Puzzles
Pride of Place
If we made a dictionary of all the integers, arranging their English names in alphabetical order, which would come first and which last?
Boxing Match
A large rectangle is partitioned into smaller rectangles, each of which has either integer height or integer width (or both). Prove that the large rectangle itself must have integer height or integer width.
“Cherchez Le Tigre!”
Black and White
One of a Kind
You’re about to roll five regular dice. Which is more likely, rolling no sixes or rolling exactly one six?
Sweet and Low
At age 10, Nob Yoshigahara won the grand prize in a newspaper competition with this puzzle:
Given a sack of sugar, an unbalanced scale, and two 5-pound weights, measure exactly 10 pounds of sugar.
Leftovers
A problem from Litton Problematical Recreations, which attributes it to Fermat circa 1635:
What is the remainder upon dividing 5999,999 by 7?
Red White and Blue
I place four balls in a hat: a blue one, a white one, and two red ones. Now I draw two balls, look at them, and announce that at least one of them is red. What is the chance that the other is red?