"I'm a very rich man, so I've decided to give you some of my fortune. Do you see this bag? I have 5001 pearls inside it.
2501 of them are white, and 2500 of them are black. No, I am not racist. I'll let you take out any number of pearls from the bag without looking.
If you take out the same number of black and white pearls, I will reward you with a number of gold bars equivalent to the number of pearls you took."
How many pearls should you take out to give yourself a good number of gold bars while still retaining a good chance of actually getting them?
September 17, 2015
September 10, 2015
Probability Heaven Puzzle
A person dies, and he arrives at the gate to heaven. There are three doors in the heaven. one of them leads to heaven. another one leads to a 1-day stay at hell, and then back to the gate, and the other leads to a 2-day stay at hell, and then back to the gate. every time the person is back at the gate, the three doors are reshuffled. How long will it take the person to reach heaven?
September 2, 2015
Birthday Puzzle
The day before yesterday I was 25 and the next year I will be 28. This is true only one day in a year.
What day is my birthday?
August 28, 2015
August 1, 2015
Two Paper Cubes Puzzle
A man has two paper cubes on his desk. Every day he arranges both cubes so that the front faces show the current day of the month. What numbers are required on the faces of the cubes to allow this for all possible days in the calendar?
July 23, 2015
Misfortune Clock
You have the misfortune to own an unreliable clock. This one loses exactly 20 minutes every hour. It is now showing 4:00am and you know that is was correct at midnight, when you set it. The clock stopped 4 hours ago, what is the correct time now?
July 6, 2015
Probability Puzzle: Tossing of Coins
A man tosses three coins in the air. When they land, he finds that two of the coins have heads up and one has tails up.
What is the probability that when the coins are tossed again, they will land again with two heads up and one tails up.
Please note that the coins are unbiased.
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