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I heard a guy on a talk show mentioning that even a state with only 8 people gets 3 full electoral votes and it got me thinking:
What's the smallest number of people that could pick the U.S. preside
what number that has a remainder of 1 and is divisable by 2,3,4,5, and 6 but has no leftover when divided by 7?
... and p divides x^2 - 1 and y^2 - 1.
Happy hunting ..
(Not sure if this is completely on-topic for rec.puzzles, but copied there just in case.)...
...ut unexpectedly, and it took me a while to get back online. Anyway, to repeat the unsolved portion of the puzzle:
You meet a group consisting of n knights, who always tell the truth, and m normals, ...
...n 12 October 2002 Saturday at 20:00 (GMT +02). You have seven days to send your answers and ratings of 10 puzzles.
http://www.otuzoyun.com/pqrst
You don't have to register. Your first answer-form ...
...t to allow this, and always choose an alternative team member from the losing team to make up the five.
PUZZLE (in two parts):
Is this disadvantaging the team members with the same name, or is the...
Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone else is working on this puzzle for Games Magazine - I am stuck on only 3 of them and would love to exchange
interested
Thanks!
...d probably be improved). A couple of programmable calculators would speed the trick up significantly. The puzzle is to figure out how someone can encode the information that specifies the sixth card u...
A friend gave me this puzzle a while back and I still cant solve it.. Im sure that it has a solution, but im just not smart enough. The rules are simple and follow below.
Combine the three numbers i
I have a real life probaiblity puzzle, derived from a video game (Super Smash Brothers Melee) that I don't know how to approach (at least not with brute force simulations...)
This game has about 125
To attend a congress , 1000 guests from countries around the world arrived. It is known that ANY 3 guests can speak among themselves without the need of any interpreter( it might happen that one of th
Hi,
Probable more a physics question then rec.puzzles - but I know people know things in here...
Why is it intrinsically more difficult to cool things down. There are loads of ways to heat things
Well, I've done an exhaustive search now (by hand). Unless I made a mistake somewhere, there is no way to reveal one distinct letter from each row, column, and region for the layout above.
...ranged in four rows, packed triangularly, with a couple of gaps. The balls are numbered from 1 to 21. The puzzle is to figure out where each ball is.
You are shown to positions of the balls. But ins...
(I decided to repost this under the slightly modified name so that readers of rec.puzzles would know that I was just giving a hint, and wouldn't be afraid to click on this because they thought I was p
Hello. I'm creating a puzzle toy. I made a first prototype; now I'd like to take it to the next step. I need a lot of various-sized basic shapes (5'-1')
Ask your ISP.
I've been trying to figure out what I believe is a puzzle square for over a month now... I have been told it can be done in under the 36 moves I have figured out. Here is the setup:
A A A A A B A A
.... This concept popped into my head a few days ago. I thought I'd share it here. It is similar to previous puzzles in which you are only given a series of initials and must figure out the full expressi...
I just read a great short story featuring a crossword puzzle writer, a word ladder and a murder mystery. Anyone interested can find it online at:
http://www.mysterical.bizland.com/PUZZLED_TO_DEATH.h
Let a(0,m) = 1 (for every positive integer m).
For n = nonnegative integers, m = positive integers,
let a(n+1,m) =
m * sum a(n,k) binomial(m+n,k+n) (-1)^(k+1) /k.
In ascii-art mode:
a(n+1,m)
I saw a puzzle-type baseball game the other day. One player is the batter. Both of them show any amount of fingers on one hand at the same time. If they are different numbers, the batter is out. If th
...en.
Given this description, I don'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 c...
Hi there, I'm new to this group, so I don't know if this type of puzzle is normally submitted. I wrote this puzzle in 1995, when I was 12 years old, but forgot to retain a copy of the answer. I recall
Can someone help me with this puzzle?
There are 2 boxes A and B. Both contain red and green balls. It is known that in one of the boxes, 1/2 of the balls are red and 1/2 are green; and in the other
...ildren have this native. We suppose that all natives are perfect logicians, and, as usual in such kind of puzzles, the answer must be either Yes or No.
A solution I've learnt from the author, russia...
I thought the standard Rubik's Magic was 4x2. I've never seen a 6x2 of any sort, much less multiple varieties thereof.
Also, please don't post non-text files to a newsgroup unless it has 'binaries'
Hi all,
in order to convince a friend of mine, who is one of the remaining sceptical people who refuse to accept the right solution and mathematical proof :-) (he does not understand) i wrote a litt
[an ad for his yahoo group]
Dreamweaver schrieb:
Check out http://rec-puzzles.org/pickover.html, then. :-)
Have fun with http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/home.htm
Hi all
Just a question - I'm pretty new to the usenet thing (I've been a mailing list kinda guy for ages, but this is the first newsgroup I've joined), and sometimes it seems like people are respond
Hello all,
After solving Puzzle 54 'History quiz' of The Weekly Puzzle (http://www.primroselodge.com/Playtime/weekly_puzzles.htm) I still haven't managed in *proving* my answer correct. Perhaps one
After a long journey you reach a fork in the road. One fork leads to the Microsoft Corporation, the other fork leads to Utopia. A man stands at the fork in the road with a Microsoft Windows packaging
Three friends go to restaurant and they get a bill of $25. So each friend gives $10 to the waiter as they didn't have change. The waiter pays $25 and when he is coming back he thinks that it is diffic
I was given this puzzle the other day and couldn't find it in the FAQ so figured it would be worthwhile posting here. I've seen a few variants of this puzzle and to my great annoyance the simplicity o
...y. A crossword MUST be two-dimensional if it's to have words crossing. But still, it may be a new form of puzzle......
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