Brain Teaser





Buford and Festus attended the Annual Hedgehog Toss at the county fair.

This popular event had six men competing.

Each man had six buckets.
Each bucket held six mama hedgehogs.
Each mama hedgehog had six baby hedgehogs (otherwise known as hedgehoglets).

How many legs are there in the competition?




The answer is . . . 6,060

There are 6 men, so that's 12 legs (assuming none of them is maimed).

They've got 216 mama hedgehogs (six each in six buckets times six men) with four legs on each hedgehog. That's 864 legs.

Then there's them 1,296 baby hedgehogs (6 for each mama) adding 5,184 legs.

That's a grand total of 6,060 legs.

This week's winners . . .

  • Philip Johnson - State Wide

  • Tanya Russell - Yellow Page Recruiter for The Wilmington Group

  • Leasa Best - DirectWest Publishing Partnership


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