Summer Reading Puzzler
Challenge: Can you arrange the letters of “new door” to form one word?
Answer: one word
Answer: one word
Here’s a fun bit to show a library patron, or an audience while they are waiting for a program to begin. Ask your audience if they can make a pear disappear. Let them think about this. After a minute or two, show them the secret:
Read the following paragraph only once, counting the number of F’s in the paragraph. How many F’s are there? FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-IC STUDY COMBINED WITHTHE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS. Answer: Most will find 3 F’s. Few will find all 6!
Set the deck of cards on the table. The spectator can cut the deck anyplace he’d like. Without touching the cards, you’ll be able to tell what card he cut to! Is this possible, or is it a bunch of huey?
Are you up for a challenge? Get 6 straws. (Pencils that are all the same size, or toothpicks will also work.) Can you make 4 triangles–without bending or cutting any of the straws? Got an idea? Check it with our answer.
Tell your parents that, being the good child that you are, you have decided that you would like to wash the dishes each night after dinner. You’d like to be paid a little for your services, but your wages are reasonable. You’d like to be paid 1 cent the first night, 2 cents the second…
December is our twelfth month, so a puzzle about the number twelve seems topical. Can you solve this one? It’s tricky!
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