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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Sandwich on October 16, 2002, 05:51:53 pm
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When is 99 more than 100?
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when you type the words?
'ninety-nine' has 11 characters including the hyphen while 'one hundred' has ten. This is debatable if you count the space in between 'one' and 'hundred' as a character...which means my answer is probably wrong. :wink:
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Originally posted by Borealis
when you type the words?
'ninety-nine' has 11 characters including the hyphen while 'one hundred' has ten. This is debatable if you count the space in between 'one' and 'hundred' as a character...which means my answer is probably wrong. :wink:
Heh - nice try, actually! But nope, that's not what I was aiming for. :D
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When you add two to the former.
Cheque please!
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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
When you add two to the former.
Cheque please!
Nope. 99, as is, and 100, as is. :D
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-99 is greater than -100. That's all I can think of.
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Originally posted by Scorpius
-99 is greater than -100. That's all I can think of.
Nope again! :p
Hint: It doesn't work for 100 and 101. ;)
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When you go to a Southern public school.
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When the party says 99 is more then a 100, then it is only logical that 99 is more then 100, and 99 was never less then 100, thats absurd.
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Does this have any thing to do with ice creams?
Aha! OK, in theory 99% of C is faster, since you can never actually reach C - and if you did you'd just be stuck there, what with time being all ****ed up. So going at 99% of C would appear to be faster.
Hur hur... I dun fysics
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wait wait i got another one
if you convert 100 to binary, you get 01100100, add all the ones and you get 3. If you convert 99 to binary, you get 01100011, add all the ones and you get 4!... unless i screwed up my conversions.
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9+9=18 1+8=9
1+0+0=1
?
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it's more lower
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99 tons is more weight than 100 pounds... wait that wouldn't work with the 101 - 100 thing...
hmm
how bout on a backwards number line :)
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The gayest most retarded sport of them all....
GOLF!
"techinically its not a sport because the whole point of the game is to get a low score.. which defies all sports logic " :p
So in Golf.. a score of 99 is worth more than 100
:mad: ... yeah don't forget about that classic golf rule.. if you go over 100, you automatically lose
question: does this have anything to do with speaking Hebrew?.. I am crap at hebrew.. haven't practiced in a looong time
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
99 tons is more weight than 100 pounds... wait that wouldn't work with the 101 - 100 thing...
Hehehe - you're actually, well... sort of not in the wrong direction, at least. :p
Originally posted by Knight Templar
question: does this have anything to do with speaking Hebrew?.. I am crap at hebrew.. haven't practiced in a looong time
Nope - nothing to do with Hebrew, Israel, or anything of the sort (might want to try asking that question over on that other "Guess it!" topic, though. ;) :p )
When/why did you study Hebrew?
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I've also studied hebrew a while back when I still attended the Jewish school here. I was never any good at it though. The only word apart from hello I remember is "Sheket" which is (if I'm correct) "Quiet" or "Shut up" or something on that line...:D
Anyway, 99 is more than 100, because 99 inches is longer than 100cm? I'm just guessing here...
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Originally posted by Dark_4ce
The only word apart from hello I remember is "Sheket" which is (if I'm correct) "Quiet" or "Shut up" or something on that line...:D
:nervous: I gotta start finding another way to encrypt my secret messages aside from Hebrew transliteration! :shaking:
;)
And nope, wrong is j00! :p
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i give up... pm me the answer
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n'mind.
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Oooh, Oooh! I know....
99 upside down is 66
100 upside down is 001
:D
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see the two replies above this one? at least one (if not both) are right!!!
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When you have 100 packs of peanuts and number 100 has less peanuts than number 99. No? Oh well.
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Originally posted by Levyathan
When you have 100 packs of peanuts and number 100 has less peanuts than number 99. No? Oh well.
That would work in certain cases. Such as when there are two sets of peanuts, 99 packs and 100 packs. If the one with 99 packs has, say 101 peanuts per pack and the one with 100 packs has 99 peanuts per pack, then the total amount of peanuts in the 99 pack set is bigger than the one in the 100 pack set.
See, as simple as that.
...and why on earth have you chosen peanuts for this example??? :D
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Flip 'em.
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Two words:
who cares?
an0n, you say this in your siggy, for crying out loud.
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Originally posted by Stunaep
...and why on earth have you chosen peanuts for this example??? :D
Good question. I honestly can't answer that.
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yeha i agree with Darky and an0n: 99 = 66 , 100 = 001 , 100 = 001 , 101 = 101
oh and the hebrew thing.. other than the dradle, which i mostly forgot i don't know any. Just my zany way of saying so. :p ;7
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I never studied Hebrew so my entire Yiddish vocabulary came from pop culture :D
chutzpah: testicular fortitude
verklempt: emotionally overwhelmed? trippin'? buggin'?
bris: circumcision celebration...ouch
shiksa: physically flawless but shallow blonde
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When 99/100 of what you have is nothing...you can't have 101/100 of nothing, after all :D
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I never studied Hebrew so my entire Yiddish vocabulary came from pop culture
chutzpah: testicular fortitude
verklempt: emotionally overwhelmed? trippin'? buggin'?
bris: circumcision celebration...ouch
shiksa: physically flawless but shallow blonde
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:lol: :lol:
chutzpah: i'll need to remember that one :D
Verklempt: lol, mike myers = awesome
bris: .. :shaking:
Skiksa: ;7 ;7
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maziltov!!!!
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:(
no yiddish translators :sigh:
i did find a ebonics translator for all you lazy white boys wannabe's out there ;)
I busted a cap in dat wigga's ass cuz he woodint gimme ma fiteen benjamens from last septembra. Sheeit.
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Have I won yet?
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Originally posted by Borealis
I never studied Hebrew so my entire Yiddish vocabulary came from pop culture :D
chutzpah: testicular fortitude
verklempt: emotionally overwhelmed? trippin'? buggin'?
bris: circumcision celebration...ouch
shiksa: physically flawless but shallow blonde
Ok, 1 and 3 of those are in Hebrew; they go as follows:
Chutzpah: Nerve (as in "You got some nerve!"), with a touch (ok, more than just a touch) of rudeness.
Bris/Brit: Celebration? Ehhhh, sort of - I'd classify it as more of a ceremony. "Brit" is Hebrew for "Covenant", BTW.
Originally posted by Carl
maziltov!!!!
Mazal Tov. :D Literally "Good Luck!", it basically means "Congratulations!"
I see people giving up. :( Shall I spill the beans and spoil the fun? ;)
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go ahead.
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Originally posted by Sandwich
When is 99 more than 100?
in a mirror?
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I think that 66/001 thing is the only answer that really makes sense for this kind of problem. :p :D
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You know it's going to have to do with "a baker's dozen" or something liek that
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:lol: You guys are very inventive, I must say! Kudos to you all for probably coming up with every concievable way other than the one I was aiming for. :p
So, when is 99 more than 100? On a microwave. :D
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:wtf: Hmm, my lack of understanding probably comes from the fact i,ve never used a mircowave in the past 5-8 years.
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Originally posted by Zeronet
:wtf: Hmm, my lack of understanding probably comes from the fact i,ve never used a mircowave in the past 5-8 years.
You put something to cook in the microwave. Hit "Cook time", and enter the time. If you put 99, it'll be 99 seconds. If you put 100, it'll be a minute.
Capisch? :D
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If you put 100, it'll be 100 seconds. You must have a strange mircowave...
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Originally posted by Zeronet
If you put 100, it'll be 100 seconds. You must have a strange mircowave...
:rolleyes: Since when do you select what time units you are inputting on a microwave? What, you want it to always be seconds?? Fine, go cook something for 45 minutes - in seconds. :rolleyes:
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Originally posted by Sandwich
:rolleyes: Since when do you select what time units you are inputting on a microwave? What, you want it to always be seconds?? Fine, go cook something for 45 minutes - in seconds. :rolleyes:
2700 seconds. so?
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*has a dial-timer microwave*
And on some older models you've got to press Minute, then numbers, Seconds, then numbers.
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It always comes out in seconds on mine. :p Although I have seen others that do what you say. :D
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My microwave prevented me from getting this one right. It's his fault!
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Sandwich, I say this with all the respect due to you as a board admin:
That was really, really lame.
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Damn you and your digital, push button, bleepy, newfangled electric microwave! I have the dial worked, ping variety.
You are a shame to the electric internet!
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Eh... My microwave's in about seventeen different pieces (threw out the rest), and the antenna's getting a momentary-switch rig, not any wuss timer. So no, 99 is still less than 100.
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So, when is 99 more than 100? On a microwave.
aw hell..
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Originally posted by Borealis
shiksa: physically flawless but shallow blonde
There's an official term for this? Starts kissing hebrews I love you guys, yes I do! :nod:
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Originally posted by Ace
There's an official term for this? Starts kissing hebrews I love you guys, yes I do! :nod:
:lol:
Oh, and by the way, it's "Jews", not "Hebrews" - not anymore, at least. Back in the days of slavery in Egypt thousands of years ago, sure, but now? Blah. ;)
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For some reason i always thought they were offended if you called them "Jew" . It always occured to me for some reason as a relation to blacks using "nigga" with each other
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EDIT: This is an edit.
Now, explain why we don't have post-deletion privelidges enabled again?
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
For some reason i always thought they were offended if you called them "Jew" .
No, not at all. Perhaps if you had a swastika on your shoulder, but otherwise, well - it all boils down to how you say it, as with anything, I guess.
Stryke, we don't have post-deletion enabled because we enjoy seeing you squirm with the inability of erasing your mistakes. :p
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No, not at all. Perhaps if you had a swastika on your shoulder, but otherwise, well - it all boils down to how you say it, as with anything, I guess.
Yeah i understand what you mean now.
I have an ass of a stupid "friend" (more like associate) who likes to kick soda machines who take his money and call them "dirty jews" ... I'm assuming he got this after he heard our Jewish History/English teacher try to explain the Stereotype association of Jews and Banks..
wow that trailed off real fast.
Post Deletion : enable .... pleeease?
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Here's one:
This can happen quite frequently, as often as, say, once in a minute. At other times, the rate of occurrence may step up until in a single moment it can happen twice, almost back to back! And yet, it never happens in the course of a hundred thousand years.
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Sneezing
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yeah, [SIZE=10]99[/SIZE] is bigger then 100
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
Sneezing
No...
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Here's one:
This can happen quite frequently, as often as, say, once in a minute. At other times, the rate of occurrence may step up until in a single moment it can happen twice, almost back to back! And yet, it never happens in the course of a hundred thousand years.
is the answer: "to get a good idea"
:confused:
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It is good to have you here, lonelybabe. Flamethrowers are located beneath the seat infront of you, the seatbelts don't work, in case of emergency, exits are to either side and at the rear, and if you see any Shivans crawling in the ductwork, its probably just Carl.
Anyway, nope, people get good ideas all the time. They certainly have had them within the past hundred thousand years. Guess again! :)
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Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
...Flamethrowers are located beneath the seat infront of you...
...And if someone is sitting in the front row they stay unarmed?? Heck, no! Your flamethrower is under your own seat! :p
And since when did this thing come with seatbelts??
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uh, then the guy behind you can take yours. :p :D
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They're discreetly attached to the front wall.
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Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
They're discreetly attached to the front wall.
...wait a doggarn second now! I thought we were sitting in a movie theater, with a gimongous screen taking up the front wall....!
:p
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*wonders why we don't just hand out lightsabers*
oh yeah... that thread.
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"Exits to either side and at the rear," "In case of emergency, your life jacket is located under the seat in front of you," etc., are components of the speach they give you before takeoff on an airplane. I always assumed that that's what we were mocking/deriving our stuff from; it would never have occurred to me to think otherwise, it seemed so obvious (to me, at any rate).
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
*wonders why we don't just hand out lightsabers*
Fine with me. You stand way over there with your lightsaber in-hand, and I'll stand over here with my flamethrower. Now we'll both attack each other, and see who wins. :D
I knew there was a reason Lucas never had flamethrowers against Jedi in SW movies... it'd look bad. :p
Sesq: Meh, now I feel stupid. :p
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So no one else has a guess at my riddle?
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It was doomed to death after that huge discussion about observational physics. Start a new thread. :)
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Fine with me. You stand way over there with your lightsaber in-hand, and I'll stand over here with my flamethrower. Now we'll both attack each other, and see who wins. :D
I knew there was a reason Lucas never had flamethrowers against Jedi in SW movies... it'd look bad. :p
shhh quiet or people will catch on. :D
So maybe aren't the best idea.. but i can dream can't i?
oh and Ses: A campaign being finished? :drevil:
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Goober5000: That was a totally different thread...
Knight Templar: Do campaigns get finished once a minute? I'd love to see them! ;) Try again!
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And yet, it never happens in the course of a hundred thousand years.
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The answer has to fulfill all the stipulations of the riddle, not just one.
But still, you make a very funny point. :lol:
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Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
Goober5000: That was a totally different thread...
Whoops, so it was. Lines got crossed there; sorry. :lol:
I was thinking of the fact that it took so long for people to guess the microwave thing, and there was a general :doubt: :no: feeling when the answer was revealed, that people probably wouldn't want to keep checking up on the thread. Somehow I associated that with the glass half-full thread.
I meant to say that it appeared people were :blah: about this thread, so it might be a good idea to start a new one and get some new interest.
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I said sneezing the first time because you said originally "not in a hundred thousand years ahd it ever been recorded" or sometihng ot that effect..
hmm my next guess is the birth of a star(s) ? like completly being born, not just forming.
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Hmm, you must have posted that while I was re-editing to correct my misquote of the riddle. I guess "sneezing" could have been true of my original mis-wording; I'll dig a second cookie out of the bag, and you can have half. But anyway...
Nope, it's not the birth of stars, either. Remember, it not that the answer hasn't happened in the last hundred thousand years (which stars have probably be born in, anyway), but that it never happens in the course of a hundred thousand years.
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oh.. past hundred thousand years..
not Hundred thousand years in general (as in something wouldn't happen in a given amount of time x. x = 100, 000 years)
hmm i'll get back to ya
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No no, not "the past hundred thousand years." It is "the course of a hundred thousand years."
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Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
No no, not "the past hundred thousand years." It is "the course of a hundred thousand years."
Retype the complete riddle, with no typos, please. :nod:
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It doesn't have any. Go read it. Knight Templar is just getting himself confused, and I'm trying to straighten him out.
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No no, not "the past hundred thousand years." It is "the course of a hundred thousand years."
well then if thats true, than it could be the birth of a star because two could be born in the same moment, but it would take longer than a hundred thousand years. :p :D
yes please re-type :nod:
EDIT: Knight Templar is just getting himself confused, and I'm trying to straighten him out.
but you just said it was different... meh i think i'll just leave this thread be untill it burns out :blah:
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Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
Here's one:
This can happen quite frequently, as often as, say, once in a minute. At other times, the rate of occurrence may step up until in a single moment it can happen twice, almost back to back! And yet, it never happens in the course of a hundred thousand years.
If two stars are born back to back, it has happened somewhere in the course of a hundred thousand years, because it happened somewhere in the course of time.
Anyway, if people are getting frustrated with this, maybe I'll just give the answer?
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Maybe the answer is "the course of a hundred thousand years". Because you can take any given period of time and say that 100,000 years are just ending or just beginning, but it takes that long to go though a complete cycle.
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Okay, here goes: The answer is.....
The letter M!
minute, moment, hundred thousand years
*dodges tomatoes and runs*
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If two stars are born back to back, it has happened somewhere in the course of a hundred thousand years, because it happened somewhere in the course of time.
no no no, you can't say it that way, if that's what you meant, then say "and yet, it never happens in the course of time"
you can't have the time period change on a whim because it could be any 100,000 years, like Goob said.
Edit: wow... that was... :doubt:
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
because it could be any 100,000 years, like Goob said.
Precisely. That's why it isn't an answer to the riddle.
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Precisely. That's why it isn't an answer to the riddle.
well sure it makes sense now..
I am going to make something liek that in a week or so.. post it... and see howmany people I can piss off. ;) :)
very clever
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Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
*dodges tomatoes and runs*
*aims better*
Drat, I _sooo_ should have seen that one a mile away! *smacks forehead*
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is it when you are entering digits in a computer.... 99 is always 99 but 100 often clicks back to 1. making 99 greater than 100
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Originally posted by StarBurst
is it when you are entering digits in a computer.... 99 is always 99 but 100 often clicks back to 1. making 99 greater than 100
Sorry, SB - I already gave away the answer earlier in the thread.
....Should I spill it, or are you gonna hunt it up yourself? :p
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You got anymore for us sandy? ;)
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
You got anymore for us sandy? ;)
;7
*gets out "Fun with Puzzles" book from drawer*
*glances at copyright*
Holy crap - 1946!!! :eek2:
Ok, some of these are simple, some are not, and I'm not gonna pick and choose - I'll do them in order, so here goes:
"Sisters and brothers have I none, but that man's father is my father's son."
Dang, that's an easy one!
Oh, and I'm going to bed for the night, so don't solve it _too_ quick! :p
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.... Step - Brother/ Cousin?
hmmm this i'll take some thought.
*notes that one more admin has left for the night*
........ Excellence
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Heard that one before; it is pretty easy, he is referring to his son. :D
*notes that one more admin has left for the night*
lol I just woke up, so I have arrived for the night... :D
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son? but wouldn't that be you? meh..
wow, i should go to bed at 4 sometime after school, wake up at 12, go to bed at 4 (p.m.) the next day, and so on. :)
that would be fun.
got any other brain teasers?
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Originally posted by CP5670
Heard that one before; it is pretty easy, he is referring to his son. :D
Yep; I told ya there were some _really_ easy ones. This one is a _wee_ bit harder, but not by much:
A beggar's brother died. But the man who died had no brother.
Go fer it.
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the beggar was his sister.
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Originally posted by StarBurst
the beggar was his sister.
:nod:
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Hehehe - figures that the ladies of the place would figure that one out. :p
Ok, next one requires a bit more thinking:
A man owned a fox, a duck, and a bag of corn. One day he was on the bank of a river, where there was a boat only large enough for him to cross with one of his possessions. If he left the fox and duck alone, the fox would eat the duck. If he left the duck and the corn alone, the duck would eat the corn. How did he get safely across the river with all three of his possessions?
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:p
-Take the duck to the other side.
leaving the fox and the bag
-go back
-take the fox to the other side
leaving the bag alone
-take the duck
Leaving the fox on the other side
-go back
-place the duck on the side
-take the corn to the other side
leaving the duck alone
-go back
-pick up the duck
-et voila
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ooo yeah, i press enter to paragraph and it double posts
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-Take the duck to the other side.
leaving the fox and the bag
-go back
-take the fox to the other side
leaving the bag alone
-take the duck
Leaving the fox on the other side
-go back
-place the duck on the side
-take the corn to the other side
leaving the duck alone
-go back
-pick up the duck
-et voila
she said exactly what i was thinking
:)
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Originally posted by Tiara
:p
-Take the duck to the other side.
leaving the fox and the bag
-go back
-take the fox to the other side
leaving the bag alone
-take the duck
Leaving the fox on the other side
-go back
-place the duck on the side
-take the corn to the other side
leaving the duck alone
-go back
-pick up the duck
-et voila
Bravo!
*tosses a cookie in Tiara's general direction*
Ok, next one:
In a city in California, the sun is more than a thousand miles nearer the earth at noon than it is in the evening when it sets. Can you figure out why this is so?
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Originally posted by Sandwich
How did he get safely across the river with all three of his possessions?
Using the bridge?
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In a city in California, the sun is more than a thousand miles nearer the earth at noon than it is in the evening when it sets. Can you figure out why this is so?
Do you mean the distance to that city? I guess that might be caused by the earth's rotation, but that sounds a bit too obvious...hmm... :p
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Originally posted by Sandwich
In a city in California, the sun is more than a thousand miles nearer the earth at noon than it is in the evening when it sets. Can you figure out why this is so?
Because in the evening it's over the sea!
Ah, I don't know. I still got half a jar of cookies anyway.
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Originally posted by CP5670
Do you mean the distance to that city? I guess that might be caused by the earth's rotation, but that sounds a bit too obvious...hmm... :p
*tosses cookie to CP*
Yep, it's the Earth's rotation. The distance is measured between the sun and the "point" of earth upon which the city is built. Of course, it works for any point on the Earth... ;)
Next one in a few hours - I don't feel like typing it out ATM.
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Yep, it's the Earth's rotation. The distance is measured between the sun and the "point" of earth upon which the city is built. Of course, it works for any point on the Earth... ;)
aw come on now sandwhich, that's not a real one, that's scientific fact and works with a lot of cities.. :p
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wow, it actually was that? :D
Here's one I remember:
A rich Persian nobleman died and in his will had left his wealth to one of his two sons. The provisions of the will stated that the two sons are to have a camel race between given checkpoints and the winner would get all the money, except that whichever man's camel finishes last is the winner. So the two started their race but by the end of the day neither of them had moved at all, since each wanted the other to get ahead of him. Exhausted, they checked into a hotel and told the innkeeper about their problem. He gave them two words of advice. The next morning they started off again, except that each brother was trying to get the finish line as fast as he could. What did the innkeeper tell them?
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"Get the hell out of here you dumb f*cks and go take the money for yourself" :D
w00t!
[glow=darblue][SIZE=10]2000 Posts![/SIZE] [/glow]
Boo ya!
[glow=darkblue] and i get red... yes i now that its "dark blue", but red?
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Originally posted by CP5670
A rich Persian nobleman died and in his will had left his wealth to one of his two sons. The provisions of the will stated that the two sons are to have a camel race between given checkpoints and the winner would get all the money, except that whichever man's camel finishes last is the winner. So the two started their race but by the end of the day neither of them had moved at all, since each wanted the other to get ahead of him. Exhausted, they checked into a hotel and told the innkeeper about their problem. He gave them two words of advice. The next morning they started off again, except that each brother was trying to get the finish line as fast as he could. What did the innkeeper tell them?
"April Fools" ?? ;)
KT: :wtf:
EDIT: Hmm, actually, my bet is that he told them something that made the inheritance very undesirable, but I can't for the life of me imagine what he said in only 2 words. :doubt:
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"Switch camels." :nod:
Can my cookie be chocolate with peanut butter chips?
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Yup, that's it. :)
*gives GE a peanut butter and chocolate cookie *
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Originally posted by GalacticEmperor
"Switch camels." :nod:
Can my cookie be chocolate with peanut butter chips?
*gets the feeling that GE has heard that one before* :doubt:
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Dang, must check this forum more often. I coulda answered that camel one too. (Heard a different version, same answer.) Now here's an interesting riddle to stump would be Riddlemasters:
:devil:
King Khalzol's kingdom is long gone.
Take five steps to the site of his grave:
The first means to think over,
The second is over your thoughts,
The third means one of something,
The last must be stronger then anything,
The whole reveals everything.
Now tell me, why did King Khalzol's subjects bury him in a copper coffin?
:)
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Originally posted by EdrickV
King Khalzol's kingdom is long gone.
Take five steps to the site of his grave:
The first means to think over,
The second is over your thoughts,
The third means one of something,
The last must be stronger then anything,
The whole reveals everything.
Now tell me, why did King Khalzol's subjects bury him in a copper coffin?
:)
I hate you. :blah:
;)
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King Khalzol's kingdom is long gone.
Take five steps to the site of his grave:
The first means to think over,
The second is over your thoughts,
The third means one of something,
The last must be stronger then anything,
The whole reveals everything.
Now tell me, why did King Khalzol's subjects bury him in a copper coffin?
wow.. that means .. wow
:wtf:
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This one I have not heard before; looks really weird. :wtf: There must be something in that there is no description of the fourth step...
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quote:
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King Khalzol's kingdom is long gone.
Take five steps to the site of his grave:
The first means to think over,
The second is over your thoughts,
The third means one of something,
The last must be stronger then anything,
The whole reveals everything.
Now tell me, why did King Khalzol's subjects bury him in a copper coffin?
Because he was dead!!!!!
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Originally posted by StarBurst
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Now tell me, why did King Khalzol's subjects bury him in a copper coffin?
Because he was dead!!!!!
You're right! :D
(It's a trick question, but there is a riddle in the first part which I will now explain by quoting the relevent text from ElfSong by Elaine Cunningham.)
What is it to mull but to think over?
Speaking quite literally, what lies over men's thoughts but their hair?
The word 'a' means one of something, as in 'a pomegranate.'
A hold, or fortress, must be stronger then any force brought against it.
Put together, one obtains the site of King Khalzol's grave: Mulharahold, a city to the south of the Mountains of Copper. The copper coffin, of course, is the clue that confirms the conundrum's answer.
The above connundrum has nothing to do with why they buried him in a copper coffin, thus it could trick a Riddlemaster who gets distracted by the extra stuff into giving the above, but wrong, answer. :)
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i think we all knew he was dead, just too urked to say so :rolleyes:
:D
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He was dead?!?!?!
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So is Jesus, the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, Elvis, Satchmoe, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the tooth fairy and whatever magical diety your parents Fiendshly instilled in your brain.
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okay, that was just lame; I thought this might have an interesting answer... :p
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Originally posted by Blue Lion
He was dead?!?!?!
That's what the dragon said.
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
Satchmoe
NOOOOO!!!!!
Not Satchmoe!!!
*sings quietly*
"And I think to myself, what a wonderful world"
:( :( :( :(
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Originally posted by Sandwich
I hate you. :blah:
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I got one I got one! Actually I have a lot... we'll start with an easier one:
Captain Frank and Professor Quantum played Chess. They played seven games, each won the same number of games, and there weren't any draws or stalemates. How could this have happened?
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Originally posted by Ulala
I got one I got one! Actually I have a lot... we'll start with an easier one:
Captain Frank and Professor Quantum played Chess. They played seven games, each won the same number of games, and there weren't any draws or stalemates. How could this have happened?
They played chess against someone else. :D
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*throws EdrickV a snicker doodle*
Nice, nice. Heres another... a little tougher.
If it takes six men six days to dig six holes, how long would it take one man to dig a half a hole?
I'm just gettin' warmed up... :D
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uh...3 days? :D
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There's no such thing as half a hole. :)
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hey boys and girls....
where's my cookie?????
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Originally posted by StarBurst
hey boys and girls....
where's my cookie?????
Wouldn't want to toss it to you when you're not here to catch it. ;)
*tosses her a big chocolate chip cookie* :)
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Originally posted by EdrickV
There's no such thing as half a hole. :)
ROFL - poor CP! ;)
Y'see, dude? Math isn't always the answer to everything! :p
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Haha, you guys got that pretty fast too... time to get more evil.. :D
"Therein lies the secret," said Scheming Suzie. "For you see, there is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters." What is the word?
Mwahaha...
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:eek2: :wtf: :confused:
Ok, this one I'm not even going to try. :)
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There's no such thing as half a hole. :)
argh, lol, you're right! :p :D
"Therein lies the secret," said Scheming Suzie. "For you see, there is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters." What is the word?
This looks like one for our English experts, but let me think... :D
Do repeated words count? (e.g. two instances of "I" )
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Ah, I think I got it!
therein:
the
there
therein
he
her
here
herein
rein
I
in
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:eek2: Therein lie the words. ;)
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Yup, you got it. Therein is the correct answer. Nice! *tosses CP a cookie* Mmm... well I can't think of any others off the top of my head. *sniff* I'll try to think up some others later.
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Oh man, after all those stupid "d'oh!" questions, you guys are totally asking for this one. You're driven me to unleash the dreaded Three Doors Problem! :drevil:
The Three Doors problem, also known as the Monty Hall problem: Say you're a contestant on a game show. There are three doors. Behind one door is a prize. Only the host knows which door has the prize behind it.
You get to pick a door. The host then picks another door (one without a prize behind it) and opens it. He then offers you the chance to stick with your original choice, or switch your choice to the remaining unopened door.
So the question is: What gives you a better chance of winning? Staying, or switching?
There are no tricks or gimmicks to the phrasing of this puzzle. It's a straight exercise in statistics. Those of you who already know this one... shhhh! :wink:
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uh statistically, don't you have a 50-50 chance either way?
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No.
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is it 66.7 percent for the door your not with and 33.3 for the one you are with?
or something like that... pure statistic , no bull you say?
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Originally posted by ZylonBane
So the question is: What gives you a better chance of winning? Staying, or switching?
Neither option, since your chances won't improve statistically. :D
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What Sandwich said.
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Huh - actually, now that I think about it, the chances would be better if you switched doors. Here's why:
Originally, the chances of you picking the door with the prize are one in three, or 1/3rd. So statistically, it's unlikely that you have chosen the correct door. Elimination of a non-prize door does not change that fact. So despite the fact that starting from the 2-door phase would give you 50-50 chances, the fact of the matter is that in entering the 2-door phase, you are twice as likely to have already picked a prizeless door than the one with the prize.
So KT's second guess is correct. :yes:
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Originally posted by ZylonBane
What gives you a better chance of winning? Staying, or switching?
Since the question is which is 'best' not certain, I say Switch.
Since there are three doors theres a 66.6% chance you will pick the wrong door.
Edit: Damn it, Sandwich got there first!
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Originally posted by RandomTiger
Edit: Damn it, Sandwich got there first!
Nyah nyah. :p
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Anyone disagree with Sandwich's conclusion?
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So KT's second guess is correct.
*ahem* ;)
I don't know, i think i could be right. Tell us, tell us!
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It seems to me, that if you're standing there with two doors and one has a prize behind it, it doesn't matter what you do because you will still have a 50-50 chance of getting it right. (Or getting it wrong.) Staying or switching won't change that.
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Originally posted by EdrickV
It seems to me, that if you're standing there with two doors and one has a prize behind it, it doesn't matter what you do because you will still have a 50-50 chance of getting it right. (Or getting it wrong.) Staying or switching won't change that.
Unless the gameshow host would have simply opened the door and granted the prize if you had chosen correctly, in which case you would know you had chosen incorrectly by his giving you a second chance. But assuming that he would not have done so, then as above, and "Which is better?" is a meaningless question.
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If you really must know...
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_189.html
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so i was right? :wtf:
i understand why and what it means, i am just to tired to explain why i do.. :sigh:
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Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
Unless the gameshow host would have simply opened the door and granted the prize if you had chosen correctly, in which case you would know you had chosen incorrectly by his giving you a second chance. But assuming that he would not have done so, then as above, and "Which is better?" is a meaningless question.
If the gameshow host would open your door if you found the prize, and open a door that doesn't have the prize if you didn't find it, then everyone would win. ;) The original phrasing suggests that the host would always open a door that the prize is not behind.
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M'kay, here goes:
Three men stopped at a hotel one night and went to three seperate rooms. The charge for the rooms was $10 each, so the men paid $30 all told. The next day the desk clerk found out that the rooms could be renter for $25, instead of the $30 paid. Accordingly, he gave the bellboy the rebate to take to the three men.
As it happened, the bellboy was not entirely honest, so he gave each man $1 and kept $2 for himself.
Now, each man, after receiving the $1 rebate, paid only $9 for is room. That made $27 for all three. The bellboy kept the other $2, which makes $29. What happened to the other dollar?
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There is no missing dollar. Start off with $10 times 3, making $30. The clerk sends up a $5 rebate, supposed to make the end total $25. The three men each get $1, making a total of $3, add to that the extra $2 stolen, and you get $5 - the total of the rebate.
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Originally posted by Sandwich
M'kay, here goes:
Three men stopped at a hotel one night and went to three seperate rooms. The charge for the rooms was $10 each, so the men paid $30 all told. The next day the desk clerk found out that the rooms could be renter for $25, instead of the $30 paid. Accordingly, he gave the bellboy the rebate to take to the three men.
As it happened, the bellboy was not entirely honest, so he gave each man $1 and kept $2 for himself.
Now, each man, after receiving the $1 rebate, paid only $9 for is room. That made $27 for all three. The bellboy kept the other $2, which makes $29. What happened to the other dollar?
10+10+10=30
5 refund = 25
9+9+9=27
27-25=2
So, no missing dollar. :p
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
so i was right? :wtf:
Yup.
Although you get points taken away for having a semicolon in your sig where you should have a colon. :ha:
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MEh - that one was too easy. So's this one:
A man went to town one day with $5 in his pocket, but returned in the evening with $15.
He bought a hat at the men's furnishings store and some meat at the meat market. Then he had his eyes tested for glasses. Now, this man got paid every Thursday by check, and the banks in town are open on Tuesday, Friday an Saturday only. The eye doctor does not keep his office open on Saturday, and the meat market is not open on Thursday or Friday. What day did the man go to town?
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Originally posted by Sandwich
MEh - that one was too easy. So's this one:
A man went to town one day with $5 in his pocket, but returned in the evening with $15.
He bought a hat at the men's furnishings store and some meat at the meat market. Then he had his eyes tested for glasses. Now, this man got paid every Thursday by check, and the banks in town are open on Tuesday, Friday an Saturday only. The eye doctor does not keep his office open on Saturday, and the meat market is not open on Thursday or Friday. What day did the man go to town?
Eh, he still had money on his account on tuesday from last thursday. He withdrew some that day and did these things on the same day. :p
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Although you get points taken away for having a semicolon in your sig where you should have a colon.
ouch :o
I expected that from Sesqky, but not you. :p
meh, i was going to make it shorter sometime soon anyways
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Originally posted by Tiara
Eh, he still had money on his account on tuesday from last thursday. He withdrew some that day and did these things on the same day. :p
Actually, he probably cashed last Thursday's check, (It never said he didn't have a check with him.) but he did go on Tuesday. :)
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Mrs. Harrison has 6 lovely hats, 3 blue, 2 yellow and one pink. Alice, Betty, Cindy and Debbie are lined up as shown below. Mrs. Harrison puts the hats on them so they will not see what color hat they have on.
Alice->Betty->Cindy->Debbie
Alice can see what color of hats Betty, Cindy and Debbie are wearing, but not her own (since it is on her head).
Betty can see what color of hats Cindy and Debbie are wearing, but neither her own nor Alice's.
Cindy can see what color hat Debbie is wearing, but neither her own nor Betty's nor Alice's.
Debbie can not see any of the hat colors.
Mrs. Harrison ask them what color of the hat they are wearing. Alice said she can not tell. Betty said she can not tell either. Cindy also can not tell. However, Debbie was able to tell what color she was wearing after knowing that everyone else could not tell.
How did Debbie figure out what color she was wearing?
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Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
Mrs. Harrison has 6 lovely hats, 3 blue, 2 yellow and one pink. Alice, Betty, Cindy and Debbie are lined up as shown below. Mrs. Harrison puts the hats on them so they will not see what color hat they have on.
Alice->Betty->Cindy->Debbie
Alice can see what color of hats Betty, Cindy and Debbie are wearing, but not her own (since it is on her head).
Betty can see what color of hats Cindy and Debbie are wearing, but neither her own nor Alice's.
Cindy can see what color hat Debbie is wearing, but neither her own nor Betty's nor Alice's.
Debbie can not see any of the hat colors.
Mrs. Harrison ask them what color of the hat they are wearing. Alice said she can not tell. Betty said she can not tell either. Cindy also can not tell. However, Debbie was able to tell what color she was wearing after knowing that everyone else could not tell.
How did Debbie figure out what color she was wearing?
Mein Gott! :eek2:
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Yeesh.
Hmm hmm... methoughts to check all the combinations...This is of course the brute force, nonintuitive way, but what the heck.
And here they are. Now the trick is to figure out how to narrow them down. :DA B C D
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B B B Y
B B Y B
B Y B B
Y B B B
B B B P
B B P B
B P B B
P B B B
B B Y P
B Y P B
Y P B B
B Y B P
Y B P B
Y B B P
B B P Y
B P Y B
P Y B B
B P B Y
P B Y B
P B B Y
B B Y Y
B Y Y B
Y Y B B
B Y B Y
Y B Y B
Y B B Y
Y Y P B
Y P Y B
P Y Y B
Y Y B P
Y P B Y
P Y B Y
Y B Y P
Y B P Y
P B Y Y
B Y Y P
B Y P Y
B P Y Y
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Got it - Debbie was wearing pink.
My solution method: Group all the duplicates together until you run out of duplicates. Messy, but it works. (I was feeling too tired to put much effort into thinking rationally about it.) Now I want to know what the intuitive solution is. :D
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*scratches head* My riddles are Fenrises against Colossuses!
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Originally posted by Goober5000
Got it - Debbie was wearing pink.
My solution method: Group all the duplicates together until you run out of duplicates. Messy, but it works. (I was feeling too tired to put much effort into thinking rationally about it.) Now I want to know what the intuitive solution is. :D
*Goober5000 looks under the cap liner to see if he won the prize*
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I think it's Blue, here's my reasoning:
First start with Alice, since she doesn't know what she's wearing, there has to be at least two distinct choices out of the hats she can choose. Since three people have taken hats, there are three left to choose from. Possiblities are:
Alice
YYP
BYP
BBY
Now moving on to Betty, since she doesn't know what she's wearing, not only does there have to be at least two distinct choices, but no matter what color hat she chooses, the remaining three unchosen hats have to match the above condition for Alice. These leave:
Betty
BBYP
YYBP
BBYY
To clarify, for the BBYP possibility, if she has a blue hat, then the remaining hats are BYP, similarly if she chooses a yellow or pink hat, the remaining hats are BBP and BBY respectively.
Now moving on to Cindy, again since she doesn't know what she's wearing, not only does there have to be at least two distinct choices, but no matter what color hat she chooses, the remaining four unchosen hats have to match the above condition for Betty (which in turn will match the condition for Alice). All that is left is:
BBYYP
If blue is taken, BYYP is left, if yellow is taken, BBYP is left, if pink is taken, BBYY is left.
Finally, the only remaining hat is blue, which belongs to Debbie.
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How in the world did Debbie figure all that out in her head just like that??...
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Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
*Goober5000 looks under the cap liner to see if he won the prize*
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Huh? I was positive that was right. Unless I missed a combination or so. :confused: :doh:
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Originally posted by Vortex
I think it's Blue, here's my reasoning:
We have a winner! Your logic reasoned in the opposite (and harder) direction from what I did to solve that puzzle, but it worked.
My easy explanation for anyone interested:
1) If none of Betty, Cindy, or Debbie were wearing a blue hat, Alice would know she must be wearing a blue, but she does not know, so one of the other three must be.
2) Therefore, Betty knows that at least one among herself and the girls in front of her are wearing blue. If neither of the girls in front of her were wearing blue, she would know she was wearing blue, but she does not know, so at least one of Cindy and Debbie must be wearing blue.
3) Therefore, Cindy knows that if Debbie is not wearing blue that she must be, but she does not know what she is wearing, so Debbie must be wearing blue.
*Vortex receives a cookie*
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Aha! Okay. A very simple explaination. :)
Now the only question is where did my combination approach go wrong. :D But I don't really feel like figuring that out, and I suspect noone else does either.
Any other good brain teasers?
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Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
We have a winner! Your logic reasoned in the opposite (and harder) direction from what I did to solve that puzzle, but it worked.
My easy explanation for anyone interested:
1) If none of Betty, Cindy, or Debbie were wearing a blue hat, Alice would know she must be wearing a blue, but she does not know, so one of the other three must be.
2) Therefore, Betty knows that at least one among herself and the girls in front of her are wearing blue. If neither of the girls in front of her were wearing blue, she would know she was wearing blue, but she does not know, so at least one of Cindy and Debbie must be wearing blue.
3) Therefore, Cindy knows that if Debbie is not wearing blue that she must be, but she does not know what she is wearing, so Debbie must be wearing blue.
*Vortex receives a cookie*
Oh man, your reasoning is definitely a lot easier.
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Originally posted by Goober5000
Any other good brain teasers?
Yup:
[q]
The Paycheck Puzzle
Mr. Brown gave his gardener a check in full payment for some extra work. The check was in three figures and actually was more than the gardener was owed, so he was very pleased.
"Just a minute," said Mr. Brown. "If you will not cash the check, I will give you the difference between the product of the three figures showing the dollars, and their sum. I can tell you that this is not a small number.
The gardener agreed to this apparently generous offer, but was very disappointed when he learned the truth of the matter. How many dollars was the check made out for?[/q]
Good luck! :ha: :D
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Um... well I guess $100 wouldn't give you too much...
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No, but the difference would be $1, which is a small number.
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Ah ok, well then what do you define as a small number though? Would -100 be considered small (it is rather large scalar wise).
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For the purposes of this teaser, let's just say that the difference is not a negative number. :)
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$123
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Originally posted by Blue Lion
$123
Whoah! *tosses BL a peanut-butter and chocholate cookie*
How'd ya figure it out?
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I knew it was a trick question. Just the way it was worded tipped me off there was no difference between the product and the sum.
1+2+3=6
1*2*3=6
And I'd hit that guy for calling 0 "not a small number"
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Whoops, how'd this slip down so far?? :D Here's another one:
The Three Small Boys
Three small boys were talking together when they were joined by an older man. The newcomer noticed that each of the threee boys had a smudge of dirt on his forehead.
"Boys," he said, "will each of you look at the foreheads of the other two and if you see a smudge of dirt on either or both, raise your hand." All three boys looked and all three raised their hands.
"Now," said the old gentleman, "if one of you is certain that he has dirt on his own forehead and can tell me how and why he knows this, he is to raise his hand and I will give him a quarter."
The three boys looked at each other for a few moments, and one of them suddenly raised his hand. Can you figure out how he knew that he had a smudge on his forehead?
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One of his brothers was wearing glasses
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nevermind :D
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I'm putting what I got in black
None raised their hand for a while, that implies all three saw a mark on each other boy. (because they each thought they may or may not have a mark, because at least two have to have a mark. If only one other person had a mark they would know they have a mark) Therefore the boy deduced that and raised their hand.
of course this depends on the other boys thinking this way and being relatively intelligent...
that's all I could come up with :p
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It was ash wednesday
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Suppose boy A didn't have a smudge. He sees the two other boys B and C have a smudge. Now suppose you take B's POV. B sees C with a smudge and A without, and C is raising his hand. This means that C sees a smudge, but since A doesn't have a smudge, this would have to mean that B has a smudge. B would instantly realize this and give the answer immediately, since it's pretty obvious. The same goes for C.
Since neither B or C gave the answer right away, this must mean that A in fact actually does have a smudge. QED (or not...:D)
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Originally posted by Sandwich
The newcomer noticed that each of the threee boys had a smudge of dirt on his forehead.
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Blue Lion, he's implying that it can't be that only two have smudges because of the response times of two of the people.... not that only two have smudges
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o.O misread that.
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Originally posted by Goober5000
Suppose boy A didn't have a smudge. He sees the two other boys B and C have a smudge. Now suppose you take B's POV. B sees C with a smudge and A without, and C is raising his hand. This means that C sees a smudge, but since A doesn't have a smudge, this would have to mean that B has a smudge. B would instantly realize this and give the answer immediately, since it's pretty obvious. The same goes for C.
Since neither B or C gave the answer right away, this must mean that A in fact actually does have a smudge. QED (or not...:D)
:lol: :lol: :lol:
That was just about what I had posted. :D :D
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Yeah - hypothetically, *if* A didn't have a smudge, then either B or C (or both) would give the answer immediately. Since A sees that both B and see have smudges, and neither answered immediately, then that means A *does* have a smudge.
Admittedly, the wording of the solution is confusing. It's easier to visualize. Try drawing three circles on a piece of paper, then pretend that one of the circles is imagining what one of the other circles is seeing.
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Originally posted by Joey_21
:lol: :lol: :lol:
That was just about what I had posted. :D :D
Then you should have kept it! Nothing ventured, nothing gained. ;)
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Originally posted by Goober5000
EDIT: Then you should have kept it! Nothing ventured, nothing gained. ;)
One thing though I was lacking that caused my test of the condition of all three boys having a smudge would leave a gap to where none of them would be sure if they had dirt on their face or not...
Kami's post would have probably completed it though...
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Yeah, you guys got it right - I'm not gonna try and figure out who did, though - you can fight amongst ourselves for the cookie. :p
Next one coming up in a few hours.
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*sits patiently for many hours waiting for next one*
*becomes tired of waiting*
I can't remember the original story, but the principle remains intact. Probably made the rounds already so I'm expecting quick answers.
Once upon a time there was a prince, who fell in love with a beautiful princess. The princesses father, the king (glad I figured that one out...), was not yet convinced that this man was the one for his daughter, especially since there were other worthy suitors waiting in the wings. The king wanted a son that was smart and thoughtful, and so arranged a test for these wannabe son-in-laws. He set up a large room, the kind that's about 15 metres x 15 metres x 5 metres (he is a king after all), bare except for 4 chairs, one in each corner. The 4 hopefulls were made to stand on a chair - one each - and the princess was brought into the centre of the room. The king then stated the rules - the first man to touch his daughter would have her hand in marriage. However, they were not allowed to touch the floor to get to her, and they only had 30 minutes to figure out the situation. How does this prince get to the princess and win her hand?
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Sorry about the delays - getting sick kinda threw a wrench into my planning (and plotting, but that's another story... ;) ).
On to the puzzle....is the princess allowed to move? :D
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Originally posted by Kazashi
How does this prince get to the princess and win her hand?
Eh... telekinesis? :p
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He could push another guy off, which would give him an extra chair. These two chairs can be used as stilts to walk around without actually touching the ground.
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Originally posted by CP5670
He could push another guy off, which would give him an extra chair. These two chairs can be used as stilts to walk around without actually touching the ground.
Yeah, but how could he reach the other corner that's 15 meters away?
But if the chair would have wheels...
Or then, you can try to move the chair while standing on it. :p
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Meh, they all ask the princess to touch them, and the one she touches is it. :)
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Yeah, but how could he reach the other corner that's 15 meters away?
Well, it would basically work like this. He pushes one chair away while sitting on the other chair, then jumps on to the one he pushed away, drags the first one to the new spot and pushes it in the other direction (so that he can move forward again), then jumps on to the first chair again, and continues this process until he is at the desired location.
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Originally posted by CP5670
Well, it would basically work like this. He pushes one chair away while sitting on the other chair, then jumps on to the one he pushed away, drags the first one to the new spot and pushes it in the other direction (so that he can move forward again), then jumps on to the first chair again, and continues this process until he is at the desired location.
He. First. Needs. To. Get. To. The. Other. Corner. To. Get. Another. Chair.
Kapisch? ;)
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Originally posted by Goober5000
Meh, they all ask the princess to touch them, and the one she touches is it. :)
'swhat I'd do.
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I'd ask the princess to come over to me so I could touch her. (Since that's what was stated as the winning action and nothing was said about the princess not moving.) :)
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Kazashi, have we given the right answer? :nod:
Or will the winner have to hop with his chair like a pogo stick over to the princess? :wtf:
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Whoever has said something along the lines of "the prince asked her to come over to him" gets a cookie. Can whoever has the cookies please hand them out :)
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Originally posted by EdrickV
I'd ask the princess to come over to me so I could touch her.
Then if I were the pricess I'd slap you across the room with a large sword...
:p
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Originally posted by Kazashi
Whoever has said something along the lines of "the prince asked her to come over to him" gets a cookie. Can whoever has the cookies please hand them out :)
:wtf: /me thinks that's a lame answer but oh well
Here's a puzzle (a very nasty puzzle :D):
At its grand opening, eight film enthusiasts eagerly entered their town's Octoplex movie theater, where cinemas numbered 1 through 8 were each about to show one of the following feature films: One flew over the cuckoo's chest, two for the toad, three slays of the condor, four norsemen of the apocalypse, five cheesy pices, six of a grinf, seven days in clay, and eigth men pout. In the lobby, the filmgoing friends--Arnie, Buffy, Carrie, Davey, Ellie, Frankie, Georgie and Harry--each purchased a different snack from among hte eigth items offered at the Octoplex: Ickipoos, Jujubeasts, Kooldrools, Lickericks, Mouthburners, Nasties, Oopsies, and Phooies. Then they split up and each friend went to see a different film.
From the c lues given blow, can you determine who saw which film, the number the othe cinema and who ate which snack?
clues
1. No cinema's number matched the number in the title of the film that was showing there.
2. If each cinema's number were added to the number in the title of its film, the sum would be different for each of the eigtht cinemas.
3. When the friends added the numbers of their cinemas to the numbers in their repective movie titles they found that Buffy and Frankie--one of whose totals was three more than the other's--had higher sums than anyone else.
4. No one had a combination of cinema number and movie title number that totaled exactly 11.
5. The friends who ate Kooldrools, Likcericks and Mouthburners were each in a cinema whose number was two less than the number in the title of the film shown there.
6. Georgie and the person who ate Ickipoos both saw films in which the number in the title was three less than its cinema's number.
7. Arnie's cinema's number, which was twice Ellie's was equal to the number in the title of the Jujubeasts eater's movie.
8. The number in the title of the movie that was seen by the Nasties eater was equal to Carrie's cinema's number, which was exactly half Davey's cinema's number.
9. The Oopsies eater's movie title number was equal to Harry's cinema's number, which was three higher than Frankie's cinema's number.
10. The Mouthburners eater's cinema's number was greater than the number in the title of hte movie seen by the Lickericks eater.
There's a chart to fill out that corresponds to this (for easier organization of matching) that I'll put up here later. :)
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Originally posted by Kamikaze
Here's a puzzle (a very nasty puzzle :D):
At its grand opening, eight film enthusiasts eagerly entered their town's Octoplex movie theater, where cinemas numbered 1 through 8 were each about to show one of the following feature films: One flew over the cuckoo's chest, two for the toad, three slays of the condor, four norsemen of the apocalypse, five cheesy pices, six of a grinf, seven days in clay, and eigth men pout. In the lobby, the filmgoing friends--Arnie, Buffy, Carrie, Davey, Ellie, Frankie, Georgie and Harry--each purchased a different snack from among hte eigth items offered at the Octoplex: Ickipoos, Jujubeasts, Kooldrools, Lickericks, Mouthburners, Nasties, Oopsies, and Phooies. Then they split up and each friend went to see a different film.
From the c lues given blow, can you determine who saw which film, the number the othe cinema and who ate which snack?
clues
1. No cinema's number matched the number in the title of the film that was showing there.
2. If each cinema's number were added to the number in the title of its film, the sum would be different for each of the eigtht cinemas.
3. When the friends added the numbers of their cinemas to the numbers in their repective movie titles they found that Buffy and Frankie--one of whose totals was three more than the other's--had higher sums than anyone else.
4. No one had a combination of cinema number and movie title number that totaled exactly 11.
5. The friends who ate Kooldrools, Likcericks and Mouthburners were each in a cinema whose number was two less than the number in the title of the film shown there.
6. Georgie and the person who ate Ickipoos both saw films in which the number in the title was three less than its cinema's number.
7. Arnie's cinema's number, which was twice Ellie's was equal to the number in the title of the Jujubeasts eater's movie.
8. The number in the title of the movie that was seen by the Nasties eater was equal to Carrie's cinema's number, which was exactly half Davey's cinema's number.
9. The Oopsies eater's movie title number was equal to Harry's cinema's number, which was three higher than Frankie's cinema's number.
10. The Mouthburners eater's cinema's number was greater than the number in the title of hte movie seen by the Lickericks eater.
There's a chart to fill out that corresponds to this (for easier organization of matching) that I'll put up here later. :)
Considering that you've killed this thread, I hate you. :nod: :p ;)