  While significant work has been done in the field of NLP on vertical
thinking, which involves primarily logical thinking, little work has been done
towards lateral thinking, which involves looking at problems from an
unconventional perspective and defying existing conceptions and notions.
Towards this direction, SemEval 2024 introduces the task of BRAINTEASER, which
involves two types of questions -- Sentence Puzzles and Word Puzzles that defy
conventional common-sense reasoning and constraints. In this paper, we tackle
both types of questions using few-shot prompting on GPT-3.5 and gain insights
regarding the difference in the nature of the two types. Our prompting strategy
placed us 26th on the leaderboard for the Sentence Puzzle and 15th on the Word
Puzzle task.
