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PUZZLES & GAMES PAGE
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guess or work out the answer before looking at the answer. Using pencils or pen
is OK. Using calculators or computers probably wouldn't help anyway.
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CROSSWORD PUZZLE
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EASY MATH PUZZLE
PUZZLE 1
(This is a Math-Classic Brain Teaser but still fun to solve if you haven't
tried before or its been a long time since you last solved it.)
Farmer Jonathan was taking some produce to
market. He had a goose, a fox and a bushel of grain. To get to market he had
to cross a river but the only boat there was so small he could only take one
with him at a time. How did Jonathan cross the river without having the fox
eat the goose, or the goose eating the grain?
Brother Jonathan's HANGMAN GAME
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SOLITARE POKER JUST FOR FUN
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NERVE TESTER
TEST YOUR REFLEXES
Click on "Start" first, and wait until the box color changes. As soon as it
changes, hit "stop!"
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MEDIUM MATH PUZZLE
PUZZLE 2 "Math Poetry"
a) One hundred and one by fifty divide,
And then if a cipher be rightly applied,
and your computation agrees with mine,
The answer will be one taken from nine.
b) To half a dozen add half a score,
Then you will plainly see,
Just twenty - neither less nor more,
Explain the mystery !!
----- from the Old Farmer's Almanac 1944
Brother Jonathan's
DIFFICULT MATH PUZZLE
( Li'l Jolene's Mystery of the Missing Golf Balls )
PUZZLE 3
(Difficulty level - hard. Requires using simultaneous solution of 3rd order
non-homogeneous differential equations, or somethin' like that. You figure it
out. But it can be done in your head.)
T'was two days before Imbolc, the feast day of St. Brigit, the Irish patroness
for the birthing of calves and lambs. T'were also L'il Jolene's birthday. So
her Grandpa decided to take her to Lough Dublin, for her birthday, to play her
first round of golf. (Grandpa was some kinda golf nut but that's another
matter.) Grandpa got her a bucket of balls, since he knew she would probably
lose some. On the first hole L'il Jolene lost 1/3 of the balls, and on the
second hole she again lost 1/3 of the remaining balls in the bucket. On the
third hole she also lost 1/3 of the remaining balls, and on the fourth hole,
the same thing! Now t'weren't many balls left, so Grandpa divided them into 5
equal groups for the 5 remaining holes and had one ball left over - which he
put in his pocket. At the end of the ninth hole Lil Jo had lost all the balls,
so Grandpa took the one out of his pocket and gave it to her. (a.) What was
the least number of balls in the bucket before L'il Jolene teed off on her
first round of golf? (b.) Will L'il Jolene ever play golf again?
*** HERE ARE THE ANSWERS TO THE PUZZLES ***
BUT DON'T LOOK HERE UNTIL YOU HAVE TRIED TO GUESS OR WORK OUT THE ANSWERS.
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES: (1) Jon and goose cross, Jon returns, Jon and fox cross,
Jon and goose return, Jon and grain cross, Jon returns, Jon and goose cross.
(2) a) CLIO (one of the nine Greek Muses "the Muse of History") b. (Twe)lve +
Twe(nty) (3) a) 81 wheeuuw! b) probably never.
