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You are on an island in the middle of a lake. The lake is in a remote part of the country and there has never been a bridge connecting the island to the mainland. Every day a tractor and wagon gives hay rides around the island. Puzzled as to how the tractor had gotten onto the island, you ask around and find out that the tractor was not transported to the island by boat or by air. Nor was it built on the island. Explain how the tractor got there?

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Highland Games Links Page

Over the 7 years lifetime of the previous Highland Games website, many webmasters contacted me asking to link to the site and inviting me to link to them in return. My reply was that I didn't have a links page at that moment but when I did, which would be soon, I would get back to them. Well, I don't know about soon, but here it finally is....only now I've lost the many contact addresses I was given. If you have a site which is already linked to mine, please get in touch again. My apologies for the inconvenience.

If you have a site which you would like to link to this one, please contact me with the details. I will only link to sites dealing with relevant subjects, such as flexagons, dice, magic, interesting mathematics, etc., but my definition of relevant is pretty flexible. If I think the visitors to this site may also be interested in yours, I will consider it. I am NOT interested in linking to unrelated sites just for the sake of improving my rating with search engines.


http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/home.htm Canadian site, run by Jill Britton. Jill regards mathematics as the study of patterns and uses symmetry and tessellations, the art of M. C. Escher, polyhedra (unit origami and tetrahedral kites), curves (line designs, conics, cycloids/spirograph, curves of constant width, and fractals), and recreational topology to promote an interest in mathematics. Full of wonderful demonstrations.

http://www.riddlenut.com/ Source of all the puzzles on the loading pages. Thank you Riddlenut.

 
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Loading Page Puzzle: You are on an island in the middle of a lake. The lake is in a remote part of the country and there has never been a bridge connecting the island to the mainland. Every day a tractor and wagon gives hay rides around the island. Puzzled as to how the tractor had gotten onto the island, you ask around and find out that the tractor was not transported to the island by boat or by air. Nor was it built on the island. Explain how the tractor got there?

Solution: It was driven over in winter when the lake was frozen.