For some reason, Carrol says, "Only a kitten without green eyes will play with a gorilla."
Your answer seems the same to me, billl.
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For some reason, Carrol says, "Only a kitten without green eyes will play with a gorilla."
Your answer seems the same to me, billl.
Yeah, I had to choose how to express it. I thought I might have gotten it, but wasn't sure if maybe there was something further he might've been looking for. To know what's being looked for, one has to sort of see how it's set up to lead to one conclusion that's most "difficult" or "indirect".
The green eyes and the gorilla-playing were the only things that didn't get mentioned twice, so that's what we have to look at (have to connect, apparently).
Here's the work, because it's fun and satisfying to lay it out. (Nothing about my pride or ego or anything like that.)
IF THEN STATEMENTSQuote:
No kitten that loves fish is unteachable.
No kitten without a tail will play with a gorilla.
Kittens with whiskers always love fish.
No teachable kitten has green eyes.
No kittens have tails unless they have whiskers.
If a kitten plays with a gorilla, it will have a tail. (rewording sentence 2)
AND
If a kitten has a tail, it will have whiskers. (5)
AND
If a kitten has whiskers, it will love fish. (3)
AND
If a kitten loves fish, it is teachable. (1)
AND
If a kitten is teachable, it won't have green eyes. (4)
Using deduction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllogism), we get:
If a kitten plays with a gorilla, it won't have green eyes.
Here's an old Hindu puzzle (I originally found it in a Raymond Smullyan book):
Quote:
Out of a swarm of bees one-fifth part settled on a Kadamba blossom; one-third on a Silindhra flower; three times the difference of those numbers flew to the bloom of a Kutaja. One bee, which remained, hovered about in the air. Tell me, charming woman, the number of bees
46?
just a guess
sorry, jajdude...
15??? (The extra ?s are there not only because I'm not sure of the answer but because the system [They] won't let me post 15? because it's less than five letters/figures.)
Fifteen is correct! Kasie rules (I got the same answer before looking at Kasie's though).
Good going, guys.
I have a busy day ahead, so I ask your indulgence while I think of a new puzzle, folks. Also I need more time to recover from those Lewis Carroll teasers - nothing so tortuous will be coming from me, I promise!
Well done, kasie.
OK - I've thunk - two of these actually appeared in the crossword and Codeword I did yesterday after lunch.
CROSSWORD CLUES
1 a fish (3)
2 You're being watched! (abbrev) (4)
3 South American tylopod (5)
4 one of these is very short (abbrev) (2)
5 strange and disturbing (5)
6 give out moisture (4)
7 always poetic (3)
8 with reference to the Pope (abbrev) (2)
9 very quietly (mus) (2)
10 leading African mammal (8)
11 sedimentary rock (6)
12 given to an exceptionally brave soldier (abbrev) (2)
13 a very small volume (abbrev) (2)
14 study of birds' eggs (6)
15 for and on behalf of (abbrev) (2)
16 critical day of action (1,3)
17 a very modern address (abbrev) (3)
18 black Chinese tea (6)
19 Manx races (abbrev) (2)
20 lots and lots (6)
So, what's the pattern? Once you have a couple, you'll see it. (And just to be kind, I didn't include words that cropped up in my Welsh lesson yesterday, such as 'Where do you live?' followed by 'Where's that?)
They're all two-syllable rhymes?
(Having said that, the tylopod doesn't quite rhyme in my accent. And, wait, the study of bird's eggs is oology. Okay, forget that...)
1 a fish (3)
2 You're being watched! (abbrev) (4)
3 South American tylopod (5) llama
4 one of these is very short (abbrev) (2)
5 strange and disturbing (5) creepy
6 give out moisture (4)
7 always poetic (3)
8 with reference to the Pope (abbrev) (2)
9 very quietly (mus) (2) pp
10 leading African mammal (8)
11 sedimentary rock (6)
12 given to an exceptionally brave soldier (abbrev) (2) vc
13 a very small volume (abbrev) (2) cc
14 study of birds' eggs (6)
15 for and on behalf of (abbrev) (2) pp
16 critical day of action (1,3)
17 a very modern address (abbrev) (3)
18 black Chinese tea (6)
19 Manx races (abbrev) (2) tt
20 lots and lots (6)
The fish may be a dab or an eel or a cod, I suspect that once we get the pattern we'll know which. Hmm COD is also an abbrev..
Unfortunately Elephant isn't.
Mark - yes to 3, 9, 9, 15, 19; no to 5 and 12 (not what I had in mind anyway.) and you should have gone with the birds' eggs idea.... And good idea about the two syllable rhymes -a future puzzle there, I think.
Mick - yes, it's one of those. :smile5: And beware of 'leading' - these are crossword clues.
The abbreviations are a bit of a cheat, really, they are there to bulk up the quiz but they are all in the dictionary, the Chambers 21st Century dictionary, anyway.
I suspect 2 is cctv, and 6 is seep. Is 7 e'er and 16 D-Day?
Does this have something to do with the way that the answers can be 'fitted together'?