The Nightly Quill

The Monty Hall Problem is a famous (or rather infamous) probability puzzle. Ron Clarke takes you through the puzzle and explains the counter-intuitive answer.

The Game of Life is not your typical computer game. It is a ‘cellular automaton’, and was invented by Cambridge mathematician John Conway.

This game became widely known when it was mentioned in an article published by Scientific American in 1970. It consists of a collection of cells which, based on a few mathematical rules, can live, die or multiply. Depending on the initial conditions, the cells form various patterns throughout the course of the game.

Try it out ! It’s addictive !

Link - http://www.bitstorm.org/gameoflife/

The Einstein Puzzle

1. There are 5 houses in five different colors.
2. In each house lives a person with a different nationality.
3. These 5 owners drink a certain drink, smoke a certain brand of tobacco and keep a certain pet.
4. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same tobacco, or drink the same drink.

The question is: Who owns the fish?

# The Brit lives in the red house
# The Swede keeps dogs as pets
# The Dane drinks tea
# The green house is adjacent on the left of the white house
# The green house owner drinks coffee
# The person who smokes Pall Mall raises birds
# The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
# The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk
# The Norwegian lives in the first house
# The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats
# The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill
# The owner who smokes Bluemaster drinks juice
# The German smokes Prince
# The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
# The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water

Spelling Challenge

Count, but spell out the values: ONE, TWO, THREE, …
When do you first encounter the letter “a”?
Note: the number 101 is one hundred one, NOT one hundred and one.”