This is the newest feed that I subscribe to that I really enjoy. But I’m the type of person that likes riddles, puzzles, and word games. The typical non-nerd person might not enjoy this website as much as me hehe.

Futility Closet – “2,400 anecdotes, epigrams, illusions and wonders; puzzles, prodigies, sublimities and horrors.”

Some sample posts:

Two business partners asked their lawyer to hold $20,000, making him promise to get both of their signatures before disbursing any of it.

As soon as one partner left town, the other pressed the lawyer for $15,000, citing an emergency. The lawyer reluctantly gave it to him, and he disappeared.

On his return, the other partner was irate, so the lawyer explained that he had donated the $15,000 out of his own pocket.

“Then give me the $20,000 you’re holding,” said the partner.

“All right,” said the lawyer. “Give me the two signatures.”

Choose four distinct digits and arrange them into the largest and smallest numbers possible (e.g., 9751 and 1579). Subtract the smaller from the larger to produce a new number (9751 – 1579 = 8172) and repeat the operation.

Within seven iterations you’ll always arrive at 6174. With three-digit numbers you’ll aways arrive at 495. A similar technique works with words.

Yeah, this is the stuff that I looove. I’m such a nerd.