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“I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.” I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.” Thanks to Richard Wiseman for helping me with today’s column.“I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.”īut I, the LORD, search all hearts and examine secret motives. Solution One only for after eating one his stomach would be fullĭavid Copperfield’s History of Magic, by David Copperfield, Richard Wiseman and David Britland is out in the UK and the US. How many hard-boiled eggs can a hungry man eat on an empty stomach? Most people are apt to say 60, forgetting that the 59th cut separates the last two lengths, and that, therefore, a 60th is unnecessary.ġ0. How long did it take him to cut up the whole? The piece of cloth was 60 yards in length. A draper, dividing a piece of cloth into yard lengths, found that he cut off one yard per second. A window shaped as an isosceles or right-angled triangle will equally answer the conditions of the puzzle.ĩ. By enlarging it to a square its area is exactly doubled, without increasing either its height or width.
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A window in a certain house has recently been made twice its original size, but without increasing either its height or width. Solution You place the candlestick upon the head of the person who is not to see it.Ĩ. You undertake to place a lighted candle in such a position that it shall be visible to every person save one such person not to be blindfolded, or prevented from turning about in any manner he pleases. Solution You place in the person’s left hand his own right elbow, which, obviously, he cannot take in his right hand.ħ. You undertake to put something into a person’s left hand which he cannot possibly take in his right. Solution The puzzle is solved by cracking a nut, showing the kernel, and then eating it.Ħ. You undertake to show another person something which you never saw before, which he never saw before, and which, after you both have seen it, no one else will ever see again. Solution Add the necessary lines to complete the word “ three,” thus THREE.ĥ. Out of six chalk or pencil strokes-thus, | | | | | | to make three, without striking out or rubbing out any. How would you write in figures twelve thousand twelve hundred and twelve?Ĥ. Place three sixes together so as to make seven.ģ. Solution Write nineteen in Roman numerals: XIX. Required, to take one from nineteen and leave twenty. You may have heard some of them before, but I’m sure you can’t remember the solutions!ġ. They are all classic lateral thinking problems. Hoffman was also a puzzle enthusiast, and earlier today I set you ten puzzles taken from his 1893 classic book Puzzles Old & New. (I read about him recently in David Copperfield’s History of Magic, a stunning book he coauthored with psychologist Richard Wiseman and magician David Britland.) Professor Hoffman was the pen-name of Angelo Lewis, a Victorian barrister whose book Modern Magic, published in 1876, is considered one of the most important and influential magic books of all time.