What Day is Today?

Last Problem:

Betty invites three friends to her overnight
birthday party. Her Mom made a beautiful
round chocolate cake for the girls to eat.

Betty made a party rule. Each child at the
party is allowed to make only one vertical
cut to Betty’s Birthday cake.

What is the maximum number of pieces of
cake that can result from Betty’s rule?

The Answer:

Eleven (11) pieces can be cut. This happens when
the girls do not cut the cake in half, but cut
the cake in unequal (or less than 50-50) proportions.
The cuts intersect each other, making 11 pieces of
unequal sizes.

Draw a round circle on a piece of paper. Then draw
4 straight lines through the circle. Do not cut the
cake in half with any single line. (There are four girls
at the party and each gets to make one cut of the
cake). Count the number of pieces.

Today’s Problem:

If today is Monday, what is the day after
the day before the day before tomorrow?

 

Betty’s Birthday Cake

Last Problem:

A hungry, exotic, four inch worm loves
to eat paper for a special treat. This
particular worm discovers by chance a
full set of 1964 Collier’s encyclopedias
sitting on the bottom self of Professor
Moriarty’s book shelf on Daft Street in
London on a sunny day in November.
The worm starts eating from the front
cover of the first volume. He eats all the
way through to the back cover of the
third volume before being discovered
by Professor Moriarty who was investigating
the etiology of Asian worms that are longer
than one inch long. 

If the covers of each book are each
1/2 cm thick and the pages of each
volume are 8 cm thick, how many
centimeters did the worm eat before
he was discovered by Professor Moriarty?

Answer:
The worm eats the entire contents of the
second volume only, or 9 cm. The books
are sitting on Professor Moriarty’s book shelf
back to back. The front cover of the first
volume is next to the back cover of the
second volume. The back cover of the third
volume is next to the front cover of the second volume. The worm only eats the contents of the second volume.
Today’s Problem:
Betty invites three friends to her overnight
birthday party. Her Mom made a beautiful
round chocolate cake for the girls to eat.
Betty made a party rule. Each child at the
party is allowed to make only one vertical
cut to Betty’s Birthday cake.
What is the maximum number of pieces of
cake that can result from Betty’s rule?

How Much Did the Hungry Worm Eat?

Last Problem:

Is it legal for a man to marry his widow’s sister?
Answer: The man is dead if he has a widow, so
he is not in any position to marry anyone!


Today’s Problem:

A hungry, exotic, four inch worm loves
to eat paper for a special treat. This
particular worm discovers by chance a
full set of 1964 Collier’s encyclopedias
sitting on the bottom self of Professor
Moriarty’s book shelf on Daft Street in
London on a sunny day in November.

The worm starts eating from the front
cover of the first volume. He eats all the
way through to the back of the back cover
of the third volume before being discovered
by Professor Moriarty who was investigating
the etiology of Asian worms that are longer
than one inch long.

If the covers of each book are each 1/2 cm
think and the pages of each volume are 8 cm
think, how many centimeters did the worm eat
before he was discovered by Professor Moriarty?

Legality of Marriage in California

Yesterday’s Problem

A frog is at the bottom of a
30 foot well. Each day it jumps
up 3 feet but slips back two.

When will he reach the top?

The answer is “day 28” – he jumps
up to 27 feet on day 27, but on day
28 he jumps up 3 feet starting at
27 feet – 27+3=30. At this point
he has reached the top and does
have to slip back two feet.

Today’s Challenge:

Is it legal for a man who lives in the
state of California to marry his widow’s
sister?

Frog Jumping

Last Problem

In this list of words, what is the
next word that comes into the sequence
and why?

aid, nature, world, estate, column, sense, …..

Answer

heaven

First aid
second nature
third world
fourth estate
fifth column
sixth sense
seventh heaven

Today’s Problem

A frog is at the bottom of a
30 foot well. Each day it jumps
up 3 feet but slips back two.

When will he reach the top?

 

 

What Word Comes Next?

Last Problem

The king of Estonia is 95 and
needs at long last to hand over
his throne to one of his sons.
But which one? He decides to ask
the sons to run a horse race.

Unlike the traditional horse race
however, the son with the slower
horse will be declared the winner of
the race and will gain the throne
the following day.

For obvious reasons, each son
feared the other would cheat
and have his horse run
slower than it is capable of
running. One of the two sons –
the ambitious one – sought out
advice from the court jester.

What was the jester’s advice?

Answer:

Race your brother’s horse.

Today’s Problem

In this list of words, what is the
next word that comes into the sequence
and why?

aid, nature, world, estate, column, sense, …..