Time for another lazy day post…even though the day has been anything but lazy as I’ve been shoveling for the past hour because the Montreal area got dumped on with 30 cm of the white stuff (I’m trying hard to stay PC on this, for my nephews who may read this!) 
, and Melissa’s been dealing with Samuel who, we suspect, may be starting to be colic! 
Today’s lazy involves puzzles! The past month, I’ve been playing, and since finished, the Nintendo DS game: Professor Layton and the Curious Village. My buddy Juggling Mike tipped me off about this game knowing I like puzzles, riddles and logic problems of all kinds. In short, that game inspired this post, and if you like these puzzles you should definitely check out the game as it integrates the puzzle in a fun murder mystery storyline with nice animation and visual style! I couldn’t put the thing down…except when Sammy boy asked me to 
So, have fun with these, and I’ll post the answers in a couple of days. Of course, you could just google them, but what’s the fun in that???
Easy ones:
Frick & Frack
Frick is standing behind Frack and at the same time Frack is standing behind Frick.
The Question: How is this possible?
Tour de France
The Question: In the Tour de France, what is the position of a rider, after he passes the second placed rider?
OK, now a little harder:
Climbing Snail
A snail is at the bottom of a 20 meters deep pit. Every day the snail climbs 5 meters upwards, but at night it slides 4 meters back downwards.
The Question: How many days does it take before the snail reaches the top of the pit?
Tough one, next
Nine Dots
Nine dots are placed in three rows of each three dots, as shown in the picture. These nine dots must be connected by four straight, connected lines (i.e. without ‘lifting up the pen’ in between).
The Question: How should the four lines be drawn?
…and a real brain-buster to finish it off!
Lighting Bulb
A light bulb is hanging in a room. Outside of the room there are three switches, of which only one is connected to the lamp. In the starting situation, all switches are ‘off’ and the bulb is not lit.
The Question: If it is allowed to check in the room only once to see if the bulb is lit or not (this is not visible from the outside), how can you determine with which of the three switches the light bulb can be switched on?
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You may have seen these before as they’ve been around a bit… For the next puzzle post, I’ll pull some directly from the Professor Layton game.
Cheers!
1) They are back to back
2) Second Place
3) 16 days
4) Not sure.. I have seen this one so often, yet I never remember it.
5) I would switch two on and then check. If the light is not on, then the third switch is the light switch. If the light is on, it is one of the two, but this qould require a second look after turning one off to see which on it really is. This means there is “chance” involved. If there is a sure-fire way of always knowing, then I don’t know it.
For the 3 first answers, I agree with Juggling Mike.
For the 4th, I do remember the solution but cannot draw it here
5/ you switch one on, wait for a bit. Switch it off and switch another on. Then you go check the room. If the light is on, it is the last one you switched on. Else you touch the bulb: if it is hot, it is the one you switched on and off, else it is the one you did not touch.
Another puzzle for you:
100 dwarfs are working in a golden mine. One of them is a thief and his gold bars weigh 1g less than the other ones. How can you determine who is the thief with only one weigh?
Ah! That’s how it’s done! Nice one!
Not sure about the dwarves… interesting…
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