sometimes logic serves us well. and sometimes logic over cooks the steak,
spills wine on our lap and goes home with our date

Saul and Sal race each other for 100 yards. Sal wins by 10 yards. They decide to race again, but this time, to even things up, Sal begins 10 yards behind the start. Assuming that neither slow down, who wins this race? .......................................... Two boys on bicycles, 20 miles apart, began racing directly toward each other. The instant they started, a fly on the handlebar of one bike flew toward the second. As soon as it reached the other handlebar it turned and flew back, etc., until the two bikes met. If each bicycle had a (constant) speed of 10mph, and the fly flew at 15mph, how far did the fly fly? .......................................... there are 3 boxes with 2 eggs in them each (you cannot look inside). there are lables in front of each box that is incorrectly placed. the lables say white/white, brown/brown, and white/brown, indicating the colors of the eggs inside. how many times must you reach inside a box and retrieve an egg to correctly place the lables? .......................................... What day would tomorrow be if yesterday was five days before the day after Sunday's tomorrow? .......................................... you come across two doors and two doorman. one door leads to heaven, the other to hell. you can only ask one doorman one question. one doorman always tells the truth, and the other doorman always lies. what one question would you ask to find out which door leads to heaven? .......................................... imagine yourself hunting for bears. you start from a position and go south 10 km but you catch no bears. so you go west 10 km and this time, you catch a bear. you go north 10 km to the spot where you started. what color is the bear? .......................................... you are in a 2 story house and there are 3 switches on the first floor which controls the lights in 2 rooms on the second floor. by going upstairs only once, how could you figure out which switch controls the lights in the rooms? (you cannot see the rooms from the first floor) .......................................... you are given 12 bags of unknown number of gold coins, a scale, and a pen. 1 bag is filled with fake gold coins that weigh only 9 grams, and the other 11 bags contain real gold coins that weigh 10 grams. how many times must you use the scale to find the bag of fake coins? .......................................... you have 8 marbles and a scale. 7 of the marbles weigh the same and the 8th either weighs more or less. how many times must you use the scale to figure out which marble weighs differently?