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In a carnival game, you roll seven ordinary dice and then arrange them to form a 7-digit number.

If your number is a multiple of 2, you’ll win £2. If your number is a multiple of 3, you’ll win £3. If your number is a multiple of 4, you’ll win £4. If your number is a multiple of 5, you’ll win £5. If your number is a multiple of 6, you’ll win £6. If your number is a multip...

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In a certain street are three tailors. The first to set up shop hung out this sign — ‘Here is the best tailor in the town.’ The next put up — ‘Here is the best tailor in the world.’ The third simply had this — ‘Here is the best tailor in this street.’

— John Scott,


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“Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.” — André Gide, Journals

(Thanks, Macari.)


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A puzzle by F. Nazarov from the May-June 1996 issue of Quantum:

On a certain familiar island, some residents always lie, and the others al...


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