Tag: Logic

A barrel contains exactly 9 liters of red wine. Max is going to a party and wishes to share 8 liters of wine equally with the seven other partygoers, who all hold 1 liter glasses. Max wants to keep one liter for when he gets home. He only has two other containers that will hold…

I have seen this maths puzzle circulating on the internet for the umpteenth time. It gets a little boring at this point. But perhaps this is the first time you’ve come across it through our blog. At first glance, it looks almost insultingly simple. There are four multiple-choice answers, so your brain immediately starts reaching…

Here’s a classic maths retold: 1,024 pirates stand shoulder to shoulder in a circle, numbered 1 through 1,024. On the captain’s whistle, the 1st pirate shoots the 2nd, the 3rd shoots the 4th, and so on around the ring — every shooter spares the one beside them and fells the one just past. The fallen…

Two years ago, I wrote an article on the above logical puzzle about correctly labelling the three boxes containing apples, oranges, and a mix of apples and oranges. To this day, it has been read over 100k times and sparked over 200 dialogues in the comment section. In the same period of time, numerous AI…

I found this nice brain teaser from Jane Street’s Puzzles, it’s about you playing against an imperfect computer program in a game of tic tac toe. You’re going to play Tic Tac Toe against a computer program, and you get to go first. The program is not very smart, and its strategy, which you are…