Can you solve it? Art thou smarter than Shakespeare?
Today’s puzzles come from the quill of Rob Eastaway, the bard of brainteasers, whose latest book Much Ado About Numbers is a journey into Shakespeare’s mathematical life and times.
Hazard was a gambling game with dice that was one of the most popular recreations in Elizabethan England.The plot of Twelfth Night revolves around non-identical (fraternal) twins Sebastian and Viola.The perfect excuse to set this classic puzzle about birth-adjacent siblings:As all famers know, lambs arrive as non-identical twins, each with a 50-50 chance of being male or female.The local vet has an Elizabethan ultrasound machine and finds out the genders of the lambs: “Is it true that at least one of them will be male?” asks the farmer.