August 2008

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  New twist on red and blue socks - Solution

  08.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Below comes a solution of variation on problem about red and blue socks new twist on red and blue socks
  The answer is four.

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  Two Indians

  08.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Two American Indians were sitting on a log - a big Indian and a little Indian. The litde Indian was the son of the big Indian, but thebig Indian was not the father of the little Indian.
  How do you explain that?

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  Another legal puzzle

  08.12.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Two men were being tried for a murder. The jury found one of them guilty and the other one not guilty. The judge turned to the guilty one and said: ‘This is the strangest case I have ever come across! Though your guilt has been established beyond any reasonable doubts, the law compels me to [...]

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  Who was the murderer

  08.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  This story concerns a caravan going through the Sahara desert. One night they pitched tents. Our three principal characters are A, B, and C. A hated C and decided to murder him by putting poison in the water of his canteen (this would be C’s only water supply). Quite independently of this, B also decided [...]

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  Inhabitants of Podunk

  08.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Here is a well-known logic puzzle: Given that there are more inhabitants of New York City than there are hairs on the head of any inhabitant, and that no inhabitant is totally bald, does it necessarily follow that there must be at least two inhabitants with exactly the same number of hairs?
  Here is a little [...]

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