Fred and George are twin brothers. One of them always tells the truth, and the other always lies. You can ask only one question to one of the brothers, to which he will answer “yes” or “no”. Try to find out the name of each of the twins.
The director of a power plant, considering the list of phone numbers and the names of his employees, noticed a certain relationship between names and phone numbers. Here are some names and phone numbers from the list:
Achinskiy 9125
Butenko 7215
Dapin 5414
Galick 6711
Martyanof 9136
Romidze 7185
What is the phone number of an employee named Ognef?
It is known that “copper” coins that are worth 1, 2, 3, 5 pence weigh 1, 2, 3, 5 g respectively. Among the four “copper” coins (one for each denomination), there is one defective coin, differing in weight from the normal ones. How can the defective coin be determined using scales without weights?
How can we divide 24 kg of nails into two parts of 9 kg and 15 kg with the help of scales without weights?
Harry, Jack and Fred were seated so that Harry could see Jack and Fred, Jack could only see Fred, and Fred could not see anyone. Then, from a bag which contained two white caps and three black caps (the contents of the bag were known to the boys), they took out and each put on a cap of an unknown color, and the other two hats remained in the sack. Harry said that he could not determine the color of his hat. Jack heard Harry’s statement and said that he did not have enough information to determine the color of his hat. Could Fred on the basis of these answers determine the color of his cap?
Five first-graders stood in line and held 37 flags. Everyone to the right of Harley has 14 flags, to the right of Dennis – 32 flags, to the right of Vera – 20 flags and to the right of Maxim – 8 flags. How many flags does Sasha have?
Find out the principles by which the numbers are depicted in the tables (shown in the figures below) and insert the missing number into the first table, and remove the extra number from the second table.
The Olympic gold-medalist Greyson, the silver-medalist Blackburn and bronze-medalist Reddick met in the club before training. “Pay attention,” remarked the black-haired one, “one of us is grey-haired, the other is red-haired, the third is black-haired. But none of us have the same colour hair as in our surnames. Funny, is not it?”. “You’re right,” the gold-medalist confirmed. What color is the hair of the silver-medalist?
On the street, four girls are talking in a circle: Anna, Kate, Jane and Nina. The girl in the green dress (not Anna and not Kate) stands between the girl in the blue dress and Nina. The girl in the white dress stands between the girl in the pink dress and Kate. What color dress was each girl wearing?
Decipher the puzzle shown in the picture. Same letters correspond to same numbers, different letters to different numbers.