This week, we got four different learning assignments. The first one is about puzzles and fun, wondering and searching for different solutions.
The fun with puzzles is that they sometimes have different answers, who all can be correct. Here are some potential answers and fun with possibilities.
Puzzle 1: A man is replacing a wheel on his car, when he accidentally drops the four nuts used to hold the wheel on the car. They fall into a deep drain, irretrievably lost. A passing girl, offers him a solution that enables him to drive home. What is it?
- The girl could be riding bicycle or perhaps a car. She offers him to borrow her selected ride, which enables him to drive home.
- She could be an awesome girl, that has the tools available, and the car that could enable her to tow the mans car home. If the man sits in the car, he is technically driving his car home.
- Since the girl is passing, maybe she is out in a stroll in her neighbourhood? She happens to have a 3d printer at home, and her offer is to print new nuts for the wheel.
- The solution offered by the girl, is the possibility of borrowing one nut from the other three wheels. He will then have three nuts in each wheel, and will be able to slowly drive home.
Puzzle 2: Two Russians walk down a street in Moscow. One Russian is the father of the other Russian’s son. How are they related?
- The son can be a product from a long-term relationship, or short term relationship, most likely between a man and a woman, but they can also be a man and a man. We do not know the gender of both Russians, and then we have many possibilities for relations.
- The other Russian is a woman, and the father happens to be her anonymous sperm-donor. Or he could be known, and might be a friend of the family.
- They have adopted the son together.
- One of the Russians have adopted the other Russian’s son, which could still make the other Russian a father, depending on gender.
Puzzle 3 : What occurs once in June, once in July and twice in August?
- As a real Vestlending, living right outside of Bergen. Yes, the place where it almost always rains. I would have to say: Sunny summer days! If we’re lucky that is.
- We can find the letter U once in June and July, and twice in August.
Puzzle 4: Six drinking glasses stand in a row, with the first three full of water and the next three empty. By handling and moving only one glass at a time, how can you arrange the six glasses so that no full glass stands next to another full glass, and no empty glass stands next to another empty glass? What is the minimum number of moves to solve this puzzle?
- The minimum number of moves is one:
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