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Post by Rob Allen on Nov 23, 2016 18:35:31 GMT -5
Wild Card, here's a hint: the clock face numbers add up to 78; ergo, the three sections must each add up to 26. Thank you! That helps! I think i have it figured! {Spoiler: Click to show}
Draw line between the 10 and 11 to between the 2 and 3 and then from between the 8 and 9 to between the 4 and 5. Should be 26 in all three slots We have a winner! On the third one, your guess is the same as mine They're not above smart-aleckry on that show. |
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Post by Wild Card on Nov 25, 2016 5:09:43 GMT -5
Thank you! That helps! I think i have it figured! {Spoiler: Click to show}
Draw line between the 10 and 11 to between the 2 and 3 and then from between the 8 and 9 to between the 4 and 5. Should be 26 in all three slots We have a winner! On the third one, your guess is the same as mine They're not above smart-aleckry on that show. Sweet!!! And if that's the case...that's my final answer until the one is posted  also I like this show then lol |
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Post by Rob Allen on Nov 28, 2016 13:22:07 GMT -5
Answer time! 1. RAY: Draw a clock face on a piece of paper. Using Arabic numerals put the appropriate numbers at 12, 1, 2, 3 and so on. Now, somewhere on the clock face, draft two lines. In doing so, you're going to divide the clock face into segments, which contain numbers. TOM: Do the lines have to go from one edge of the clock face to another? RAY: Yes. So, when you draw the lines, you will wind up with either three or four segments of clock face. If the lines intersect someplace, you will wind up with four sections. If they don't intersect, you will wind up with three sections. The question is: Where do you draw the lines so that the sum of the numbers in each section is equal? RAY: You draw the lines so that you start at a point between the 10 and the 11, and you connect that to a point between the two and the three. That's line at number one. Now you take a point between the eight and nine and a point between the four and five and connect those two dots, and you will wind up with a section that's eight, seven, six, five, which I believe adds up to 26. And ten, nine, four, three which also adds up to 26. So you'll wind up with three sections, each of which is 26. TOM: Is this the only solution to this problem? RAY: Absolutely. I have researched the bejeezus out of this puzzler. The problem that I think most people will run into is they would think the lines would have to intersect. But in fact, by not intersecting, they're making three sections. You come up with the only solution I believe. RAY: The surviving airmen answered that they were attacked from above and behind. But they survived! Those weren't the fatal attacks. The fatal attacks were from some other direction, and those pilots didn't have any advice to offer because they didn't come back. TOM: Exactly. RAY: What he really wanted to know was the information from the guys who weren't at the meeting. Pretty good, huh? RAY: How does he do it? He puts it in reverse and drives back. TOM: Oh man, that is bogus. I mean you call that a puzzler? RAY: I'm sure a lot of people didn't get it. And this week's Puzzler: RAY: There was a young gal who had a few bad accidents. So her grandmother decided to give her an unusual gift: a large sum of money to buy a brand-new safe car, like a Volvo. There was one condition, however. When she got the car, Grandma wanted to see it, to make sure that she didn't take the money and go out and buy a Firebird. So on the first available Saturday she decides to drive to Grandma's house, which is 120 miles away. Because she's not particularly eager to get there, she gets on the highway and sets the cruise control for 40 miles an hour. She drives 120 miles to Grandma's house. Her new car has a little computer that tells her that her average speed is 40 miles an hour. When she gets there, she shows Grandma the car and high tails it out of there; she's eager to get home because she wants to go to the tattoo parlor before it closes. She sets the cruise control for 60 miles an hour. She travels the same road and the same 120 miles. When she gets home, she does a little figuring. She says, "I drove 120 miles up, 120 miles back, or 240 miles. I drove 40 miles an hour up, and 60 miles an hour back, so my average speed was 50 miles an hour, and it should have taken me 4.8 hours. But it took me 5 hours!" The question is, how can that be? |
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Post by Dizzy D on Nov 30, 2016 11:38:40 GMT -5
She drives 3 hours at 40 miles an hour and 2 hours at 60 miles an hour. Her average speed therefore is 48 miles per hour, (if she drives 2 hours at 40 and 2 hours at 60, her average speed would have been 50 mph) So basically she drives slower for a longer time and that drops her average speed.
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Post by Wild Card on Dec 1, 2016 2:38:13 GMT -5
Sweet! I like sassy riddles!!
I can't answer the current car talk riddle. But I like Dizzy's answer!
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Post by Dizzy D on Dec 5, 2016 4:41:09 GMT -5
Old Riddle I once heard in math class, we already had a similar one, but the details are different enough to make it different.
You are Master of Coin at the court of King Aldus. The King has declared that he wants a new gold coin that bears his visage and which will become the new standard for the country. The economy is doing well in the land of King Aldus, so he decides that a golden coin weighing exactly 10 grams will be the new standard.
You obey and order the 30 goldsmiths of the land to create the new coins.
Some time later, the King's spymaster approaches you and tells you that one of the goldsmiths has been cheating the King and produces coins that only weigh 9 grams, keeping the rest of the gold for himself. He only does not know which goldsmith has been cheating. You notify the King, who tells you that you will need to handle this with descretion. You receive marked bags from each goldsmith with 100 of their new coins. The King tells you that he has an accurate weighing device that can tell you the exact weight of whatever is put on it, but the device is almost always in use for other important matters. You will only get the time to use the device 1 time.
How can you tell which goldsmith is the cheater?
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Post by Rob Allen on Dec 5, 2016 15:03:50 GMT -5
And this week's Puzzler: RAY: There was a young gal who had a few bad accidents. So her grandmother decided to give her an unusual gift: a large sum of money to buy a brand-new safe car, like a Volvo. There was one condition, however. When she got the car, Grandma wanted to see it, to make sure that she didn't take the money and go out and buy a Firebird. So on the first available Saturday she decides to drive to Grandma's house, which is 120 miles away. Because she's not particularly eager to get there, she gets on the highway and sets the cruise control for 40 miles an hour. She drives 120 miles to Grandma's house. Her new car has a little computer that tells her that her average speed is 40 miles an hour. When she gets there, she shows Grandma the car and high tails it out of there; she's eager to get home because she wants to go to the tattoo parlor before it closes. She sets the cruise control for 60 miles an hour. She travels the same road and the same 120 miles. When she gets home, she does a little figuring. She says, "I drove 120 miles up, 120 miles back, or 240 miles. I drove 40 miles an hour up, and 60 miles an hour back, so my average speed was 50 miles an hour, and it should have taken me 4.8 hours. But it took me 5 hours!" The question is, how can that be? The answer: RAY: She didn't calculate the average speed; she calculated the average of the speeds. TOM: Yes -- a common mistake. RAY: In fact, her average speed is not 50 miles an hour but 48 miles an hour. And you arrive at that by calculating the total distance divided by the total time. The total distance being 240 miles, and the total time being 5 hours. So 240 divided by 5 comes out to be 48 miles an hour. And the new Puzzler: A lone hijacker commandeers a jetliner that's on its way from Boston to Los Angeles with a stopover in Chicago. At gunpoint he instructs the pilot to land the plane at O'Hare, whereupon he further instructs the pilot to call the authorities and tell them that this hijacker wants a million dollars in cash and three parachutes. Sure enough, they show up with the stuff, and since they did this, he agrees to release half of the hostages on the plane. So, half the passengers get off, they load in three parachutes and the million dollars, and the plane takes off, headed for Los Angeles. He then tells the pilot to lower the altitude, he opens the door with the million dollars in the suitcase attached to one parachute, and himself attached to another parachute, and he escapes. The question is: What's with the third parachute? |
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Post by Rob Allen on Dec 5, 2016 15:08:14 GMT -5
Old Riddle I once heard in math class, we already had a similar one, but the details are different enough to make it different. You are Master of Coin at the court of King Aldus. The King has declared that he wants a new gold coin that bears his visage and which will become the new standard for the country. The economy is doing well in the land of King Aldus, so he decides that a golden coin weighing exactly 10 grams will be the new standard. You obey and order the 30 goldsmiths of the land to create the new coins. Some time later, the King's spymaster approaches you and tells you that one of the goldsmiths has been cheating the King and produces coins that only weigh 9 grams, keeping the rest of the gold for himself. He only does not know which goldsmith has been cheating. You notify the King, who tells you that you will need to handle this with descretion. You receive marked bags from each goldsmith with 100 of their new coins. The King tells you that he has an accurate weighing device that can tell you the exact weight of whatever is put on it, but the device is almost always in use for other important matters. You will only get the time to use the device 1 time. How can you tell which goldsmith is the cheater? Take one coin out of bag #1, two coins out of bag #2, etc, and weigh the resulting pile of coins. If the weight is short by one gram, the smith who made bag #1 is the cheater, etc. |
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Post by Dizzy D on Dec 5, 2016 16:09:33 GMT -5
Yep, that's the way.
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Post by Rob Allen on Dec 12, 2016 16:32:02 GMT -5
And the new Puzzler: A lone hijacker commandeers a jetliner that's on its way from Boston to Los Angeles with a stopover in Chicago. At gunpoint he instructs the pilot to land the plane at O'Hare, whereupon he further instructs the pilot to call the authorities and tell them that this hijacker wants a million dollars in cash and three parachutes. Sure enough, they show up with the stuff, and since they did this, he agrees to release half of the hostages on the plane. So, half the passengers get off, they load in three parachutes and the million dollars, and the plane takes off, headed for Los Angeles. He then tells the pilot to lower the altitude, he opens the door with the million dollars in the suitcase attached to one parachute, and himself attached to another parachute, and he escapes. The question is: What's with the third parachute? Here's the answer: RAY: The authorities knew that he needed one parachute for the money, and they knew that he needed one parachute for himself, and they had to assume the third parachute was for a hostage. Therefore, they could not run the risk of rigging the parachutes. Otherwise, they'd give him two parachutes that had holes in them. They couldn't take the chance, and that's why he asked for the extra parachute. And the new Puzzler: RAY: A fellow's driving across the desert from Salt Lake City to Reno, Nevada. He happens to look in the rear view mirror, and says, "Yikes!" He realizes he's in urgent need of a haircut. So, he gets off at Exit 321, which is between Winnemucca and Elko. He finds himself in beautiful downtown Horsetown, Nevada. Where there are, of course, two barbershops. He strolls past barbershop number one and looks in the window. There are no customers in the shop. It's kind of messy. Even the barber looks kind of messy. He's unshaven, he's got a rumpled shirt on, there's hair on the floor, and his haircut is lousy. The guy thinks, "Maybe I should check out the other joint." So, he moseys along and arrives at barbershop number two and looks in that window. It looks terrific. It's nice and clean. The mirrors are clean and shiny, there's no hair on the floor. The barber looks neat and well groomed. He's got a good haircut. The question is, which barbershop does he select for his haircut? |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2016 18:41:14 GMT -5
The first, because the barbers cut each other's hair.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2016 18:41:49 GMT -5
Also I guess the first shop is messy because that barber has more business.
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Post by Rob Allen on Dec 13, 2016 13:05:35 GMT -5
The first, because the barbers cut each other's hair. Yep, that's my guess too. |
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Post by Dizzy D on Dec 14, 2016 6:26:01 GMT -5
And the new Puzzler: A lone hijacker commandeers a jetliner that's on its way from Boston to Los Angeles with a stopover in Chicago. At gunpoint he instructs the pilot to land the plane at O'Hare, whereupon he further instructs the pilot to call the authorities and tell them that this hijacker wants a million dollars in cash and three parachutes. Sure enough, they show up with the stuff, and since they did this, he agrees to release half of the hostages on the plane. So, half the passengers get off, they load in three parachutes and the million dollars, and the plane takes off, headed for Los Angeles. He then tells the pilot to lower the altitude, he opens the door with the million dollars in the suitcase attached to one parachute, and himself attached to another parachute, and he escapes. The question is: What's with the third parachute? Here's the answer: RAY: The authorities knew that he needed one parachute for the money, and they knew that he needed one parachute for himself, and they had to assume the third parachute was for a hostage. Therefore, they could not run the risk of rigging the parachutes. Otherwise, they'd give him two parachutes that had holes in them. They couldn't take the chance, and that's why he asked for the extra parachute. Is it common for your police force to be psychopaths? |
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Post by Rob Allen on Dec 16, 2016 13:22:58 GMT -5
Here's the answer: RAY: The authorities knew that he needed one parachute for the money, and they knew that he needed one parachute for himself, and they had to assume the third parachute was for a hostage. Therefore, they could not run the risk of rigging the parachutes. Otherwise, they'd give him two parachutes that had holes in them. They couldn't take the chance, and that's why he asked for the extra parachute. Is it common for your police force to be psychopaths? Far too common, but the same is true of the general public. |
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also I like this show then lol
