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176 What
is the Greatest Amount of Pieces for a Jigsaw? |
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175 What's
next: leave, plateau, remember... ? |
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174 The
Ring and the Chain Puzzle Trick |
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173 A
Table Tennis Ball at the Bottom of the Hole |
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172 Matchstick
Problem 88111 |
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171 Six
Squares and 9 Lines |
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170 Unicursals:
2 Squares with Crosses & 1 Triangle |
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169 An
Orchard of 10 fruit trees |
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176 What is the Greatest Amount of Pieces
for a Jigsaw? |
Question: HI
THERE I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF YOU CAN PURCASE A PUZZLE WITH AT LEAST
50,000 PIECES. DO YOU THINK THAT IT IS POSSIBLE???? WHAT IS THE GREATEST
AMOUNT OF PIECES THAT YOU HAVE TO SELL ??
Wayne B.
Answer:
Unfortunately, our parent company ThinkFun doesn't carry jigsaw puzzles.
At the same time the posed question what could be the upper limit in the
number of pieces for a jigsaw puzzle is very interesting. If you have any
ideas, please,
drop us a
line. Thank you! |
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| Posted: July 19, 2008 |
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175 What's next: leave, plateau,
remember... ? |
Question:
What is the next word in this list?
leave
plateau
remember
day
too
I can't answer this question it's really too hard!
Anfernee N.
Answer: ???
If you think you have an answer to this word riddle, please,
drop us a
line. Thank you! |
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| Posted: July 19, 2008 |
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174 The Ring and the Chain Puzzle Trick |
Idea: Sir
I recently found a video demonstration of the ring and the chain puzzle.
The web site address is mentioned below.
http://www.magicvideodepot.com/view.php?a=v&t=4157
The trick is done with both single and both hands. This trick is elegant
and works on scientific principle.
Please be free in case you require any further information.
Card tricks using Binary system are quite common among puzzle and magic
enthusiasts and professionals. I request you to publish such conceptual
materials.
regards
Swamy
Comment: Thank
you very much for such a wonderful trick's tip! |
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| Posted: June 14, 2008 |
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173 A Table Tennis Ball at the Bottom of
the Hole |
Question: You
are stuck in a room with no windows and no doors. There is a hole in the
floor about a foot deep and just wider than the diameter of a table tennis
ball. There is a table tennis ball at the bottom of the hole. You have a
fork, a wrench and a long, thin plastic wire. How do you get the ball out
of the hole?
Deepak K. G.
Answer: We would like to
present this fun brainteaser to our visitors. Please, give it a try. The
funniest thing about it is that how one can ever get into a room which has
neither windows nor doors (?!). Think about this fact as a hint :).
Anyway, if your are stuck in getting on the core, take a look
here and click the "Show" button next to the "Spoiler for Solution:"
Have fun! |
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| Posted: June 14, 2008 |
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172 Matchstick Problem 88111 |
Question: I
AM SEARCHING FOR THE SOLUTION TO A MATCHSTICK PROBLEM...
THE PROBLEM...
MOVE 3 OF THE MATCHSTICKS FROM THE LEFT TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE EQUAL
SIGN TO MAKE THE EQUALITY TRUE.
I AM NOT SURE HOW TO WRITE OUT THE PROBLEM FOR YOU ON THE COMPUTER, SO I
WILL TYPE OUT THE EQUATION AND THEN EXPLAIN WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE.
88111=
EACH EIGHT IS 2 MATCHSTICKS HIGH AND 1 WIDE (USING 7 MATCHSTICKS)
THE ONES ARE MADE WITH 2 MATCHSTICKS.
IF YOU COULD HELP ME I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE IT!!!
OR IF YOU COULD TELL ME WHERE I MIGHT FIND A SOLUTION!!!
THANK YOU, REBECCA R.
Answer: Unfortunately,
we weren't able to come up with the answer to this matchstick problem.
Maybe you, our puzzle friends, could help us with this... Thank you! |
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| Posted: May 3, 2008 |
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171 Six Squares and 9 Lines |
Question: I
am looking for a puzzle that has six squares and 9 lines. Another words
you have to draw a line from each square to the other without crossing a
line.
Do you know of this and possibly what it is called?
Shirden T.
Answer: We suspect this
might be a related puzzle to the one which is sometimes referred to as
Walls
& Lines but honestly we are not quite sure. |
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| Posted: May 3, 2008 |
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170 Unicursals: 2 Squares with Crosses &
1 Triangle |
Question:
Dear puzzle people :)
For about 4 years - on and off - I've been trying to figure out how to
trace - without repeating lines or lifting pencil off paper - the
following figure: two squares - one on top of the other - with a cross in
each, and a triangle on the very top. It's also been called a two-story
house with a roof and two crosses. I've been told that there is at least
one way of tracing this. I am completely stumped and I've given up... can
you please give me the solution (if there is one)?
I must come across as very stupid - not being able to figure out a random
puzzle... but oh well.
PS - I've attached a word document with a picture of what it's meant to
look like... :)
Thanks for your time!
~ Véra Ada.
Answer: Unfortunately
the pattern is impossible to draw. More explanations can be found in
items
#51 and
#86.
The theory explaining which patterns can be drawn in one continuous line
and which can't, is at the
solution page to
The Unicursal Marathon puzzle. |
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| Posted: April 5, 2008 |
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169 An Orchard of 10 fruit trees |
Question: I came
across this puzzle and am stumped.
A farmer wanted to start a small orchard and went to the nursery to
purchase 10 fruit trees. The man at the nursery told him that if he could
plant the trees in five rows with four trees in each row, he could have
the trees at no charge.
Hopefully you can answer this for us. Thanks in advance.
Answer: Fortunately, we
have this puzzle in our
Puzzle Playground. It is called
10-in-5-Rows. There is also a link to solution in it. |
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| Posted: May 2, 2008 |
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