形。”

Other types of brain teaser question are more open-ended.'You might be asked for an estimate, but don't simply answer with a figure off the top of your head,' warns Rob. For example, if you were asked, "How many tennis balls could a Mini car carry?" Rob recommends using the following three steps to answer the question (which works for any sort of brain teaser question).
其他的脑筋急转弯问题答案就很多了。“你可能会被要求估算什么，不要想着一定要有个确切的数字。”罗布解释道：“比如说问你一部迷你汽车可以装多少个网球之类的问题。”罗布推荐用一下三步回答（也适合其他的脑筋急转弯问题）

1. Repeat back the question slowly. Reflect upon each part of the question and give your immediate thoughts/ideas. Then you can go through saying how you are going to answer the question and why you have decided to do it that way.
1. 慢慢复述提出的问题。想清楚问题的每个细节，然后迅速作答。作答的套路是，先回答要怎样处理这样的问题，然后解释为什么这样处理。

2. Break the question down into parts then give an estimate of the number that would fit into a bucket. Then break down the different spaces in a Mini into say, front of car, back of car, in the boot, on the roof. Then all you have to do is to estimate how many buckets would fit into each of these four spaces.
2． 将问题拆开，先估算一个桶里能放多少网球，然后将迷你车的空间做个划分：车前、后、尾箱、车顶。最好你要做的事估计在车的四个空间里可以装多少个桶就好了。

3. Typically some clarification of the question will be allowed. This does not mean that you should criticise the question - or say that it is impossible to answer! What you will not be given is any guidance about how to answer or how "good" your answer is.
3. 对一些问题作出澄清是允许的，但不是说你需要去评论面试官的问题怎样，或是说这个问题是不可能回答的。关于类似面试问题时没有一个教材可以告诉你怎样回答类似的问题，和怎样回答好类似的问题