Puzzle 85
During a recent expedition, three intrepid adventurers were left stranded in the middle of the desert with only a crate full of apples.
During the night, Alex woke up and decided to hide some of the apples and hid a third, then promptly fell asleep again.
Billie woke up shortly after and also decided to hide a third of the remaining apples and then also dozed back to sleep.
Finally, Charlie woke up and seeing the others were asleep, took a third of what was left.
Of course, none of the adventurers knew of the other's antics, so, in the morning, they shared the remaining apples, each receiving sixteen. How many apples were in the crate originally?
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Puzzle 86
Starting in the bottom left corner and moving either up or right, adding up the numbers along the way, what is the largest sum that can be made?
| 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 3 |
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Puzzle 87
Alex likes soda very much. At the local convenience store, for every 5 empty soda bottles the reward is a full fresh bottle.
As part of a local recycling initiative Alex collected 77 empty bottles.
How many bottles of soda could Alex drink in total?
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Puzzle 88
Are there more inches in a mile...
...or Sundays in a thousand years?
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