Today's Puzzle

The Howling Wolves said:

Why not Ferry the Foxes and corn across
come back empty
gather the chicken and ferry them across.

Fewer trips

Because "His boat is only large enough to hold him and one of his goods at a time" So he can't carry foxes and corn. He could of course let the chickens eat the corn so reducing the number of items! He might get more for the chickens if they were fatter!

ugh!!! cross posting!!

Try the one in post #130. Click here Today's Puzzle

Another simple one. They are the months of the year, arranged in chronological order. So that makes J F M A M J J A S O N D

good job ... I guess I just don't know anything difficult to challenge you.

Dad got this in a recruitment test yesterday but couldn't do it, so he brought it home for me to solve Nice and easy one this, what's the next number in the sequence?


24 28 16 16 20 8 4 _

24 28 16 16 20 8 4 4

Nope :)

24 28 16 16 20 8 4 8

Bingo! But why?

original series: 24 28 16 16 20 8 4 _
actually a sequence of three followed by another sequence of three ...
each sequence:

• first number of sequence provided
• second number = first number + 4
• third number = second number - 12

number following each three number sequence is given
math performed to find second and third numbers
... repeat ...