Itsmee Posted March 26, 2013 Report Share Posted March 26, 2013 I am thinking about one number, it's 9, 99 or 999. You can ask one question to me on which I can answer yes or no to find out what number I'm thinking of. What question do you have to ask? Anyone know the answer? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 nateszcz Posted March 26, 2013 Report Share Posted March 26, 2013 Are you a number greater than 9 and less than 999? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Itsmee Posted March 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2013 But If the number would be 9 or 999, the answer to your question would be 'no'. So you would only find out if the number is 99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 emmybean Posted March 26, 2013 Report Share Posted March 26, 2013 (edited) Question: Do you write the number with a comma? Edited March 26, 2013 by emmybean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Itsmee Posted March 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2013 There are no comma's in the numbers themselves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 oaasfari Posted March 26, 2013 Report Share Posted March 26, 2013 How many digits are there in the number? or What number are you thinking of? or What would you get if you multiply it by 1 or What would you get if you add one/sutractone/divide by one, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 vinay.singh84 Posted March 26, 2013 Report Share Posted March 26, 2013 Will your response contain the same number of letters as the number's digits? yes - 999 no - 9 (no answer) - 99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 razmanugget Posted March 26, 2013 Report Share Posted March 26, 2013 (edited) if you deduct 7, will the remainder be a prime number? Edited March 26, 2013 by razmanugget Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ThunderCloud Posted March 27, 2013 Report Share Posted March 27, 2013 Will your response contain the same number of letters as the number's digits? yes - 999 no - 9 (no answer) - 99 But as phrased, if the number were 999 a response of either 'yes' or 'no' is equally valid. However, clearly, we need a question that can give 3 different types of responses, a yes, a no, or a lack of response... I would ask: what answer has as many letters as digits in the number you are thinking of? If "Yes" the number is 999, if "No" it is 99; silence implies it is 9. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 James33 Posted March 27, 2013 Report Share Posted March 27, 2013 THis cannot be possible, if there are 2 responses you can at most reduce it down to 2 of the 3 possible answers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 bonanova Posted March 27, 2013 Report Share Posted March 27, 2013 THis cannot be possible, if there are 2 responses you can at most reduce it down to 2 of the 3 possible answers. What about impossible to respond? That is the third possibility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 rbn491 Posted March 27, 2013 Report Share Posted March 27, 2013 1st of all, we must understand that we need to ask him questions that could contain only yes or no as answers, not questions like 'What number are you thinking of?' See if this solution is logically correct.. Write down the numbers 9, 99 and 999 in 3 different pieces of paper.. Beneath the no 9, write down the question "Is 1<2?" Beneath the no 99, write down "Is 1>2?" Beneath 999, write down any question for which the person cannot answer a yes or a no with confidence, such as "Will South Africa win the next cricket World Cup?" Now showing these 3 pieces of paper, ask the person, "Is the answer to the question beneath the number in your mind 'yes'?" Interpretation of his answers: Yes-9; No-99; Dont know/Cant say-999.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 witzar Posted March 27, 2013 Report Share Posted March 27, 2013 Is 90 / (your_number - 9) = 1? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 vinay.singh84 Posted March 27, 2013 Report Share Posted March 27, 2013 Will your response contain the same number of letters as the number's digits? yes - 999 no - 9 (no answer) - 99 But as phrased, if the number were 999 a response of either 'yes' or 'no' is equally valid. However, clearly, we need a question that can give 3 different types of responses, a yes, a no, or a lack of response... I would ask: what answer has as many letters as digits in the number you are thinking of? If "Yes" the number is 999, if "No" it is 99; silence implies it is 9. Could you provide a truthful response which contains the same number of letters as the number's digits? yes - 999 no - 9 (no answer) - 99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ThunderCloud Posted March 27, 2013 Report Share Posted March 27, 2013 Will your response contain the same number of letters as the number's digits? yes - 999 no - 9 (no answer) - 99 But as phrased, if the number were 999 a response of either 'yes' or 'no' is equally valid. However, clearly, we need a question that can give 3 different types of responses, a yes, a no, or a lack of response... I would ask: what answer has as many letters as digits in the number you are thinking of? If "Yes" the number is 999, if "No" it is 99; silence implies it is 9. Could you provide a truthful response which contains the same number of letters as the number's digits? yes - 999 no - 9 (no answer) - 99 If he says "Yes", the number might be either 999 or 99, because the truthful response he could have provided might have been either "Yes" or "No". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 vinay.singh84 Posted March 28, 2013 Report Share Posted March 28, 2013 Will your response contain the same number of letters as the number's digits? yes - 999 no - 9 (no answer) - 99 But as phrased, if the number were 999 a response of either 'yes' or 'no' is equally valid. However, clearly, we need a question that can give 3 different types of responses, a yes, a no, or a lack of response... I would ask: what answer has as many letters as digits in the number you are thinking of? If "Yes" the number is 999, if "No" it is 99; silence implies it is 9. Could you provide a truthful response which contains the same number of letters as the number's digits? yes - 999 no - 9 (no answer) - 99 If he says "Yes", the number might be either 999 or 99, because the truthful response he could have provided might have been either "Yes" or "No". (for 99) He couldn't provide any response as they (1) wouldn't be truthful or (2) wouldn't contain an equitable number of letters to digits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ThunderCloud Posted March 28, 2013 Report Share Posted March 28, 2013 (for 99) He couldn't provide any response as they (1) wouldn't be truthful or (2) wouldn't contain an equitable number of letters to digits. If my number is 99, and you ask whether I could provide an answer with as many letters as digits in my number, my truthful response would be "Yes" because I could provide such an answer (the fact that said answer is actually "No" doesn't matter). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 weirdo10 Posted April 25, 2013 Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 first you have to subtract 7 from 999 and you get 992 but what i did is i divided 999/7 and got 142 with a remainder of 5 and then i multiplyed it then added 5 and got 999. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 bonanova Posted April 25, 2013 Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 first you have to subtract 7 from 999 and you get 992 but what i did is i divided 999/7 and got 142 with a remainder of 5 and then i multiplyed it then added 5 and got 999. Hi w10, and welcome to the Den. Hope you enjoy solving puzzles here and posting some of your own. You have a certain "outside the box" approach to solving them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I am thinking about one number, it's 9, 99 or 999. You can ask one question to me on which I can answer yes or no to find out what number I'm thinking of. What question do you have to ask?
Anyone know the answer?
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