5+5+5=550
Challenge: Can you draw 1 line to make this equation true? (Changing the equals sign to not equals is not permitted!)
Stumped? Here’s how.
Add a vertical line to 1 of the plus signs, changing it to a 4! Then you have 545+5=550.
Challenge: Can you draw 1 line to make this equation true? (Changing the equals sign to not equals is not permitted!)
Stumped? Here’s how.
Add a vertical line to 1 of the plus signs, changing it to a 4! Then you have 545+5=550.
6 toothpicks form this equilateral triangle. Can you add 3 more to make 5 equilateral triangles?
A snowball sentence, a teacher explained to her class, is one where each word is longer than the preceeding one. “Do you understand?”, she asked a student. “I am not sure, teacher”, she said. Did she understand? How do you know?
Do you know the stunt where you whisk the tablecloth out from under the dishes? This is its smaller cousin. Can you yank a sheet of paper out from under a stack of quarters, without disturbing the coins? [youtube width=”319″ height=”258″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbhmAZ0w1rw[/youtube]
Is this possible? Or have we lost our marbles?
This one is a favorite of mine. Two spectators each hold out any number of fingers on one of their hands. (E.g. one might put out 3 fingers and the other, 2.) A third spectator tells the magician, who is looking the other way, the total (in this example, 5). The magician immediately announces that…
Challenge: Can you arrange the letters of “new door” to form one word?
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