Can you help a prince and a princess find each other? If you know math, this should be easy. A princess inhabits a flight of 17 rooms in a row. Each room has a door to the outside, and there is a door between adjacent rooms. The princess spends each day in a room that …
If you didn’t focus on mathematics today, you should at least keep the gears in motion by trying to solve this mathematical puzzle. You are blindfolded, then given a deck of cards in which 23 of the cards have been flipped up, then inserted into the deck randomly (you know this). Without taking the blindfold …
Are you a good problem solver? Try to figure out what’s behind these riddles and write your answer in the comments section. 1. A group of prisoners are trapped in a forcefield. These prisoners are perfectly brave, meaning that they would attempt an escape on any positive probability of success. The prisoners are monitored by …
Are you ready for a new brain teaser? This time, you have to help a bunch of prisoners. 1000 prisoners are in jail. There’s a room with 1000 lockers, one for each prisoner. A jailer writes the name of each prisoner on a piece of paper and puts one in each locker (randomly, and not …
Can you figure out which color hat you’re wearing? If you’re confused, check out this fun math game/puzzle. You and infinitely many other people are wearing hats. Each hat is either red or blue. Every person can see every other person’s hat color, but cannot see his/her own hat color; aside from that, you cannot …
This is the kid friendly version of Einstein’s puzzle. It is claimed that only 2% of the world population can solve the puzzle! (and Einstein supposedly invented the original puzzle, though I have my doubts). Suppose there are five houses of different colors next to each other on the same street. There are also five …
This is a weekly “Problem From Heck” that has driven several high school teachers crazy. Try if you dare! Thanks to Gregory Tewksbury-Calculus Humor for this submission! Source: http://calculushumor.weebly.com/3/post/2012/05/problem-from-heck-5.html
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This puzzle was outside a coffee shop at my uni – what number replaces the question mark: 30 16 11 35 20 15 12 14 40 18 14 17 60 14 12 ? Submitted by Unknown.