Last Problem
There is a secret word hidden in the following matrix of letters. Can you discover it? Can you unlock the code?
| R | V | E | O | V | C |
| S | I | O | V | R | D |
| V | E | R | C | V | O |
| R | O | V | E | S | E |
| E | R | S | C | R | I |
| C | E | R | E | O | R |
Answer:
If you count the letters, you will find there is 1 D, 2 I’s, 3 S’s, 4 C’s, 5 O’s, 6 V’s, 7 E’s and 8 R’s. The secret word is thus DISCOVER which is what you were ask to do in the problem. “Can you discover it?”
Today’s Problem:
A teacher held up a piece of paper and asked his students to tell him how many squares they saw. His students replied:
Six, they replied.
Which was the correct answer.
The teacher then held up the paper again and asked his students how many squares they saw.
“Eight,” they replied, again correct.
How can this be? How many squares were really on the sheet? Six? Eight? Or?