Archive for November, 2007

Valid Planar Pairing

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

pairing_icon.gifThere are 100 red dots and 100 blue dots on the plane (a lot of planar riddles lately). The dots are arranged such that no three are on the same line.

pairing of the red dots and the blue dots is a one-to-one function that assigns one blue dot to each red dot.

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Uncountable Union

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

easyriddle.gifA very interesting riddle for those of you with some basic background in Set Theory.

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Expanding Frogs

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

frog.jpgA very easy riddle. Four frogs are sitting on the corners of the unit square (i.e. they have coordinates (0,0), (0,1), (1,1) and (1,0) ). Each turn, a frog can jump over any other frog, thereby transferring itself to the symmetrical point on the other side of the static frog. For example, if the frog at (0,0) jumps over the frog at (1,1) it will land on (2,2).

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Peons

Monday, November 5th, 2007

peons_explain.jpg This is a cute puzzle. Consider an infinite checkerboard divided in two with an infinite line lying along the x-axis, as depicted below:

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