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There are two identical rope. Each of them takes 30 minutes to burn completely. You have these two identical ropes and one fire lighter. How do you measure 45 minutes?
I heard there was a gathering of mechanical puzzle collectors in Japan this month, and was wondering if anyone knew of any articles about it. Or if someone went to it and has the time to describe some
Here's a brainteaser I have come across several times and thought I might share it with you:
Mr. X is at the bar and returning home. The very moment he leaves his wife at home, Mrs. X, sets off for
Does anyone know how to save a puzzle article from the web? I can save the first page using my browser, but the article is more than one page long. Also, I lose the pictures when I save. Thanks.
Um, Alley Baggett? It says at the bottom.
Nice Puzzle. Idiot.
Hi all
Just a question - I'm pretty new to the usenet thing (I've been a mailing list kinda guy for ages, but this is the first newsgroup I've joined), and sometimes it seems like people are respond
I think this is a well-known puzzle. Hundreds of years ago, a king of an Asian country who lived in a port city, received a visit from a king of adjacent country, his friend. The visitor brought a pre
This is a generalization of a recent Car Talk puzzler (from a month or two ago).
A ranking is secretly assigned to a deck of n cards, which is then shuffled. A dealer flips over cards one by one, te
After a long journey you reach a fork in the road. One fork leads to the Microsoft Corporation, the other fork leads to Utopia. A man stands at the fork in the road with a Microsoft Windows packaging
Hi,
I know that this is not a puzzle, but it will help me :)
I am after a music file in .au format which is extremely small and contains no sound - but it must be a valid .au file. I want this to
Imagine a perfect sphere diameter 40 centimeters resting up against a perfectly straight wall on a perfectly straight floor (in other words, at a perfect right angle) thus creating a gap between the b
...born, but the answer you may be after is 12:34 6/5/78 (no, can't see anything there - is this an American puzzle? ;) )
A brolly
1 huge one in the centre field (won't that play havoc with the baseb...
can anyone direct me to a site where I can purchase wooden burr puzzles?
I am not a puzzle freak so, I put this one to the experts.
This is one that a friend has set me:-
There is only one word in the English language that has three consecutive double letters;
silly
...y. A crossword MUST be two-dimensional if it's to have words crossing. But still, it may be a new form of puzzle......
A person was attending a college baseball game (NCAA Division 1, if you want to be picky). The game ended, and the person noticed that had it been a football game between those schools, the final scor
This puzzle is inspired by the Relativistic Merry-Go-Round one.
Assume you have a large ring of material, 10^9 km in circumference at rest. Spin it around the center at 95% of c.
Things [appear to
101 = 1100101
How ?
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This puzzle was featured in round 1 of my competition
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF BILLY NOBODY
Yesterday I was walking home when I saw on my front door a note from my wife. It said 'Billy, I am leaving y
You have probably seen alphametric puzzles like the following:
SEND + MORE = MONEY
-where the object is to substitute a different digit (0-9) for each different letter so that the equation is corr
Sam and Sally are playing a game where they roll their marbles towards a stake in the ground. The person whose marble is closest to the stake wins. Assume that the girl and boy are equally skilled and
Hello,
I vaguely remember working a puzzle that was authored by Newton. It was a problem regarding cows grazing in a field and the grass grows at a certain rate.
Does anyone have it?
Thanks, Gar
I have a question/puzzle that someone will probably know in this group. What is the longest word that if it was written in a circular fashion would spell a word no matter where you started and were yo
I am thinking about creating a puzzle and could use some suggestions for 'standardized objects'. The goal of the puzzle will be to pack certain objects into a container in such a manner that all of th
...that there was a thread on the multiplication by a constant (using shifts and adds) last September in rec.puzzles. I'm interested in all the results that could have been found about this...
...lling for the last name of the Danish scientist and writer Piet Hein, (1905? - 1996), creator of the Soma puzzle.
Thank you....
Can anyone solve this puzzle? It's killing me....
http://www.iit.edu/~maxiori/apps/Theseus.html
There are more here, they're good for practice...the above puzzle is #14
This series of puzzles is somewhere between straight cryptogram and trivia guessing game.
Each plaintext is a recording artist or group - song.
Top 40 this time. Mostly 1960s, a few 1950s & 1970s.
Hi I was given a puzzle to work out and failed miserably, so I was given the answer but no explanation and it is still bugging me.
I may have also explained it incorrectly.
A man writes 7 letters
...p://humber.northnet.org/weeks/TorusGames/html/IntroToKleinBottle.html)
What about other classical chess puzzles on this boards?...
Suppose you have four cubes, each with three white faces and three black faces. Each color is arranged in the shape of a letter 'C'; that is, for each cube the top, left and bottom faces may be black
OK Anyone able to figure this one out?
If Donna has won 500 dance competitions, Patricia 102 and Charlotte 150 then how many competitions has Louise won?
I have used the normal alphabet-number rel
My kids and I are doing a puzzle which is to identify logos of companies etc. We have about 3/4 of them but some are tricky !
There are clues under each one (like crossword clues) as to how many wor
i can't solve this puzzle: Make a correspondence of letters to numbers so that A=1, B=2, all the way to Z=26. Then try to find a word in the english language whose product is 1 million. The closest i'
Match the items in group one to the items in group 2 to get something meaning the same as something in group 3. There's a fair bit more too it than i've let on and you may feel that these instructions
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