What can you do with a mug besides the obvious? 2 players took our 90-second creativity test with a mug and came up with 12 ideas in total. Here are their most popular uses, the rarest ones, and how they score.
Share of all ideas submitted for a mug. 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 a mug 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 as a buoy, as a gas tank, as a hammer, as a mallet, as a pulley. 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.