WORD WEDNESDAY - What's the name of the game?
Today's Puzzle
Name a well-known game that's eight letters long. Drop the fifth letter. Move the first letter into the vacated spot and you'll spell a part of the human body. What game is it, and what's the body part?
Monday's Puzzle - Evapoweight
Suppose you have 100 pounds of cucumbers that are 99% water by weight. You leave the cucumbers out in the sun until they're 98% water (again, by weight). How much do the cucumbers weigh now?
[SPOILER] Answer to Monday's Puzzle
50 pounds.
This answer is of course rather counterintuitive, since a reduction from 99% to 98% water doesn't seem like it could possibly be a 50 pound reduction in overall weight.
It makes more sense if you think about it from the perspective of the solids rather than the water. The cucumbers were originally 99% water, which means they must have been 1% solid. Since you started out with 100 pounds total, that's 99 pounds of water and 1 pound of solid. After you leave them out in the sun, they are 98% water and 2% solid. The weight of the solids didn't change, though - it's still just 1 pound. And in order for that 1 pound to account for 2% of the weight, the total weight must be 50 pounds.
But at the end of the day you're still stuck with 50 pounds of cucumber. Hope you have a good pickle recipe!