Puzzle Solutions
This section contains solutions to the logic puzzles.
Puzzle 1: Medication Tablets
Cut each of the remaining four tablets in half. Consume one half of each tablet today and take the rest tomorrow.
A while back, I posted this puzzle in a SQL trainers’ forum. I found one of the solutions, posted by Mary Bray from Australia, especially amusing. Mary suggested that you pour yourself a decent glass of Scotch, dissolve all the remaining tablets in it, and drink half the glass today and the other half tomorrow. Then, if you die, at least you die happy.
Puzzle 2: Chocolate Bar
Most people try to run several different scenarios—for example, first cutting on each horizontal line, and then cutting each row vertically. It’s confusing to run the ...
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