Sahil Gupta

This one is a “mental” exercise; don’t use paper and scissors; just imagine in your mind.Take a sheet of paper – any size that you happened to have (remember, just imagine this paper). Now fold this sheet of paper in half and now fold it in half again, at right angles to the first fold. […]

Sam Rottenegger got some free tickets to go and see his least favourite band. Sam, feeling a little unruly, stopped at the corner store. So, he could bring a 1/2 dozen eggs with him to the concert. The concert was packed and the tunes were so loud that Sam could hardly stand it. He started

If a cork is put into a glass of water, the cork will almost always drift to the side of the glass. There is one simple way, however, to get the cork to float in the centre of the glass (the horizontal centre, not the vertical). What is it? Water, the glass, and the cork

Cindy, a High School cheerleader, told her fellow cheerleaders that she was worried about changing for practice in their locker room. It seems that she overheard the Science teacher, Dr. Smith, telling the Principal that he had just invented an invisibility potion which turns a person, who drinks a sip of the potion, completely invisible

Doctor Dodge was staying with Cousin Jamie in Jamie’s lakeside cabin. They were setting up Jamie’s will. As Dodge was Jamie’s closest living relative, much of Jamie’s estate was being left to him.One day, Jamie went to Dr Dodge very disturbed. “Doctor,” he began, “I have just found out that a man named Georgio wants

A Science teacher told his class after school, “Whoever can get this egg into this smaller glass bottle will win no homework for a week! The rules are: the egg has to go into the bottle in one piece, and you can’t break the bottle. You can also use anything in the science lab. So,

A Physics teacher used to enjoy tricking his students into learning science facts. One day, he placed an 8-ounce glass filled with water on a table. He then produced 2 straws; one straw he placed into the glass of water and the other he held outside the glass. “Class,” he said, “I am willing to

Swaff is sitting at his desk, being cool, when his younger brother Geemiee walks up. Geemiee had recently been practising his (fake) magical powers, trying to turn cheese into more cheese, so he believes he can beat Swaff in anything. He sets up a little competition, the first to get 5 ounces of water to

You awake inside a small transparent capsule sitting on the surface of Venus. From a small speaker you hear a voice that says, “We will leave you here either for a day or a year. If you choose to stay a day, we will give you $1 million. If you choose to stay a year,

If you balanced a broom horizontally on your finger, in such a way that your finger was exactly on the centre of gravity of the broom, and marked that spot and cut the broom in two, then you would have a long and a short piece. The long would be being most of the handle

As his name would suggest, Joe was not a meek, quiet fellow. In fact, he had such difficulty keeping quiet that both his local and university library banned him. His roommate, being a music major and a sound engineer, said he could solve his problem, but Joe would need to trust him. He gave Joe

A man in a restaurant asked a waiter for a juice glass, a dinner plate, water, a match and a lemon wedge. The man poured enough water onto the plate to cover it.“If you can get the water on the plate into this glass without touching or moving this plate, I will give you $100,”