Riddles

Riddle of the Toys

08.02.2010

Here’s an easy one to kick off the week: If only one of the statements below is true, then how many toys has Joe invented? “Joe has invented one hundred toys,” said Moe. “He’s invented fewer than that,” said Larry. “Joe has invented at least one toy,” said Curly.

Boy Born on a Tuesday

06.02.2010

Q: I have two children. One is a boy born on a Tuesday. What is the probability I have two boys? “What has Tuesday got to do with it?” you’re probably asking. Well, it has everything to do with it. The answer is at the end of this article.

For the Love of Nonsense

12.04.2009

I love these. Used to spend days with them as a kid. Via Pentagram: Harry Pearce was called on by Saks Fifth Avenue over the holidays to add a dash of festive cheer to their seasonal catalog. The catalog makes holiday shopping so easy that Saks decided to sprinkle its pages with 108 of Pearceâ€™s [...]

Riddle of the Table of Three

11.06.2009

Here’s a cool little one to roll around for the weekend. Three and only three people, Jack, Amy, and George, are sitting at a table. – Jack is looking at Amy. – Amy is looking at George. – Jack is married. – George is unmarried. Question: Is a married person looking at an unmarried person? [...]

Symmetry: Reality’s Riddle

11.02.2009

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video The world turns on symmetry — from the spin of subatomic particles to the dizzying beauty of an arabesque. But there’s more to it than meets the eye. Here, Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy offers a glimpse of the invisible numbers that marry [...]

Erin solving the U2 Riddle

10.17.2008

The U2 Riddle, one of my favorites, has been posted on this site for a few years now. It’s one of the entries that has drawn lots of traffic, and is in fact the #1 result on a Google search for “u2 riddle”. A few weeks ago, my cousin Erin and I were driving back [...]

An unannounced open-book quiz

05.08.2008

Solve for x: 1. XLGEBRAX 2. xray = black + white 3. 2x or not 2x. That is the question. 4. (9 + 7x/2 = (4 – 2x (6 -2x 5. Drifxod 6. $ = mxy Solve: (hint: “When in Rome…”) 7. n1ne 8. sk2ng 9. f4e 10. se5en 11. mo6ng 12. s9 13. e10it [...]

5+5+5=550

03.14.2008

A doozy. Using a single straight line to the left of the equals sign, make the following statement true: 5+5+5=550 Think about this one. It’s worth it. There are two correct answers. If you give up (but don’t!), you can go google it.

Awareness test

03.13.2008

Be sure to watch it twice. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Source: dothetest.co.uk

The Riddle of the Bag of Gold

03.13.2008

You are presented with ten burlap bags full of coins. Nine of these bags contain counterfeit coins; one bag contains real gold coins. A counterfeit coin is visually identical to a real coin, and you do not know which bag contains the real gold. Each counterfeit coin weighs exactly 1 gram, while each real gold [...]

Lizzie Widdicombe of The New Yorker

02.19.2008

Lizzie Widdicombe of The New Yorker. Wrote an article about the bash. Dude, this woman is a genius. What makes me label her so? Read, count, and pay close attention.

Been Called

12.09.2007

Been called: An ace; a bad lad; jail cell bailed; a doodlin’ non-blonde; ice-cold and doobie-enabled; a b-load-laced lid; a candid and jaded lion; banned and canned; all bad boiled blood and bone; old, lean, and clean; bedded and laid; a doll bod, dialed and dancin’; a bed candle (LOL); nailed and loaded; an idol, [...]

The Riddle of the Goose in the Bottle

12.07.2007

Imagine you have a large glass bottle with a goose trapped inside it. How can you get the goose out of the bottle without breaking the bottle or harming the goose?

Thinking outside the box

07.30.2007

A classic exercise in creative thinking, with a solution that offers the essence of how to think about design. Your task: Without taking pen off paper, and using only four straight lines, connect the nine dots. I’ll post the answer in a few days.

The Traveler’s Dilemma

06.09.2007

The Traveler’s Dilemma When playing this simple game, people consistently reject the rational choice. In fact, by acting illogically, they end up reaping a larger reward — an outcome that demands a new kind of formal reasoning By Kaushik Basu Lucy and Pete, returning from a remote Pacific island, find that the airline has damaged [...]

The Riddle of the Thousand Lockers

04.10.2007

One thousand students stand in line outside a school, each numbered 1 to 1000. In the school are one thousand closed lockers, each numbered 1 to 1000. One by one, the students go into the school and “change the state” of the lockers. That is, if a locker is open, they close it; if it [...]

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