Dear Yuyutsu,

Beat me to the punch.

As to your puzzle a ballooning accident or arrival by helicopter would deliver three bodies without necessitating climbing but the cabin has thrown me for now. Leave it with me.

Hi csteele, This time with answers (for a cut and paste):

1) How long did the Hundred Years War last? 116 years
2) Which country makes Panama hats? Ecuador
3) From which animal do we get cat gut? Sheep and Horses
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution? November
5) What is a camel's hair brush made of? Squirrel fur
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal? Dogs
7) What was King George VI's first name? Albert
8) What color is a purple finch? Crimson
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from? New Zealand
10) What is the color of the black box i n a commercial airplane? Orange, of course.

Check out this for an excellent selection pf puzzlers:
http://pdfbooks.co.za/unpublished_work/Van_Der_Westhuizen_CH/mindbenders.pdf

(Arjay would point out Pericles that that can't be right because it doesn't allow for the BMIC stealing the amoebas' productivity)

It's the cabin of a crashed plane.

And 23 people.

Gotta love this stuff!

Here's the answer to my earlier puzzle:

He was on a traffic island and was hit by a car.

This is fun!

You may have used this with your students already. This puzzle made an appearance during a mathematics lecture in a scene from the film '21' and also featured in the book 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' by Mark Haddon.

This puzzle deals with probabilities.

On a Game Show set there are three closed doors. Behind one of these doors is a car and behind the other two are goats.

The game begins by the contestant picking a door but the door is left shut for the moment. The Host then opens one of the remaining doors which he knows will reveal a goat.

After the Host opens the door to reveal a goat, the contestant is given the option to switch doors or stay with their first choice.

What is the probability of winning the car if the contestant stays with the first choice and what is the probability if the contestant switches doors? Are the chances improved by switching doors, staying or are they the same?

Please put me out of my misery… No matter how I calculate it those amoebas are going to take one hour and 54 minutes. What am I missing?