My students love these. Thanks to Nathan Levy for writing these great books!
"Don and Dan enter a tavern. They are served identical drinks. Don drinks his quickly and feels fine. Dan drinks his very slowly and dies."
The object is to ask yes or no questions to figure out why one was fine and the other died if they were served identical drinks. As I said, my students absolutely love these and spend hours trying to figure them out. They're great time killers when we finish the lesson just a couple of minutes early and we need to fill the time left in the period. They always beg me to tell them answers and I never do, and then they feel so proud of themselves when they finally figure it out. And, unbeknownst to them, they are working on their reasoning, analytical and creative skills at the same time as playing a game!
What's that? You want the answer? Oh, too bad, you'll have to ask some yes or no questions to figure it out! I will let my kids help you though. So far they know that the drinks were absolutely identical, that neither man was sick prior to coming to the tavern and that both men are human.
12 comments:
Does Dan wait too long to finish his drink and by the time he does finish it, he's old and dies?
lol, nope, he's not THAT slow!
This is killin me...
My teachers used to give us hints....
Evidently your teachers were easier than your cousin!
Was there something poisonous on the glass?
Yes, there was
Was it a spider?
nope, no spider.
I'll give you the clues I gave the kids:
1) How could they drink identical drinks, including the poison, and only one die?
2) the fact that one drank his quickly and the other slowly will give you the answer.
3) what else do you put in a beverage, besides the liquid?
Hmm... Was there ice?
Yes, there was ice in the glass.
Did he die because the poison in the ice melted because he drank it slowly? Did don did not die because don drank it to fast for the ice to melt?
There was poison in the ice. Don drank it quickly, so the ice did not melt and the poison was not released. Dan drinks his slowly and the ice melts.The poison is released, and Dan dies. Figured out the answer myself:)
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