I apologize for not posting in a long time. But I saw Jesse's blog and that he had put puzzles on it. So I thought that he was missing a few and I'd like to put them here. But send me the answers to them some way other than commenting on this one because other people can see your answers.

 

1. You walk to a pet store looking to adopt a mouse. But this particular mouse is known for multiplying at incredible speeds. Two months after they are born, they can make 12 babies for every month from then on. You adopt one of the mice that are one day old. Assuming that no mice die, how many mice will you have after 10 months?

 

2. _ is 1,000 times _ _. What single letter can you put in all 3 spaces to make this a true statement? They all have to be the same letter.

 

3. There is a clock tower in the middle of town. It rings its bells at every hour once per hour that has passed by since 12:00 (ex. 1:00 is one ring, 2:00 is two rings, etc.) But its rings last five seconds each. When it becomes 12:00, how many seconds would a blind person need to wait to figure out that it is 12:00?

4. There is a boat sinking in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with fifteen people on it and there is one five-person life raft on board. There is also an island 4 minutes and 30 seconds away from the boat. The boat will sink in exactly 20 minutes. The water is shark infested so no one can swim to the island. Assuming that the people will start working right away, how many people will survive?

5. Five people were arrested for a crime. During the interrogation, one of them said that one of the five of them are lying. The second one said that two of them are lying. The third one said that three of them are lying. The fourth one said that four of them are lying. And the fifth one said that all of them are lying. How many people should the police let go?

 

More to come…