Genius Corner: Gain fame with our brain game

Here’s a cool question. Send your answer to editnews@coe.berkeley.edu, and include your name, major and class year. The first person to e-mail the right answer will have his or her name printed in the next issue of Engineering News along with the answer. Twice a semester, one of the biweekly winners will be picked at random to win two movie tickets, courtesy of Engineering Alumni Relations. Plus, more chances to win! At the end of the semester, entrants who didn’t win will be automatically entered into a drawing to win a Berkeley Engineering mug and T-shirt.

You’re with a friend at a picnic and someone brings out a small block of ice to put in a cooler. You say to your friend, “I’ll bet you I can cut that block of ice in half and put it back together again as a single block, right here outside, without a saw and without putting it back in the freezer.” He tells you you’re crazy and takes the bet. Who wins?

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