Friday, January 4, 2008
Rack your Brains
1. In a village there was a square pond with 4 tall coconut trees on each corner. The villages wanted to make the pond bigger. However they did not want to cut down any of the trees. Finally they managed to double the area of the pond. However the pond was still square in shape. How?
You think you are SMART
1. A father and a son, and another father and son went for a hunting trip. Each shot a bird. No one missed. However, there were only 3 birds. Explain
Thursday, January 3, 2008
how many legs?
So friends, here is the first one on the plate!
Description:
There are 7 girls in a bus. Each girl is carrying 7 bags. Each bag has 7 cats. Each of the seven cats is carrying full grown 7 cats with itself. Considering that the girls and the cats are normal with all cats having 4 legs each, count the total number of legs.
Difficulty level: Average
Expected time for calculations: 15 minutes
Category: Arithmetic
Please post your responses in comments!
Description:
There are 7 girls in a bus. Each girl is carrying 7 bags. Each bag has 7 cats. Each of the seven cats is carrying full grown 7 cats with itself. Considering that the girls and the cats are normal with all cats having 4 legs each, count the total number of legs.
Difficulty level: Average
Expected time for calculations: 15 minutes
Category: Arithmetic
Please post your responses in comments!
Welcome to the blog for some cerebral fun!
Welcome to the mental exercise blog. If you feel that a puzzle a day keeps your cerebral itch away, then this is D place.
Here is how this works:
1. the authors would put at least one puzzle a day [see #4, your contribution is welcome]
2. the answer to the puzzle and if required, the explanation would be posted the next day.
3. the visitors are expected to post their answers/responses in the comments.
4. if you have any interesting puzzles, you can mail these to shaleenc@gmail.com or saumitra.karandikar@gmail.com and we will be glad to post your puzzles along with your name. Please note that the puzzles that you send have to be really interesting and brainee.
Format for the mail:
your name: [full name/nickname]
your email address: [valid email ID]
any specific title of the puzzle: [should make sense]
difficulty level as per your estimate:[x] mins
typical time to solve it: [y] minutes
and NO SPAM please! Let's make this a fun place!
5. please keep looking for further announcements - once we have certain number of puzzles, we will post an RSS feed link so that it's easier for you to access the blog!
All the best and welcome the blog for the intellectuals.
Here is how this works:
1. the authors would put at least one puzzle a day [see #4, your contribution is welcome]
2. the answer to the puzzle and if required, the explanation would be posted the next day.
3. the visitors are expected to post their answers/responses in the comments.
4. if you have any interesting puzzles, you can mail these to shaleenc@gmail.com or saumitra.karandikar@gmail.com and we will be glad to post your puzzles along with your name. Please note that the puzzles that you send have to be really interesting and brainee.
Format for the mail:
your name: [full name/nickname]
your email address: [valid email ID]
any specific title of the puzzle: [should make sense]
difficulty level as per your estimate:[x] mins
typical time to solve it: [y] minutes
and NO SPAM please! Let's make this a fun place!
5. please keep looking for further announcements - once we have certain number of puzzles, we will post an RSS feed link so that it's easier for you to access the blog!
All the best and welcome the blog for the intellectuals.
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