Riddle: At the Races
Submitted by E. Cohen
You have 32 horses and need to find the 3 fastest. You can race at most 4 at a time. What is the fewest number of races needed?
Last Month’s Riddle: Word Problems
In the addition problem below, each unique letter represents a different digit from 0 to 9. Identical letters represent identical digits. For the sum to be correct, what number must EIGHT represent?
And if W is greater than N but less than V, what must be the values on ONE, TWO and FIVE?
ONE
TWO
+FIVE
EIGHT
Solution:
621
846
+9071
10538
Solved by: Victor Grazi, Rivka Fogel, Haim Soleimani, Daniel Husney
Junior Riddle: Canaries
Submitted by S. D.
If Sam puts in one canary per cage, he has one bird too many. If he puts two canaries per cage, he has one cage too many. How many cages and canaries does Sam have?
Last Month’s Junior Riddle: World Traveler
What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Solution: a stamp
Solved by: Joey Harari, Reuvain Blum, Y.C., Rachel Cohen, Yitzy & Paula Nagar, S Mizrahi, Leo Cameo, Chani A, Esther G. Cohen, Jack Hanan, Sara Hindy Bloch