A friend at church keeps feeding me these marvelous puzzles. Here is a good one, nice and simple:
You have two ropes, and each takes one hour to burn all the way from one end to the other. But they burn at an uneven rate—fast, then slow, then fast, then slow, etc. Thus if you cut […]

Like History of the Kings of Britain, Book V of Le Morte D’Arthur tells how the Romans come to Camelot demanding tribute. Arthur refuses and leads an army into Gaul, where he overcomes the Romans, kills the Emperor Lucius, and begins marching into Italy. But in History, he has to turn back when he receives […]

I’ve finally got around to reading After Virtue by Alasdaire MacIntyre. I’m only about 50 pages into it, but it is amazing! He describes three modern attempts to ground morals: Kant’s, Hume’s, and Kierkegaard’s. Kant says that morals cannot come from desires and must therefore come from reason. Hume says they cannot come from reason […]

Something frightened Eek as I was out on the porch reading. One minute see was washing herself on the lawn, the next she had dashed across the yard, lept a bush, lept the wall, hopped back up the wall, and run back along half its length. Then she stopped, looked around, came back to the […]

I received one answer by email to my last puzzle; it was right. Congratulations, Presbytera! I’ll post the answer now in the comments section. Here is another riddle:
There are five thieves who have just robbed a traveler of 100 gold pieces. Now they have to divide up the booty. All five abide by a Code […]