Daily puzzles/problems.

[jajdude]

ok...my turn..again.

The following is true under a very special circumstance. What is it?

11+8+8=17

1/1 ?

[Silas Thorne]

You are playing Blackjack, right? An Ace can be a 1 or an 11.

Whether or not that was the answer you were looking for, it must have been a suitable answer.
Now:

Determine which of these letters does not belong:

D V O N A S W

[iamnobody]

Blackjack it is.

As for yours, stumped for now.

[kasie]

Sorry, thought I had an answer and realised it was wrong as soon as I posted it. Doh...

[OrphanPip]

W wasn't a part of the classical Latin alphabet, it was added later. I'm not sure that's what you were getting at though.

[Silas Thorne]

I could take that answer for the reason you have given, I suppose, but there is a simpler, different answer to this one. And it's not W, in this one anyway. Although it's great that the puzzle can have more than one answer!

[billl]

The A can't be traced over without lifting the stylus, or re-tracing a section a second time.

[Silas Thorne]

That's the answer I was looking for. Well done! But OrphanPip is right in another way, which is also good. I guess I'll be ridiculously rulebound and let you go next, billl....

[billl]

This is one a lot of people might know, so if you haven't heard it before try and have some fun thinking about it before reading the responses.
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You have been trapped inside of a strange pyramid, following the mysterious collapse of its entrance. You keep exploring and soon encounter two mummies standing in front of two doors.

A sign above the doors says the following:

ONE OF THESE DOORS LEADS TO A PASSAGE OF PITS, TRAPS, AND ULTIMATE DOOM. THE OTHER DOOR LEADS TO YOUR SAFETY AND FREEDOM. THESE TWO MUMMIES EACH KNOW WHICH DOOR IS WHICH, BUT ONE OF THE MUMMIES ALWAYS TELLS LIES, WHILE THE OTHER MUMMY ALWAYS TELLS THE TRUTH.

What will you do? How can you learn which door is the one to freedom without leaving the room?

[Silas Thorne]

Ooh, and is there another mummy that stands beside them and strangles people who ask the other two complicated questions ?

[billl]

"" acknowledged.



Also, just to be clear, these mummies aren't threatening, and they speak English just fine.

[MarkBastable]

What will the other mummy say if I ask him - or possibly her - which door leads to freedom?

The one who tells the truth will know that the other would lie and therefore tell you the wrong door. So if you have asked the mummy who tells the truth, he will will truthfully point to the door that leads to doom.

And the one who lies wil know that the other would tell you the truth and therefore tell you the right door. So if you've asked the the mummy who tells lies, he will mendaciously point to the door that leads to doom.

So whichever door you are told, take the other one.

Okay - I didn't work this out just now - though I did when I first came across it years ago. I have a book somewhere in which this puzzle is taken to absurd lengths - so, for instance, they reply 'yes' and 'no' in their own language, but you don't know which is which, and one of them doesn't know the difference between truth and lies, and the other lies on alternate days and you don't know whether this is a truth day or a lie day, and so on and so forth. But all the solutions come down to the same thing, which is a sort of nested binary logic - a series of on-and-off switches - and you have to construct a question which will flick the switches in such a way that you always arrive at the same known point, no matter where you start.


A carrot, a pipe and a couple of lumps of coal lying on the grass amongst the daffodils. What happened?

[billl]

Thanks, Mark! Another way to nest it that I had in mind was:

Ask either mummy the question: "If I were to ask you if the door on the left were the door to freedom, would you say 'Yes'?" If the answer is Yes, then take the door on the left; otherwise, go with the door on the right.


Re: your puzzle, don't ask me, maybe some other dudes know, man.

[Sapphire]

Riddles

As for the carrot, pipe, coal and daffodils... I never heard that one I'm very curious for the answer

I can imagine a rabbit might be attracted by the carrot and eat it. And maybe somebody will be able to light the pipe with the coal, though I really think (s)he would need some tobacco.
Maybe nothing happens - they just all rot away. Daffodils first, carrot second, pipe third and coals last?!

Somehow I think there's more to it...

[kasie]

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The snowman has melted - spring has come - hurrah!