- You have an ordinary, round, fruit cake.
- You have an ordinary, straight, cake knife.
- You need to cut the cake into eight equal* pieces.
- You are only allowed three** cuts with the knife.
No doubt you're thinking that this is another old chestnut of a puzzle. But I'm adding a twist of a new condition:
- Each of the eight pieces must be as tall as the original cake. So no slicing the cake in half horizontally!
Answers in
please.
*So as to avoid arguments as to who's got the biggest piece.
**No, you can't have four cuts. Then we wouldn't have a puzzle!