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Warm up One

A traveller comes to a fork in the road which leads to two villages. In one village the people always tell lies, and in the other village the people always tell the truth. The traveller needs to conduct business in the village where everyone tells the truth. A man from one of the villages is standing in the middle of the fork, but there is no indication of which village he is from. The traveller approaches the man and asks him one question. From the villager's answer, he knows which road to follow. What did the traveller ask?

Answer: The traveller asked "which road goes to your village". He would then take the road the villager pointed to because a truthful person would point toward the truthful village,and the liar would also point to the truthful village since he is a liar and, therefore, could not point to his own village.

Warm up Two

A man walks into an art gallery and concentrates on one picture in particular. The museum curator notices this and asks the man why he is so interested in that one painting. The man replies, "Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man's father is my father's son."

Who is in the painting? Answer: The son of the man who was studying the painting.

Warm up Three

Name four days of the week that start with the letter "t"?

Answer: Tuesday, Thursday, today, and tomorrow!

Warm up four

A man has to get a fox, a chicken, and a sack of corn across a river. He has a row boat, and it can only carry him and one other thing. If the fox and the chicken are left together, the fox will eat the chicken. If the chicken and the corn are left together, the chicken will eat the corn. How does the man do it?

Answer: 1) man carries chicken to other side 2) man returns alone and takes fox to other side 3)man leaves fox but returns with chicken; 4) man leaves chicken and carries corn to other side; 5) man leaves corn with the fox and returns alone; 6) man gets chicken and takes it to other side.

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