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Puzzle #13 Snail party: four snails on each others’ tails

17 July 2019

Snail Puzzle

#13 Snail party

Sam has four pet snails. She puts one of them at each corner of a square ABCD with sides 2 metres long. Being very friendly, each snail moves towards its neighbour, snail A to snail B, B to C, and so on, at all times pointing directly towards that neighbour. If each snail moves at a constant speed of 2 metres per hour, how long will it be before they meet?

Answer next week

#11 Lunar years

Solution

When I am 60, my sister on the moon will have just celebrated her 31st birthday.

The moon has…

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