Puzzle of the Day

Here's something to burn your brain. I tried playing the Nintendo DS game "Professor Layton and the Curious Village" last night and came across this puzzle that took me WAY longer than I expected to solve. I've had a lot of fun today telling it to people and watching their head explode. Try it . . . I'll post the answer later. Feel free to e-mail me your guess. (*there's a demo of the game on the web-page that lets you play through a different puzzle in your browser)

"Imagine a digital clock (one that displays like '3:33'). How many times will the clock display three or more of the same number in a row over the course of one day? In case you were wondering, the clock in this puzzle displays time on a 12-hour scale, not military time."


While you're pondering the puzzle, try out this webpage that I created an account on yesterday. You may have heard of it: last.fm

You choose an artist and it plays songs from other people who like that artist. The presumption is that if you both share an interest, you'll probably like their other interests as well. There's a download that reads the songs you play in Window's Media Player and suggests songs, too. I'm still playing with it, but I like the idea.

There's another webpage that looks at lots of different characteristics of a song (voice, tempo, speed, etc) and characterizes songs together - a "music genome project." It's called Pandora and is pretty cool.

Good luck with the puzzle! It's not as easy as you think!