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Is it Star wars related?
Bummer. I was hoping that I could get away with guessing the colour randomly.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
:rolleyes:
I see the thread has been revived.I have already checked that but could not find anything feasable. I also checked many board games and sports but to no avail.Quote:
Originally Posted by kasie
Dalek-Related?
(If this is right, I can only guess that the black/green distinction would be the result of some sort of editing decision. And I would again go with Silver, I guess. Maybe Red?)
EDIT: Never mind, White is the new Supreme Dalek.
Less Dalek and more K9.
Greyhound racing colours?
Each "trap" has a different colour.
...Yep.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Cut off my head and I apeer, cut off my tail and I apear.
Cut off both and I mostly hear.
:prrr:Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Pearl?Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
yepp!
Another straightforward puzzle:
A clock that was correct at midnight started losing three and a half minutes every hour. It stopped two hours ago, showing "13.11". Keeping in mind that it ran less than 24 hours, what is the correct time now?
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Originally Posted by Scheherazade
A little after 15:57
16:00 isn't it?
I say 2PM (14:00)
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It loses 7 min per 2 hours that pass.
At noon, it will read 12:00 - (6 x 0:07) = 11:18
At 2PM, it will read 11:18 + (2:00 - 0:07) = 11:18 + 1:53 = 13:11
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Originally Posted by billl
....you skimmed the question, didn't you?
Oops! Yes, thank goodness, I did. (I just found out how difficult it is to design a logic puzzle from scratch.)
Bill, your method is correct; however, the answer is not right - yet. At this point, we need to take into account that it was 13.11 two hours ago, meaning that the correct time now is 16.00 (I think this is what Mark was implying by "skimming" as well).Quote:
Originally Posted by billl
Your turn! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by OrphanPip
Here's one in case Pip is too busy or something:
The Five Diners
(Sapphire, Scher, Serena, Mark, IAmNobody)
The five LitNetters listed above had soup and drinks at a round table.
Please answer the following questions:
1. In what order did they sit around the table? (i.e., Who sat where?)
2. What soup did each of them eat?
3. What did each of them drink?
Here are your clues:
The diners chose from the items on this very simple menu:
DRINKS: Beer, Wine, Water
SOUP: Tomato, Onion, Lentil
also...
- Serena is allergic to onion soup, and can't sit next to a bowl of it (much less eat it).
- Sapphire sat to the right of IAmNobody.
- Scher and IAmNobody had the same thing to drink.
- Mark and Serena each drank beer.
- Both Serena and Sapphire had drinks that were different from the drinks had by the people next to them at the table.
- The two people who had tomato soup were not side-by-side.
- The person who had the onion soup sat between the only two wine drinkers.
- Only one person had tomato soup with beer.
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Originally Posted by billl
http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/6855/table0.jpg
Scher, that looks good, but...
...was meant to indicate that Sapphire is sitting in the seat next to IAmNobody (the seat immediately to IAmNobody's right)Quote:
Originally Posted by billl
Gah, I have been reading that "Serena" :sosp:
Back to the drawing board!
I know, I apologize for that. I thought it would be fun to include some people that'd been involved in the thread most recently, but all the 'S' names confused me too when I was making it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
There, that is correct--didn't take you long to fix it after getting the names straight.
A nice puzzle and well done! (I couldn't figure it out :blush:)
If you aren't familiar with that sort of puzzle, I just googled a website that looks like it might be a good place to learn about that style of puzzle:
http://www.logic-puzzles.org/
They are called logic puzzles, or logic grid puzzles.
EDIT: actually, that website starts off with more difficult puzzles than mine, and the tutorials don't seem very good...
I like logic puzzles.
Here is another quick one:
HO = 23
KD = 15
TA = 21
UW = ?
it is 44
Correct. Your turn to ask a question.Quote:
Originally Posted by Greta Kin
Hang on. Why?Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Whoa, I was stumped, and it just now came to me in a flash. (add together the number representing each letter's ordinal position in the English alphabet, and you get the shown sum)
What Bill said:Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Still Greta's turn :)Quote:
Originally Posted by billl
Since Greta is not around:
I was nine times the age of my nephew six years ago and I am three times his age now. What are our current ages?
I think this asks for the use algabra
Lets take I for my age and N for my nephew's age.
statement 1] (I - 6) = 9*(N - 6)
statement 2] I = 3*N
Insert statement 2 in statement 1
3N - 18 = 9N - 54
6N = 36
N = 6
So my nephew is 6 years old and I am 18.
You are on the right track but not exactly. Read the question and second half of your calculation again! :smilewinkgrin:
Eight and twenty four now.
(Two and eighteen six years ago.)
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Here's a real life one....
I woke up in the dark on Tuesday and although I don't own a bedside clock, I ascertained that it was twenty-five past four. I went back to sleep.
I awoke in the morning to find that my colleague Adam had texted me our co-worker Abena's phone number at twenty-seven minutes past four.
Why?
Did you acertain the time using your phone?
Are Adam and Abena next to each other on your speed dial?
Why am I asking these questions?
Perhaps Abena called and Mark sort of woke up by the time it stopped ringing. He noted the time (perhaps he even checked the time on his still lit-up phone), and then went back to sleep, wondering at the ungodly hour and why he might've suddenly woke up like that. Abena calls Adam, and Adam texts Mark with Abena's number, so that he can call her back, perhaps thinking that Mark didn't want to answer an unknown number in the middle of the night. Mark sleeps right through the sound of the text's arrival.
Adam hoped that his action would be to his advantage.
So, why was Abena calling you so early (assuming it was 4.25 am)? Curious minds want to know.
Or maybe Abena was in the US or Australia (or some other country with different timezone)?
Anyhow, it is Bill's turn, yes?
Whoa, did I get it right?
(Gotta go right now, but I will try to come up with something if it turns out I'm right. It might be a day or two, though, so someone else is certainly welcome to provide a puzzle if they want, and if I did happen to get it right...)