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In my 'Word Alchemy' puzzles, the goal is to change one word into another using 'spells'. For example, the spell 'ABCD
Well, if this recursion puzzle isn't easier to solve (than the puzzle of the 'LQ Returns!:Recursion Puzzle' post), then it is at least easier to look at....
Let a(1) = 1;
Let a(2) = 5;
And, for
...ocks, they answer and say:
- Four
And the agent replies:
- Two
And he gets shot to death...
The puzzle: What is the code?
(and it's a real/serious puzzle, it's not a joke with some stupid ...
...t one of ) them is a girl.' What is the probability that both of her children are ) girls? ) ) Sorry, rec.puzzles regulars. :-)
Here's two more:
A woman walks up to you and sais: 'I have two child...
...ot letting them know that there is a hidden void, and then seeing if they can reconstruct the design.
ObPuzzle: What's the maximum volume of hidden voids that one can create using the standard 7 Som...
Let q and r be NONNEGATIVE integers. Let m be a positive integer.
Let:
There is a solution for 8 as well...
Group 1: 9-((6*2)/12) = 8 Group 2: (45-9)/3)-4 = 8 Group 3: (9-5)+(3+1) = 8 Group 4: (66+11)/7-3 = 8 Group 5: (6-3)+(9-4) = 8
If anyone can find a solution for
1. For what integers n>=1 is it possible to place n queens on an nxn chessboard such that every row, every column and every extended diagonal has exactly one queen? By extended diagonal, I mean a diag
Howdy,
I have a Square-1 puzzle in a bag, and I'd like to reassmble it back into a cube. I'm not talking about a 'solution' method to get the colors lined up and so forth. I'm talking about managing
The Paper Challeran is the new type of puzzle created by Ryosuke Ito ,Japanese teacher. You can play again and again and is exciting challenging your previous achievements and records. Please enjoy yo
I never thought I'd have the nerve to post a puzzle like this one. I hope it doesn't get me stoned by the regulars. There is a trick to this paragraph, and some will find it worth while to throw a bit
Here is a puzzle I made up. Hope your find it interesting.
a. Solve the cryptogram:
U PROP BY THERE, USE PARS PAR THERE PROP BY THERE IYBSM PAR YUCR THER, USE YH HS. THINE BP AUQQRS PAUP PAR HGBMB
Hi there,
Does this software jigsaw puzzle sound familiar?
-approx. 12 pieces, although it could be set by the user I think
-the image on the pieces was actually an animation...there were severa
This puzzle was used in round three of my competition.
The Paragraph Puzzle.
Blimey, the competitions first paragraph puzzle! Something of a puzzling landmark don't you think guys? However, it's s
I checked the archive. This puzzle does not appear anywhere as complicated as this.
1. Snow falls at constant rate throughout our story.
2. Speed of a Canadian snow-plough is inversely proportiona
who can solve the following puzzle ( i couldnt...)
'there are three armies, a1, a2 and b. a1 and a2 are fighting b. a1 is sitting on a hilltop, b in a valley and a2 on another hilltop. now the boss
Neither of these puzzles involve tricky interpretations, puns, or anything similar. Neither of them are original.
(1) Life is discovered on Mars. A group of Martians (more than 1) are in room. Each
Great News! You've been nominated to be advisor to the king. It's a great position meaning unbelievable wealth and prestige. Not to mention being a Royal Advisor is a great BABE MAGNET! Unfortunately,
This puzzle was used in round 1 of my competition
Thus spake Dave
A nice easy little series to end off the first round. What words can be put in place of the question marks to complete the series?
I can't figure out how to frame this as a real _puzzle,_ but hope people will be tolerant of my posting it here. I'm _very_ curious to find out whether other people with tinted glass in their windshie
At a certain series of dinner parties m people must sit in n chairs around a circular table; you are to lay the table for them. The m people, when taken 2 at a time, form C(2,m) pairs. You are given a
...hat common phrase or saying is represented here?
Busines
Thanks.
Dan.
I am not the author of this puzzle, the author's right to copyright is hereby acknowledged....
...o, post what group you see this in, and the solution to the riddle in my singature. I put my money on rec.puzzles - lets see.
Two hours from my posting is good. Next day is OK.Anything else is crap....
I have a real-life puzzle
I live in a small valley and want to measure the height above my house of a particular point on the adjacent hillside. It is something like 100-300 feet up and the angle is
Four men, Andy, Bob, Charlie and Doug all went out to perform a certain activity together one night. When they came home, their wives all asked them the same question, 'How many did you get?'
Andy s
What's special about the number 37154911?
This is a genuine puzzle. I am not just using you clever minds out there to find something special about my phone number or anything.
Chris K.
...ing that it's an F pulling in. About half the time, I'm too late and I MISS the train, whatever it was.
Puzzle: When I've missed a train like this, is the NEXT train to arrive more likely to be an F...
I dont have the original post, the last week post. Anyway...
You have the combination
1,2 7,1,5 2,1,5,7 1,2,4 1,4,7 1,7,4,5 ?????
With the keypad
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
You needed the find the co
Check out some great Wildlife Puzzles.
http://www.abuys.com/001.htm
Hopefully this is the right newsgroup to post this. This puzzle is kind of mathematical in nature. It had appeared in a Russian math contest.
On a black board are written ten 1's,twenty 2's and twen
1) What number should replace the question mark:
7 4 1 4 8 5 3 6 3 2 8 9 2 1 6 ?
(Hint: why are alternate squares itallicised?)
2) What number continues the following sequence:
1, 4, 11, 34, 1
This puzzle featured in round 1 of my competition.
I'm sure you're all familiar with magic squares. In case you're not, a magic square is a square made of numbers in which the sum of all the numbers
...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...
easy puzzle for you
two men knowing each other good are meeting. asks the first: 'please tell me how old your three children are?', answers the other: 'if you multiply the ages you get 36. and if yo
A teacher gave us this puzzle (6 in 4) before the holidays. In 3 weeks we will back in the class, but nobody solved it yet (maybe). It's an arithmetical puzzle. We can use the arithmetic operations (b
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