The Sunday Afternoon Puzzle!

[lspencer534]

Same rules as always: Grab a beer, and no Googling!

[Question with 2-part answers earn you a point for each correct answer.]


1. Using eight eights and addition only, can you make 1000?
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2. Michael made a cake, in the shape of a perfect cube, for 64 guests at a recent party. The inside of the cake was sponge, and he iced the cake with red icing. He of course did not ice the bottom of the cake.
Michael cut each side of the cake into four equal pieces, making a total of 64 pieces of cake. Each exactly the same size.

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Two questions:
a. How many of the pieces of cake had at least 2 of their sides with icing?
b. How many of the pieces of cake had no icing?

3. Your sock drawer contains ten pairs of white socks and ten pairs of black socks. If you're only allowed to take one sock from the drawer at a time and you can't see what color sock you're taking until you've taken it, how many socks do you have to take before you're guaranteed to have at least one matching pair?

4. A man has 100 coins (there are no quarters or nickels) that add up to $5.00. How many coins did he have of each denomination?

5. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat? [Many answers to this, so each correct one earns a point.]

6. Every morning when I warm a cup of water for a cup of tea, I put it in the microwave (which is in working order) for exactly 84 seconds. Not only is the water precisely hot enough, there's also another reason for the 84 seconds. What is it?

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[Chris Fowler]

1) 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000

[Chris Fowler]

2a) 24

2b) 12

[DAB]

You drink tea??

[lspencer534]

1) 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000

Correct!

[Chris Fowler]

3) 3

[lspencer534]

2a) 24

2b) 12

Correct again!

[lspencer534]

3) 3

That's 3!

[lspencer534]

You drink tea??

Nah, just made a good puzzle is all.

[DAB]

Nah, just made a good puzzle is all.

Phew....

[Chris Fowler]

4) 90 pennies, 6 dimes, 1 50-cent piece and 3 dollar coins

[lspencer534]

4) 90 pennies, 6 dimes, 1 50-cent piece and 3 dollar coins

That'll work! Also a half dollar, 39 dimes, and 60 pennies.

[DAB]

84 seconds.......

Stumped.

[Chris Fowler]

84 seconds.......

Stumped.
because 85 is too long

(also stumped)

[Chris Fowler]

5) corn on the cob

[lspencer534]

84 seconds.......

Stumped.

It doesn't have to be tea. A cup of milk for hot chocolate, a cup of water for instant tea, any liquid that you drink hot.

[lspencer534]

5) corn on the cob

That's 5! :cert:

[DAB]

That's 5! :cert:

:beat:

Dang it. Picked the wrong one to work on first.

[lspencer534]

:beat:

Dang it. Picked the wrong one to work on first.

There's still other answers to the food question and the $5.00 question.

[DAB]

It doesn't have to be tea. A cup of milk for hot chocolate, a cup of water for instant tea, any liquid that you drink hot.

:toetap:

Well that helps. :slap:

[lspencer534]

:toetap:

Well that helps. :slap:

Picture a cup of water heating in the microwave. What does it do?

[DAB]

Picture a cup of water heating in the microwave. What does it do?

Get hot.

My microwave platter does one rotation every 10 seconds.

Lemme guess, yours goes around in 7 or 12 seconds, and that way the cup handle is in front?

[lspencer534]

Get hot.

My microwave platter does one rotation every 10 seconds.

Lemme guess, yours goes around in 7 or 12 seconds, and that way the cup handle is in front?

Yes! :cert:

[lspencer534]

So far:

Chris Fowler: 5

DAB: 1

There are still other answers to the food and money questions. DAB, you can possibly tie the game.

[DAB]

Yes! :cert:

Woot.

Clearly different speeds available.

[DAB]

So far:

Chris Fowler: 5

DAB: 1

There are still other answers to the food and money questions. DAB, you can possibly tie the game.

Too dizzy from making tea. :beat:

[lspencer534]

Woot.

Clearly different speeds available.

Just like no two mechanical things run at exactly the same speed.

[kingpin]

1) 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000

Wiseguy eh! :seasix:

[lspencer534]

Here's another annswer to the money question:

A dollar, a half dollar, 28 dimes, and 70 pennies.

There are infinite answers to the food question, such as a chicken, a turkey (any bird), a cow, a buffalo, etc.

:cert:

[Rapid Roger]

Apparently the liquid will boil at 84 seconds in the microwave.......:)

[DAB]

Apparently the liquid will boil at 84 seconds in the microwave.......:)

Nope. Tepid.

[ZipZap]

There are infinite answers to the food question, such as a chicken, a turkey (any bird), a cow, a buffalo, etc.

:cert:

I guess if you throw away the insides, these are answers:leaving:

[lspencer534]

I guess if you throw away the insides, these are answers:leaving:

For example, you throw away the feathers of a bird, cook it, eat the meat, then throw away the bones. Skin a cow, cook it, eat the meat, throw away the bones.

[nhlgopens]

6... that's how long it takes for you to have sex with your wife? :leaving:

[lspencer534]

I guess if you throw away the insides, these are answers:leaving:

For example, you throw away the feathers of a bird, cook it, eat the meat, then throw away the bones. Skin a cow, cook it, eat the meat, throw away the bones.