Baseball player Giancarlo Stanton has a wordplay lover’s heart.

(Thanks to Lou Kesten.)

xkcd takes on a famous logic puzzle.

Want to make a fast $100? I thought so. Here’s what you need to do: Get yourself to Manhattan, and explore the city from 14th Street up to 125th Street. Somewhere in there, you will see a posterboard with some strange writing on it, much like this:

If that looks like a puzzle, that’s because it is. And if you’re the first to find and solve it, you’ll win the hundred bucks. I have no idea who’s behind this, or why they’re doing it — you would think that a group giving away $500 a week might have a more explanatory Web site. But hey, let’s not complain. It’s money for solving puzzles! Go get it!

It’s not pretty.

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(Via Comic Book Resources, with thanks to Joe Cabrera.)

With the news that Puerto Rico has voted in favor of statehood, great portions of the Internet have turned their attention to what a 51-star flag would look like. Math nerds probably have an edge–they’re good at patterns, after all–so the most attractive options are being offered up by folks like Ed Pegg of mathpuzzle.org.

But my personal favorite, found on a Reddit thread by Laughing Squid, is this one:

This logic puzzle has been making the rounds lately, and it’s quite nifty:

Shown above are four men buried up to their necks in the ground. They cannot move, so they can only look forward. Between A and B is a brick wall which cannot be seen through.

They all know that between them they are wearing four hats–two black and two white–but they do not know what color they are wearing. Each of them know where the other three men are buried.

In order to avoid being shot, one of them must call out to the executioner the color of their hat. If they get it wrong, everyone will be shot. They are not allowed to talk to each other and have 10 minutes to fathom it out.

After one minute, one of them calls out.

Question: Which one of them calls out? Why is he 100% certain of the color of his hat?

The answer can be found here.

(Via Boing Boing.)