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Âé¶¹´«Ã½ puzzle #44: Elevator pitch

29 January 2020

#44 Elevator pitch

On the way back from a party the other day, my daughter and I got into an elevator. I was holding a cup of water with an ice cube floating in it, while my daughter was admiring her helium-filled balloon as it floated above her on a slack string. Our only company in the elevator was a spider, dangling from the lift’s ceiling on a thin thread of silk. As the lift accelerated upwards, what did we see happening to the balloon, the ice cube and the spider?

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