So yesterday evening after Bible Study, Mr. Ramsdell gave us a riddle. It stumped me (but not Christian or Dad) and I wanted to post it up here. Mr. Ramsdell will give us the answer next Wednesday. Meanwhile Dad, could you post up your answer in the comments?
Here is the riddle:
You have six bricks that are all the same size.
One of those bricks is a little bit heavier than the rest.
You also have a balance scale.
You must find out which brick is the heavy one.
But here’s the catch: You may only use the scale TWICE.
So how do you figure it out? Beats me. If you can help, or if you just wanna be cool and post a comment, go ahead, cuz I don’t remember the answer that Dad got. 🙂
Well, Christian really figured it out first. Then Mr. Ramsdell told us there was another solution to the problem, so we figured that one out on the way home from meeting. It is a very cool little problem. Thanks Mark. Let’s not put the answer up until Mr. Ramsdell lets us know if we got the second method right. We can ask him on Sunday after gospel meeting.
! pick me ! pick me !
umm…. is it a digital electronic scale? or mechanical. 😉
I think it was a fish scale! How much do you weigh???
Hello!?! PICK ME!! PICK ME!!! I know the answer!! 😉
What do I win!? 😉