Discover Smith Mountain Lake
SPRING 2016
27
26
Submit your answers to:
Discover Smith Mountain Lake Magazine
40 Village Springs Dr., Suite 25
Hardy,VA 24101
Or via e-mail to:
Please remember to explain your answer
and how you arrived at it.The first correct
answer with an explanation will be
recognized in the next issue as our winner.
A
You don’t see everyday
UNIQUE
PHOTOS
Four prisoners are attempting to escape by digging a tunnel to freedom.
They are all afraid of the dark.
They have made a crude lamp that will stay lit for 12 minutes.The original plan was to make the tunnel
wide enough for all four of them to escape side by side, using the one lamp.
However, the guards have become suspicious, and the prisoners know that an inspection is planned
for the next morning, which will likely reveal their tunnel.
As it is right now, only two of them may escape through the tunnel at one time, moving at the speed of
the slower one.
•
The youngest, strongest one can make it through the tunnel in one minute
•
The next one needs 2 minutes
•
The remaining two are older and slower, needing 4 and 5 minutes, respectively
These men are all loyal to one another, and none will leave any of the others behind.
How can they all escape tonight, using only that single crude lamp for the light that they so
desperately need?
TEASER
“-- or won’t listen...”
“Don’t mind if I do…”
“Don’t make me strike the two
of you…”
“Before you embark on a
‘Pilgrimage’…”
“Hmmm… may I see a menu?”
Oh Spring is around the corner,
I can see the signs...
