Black and White
Door Jam
You’re confronted with two doors. One leads to fortune, the other to death, but you don’t know which is which.
The doors are attended by two guards. One always lies, and the other always tells the truth, but again you don’t know which is which.
You can ask one question of one guard. What should you ask?
Spirit Reading
In a certain town, 90 percent of the residents drink coffee, 80 percent drink tea, 70 percent drink whiskey, and 60 percent drink gin. No one drinks all four. What percent of the residents drink liquor?
Economical
A baseball pitcher played an entire game while throwing the minimum possible number of pitches. The game was not called before completion. How many pitches did he throw?
Black and White
Popularity Contest
Yar
Three pirates find themselves on an island with a chest full of miscellaneous treasure. They have no weighing or measuring equipment. How can they divide the loot to the satisfaction of each?
Black and White
In a Word
nepotal
adj. relating to a nephew
“That is my nephew,” said a man to his sister.
“He is not my nephew,” she said.
How is this possible?
Even Odds
A bag contains 16 billiard balls, some white and some black. You draw two balls at the same time. It is equally likely that the two will be the same color as different colors. What is the proportion of colors within the bag?
