Riding to the Moon

Yesterday being Australia Day, I did the patriotic thing and went to a barbecue. It was all fun and games until someone lost an eye. No, that's not true. Instead, someone brought out a board game called Mind Trap, which was sort of like Trivial Pursuit but with lateral thinking questions. If your boat can only carry three chickens at a time, how many trips do you have to make across a river so you never leave your five chickens alone with a fox? That sort of thing.

So that was all going swimmingly until a crucial point, when this question was asked:

There are six ears of corn in a tree stump. If a squirrel takes three ears out of the stump each day, how many days will it take to empty the stump?

What's your answer? I bet it's wrong. My team's was. We did not get this answer at all, and it cost us the game.

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There was very nearly a riot, f-list.