Monthly Archives: March 2017

Puzzle #174: Happy Birthday!

Posted on March 12, 2017 by Alok Goyal

This is a very nice puzzle from fivethirtyeight.com (thanks to Suman Saraf for pointing this site to me). It’s your 30th birthday, and your friends got you a cake with 30 lit candles. You try to blow them out, but … Continue reading →

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Solution to Puzzle #172: Divisibility by First 13 Numbers

Posted on March 12, 2017 by Alok Goyal

This was perhaps too simple a problem, to the point that very few responded 😦 Thanks to Abhinav Jain and Pratik Poddar for sending in the correct answers. The answer is 360,360. We are already told that the answer for … Continue reading →

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Puzzle #173:Diving a Circle Into 7 parts

Posted on March 5, 2017 by Alok Goyal

This is yet another wonderful puzzle sent by Suman Saraf. Thanks Suman! Given a circle and it’s diameter, how can you partition it’s area into seven equal regions without using straight lines. As always, please send your answers as comments … Continue reading →

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Solution to Puzzle #171: Buying Dimsums

Posted on March 5, 2017 by Alok Goyal

Many puzzles sometimes give you a glimpse of some amazing brilliance that lies all around us – this was one such puzzle. While many of you gave the correct answer for the number (which is 11), and this included Abhinav … Continue reading →

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