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You have four metal chains and each of them has three links. What is the minimal number of cuts you need to make so that you can connect the chains into one loop with twelve links?
You need only three cuts – cut all the links of one of the chains and then use them to connect the ends of the remaining three chains.
How can a baby fall out of a 30-story building onto the ground and still be alive?
The baby fell from the first floor.
You have a 3 liter jug, a 5 liter jug, and an infinite amount of tap water. How can you measure exactly 4 liters of water using the jugs?
Call the 3 liter jug “small” the 5 liter jug “large”.
Now there are exactly 4 liters of water in the large jug.
Someone tells you: “I’ll bet you $1 that if you give me $3, I will give you $5 in return”. Is this a good bet?
You should not accept the bet and give him $3. If the person gives you the $5, then you would have given him $1+$3=$4, and you would make a profit of $1. However, the person can simply not give you anything and you will lose $3-$1=$2.
What day would yesterday be if Thursday was 4 days before the day after tomorrow?
The answer is Friday.
While at her own mother’s funeral, a girl meets a guy she doesn’t know. She thinks the guy is amazing – her dream man – and is pretty sure he could be the love of her life. However, she never asks for his name or number and afterwards can not find anyone who knows who he is. A few days later, the girl kills her own sister.
Why did she do it?
The girl assumed the man was a family friend, so she decided he would come also to the funeral of her sister.
A boy receives a small note from a girl during his math class. He unfolds the note and sees the following expression.
What does it mean?
If you fold the note the other way around, the message “I LOVE YOU” appears.
Which is the next letter in the following sequence:
S S E N T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T ?
The answer is F. These are the first letters of the numbers Seventeen, Eighteen, Nineteen, Twenty, Twenty-one, and so on.
You have 8 thin sticks; 4 of them have length 1 and the other 4 have length 2. Arrange the sticks so that they form exactly 3 identical squares, without any leftovers.
The solution is shown below.
August 20, 1940
Leon Trotsky, an enemy of Josef Stalin, had been in exile for 11 years. On this day, a Soviet assassin entered Trotsky’s house in Mexico City and hit him in the head with an ice axe. He died the next day.
Here is a group of suspects who were rounded up. Each wrong suspect has one different feature from the correct suspect. Who killed Trotsky?
The killer of Leon Trotsky was Ramón Mercader.
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