17 years of my life wasted July 22, 2005 ~ 2:58 pm
Posted by Julie in : Daily Grind , trackbackIn 5th grade, my teacher Mr. Sokol gave us a riddle to do, with the promise that whoever solved the riddle wouldn’t have any homework for the rest of the year. No one got the answer, and as far as I know, many of us continued working on the riddle into adulthood. I taught it to the Youngest last week to keep her entertained. And after years of searching on the net, I finally hit the right combination of searchwords to find the fucking riddle: “three houses and three utilities”. Here’s what I came up with:
Now what kind of a twisted sadist gives an impossible in 2D riddle to a bunch of ten-year-olds?? Thanks, Mr. Sokol. I always knew I wasn’t good at math…
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