VOL.
#8 April 9, 2000
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Illusion
Which red circle is larger?
Solution at bottom!
Puzzle Game of the Week
Bridges ....Good luck with this one. I have not been able to beat it!
LATERAL THINKING PUZZLE
A man wakes up in a dark room. He switches on the light. A few minutes later he shoots himself. Why?
CLUES:
Q: Did some noise or action wake him?
A: No. He awoke naturally.
Q: Did he commit suicide because something happened which caused him to
realize something?
A: Yes.
Q: Did he see something which caused the realization?
A: No.
Q: Did he hear something which caused the realization?
A: Yes.
Q: Was there anyone else in the house?
A: No.
Q: Was it a special kind of house?
A: Yes.
Solution at bottom!
DO YOU KNOW???
1. What is the largest number of fingers and toes ever possessed by one person?
2. What is the longest recorded attack of hiccuping? Of sneezing? Of yawning?
3. How many square feet of skin cover the human body?
4. How much of the body is made up of bones?
Solution's at bottom!
LOGIC PUZZLE
"We're all keen on yachting in these parts," said my tow-headed friend, Thalia Collingwood. "Father has a yacht, and so has each of his four friends: Colonel Drake; Mr. Nelson; Sir Barnacle Hood; and Dr. Benbow.
"What's more, each of the five has just the one daughter, and each has named his yacht after the daughter of one of the others. So you see (she concluded proudly) "there's a dear little yacht named after me."
Sir Barnacle's yacht is the Gabrielle; Mr. Collingwood owns the Lorna; Mr. Nelson, the Rosalind. The Melissa, owned by
Colonel Drake, is named after Sir Barnacle's daughter. Gabrielle's father owns the yacht which is named after Dr.
Benbow's daughter.
Who is Lorna's father?
Solution at bottom!
MISC. PUZZLES
1.There is a very odd zoo on the planet XZyQE. It houses animals with two heads and three legs and animals with two heads and two legs. A count reveals that there are 102 heads and 134 legs in all. How many of each kind of animal are there?
2. The brilliant but not entirely sensible inventor had discovered three separate ways to save fuel while driving. Each one saved approximately 30 percent on fuel consumption. "Aha," said the brilliant inventor, "I will use only 10 percent of the fuel I now use and save a great deal of money." Unfortunately, it didn't work out that way. How much fuel did he save, assuming that all the savings were independent and cumulative?
3. Jack and Jill were racing, but it was no contest. Jack beat Jill by 10 yards on a 100-yard course. Jill suggested that for the second race, Jack should start 10 yards behind the starting line-she figured that would give her a fair chance, since he had won by 10 yards. Who won, and by how much?
4. The young fellow was extremely eager to join his girlfriend for dinner. It was a 24-mile run upstream to visit her. His boat's speed would be 14 miles per hour but the current is running 4 miles an hour against him. He just filled his tank and he knows he has 20 gallons, but he uses up 6 gallons per hour. Will he make it or will he run out of gas?
Solution at bottom!
SOLUTIONS
Illusion....They are the same size.
Lateral Thinking....The man is a lighthouse-keeper. He woke up in the darkness with a nagging feeling that he had forgotten something. He turned on the radio and heard a report that a ship had crashed onto rocks with great loss of life. He realized that it happened because he forgot to start the light that night.
Do You Know?......
1. On September 16, 1921, a baby boy in Shoreditch, East London, England, was reported to have been born with 14 fingers and 15 toes.
2. The longest hiccuping attack lasted 65 years; the longest sneezing fit lasted 978 days; the longest yawning ordeal took five weeks.
3.The average body has 14 to 18 square feet of skin.
4. Strong and light, the skeleton of the average person accounts for less than 20 percent of body weight.
Logic Puzzle......This is a fairly simple "inferential." Set out the data in tabular form:
| OWNER | DAUGHTER | YACHT |
| Collingwood | Thalia | Lorna |
| Drake | ? | Melissa |
| Hood | Melissa | Gabrielle |
| Nelson | ? | Rosalind |
| Benbow | ? | ? |
Clearly Benbow's yacht is named Thalia. What is the name of Benbow's daughter? Not Gabrielle; for Gabrielle's father would then own the Gabrielle. Not Lorna, for Gabrielle would then be Collingwood's daughter.
So Benbow's daughter is Rosalind; and Nelson's daughter (owner of the Rosalind) is Gabrielle.
So Lorna is the daughter of Colonel Drake.
Misc. Puzzle......
1. There are thirty-two three-legged animals and nineteen with two legs.
2. He saved 65.7 percent on fuel, using 34.3 percent of what he did before.
3. Jack won by one yard. He can run 100 yards while Jull can run 90, so with 10
yards left, the two of then tied.
4. He makes it with more than 5 gallons to spare.
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