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...how many interesting options and ideas are out there if you get over the stage when you have too much information to work with.   ...
...e you some tips from my experience for searching google: First write the general area you need the information in, Then move down to search within the results and write the specific question. ...
...e you some tips from my experience for searching google: First write the general area you need the information in, Then move down to search within the results and write the specific question. ...
... of one ohm resistors, what is the resistance across 2 diagonally adjacent nodes? The FAQ entry gives a formula but does not derive it. The derivation is what I am interested in. I have read some po...
... each face of the cubes can only represent one letter (e.g., 'M' can't be used for a 'W'). It's easy to form all of the combinations with 15 cubes, but can you do it with less? Carl G....
... isn't very good, so I'd be grateful if someone could work this out for me! (or, better still, give the formula (in layman's terms) for an n-sided dice, t times) Me and my friend both throw a six-si...
...umped: For this one, I have to describe it. Picture the alphabet (ABCDE ... XYZAB) strung together to form a 'U'. The 'A' starts at the left 'arm' of the 'U' ... I notice that the whole alphabet PLU...
...e like a face that only a mother could love! BWHAHAHAHA!' So the elf instead of using the replacement formula (t+1) of the next smaller sized, changed the formula to be 2 + int(tx) where t = the s...
...any way to tell if I had visited the site unless I told them. Can web sites collect e-mail or other information from their visitors without the visitors knowing it?...
...hecking, I think that maybe... 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 they form the vertices of a cube, or as close to a cube as you can get with all the vertices on land....
...NOT contain A, E, I, O, U. 1 WHY 200 2 BY 145 3 MY 116 4 FLY 96 5 SKY 83 Q10. Name the colour of a uniform worn by an official. 1 BLUE 860 2 BLACK 194 3 GREEN 96 4 WHITE 34 5 RED 25 Steve Gomori 1...
...o say, 'It was Final Jeopardy, and one of the two contestants who got it wrong did not phrase it in the form of a question.' I remember somebody actually forgetting to write down 'Where is...', but I ...
...are a few ways of doing this but, in order to retain some magic, do it so that the three-figure numbers formed by reading across the first row, by reading across some other row, and by reading down so...
...last dot to be connected-to and the first dot are connected when the game is done, so the line-segments form a closed path which visits every dot on the paper exactly once. Scoring: Player 1 gets a ...
...rench versions, but incredibly it also works in Portuguese. Triangular numbers are those that fit the formula n*(n+1)/2, like 1, 3, 6 and 10. In the following statement digits have been consistently...
...Q5. Name the number of days in a month. 1 30 677 2 31 400 3 28 68 4 29 12 Q6. Name a fraction [in the form n/n]. 1 1/2 853 2 1/4 75 3 3/4 29 4 1/3 25 5 1/1 22 Q7. Name a fast-food restaurant compa...
...ich the first player gives an answer, and then the other players supply a question. The answer/question format is similar to the TV game Jeopardy!, except that there are no 'right' or 'wrong' question...
... - Buzz New Scientist magazine, 4 September 2004. by Richard England. In the game of buzz the players form a circle and count in turn, the first saying '1', the next '2', the next '3' and so on. But...
... dots, that player is eliminated. (And 'colinearity' here is as if the grid were drawn perfectly and uniformly, and as if the dots were drawn at exactly the intersections of the grid's perpendicular l...
...Roumania. In many languages, the reflexive pronoun in first and second person is the same as the object form of the object pronoun. I don't know for sure about Roumanian, but it is true for all other ...
...eative lately each round will have 7 puzzles in it. The puzzles will span a range of categories but the format will be pretty uniform, thusly: In each round there will be one: Lateral Thinking puz...
Hey guys, I have formed a new crypto puzzle. You can try it out at http://www.the-refugees.com It contains a msg board so users can help each other out... but you cant get to the board until you can
... their ages equals 36 and their sum equal the number of the door of this shop. Paula replied that the information Martha gave her would be insufficient for her to deduce the ages of her children so Ma...
... solved ?...The correct answer is 45kmph(but how?) It goes like this... A car is travelling at a uniform speed. The driver sees a milestone showing a 2-digit number. After travelling for an hour t...
Let's say, out of curiosity, that we form a chain of sequences from a sequence-set, such as the Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences: http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/index.html#L A chain co
Since signups have stalled I would like to extend an informal invitation to Leroy Quet, Ilan Meyer, Nick Wedd, Carl G, Jonathan Rivet (who did extremely well in last years competition if I remember ri
I have a puzzle that I'm unable to find any information on Internet (I have also some difficult to find keywords to search...:-) I have to dispose first n natural numbers in a triangular shape, with t
...ess red. If there are more black, guess black. How many are you expected to guess right? I don't know a formula or anything but for small n the fraction is remarkably higher than half.....
...ult...) is the scoring. Each player's score is the product of the numbers of squares in the 'islands' formed of their colors/symbols. An island is any contiguous group of squares formed of one color...
... that is one position counter-clockwise from the selected bowl. How many times must these steps be performed in order to end up with exactly one marble in each bowl? Carl G....
... can convey what are clues to my identity. Let me suggest paying little attention, (that is no lie), to formatting conventions. Men have tried such things to no end. Other men of different ilk say it ...
Let a 'synonym cousin' represent a case where a word can form a synonym of itself simply by adding or removing one letter. (The extra letter may be added at any position in the word, but no rearrangin
..., the King allows Logician 1 and Logician 2 to devise the best strategy to win the game but they must inform the King what the strategy is before the game starts. If there is any lying, the logicians ...
After a survey, characteristics of politicians all over were tabulated in following format. (Category of the politician/Percentage of politician/Percentage of lies told of all the statements made by t
...he subject of the dissertation which he needed to write to complete his course. It should have been a formality but he, and his fellow students, ended up being quite bemused when, instead of being t...
...m steps (integer-positions or boxes) exactly from m, for 1 than some value. So, the puzzle: Either form an algorithm that generates a solution for some n > than any arbitrarily large N. Or simp...
...ree with the 'standard pattern' in parity, which I will call 'homogeneous'. That is, every level has uniform parity, which in turn means that all the internal nodes are even, and the leaves odd. The l...
[posted also in sci.math] Consider the string of digits formed by concatenating the natural numbers in base 10: C = '123456789101112131415...' Some integers (as consecutive digits) occur 'prematur
...le and not at all technical. As usual, remember when posting any follow-up discussion that this is an informal 'contest.'...
..., on one refresh, there were gaps in some parts of the maze but not others! The anti-maze can be transformed into a regular maze, simply by changing each wall to a non-wall and vice versa....
Begin with a finite set of integers (such as all the positive integers
... PUZZLE (in two parts): Is this disadvantaging the team members with the same name, or is there some formula which favours the team members with the same name which will allow them to redress the b...
...haracter set to provide the 'graphics'. Since there wasn't a lot of screen area left over for textual information (words like 'rotate', 'left', 'right', etc.), I used characters from the standard char...
...h other. Assume an infinitely thin ladder, and they were placed where the alley and walls meet Give a formula for ladders x and y long, and alley a wide...
... separate questions here. What is the highest street number, and what is the highest street number that forms part of an essentially continuous series? That is, if we see a 271st St., can we expect th...
...L2*2, L4 = L3*2, L5 = L4*2 ... and so on. These are the line segments you are allowed to choose from to form the line of length N. You must first choose some value for the first segment, L1. Then the ...
...arting at the lower left corner and reading upwards, the letters are PPESLA, which can be rearranged to form the word APPLES. Happy Thanksgiving, Carl G....
...obby ) . It wanted the maximum number of pieces a cake could be sliced into with ' n ' slices . The formula is Max( P) = n(n+1)/2 + 1 where ' P ' is the number of pieces , ' n ' the number of sl...
...core so that the entire surface is covered evenly in layers, so that as perfect a sphere as possible is formed, sounds to me like it should be a known and solved problem. Can anyone help with the solu...
... ratings of 10 puzzles. http://www.otuzoyun.com/pqrst You don't have to register. Your first answer-form submission will be enough to be a competitor. Good Luck, Cihan Altay...
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