An online video game tournament begins with 1024 players. Four players play in each game. In each game there is only one winner, and only the winner advances to the next round. How many games will the winner play?
For round one there are 1024/4 = 256 winners, 256/4 = 64, 64/4=16, 16/4=4, 4/4 = 1. thats 5 games.