What can you do with an empty tin can besides the obvious? 4 players took our 90-second creativity test with an empty tin can and came up with 34 ideas in total. Here are their most popular uses, the rarest ones, and how they score.
Ideas that only one or two players thought of: this is what the originality score rewards.
Share of all ideas submitted for an empty tin can. The more categories a player covers, the higher their flexibility score.
The uses most people think of first. Ideas close to these lower the originality score.
List as many uses as you can for an empty tin can in 90 seconds. You get a score out of 100 on fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration, and your ideas can feature on this page after review.
Popular ideas include alat bantu berjalan, board banaa sakte hain, catch insect, chulha banaa sakti, cooler banaa sakte hain. The most original answers go beyond the object's usual function: look at the rare ideas on this page for inspiration.
The test follows the alternative uses method: in 90 seconds, you list as many uses as possible for one object. Your ideas are scored on fluency (how many), flexibility (how many categories), originality (how far from the classic answers) and elaboration (how detailed).
It is a classic divergent thinking exercise, popularized by the psychologist J. P. Guilford, in which people list unusual uses for an everyday object. Our free version is a quick, informal training exercise, not a clinical assessment.