Friday, February 25, 2011

BEST MIND PUZZLE


1-----Please help me in dividing equally three breads among two fathers and their two sons.

2-----You've got 27 coin, each of them is 10 g, except for 1. The 1 different coin is 9 g or 11 g (heavier,
or lighter by 1 g). You should use balance scale that compares what's in the two pans. You can
get the answer by just comparing groups of coins.What is the minimum number weighings that can always guarantee to determine the different coin.

3-----The below is a number puzzle. It should be read left to right, top to bottom.
       1
      1 1
      2 1
    1 2 1 1
  1 1 1 2 2 1
  ? ? ? ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Question 1: What is the next two rows of numbers?
Question 2: How was this reached?

4-----Three boxes are all labeled incorrectly, and you must get the labels right. The labels on the boxes read as follows:
[box 1] nails
[box 2] screws
[box 3] nails and screws
To gain the information you need to move the labels to the correct boxes, you may remove a single item from one of the boxes. You may not look into the boxes, nor pick them up and shake them, etc.
Can this be done? If so, how? If not, why not?

5-----As I was going to Saint Ives,
I crossed the path of seven wives.
Every wife had seven sacks,
Every sack had seven cats,
Every cat had seven kittens,
Kittens, cats, sacks, wives,
How many were going to Saint Ives?

6-----A man runs a mile south, a mile west, and a mile north and ends up back where he started!


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