Making Cigarette from its Buds

A beggar on the street can make one cigarette out of every 6 cigarette butts he finds. After one whole day of searching and checking public ashtrays the beggar finds a total of 72 cigarette butts. How many cigarettes can he make and smoke from the butts he found?




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The phrase “thinking outside the box” was popularised from the solution to a topographical puzzle involving 9 dots in a box shape.