Futility closet has a good brain teaser:
You have nine coins and a balance scale. One of the coins is lighter than the others. Is it possible to identify it in only two weighings?
J.E. Littlewood observes that a similar puzzle wasted 10,000 scientist-hours of work during World War II. “There was a proposal to drop it over Germany.”
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