Here are some puzzles to test your mental accumen. If you fail to answer them it means that you are worthless and foolish.

1. Can you add one letter to this word to make it mean something similar?

“EDGE”

2. Can you move one of these matches so that the remaining shape is of one of the letters of the alphabet?

3. The son of this man’s father is me. Who am I?

4. Two trains leave Cincinnati traveling at a velocity of 66mph. One train, it’s blue, increases its velocity by 1mph after each mile traveled, excluding miles divisible by 8 when it increases its speed by 2mph. At every forty three mile mark the train stops for five minutes and starts up again going at 50mph with the normal level of increased velocity per mile. On calendar days divisible by 7 the train ignores the double increase at mile marks divisible by 8 but changes to a decrease by 3mph for each mile mark divisible by 26. One leap year day the train reverses direction, maintaining the same velocity increases. The blue train does not run at all in March or August, nor on any Federal Holiday which falls on a day of the week named for a celestial body. The other train, which is red, increases its velocity by 3/8th of a mph after each 5000 meter mark, excluding Sundays, when at the top of each hour it increases by 78/15th of a mph after each 4km mark. How far apart are the two trains after 17 years? Please give your answer in furlongs.

Answers will be posted next week.