Sunday, June 24, 2012

An unbalanced scale

Given a sack of salt, an unbalanced scale, and two 5-pound weights, measure exactly 10 pounds of salt.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

 A book contains X pages, numbered, per usual, from 1 to X, with the total number of digits in those page numbers equal to 1095 (i.e. 1095 individual numbers). That being the case, how many pages are in the book?

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Counting Puzzle

If you wrote all of the numbers from 600 to 700 on a piece of paper, how many times would you have written the number 6?

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Two men , one dead.

Two men are in a desert. They both have packs on. One of the guys is dead. The guy who is alive has his pack open, the guy who is dead has his pack closed. What is in the pack?

Thursday, March 15, 2012

What happened? Historical brainpuzzle

What happened in the middle of the twentieth century that will not happen again for 4,000 years?

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Series and numbers

Which will be last number of series?
18, 46, 94, 63, 52, ?

Sunday, March 11, 2012

We want to cut a 3-inch cube into 27 1-inch cubes. We can do this by making six cuts, as shown. Can we accomplish the task with fewer cuts by rearranging the pieces between cuts?

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Following the serie

What are the next two letters in the following series and why?

W A T N T L I T F S _ _

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Against the law

Why is it against the law for a man living in Madrid to be buried in Barcelona?

Sunday, March 4, 2012

clock puzzle

Over a 24 hour period, how many times will the minute and hour hand on the 24hr clock form a right angle?