In this brainteaser, you must convince Uncle Joe that Wonka’s winning bars don’t exist.
Oompa, Loompa, doompa-dee-do I’ve got a perfect puzzle for you Remember the disastrous “Willy Wonka Experience” in Glasgow a few weeks ago? Parents paid £35 per ticket, lured in by AI-generated ads depicting a lush candy paradise only to be greeted by a near-empty warehouse with a couple dinky decorations. Now nobody trusts Willy Wonka. Perhaps we never should have. After all, this is the man who invited five children to his factory and set them up to meet grisly fates.
You splice additional string in to add just enough slack so that you could raise the new longer string exactly one foot off the ground all around the world. How much string did you add? How much would you need to add to a string wrapped around a basketball to raise it by one foot? You would need to add 2π or about 6.283 feet of string in both cases. There are two things I find amazing about this solution.
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