Balance Puzzle
A number of logic puzzles exist that are based on the balancing of similar-looking items, often coins, to determine which one is of a different value within a limited number of uses of the balance scales. These differ from puzzles where items are assigned weights, in that only the relative mass of these items is relevant.
Read more about Balance Puzzle: Premise, The Twelve-coin Problem, In Literature
Famous quotes containing the words balance and/or puzzle:
“Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us have in their turn occurred to all the wise men; not one has been omitted; and each has answered them, according to his ability, by his words and his life.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)