Bad King
A bad king has a cellar of 1000 bottles of delightful and very expensive wine. A neighbouring queen plots to […]
Bit Manipulation, Brain Teasers, Logic Puzzles
Brain Teasers
Jelly Beans
You have three jars that are all mislabeled. one contains peanut butter jelly beans, another grape jelly jelly beans, and
Brain Teasers, Logic Puzzles, Microsoft Interview Questions
Bridge
Problem: this one is a classic that many of you have probably already heard, but all the more reason why
Algorithms, Bit Manipulation, Brain Teasers, Logic Puzzles, Math Problems, System Design
Card Trick Without the Trick
This is a card trick without the trick. there is no sleight of hand, no tricks up my sleeve, no
Logic Puzzles
Pirates Revisited
A slightly different version of the original pirates problem (read that one first to get all the rules). 6 pirates,
Brain Teasers, String Manipulation
Fuse on Fire
A mad bomber is out on the job, making bombs. he has two fuses (pieces of string) of varying thickness
Brain Teasers, Data Structures, Logic Puzzles
Dave’s on Fire
dave winer is stuck on a deserted island, with lots of trees, which is very thin and ten miles long
Arrays, Brain Teasers
Chessboard
problem: using 31 dominoes, where one domino covers exactly two squares, can you cover all the empty squares on this
Logic Puzzles
Easy River Crossing
Three cannibals and three anthropologists have to cross a river. the boat they have is only big enough for two
Algorithms
Shapes
Part I: draw a square. divide it into four identical squares. remove the bottom left hand square. now divide the
Algorithms, Arrays, Dynamic Programming, Google Interview Questions, System Design
Webloggers
Five webloggers – joshua Allen, meg Hourihan, jason Kottke, robert Scoble, and joel Spolsky – were competing for karma points
Bit Manipulation, Logic Puzzles
Hard River Crossing
a disfunctional family has to cross the river. on one side of the river are a mom and 2 daughters,
Data Structures, Logic Puzzles, String Manipulation
Classic Weighing
this is a classic problem which i have heard many times before. this is the “harder” of the two problems,
Logic Puzzles, Math Problems
Monty Hall Problem
Another well known problem in probability is the Monty Hall problem. You are presented with three doors (door 1, door
String Manipulation
Gold Chain
A man has a gold chain with 7 links. he needs the service of a laborer for 7 days at