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Recreational mathematics.

Of the 12 coins, only 1 is false, and it is a different weight than the real coin.
How do you find a counterfeit coin in 3 weighings on a two-cup scale without weights?

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William, Oliver, and James were playing snowballs. The first snowball was thrown by Oliver. Then for every snowball that hit him, William threw six snowballs, James threw five, and Oliver threw four. After a while, the game was over. Find out how many snowballs were hit if 13 snowballs flew past the target. (You do not throw snowballs at yourself.)

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James said on November 28: "Today the difference between the number of full months I have lived and the number of full years I have lived is 144 for the first time. When is James' birthday?

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The figure shows the unfolding of the cube. There are only numbers on it: 1 and 2. Arrange the remaining numbers: 3, 4, 5, 6 — so that the sum of the numbers on any two opposite sides is equal to 7.

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Two people had two square cakes. Each made two straight cuts on his cake from edge to edge. One had three pieces and the other had four.
Could this be?
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Is it possible to mark 6 points on the plane and connect them with segments so that each is connected exactly to four others?
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Is it true that among any five segments there are three that can form a triangle?
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Put 9 points on the plane so that no 4 lie on the same straight line, but out of any 6 there are 3 lying on the same straight line. (In the drawing, draw all the lines on which the three marked points lie.)

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Each face of a cube is divided into four identical squares.
Can each of the resulting squares be painted in one of the three colors so that any two squares that have a common side are painted in different colors?
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A 2×6 rectangle is marked on the checkered paper.
Is it possible to color the nodes of the cells lying on the border and inside this rectangle (there are 21 of them in total) in two colors so that no four one-color nodes appear at the vertices of the rectangle with sides running along the grid lines?

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There are several natural numbers written in a circle, each of which is not greater than one of its neighbors. Prove that among these numbers there are at least two equal ones.

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There are several numbers written in a circle, each number is equal to the arithmetic mean of two neighboring numbers. Prove that all these numbers are equal.

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Eight mushroom pickers collected 37 mushrooms. It is known that no two of them collected mushrooms equally and each found at least one mushroom. Prove that some two of them collected more than some five.

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There are several rooks on the chessboard. Is there necessarily a rook that beats no more than two others? (The rook cannot jump over other pieces.)
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There are several cities in the country. A crazy traveler goes from city A to the farthest city B. Then he goes to the farthest from B city C, and so on. Prove that if city C is not the same as city A, then the traveler will never go back to city A.

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There are 2023 asteroids flying in outer space, each of which has an astronomer sitting on it. All distances between asteroids are different. Every astronomer watches the nearest asteroid. Prove that no one is watching one of the asteroids.

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James conceived four non-negative numbers and counted all their possible pairwise sums (6 total). What numbers did he conceive if these sums are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6?

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In a 7×7 square, paint some cells so that there are exactly 3 painted cells in each row and each column.

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Is it possible to paint some cells in a 7×7 square so that any 2×2 square has exactly one painted cell?
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Is it possible to place integers in the cells of a chessboard so that the sum of the numbers in any column is greater than 100, and in any row is less than 100?
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