Winter Wonderland Puzzle Day 9

I went on a binge today and finished the puzzle. The last hundred pieces are usually quite easy to finish up. You just pick a piece and look around the board until you find its spot. So once I got to around a hundred pieces, it went together in about a half hour to an hour.

I'll leave this one together for a few days and then start on the next one, shown below. It is only a 300 piece puzzle so it should go together quite quickly. I have two more 1000 piece puzzles ordered from Amazon but they won't get here until mid-May. 

My next puzzle - The Tropics

My niece posted something on Facebook for me today which just blew me away. The world's largest jigsaw puzzle. You'll find information on it in an article at Scary Mommy.  The puzzle is actually 27 puzzles that interconnect. Each of the 27 sections comes in its own bag and can be done individually. They show 27 wonders of the world. And it has 51,300 pieces and a whopping US$409.99 price tag! Yikes! 

The finished puzzle, if connected together as one large puzzle, measures 28 feet wide by 6 and a quarter feet high. You'll need to put it together in the garage! 

I couldn't find it on Amazon Canada but did find an interesting and also very large puzzle that is one solid picture rather than 27 pictures joined together.

This puzzle shows famous landmarks from around the world in one giant montage. It measures 749 X 157 cm. or 24.57 feet across by 5.15 feet high. Not quite as large as the other one, but it is all one picture. Price tag? CDN $1810.14  Say what? Yep, that's a little too much for my blood.

Yesterday's Riddle:

On a certain islands, the esidents are all either scalliwags or saints. The scalliwags always lie and the saints always tell the truth. A stranger to the island passes three of the inhabitants standing around together. Let's call them A, B and C. He asks A, "Are you a saint or a scalliwag? A is a mumbler and the stranger does not hear his answer so he turns to B. "What did A just say?" he asks. B replies "A said he is a scalliwag." At this point C jumps in and exclaims, "Don't believe B. He is lying." 

So what are B and C? And what about A?

Answer: First let's consider something about A. The stranger did not hear his response, but we know do know what it was. Consider that a scalliwag, as a liar, has to answer the question with "I am a saint." The saint, as a truth teller, also must answer with "I am a saint." We do not actually know which he is from the answer.

However, because B says A was a scalliwag, obviously B is lying, hence B is a scalliwag. And since C jumps in to assert that B is lying, which is, in fact, true, then C must be a saint.

New Riddle: I'm copying this exactly as a friend of mine posted on Facebook. 

You're playing Let's Make a Deal and you are in the final round. Monty Hall shows you three doors and tells you that a NEWWWW CAARRRR is behind one of them. He asks you to pick a door. You pick. Now he says he has a special option for you. He says he is taking one choice away and there are only two left. One will be a winner. You are given the option to keep your pick or switch. What do you do? Does it make a difference?

My next post will be when I start the new puzzle, which may be a few days from now. 

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