An Interesting Conundrum

Few days back, Abbas Raza of 3QuarksDaily posted a really interesting blog, in which he has invited readers to solve some intelligent and tricky logical problems. I exercised my grey cells a lot but I couldn’t figure out the solution for more than half of the problems.

The real fun began when he wrote a follow up solution post. Check out the comments for this post. It was hilarious to see how the readers seemed to have over-debated the Question 5.

“Walking down the street one day, I met a woman strolling with her daughter. “What a lovely child,” I remarked. “In fact, I have two children,” she replied. What is the probability that both of her children are girls? Be warned: this question is not as trivial as it may look“

The boy girl conundrum has been dissected to its core by the readers. I don’t know if the sceptics were finally satisfied or not, but the whole process of analysing a seemingly simple problem was one helluva joyride.

If you enjoy puzzles, be sure to try out all the questions in the blog. Some of them are real fun to solve.
Ta !!!