Jack was having a candle light dinner with his girlfriend. Suddenly a cold gush of wind entered through the open window and three of the ten candles were extinguished. Assuming that none of the other candles were extinguished.
I have nine bottles of wine and one of the nine bottles is poisoned.
I need to find the poisoned bottle with two facts
(1) Poison is deadly, only a sip will cost death
(2) I have two mice to do so.
Anabelle is a clever trader of rare artefacts. Each day she carries three boxes each filled with thirty artifacts. The boxes can't hold more than that. She travels far in northern lands to sell these artefacts but on the way, she comes across thirty checkpoints where she has to shed one of the artefacts for each sack to the authorities for letting her pass.
How many artifacts will be left with her when she reaches her destination crossing all the checkpoints?
In 2011, people playing Foldit, an online puzzle game about protein folding, resolved the structure of an enzyme that causes an Aids-like disease in monkeys. Researchers had been working on the problem for 13 years. The gamers solved it in three weeks.