Devonin's Critical Thinking Tourney Two - COMPLETED

[devonin]

Re: Devonin's Critical Thinking Tourney Two

Nobody has solved the bonus yet. You bastards and your breaking of my puzzles by coming up with things I didn't think of. The answer to the bonus puzzle is, like the other three inner numbers, a whole number, not a fraction or decimal of any kind.

[devonin]

Re: Devonin's Critical Thinking Tourney Two

Okay, seems like people are still having some big problems with the bonus puzzle. To the point where I probably should have inverted which one was the round, and which was the bonus.

Anyway, I'm going to give you a more in depth explanation of what's going on.



Okay, the biggest misunderstanding that seems to exist here is that the interior square -only- demarcates which number in the outer square is the -ANSWER-

As in, if you call the outer numbers A, B and C, and the inner number D; then you generate an equality that goes

Some mathematical operations involving A, B and C = D

The interior number is not itself a function of any of the operations, solely the result, and is a whole number.

Also, the purpose of the "and why?" is that you need to establish a -SINGLE- set of operations that you can apply to all 4 sets of three exterior numbers to arrive at their corresponding interior number.

Something like (completely wrong): Multiply the three numbers together, divide the result by 100, and subtract 10. You need to be able to apply that single statement to all 4 sets of numbers and have a true statement. So the fact that three of them sum to various round numbers is coincidental because "summing to 30" =/= "summing to 40"

Edit *Sigh* My bad again, I went and gave you the wrong idea with my completely false example of what I was looking for. While that's the kind of "general solution applies to all 4 sets of numbers" that I'm looking for, at no point do you need to introduce numbers that aren't derived from the provided numbers. So if you throw in a "divided by 9" or something like that, you've added in a number that wasn't derived solely from manipulating the numbers provided.

[MrRubix]

Re: Devonin's Critical Thinking Tourney Two

Got it

[jonathanasdf]

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... grr i still don't et it

[ledwix]

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Just donated 240k to devonin, because his tourneys are cool.

[Commandersa1]

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I had a pattern that worked for three boxes, but it did not work for the top left one.

[Tasselfoot]

Re: Devonin's Critical Thinking Tourney Two

i think we've all found patterns that work for 3/4. damn devonin... damn.

[smartdude1212]

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are we restricted to +, -, *, and /?

[devonin]

Re: Devonin's Critical Thinking Tourney Two

The correct answer doesn't contain anything other than those four operations, no.

[smartdude1212]

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So I can't do absolute value or square roots or exponents... ****.

I'm having serious trouble making the bottom right square true.

Each number only used once... hmmm

[MrRubix]

Re: Devonin's Critical Thinking Tourney Two

Hehe smartdude's member length is only 2.66 inches

[jonathanasdf]

Re: Devonin's Critical Thinking Tourney Two

Omfgzors Devon You're Late By 2 Seconds Or Something

[devonin]

Re: Devonin's Critical Thinking Tourney Two

Round 10 is up, probably going to go to roughly midnight EST on say...thursday for people to submit other scores and things.

[Tasselfoot]

Re: Devonin's Critical Thinking Tourney Two

solved and PM submitted.

[Fractal_Monkey]

Re: Devonin's Critical Thinking Tourney Two

I think I've got it. The profile name I got exists according to the PM system, so I think that's a good sign.

EDIT: For the song component, do we have to pass the song?