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Six chess players participated in a tournament. Each two participants of the tournament played one game against each other. How many games were played? How many games did each participant play? How many points did the chess players collect all together?

Is it possible to fill a \(5 \times 5\) table with numbers so that the sum of the numbers in each row is positive and the sum of the numbers in each column is negative?

The distance between Athos and Aramis, galloping along one road, is 20 leagues. In an hour Athos covers 4 leagues, and Aramis – 5 leagues.

What will the distance between them be in an hour?

Pinocchio and Pierrot were racing. Pierrot ran the entire race at the same speed, and Pinocchio ran half the way two times faster than Pierrot, and the second half twice as slow as Pierrot. Who won the race?

Try to decipher this excerpt from the book “Alice Through the Looking Glass”:

“Zkhq L xvh d zrug,” Kxpswb Gxpswb vdlg, lq udwkhu d vfruqixo wrqh, “lw phdqv mxvw zkdw L fkrrvh lw wr phdq – qhlwkhu pruh qru ohvv”.

The text is encrypted using the Caesar Cipher technique where each letter is replaced with a different letter a fixed number of places down in the alphabet. Note that the capital letters have not been removed from the encryption.

Try to make a square from a set of rods:

6 rods of length 1 cm, 3 rods of length 2 cm each, 6 rods of length 3 cm and 5 rods of length 4 cm. You are not able to break the rods or place them on top of one another.

Find the largest six-digit number, for which each digit, starting with the third, is equal to the sum of the two previous digits.

Find the largest number of which each digit, starting with the third, is equal to the sum of the two previous digits.

Find the missing numbers:

a) 4, 7, 12, 21, 38 ...;

b) 2, 3, 5, 9, ..., 33;

c) 10, 8, 11, 9, 12, 10, 13, ...;

d) 1, 5, 6, 11, 28, ....