Now nobody trusts Willy Wonka.
Perhaps we never should have.
This week Wonka will expose you for the conman you are.
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Did you miss last weeks puzzle?
Check it outhere, and find its solution at the bottom of todays article.
Be careful not to read too far ahead if you havent solved last weeks yet!
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Puzzle #34: Fools Golden Ticket
Willy Wonka is selling new chocolate bars.
Theyre rectangular bars comprised of a 37 array of individually filled chocolate squares.
Some squares are filled with fizzy lifting drink, while others have snozzberry filling.
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The arrangement of the flavors is randomly assigned from bar to bar.
Your Uncle Joe starts emptying your life savings for chocolate, but you sense a scam.
How can you convince Uncle Joe that Wonkas winning bars dont exist?
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Ill be back next Monday with the answer and a new puzzle.
Do you know a cool puzzle that you think should be featured here?
Shout-out to reiderrabbitt111 for solving them both.
A string is tightly wrapped around Earths equator.
How much string did you add?
You would need to add 2 or about 6.283 feet of string in both cases.
There are two things I find amazing about this solution.
The other is that the answer does not depend at all on the size of the sphere.
A marble, a basketball, and the Earth all need the same adjustment.
To solve this, recall that a circle with radius r has a circumference of 2r.
The circumference of the longer string is 2(r+1).
Dividing the area of the circle (r2) by the area of the square gives /4.
Again, the radii cancel and were left with a number thats independent of the sizes of the shapes.
The same argument goes for all three colors.
Since the big squares are all the same sizes, the three colored regions all have the same area.
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