Micro Softy 42 is easier to solve if we recall the rules for dividing by each of these numbers in turn.
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Micro Softy 37 is easier to guess if you think about what the two teams have in common that might change the opening ceremonies somewhat…
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The solution to Monday Micro Softy 27 lies in appreciating the significance of Keith’s request for two bags instead of one.
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The solution to Micro Softy 26 lies in recognizing that there are different ways of measuring distance.
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In this week’s challenge, you don’t know how many pill bottles, if any, have been laced with fentanyl. Can you still discover the truth with a single weighing?
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The answer to last week’s Micro Softy turns on the question of what form of currency Claire gave the blind ticket seller. Did you guess it right?
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This classic puzzle in simple graph theory resulted in a commonly used phrase. Can you guess it?
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Probability problems typically come down to analyzing the choices carefully and picking the most promising one.
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About the answer to Micro Softy #8, ask yourself a question, “Who shaves the barber?”
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Micro Softy 7 is an illustration of Simpson’s Paradox, which says that averaging averages doesn’t always work.
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And here’s the answer to why young Clay’s arithmetic didn’t make sense at first to Claude — but then Claude realized that the boy was right.
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And here’s the answer to the probability question: What are the chances that Claude and Chloe’s younger child is also a boy?
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Puzzle: We learn that one of Claude and Chloe’s two children is a boy. With a 50–50 ratio, what chance is there that the other child is a boy too?
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For example. they would ask questions like, why are manhole covers round?
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