Puzzle Playland

posted by Michael @ 12:20 PM  

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I've got a new puzzle for you. Since we have such a large family, we can all relate with having to share. The worst time for this though, is around Easter and Halloween when you've got all that great candy. Being highly intelligent individuals, though, we want to be efficient with our sharing so that we can get on with eating our own candy. After all...after me, I like you best, right?

Suppose that you got a 5 by 8 piece of chocolate for your enjoyment, but your parents say you have to share it.....with everyone in the family. Okay, not everyone in the family, but you do have to divide into 40 pieces. What's the fewest number of cuts that you need to make to produce the 40 pieces? For bonus points and enduring admiration from this Aggie, prove your answer.

By the way, you can only cut the chocolote in straight lines (horizontal or vertical; no diagonals), and you cannot stack pieces.

posted by Michael @ 12:12 PM  

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What is represented by this BrainBat?

William March
William June
William September
William January

posted by Melissa @ 9:27 PM  

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After the recent BrainBashers snail racing contest, the four contestants were congratulating each other. Only one snail wore the same number as the position it finished in. Alfred's snail wasn't painted yellow nor blue, and the snail who wore 3, which was painted red, beat the snail who came in third. Arthur's snail beat Anne's snail, whereas Alice's snail beat the snail who wore 1. The snail painted green, Alice's, came second and the snail painted blue wore number 4. Anne's snail wore number 1. Can you work out who's snail finished where, its number and the colour it was painted?

posted by Melissa @ 5:05 PM  

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Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given a choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say number 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say number. 3, which has a goat. He says to you, "Do you want to pick door number 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?

posted by Michael @ 1:59 PM  

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posted by Michael @ 1:41 PM  

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