The Riddle Thread

[Reach]

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Well I'm out of silly number problems for the time being. ;(

[GuidoHunter]

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Hm. Never heard of a three-sphere before.

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[spyke252]

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My physics teacher talked to us about it at one point.
In fact, pretty much all of my teachers talk about things that aren't in our curriculums. (Curriculi?)

[Reach]

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I didn't expect anyone to get that.

Interesting teachers you have there. My teachers rarely cover anything interesting ;(

So upon trying to get the hardest question I could find...

I found it.

8) Impossible?

121211 121131 123111 ?
222331 221331 211111
123233 121233 111233
221132 222132 221132
323133 321133 111133
112111 111111 111111

(there was something else but I removed it as I was unsure about being allowed to use it).

[RandomPscho]

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Whats that something else? And is the ? a whole other set or just the first line?

[Reach]

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It might have made it easier. I'm not sure. It was a diagram. I will say you have to fill in the entire column, not just the question mark if anyone was thinking that xd (whole other set, though that is the only way it's solvable anyway.)

I'd say if you can solve it your IQ > 160.

But I am flaming mad right now because of this chemistry assignment (online). The system is so screwed up and picky and the marking is inconsistant and there are mistakes in the questions, errors, URG.

Meanwhile I have a midterm on thursday I could be studying for ;(

rant

[Bahamut-X]

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4) Extreme

Several straight line segments are drawn on a plane surface in such a way that their intersecting lines form 1,597 areas that are not further subdivided. What is the minimum number of line segments that must be drawn to form the described pattern?

I'm pretty sure this is wrong but is it 1,600?

[Reach]

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I'm pretty sure this is wrong but is it 1,600?

Nope. You're off by quite a bit.

[MetsPenguin31]

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Im pretty sure its 56 lines.

[Reach]

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Im pretty sure its 56 lines.

Congrats

Pretty simple, wasn't it? XD

I'll leave it unexplained, though ;D

[flamingspinach]

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How in blue cheese, would you get that answer from that riddle? How could you possibly work that out? If that's the case. Any answer could be true. So heres mine. The guy orders a pigeon and then kills himself because one day when he was little, he said to him self, "I'll eat a pigeon before I kill myself". However he never new that the future held every relative and close friend to die in a horrible nuclear blast. He couldn't live with it any longer. So true to his word. He eat a pigeon. Then killed himself.

Uh, obviously because I'd heard the blighter before, and you're right, it's a terrible riddle. It's supposed to be one of those riddles that you're allowed to ask yes/no questions about until you figure it out, or something. It was originally an albatross, because seriously how is one tiny pigeon-sized hunk of meat from one's wife going to land up somewhere on an island all by itself, seriously...

EDIT Reach, is there a unique solution to your problem #8?

[Reach]

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There might be more than 1 acceptable answer, but I don't think so. If you actually think you know the answer, maybe PM me and explain your reasoning.

[MetsPenguin31]

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Reach, I think we all give up :X

[ubercreep361]

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Three friends go to a hotel to rent a room which the guy said was $30. They each payed $10 each. The guy made a mistake because it was only $25 not $30 so he sent another guy to give them 5 dollars back. But he took 2 dollars out of the 5 and gave them 3. So they basically spent 9 dollars each. 9+9+9=27. 27+2=29. Where's the other dollar?

[Tisthammerw]

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Three friends go to a hotel to rent a room which the guy said was $30. They each payed $10 each. The guy made a mistake because it was only $25 not $30 so he sent another guy to give them 5 dollars back. But he took 2 dollars out of the 5 and gave them 3. So they basically spent 9 dollars each. 9+9+9=27. 27+2=30. Where's the other dollar?

There is no "other" dollar. The way you added it up makes no sense (except to mess with other people's heads).

They did not "basically spent 9 dollars each." They basically spent $8 1/3 each because one guy kept $2 for himself. Or if you don't want to count him until later, 9 + 9 + 9 = 27, and you would subtract 2 from that sum to get what they "basically spent" (27 - 2 = 25) and the result is consistent with the rest of the story. They "basically spent" 25, and the manager has the other $5.