Here’s an Old Testament Micro Softy, though it is not reported in the Bible.

King David had four sons with his wife Bathsheba – Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon. David owned a prime piece of farm land that was shaped like the three identical squares joined as shown in the figure.

He wanted the land divided into four separate tracts for his sons. And he decreed that each tract must have exactly the same shape and the same area.

The smartest of King David’s sons, Solomon, figured out how to divide the land this way.

Can you? I’ll give the answer next Monday.

Solution to Micro Softy 40:  A False Prophet

In last Monday’s Micro Softy, we are introduced to Lou Gubrious, the night watchman at the Bombs R Us warehouse, which was facing a volatile political situation. In the morning, Lou tells his boss about a dream he had had the night before, in which the boss would be killed in a car bombing later in the day.

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The car bombing never happened. The next day, Lou was fired. Yet his firing had nothing to do with the fact that his prediction about the bombing was wrong. So why was he fired?

If Lou had a dream the night before, he must have been sleeping on the job.  Recall that the city had recently hosted heated protests against the manufacture of explosive weapons of war. Lou’s job as a night watchman was to remain alert and keep a close eye on things and thus hopefully forestall avoid acts of terrorism. If Lou was sleeping, he was not doing his job. He was fired for cause.

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The Monday Micro Softy is a weekly feature of Mind Matters News. Here are the links to all the puzzles and answers to date:

Monday Micro Softy 40: The fate of a false prophet. He wasn’t actually fired for being a false prophet but for something that his prophecy unintentionally revealed. The solution to Micro Softy 39 lies in considering an alternative possible meaning of a word commonly used in sports. You will also find links to Micro Softies 35 through 39 and their answers here as well.

And here are links to all the earlier Micro Softies

Monday Micro Softy 29: A funeral lament in four lines. The funeral director was puzzled by Dan’s description of his relationship to the deceased but there was no question that his grief was sincere Here, you will also find links to Micro Softies 22 through 29.

Monday Micro Softy 21: Finding More of the Deadly Fentanyl Pills. There, you will also find links to Microsofties 11 through 20 as well.

At Monday Micro Softy 11: What Happened to That Other Dollar?, you will find links to the first ten Micro Softies. Have fun!