Halloween Math Pranks? On a recent Halloween, I found myself, as a civic club volunteer, passing out candy at a Boys/Girls Club Halloween Party. It was a last-minute opportunity, with little planning, and as the first volunteer to arrive, I had to decide logistics/rules. As kids came through, I began to ask their school levels. […]
Author: Larry Campbell
Pumpkin Pi
Brain Teasers – Fall ’22
NOTE: Newest BTs in red, Bonuses in blue, comments in green, updates in purple. For reminders on ways to submit answers, see below. Always, sometimes, or never? A given rectangle is also a square. What’s the second smallest 3-digit palindromic prime? A) 111 B) 131 C) 313 D) None of the above E) No answer possible. […]
Assorted One-Liners
“When I was a boy, I laid in my twin sized bed and wondered where my brother was.” – Mitch Hedberg “It’s sad that a family can be torn apart by something as simple as wild dogs.” – Jack Handey “I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.” – Steven Wright “The worst […]
Christmas 2023 – Buy a Gift, GET a Gift!!
Christmas 2023 Book Sale: Buy Books – Get Books! TWO CHOICES: 1. Buy ANY one of my books at the current/sale prices below, and get one of the Spitballs books* FREE! * Buy one Spitballs book, get the other book FREE. 2. Buy ANY TWO of my (non-Spitballs) books at the current/sale prices, and get a […]
SUMMARY: Solutions & Solvers, Jul/Aug BTs
REMINDERS: Answers in red. Solvers (submitted/correct) in blue. (Forgive any omissions, but feel free to inform.) Comments in green. For further elaboration on solutions, please feel free to ask! Greenland is the largest island in the world. What was the largest island before Greenland was discovered? It was still Greenland (discovered or not). Anita Dixon, […]
Cartoon of Week – Shoe.Son
Shoe.SonFreightTrain
Amazing Location – Iceland Lighthouse
The most isolated lighthouse in the world? Þrídrangaviti Lighthouse, perched atop a rock pillar in the Westman Islands, off the coast of Iceland, sits about forty meters above the raging Atlantic Ocean, was built in 1939. I’ll bet the pizza delivery guy gets a HUGE tip!!
Amazing Location of the Week – Chiba Prefecture in Japan
SUMMARY: Solutions and Solvers, May/Jun 22
REMINDERS: Answers in red. Solvers (submitted/correct) in blue. (Forgive any omissions, but feel free to inform.) Comments in green. For further elaboration on solutions, please feel free to ask! Not AS many solvers this time. 6 + 5 – 4 x 3 ÷ 2 = ? 5 Anita Dixon, Frank Green, Amy Ragsdale. Pure Trivia, no […]
