Brain Teaser Answers April 2
Easy
1. A Window
2. He doesn’t have any stairs because he lives in a bungalow.
3. Tuesday, Thursday, Today & Tomorrow
Hard
4. He must be elected.
5. Yes, for instance, I is the first letter of igloo!
6. No one, the only son cannot have a brother, though he could have a sister.
Super hard
7. This is called the Sorites paradox (soros being Greek for “heap”), and is a classic paradox that has no real answer. Both #1 and #2 are true, and we can indeed keep removing one grain of sand until we have a single grain remaining. When does the heap become a non-heap? If we remove one more grain we’re left with nothing, is this still a heap?
