Video: Hamilton guard Peter Dyakowski explains how to solve a viral logic puzzle

Hamilton Tiger-Cats' offensive lineman Peter Dyakowski is known for his brawn and toughness on the field, but also the brains he's shown off it. He won CBC's Canada's Smartest Person show in 2012, appeared on Jeopardy! last year and has even been serving as Maclean's "resident genius," taking their brutally-tough current-events quiz weekly and doing very well. It's an extension of that latter role where he showed off his smarts again this week, using a whiteboard at the Ticats' facility to diagram the solution to a viral logic puzzle about Cheryl's birthday that's been going around the internet. Here's Dyakowski in action (you can see the video here if the embed below doesn't load for you; it will work in Firefox if you turn off blocking of insecure content and Flash blocking in the browser bar, but it may have issues with other browsers and plugins):

That's not only impressive thinking by Dyakowski, but a very solid and efficient logical explanation of the solution. (Here's a written one from The New York Times to compare.) He's a regular Captain Holt, and it's good to see that he's exercising his brain as well as his muscles in the offseason. This is yet more proof that not all football players fit the "dumb jock" stereotype; there are lots of smart people out there who just happen to play football for a living. This is more evidence that Dyakowski's one of those.