Find the largest number of which each digit, starting with the third, is equal to the sum of the two previous digits.
James spent the first Tuesday of some month in Liverpool and the first Tuesday after the first Monday he spent in Newcastle. In the next month, James spent the first Tuesday in Dover and the first Tuesday after the first Monday he spent in Bristol. Could you determine the dates (day and month) spent by James in each of the cities?
Dave spent the first Tuesday of the month in Bath, and the first Tuesday after the first Monday in Cardiff. The following month Dave spent the first Tuesday in London, and the first Tuesday after the first Monday in Cambridge. Can you determine what month and date Dave was in each of the cities?
A schoolboy told his friend Bob:
“We have thirty-five people in the class. And imagine, each of them is friends with exactly eleven classmates...”
“It cannot be,” Bob, the winner of the mathematical Olympiad, answered immediately. Why did he decide this?
Alice the fox and Basilio the cat are counterfeiters. Basilio makes coins heavier than real ones, and Alice makes lighter ones. Pinocchio has 15 identical in appearance coins, but one coin is fake. How can Pinocchio determine who made the false coin – Basilio the cat or Alice the fox – with only 2 weighings?
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, ....
Once Alice was in one of two countries – A or Z. She knows that all of the residents of country A always tell the truth, and all the inhabitants of country Z always lie. Moreover, they often go to visit each other. Can Alice, after asking a single question to the first person that she meets, find out which country she is in?
In a cup, glass, jug and jar there is milk, lemonade, cola and water. It is known that the water and the milk are not in the cup; the container with the lemonade stands between the jug and the cola container; the jar does not contain lemonade or water; the glass stands near the jar and the container with milk. Which container is filled with each of the liquids?
In the equation \(101 - 102 = 1\), move one digit in such a way that that it becomes true.
When three friends – Nina, Helen and Anna – went out for a walk, they were wearing white, red and blue dresses. Their shoes were of the same three colors, but only Nina had the same shoe and dress color. At the same time, neither Helen’s dress, nor her shoes were blue, and Anna was wearing red shoes. Determine the color of the dresses and of the shoes of each friend.