Two friends are playing the following game – taking turns, they place identical coins on a square table, so that no two coins touch each other. Whoever can not make a move, loses the game. Who has a winning strategy?
The first player has a winning strategy. He just has to place the first coin in the center of the table and then each consecutive one symmetrically opposite to the last coin of his opponent.
In order to catch the thief, you must make your way through this Tetris maze formed by the 5 different pieces shown at the bottom. You can not climb over the blocks, just find a tunnel inside the construction.
The solution is shown below.
You get shrunk 100 times (preserving your density), then thrown in a blender. You have 2 minutes until the blades of the blender start spinning. How are you going to escape?
If you get shrunk 100 times, but your density remains the same, your muscles will become so strong relative to your size, that you will be able to jump out of the blender. The reason is that your weight will decrease 1000000 times, but your muscle cross-section just 10000 times.
Who says science jokes are not funny? Below you can see some of the best Geography jokes we know, along with short explanations to the more obscure of them.
Do you know any funny Geography jokes yourself? Let us know in the comment section below.
“How did the geography student drown?”
“His grades were below C-level.”
Explanation
Grades in some countries are marked with letters – A, B, C, etc. “C-level” is a word play with “sea level”.
“Where do all pencils come from?”
“Pennsylvania.”
Explanation
Transylvania in Romania is supposedly the place where all vampires come from.
A giant destroyed 3 countries the other day. He picked up Turkey, dipped it in Greece, and then fried it in Japan.
Explanation
The joke sounds like “A giant destroyed 3 countries the other day. He picked up a turkey, dipped it in grease, and then fried it in a pan.”
“What is smarter – longitude or latitude?”
“Longitude – it has 360 degrees.”
Explanation
Latitude has 180 degrees in total, longitude has 360.
“Why do paper maps never win poker tournaments?”
“Because they always fold.”
Explanation
In poker folding is forfeiting the current hand.
“What do fish and maps have in common?”
“They both have scales.”
“What is round on the ends and high in the middle?”
“Ohio.”
Explanation
O-hi-o is a state in the US.
“Where is it 90 degrees, but it is never hot?”
“The North and the South pole.”
Explanation
The North and South poles are located on +90 and -90 degrees latitude.
“What did Delaware?”
“A New Jersey.”
Explanation
Delaware and New Jersey are US states. The joke sounds like “What Dela wear? A new jersey.”
“What do you call the little rivers which flow into the Nile?”
“Juveniles.”
“What sort of pudding roams wild in the Arctic circle?”
“Moose.”
Explanation
Moose (sounds like the
“What did the sea say to the shore?”
“Nothing, it just waved.”
“Where do fish keep their money?”
“In riverbanks.”
Explanation
River bank is the land alongside the bed of a river.
“What do you call a country that looks like one thigh?”
“Taiwan.”
Explanation
Taiwan sounds like “thigh-one”.
“What do you call a stoner’s wife?”
“Mississippi.”
Explanation
The river Mississippi sounds like “Mrs Hippy”.
“What city always cheats at exams?”
“Peking.”
Explanation
Peking, the capital of China, sounds like “peeking”.
“Which is the pirates’ favorite country?”
“Aaarrrgghhentina!”
Explanation
“Aaarrrgghh!” is a famous pirate’s exclamation.
“Why does the
“Because he is a legend.”
Explanation
The legend on the map describes the meanings of all symbols.
Get a stripe of paper, then cut two holes and two slits in it, as shown on the image below. Then try to attach two large cherries to paper, without tearing it apart.
Pull the handle in the paper through the holes, attach the cherries, then pull it back up.
We have always believed puns are fun, but never thought they could be so challenging. Matthew Broussard, a comedian, has made hundreds of them for his website Monday
In case you enjoyed our exciting puzzle crime story “Detective Sanders and the Zodiac Killer”, you may want to try some other similar browser puzzles. One of our favorites is “Ouverture Facile” (“Easy Opening” from French), consisting of over 90 different levels. Test your puzzle skills by clicking the image below and see how far you can get. After you finish with Ouverture Facile, you can check also “Notpron”, “God Tower”, “Weffriddles”, and “The Python Challenge”.
Get 2 ropes and tie them up around the hands of 2 of your friends, as shown on the picture. Then, let your friends separate from each other, without untying the knots or cutting the ropes.
The solution is shown below.
This puzzle/game is played with groups of people, in which some of the participants know the rules, and others are trying to figure them out.
All players must sit in a circle, facing each other. Then one person who is familiar with the rules starts by pointing at another and saying “cross-cross”, “cross-parallel”, “parallel-cross”, or “parallel-parallel”. After that, the person who got picked must choose another one and guess which one of the four expressions above he must say. If he gets it wrong, he gets corrected, and then the next person continues. The game ends when everyone finds out what the secret is.
To play this puzzle game with your friends, at least one of you must know the secret rules and solution, which are explained below. Just keep in mind that whoever learns the rules, will lose the enjoyment of figuring them out by himself.
When you point at somebody, you say “cross-cross”, if yours and the other person’s legs are crossed, “cross-parallel”, if yours are crossed and the other person’s are parallel, etc.
You may not know this, but we have a strange penchant for optical illusions, fractals, and other mind-perplexing images. That’s why we got so impressed when we saw for the first time the “infinite-zoom” artwork by Nikolaus Baumgarten. Bearing the suitable name “The Zoomquilt”, this seemingly never-ending image instantly became our favorite screen-saver. Take a look at it by clicking the image below, and if you like it, make sure to search YouTube for other similar illustrations.
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