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Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 19, 2016 18:55:23 GMT -6
I posted this on the CMR. No one could answer it. Lets see if anyone can get it. It is very difficult.
Complete this sequence.
16 06 68 88 ?? 98
What is ??
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Post by Deepfriar on Feb 19, 2016 21:34:29 GMT -6
I posted this on the CMR. No one could answer it. Lets see if anyone can get it. It is very difficult. Complete this sequence. 16 06 68 88 ?? 98 What is ?? L8
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 19, 2016 21:35:48 GMT -6
You're brilliant!
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Post by Deepfriar on Feb 19, 2016 21:38:19 GMT -6
Hah! Yeah I actually had never seen that one it took me a minute but it became apparent eventually (I didn't cheat, analyzed casually for patterns and realized it was probably simpler than that).
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Post by Deepfriar on Feb 19, 2016 21:39:37 GMT -6
I'm good with number patterns I play Sudoku on intermediate I can solve that hard puzzles but it takes effort to the point where it's no longer relaxing and I like puzzles to relax. Hence the intermediate.
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 20, 2016 6:48:04 GMT -6
Gotcha. I like puzzles to relax too!
Ok, this one is more focused on observation skills. There's something VERY unusual about this paragraph - something very out of the ordinary. Can you tell me what it is?
The above passage is taken from the book "Gatsby" written by Ernest Vincent Wright in the late 1930's
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 21, 2016 18:00:25 GMT -6
If no one replies, do I win... ...or lose?
[boo]
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Post by Deepfriar on Feb 21, 2016 21:12:33 GMT -6
Sorry, hadn't looked at this thread in a little while. The oddity is the absence of the letter 'e'.
This one was easier. :-P
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 22, 2016 17:31:03 GMT -6
True! ...and since the letter E is the most common letter used in the alphabet, that paragraph is odd!
I've got more riddles - does anyone else have one?
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Post by Kerrick on Feb 22, 2016 18:10:13 GMT -6
Can you explain the L8 one? Would it not be 86 (or 80 or 89)?
16 06 68 88 __ 98 01 11 12 22 21 12
The below numbers are how many loops in each digit (i.e. 6, 9, and 0 all have one, 8 has two, and 1 has none). The digits immediately to either side of the number in question dictate what it'll be (as I colored red and green).
Am I close???
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Post by Kerrick on Feb 22, 2016 18:13:43 GMT -6
Ah I just looked it up. Cute... I was way off!
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Post by Deepfriar on Feb 22, 2016 19:21:16 GMT -6
Yeah I nearly got lost in a rabbit hole too. :-P
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 23, 2016 10:43:13 GMT -6
Here's another one for you guys. Not too hard, but still manages to trip some people up.
- There's a farmer who needs to cross a river. - He has with him a fox, a chicken and a bag of corn that need to come with him to the other side of the river - He can only take ONE thing with him each trip, as the boat is small - He can't leave the chicken alone with the fox on the river bank, or the fox will eat the chicken - He can't leave the bag of corn alone with the chicken on the river bank, or the chicken will eat the corn
Here's a crude ascii visual for no reason, or it may help.
~Farmer~ (fox) (chicken) (corn) <boat> _________________________
River _________________________
→ Corn, Chicken, Fox and Farmer needs to get here!
How does he do it?
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Feb 23, 2016 11:17:41 GMT -6
Take the fox, then the corn, then the chicken?
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 23, 2016 13:58:25 GMT -6
If you take the fox first, you're leaving the chicken and corn alone first trip.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2016 14:22:53 GMT -6
First, the farmer takes the chicken across the river, leaving the fox and the bag of corn. Next, the farmer goes back across the river and gets the corn and takes it over to the side where the chicken is. Then, before crossing again, the farmer takes the chicken with him back to the original side. The farmer grabs the fox and takes it to the other side, where the corn is. The farmer goes back, gets the chicken, and takes it to the other side. Now all three things are over there.
Simple logic puzzle. I could have looked at the other two you posted for hours and not solved them, but this was real easy.
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 23, 2016 14:45:36 GMT -6
Bingo! Nice work. I think what trips people up is that some people don't think of taking something back as "allowed" or part of the equation. ______________________
Ok, this one you guys will need to be a little CSI on this one to solve it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2016 14:55:01 GMT -6
I have two possible answers and I doubt that either of them are correct. #1: The punch was poisoned after he took his drink.
#2: The sudden temperature change in the punch (it was originally mixed with ice and then he quickly drank it, causing it to go from a cold temperature to a hot temperature) somehow rendered the poison ineffective.
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Feb 23, 2016 15:51:45 GMT -6
The ice had the poison. He drank too quickly for the ice to melt into the punch.
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Post by Kerrick on Feb 23, 2016 16:10:47 GMT -6
^That's what I came up with too.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2016 17:05:40 GMT -6
NI's answer makes a lot more sense than mine. That's probably correct.
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 23, 2016 18:04:43 GMT -6
Way to go NI! You got it. Key words "Later he hears" - means that it was more or less speculation that the punch was poisoned. The truth is, the ICE was poisoned, and since he drank it so fast, it didn't have the chance to affect him.
Well done!
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 23, 2016 18:18:53 GMT -6
There's lots of variations of this, and more than one answer - but a good logic puzzle.
You approach two doors. One door leads to HEAVEN, while the other door leads to the HELL. You do not know which door is which. In front of each door is a guard - one that ALWAYS tells the truth, one that ALWAYS lies. You don't know which is which. You are allowed to ask one question to determine which door is which. The guard in front of the door that leads to HELL always speaks lies The guard in front of the door that leads to HEAVEN always speaks truth
What ONE question do you ask to determine which door leads to HEAVEN?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2016 19:18:55 GMT -6
Ask "Does one of you lie?" The lying guard will say no; the truthful guard will say yes. Go in the door that the truthful guard was standing in front of.
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 23, 2016 20:24:50 GMT -6
I didn't think of that one, but it works! (again, there's multiple answers) I would have answered it "Do both doors go to heaven?" - the liar will say yes, the truth teller would say no.
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Post by Deepfriar on Feb 23, 2016 21:25:52 GMT -6
Another solution to that one is (I heard it told a little differently): "Which door would the other guard say leads to Heaven?" Whichever door the guard answers with regardless of which guard you asked, it would be the other door.
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Post by Kerrick on Feb 24, 2016 0:04:19 GMT -6
There's lots of variations of this, and more than one answer - but a good logic puzzle. You approach two doors. One door leads to HEAVEN, while the other door leads to the HELL. You do not know which door is which. In front of each door is a guard - one that ALWAYS tells the truth, one that ALWAYS lies. You don't know which is which. You are allowed to ask one question to determine which door is which. The guard in front of the door that leads to HELL always speaks lies The guard in front of the door that leads to HEAVEN always speaks truth What ONE question do you ask to determine which door leads to HEAVEN? This one's too easy! The way I heard it was that you don't know which angel is standing in front of which door. The truthful one could be in front of heaven or hell. It took me quite a while to get it but when I finally did, I thought "of course!"
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Feb 24, 2016 0:13:08 GMT -6
Ask them a general knowledge question. The liar would have to give the wrong answer.
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Post by Kerrick on Feb 24, 2016 15:57:03 GMT -6
^That would work for the way Thomas posed the question but not if you don't know which door the honest angel is standing in front of...
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 24, 2016 21:35:24 GMT -6
The guard in front of the door that leads to HELL always speaks lies The guard in front of the door that leads to HEAVEN always speaks truth If the liar is in front of the door that leads to hell, it would still work. "Do cats have fur?" The guard that says no is the keeper of the door to hell. Makes sense to me. [itsme]
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