(January 26, 2010 at 10:27 am)Tiberius Wrote: Here is a probably easier puzzle than the last, this time involving a bar of gold.
You've got someone working for you for seven days and a gold bar to pay them. The gold bar is segmented into seven connected pieces. You must give them a piece of gold at the end of every day. If you are only allowed to make two breaks in the gold bar, how do you pay your worker?
My guess is computer literate people might get this before others.
I'm not sure what counts as a break, so this may not be legal.
A-B-C-D-E-F-G
first you rip out D and you are left with A-B-C and E-F-G and then you put them on top of each other
A-B-C
E-F-G
then you remove B and F