Puzzletime and answers....

This week's puzzles are Easy Peasy Ones, as demanded by the younger crowd.



Which line is longer, the top one or the bottom one?

And what do you see in this picture below.



Answers to last week's puzzles

Everyone got the answer to the first puzzle. The lines are ALL parallel.

This is an optical illusion created by the spacing between the dark and light squares that creates the impression of sloped lines.

The second puzzle had everyone but two people totally off the mark.

David Okele, our friend from Kenya, tried hard and did some good lateral thinking, but it was not good enough.

He suggested that the farmer's daughter quietly pick up a white pebble from the ground before putting her hand into the bag and then pull it out.

Good thinking, but she could be exposed as a cheat.

The answer which Shalu, in Chennai, India, came up with is the best example of lateral thinking.

The farmer's dsaughter puts her hand into the bag, picks a pebble. When she takes her hand out of the bag, she drops the pebble to mix it with the millions on the ground.

She apologises profusely and then asks the moneylender to pick out and show the colour of the one in the bag, which of course, will be black. This means, to the audience, that the one she picked out must have been WHITE, freeing her father of the debt and she does not have to marry the moneylender!

The moneylender cannot say otherwise, as if he does, he will be proved to have cheated.

Well done Shalu!