Category: How?

Last Problem:

When is the time in Florida the same as the time in Oregon? How is this possible?

Answer:

There is a portion of Oregon, in the lower east side of the state, Malheur County, which remains on Mountain Standard Time, while the rest of the state is on Pacific Stadard Time. There is a portion of the Florida panhandle, which includes Pensacola, which runs on Central Standard Time, while the rest of Florida is on Eastern Standard Time. When the Daylight Savings ends, the hourly time when catching up from West to East will hit both of these areas as the same time, at 2 am CST – when Mst is 1am, CST kicks back an hour to 1 am.

Today’s Problem:

How are you related to this person, if you have no aunts: your father’s only brother’s wife’s only brother-in-law?

Last Problem:

What is the next letter in the sequence:
A D G K O T _

Answer:

“Y” – the pattern is 2 letters, 2 letters, 3 letters, 3 letters, 4 letters, so again 4 letters in between those letters. After “T” – there are 4 letters and next after those is “Y”

Monday’s Problem:

When is the time in Florida the same as the time in Oregon? How is this possible?

Last Problem:

You’re at a restaurant and the table is getting cleared – not much is left. You have a glass of water with one ice cube. How can you prevent the ice cube from touching any part of the glass, without using any props to keep it away from the glass?

Answer:

Place a string (or hair or thread) on top of ice, then sprinkle salt to melt the ice a bit, so it refreezes onto the string, then lift out.

Or, try this: Fill it up to the top with water – the ice will float to the highest level – a full glass of water will have a rounded top, higher than the glass, so the ice will move toward the middle.

Today’s Problem:

A poor but honest knight wishes to marry a beautiful princess, who is also in love with him. The king isn’t as thrilled about it, but offers the knight a choice. He will draw one of two slips of paper from a golden box – one slip says “Marriage” and the other “Death.” The princess knows that both slips actually read “Death” and whispers this to the knight. But the knight is allowed to marry the princess. How?

Yesterday’s Question:

If you have a rope hanging 20 feet up to a tall ceiling, what can travel up the rope faster than it can go down?

Answer:

Fire

Today’s Problem:

You’re at a restaurant and the table is getting cleared – not much is left. You have a glass of water with one ice cube. How can you prevent the ice cube from touching any part of the glass, without using any props to keep it away from the glass?