Riding to the Moon

[todayiamadaisy]

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.

Six days. Each day it will take out one ear of corn plus the two ears on its own head.

There was very nearly a riot, f-list.