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...re's a bit of a different puzzle. It may not have a solution.
Produce an algorithm that, given a list of correctly spelled English words (such as the enable1 list that can be downloaded from the Nat...
...on sat up very straight. This was he first letter she had ever written in her life and she wished it to be correct in every particular.
37. On August 16, 1968, I was handed a book written by a certa...
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15
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
It was a Final Jeopardy question, so the two who got it wrong wrote down the incorrect question of the two without knowing that the other had written it down.
(I was abou...
...earing he says no.
When C is asked if he knows the colour of the hat he is wearing he says yes and he is correct.
What colour hat is C wearing? (There is no play on words and no tricks)...
dunno if there is an easier way to do this (excl bruteforcing)
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vbery long-winded explanation follows
assume CO are wrong
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Hi.
The puzzle I posted had an error in it. The revised puzzle is:
RSLMK XASLP AGJAJ SLATL MSKJJ SILSR SETLE A
0.036451115104344929960051702904129853374652042 98653538847248500212814041397773466
George is a single male with way too much time on his hands, and has submitted correct solutions to the last 45 weekly Enigma problems from the New Scientist magazine. If George has just won his secon
...car model that immediately came to my mind, when I saw the question, but I know that it was unlikely to be correct. The car was a Volvo P1800. Where did I get it from?...
...Ball?
1 = e. 2 - is a C. (3 is S M I N A)
3 = ML (could it be 3 mile limit?) 9 = WOAW(i) WIGPO this is correct - no numbers 157 = MDOTSOGIF 10 = GH 1956 = VTRDBA 10 = LT 1 = WM 2 = TIADS 9 = POTL ...
...) or 'BWW' (One Black, Two White) or 'WWW' (Three White). The girls were told that none of the four labels correctly described the contents of the box to which it was attached.
Each girl was told to...
...ness under the same circumstances that existed on the night of the accident and concluded that the witness correctly identified each one of the two colours 80% of the time and failed 20% of the time. ...
...ing words, in a specific order:
dog cat frog bee One of these is in the solution, but not its not in the correct position. bird lizard ant frog Two of these are in the solution, one is in its correc...
...tricky question and I am really stuck up with it somewhere...Can anybody tell how it can be solved ?...The correct answer is 45kmph(but how?)
It goes like this...
A car is travelling at a uniform ...
Given the precision of the answer, it is still correct. the extra twelve millimeters rounds down to zero additional inches. If the answer had been 42.194988 km you wouuld have had a point, but there's
...ound '5', which would make '1' the best option. Other than the single selection for '2' I think I was 100% correct.
Given the above, the choice of '1' amongst most entrants was not cowardice but a s...
...t turmites does Binary Counting, and that similar n-color turmites can mimic other number systems. Someone correct me if another noticed this first. :)
I also comment on the new range of metal puzzl...
... color spectrum?
Thank you.
(This is the very first thing I have ever posted. Hope I am going about it correctly.)...
...rder, but each of the n digits must be used exactly once. The goal is to get an approximation of e that is correct to at least n digits. Try to meet this goal for each value of n.
Examples:
n = 1 ...
...e problem posted had a number of grievous errors. It has been withdrawn and a new, similar (and one hopes, correct) puzzle has been posted at
http://math.smsu.edu/~les/Challenge.html
Sorry about t...
I remember a while back someone posted a gramatically correct sentence that used the word 'that' 5 times in a row. I was blown away by it. Well, in the paper, they had a sentance (actually two sentanc
...icks so that it looks like miniature telephone pole lines. You measure carefully and cut the string to the correct length.
Question: Is the difference between the two strings placed around the earth...
...all done by e-mail. 2) It featured 4 rounds (one round per week) with 5 puzzles per round and 5 points per correct answer. 3) Each puzzle featured 1 maths problem, one logic problem, one lateral think...
...70; C times D equals 440; what is F? And, more importantly, why?
That's the whole problem. Some of the incorrect guesses so far have been: 5, 13, 130, 95, 61, 440, 2.5
Today he gave the following ...
...of to find the solution.
I had a test earlier today for a programming position. I got all of the answers correct except one. Maybe someone here can answer it. This is done with paper & pencil only. ...
...CZ, JQY
I have omitted the four letters of my first name. Please complete the grouping by inserting them correctly. In case more than one answer makes sense, the 'correct' answer is the one I was th...
... 'What you have to do is deduce from the sages statements the colours of each of their hats. If you answer correctly then you will be my next high-paid advisor. However, should you be wrong, you would...
...t see a solution in 8 moves. Therefore, I must have misunderstood the puzzle description. Is the following correct ?
- With a knight's move from any of the four corner squares, the only two squares ...
...Tokyo' they wanted: 'Tokyo before Paris' (as two separate errors) but, the rules state: 'Each error can be corrected with the replacement of a single English word or number.' why not 'Paris after Toky...
...hipshank 1.jefferson 2. lincoln 3.washington spitwell 1.jefferson 2.washington 3.jefferson
what were the correct answers? i give credit for this puzzle to sidney cravitz...
...ly convinced that this one is totally screwed up? I've got a number of different errors and can't find the correct combination.
Even with a clue from someone in the group as to the order of the type...
...we have that Sally has a probability of 50%+25%=75% of winning. Obviously both of these arguments can't be correct. I have 2 questions. The easier one is, which argument is correct? The harder questio...
This is a trivia puzzle, there's no one correct answer but I expect some of you guys can come up with some pretty imoressive answers.
What is the most impressive eventual achievement of someone who
...8 every time I won a trophy, I did the math and figured there were probably 125 trophies, was my reasoning correct given my assumptions?)
So here's the catch: you have the option of putting in extra...
..., you must decide whether W=A or W=B. Prove that if 1/2 < X < 2/3, to maximize the probability of making a correct decision, you should select the ball from box B. Prove also that if 2/3 < X < 1, then...
...unch includes an amount requiring the use of pennies (i.e. the price doesn't end in 0 or 5). If I have the correct number of pennies, I use them, otherwise, I just get pennies as change.
Now, if I s...
...ion go on forever ?. Does this mean that Y will never be able to catch up with X ?. We all know that'z not correct.
What'z wrong with my approach ??.
thanks,...
... (http://www.primroselodge.com/Playtime/weekly_puzzles.htm) I still haven't managed in *proving* my answer correct. Perhaps one of you can help me on the part that I'm stuck on?
Essentially this puz...
Incorrectly, iirc
25 to 2? (not 100%), maybe quarter to two?
6
Well, assuming you get them that far north, it's White, at least on Earth
Yes, depending...
My pet goldfish, killed when my pet
...number sequences to this group asking what number comes next in the sequence.
Of course, the technically correct answer is that there are an infinite number of numbers that could come next.
The pe...
...e trying to be a rare answer, the other trying to be a common answer. The rare answer must be judged to be correct, but the common answer doesn't need to be. The questions should on the whole not requ...
...here the object is to substitute a different digit (0-9) for each different letter so that the equation is correct:
9567 + 1085 = 10652 (where S = 9, E = 5, N = 6, etc.)
Can you write an alphametr...
I am looking for the correct spelling for the last name of the Danish scientist and writer Piet Hein, (1905? - 1996), creator of the Soma puzzle.
Thank you.
... so I was given the answer but no explanation and it is still bugging me.
I may have also explained it incorrectly.
A man writes 7 letters to 7 people. He addresses 7 different envelopes. How many...
.... Your total score will be the *SUM* of the *SQUARE ROOT* of your score for each question. Submitting an incorrect answer for any question will result in disqualification.
Let N be the total number ...
...e students received a perfect mark for their submissions.... What was RULE A and how could both answers be correct?...
1) At 12:00 midnight your watch is exactly correct. However, it loses 2.5 minutes every hour. Two hours ago your watch stopped at 06:15am. What time should it be displaying?
2) What should the next
The deadline has passed. There were 38 entries. It may be a few days before I can score this one.
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