This week I offer this board another mind-boggling question:
There are 5 dots in a figure. Each dot is connected to each other dot with a straight line. (so there are 10 lines in the figure) How m...
A friend of mine has begun something of an internet project. He is creating a major literary figure present on the internet.
His name is Jose Berlin and Jose's goal is to become the biggest c...
This will take some time to figure out Thanks for the challenge!
I need some help. I have been trying to figure out how to get a wooden arrow through holes drilled in a bottle, or coin, etc, with the hole diameter equal to the shaft diameter.
Please can someone...
Can't figure it out yet.
...ted to decrease the population, but in going through the relevant memoranda, you can't find any such figure(*). Your social status is not high enough for you to contact so eminent a personage as ...
is this what you mean?
1[. 2(. . .] .) 3<. 4
I figure it's not, could you please explain the rules again, thanks!
...J, that's a lot to think about! I will get back to you on this one (I hope... cause I'd like to figure it out)....
Alright. You have me sitting in front of my pc now until I will figure this out
I know this isn't the typical type post here, but I figure you guys might kno. I want to make a picture puzzle board for my parents and I was trying to think of how big to make it.
It needs t...
...than doing anything clever. Since these things were created and solved optimally long before computers, I figure there must be a better technique....
...^1 + Fib(2) / 2^2 + ... + Fib(n) / 2^n.
It's easy enough to write & run a simple program and figure out the infinite sum S = Fib(1) / 2^1 + Fib(2) / 2^2 + ... +Fib (n) / 2^n + ....
In...
...lled redhat it took a personal hatred of w2k and renumbered it's partition so that I had to manually figure out and change the partition number in my primary windows98 boot.ini to get w2k back. h...
American professional baseball is coming to the end of another season. Figure out the baseball terms associated with each of the following clues (more than one term may fit each clue):
1. chicken ...
... confused me a bit. The way I read it was that this space had been intentionally left blank (that is, the figure was stolen, but there had never been any engravings). Thus the first thought that came ...
...matching my best solution? My best solution requires cutting the board into four pieces. Can someone else figure out how the carpenter can cut the remaining portion of the board into four (or fewer) p...
I saw this one on the web and it stumped me. See if you can figure it out:
Blue and black, black and blue Broken first, later crushed Bite noon from amber hue Stuttered broken, soon hushed
Gri...
OOPS!
To my chagrin, my solution does not work. The solution is really close to a square, but not exactly. It took me a while to realize where I had made my error.
Here is the logic I used to ...
...to open is also an override password to open the vault at any time if needs be.
All you have to do is figure out what time the vault is set to open so you can punch it into the keypad and override...
Excellent work, but do you have any idea how to figure the odds at Keno? I know it is mind-bogglingly boring, but at those Vegas all you can eat buffets, Keno does help pass the time between feedings....
...ng all the noise and chaos in the real world. We only notice the regular patterns. If we noted down every figure we came across in a day, we would soon see that the regular ones come up more or less a...
Edgar L. Church Jr. wrote: Dell sometimes publishes a one or two page explanation of how to solve logic puzzles. Look in one of their pure logic puzzle magazines to find it.
For cross sums, realiz...
...umber of sticks you are allowed to take from the pile changes from round to round (from 3 to 8). Once you figure-out the 'trick' to winning the game, it is still a fun way to learn multiplic...
I've never been able to figure out just how the solution to the Sultan's Dowry problem (short version: a Sultan has 100 daughters, and you have to select one to be your wife, but you have to...
...I A,41 ;' DIVI A,1777 ;casting out 2^10 - 1's
It's weird, but it works! See if you can figure out how/why....
...be Ice too.
On the other hand, since this puzzle was posted from the U.K., it might be hard for me to figure out what words can come after 'tea.'
EYEball EYE opener EYElet EYEglass ...
Try to figure out the original message by these translations. The language used to translate to/from is given after the result.
1. Blood's discourse coagulated to the Explorers of Girl had to...
... some more comments, but I wrote it quickly, and since this is a puzzles newsgroup, I'm sure you can figure out the code without them.
Carl G.
// A simple Java permutation routine. The el...
...'s older than me,' he said, 'but I don't know how old he is.' 'Run away and figure it out,' his mother told him. 'The three ages add up to ninety years.' O...
...nd they may not all be uniform. Even so, I believe that exerimental evidence supports the approximate 0.3 figure.
Derek Holt....
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