Here are some of the medium puzzles:
- 35. In three boxes we have one containing 2 black marbles, one with 2 white marbles and one with a black and a white. The boxes are all labeled wrongly. How many times must you pick a marble blindly out of one box to correctly identify what each box contains?
- 36. A single elimination tennis tournament starts with a certain number of players. How many matches must be played until a winner is arrived at
a) in a tournament with 100 players?
b) in a tournament with 1,500 players?
c) in a tournament with 147,690 players?
- 37. You have 12 black sox and 12 white sox mixed up in a drawer. How many sox must you pull out - blindly -to be sure of getting a matching pair?
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