Here’s one of my favorite puzzles, perhaps not rendered too easy by Google (unless you cheat and look on my website):
What is the size of New Jersey, shaped like a dog bone, and named after a famous woman?
Posted at May 12, 2007 5:11 PM UTCTrackBack URL for this Entry: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/cgi-bin/MT-3.0/dxy-tb.fcgi/1274
Oh shucks — I guess thinking is obsolete. Too bad. One may not get the precise answer by thinking, but one can certainly make a lot of progress. There really aren’t that many types of entities that could meet all 3 conditions…
You can tell Google not to index your puzzle answers by using a robots.txt file. See here for details on how to write one and where to put it.
The trick to render the puzzle Google-proof would have been to have found something the same size as New Jersey, and then use transitivity.
But maybe not so many geographical regions are bone-shaped and the right length.
You could always get us working on another gnarly issue, then we’d have to think.
I’ve got lots of gnarly issues. But right now I feel like something more light-hearted. I’ll post it soon.
You don’t even need the New Jersey to google it - it’s the sixth hit for ‘dog bone shaped’(without the quotes, that too)
Thank goodness for Google! I actually figured I would be able to come up with this on my own… but after an uncomfortable amount of time in which I came up with not one reasonable answer, I had to look it up just so I could sleep tonight. I love puzzles though… so thank you!
Re: Puzzle #12
its the first thing coming up when one googles
size New Jersey+dog bone