A painter needed three days tp paint the walls of a room. How long would it take him, working at the same rate, to paint a room twice as long, twice as wide, and twice as high?
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List ten pronouns ranging in length from one letter to ten, the first pronoun consisting of one letter, the second of two, and so on.
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What word contains seven letters – the first two letters ferring to a man, the first three to a woman, the first four identifying a great man, and all seven identifying a great woman?
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The government pays farmers a specific fee for each row of four trees that they plant. An enterprising, but dishonest farmer found a way of planting five rows of four trees using only ten trees. How did he do it?
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At a party, everyone shook hands with everybody else. There were 66 handshakes. How many people were at the party?
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If you're 8 feet away from a door and with each move you advance half the distance to the door. How many moves will it take to reach the door?
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You are in a room with 2 doors leading out. Behind 1 door is a coffer overflowing with jewels and gold, along with an exit. Behind the other door is an enormous, hungry lion that will pounce on anyone opening the door. You do not know which door leads to the treasure and exit, and which door leads to the lion. In the room you are in are 2 individuals. The first is a knight, who always tells the truth, and a knave, who always lies. Both of these individuals know what is behind each door. You do not know which individual is the knight, or which one is the knave. You may ask one of the individuals exactly 1 question. What should you ask in order to be certain that you will open the door with the coffer behind it, instead of the hungry lion?
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A man had twelve toothpicks in front of him. He took one away. Now he had nine in front of him. How is this possible?
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What English word is nine letters long, and can remain an English word at each step as you remove one letter at a time, right down to a single letter. List the letter you remove each time and the words that result at each step.
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You have a pile of 24 coins. Twenty-three of these coins have the same weight, and one is heavier. Your task is to determine which coin is heavier and do so in the minimum number of weighings. You are given a beam balance (scale), which will compare the weight of any two sets of coins out of the total set of 24 coins. How many weighings are required to identify the heavier coin?
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