The Riddle Thread

[andy-o24]

Re: The Riddle Thread

Vishnal's is silence. Reach's is too confusing for a little like me to answer though.

[Silvuh]

Re: The Riddle Thread

Brain pain:

If a cube and a tetrahedron interpenetrate, what is the maximum possible number of solid pieces (i.e., completely bounded volumes)?

Hm, well, for two tetrahedrons, it's nine, because there are four points on each tetraheadron plus the one intersecting solid... Though that may only work for intersections of two of the same polyhedrons...
Hm... *does a little sketch thingy...*
Well, A tetrahedron intersecting with a cube... there would be the four points outside and the insersection solid, but the rest of the cube would all still be connected, I think... Well, if the tetrahedron isn't large enough, eh... So, then, there would be seven solids.
So, uhh, seven and fourteen will be my guesses as of now...

The Riddle Thread: Giving Non-Thinkers a Chance in CT.
Funny or not? >.>

[Reach]

Re: The Riddle Thread

More Brain Pain: Analogies

Here are some ridiculously hard analogies. You are free to use a dictionary or other resources if you want. Generally there is only one correct answer. I will accept more than one for some. Anyone with an average vocabulary won't get any of these right, so cookies to anyone that can get some of them. Maybe 1/2 points if you're close but not exact.

Oh yea, and if you can help it avoid other peoples answers.

1. FALL : AUTUMNAL :: SPRING : ?

2. ONE : MONO :: FEW : ?

3. LIFE : VITAL :: BIRTH : ?

4. X^2+Y^2=Z^2 : PYTHAGORAS :: X^n+Y^n = Z^n : ?

5. 24 HOURS : ROTATION :: 26,000 YEARS : ?

6. WATER : SWIMMER :: CAVE : ?

7. TAUGHT BY ANOTHER : PUPIL :: TAUGHT BY ONESELF : ?

8. GENERALIZED : LOCALIZED :: ANEMIA : ?

9. TEACHER : MENTOR :: BULLY : ?

10. * : ASTERISK :: 'e'ROTATED180DEGREES :

11. INDIA, AUSTRALIA, AFRICA, SOUTH AMERICA, ANTARCTICA : GONDWANALAND :: HORSE, ASS, ZEBRA : ?

12. FEAR OF STRANGERS : XENOPHOBE :: LOVE OF CATS : ?

13. TINTINNABULATION : ONOMATOPOEA :: BITTERSWEET : ?

14. BEND ONE'S KNEE TO : GENUFLECTION :: TURN ONE'S BACK ON : ?


Edit:

I'll edit individual scores into here. 1 point for a correct answer, 1/2 for a close answer. I won't say which are right or wrong for the sake of the answers, and also don't make a post with just 1 response XD

EI_Tizzy: 3
Silvuh: 1.5
spyke: 5.5

[EI_Tizzy]

Re: The Riddle Thread

K, got a lot of these:

1: VERNAL
2: POLY
4: FERMAT
6: SPELUNKER?
9: ENEMY?
10: 3
11: Reach XD

[Silvuh]

Re: The Riddle Thread

3: Congenital
5: Equinoctical Cycle
11: Ungulates
13: Sadness
14: Repudiate or Shun

Well, those are my thoughts now... I'll say if I think of any more answers.

Only 1.5? Dang. D:

[Reach]

Re: The Riddle Thread

Only 1.5? Dang. D:

They're not easy.

Specifically because some of your answers are close but there is a better answer.


Brain Pain one more time: Sequences


Below are a series of sequences. If you're not so keen on analogies, maybe try your logic skills here

1. 46,656 3,125 256 27 ? 1

2. -36 -10 8 18 20 14 ?

3. 3 3 7 8 11 13 15 18 19 ?

4. 3 2 6 4 9 6 12 8 15 ?

5. E O E ? E X N T E N

6. 1 32 81 64 25 ?

7. 13 7 18 10 5 ? 9 1 12 6

8. 62/93, 77/132, 0.5, 115/276, 0.3333, a quarter, 1/6, ?

9. 5 25 61 113 181 265 ?

10. 0 4 18 48 100 180 ?

11. 4 2 8 5 7 1 ?

[spyke252]

Re: The Riddle Thread

1. Vernal, forgot word, asked dictionary.
2. dunno, will check online after
poly for the .5
3. dunno
4. dunno
5. dunno
26 millenia
6.spelunker?
7.disciple?
8. Ischemia?
9. Hector?
10. * : ASTERISK :: 'e'ROTATED180DEGREES :
schwa for sure
thanks choir
11. INDIA, AUSTRALIA, AFRICA, SOUTH AMERICA, ANTARCTICA : GONDWANALAND :: HORSE, ASS, ZEBRA :
ohgod let me think
I know what it is.

HAHA, thank you mr. dictionary that has an example of a genus
Equus
12. Felisiphilia? feline + philia. .5 point at least.
13. Paradox, but if not that I know the answer
14. dunno
deflection is the best guess I can think of
Let me think about the rest

[EI_Tizzy]

Re: The Riddle Thread

For the sequences I figured out:
1) 8 (list of descending cubes)
3) 23 (each succesive pair has an increasing difference)
4) 10 (kind of similar to #3)
6) 6 (1^6, 2^5, 3^4, 4^3, 5^2, ...)
8) have an idea, but no answer yet
11) 4 (they are the decimals for 3/7, which repeat as 428571428571...) DIS WAS MY FAV!!

Have no clue about the rest. Good thing I memorized my sevenths! XPPP

[FoJaR]

Re: The Riddle Thread

1: 4. (6^6, 5^5, 4^4, 3^3, 2^2, 1^1)
9: 365 (difference goes up by 16 each time)

[Vishnal]

Re: The Riddle Thread

More Brain Pain: Analogies

Here are some ridiculously hard analogies. You are free to use a dictionary or other resources if you want. Generally there is only one correct answer. I will accept more than one for some. Anyone with an average vocabulary won't get any of these right, so cookies to anyone that can get some of them. Maybe 1/2 points if you're close but not exact.

Oh yea, and if you can help it avoid other peoples answers.

1. FALL : AUTUMNAL :: SPRING : ?

2. ONE : MONO :: FEW : ?

3. LIFE : VITAL :: BIRTH : ?

4. X^2+Y^2=Z^2 : PYTHAGORAS :: X^n+Y^n = Z^n : ?

5. 24 HOURS : ROTATION :: 26,000 YEARS : ?

6. WATER : SWIMMER :: CAVE : ?

7. TAUGHT BY ANOTHER : PUPIL :: TAUGHT BY ONESELF : ?

8. GENERALIZED : LOCALIZED :: ANEMIA : ?

9. TEACHER : MENTOR :: BULLY : ?

10. * : ASTERISK :: 'e'ROTATED180DEGREES :

11. INDIA, AUSTRALIA, AFRICA, SOUTH AMERICA, ANTARCTICA : GONDWANALAND :: HORSE, ASS, ZEBRA : ?

12. FEAR OF STRANGERS : XENOPHOBE :: LOVE OF CATS : ?

13. TINTINNABULATION : ONOMATOPOEA :: BITTERSWEET : ?

14. BEND ONE'S KNEE TO : GENUFLECTION :: TURN ONE'S BACK ON : ?


Edit:

I'll edit individual scores into here. 1 point for a correct answer, 1/2 for a close answer. I won't say which are right or wrong for the sake of the answers, and also don't make a post with just 1 response XD

EI_Tizzy: 3
Silvuh: 1.5
spyke: 5.5

9: TORMENTOR
10: a
12: AILUROPHILE

[Reach]

Re: The Riddle Thread

Good job guys. A lot of good answers.

I think the sequences are a bit easier than the analogies. I tried to make them hard, but alas I can only make sequences so hard without relying on nonsense or ambiguities. It's easier to make really hard analogies.

A hint though, for the analogies:

I've noticed a lot of you arn't paying enough attention to the left side of the analogy. It's there for a reason. If it wasn't I would just ask for another word for such and such. Most of them arn't just 'what is another word for this' (a couple are, the easier ones). You have to use logic to deduce the reasoning behind the analogy itself, which is why a lot of you are turning up lots of 0.5 point answers that only logically follow the right side of the analogy ;p

Specifically 3, 9, 11, 13, 14 appear to be the hardest because they involve a lot of logic along with vocabulary.

[spyke252]

Re: The Riddle Thread

Well, I think I got 13 and 14 wrong based off your statement. Can you PM me those two?

[GuidoHunter]

Re: The Riddle Thread

Is the third analogy not natal? I fail to see what's difficult about that at all.

And, for that matter, 1, 6, 11, and 12.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[Reach]

Re: The Riddle Thread

Is the third analogy not natal? I fail to see what's difficult about that at all.

And, for that matter, 1, 6, 11, and 12.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

Just because you know the answer doesn't mean it isn't hard They're not supposed to be impossible, but hard enough to stump most people on most of them.

1, 6 and 12 arn't all too hard because you can look up the answers pretty easily.

I noone has answered 11 correctly, so I'd like to see your answer guido. Equus ignores the other half of the analogy. And more specifically I would be hard pressed to believe very many people actually have the answer in their vocabulary, and its not all that easy to find, either XD

[GuidoHunter]

Re: The Riddle Thread

Reach, you say 3 is hard and 1 isn't, but they follow the same pattern: just find the adjective form of the noun. I just don't know how 3 requires both logic and a vocabulary.

And is 11 Equidae? If so, I definitely had to look it up, though Amanda might have known it.

1, 6 and 12 arn't all too hard because you can look up the answers pretty easily.

Or just have a decent vocabulary (though I admit to knowing #12 from having an interest in phobias as a young one; I've only seen the word once or twice outside of that context)

EDIT: Oh, pfft, totally forgot to put Fermat for #4. I'm also going to guess Zodiac Age for #5, but that was the result of some quick searches, and I have no idea, really.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com