Timeline for What kid-friendly math riddles are too often spoiled for mathematicians?
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| Aug 4, 2022 at 11:58 | comment | added | Pietro Majer | And the balance scale with equal lever arms | |
| Feb 26, 2021 at 21:16 | comment | added | Misha Lavrov | Some more: "100!", "without lifting your pencil", "how quickly must you run the second lap?" "grains of rice on every square", "at each intersection, you can go north or east". | |
| Feb 26, 2021 at 3:57 | comment | added | Michael | Hey, where are the continuations for the unspoiled ones? | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 23:02 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @JoshuaZ 2 (mixing.p); 4; 5 (bridge.crossing); 6 (fork.two.men) | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 22:56 | comment | added | Martin Rubey | I propose to add a pond half full with lotus flowers! | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 21:55 | comment | added | JoshuaZ | Could you maybe include them here? I recognize most of these but 2, 4, 5 an 6 I don't recognize. | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 21:09 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @DarkMalthorp Perhaps a better phrase for #6 is "You get to ask just one question," but I lazily copied the wording from the rec.puzzles FAQ. | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 21:05 | comment | added | Martin Rubey | This list is a perfect answer to cip.ifi.lmu.de/~grinberg/algebra/msed/mathjokes.html | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 18:24 | comment | added | Dark Malthorp | Ahaha I love it! I recognize all of these except #6. | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 17:57 | comment | added | Eric Towers | Worst list of opening lines, ever. Excepting submissions to the Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest. | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 3:40 | comment | added | Joshua | #11: It's been proven the actual case isn't independent. | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 0:57 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | Yogi Berra's take on #6: quoteinvestigator.com/2013/07/25/fork-road | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 23:40 | history | edited | Greg Martin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 24, 2021 at 22:15 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | A hiker climbs up a mountain, spends the night at the top, and climbs down the next day. | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 19:21 | comment | added | Michael Lugo | I call #3 "a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage" and use it to describe my life with a 2-year-old and a 2-month-old, so it is definitely recognizable to me and my wife. | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 18:28 | comment | added | Ross Presser | "Two men fall down a chimney." | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 17:01 | comment | added | Ira Gessel | A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 16:22 | comment | added | Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine | You have a mistake in number 3; there should be a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage. | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 15:41 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | "Each prisoner is wearing a hat" should be in that list, I believe. | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 15:05 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @EmilJeřábek Okay, then, a mathematician with a strong interest in recreational mathematics. | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 15:03 | comment | added | Emil Jeřábek | Hmm. I don’t recognize some of these at all, and several others only give a vague sense of familiarity. I suppose I’m not a mathematician, then. | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 14:54 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila♦ | The first one is a slap in the face of Russell. Simply choose the white sock from each pair. | |
| S Feb 24, 2021 at 14:42 | history | answered | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
| S Feb 24, 2021 at 14:42 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Timothy Chow |