Can you solve it? Art thou smarter than Shakespeare?
Can you solve it? Art thou smarter than Shakespeare?
Apr 15, 202436 secs
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.