Sunday, February 4, 2007

Birthday Cake Challenge

Your challenge is to cut a birthday cake into exactly eight pieces, but here's the catch: you’re only allowed to make three straight cuts, and you can’t move pieces of the cake as you cut.

How can you do it?

5 comments:

The Riddler said...

This is a pretty tricky one, but once you figure it out, it will seem obvious.

allout said...

you make crooked cuts, like

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The Riddler said...

Clever, but the cuts must be straight.

Charlie said...

that's easy...

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