Time for some quiz things....
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 1:41 pm
Okay, been pretty quiet here, so time to post some utter rubbish...
1. A snail is at the bottom of a 20 metre deep pit. Every day the snail climbs 5 meters upwards, but at night it slides 4 meters back downwards.
The Question: How many days does it take before the snail reaches the top of the pit?
2. Of all the numbers whose literal representations in capital letters consists only of straight line segments (for example, FIVE), only one number has a value equal to the number of segments used to write it.
The Question: Which number has this property?
3. Hans is standing behind Gerrie and at the same time Gerrie is standing behind Hans.
The Question: How is this possible?
4. Consider a grid of size 4 x 4 (i.e. sixteen squares), where all squares should get a color. The colored grid should meet the following conditions:
4 squares should be colored blue,
3 squares should be colored red,
3 squares should be colored white,
3 squares should be colored green,
3 squares should be colored yellow, and
no color may appear more than once in any horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line.
The Question: How can the grid be colored?
5. Given the following sentences:
The number of times the digit 0 appears in this puzzle is _____.
The number of times the digit 1 appears in this puzzle is _____.
The number of times the digit 2 appears in this puzzle is _____.
The number of times the digit 3 appears in this puzzle is _____.
The number of times the digit 4 appears in this puzzle is _____.
The number of times the digit 5 appears in this puzzle is _____.
The number of times the digit 6 appears in this puzzle is _____.
The number of times the digit 7 appears in this puzzle is _____.
The number of times the digit 8 appears in this puzzle is _____.
The number of times the digit 9 appears in this puzzle is _____.
Complete these sentences with digits until they are all true.
The Question: Which two solutions are possible?
...thankyou...have fun
1. A snail is at the bottom of a 20 metre deep pit. Every day the snail climbs 5 meters upwards, but at night it slides 4 meters back downwards.
The Question: How many days does it take before the snail reaches the top of the pit?
2. Of all the numbers whose literal representations in capital letters consists only of straight line segments (for example, FIVE), only one number has a value equal to the number of segments used to write it.
The Question: Which number has this property?
3. Hans is standing behind Gerrie and at the same time Gerrie is standing behind Hans.
The Question: How is this possible?
4. Consider a grid of size 4 x 4 (i.e. sixteen squares), where all squares should get a color. The colored grid should meet the following conditions:
4 squares should be colored blue,
3 squares should be colored red,
3 squares should be colored white,
3 squares should be colored green,
3 squares should be colored yellow, and
no color may appear more than once in any horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line.
The Question: How can the grid be colored?
5. Given the following sentences:
The number of times the digit 0 appears in this puzzle is _____.
The number of times the digit 1 appears in this puzzle is _____.
The number of times the digit 2 appears in this puzzle is _____.
The number of times the digit 3 appears in this puzzle is _____.
The number of times the digit 4 appears in this puzzle is _____.
The number of times the digit 5 appears in this puzzle is _____.
The number of times the digit 6 appears in this puzzle is _____.
The number of times the digit 7 appears in this puzzle is _____.
The number of times the digit 8 appears in this puzzle is _____.
The number of times the digit 9 appears in this puzzle is _____.
Complete these sentences with digits until they are all true.
The Question: Which two solutions are possible?
...thankyou...have fun
