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#1 2008-11-10 11:23:27

MathsIsFun
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Three New Puzzles

Try these contributed puzzles, let me know what you think:

Mobile Digits
Three Vessels
Four People Travel


"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..."  - Leon M. Lederman

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#2 2008-11-10 20:34:31

Jai Ganesh
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Re: Three New Puzzles

Good Brain Teasers, MathsIsFun!
The third one is the easiest and it took less than 15 seconds to solve the puzzle. The other two are not all that easy.


It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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#3 2008-11-10 23:28:05

mathsyperson
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Re: Three New Puzzles

The first one is my favourite. It looks really hard but then isn't once you think about it more.


Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.

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