The answer to last week’s challenge is, Q: How many mistakes are there in the following sentence? “This sentance containes two misstakes”.

A: Four. Three spelling mistakes plus the mistaken claim that it contains only two mistakes.

This week’s Mental Floss challenge is:

Q: Scott ran halfway into the forest in half an hour. Dan claimed he had gone two thirds of the way into the forest in the same time. Scott however said this was impossible. Why?

The answer, along with a new challenge next week.

Have a great weekend ….