What should follow the sequence of diagrams shown below?
The diagrams represent consecutive monarchs of England:
Therefore, the next diagram should represent King Charles the 3-rd → Kc3.
There is a square drawn on a piece of paper and also a point marked with invisible ink. You are allowed to draw 3 lines on the paper and for each of them you will be told whether the point is on its left, on its right, or lies on the line. Your task is to find out whether the point is inside the square, outside the square, or on its boundary. How do you do it?
Draw one of the diagonals of the square. Then, draw the 2 lines containing the sides of the square that are on the same side as the invisible point.
It turns into a different story. What is it?
ANSWER: ✱✱✱✱✱✱ ✱✱✱✱✱✱✱✱✱
Note: This is Will Shortz’s favorite crosswords clue of all time.
The answer is SPIRAL STAIRCASE.
White to play and mate in 2.
Note: Magnus Carlsen spent almost 2 minutes solving this puzzle.
The first move is 1. Qa8. If Black plays Qd4, then White responds with Re3#. Otherwise, White plays either Nc5# or Nd6#, so that Black cannot capture the Knight neither with the Rook or the Queen.
For this puzzle/game, you need to keep presenting various words to your friends and telling them whether they are “TOUCH” or they are “DON’T TOUCH”. Below, we have listed several words from each category.
TOUCH: banana, proof, mouse, keyboard, promo, woman
DON’T TOUCH: cherry, solution, cat, screen, discount, girl
Can you guess what determines whether a word is “TOUCH” or “DON’T TOUCH”?
Words that make your lips touch when pronounced belong to the “TOUCH” category, while the others belong to the “DON’T TOUCH” category. The sounds “P”, “B”, “M”, and “W” that cause this are called “bilabial”.
Five points, A, B, C, D, and E, lie on a line. The distances between them in ascending order are: 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, X, 15, 17, 20, and 22. What is X?
We assume that the points are ordered A to E from left to right. We have AE = 22 and either AD = 20, BE = 17, or AD = 17, BE = 20. Without loss of generality AD = 20, BE = 17, and therefore AB = 5, BD = 15, DE = 2. The distance of 6 is associated with either BC or CD, and therefore the points are arranged in one of these two ways:
If it is the latter, we get the sequence of distances: 2, 5, 6, 9, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, 22, which does not fit the provided sequence.
If it is the former, we get the sequence of distances: 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 14, 15, 17, 20, 22, and therefore X = 14.
Can you find your way from the bottom to the top in this Mythological Maze?
The solution is shown below.
Connect the pairs of squares with non-interacting lines that do not cross the black boundary.
A solution is shown below.
Can you figure out what phrases and sayings are represented in the Wacky Wordies below?
The answers are:
Can you find the objects which are hidden in the images below?
The solution is shown below.
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