April 2019
Problem of the Month

Laying Eggs
by Sam Loyd

Two hens are trying to figure out how many eggs they can put in a 6 x 6 crate without having more than two eggs in any row including all the diagonal rows.

Two eggs have already been placed, so no more eggs are permitted on that corner-to-corner diagonal.



How many eggs can go in the crate?
Send in a diagram of your solution.

Solution to the Problem:

The answer is 12 eggs.

There are many different configurations.   Here is one of them:

Correctly solved by:

1. Ryan Myers	Delta High School, Delta, Colorado
2. Charity Harmon	Mountain View High School, Mountain View, Wyoming
3. James Alarie	Flint, Michigan
4. Ivy Joseph	Pune, Maharashtra, India
5. Kimberly Howe	Vienna, Virginia
6. Ruger Hewitt	Mountain View High School, Mountain View, Wyoming
7. Rob Miles	Northbrook, Illinois
8. Kelly Stubblefield	Mobile, Alabama
9. Ethan Cantlin	Mountain View High School, Mountain View, Wyoming

Send any comments or questions to: David Pleacher