- What are you doing?
- Just playing.
- Are those dominoes?
- Yes, I am trying to fit 18 dominoes into this 6×6 square box.
- That can’t be hard.
- There is one restriction that’s driving me mad.
- Don’t let it.
- Some of the dominoes can’t form a smaller rectangle inside the box.
- What on earth do you mean?
- In the image above some of them make a 2×6 rectangle at the bottom and a 3×6 on the left side.
- We can’t have that!
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. - Norm Papernick
A group of six friends play a single tennis tournament where everyone meets everyone else once. They have only one court. How much does each player have to wait?
Please note that the three players waiting above will change their attire before going onto the court.
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. - William H. Mauldin
A certain night only couples arrived at a cinema. The seats were numbered and the couples where free to decide where to sit. After a while there were no two free seats next to each other, so all the couples waiting in line had to be rejected. The next night only couples arrived too, but this time the ticket lady seated the couples to fill the cinema completely. How many couples were rejected the first night?
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. - Edwin Schlossberg
- That’s a nice piece of wood!
- Thank you.
- Not only is it a rectangular block, it has also some unique properties.
- I thought you woldn’t notice.
- First of all, its height, width, and length are all different odd prime numbers.
- Amazing, isn’t it!?
- Its volume has three digits while its surface area has four.
- It wasn’t cheap!
Problem source: Problem of the Week, Bradley University.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl Jung
You are waiting for the bus and it is late. In the interest of time should you just walk and board the bus when it catches up with you, or should you just stay put and wait?
Is it true that questions no longer require question marks. – Unknown