Some
Fun
Problems.
- In
the middle of
the ocean there is a small
island where
everybody is part of this strange religion. One of the rules the people
with this religion have to follow is the following : if you ever find
out
that you have blue eyes, you have to kill yourself that day at
midnight.
Because of this rule, people never talk about other people eyes and
there
are no mirrors in the island. So they can all live happily without
knowing
what the color of their own eyes is. They do see other people eyes,
moreover,
they all meet every day at noon where they have the chance to look at
each
other. One
day, a foreigner comes to the island and at the noon meeting
he tells everybody: "at least one of you has blue eyes". The
questions
is what happens in the island thereafter. Assume, for example, that in
the island there are 100 people with blue eyes and 100 people with
brown
eyes. Another important assumptions is that everybody in the island is
a perfect logician.
- Suppose we have a
cube of cheese. This cube
is divided into
27 small cubes of cheese, so it looks like a Rubik cube (3 x 3 x 3).
There
is this little mouse who wants to eat the whole cube of cheese. He
starts eating the cube in the center, and then
has to continue eating adjacent cubes.
(Two
cubes are adjacent if they share a face.) Can the mouse eat the whole
cube
of cheese?
- Try
to turn all the lights on.
- Try
this slide puzzle.
You can find more fun problems in
the
page of module
on Puzzles of the Math Explorers Club.