Mindbenders and Brainteasers: 100 Maddening Mindbenders and Curious Conundrums by Rob Eastaway

Author:Rob Eastaway [Eastaway, Rob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Portico
Published: 2014-05-30T00:00:00+00:00

96

BEER MAT BET

‘I will bet you a fiver,’ said Gary to Marian, ‘that if we take turns to place beer mats on this table top, and I start, then you will be the first one who is not able to place a mat on the table! Of course,’ he added, ‘the mats must not overlap each other, or fall off the edge of the table.’

The beer mats were all circular and identical in size, and the table top was a rectangle.

How did Gary plan to win this game?

97

THE GLASS THAT CHEERS*

It was time for the Christmas punch to be handed round, a sociable activity that Scrooge loathed, so every year he put it off for as long as possible. This year he had a tricky puzzle, using all the punch glasses, to offer his guests.

‘Before we dip into the bowl,’ he said to his assembled guests, ‘I invite you to solve this puzzle. You have to turn all the glasses the right way up, by inverting three at a time. When you invert three glasses, that counts as one move. And you must do it in the smallest number of moves possible. How many? Eh?’

How could his guests get their punch?

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