Last week’s puzzle, like several others, is easy to solve if we use inclusive thinking about relationships.
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I live in McGregor, Texas, where Elon Musk’s Space X has a testing center, and occasionally, the testing of their rocket engines gently rattles the dishes on the shelves in my home.
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Immediately, without touching anything in the room or a word being spoken, the police office arrested the clergyman. Why?
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The 1876 song My Grandfather’s Clock by Henry Clay Work. was about a clock that stopped, short, never to go again when the old man died.
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Optical illusions and audio illusions have no place in reality, neither do logical illusions even though they are used a lot in math proofs.
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The documentary 2000 Mules, by Dinesh D’Souza, presents a compelling argument that large numbers of ballots were deposited in drop boxes in a coordinated manner, potentially influencing the outcome of the 2020 election.
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You can get to all 72 other Micro Softies and their answers from here. Test your wits against the engineers!
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Sally tells her landlord she will give him one gold bead every day during the 30-day month.
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Great nerds are able to grasp deeper meanings. So here is this week’s Micro Softy about an overheard conversation.
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To show off my electrician skills, this week’s Micro Softy is about the light switch on your stairs.
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Fritz goes in the first day and sees one of the seven switches down and the rest up. He dutifully flips one of the switches.
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Who gave consciousness and creativity to whoever or whatever is responsible for simulating us, and who simulated our simulator?
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Problem: If we get one more prisoner, we have to start doubling up cells which is no good.
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The other two switches turn outside lights off and on. Wide Clyde can’t see outside, so he can’t determine which switches control the lights.
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Choose any three-digit number, say 567, and repeat it: 567,567. Divide it by the prime numbers 13, then 11 and then 7.
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Two fathers and their two sons walked into the Bass Pro Shop in Memphis, Tennessee. Each man bought an AK47 rifle with ammunition and a 75-round drum magazine
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A few days later, a second note was received. It read: “In the BAA [now the NBA] finals, the Baltimore Bullets will defeat the Philadelphia Warriors to win the 1948 World Championship in Basketball.”
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A shabbily dressed man with an unkept beard held up a cardboard sign saying, “Can you help? Please!”
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Sisyphus Fats, exercises by pushing a giant bowling ball up a 100 foot hill. Every minute, he pushes the ball three feet closer to the top and then the bowling ball slides two feet back.
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Flubbed headlines are fun. There are typically two meanings. One is the obvious meaning, meant by the writer of the headline. The second is an interpretation, which can be hilarious.
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