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The Easiest Tasks (page 106)puzzles, riddles, mathematical problems, mastermind, cinemania... These are the tasks listed 1051 to 1060. |
If seven people meet each ot...
If seven people meet each other and each shakes hands only once with each of the others, how many handshakes will there have been? Find number abc
If cc722 - aab7c = 33143 find number abc. Multiple solutions may exist. What a winning combination?
The computer chose a secret code (sequence of 4 digits from 1 to 6). Your goal is to find that code. Black circles indicate the number of hits on the right spot. White circles indicate the number of hits on the wrong spot. 
Childhood Sweethearts
An elderly couple who were childhood sweethearts had married & settled down in their old neighborhood.
To celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary they walk down to their old school. There, they hold hands as they find the desk they shared & where he had carved "I love you, Sally".
On their way back home, a bag of money falls out of an armoured car practically at their feet. She quickly picks it up, & they don't know what to do with it so they take it home. There, she counts the money, & its fifty-thousand dollars.
The husband says: "We've got to give it back".
She says, "Finders keepers" & puts the money back in the bag & hides it up in their attic.
The next day, two policemen are going from door-to-door in the neighbourhood looking for the money show up at their home.
One knocks on the door & says: "Pardon me, but did either of you find any money that fell out of an armoured car yesterday?"
She says: "No"..
The husband says: "She's lying. She hid it up in the attic."
She says: "Don't believe him, he's getting senile."
But the policemen sit the man down & begin to question him.
One says: "Tell us the story from the beginning."
The old man says: "Well, when Sally & I were walking home from school yesterday ..."
At this, the policeman looks at his partner & says: "We're outta here ..."
Find the right combination
The computer chose a secret code (sequence of 4 digits from 1 to 6). Your goal is to find that code. Black circles indicate the number of hits on the right spot. White circles indicate the number of hits on the wrong spot. What did he see?
An explorer goes on an expedition in the jungle. He sets up a camp in the middle of the jungle. The next morning he sees something with a head and a tail, but he is not afraid. What did he see? What is the four-digit numbe...
What is the four-digit number in which the first digit is one third the second, the third is the sum of the first and second, and the last is three times the second? There was a green house. Ins...
There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it? Find number abc
If 19a91 + 6b6cc = 8bb1a find number abc. Multiple solutions may exist.
