• 1.) Turning Dog.
  
  The matchstick dog is shown facing west.
  The problem is to make him face East.
  You can do this easily by moving three matches,
  but can you do it by changing the position of only
  two matches? (The dog must keep his tail upturned.)
  
  
• 2.) Five to Four.
  
  Lay out 16 matches to form five squares of equal size.
  The challenge is to move only two matches and make four squares,
  all of the same size. All matches are used in the solution,
  and no loose ends left.
  
  
• 3.) General Information Quickies.
  
  Here's a quick trivia test to help exercise your gray cells.
  
  
  
  • A.) In what way are a cucumber and an avocado opposites?
    
    
  • B.) What is the largest city in the world that is not built on a river or
    by the sea?
    
    
  • C.) In what way does Parker Brothers, the game company outdo the United
    States Treasury?
    
    
  • D.) What do the steps on the Eiffel Tower have in common with the French
    Revolution?
    
  • H.) Gateway Arch in St. Louis is 630 feet high. How wide is it?
    
    
  • I.) How high will you have to count before you use the letter "a" in spelling
    the English name of a number?
    
  
  
• 4.) Mail Mix.
  
  A secretary typed eight letters to eight different people, and then addressed
  the eight envelopes. Unfortunately, the letters got all mixed up. If she puts
  letters in envelopes at random, what is the probability that exactly seven
  letters will go into the right envelopes?
  
  
• 5.) Disco.
  
  The next Prince album, we are told, will be 12 inches in diameter, with
  an outer lip half an inch wide. The diameter of the unused centre of the album,
  carrying the label, will be three inches. Grooves cut into the record will
  average 100 to the inch.
  
  
  • Q1: Approximately how many groves will there be on each side of the record?
    
    
  • Q2: How far will a phonograph stylus travel when one side of the record is
    playing?
    
  
  
• 6.) Cards.
  
  Picture three playing cards laid out side by side. A ten is just to the right
  of a five. A ten is just to the left of a ten. There is a club just to the
  left of a spade, and a club just to the right of a club. What are the three
  cards?
  
  
• 7.) To Sum Up.
  
  Use the same arrangement of three cards. All three are spot cards. From the
  following clues, what is the value of each?
  
  
  
  • 1. The total value of cards 1 & 2 is 15
    
    
  • 2. The total value of cards 2 & 3 is 17
    
    
  • 3. No card is a seven.
    
    
  • 4. No card has a value higher than nine.
    
  
  
• 8.) Formerly known as.
  
  Times change, and so do places . On the numbered list below, are former names
  of some countries and cities around the world and lettered, the new, improved,
  and much preferred names. your job:
  match them up.
  
  
  • 1. Abyssinia
    
  • 2. Belgian Congo
    
  • 3. British Honduras
    
  • 4. Ceylon
    
  • 5. East Pakistan
    
  • 6. Gold Coast (Not in Australia)
    
  • 7. Hot Springs
    
  • 8. Mauch Chunk
    
  • 9. Northern Rhodesia
    
  • 10. Persia
    
  • 11. Saigon
    
  • 12. St Petersburg
    
  • 13. Siam
    
  • 14. South West Africa
    
  • 15. Stalingrad
    
  • 16. Constantinople
    
    
  • A. Bangladesh
    
  • B. Belize
    
  • C. Ethiopia
    
  • D. Ghana
    
  • E. Ho Chi Minh City
    
  • F. Iran
    
  • G. Istanbul
    
  • H. Jim Thorpe
    
  • I. Leningrad
    
  • J. Namibia
    
  • K. Sri Lanka
    
  • L. Thailand
    
  • M. Truth or Consequences
    
  • N. Volgograd
    
  • O. Zaire
    
  • P. Zambia
    
  
  
• 9.) Drink up.
  
  You have two bottles of beer, a premium brand an economy brand.
  The good one cost $2 more than the cheap one. You spent $2.20
  for both. How much did the economy brand cost?
  
  
• 10.) Take Five.
  
  You have five coins and the challenge is to arrange them so that
  each coin touches the other four. It's easy to place four coins in
  mutual contact. But can you do it with five?
  
  
• 11.) Sorry Bud.
  
  What is the maximum amount of money you can be carrying in U.S. coins
  without being able to give someone exact change for a nickel, a dime,
  a quarter, a 50-cent piece, or a dollar?
  
  
• 12.) Take TEN
  
  Take ten coins in a row. You may pick up any coin, jump over two adjacent
  coins, and place it on the next coin. The challenge is to make five such moves
  and leave five stacks of two coins each. You may jump over single coins or
  two-coin stacks.
  
  

13.) Lost In America.

You are driving along a dark country road and you pass through Boondock.
The lights are on at the Boondock tavern but you decide not to stop.
About 20 minutes later, you reach an intersection where five roads meet at one
spot. Unfortunately, the road sign has been knocked over and damaged, so much
so that you can't tell how it originally pointed. You can identify the five
arrows pointing to Boondock, Crockville, Hicksburg, Resume Speed, and
Kalamazoo. You are alone at the crossroads; there's no one to ask. How
do you find out which of the roads leads to Kalamazoo, your destination.
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