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Did anyone else almost fall asleep reading this? I found the tick-tock metronome almost hypnotic.
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This is probably a well known puzzle, i think i've seen it before, but forgot the solution. Can you cover an M (as in a 4x4 grid with the top quarter triangle cut out) with 4 congruent shapes?
... problem first and then go to the web site to read the rest. Considering how popular the article says the puzzle is now, I don't understand why I haven't seen it mentioned here yet. Maybe it was alrea...
There are three men who go to a shop and give a tenner each to buy a CD which in total costs £30, they walk out of the shop when the shop assistant notices she should of sold it for £25. She gives a
1) At 12:00 midnight your watch is exactly correct. However, it loses 2.5 minutes every hour. Two hours ago your watch stopped at 06:15am. What time should it be displaying?
2) What should the next
Much to my embarrassment I e-mailed the contestants in my competition this puzzle and included the answer by mistake. I haven't made the same mistake this time. The puzzle is reprinted in its entirity
What should be the output of the following java program(guess without running the program).
class test
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In reference to the Monty Hall puzzle, which came up on
(David then used this story to make a point about blackjack.)
Is that true? Did Marilyn really invent the Monty Hall puzzle?
Can you think of an atom as a very very small solar system? And molecules as galaxies? Couldnt it be possible that its an infinitsimally small universe of its own, and that they have much smaller enti
... years was brought home to me recently, when I came across a long forgotten web site with a copy of a rec.puzzles posting that I made in 1992 http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~adam/PUZZLES/5sentences
Inter...
) Dave Gates' encouragement makes me post a new puzzle. :-) ) ) Eight persons play in round robin. (right expression? sorry about my poor ) English) ) ) In this game player A and B were common winners
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Does anyone know how old is 8 queens puzzle? I found only this information:
The n-queens problem is an old one that has been around for more than a century. Originally known as the 8-Queens pr
Return of the Incredible Machine: Contraptions
Hello folks, According to rec.puzzles archives[1], ...
'The entire book _Satire: Veritas_ is a palindrome, it starts 'Sir, I stra...' and ends '... Art, sir, is Satire: Veritas.' '
I cannot find s
One woman gave birth to two boys on the same day of the same year, but they weren't twins. How could this be possible???
I'm looking for an old jigsaw puzzle from my childhood. I'm 26 now so the puzzle would be around 16 years old. I don't remember the name of it but it was a cartoon puzzle. It consisted of a big moutai
I am just getting into puzzles and have some questions regarding the tricks of solving the various types of puzzles. I have been working mostly on logic puzzles and have learned a few things about how
If scramble means re-arrange, then in either case M and L would have to be present in the five-letter word. On going through a thesaurus for 'ship', I can't come across any such entry.
...s thumbing through some books at a library and moments later he's arrested. Explain.
This is one of the puzzles currently being solved on the lateral puzzles forum at:
www.lateralpuzzles.com
It ...
hi ppl, just thought i would ask for a little help on a puzzle im doing, just trying to guess the words eg. 60 = S in a D would be (60 seconds in a day) have done most of them but wondered if you had
A friend's house has a burglar alarm with a ten-digit keypad which takes a four-digit number to disarm it. Unfortunately the four digits in the number are the only keys ever used, and these four digit
...ped over, or overlapped, but they can't be folded.
Can you think of some other similar paper-silhouette puzzles?
Carl G.
(I apologize if this shows up twice. Two different newsgroup servers fail...
I ve got two puzzles named beat the computer made by Tenyo co.ltd Acording to the sticker on the back tehre should be at least 8 different puzzles. Does anyone know where more information on these puz
There are 2 rows of coins, A and B. Each containing 1968 coins. You are only allowed to do the following operation on row A. You can flip 11 coins AT A TIME chosen from any location. ( you can NOT tou
...omeone humble engough to answer my question that my well indeed be stupid in the view of the professional puzzle solver.
I have designed a 256 bits (rotor?) machine that encrypt already XORed bits, ...
...my day to day job I don't use numbers and my use of math stopped quite a few years ago, and so any number puzzles put me off, but I'm quite amazed at how quick some people respond.
The ones I like a...
hi friends,
if we know this:
2=2^1 2=2 81=9^2 9=8+1 512=8^3 8=5+1+2 2401=7^4 7=2+4+0+1 ...
The question: Is there for every exponent B a basenumber A, with the (sum of the numbers of A^B)=A ??
I saw a sign like this in a shop. What is the explanation?
C LOOPSEEND
Nick Day
Anyone know of a puzzle that goes something like: A hunter spots a deer 250 yards due north. He chases the deer which travels due east. The hunter travels 1 and 1/3 times as fast as the deer. If the h
...ords in the English dictionary. For each word, sort the LETTERS in that word into alphabetical order (eg, PUZZLE becomes ELPUZZ) Re-sort the entire WORD list into alphabetical order. In this new 'dict...
Find another poem with the same properties as:
Aeons ionic, Cameo ouija: Usual ennui there. Miaou!
Happy hunting, James
jamesdowallen at yahoo.com
Yes, this is a faq, and no, I don't intend to repeat it. What I'm looking for is some conclusive (or at least convincing) citation that I can show people who ask 'But how do you know Einstein *didn't*
...convenience this may cause I've decided to extend the deadline by 2 days.
If you have not received your puzzles please post in this thread and I'll send them to you post haste.
If you have any que...
A full set of marbles consists of 24 different marbles. Of course there are no duplicates - just 24 unique marbles to a set. If I am buying these marbles in bags of 100, and the bags contain a random
What's the answer to this puzzle?:
If a rooster lays one egg a day, how many eggs will there be after seven
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