The Official Brainteasers Thread


I love a good brainteaser, me. Here’s one I came across recently to get this thread started.

You have eight weights – seven of them weigh 1 kg, but the eighth is slightly off. You also have a set of balancing scales. How can you determine which is the dodgy weight, only using the scales twice?

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