That's right, billl - over to you.
That's right, billl - over to you.
OK, I'm gonna try and come up with something. Maybe I'll have to check out a puzzle website or something, because I can't remember any...
In the meantime, please, if anyone else has a good one, go right ahead and post it!
(EDIT: I will be back online and will at the very least cut and paste something from a website probably between 7 and 12 hours from now, if no one else has a good one...)
Last edited by billl; 10-28-2010 at 02:13 PM.
Which wartime U.S. president is famous for:
1) side-burns
2) top hat
3) blonde hair
4) not finishing his term
OK, I am gonna just give the answer to that latest puzzle that I made up by myself. The answer is:
Abe Lincoln
HERE IS THE NEXT PUZZLE!
This is copy and pasted from Wikipedia
I'm sorry, I feel cheap for doing this.... But I wanted to give you guys an interesting, PROFESSIONAL, brain-teaser...Three guests check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money equally. As the guests didn't know the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 for himself.
Now that each of the guests has been given $1 back, each has paid $9, bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?
You don't need to add the 2 and 27 because the 2 is already included within the 27...I think.
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Yep--for the guests, that $2 that the bellhop is holding is an overpayment on their part, and it is included in the $27. Good work--people can check the Wikipedia link up there for the fleshed-out answer...
...but it is just a trick going on when it is suggested that the $2 be added to the $27 for some reason. The $2 is actually just what is left over from the $5, after the customers got their $3. If the bellhop, in a fit of honesty, went back and gave the $2 to one of the guests (or divied it up somehow, e.g. $o.66 each), then we would see that the guests had no longer overpaid the two dollars. Their $27 total payment would finally be reduced to the $25 that they actually owed.
Last edited by billl; 10-29-2010 at 10:00 PM. Reason: italics frenzy
Here's a quick easy one while we're waiting for billl
8 9 6 3 2 1 4 ?
I have to do another (non-researched) one? I will keep trying, because this is a great thread, but I am having trouble remembering another one. I like the more social/conversational mood here, where we are posting from our memory of these puzzles, but I might have reached my limit. But I will keep trying, because I probably will come up with something eventually
I find this one neither quick nor easy.Originally Posted by prendrelemick
7!
Re-arranging the sequence as consecutive top-to-bottom columns, we get:
8 2
9 1
6 4
3 ?
Paired thusly, it seems that adding 7 to 3 will give us 10, just as the other pairs do. Nice one, did you make that one up yourself?
Assuming that I am correct (and there might very well be some other solution you had in mind...), I will next post a classic 'puzzle' that I finally managed to remember.
Game Show Problem
You have been called down from the audience to participate on a game show. The host stands with you before three large curtains, numbered 1, 2, and 3. Behind one of the curtains, there is a check for $10,000. The other two curtains have nothing behind them. You must decide which curtain you think conceals the prize.
After you have chosen (for example, curtain number 1), the host gives you one more chance to change your mind. But before you decide whether or not to change, the host will pull aside one of the curtains that you have not chosen (for example, curtain number 2), in order to show that there is nothing behind it.
So, what should you do:
1) choose the other curtain (in the example, curtain number 3)
or
2) keep to your original choice (e.g. curtain number 1)
and Why?
(I hope I explained this one well, please ask if anything needs clarification...)
I know you have to change, but I always thought it went against all common senseNo matter how good the explination
It's a bit like the hare and the turtle...
The first time you have a 1 in 3 chance to get it right. The second time, when you choose the other curtain, you have a 1 in 2 chance. BUT that goes for both doors, so that wasn't the explination
Erm...
The chance you have it right the first time, is 1/3. So you probably have it wrong (2/3). After the curtain with nothing behind it is opened, you better switch to the one that is left (neither chosen the first time or openend). But what the chances are for that one, I'm not sure. I just know they're better
If anybody knows how to explain this more clearly, please do!
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I just went clockwise round the number pad on my keyboardbut 7 is right.
This is a maddening one, actually - because the odds are completely dependent on when you assess them.
You could say that once you're down to two curtains, it's fifty-fifty which is the prize curtain, so why change.
But actually, that's not quite true - and it's because you've been made to choose before you get to that point.
Imagine there are a million curtains. You choose one. They take away all but one of the others.
At that point it's pretty obvious that the chances of you having picked the right one are one-in a-million. And pretty obviously, you'd swap, because they know which is the right one, so you'd tend to believe that they've got it right because you got it wrong.
The same principle applies with three curtains, but the odds are shorter. The fact remains, however, that it's absolutely certain they've picked the right one of two if you haven't already picked it, but only one in three that you picked the right one in the first place.
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