Thursday, July 16, 2015

July 17 on Jumping


Plyo Soft Box comes in three sizes and colours. It claims that you can make seven different heights when these are placed properly.

If it comes in one size, you can make only one possible height. Two sizes, three possible heights. Three sizes, seven heights.

Thursday, July 9, 2015

July 8 on Flowers


Each of these requires 2500 flowers and it is changed once a week. There are four of these in the hotel for the entire month of June and July. 

How many flowers are needed?

July 7 on Coating


This whatever-you-call-it is an apple coated with chocolate coated with M&Ms 

How many M&Ms are needed for each of this?

July 6 on Venetian


Three 45-ml bottles of soap, shampoo and conditioner are supplied to each room each day. How much of each is used by The Venetian each month?

What's the missing information?

Monday, July 6, 2015

Thursday, June 25, 2015

June 25 on Nasi Lemak


In Singapore and Malaysia, a common breakfast food is nasi lemak - rice cooked with coconut milk (not healthy at all) and served with simple condiments and curry (Malaysia) or chili paste aka sambal (Singapore).

Killiney has been in business since 1919 starting off as the ubiquitous kopi tiam.

The pack of nasi lemak i had with kopi o is 100% organic - not a single synthetic material is used. Banana leaf is used to pack the rice, giving it a nice aroma as well. Had I used my fingers to eat it as it is done traditionally, you can see how we used to be green without having to say we were green.

A 2 unit x 2.5 unit rectangular sheet of banana leaf folds into a rectangular pyramid with a 1 unit x .75 unit base and .75 unit height. The unit is the length of iPhone 6. 

How much rice is packed into this package?