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Vishnal's is silence. Reach's is too confusing for a little like me to answer though.
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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? >.> |
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02-19-2007, 06:11 PM | #303 |
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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
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K, got a lot of these:
1: VERNAL 2: POLY 4: FERMAT 6: SPELUNKER? 9: ENEMY? 10: 3 11: Reach XD
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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: Last edited by Silvuh; 02-19-2007 at 07:22 PM.. |
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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 ?
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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 |
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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
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1: 4. (6^6, 5^5, 4^4, 3^3, 2^2, 1^1)
9: 365 (difference goes up by 16 each time)
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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.
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Well, I think I got 13 and 14 wrong based off your statement. Can you PM me those two?
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Is the third analogy not natal? I fail to see what's difficult about that at all.
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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.
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for the number sequences that haven't been solved, I got:
5) R 7) 14 10) 1080 can't seem to figure out 2 :/ |
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Should the answer not be TORMENTOR, because it has the same word at the end, except a different beginning? 12 is AILUROPHILE because an ailurophile is one who adores cats, just as a xenophobe fears strangers. 11 is NORTH AMERICA because the ancestors of the horse, ass, and zebra all originated from this area in the Paleocine Epoch, just as India, Australia, Africa, South America, and Antarctica originated from the single land mass known as Gondowanaland. 14 is DEFECTION because its definition is betrayal (turning one's back on), just as genuflection is bending the knee to the ground religiously. You can defect from your church, so both can be used religiously.
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Tormentor is absolutely the correct answer. It's a better answer than Hector, IMO, but Hector is also acceptable. It's a hard question because many words fit the right side but not the left.
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That and the majority of my vocabulary is words I would use while writing, where as this tests a lot of obscure name knowledge (and thus is probably the most 'riddle' like thing I've posted here so far ).
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EOHIPPUS is correct. North America did not diverge to give a horse, ass, ect >__>. Also, North america still exists. Two reasons why it is a bad answer.
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