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Leg Travel

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A horse travels a certain distance each day. Strangely enough, two of its legs travel 30 miles each day and the other two legs travel nearly 31 miles. It would seem that two of the horse's legs must be one mile ahead of the other two legs, but of course this can't be true. Since the horse is normal, how is this situation possible?

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White to Play

Games / Chess Puzzles /

We’re going to finish off golden oldies with a task problem. White to play and mate without moving the king or taking a pawn.

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The Extra Dollar

Games / Brain Teasers /

Three people check into a hotel. They pay $30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager finds out that the room rate is $25 and gives $5 to the bellboy to return. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that $5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets $2 and gives $1 to each person. Now each person paid $10 and got back $1. So they paid $9 each, totalling $27. The bellboy has $2, totalling $29. Where is the remaining dollar?

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Neighbors

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Adam, Ben and Cyril were born in the years 1309, 1310 and 1311 respectively on the same road in old Jerusalem. They lived their whole life there, and all lived to be over 60. They also had a full active life. However, they never crossed paths with each other. Why should that be so?

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White to Play

Games / Chess Puzzles /

This Golden Oldie is Edward Lasker’s most memorable finish.

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Heads or Tails?

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You are blindfolded before a table. On the table are a very large number of pennies. You are told 128 of the pennies are heads up and the rest are tails up. How can you create two subgroups of pennies, each with the same number of heads facing up, while remaining blindfolded?

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Staggered

Games / Brain Teasers /

What phrase is represented here?

NEBRATED

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White to Play

Games / Chess Puzzles /

This Golden Oldie is a doozy! White has all his forces arrayed, but what is the most efficient sequence?

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Body Parts

Games / Brain Teasers /

There are ten body parts whose names are three letters long (not including slang terms). What are they?

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Open = Closed

Games / Brain Teasers /

Add the same word to each side of the equation to make the equation correct:

OPEN = CLOSED

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Where is LGR?

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Below is a list of five countries, all with the vowels removed. Can you name them?

1) LGR
2) CRT
3) THP
4) CDR
5) ND

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White to Play

Games / Chess Puzzles /

Another Golden Oldie. Every player of the White pieces dreams of a sacrificial attack against the Sicilian Defense. Over 60 years ago Troinov got his chance. Here’s the game. 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bc4 e6 7.0–0 Be7 8.Be3 0–0 9.Bb3 a6 10.f4 d5 11.e5 Nd7 12.Qh5 Re8?? At this point Black should have played 12...Qe8,...

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Hidden Category

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Remove a letter from each of the words below and rearrange the remaining letters to form new words. The 10 words will all fall into a certain category. For example, given the words DEAR, ANGRY, and RENEGE, you could drop the "A" in DEAR to get RED, drop the "N" in ANGRY to get GRAY, and drop an "E" in RENEGE to get GREEN. These would all fall into the category of "Colors".

If you're stuck, the hint will name the category. The tough part is getting all 10 words.

AGENT
FABLE
PAWNS
TOUSLE
ANOTHER
CARDIAC
CONSULT
GAWKIER
GRUBBED
TEMERITY

Hint: The category is insects.

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The Spookyville Potion Hunt

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It is Halloween down in SpookyVille and the residents are getting ready to do their annual potion finding contest. In this contest, each of 5 people are assigned an ingredient of the special potion that they are to find. The first one back with their ingredient is the winner. With the clues listed can you figure out who, what kind of monster they are, which ingredient they were assigned, and how long it took them to find it?

Names: Mr. Jack, Mrs. Greenskin, Mr. Redeye, Ms. Trans, and Mr. Blood
Monsters: skeleton, witch/warlock, vampire, ghost, and zombie
Ingredients: werewolf hair, vampire tooth, zombie blood, mummy bandage, and potion vial
Time: 20 minutes, 15 minutes...

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White to Play

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Another Golden Oldie. One of the toughest things to do in chess is come up with a plan in a complicated position. Alekhine reached this position years ago and noticed something about a certain pattern based on the placement of the pieces. He noticed that the queen bishop was indirectly attacking the black King. He also noticed that if the a1-a8 ...

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Common Words

Games / Brain Teasers /

What is common to the following words?

buy, catch, seek, teach, bring, fight, work, think.

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Chains Reaction

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The words in Group A share a common property that only one word in Group B satisfies. Which one is it?

Group A:
Chains
Countess
Stained
Schooled
Purring
Corny

Group B:
Reaction
Penned
Spoiled
Stints
Putting
Hurry

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White to Play

Games / Chess Puzzles /

I have a hankering for posting some old favorites. So, we’ll do some golden oldies in the coming days, and they will be fun for people who have never seen them. This first one was inspired itself by an older Reti study—White to Play and Draw. That’s a hint for for the experienced players.

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Age Mix-Up

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Jordan, Justin and Jeff are brothers whose ages are 29, 30 and 31 (in any order). Your job is to determine the brothers' ages from the clues below. There's one catch though....only ONE clue is true. The rest are false. Good luck!

1. Justin is 30
2. Jordan is the youngest
3. Jordan is 31
4. Justin is one year older and one year younger than his brothers.
5. Justin is not the youngest.
6. Jordan is not two years older than Justin.
7. Justin is the oldest
8. Jeff is older than Jordan.

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Miracle Mountain

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A hiker climbs all day up a steep mountain path and arrives at the mountain top where he camps overnight. The next day he begins the descent down the same trail to the bottom of the mountain when suddenly he looks at his watch and exclaims, "That is amazing! I was at this very same spot at exactly the same time of day yesterday on my way up."

What is the probability that a hiker will be at exactly the same spot on the mountain at the same time of day on his return trip, as he was on the previous day's hike up the mountain? Is the probability closest to (A) 99% or (B) 50% or (C) 0.1% ?

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