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Eye of the Dragon
Divide the circle below in two pieces. Then, put the pieces together to get a circle with a dragon, such that the dragon’s eye is at the center of the new circle.
SOLUTION
The solution is shown below.
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A Horse in Front, A Car Behind
You are sitting on a plane. There is a horse in front of you and a car behind you. Where are you?
SOLUTION
You are on a merry-go-round in an amusement park.
4-3-2-1
Move one red ball to turn the sequence 1-2-3-4 into 4-3-2-1.
SOLUTION
Take the second-to-last ball and place it between the first two balls on the left.
Charley and Wilma
Why despite killing dozens of people Charley and Wilma were not punished?
SOLUTION
Charley and Wilma were intense hurricanes which formed in August 2004 and October 2005 respectively.
Cut the Pizza
Cut a circular pizza into 12 congruent slices, such that exactly half of them contain crust.
Remark: We say that a slice contains crust if it shares an arc with the boundary of the pizza (with non-zero measure).
SOLUTION
First, cut the pizza into 6 congruent circular triangles, and then split each of them in half, as shown on the image below.
Not a Prince
What wears a crown but is no Prince,
Is good at standing but cannot sit,
Digs for years but leaves no pit,
And wears its jewels inside of it?
SOLUTION
The answer is TREE.
Open or Close
If you turn the handle of the top left gear clockwise, will the box in the bottom right open or close?
SOLUTION
The box will open.
The Gun and the Recording
One day, the police found a man dead inside a hut. In his left hand, he was holding a gun. In his right hand, he had a recording device. When the recording was played, the police heard the man talking about how horrible his life was and how he wanted it to end. The recording ended with a gunshot. The police was about to call it a suicide until a detective pointed out a very important clue. What was it?
SOLUTION
If the person shot himself and died, he wouldn’t have been able to stop the device from recording further.
Rewarded and Fired
A very rich man has many servants in his mansion. One day as he is about to travel, his night watchman warns him not to board his flight. “I had a dream last night that the plane crashed,” the watchman tells him. The rich man is annoyed at first, but since he is also superstitious himself, he decides not to take the flight.
Later that day as he is watching the news, he sees that his plane did, in fact, crash. He goes over to thank and reward his servant, and then fires him. Why?
SOLUTION
The watchman has been sleeping at work instead of guarding the mansion, so that’s the reason he gets fired.
In Your Right Hand
What can you hold in your right hand but never in your left hand?
SOLUTION
The answer is YOUR LEFT HAND.