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?
  - A= Of all the raw vegetables, a cucumber has the least number of
    calories per ounce, an avocado the most.
B.) What is the largest city in the world that is not built near on a river or
by the sea?
- A= Mexico City
C.) In what way does Parker Brothers, the game company outdo the United
States Treasury?
- A= Each year, Parker Brothers prints more play money for its Monopoly
  games than the Treasury prints for real.
D.) What do the steps on the Eiffel Tower have in common with the French
Revolution?
- A= The number of steps match the year of the revolution: 1792
E.) Gateway Arch in St. Louis is 630 feet high. How wide is it?
- A= Base and height are both 630 feet.
F.) How high will you have to count before you use the letter "a" in spelling
the English name of a number?
- A= One thousand. (Incidently, "and" is not part of number names.
  It's "one hundred one." not ".... and one"
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?
- A= Zero. If seven letters match their envelopes, so will the eighth.
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?
  - A= One grove
- Q2: How far will a phonograph stylus travel when one side of the record is
  playing?
  - A= Four inches. The record moves, not the stylus, so the number of
    Groves is not important. The stylus travels half the diameter
    of the record, less the outer blank area and half the inner
    blank area, for approximately four inches.
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?
- A= From left to right: a five of clubs, a ten of clubs, and a ten of
  spades.
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.
  - A= From left to right the cards are a six, a nine, and a eight.
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 = C. Ethiopia
- 2. Belgian Congo = O. Zaire
- 3. British Honduras = B. Belize
- 4. Ceylon = K. Sri Lanka
- 5. East Pakistan = A. Bangladesh
- 6. Gold Coast = D. Ghana
- 7. Hot Springs = M. Truth or Consequences (a city in New Mexico)
- 8. Mauch Chunk = H. Jim Thorpe (a Pennsylvania city)
- 9. Northern Rhodesia = P. Zambia
- 10. Persia = F. Iran
- 11. Saigon = E. Ho Chi Minh City
- 12. St Petersburg = I. Leningrad
- 13. Siam = L. Thailand
- 14. South west Africa = J. Namibia
- 15. Stalingrad = N. Volgograd
- 16. Constantinople = G. Istanbul
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?
- A= Ten cents. The expensive one was $2.10.(If you said $2 and 20 į,
  that wouldn't add up. Two dollars is not $2 more than 20 į, it
  is only $1.80 more.)
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?
- A= One 50 cent piece, one quarter, four dimes, no nickels, and four
  pennies.
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.
- A= Pick up the sigh and point the correct arrow back to Boondock, the way
  you came; then all other arrows will point the right way.