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Golf
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Four friends participated in a golf match for help raise money for \a
local charity. The competition between them was steep and each played
one of the best games of his life. During the 18-hole match, each friend
played very poorly and over par at one hole. But, each also scored a
hole-in-one at one hole... |
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The Marbles & Rows Puzzle |
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Everybody knows how it's pleasant to play with marbles. To make it more
puzzling we simply place marbles of four different colors onto nine
squares and... the Marbles & Rows puzzle appeared! Enjoy! |
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Square Intersection |
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This geometrical problem is about an elegant and neat way how to figure
out the exact area of the overlapping of two squares. Don't you want to
discover this way by yourself? |
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Monopoly Madness |
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Sara and her siblings were playing Monopoly before dinner yesterday.
They all got to pick their favorite game piece when they started. During
the game, each managed to build on their best property before they were
called to dinner... |
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Christmas Tree |
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It can be a little Christmas puzzle gift to entertain you for a few
minutes at least - only three triangles hidden in a Christmas Tree and
the extra one that has to be found. |
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Around Dodecahedron In 20 Points |
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Travel along the edges of a dodecahedron (a three-dimensional solid with
twelve pentagonal faces) through the 20 corner points of it and then
finish at the start point. |
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Snow Storm! |
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It snowed last night! Four couples woke up to a winter wonderland this
morning. Due to the high winds during the storm, the snow drifted as it
fell.... Determine the full name of each couple, how much snow they got
form the storm, and what time the road they lived on was plowed out... |
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Swordplay... |
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With the look of a wild man,
Captain Willy leaped into the enemy vessel. The crew scattered as the
notorious captain drew his most feared serpentine blade from its
scabbard... What's wrong with this picture? |
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Overweight Jars... |
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Lauren has just unpacked her
shipment of colored cosmetic jars, one dozen each of red, orange,
yellow, green and blue jars. Each color jar is packed in its own box.
All the jars should have weighed three ounces, but the packing slip
noted that each jar in one of the boxes actually weighs 3.1 ounces.
Luckily, Lauren owns a spring scale accurate to one tenth of an ounce.
What is the minimum number of weighings that Lauren must make to
discover the color of the overweight jars? |
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Red Painted Cube... |
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The Pharaoh has ordered that a
Cube Tomb should be built from 27 smaller cubes. He has ordered that the
entire outside surface of the cube (including the bottom) be painted
red. When the tomb is complete how many of the smaller cubes will be
painted red on two sides only? |
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Fish Switch... |
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Clarence's favorite joke is to
switch the signs on the fish barrels. Today he mixed up the signs on the
carp barrel, the catfish barrel, and the carp-and-catfish barrel,
deliberately hanging each sign on the wrong barrel. Clarence will let
you see only one fish, but it can be from any barrel you choose. Using
only this information, can you restore the signs to their rightful
barrels? How? |
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Duplicate Count... |
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The stone cutter has been asked
by the Pharaoh to duplicate this monument at a new location. His first
task is to make an accurate count of the individual cubes within the
existing structure. How many cubes are there in the monument? (Note:
please assume that all rows of cubes are solid unless you can observe
gaps of endings.) |
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Last Updated: November 22, 2007 |
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