Posted in Life & Happiness

Priority

This scenario psychoanalyses how you prioritise your life and what you place the most importance in.

You are out camping, but end up lost in the woods. It has become dark but luckily you find an empty cabin. Under the dim light, you discover the cabin is equipped with a fireplace, a stove, a lamp and a candlestick. In your backpack you only have one match.

What would you light first?

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Posted in History & Literature

Cattle

Alison and John are standing in the same cattle field at the same time. John can see twice as many cows as bulls. However, Alison can see the same number of bulls and cows in the field. How can this be, and how many bulls and cows are there in the field?

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Posted in Science & Nature

Ant Sequence

Find the rule for the following sequence of numbers:

1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221
1113213211

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Posted in History & Literature

Logic

The following logic problem was set by Einstein, who said that 98% of the world would not be able to solve it.

  • There are five houses of five different colours.
  • In each house lives a person with a special nationality.
  • The five owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain
  • brand of cigars, and keep a certain pet.
  • No owner has the same pet, smokes the same cigar, or drinks the same beverage.

The question is: Who owns the fish?

Hints:

  1. The Brit lives in the red house.
  2. The Mexican keeps dogs as pets.
  3. The Chinese drinks tea.
  4. The green house is on the left of the white house.
  5. The green house’s owner drinks coffee.
  6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
  7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhills.
  8. The man in the centre house drinks milk.
  9. The American lives in the first house.
  10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
  11. The man who keeps a horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhills.
  12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
  13. The German smokes Prince.
  14. The American lives next to the blue house.
  15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.