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I assume that they also all get the clue that their numbers are unique.

With a tip of the hat to @BMAD for his interesting puzzle. For your amusement, here's an interesting spin on this genre: One night you encounter a two-hour traffic delay due to an accident (the tow truck had difficulty clearing the road.) So, for a time interval 13 of two hours you were constrained to travel at 0 mph. You called home and said, sorry dear, but I'll be two hours late getting home. The next night, for some unimaginable reason, you were also constrained to travel part of the way at 0 mph, this time for a distance of one inch. What do you say now when you call home?

In our circles you may find A laugh, a wink, a grin But pressure us we'll likely snap And send away our kin. We don't do much, we go to pot Such simple ones are we But with your hand we take command Or from you we will flee.

Agree. When I hit the send button, I realized my thinking was too simple. But instead of deleting my post (moderator privilege) I left it to take its licks.

Say we want to simulate an N sided die.

(This puzzle is from a blog called By Way Of Contradiction.) Imagine you have a circular cake, that is frosted on the top. You cut a d degree slice out of it, and then put it back, but rotated so that it is upside down. Now, d degrees of the cake have frosting on the bottom, while 360 minus d degrees have frosting on the top. Rotate the cake d degrees, take the next slice, and put it upside down. Now, assuming the d is less than 180, 2d degrees of the cake will have frosting on the bottom. If d is 60 degrees, then after you repeat this procedure, flipping a single slice and rotating 6 times, all the frosting will be on the bottom. If you repeat the procedure 12 times, all of the frosting will be back on the top of the cake. For what values of d does the cake eventually get back to having all the frosting on the top?

eq ( 1 ) Study = not failed eq. ( 2 ) not study = failed add eq ( 1 ) & ( 2 ) study + not study = fail + not fail study ( 1 + not ) = fail ( 1 + not ) study = fail Then why should we study??

this one is pretty cute! Blonde v.s. Lawyer a lawyer sitting on a plane next to a Blonde want to pass some time and turns to her and says, "how about a trivia game, if i ask you a question and you get it right I'll pay you 10 dollars, and if you get it wrong you pay me 1 dollar. then you ask me a question, with the same conditions." blonde says, "no thanks, I'm reading a book." the lawyer says, "okay how about this, 20 dollars for getting right for you, and 20 dollars for getting wrong for me." the blonde rolls her eyes and says fine. the lawyer asks, "whats the distance from the earth to the sun?" the blonde hands him a dollar. then the blonde asks him, "what goes uphill with 3 legs and down hill with 4?" the lawyer blinks for a second and says " i have no idea, i guess you win that round." then hands her 20. "okay my turn again, i am curious, what does go up hill with three legs and down hill with 4?" the blonde hands him another dollar.

What happens in quantum statistical thermodynamics stays in quantum statistical thermodynamics...b/c no one else cares.

Out of the frying pan and on to the floor. Back into the frying pan, let hope none of the guests saw.

I would think that the only way to make ANY sense of the situation is for the woman to repeat back to the croc EXACTLY what he said to HER: "If I guess right, you'll give my baby back, if I dont, you'll eat him. That's what you'll do to him." He'd have to return the baby, because she's CORRECT NO MATTER WHAT. Eh? hehehe

Lazy-bones Paradox - Back to the Paradoxes If destiny designed a master plan, which defines everything that is to happen, isn't it useless to for example go to a doctor? If I am ill and it is my destiny to regain health, than I will regain health whether I visit a doctor or I don't. And if I shall not be healthy again, than I will not with or without help. If I am ill and destiny has a definite plan for me, than it is useless to go anywhere. How could you question the presented opinion?

Use three 9's and arrange them using the mathematical signs to form the number one.

One of the 12 identical coins was magnetized so that it weighs heavier on one face and lighter on the other when placed on a certain weighing scale. But it weighs normal like the other coins when it is standing balanced on its side or edge. Find out which coin is it using the weighing scale 3 times. @@@@ @@@@ =================== @@@@ [________] #68

hmm, 4 is possible not sure about 3.

If a guy from the 1st floor steps on one side of the beam balance and a guy from the 5th floor jumps on the other side, they would exchange positions due to conservation of energy. How many times should they use the beam balance in order to pair themselves on every floor?

Here's a variation on a previous puzzle that let you make multiple bets while choosing the color of the next card. I shuffle an ordinary deck of playing cards and then turn over the top card sequentially so that you can see it. At any time you may ask me to stop and place a $1 bet that the next card to be exposed will be red. If you never ask me to stop, you will automatically bet on the last card. To summarize: You can bet on only one card. You don't get to choose the color. You must bet the card will be red. What is your best strategy? How much better than even can you do?

Interesting puzzle. I'm getting some non-intuitive results...

i cant fully visualize this just yet but think the ant can travel ever so slightly shorter than kukupai's answer above EDIT:

thanks for the pig back fab ;-)

Moe: Did you hear about the actress who stabbed her boyfriend? Joe: No, I didn't. Moe: Yeah, it was, uh, Reese ... Joe: Witherspoon? Moe: No, with a knife.

Chuck Norris' keyboard has two buttons: 0 and 1 Chuck Norris' computer can solve the halting problem Chuck Norris has counted to aleph one. Twice. Chuck Norris can count the real numbers Chuck Norris knows all of pi Chuck Norris's computer never crashes because it is afraid to Chuck Norris doesn't need antivirus, viruses are afraid to enter his computer Chuck Norris can type sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root without crashing his computer When Chuck Norris uses sudo, there are less privileges Chuck Norris can delete system32 without his computer crashing Chuck Norris's computer can execute an infinite loop in 2 seconds Chuck Norris catch 'em all, shiny Chuck Norris can go back in time, kill his grandfather, and still live Chuck Norris can run Windows fast Chuck Norris can see the source code of all binaries Chuck Norris can break a one time pad Chuck Norris can decrypt RSA with a public key Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Linus Torvalds live in constant fear that Chuck Norris' computer will crash Chuck Norris can construct a set of all sets that don't contain themselves Global Warming exists because Chuck Norris turned the sun up

That sucks, I don't have many friends myself. Aaryan's point, though, is that asking us to solve it for you is cheating. But since you got the hint of using a 9x6 matrix, I'll at least do you the favor of putting the message in a 9x6 matrix. WH3TEE HERWDN A2OO7T TSO6AY 0QTHN9 IU4UDF SAON8I 1RFDTV TE5RWE Hopefully you can see it now. Good luck with the competition!

Reasoning from a similar problem:

Getting things started, for Packs quite a wallop, when one really sings Motions to give the shaft, certain body rings I'll have to take it up a notch to make a decent try at the others.

You rang?

And it was so...Bessie the cow vowed never again to enter that chamber of horrors so innocently named "McDonald's."

I worked on it for a while until I decided it was just to complex for me to do without writing a program. So, I generated all possible pairs of 9 & 8 long strings which together had 5 lemon, 4 orange, 3 grape, 3 green, and 2 strawberry colors. There are 17!/(5!*4!*3!*3!*2!) = 1,715,313,600 of these. Then, I checked each one of them and counted those which had no same-color skittles touching. There were 1,232,600 like that. That gave me the probability I posted. The program was pretty sloppy but it ran in 69 seconds on one core of my desktop machine.

Personally, the original reason I believed in God is that an adult told me he existed when I was little and, being little, I took their word. But over time, I've listened to people talk about their experiences with God and seen it with others. I think I've seen Him get me through a lot of stuff the past few years that I don't think I'd have been able to make it through alone. You could say that I got through them because I worked hard, or just because believing in a higher power has some effect psychologically, or that there were coincidences involved, but when I put it all together, those reasons just don't work for me. But if I had to give just one reason that I believe God is real, it would be that He told me so. Audibly.

I swear I tried to get people active and promote this site to become busy with lots of members enjoying themselves, all the time, like it used to be.

Weighing IV. - Back to the Water and Weighing Puzzles One of twelve tennis balls is a bit lighter or heavier (you do not know which) than the others. How would you identify this odd ball if you could use an old two-pan balance scale only 3 times? You can only balance one set of balls against another, so no reference weights and no weight measurements. This old topic is locked since it was answered many times. You can check solution in the Spoiler below. Pls visit New Puzzles section to see always fresh brain teasers.

Honestants and Swindlecants II. - Back to the Logic Problems Afterwards he meets another two aborigines. One says: "I am a Swindlecant or the other one is an Honestant." Who are they? This old topic is locked since it was answered many times. You can check solution in the Spoiler below. Pls visit New Puzzles section to see always fresh brain teasers.

What if inhabitant 519 had a split end that broke off? Would that be exactly one hair or a partial hair?