BRAIN TWIZZLER
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By PROFESSOR J. D. FLINT No. XVI. —Copyright
HERE is a brain twizzler about a snail. All in all, it gives (• J«u a neat and not too easy problem. A snail is at the bottom of a wall •20ft deep. He starts a journey to the top at the rate of 3ft per day. However, he is handicapped because at night when he rests gravity causes him to slip back down 2ft. Not only that,
but when lie does finally reach tile top he finds that he has climbed up & thin partition, and he immediately starts a descent down the other side, exerting the same amount of energy that he exerted climbing up. How long did the whole trip, from the bottom of the partition to the top and down the other side again, taket (Solution oa serial story page.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 208, 3 September 1938, Page 6 (Supplement)
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