General Stuff #1
Who Am I? (and other puzzles)
Archive: 177 posts
| Just for fun... My 1st is in candle, but not in wax, My 2nd is in cash, but not in tax. My 3rd is in plunder, but not in waste, My 4th is in basket, but not in case. My 5th is in oblong, but not in square, My 6th is in father, but not in sir. My 7th is orange, but not in plum, My 8th is in clever, but not in dumb! Who am I?  | 2009-09-08 20:02:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz  Posts: 1492 |
| Chubotol? No...hmm... EDIT: CCubbage!!!!! | 2009-09-08 20:06:00 Author: ARD  Posts: 4291 |
| Nice! I don't know how you got that. | 2009-09-08 20:06:00 Author: comphermc  Posts: 5338 |
| Chubotol? No...hmm... EDIT: CCubbage!!!!! Aww, Ard! That was obviously far too easy for you! Your prize? You can make the next one! | 2009-09-08 20:08:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| Wait...what? Just cos I solved it doesn't mean my brain can actually handle making one of these. Give us another one, I'll stay out of it this time  | 2009-09-08 20:10:00 Author: ARD Posts: 4291 |
| Ha ha, no pressure, but it also has to rhyme and contain related word comparisons! | 2009-09-08 20:10:00 Author: comphermc Posts: 5338 |
| Okay, might be a bit tougher... My 1st is in hymn, but not in church, My 2nd is in oak, but not in birch. My 3rd is in rain, but not in shower, My 4th is in angry, but not in power. My 5th is in pancake, but not in pie, My 6th is in drunk, but not in high. My 7th is in peaches and ALSO in cream... I've run out of letters, it's not as hard as it may seem! Who am I? | 2009-09-08 20:18:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| Morgana! I hope Thanks for these, they are quite cute | 2009-09-08 20:21:00 Author: comphermc Posts: 5338 |
Yeah, I'd say you're right. Your post actually appeared there just as I got it myself | 2009-09-08 20:22:00 Author: ARD Posts: 4291 |
Right okay, you pair of smarty-pants...  1. I was born on 2nd October, 1869 2. I died on 30th January, 1948 3. My initials are M.K.G. 4. You will know who I am! | 2009-09-08 20:28:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| Is it cheating if I used Google? | 2009-09-08 20:29:00 Author: ARD Posts: 4291 |
| Is it cheating if I used Google? No, cos I used wikipedia (so the clues are probably wrong anyway!) | 2009-09-08 20:37:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| Lol. I lol'd. Not sure how you can check if people are cheating though... | 2009-09-08 20:38:00 Author: ARD Posts: 4291 |
| Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi by any chance? | 2009-09-08 20:40:00 Author: Coxy224  Posts: 2645 |
| Lol. I lol'd. Not sure how you can check if people are cheating though... I can't, unless I make 'em up meself! I was going to do one for you, but the 4 and 9 kinda gives it away! Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi by any chance? That's correct, sir! | 2009-09-08 20:42:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| Now, the question is: did you use Google? | 2009-09-08 20:42:00 Author: comphermc Posts: 5338 |
| I can't, unless I make 'em up meself! I was going to do one for you, but the 4 and 9 kinda give it away! Oh come on, it's not like I'm the only one who uses 49 at the start of their username. ...right? O.o | 2009-09-08 20:43:00 Author: ARD Posts: 4291 |
| Nope, there are hundreds! Look at the members list - you have 49MrsSpookyBuz, 49Coxy224 and 49comphermc for a start. What? You mean you don't see that? EEK! I'm just using delaying tactics now - I only had 2, and you've guessed them both straight away.  | 2009-09-08 20:45:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| Now, the question is: did you use Google? Ummmm.....nooooooooooooo | 2009-09-08 20:45:00 Author: Coxy224 Posts: 2645 |
| I don't even know why it's 49DRA...everyone calls me Ard anyway. Even though it should, technically, be A.R.D. | 2009-09-08 20:47:00 Author: ARD Posts: 4291 |
| lol - well, technically, I should be L.A.B. | 2009-09-08 20:54:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| A? Hmm...new game! Guess Lisa's middle name! | 2009-09-08 20:55:00 Author: ARD Posts: 4291 |
| cool game - and not just because got I had my name mentioned | 2009-09-08 20:56:00 Author: Morgana25  Posts: 5983 |
| Well Ard, judging by our names I'm going to guess that the A stands for Adam..... wait, what's the female version? Adamantha? | 2009-09-08 20:59:00 Author: Coxy224 Posts: 2645 |
| Well Ard, judging by our names I'm going to guess that the A stands for Adam..... I don't think that counts, seeing as we're the same person  | 2009-09-08 21:00:00 Author: ARD Posts: 4291 |
| My 'A' isn't for Adam - at least, I hope not! | 2009-09-08 21:02:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| Why not? It's a good name... | 2009-09-08 21:04:00 Author: ARD Posts: 4291 |
| It took me forever to get the first one because I was looking for a real word and kept going "CH", not "CC". I got it after a while though, great puzzle! | 2009-09-08 21:04:00 Author: BSprague  Posts: 2325 |
| Why not? It's a good name... The very best I do beleive | 2009-09-08 21:06:00 Author: Coxy224 Posts: 2645 |
| Why not? It's a good name... It's a great name, and I like it, but not for me. btw, I forgot, but I have two middle names! So, absolutely technically, I should be L.A.M.B. (Baaaaa!) | 2009-09-08 21:10:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| Amy Marie? Just a stab in the dark... Edit: or Anna | 2009-09-08 21:12:00 Author: comphermc Posts: 5338 |
| I'm gonna have a go with anne michelle My friends middle name is michelle so yeah.... | 2009-09-08 21:12:00 Author: Coxy224 Posts: 2645 |
| My 'A' isn't for Adam - at least, I hope not! Depending on your belief system it was also the first.... just throwing that out there. Not expressing any affiliation or personal belief's at all. | 2009-09-08 21:12:00 Author: Morgana25 Posts: 5983 |
| Amy Marie? Just a stab in the dark... A very close guess... PS @ comphermc - you're far too intelligent, systematic and mathematical for my liking! I'd think up a maths quiz, but you'd probably know the answers before I posted the questions! Which means you're probably psychic, too! | 2009-09-08 21:14:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| So, absolutely technically, I should be L.A.M.B. (Baaaaa!) Wow...I'm gonna call you SpookyLamb from now on | 2009-09-08 21:14:00 Author: ARD Posts: 4291 |
| PS @ comphermc - you're far too intelligent, systematic and mathematical for my liking! I'd think up a maths quiz, but you'd probably know the answers before I posted the questions! Which means you're probably psychic, too! Intelligent, systematic, and psychic - a dangerous combo! | 2009-09-08 21:16:00 Author: comphermc Posts: 5338 |
| The Riddler | 2009-09-08 21:16:00 Author: SPONGMONKEY56  Posts: 209 |
| Depending on your belief system it was also the first.... just throwing that out there. Not expressing any affiliation or personal belief's at all. Yep, this is true! Or possibly 'EVE'n the second if you count who might have been first (Bit of girl power, there!) | 2009-09-08 21:16:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| Alright, a sorta math related puzzle: Three friends, SpookySheep, MorganaBanana, and Cuzface, all went out picking apples. Tired from having picked apples all day, they decide to take a nap next to a large oak tree. SpookySheep woke first and decided to take her apples home. She counted them up, and noticed that if she took one apple first, she was able to divide them evenly into thirds. Doing this, she took her third of apples [plus one] and went home. MorganaBanana woke next and thought that maybe SpookySheep had just gone for a walk. She wasn't feeling well, so she counted the apples in preparation for her walk home. She noticed that if she were to take two apples from the pile, then she could divide the rest into thirds. Doing this, she took her "share" of the apples and walked home. Cuzface awoke and wondered were his friends had gone. How lonely he felt . He just assumed that they were both busy nearby, thinking of littlebigplanet level ideas, or something clever like that. He counted up the apples, and was surprised at how few there were. He found that if he took one apple first, that he could divide the rest into thirds. He took what he thought was his share, and went home.The question: How many apples did our friends pick? | 2009-09-08 21:23:00 Author: comphermc Posts: 5338 |
| ouch. my brain hurts | 2009-09-08 21:25:00 Author: Unreal_Styrofoam Posts: 99 |
| My first is in love, and also in loss My second is in bluff, but not in floss My third is a vegetable, small and round My fourth, part of the earth, that is not known as "ground" My fifth is in eternity, and forever My sixth not in always, but found in never My seventh a hot beverage great with cake My eighth, the sound which a pirate doth make My ninth found in apple, but not within pie My tenth found in lemon, and also in lime. ? | 2009-09-08 21:27:00 Author: dawesbr  Posts: 3280 |
| I need a pen and paper... lol Honest! | 2009-09-08 21:27:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| I don't like appleas and prefer peaches, so my brain refuse to count something that is meaningless for his survival. It's called survival of the species, I guess... | 2009-09-08 21:28:00 Author: OmegaSlayer Posts: 5112 |
| My first is in love, and also in loss My second is in bluff, but not in floss My third is a vegetable, small and round My fourth, part of the earth, that is not known as "ground" My fifth is in eternity, and forever My sixth not in always, but found in never My seventh a hot beverage great with cake My eighth, the sound which a pirate doth make My ninth found in apple, but not within pie My tenth found in lemon, and also in lime. Lutomatomudinfinityeteaarrrral? | 2009-09-08 21:30:00 Author: ARD Posts: 4291 |
| Alright, a sorta math related puzzle: Three friends, SpookySheep, MorganaBanana, and Cuzface, all went out picking apples. Tired from having picked apples all day, they decide to take a nap next to a large oak tree. SpookySheep woke first and decided to take her apples home. She counted them up, and noticed that if she took one apple first, she was able to divide them evenly into thirds. Doing this, she took her third of apples [plus one] and went home. MorganaBanana woke next and thought that maybe SpookyLamb had just gone for a walk. She wasn't feeling well, so she counted the apples in preparation for her walk home. She noticed that if she were to take two apples from the pile, then she could divide the rest into thirds. Doing this, she took her "share" of the apples and walked home. Cuzface awoke and wondered were his friends had gone. How lonely he felt . He just assumed that they were both busy nearby, thinking of littlebigplanet level ideas, or something clever like that. He counted up the apples, and was surprised at how few there were. He found that if he took one apple first, that he could divide the rest into thirds. He took what he thought was his share, and went home.The question: How many apples did our friends pick? I'm guessing at... 13 apples picked Please don't laugh if I'm wrong! | 2009-09-08 21:30:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| My first is in love, and also in loss My second is in bluff, but not in floss My third is a vegetable, small and round My fourth, part of the earth, that is not known as "ground" My fifth is in eternity, and forever My sixth not in always, but found in never My seventh a hot beverage great with cake My eighth, the sound which a pirate doth make My ninth found in apple, but not within pie My tenth found in lemon, and also in lime. ? You could have made it longer, man, 10 letters is way to simple! | 2009-09-08 21:30:00 Author: OmegaSlayer Posts: 5112 |
| MrsSpookyBuzz...I think you are right... Also, Omega, solve it then! | 2009-09-08 21:32:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| My first is in love, and also in loss My second is in bluff, but not in floss My third is a vegetable, small and round My fourth, part of the earth, that is not known as "ground" My fifth is in eternity, and forever My sixth not in always, but found in never My seventh a hot beverage great with cake My eighth, the sound which a pirate doth make My ninth found in apple, but not within pie My tenth found in lemon, and also in lime. ? I'm guessing at... LBPCentral! | 2009-09-08 21:32:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| Correct, SpookyLamb! [for the math one] Very good! I challenge you to find an alternate solution as well. If anyone can find another solution, I will post the general solution (as there are infinitely many) | 2009-09-08 21:32:00 Author: comphermc Posts: 5338 |
| Correct, SpookyLamb! [for the math one] Very good! I challenge you to find an alternate solution as well. If anyone can find another solution, I will post the general solution (as there are infinitely many) To be honest, I started at 10, which didn't work out! And then I just worked from the next prime number. Not scientific, i'm afraid! :blush: | 2009-09-08 21:36:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| Hey, it's not a bad method. On second thought, I won't make you work out the second one, as the answer is 40. For anyone curious, the solution to the problem is: 27n +13, where n is any integer, so 1, 2, 3,... When n = 0, we have 13. When n = 1, we have 40. And so on... I had fun making that little problem. Now quit distracting me! I'm supposed to be doing homework! | 2009-09-08 21:39:00 Author: comphermc Posts: 5338 |
| MrsSpookyBuzz...I think you are right... Also, Omega, solve it then! I will quote my profile Location: Rome, Italy, the Eternal City It's just some kind of miracle if I understand what you guys are saying! Not sure about the viceversa...though... | 2009-09-08 21:39:00 Author: OmegaSlayer Posts: 5112 |
| Hey, it's not a bad method. On second thought, I won't make you work out the second one, as the answer is 40. For anyone curious, the solution to the problem is: 27n +13, where n is any integer, so 1, 2, 3,... When n = 0, we have 13. When n = 1, we have 40. And so on... I had fun making that little problem. Woah, computercomph! That's eye-wateringly cool (I think you should be the maths guru, and I'll stick to rhymes! Deal?)It's just some kind of miracle if I understand what you guys are saying! Not sure about the viceversa...though... Omega, your English is brilliant! | 2009-09-08 21:45:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| Woah, computercomph! That's eye-wateringly cool (I think you should be the maths guru, and I'll stick to rhymes! Deal?) Deal! I only know what Iambic Pentameter is because it has a number sequence . Other than that, poetry ain't my thang!@Omega - I assumed you were going for sarcasm in the "10 letter" comment? Don't worry, it mostly works both ways . | 2009-09-08 21:46:00 Author: comphermc Posts: 5338 |
| Yes, I definitely was... I'm trying to figure out the answers but the forum refreshes with the correct answer before I can even slap my face once. | 2009-09-08 21:49:00 Author: OmegaSlayer Posts: 5112 |
| Moved to Forum Games. | 2009-09-08 21:51:00 Author: Killian  Posts: 2575 |
| Killian, you big meanie-head. Now the thanks that I gave everyone doesn't show up . | 2009-09-08 21:51:00 Author: comphermc Posts: 5338 |
| comphermc, if we assume the final value to be x and...oh you've posted it. OK, maths problems eh... comphermc and Spooky were sitting having tea in the lbpcaf?. compher had a Large Tea in front of him - 3 times the size of Spooky's. After adding milk (100ml for Spooky, and the same volume of milk as he had in tea for compher), and sugar ( Spooky put twice as much sugar relative to the size of her tea and milk in as comphermc did. ), Spooky had twice as much grammes of sugar/10ml as compher, who ended up with 480ml of tea and milk. Tell me: the volume of tea in each mug, the volume of milk, and the grammes of sugar in each mug. I just wrote this, so I've only done a rough check, but I think it works. | 2009-09-08 21:55:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| Well, I'll start by saying that Spooky had a measly 120 ml of tea, while I had 360 ml. These units are hard for me to picture .I had 120 ml of milk, and Spooky had 100 ml (not necessary to solve the first part). I'm still working on the sugar portion. Not sure if it makes sense. | 2009-09-08 22:02:00 Author: comphermc Posts: 5338 |
| Ah, but you say that you had 360ml tea, meaning you must have had 360ml milk too (whereas you say 120) | 2009-09-08 22:05:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| I thought you meant that I had the same amount of milk as Spooky had tea. I must now revise... That problem is probably a bit trickier, even. | 2009-09-08 22:06:00 Author: comphermc Posts: 5338 |
| I probably should have made that clearer (I figured putting "he" instead of "she" would be enough, but I suppose it isn't that obvious...) | 2009-09-08 22:07:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/HappyCow.jpg + http://www.ideachampions.com/weblogs/cup%20of%20tea.jpg + http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~micheles/scheme/sugar.jpg I think I got it right! (Granny included, everything is in comphermec cup of tea, shaken not stirred) | 2009-09-08 22:07:00 Author: OmegaSlayer Posts: 5112 |
| Uhhhh...what? | 2009-09-08 22:08:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| Spoiler fail, lol. We now have: comphermc: 240 ml of tea and 240 ml of milk Spooky: 80 ml of tea and 100 ml of milk The sugar part is confusing because those are two ways of saying the same thing, without actually giving enough info. Unless I'm reading it wrong... | 2009-09-08 22:09:00 Author: comphermc Posts: 5338 |
| My brain hurts as well...... I'm going to go have a little lay down under an apple tree now | 2009-09-08 22:10:00 Author: Morgana25 Posts: 5983 |
| My brain hurts as well...... I'm going to go have a little lay down under an apple tree now Glad you saw that Alright, I really must go now. I have much to do tonight before I go to sleep, and this has become a huge distraction! | 2009-09-08 22:10:00 Author: comphermc Posts: 5338 |
| I'm joining Morgana! I've only just found the thread again! (I should have posted this in forum games originally - soz about that! :blush | 2009-09-08 22:13:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| Glad you saw that Alright, I really must go now. I have much to do tonight before I go to sleep, and this has become a huge distraction! Yes, you must go and do your homework. Thanks for joining in! | 2009-09-08 22:14:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| OK. I'll just say you're right about milk and tea volumes: Spooky= 80 (180) Compher=240 (480) As an extra hint, compher put 2/3 the amount of sugar in as Spooky. | 2009-09-08 22:18:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| My first is in winter, but not in summer My second is smaller than my others My third is a word that can stand on its own My fourth the name of a girl just beginning to grow My fifth is chancey, could happen or not My sixth is sand, piled high to the top My seventh is a great roman king My eighth of another ruler does sing My ninth is in now, but not in november My tenth is named for the eighth, however My eleventh signals the beginning of the end My twelfth great tidings does send. | 2009-09-09 00:26:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| Wow, I have no idea! I've sort of abandoned the previous riddle, but this sounds intense... | 2009-09-09 00:35:00 Author: comphermc Posts: 5338 |
| Think a bit...laterally. | 2009-09-09 07:09:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| My first is in winter, but not in summer My second is smaller than my others My third is a word that can stand on its own My fourth the name of a girl just beginning to grow My fifth is chancey, could happen or not My sixth is sand, piled high to the top My seventh is a great roman king My eighth of another ruler does sing My ninth is in now, but not in november My tenth is named for the eighth, however My eleventh signals the beginning of the end My twelfth great tidings does send. Haha. I think I got it. First: January, happens in winter, not summer. Second: February, the smallest month. Third: March, not too sure, marching as in standing? Fourth: April, a girl's name. Fifth: May, as in it may happen. Sixth: June, you make sand castles in June? Senventh: July, as in Julius Cesear. Eighth: August, as in Augustus. Ninth: September, it's not November...? Tenth: October, named for octo-, a prefix which means eight. Eleventh: November, second to last month? Twelfth: December, has Christmas and tidings and such. I'm not sure about a few, but I'm pretty sure the answer is the months. I don't have a riddle for the next person.:arg: | 2009-09-09 07:11:00 Author: iiiijujube  Posts: 594 |
| Hehe, iiiijujube got it! I don't have time for a new one, I'm at school (also, June=dune). | 2009-09-09 07:19:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| You are? It's like, 2:30 am here :kz: | 2009-09-09 07:29:00 Author: iiiijujube Posts: 594 |
| Hey, I just noticed this thread.... I'm a puzzle! | 2009-09-09 11:34:00 Author: CCubbage  Posts: 4430 |
| you're an enigma wrapped in a mystery. | 2009-09-09 12:07:00 Author: Matt 82  Posts: 1096 |
| Ha! Every puzzle has it's piece (I stole that from the tagline of Saw). Now then, we obviously have some philosophers, scholars and great thinkers here. So, what do you think of these... 1. Let's say there is a bullet which can shoot through any barrier. Let's also say there is an absolutely bullet-proof armour which no object can penetrate. What will happen if such a bullet hits such an armour? 2. In a village, the barber shaves everyone who does not shave himself/herself, but no one else. Who shaves the barber? 3. If someone says "I always lie", are they telling the truth? Or are they lying? | 2009-09-09 13:39:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| 1. The bullet will penetrate EXACTLY half-way throught the armor, then the universe will implode. 2. No one. The barber cuts his hair instead of shaving it.... and looks a bit like Dusty from ZZ Top. 3. He is in fact telling the truth, however is schitzophrenic. | 2009-09-09 13:52:00 Author: CCubbage Posts: 4430 |
| 1. Let's say there is a bullet which can shoot through any barrier. Let's also say there is an absolutely bullet-proof armour which no object can penetrate. What will happen if such a bullet hits such an armour? http://www.bordalierinstitute.com/images/nuclearExplosion.jpg | 2009-09-09 16:33:00 Author: ARD Posts: 4291 |
| 1. No two such objects can exist in the same universe. In a universe where the unstoppable force exists, by its definition, no immovable object can exist in that universe. 2. Several answers - anyone else could feasibly do it, or he could have a beard, or he has male-pattern-baldness... 3. Age-old, this one. Some philosopher in Greek times tried to disprove it. Something along the lines of: "The people from [Greek city] always lie, however it is not impossible for a [Greek city dweller] to say he always lies, as in this case it is possible for him/her to tell the truth." | 2009-09-09 17:52:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| Here's one for you: Northland and Southland were happy neighbors until yesterday, when Northland declared that a Southland dollar was to be worth only 90 Northland cents. Not to be outdone, Southland declared that a Northland dollar would be worth 90 Southland cents. I live in Centerville, on the border between the two countries. I go into a Northland store and buy a kazoo, which costs 10 cents. I pay for it with a Northland dollar and receive a Southland dollar as change. Then I go across the street and enter a Southland store. There I buy a lemon, which also costs 10 cents. I pay for it with a Southland dollar and receive a Northland dollar as change. When I get home I have my kazoo and lemon, for which it appears I've paid nothing. And each of the merchants has an additional 10 cents in his receipts. So who paid for the kazoo and lemon? | 2009-09-09 17:59:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| Here's one for you: Northland and Southland were happy neighbors until yesterday, when Northland declared that a Southland dollar was to be worth only 90 Northland cents. Not to be outdone, Southland declared that a Northland dollar would be worth 90 Southland cents. I live in Centerville, on the border between the two countries. I go into a Northland store and buy a kazoo, which costs 10 cents. I pay for it with a Northland dollar and receive a Southland dollar as change. Then I go across the street and enter a Southland store. There I buy a lemon, which also costs 10 cents. I pay for it with a Southland dollar and receive a Northland dollar as change. When I get home I have my kazoo and lemon, for which it appears I've paid nothing. And each of the merchants has an additional 10 cents in his receipts. So who paid for the kazoo and lemon? You're blowing my mind, son! Essentially what occurs is that the value of the money in your possession changes (as money is not a physical thing, but is dependent upon how much we take it to be worth). By changing the value of the money at the correct time, you have in fact increased the amount of money in existence (WILD!). You have not physically made any more money, but you have changed what the money represents (even if only temporarily). Think of it this way: You buy 5 oranges for $10 in City A. You take said oranges to City B and sell them for $20. Then, you buy 15 Apples for $20 in City B. You take those 15 apples back to City A and sell them for $30. Everyone is happy and you gained $20. It's not magic, it's disagreement in the value of things per the economy of each city. | 2009-09-09 18:16:00 Author: comphermc Posts: 5338 |
| So who paid for the kazoo and lemon? A Westland terrorist. He switched your kazoo and lemon for bombs with the same appearance. So, the kazoo and the lemon sitting in front of you now were bought by the terrorist. But no time to be thinking about where the money came from, if I were you, I'd be half a mile away by now. | 2009-09-09 18:18:00 Author: ARD Posts: 4291 |
| Here's one for you all. It has a perfectly logical solution, with no trickery involved. You stand on one side of the river, with no means of crossing. However you do have means of measuring distances...but you can't go in or cross the river. How do you work out the width of the river? | 2009-09-09 18:57:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| Ever hear of the dyslexic agnostic insomniac? Stayed up all night wondering whether there's a Dog. | 2009-09-09 19:10:00 Author: CCubbage Posts: 4430 |
| @ dawes: It's a big measuring stick - that's easy. | 2009-09-09 19:20:00 Author: rtm223  Posts: 6497 |
| rtm, NO. BAD rtm! You have...erm... no equipment with you, then, just the fact that your shoe is exactly 1 metre long and you can work out distances like that, OK. | 2009-09-09 19:33:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| rtm, NO. BAD rtm! You have...erm... no equipment with you, then, just the fact that your shoe is exactly 1 metre long and you can work out distances like that, OK. If you have a 1 metre long shoe, you can use that as a boat. | 2009-09-09 19:34:00 Author: ARD Posts: 4291 |
| It's made of concrete. WILL YOU JUST ALL TRY TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM LOGICALLY?! | 2009-09-09 19:37:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| It's made of concrete. If the shoe is concrete then it would be pretty hard to measure anything with it. | 2009-09-09 19:39:00 Author: ARD Posts: 4291 |
| I though I was being logical... Stand your rediculous concrete clownfoot upright to cast a shadow across the river. When the sun is in such a position that the shadow just touches the far bank you stand up a small stick on your side of the bank, to make a similar triangle. You measure the ratio of stick shadow length to stick height (using a smaller stick, to give a decent granularity on the measurement) and that will give you the distance, in metres, across the river. That logical enough? It does rely on the sun setting perpendicular to the river but still, I think it is pretty good. I could probably extend it to calculate the width even if the sun is not perpendicular. I suppose there is no sun now though | 2009-09-09 19:49:00 Author: rtm223 Posts: 6497 |
| I know! Find a bridge and cross >.< | 2009-09-09 19:49:00 Author: FlameAtNight  Posts: 405 |
| >.< OK. You are naked on a perfectly circular island, which is surrounded by a constant-width ring of water, like a doughnut, with NO WAY TO CROSS. You hold a 1 metre rule. Find the distance. THERE IS NO SUN. The river is WIDER THAN YOUR STICK. | 2009-09-09 20:27:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| So now we're naked and only have a 1 metre rule! We should have a caption competition at least! | 2009-09-09 20:28:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| You also have oak leaves covering your indiscriminate parts (this is a family-friendly site). rtm, you're a techy, take it seriously pl0x. | 2009-09-09 20:29:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| Mate I kinda am. I have no idea what the "proper" answer is, so I'm thinking outside the box here. You should think yourself lucky no-one has asked the question "why do I want to know how far it is across the mass of water I can't cross?" Gimme a while. I'll be back in a bit. . | 2009-09-09 20:32:00 Author: rtm223 Posts: 6497 |
| THERE IS NO SUN. Then how are you still alive? | 2009-09-09 20:34:00 Author: ARD Posts: 4291 |
| The sun is behind some thick cloud, so we've no shadows! Hmm, I have a guess... Is it to float the metre rule across and guess how many metres it is? | 2009-09-09 20:36:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| No. It actually involves making only three measurements with the ruler on your side of the river... | 2009-09-09 20:41:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| >.< OK. You are naked on a perfectly circular island, which is surrounded by a constant-width ring of water, like a doughnut, with NO WAY TO CROSS. You hold a 1 metre rule. Find the distance. THERE IS NO SUN. The river is WIDER THAN YOUR STICK. Are you a man or a woman? | 2009-09-09 20:42:00 Author: CCubbage Posts: 4430 |
| No. It actually involves making only three measurements with the ruler on your side of the river... Well I'd go for another triangulation technique, but you probably wouldn't like that... and of course the meter shoe would have been too inaccurate for that to work. | 2009-09-09 20:44:00 Author: rtm223 Posts: 6497 |
| It's close to triangulation. Here's the key...similar triangles. | 2009-09-09 20:51:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| Stand your rediculous concrete clownfoot upright to cast a shadow across the river. When the sun is in such a position that the shadow just touches the far bank you stand up a small stick on your side of the bank, to make a similar triangle. You measure the ratio of stick shadow length to stick height (using a smaller stick, to give a decent granularity on the measurement) and that will give you the distance, in metres, across the river. ^How is that less logical than: creating a form of triangle with a LOS to the other bank and calculating the distance based upon scaling? It's basically the same solution. Do I just have a meter stick, or a meter rule with centimeters on? | 2009-09-09 20:56:00 Author: rtm223 Posts: 6497 |
| Maybe estimate the distance between where you are and across the river, and a second point along the river which is a right angle from the first point (you can tell this by holding the meter stick vertically to get the scale between the 2 points). Measure the paces to the point along the river, which will equal the distance across the river. | 2009-09-09 20:59:00 Author: CCubbage Posts: 4430 |
| The latter. I still don't understand why your system works. I see one triangle, from stick top to your bank, to other bank. And I don't see how a ratio of x:y (x being unknown, y being the stick's height) will give you a value for x. CuzFeeshe, I don't completely understand your solution, but the "estimate" part seems to devalue it. However, it is a good base for the solution I have. | 2009-09-09 21:02:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| The latter. I still don't understand why your system works. I see one triangle, from stick top to your bank, to other bank. And I don't see how a ratio of x:y (x being unknown, y being the stick's height) will give you a value for x. CuzFeeshe, I don't completely understand your solution, but the "estimate" part seems to devalue it. However, it is a good base for the solution I have. No, the estimate doesn't devalue it. An estimate can be a really GOOD estimate, and most likely there is more than one solution to this problem. Since I used to pour concrete, we used this kind of technique to get within an inch of the slab position when laying it out. So, in a bit more detain: If you crouch down and use a stick to look out at exactly the same height across the river and along the river, you can identify the right angle position of both points. Then, you can measure along the river one of the points, which is the same distance across the river. | 2009-09-09 21:09:00 Author: CCubbage Posts: 4430 |
| measure: 1. height of my eye, 2. distance of my foot to edge of river 3. Height of ruler - implied. Subtract height of ruler from height of my eye and you know the edges of the small triangle and the height of the large triangles. | 2009-09-09 21:11:00 Author: rtm223 Posts: 6497 |
| I just looked this up online, and there's like 4 ways to solve this problem (and my solution and RTM's solution are among them). | 2009-09-09 21:24:00 Author: CCubbage Posts: 4430 |
| I see now, nice solutions. I see CC has got in here by saying there are multiple solutions - I myself knew of only this one (which I see as very interesting maths): http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2175/2359747622_364b2679e7_m.jpg You are at A, B is the other side of the river. Measure to C, then to D, then look at B and move towards it. E is the third point of the first similar triangle, then simple measurements and multiplications. Sorry about all the hassle over this. Things are a lot harder to explain/understand over the internet. Here's another one for you: Two identical wheels, one is fixed. In one full movement around the fixed wheel, how many revolutions does the free wheel turn. (ie, the free wheel is pushed around the edge of the fixed wheel, rolling around it "in orbit" (touching)) | 2009-09-09 21:27:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| I'm gonna guess the answer isn't 1. That would be too easy. The beer glasses tell me it is one revolution - 360 degrees, and I don't think beer glasses have ever lied to me about maths before.... BTW you never said there was a landmark on the other side of the river . | 2009-09-09 21:30:00 Author: rtm223 Posts: 6497 |
| It's not a landmark.Just dig a hole at point A and say it's the point perpendicular. Or throw your fig leaf over there to mark it. Actually, I won't reveal the answer yet. When it was first published in a very old newspaper, there were hundreds of submissions, so many that it was made into a book. Some say one, some say two. Which do you think and why? | 2009-09-09 21:33:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| I'm just a moron, it's 2. It just looks like 1. Can't believe I got that right when I wasn't cheating | 2009-09-09 21:39:00 Author: rtm223 Posts: 6497 |
| How did you figure it out? Try it with monies? | 2009-09-09 21:40:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| Tried it with beer glasses - they are more available in my flat. that's how I got it wrong. The second answer came from visualising cogs in my head. The cogs were on fixed axles, then I removed one of the axles and thought about the motion. There is a subtle fact about it that using cogs helps with IMO. | 2009-09-09 21:44:00 Author: rtm223 Posts: 6497 |
| Phew! I semi-guessed the circle one - not easy to check with dinner plates! I need a glass of wine! (To drink, not to work out circle puzzles) | 2009-09-09 21:51:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| MrsSpookyBuzz, on that note: Take two glasses, each equally filled, one with water, one with wine. Take a teaspoon of wine from the wine glass and add it to the water. Then take a teaspoon of THAT mixture, and add it to the wine. Which has more of the other substance in it? (ie, does the glass of wine have more water in it than the glass of water has wine?) | 2009-09-09 21:59:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| Alright, I was late to the party, but the answer the circle question was in in fact 2. It's based on the fact that the free plate revolves once around it's own axis and once around the axis of the fixed plate. Consider the moon for example. The same side always faces the earth, yet when it goes once around the earth, it will have revolved in space one time. If it were to revolve once with the respect to the earth in addition to that orbit, it will have revolved twice. Astronomy for the win! ------ My intuition, which is usually pretty good, tells me that there will be more wine in the water glass than there is water in the wine glass. Now, I just need to prove that they are in fact the same . [I will assume that the solutions are well-mixed]Without loss of generality, assume that each glass has 4 teaspoons of liquid. By moving one teaspoon of wine into the water glass, we now have a solution of 4 parts water and 1 part wine in the water glass (or it's 80% water, 20% wine). This means that when we scoop up a teaspoon of liquid from the newly mixed water glass, it will contain 1/5 of a teaspoon of wine and 4/5 a teaspoon of water. Dropping this into the wine mixture, we can clearly see that we are left with 4/5 of a teaspoon of wine in the water glass and 4/5 water in the wine glass. Hence, they are equal. | 2009-09-09 22:18:00 Author: comphermc Posts: 5338 |
| MrsSpookyBuzz, on that note: Take two glasses, each equally filled, one with water, one with wine. Take a teaspoon of wine from the wine glass and add it to the water. Then take a teaspoon of THAT mixture, and add it to the wine. Which has more of the other substance in it? (ie, does the glass of wine have more water in it than the glass of water has wine?) I think the water will have more wine in it than vice versa! EDIT: Hmm, or are we counting the water that's naturally already IN the wine though? | 2009-09-09 22:23:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| Water basically is wine. If your name is Jesus and you are 2000 years old. | 2009-09-09 22:26:00 Author: Syroc Posts: 3193 |
| EDIT: Hmm, or are we counting the water that's naturally already IN the wine though? No. Assume that they are two completely unique liquids. I like where your head's at though. (I assume it's on your shoulders ) | 2009-09-09 22:26:00 Author: comphermc Posts: 5338 |
| Water basically is wine. If your name is Jesus and you are 2000 years old. Well, my name is Lisa, but I'm quite close to 2000 years old! No. Assume that they are two completely unique liquids. I like where your head's at though. (I assume it's on your shoulders )Erm, well, again I'm using pure, simplistic logic here (guessing), but I'd have thought taking--- oooh, wait, no, wouln't they be almost if not exactly equal??? | 2009-09-09 22:38:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| I think comphermc got it right. Let the volume in each be x, AND a teaspoon's worth y. l denotes water, p denotes wine xl and xp xl-yl and xp+yl xl-yl+y(xp+yl) and xp+yl-y(xp+yl) multiply out xl-yl+yxp+yyl and xp+yl-yxp-yyl What one has extra, the other has taken away...making them equal. Someone else supply a riddle now (Here's a joky one in the meantime: What vine grows beef?) | 2009-09-09 22:42:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| I like where your head's at though. (I assume it's on your shoulders ) That is indeed the best place for a lady's head to be (sometimes with a neck inbetween, but I guess you're not fussy eh comph?) | 2009-09-09 22:44:00 Author: rtm223 Posts: 6497 |
| (Here's a joky one in the meantime: What vine grows beef?) The swine. o/ | 2009-09-09 22:46:00 Author: Syroc Posts: 3193 |
| An oldie-but-goodie: Three people check into a hotel. They pay $30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is $25 and gives $5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that $5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets $2 and gives $1 to each person. Now each person paid $10 and got back $1. So they paid $9 each, totalling $27. The bellboy has $2, totalling $29. Where is the missing $1? That is indeed the best place for a lady's head to be (sometimes with a neck inbetween, but I guess you're not fussy eh comph?) Suppose not | 2009-09-10 00:12:00 Author: comphermc Posts: 5338 |
| An oldThree people check into a hotel. They pay $30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is $25 and gives $5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that $5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets $2 and gives $1 to each person. Now each person paid $10 and got back $1. So they paid $9 each, totalling $27. The bellboy has $2, totalling $29. Where is the missing $1? Well the question is simply a lie. Took me a while because I'm not used to your funny foreign money... The lie is that you don't add ?2 to ?27, you subtract it to give the ?25 they should have paid | 2009-09-10 00:37:00 Author: rtm223 Posts: 6497 |
| Three people check into a hotel. They pay $30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is $25 and gives $5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that $5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets $2 and gives $1 to each person. Now each person paid $10 and got back $1. So they paid $9 each, totalling $27. The bellboy has $2, totalling $29. Where is the missing $1? I've always loved this question. The best part is that the logic/explanation at the end is what throws people off. | 2009-09-10 01:58:00 Author: BSprague Posts: 2325 |
| I've always loved this question. The best part is that the logic/explanation at the end is what throws people off. I know, haha. If you just work out where all the money is at the end, it makes sense. It's that last bit of "wrong" reasoning that makes it so challenging. @ rtm - well, you would've been right except you used the wrong units of measurement .Anyone else want to post a new one? | 2009-09-10 18:21:00 Author: comphermc Posts: 5338 |
| I can only do simple rhymes - you guys are the logic/maths dudes! :blush: | 2009-09-10 21:17:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| You know I've see that question before and never quite got it. But now it makes perfect sense. Strange how the facts can be right in front of one's face and still you can't see them until you force yourself to look at them a few times. Good puzzle. | 2009-09-10 21:22:00 Author: Morgana25 Posts: 5983 |
| MrsSpooky: "I take it you already know Of tough and bough and cough and dough? Others may stumble, but not you, On hiccough, thorough, lough and through? Well done! And now you wish, perhaps, To learn of less familiar traps? Beware of heard, a dreadful word That looks like beard and sounds like bird, And dead: it's said like bed, not bead - For goodness sake don't call it deed! Watch out for meat and great and threat (They rhyme with suite and straight and debt). A moth is not a moth in mother, Nor both in bother, broth in brother, And here is not a match for there Nor dear and fear for bear and pear, And then there's dose and rose and lose - Just look them up - and goose and choose, And cork and work and card and ward, And font and front and word and sword, And do and go and thwart and cart - Come, come, I've hardly made a start! A dreadful language? Man alive! I'd mastered it when I was five!" | 2009-09-10 21:32:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| Someone else supply a riddle now (Here's a joky one in the meantime: What vine grows beef?) Erm, I'm guessing here but is this bovines??? | 2009-09-10 21:59:00 Author: shropshirelass  Posts: 1455 |
| Haha, yes it is, yes it is ^.^ Here's a logic one: There is a room with 3 lights in it. Outside the room are three light switches, each wired to a different light, though you don't know which. Your job is to find out which is connected to which light...though you can only enter the room ONCE. You can't see the room from the switches, but you can fiddle with them as much as you want and then enter the room, then you must decide which light is connected to which switch. | 2009-09-10 22:17:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| wait - you can only enter the room with the lights once? So you have no baseline to go off of? Or can you assume they are all off from the beginning? | 2009-09-10 22:19:00 Author: Morgana25 Posts: 5983 |
| wait - you can only enter the room with the lights once? So you have no baseline to go off of? Or can you assume they are all off from the beginning? I'm guessing you can assume down is off and up is on. | 2009-09-10 22:23:00 Author: BSprague Posts: 2325 |
| If I remember right they are all either on or off to begin with. edit - OK, I don't mean they are all "on or off", I mean they are all in the same state If only I could remember the solution. I have a solution, but I tihnk I've upset dawes enough for one thread edit - I now have two solutions, each one equally annoying. | 2009-09-10 22:24:00 Author: rtm223 Posts: 6497 |
| All lights start off, and, as with a normal light switch, you can tell when a light switch is on or off. And rtm, show me, though I will probably just say "no" | 2009-09-10 22:29:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| I'm going to drop the mathematical/logical approach to this puzzle and just say that you should turn one of the lights on for a while, shut it off and then turn on another one, then enter the room. The one that is off but hot is the first switch you turned on, the one that is on is the second switch you flipped, and the only remaining bulb is the last switch. Is that right? | 2009-09-10 22:33:00 Author: BSprague Posts: 2325 |
| oooooo - even if it's wrong that so SMART! I'll agree with BSprague on this one | 2009-09-10 22:38:00 Author: Morgana25 Posts: 5983 |
| That is right, and surprisingly quickly worked out. Well done. I'll update this post in a sec with the image required for the next one... | 2009-09-10 22:39:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| Ahhh yeah, I remember that answer now. It is a genious puzzles. My two solutions involved a) the light switches being dimmer switches b) the light switches being LBP lever switches on a wall and I could hang something on one of them that was just heavy enough to switch on after a few seconds (by which time I would have been in the room). I said you wouldn't like them. | 2009-09-10 22:45:00 Author: rtm223 Posts: 6497 |
| MrsSpooky: "I take it you already know Of tough and bough and cough and dough? Others may stumble, but not you, On hiccough, thorough, lough and through? Well done! And now you wish, perhaps, To learn of less familiar traps? Beware of heard, a dreadful word That looks like beard and sounds like bird, And dead: it's said like bed, not bead - For goodness sake don't call it deed! Watch out for meat and great and threat (They rhyme with suite and straight and debt). A moth is not a moth in mother, Nor both in bother, broth in brother, And here is not a match for there Nor dear and fear for bear and pear, And then there's dose and rose and lose - Just look them up - and goose and choose, And cork and work and card and ward, And font and front and word and sword, And do and go and thwart and cart - Come, come, I've hardly made a start! A dreadful language? Man alive! I'd mastered it when I was five!" Not seen that before! Sums up the English language perfectly. Cheers | 2009-09-10 22:49:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| Hehe, I still say "no", but I like the creativity none the less. Here's the next one: Move one stick to make the displayed values equate to 1. The dividing line cannot be moved. http://www.lbpcentral.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=734&pictureid=6571 Also, I thought you might like that MrsSpookyBuz. "Shouldn't entourage rhyme with encourage"? | 2009-09-10 22:51:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| I assume they are roman numerals giving 1/7 Can I perhaps move one of the sticks from the bottom to turn the V into a triangle, roughly equating to a zero: 1/01 = 1 Yes, they are both french words I believe, only one of them has retained the french pronounciation. Or was that a rhetoric? | 2009-09-10 22:58:00 Author: rtm223 Posts: 6497 |
| Rhetoric. Also, no. They are meant to be roman numerals in my diagram. And if you were to make a zero, it would have to be a square. Not a triangle. | 2009-09-10 23:06:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| This is undoubtedly not the right answer but as a non-mathematician I would take one of the "I"s below and use it to cross out the V which would leave I/I. | 2009-09-10 23:52:00 Author: shropshirelass Posts: 1455 |
| Hehe, I still say "no", but I like the creativity none the less. Here's the next one: Move one stick to make the displayed values equate to 1. The dividing line cannot be moved. http://www.lbpcentral.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=734&pictureid=6571 Also, I thought you might like that MrsSpookyBuz. "Shouldn't entourage rhyme with encourage"? I'm totally stumped on this one, I've been moving lines around in Paint for about 20 minutes, and I've got nothing. | 2009-09-11 00:03:00 Author: BSprague Posts: 2325 |
| Here's a hint - you add a new operator. (An operator is something like + or -) | 2009-09-11 00:13:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| I've got it! One second while I upload the picture. It's a really basic drawing, and I wasn't sure if we were allowed to rotate the lines. Either way it works, it's just clearer if I rotate the line. Anyway: http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/3598/answerx.jpg I moved the right line of the "V" to make a multiplication symbol. Now it reads: 1/(1*1), which is obviously 1. Is that what you were looking for? | 2009-09-11 00:22:00 Author: BSprague Posts: 2325 |
| I'm afraid I can't really count that. It's a good idea, but I'd say that the looks nothing like a 1, especially within the normal constraints of move-one-matchstick games. And the x symbol seems even more far-fetched. Nonetheless, a good idea, and you are surprisingly close to the root of the problem. | 2009-09-11 00:42:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| I'm afraid I can't really count that. It's a good idea, but I'd say that the looks nothing like a 1, especially within the normal constraints of move-one-matchstick games. And the x symbol seems even more far-fetched. Nonetheless, a good idea, and you are surprisingly close to the root of the problem. Too bad, I thought I had it. I get the hint and I was trying that earlier, but I'm not creative enough to see how to make that into a square root symbol, if that is what you are getting at. | 2009-09-11 00:48:00 Author: BSprague Posts: 2325 |
| Move the second I on the bottom row to horizontally above the first one. The V becomes the start of the root symbol, extending over the first I, which is now the 1. 1/root(1)=1 | 2009-09-11 00:56:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| Boom! The square root of 1 is in fact 1 . http://www.lbpcentral.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1305&d=1252627002 I, too, had considered a square root before, but didn't see the solution until now. Edit: I swear I got it before you posted. It took at least 1 minute to make it in paint. | 2009-09-11 00:56:00 Author: comphermc Posts: 5338 |
| I wasn't sure if we could rotate them or not, that would have made my life worlds easier. I should have just asked. | 2009-09-11 01:00:00 Author: BSprague Posts: 2325 |
| Oh, sorry, I should probably have made that clearer V.V | 2009-09-11 01:12:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| Since this is a puzzle thread, I figure I should make my contribution of puzzles. This is a collection called Puzzle Maniak, a set of *.exe files that contain 27 different types of puzzles, all of which are randomly generated and can be tweaked to increase or decrease the difficulty. I think they are a great way to keep your mind in shape, and some of them can actually become quite addicting, and you might find yourself constantly trying to beat your fastest scores. My favorites are 25-point Untangle, 20x20 Unreasonable Galaxies, and any variation of Lightup. I've put all of the executables in a zip file and uploaded them to Mediafire. There aren't any instructions, but rules can be found here (http://www.puzzlemaniak.com/main/?cat=8). Here is the link (http://www.mediafire.com/?jzytjyoawm1), if you have any questions, ask me and I'll hopefully be able to help you out. | 2009-09-11 01:59:00 Author: BSprague Posts: 2325 |
| Move the second I on the bottom row to horizontally above the first one. The V becomes the start of the root symbol, extending over the first I, which is now the 1. 1/root(1)=1 I tried that, but I got an answer of -1, so it is wrong . | 2009-09-11 09:44:00 Author: rtm223 Posts: 6497 |
| Haha, that's one way of doing it Here's another: You are in a completely sealed room, with sealed ceiling, floor, and four walls that form an impenetrable sealed surface. No windows, doors, openings, changes in the walls etc that open in any way onto the outside. The only thing in the room is a wooden table. How do you escape? | 2009-09-13 00:30:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| Gah, if there was a mirror in the room too I would have had this one!!! ...Seriously... | 2009-09-14 02:39:00 Author: goldenclaw13  Posts: 224 |
| You sit on the table and meditate, therefore escaping mentally...? | 2009-09-14 05:29:00 Author: iiiijujube Posts: 594 |
| Nope, aaaand nope. Here's a hint. Perhaps you'll need to obtain a saw...somehow. From nothing. | 2009-09-14 05:30:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280 |
| But you said that changes to the walls wouldn't lead to the outside. How would a saw help? | 2009-09-14 05:33:00 Author: iiiijujube Posts: 594 |
| I got it You see the table, you see what you saw, you take that saw, you cut the table in half, two halves make a hole, you climb out of the hole | 2009-09-14 06:01:00 Author: goldenclaw13 Posts: 224 |
| http://forums.superherohype.com/images/smilies/th_eek.gif Wha...what the..? http://forums.superherohype.com/images/smilies/doh.gif | 2009-09-14 07:33:00 Author: iiiijujube Posts: 594 |
| I got it You see the table, you see what you saw, you take that saw, you cut the table in half, two halves make a hole, you climb out of the hole Good answer! If that's the right answer, however, I'll feel the need to slap Dawbes good and proper! | 2009-09-14 22:00:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| I've heard that answer before, I don't particularly like this riddle though, because to me it seems that you would have actually had to have heard it somewhere before to figure it out. I've figured out some pretty tough riddles, but I can't see myself getting that one in a million years. "See what you saw", really? | 2009-09-14 22:12:00 Author: BSprague Posts: 2325 |
| More importantly how did I get into that room in the first place? And what about the air supply? | 2009-09-14 22:14:00 Author: Syroc Posts: 3193 |
| I've heard that answer before, I don't particularly like this riddle though, because to me it seems that you would have actually had to have heard it somewhere before to figure it out. I've figured out some pretty tough riddles, but I can't see myself getting that one in a million years. "See what you saw", really? Actually the "see what you saw" is new to me. And it's not like the riddle is particuarly obtuse, it's just a play on phonetics. I personally wouldn't have got it without knowing it before but my brain doesn't work like that. Some peoples' brains do. And what about the air supply? Why do you think you are trying to get out? | 2009-09-14 22:19:00 Author: rtm223 Posts: 6497 |
| Is there light in the room? Because if there isn't I can't see the mirror, thus I can't see the saw that I saw when I had seen the table. Edit: There was no mirror in the room, stupid. Edit: But I still can't see anything. | 2009-09-14 22:24:00 Author: Syroc Posts: 3193 |
So, was the 'see that you saw' the right answer? We're going from the sublime to the ridiculous!  | 2009-09-15 11:58:00 Author: MrsSpookyBuz Posts: 1492 |
| That's the answer I've always known for that puzzle, or there abouts. | 2009-09-15 12:15:00 Author: rtm223 Posts: 6497 |
| Wow, this place is dead. REVIVE! What do these words have in common? -CANDID -MEMORIAL -ALKYLAMINE | 2009-10-17 04:22:00 Author: iiiijujube Posts: 594 |
| Wow, this place is dead. REVIVE! What do these words have in common? -CANDID -MEMORIAL -ALKYLAMINE I'll give the answer tomorrow. | 2009-10-18 06:45:00 Author: Outlaw-Jack  Posts: 5757 |
| oh oh i got one! my first is a p my second is an o my third is an m my fourth is an s who could it be? | 2010-01-20 10:15:00 Author: Voodeedoo  Posts: 724 |
| Does it count as a bump if it's in forum games? And voodeedoo that's so obvious... poms. | 2010-01-20 16:00:00 Author: Doopz  Posts: 5592 |
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