Mr. Blue has 12 brown gloves and 8 black gloves in a drawer in his closet. If he blindly pulls gloves from the drawer, what's the minimum number of gloves Mr. Blue will have to pick, to be certain he has a pair of gloves of the same color?

(In reply to No Subject by Easy_to_find_out)

Syzygy also answered 3.  The answer depends if the pair of gloves has to include a right-hand and a left-hand, in which case the answer is 11 (see Nikki's solution - very first one).  I think that was what Silverknight was after.

Posted by Nosher on 2004-10-21 01:49:35