Every month INetU invites you to Think Outside the Server® with a Brain Byte riddle. If you subscribe to our monthly newsletter, you can answer the puzzle to enter for your chance to win a prize.

This month’s Brain Byte

Suppose you have the following racehorses at a particular track:

• This first horse, Snail’s Pace, can only run two laps per minute.
• The second horse, Mean Mare, can run a respectable three laps per minute.
• The final horse, Quicksilver, can run an impressive four laps per minute.

If you line up the horses at the starting line, and given that each runs at a steady pace and starts running at the same time, how many minutes will elapse until the next time the horses are all lined back up together at the starting line?

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Every month INetU invites you to Think Outside the Server® with a Brain Byte riddle. If you subscribe to our monthly newsletter, you can answer the puzzle to enter for your chance to win a prize.

This month’s Brain Byte

Johnny Appleseed just came in from gathering a bushel of apples. He poured the apples out on the table to divvy them up into the apple-themed things he was preparing for the week.

• He decided that a third of the apples would be put aside for juicing.
• One quarter of the apples would be used in gift baskets he was preparing.
• One sixth of them would be baked into an apple pie.
• And one eighth of the apples would be stewed into a jar of applesauce.

Johnny was delighted to see that he still had a few leftover apples to eat with breakfast. If his basket can hold no more than 30, how many apples did Johnny have left for breakfast?

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Every month INetU invites you to Think Outside the Server® with a Brain Byte riddle. If you subscribe to our monthly newsletter, you can answer the puzzle to enter for your chance to win a prize.

This month’s Brain Byte

The correct answer to this puzzle has how many letters? (HINT: There are multiple correct answers)

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Every month INetU invites you to Think Outside the Server® with a Brain Byte riddle. If you subscribe to our monthly newsletter, you can answer the puzzle to enter for your chance to win a prize.

This month’s Brain Byte

Suppose the rules of a certain gambling game are as follows:

• You and your opponents ante $1 each round.
• You and your opponents choose any positive integer to play.
• If you tie any opponent, your ante remains in the pot; if all opponents tie, all the money stays for the next round.
• If any players have a unique number, the one with the lowest number claims the pot.

Now suppose you are going to play a large number of rounds with two other people. Assuming that each of your opponents are trying to figure out the best strategy to play, what strategy should you use to choose a number each round?

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