Three puzzles to keep your brain flexible for today:

  1. A California farmer owns a beautiful pear tree. He supplies the fruit to a nearby grocery store. The store owner calls the farmer to see how much fruit is available for him to buy. The farmer knows the main trunk has 24 branches. Each branch has exactly 12 boughs and each bough has exactly 6 twigs. Since each twig bears one piece of fruit, how many plums will the farmer be able to deliver?
  2. A woman is sitting in her hotel room and hears a knock at the door. She opens the door to see a man whom she’s never met before. He says, “I’m sorry, I have made a mistake, I thought this was my room.” He then goes down the corridor and into the elevator. The woman goes back into her room and calls security. What made the woman so suspicious of the man?
  3. If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven’t got me. What am I?

 

Answers:

  1. None—a pear tree doesn’t grow plums
  2. If he really thought it was his hotel room, he would have tried to open the door—not knock on it first.
  3. A secret