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« Reply #25 on: October 20, 2011, 04:44:59 PM »
 

Puffy

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Is her bday Dec 31st and it's New Years day when she tells you this? Because that would make her 8 now, and next December 31st she'll be 9, but it's still the same year as this New Years Day. Then next year on New Years Day she'll be 10.

I'm telling you, if I think long enough I can usually get em.
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Re: riddles
« Reply #26 on: October 20, 2011, 04:46:41 PM »
 

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X is a letter...yes?
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Re: riddles
« Reply #27 on: October 20, 2011, 04:59:09 PM »
 

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X is a letter...yes?

it's a straight up, simple maths question.  No trick.
 

Re: riddles
« Reply #28 on: October 20, 2011, 05:14:34 PM »
 

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2 + 2 x 2 = 6
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Re: riddles
« Reply #29 on: October 20, 2011, 05:24:23 PM »
 

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X is the symbol for multiply
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« Reply #30 on: October 20, 2011, 05:32:34 PM »
 

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Would the 2 + 2 x 2 = X be X = 8?
 

Re: riddles
« Reply #31 on: October 20, 2011, 05:34:36 PM »
 

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If it is straight math I think the answer would be 6 due to order of ops
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Re: riddles
« Reply #32 on: October 20, 2011, 05:53:56 PM »
 

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Would the 2 + 2 x 2 = X be X = 8?
Good at riddles, bad at math :P As sin said, order of operators is multiply/divide then addition/subtraction :)
 

Re: riddles
« Reply #33 on: October 20, 2011, 06:04:08 PM »
 

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Anyways, new riddle:

A group of people with assorted eye colors live on an island. They are all perfect logicians -- if a conclusion can be logically deduced, they will do it instantly. No one knows the color of their eyes. Every night at midnight, a ferry stops at the island. Any islanders who have figured out the color of their own eyes then leave the island, and the rest stay. Everyone can see everyone else at all times and keeps a count of the number of people they see with each eye color (excluding themselves), but they cannot otherwise communicate. Everyone on the island knows all the rules in this paragraph.

On this island there are 100 blue-eyed people, 100 brown-eyed people, and the Guru (she happens to have green eyes). So any given blue-eyed person can see 100 people with brown eyes and 99 people with blue eyes (and one with green), but that does not tell him his own eye color; as far as he knows the totals could be 101 brown and 99 blue. Or 100 brown, 99 blue, and he could have red eyes.

The Guru is allowed to speak once (let's say at noon), on one day in all their endless years on the island. Standing before the islanders, she says the following:

"I can see someone who has blue eyes."

Who leaves the island, and on what night?
 

Re: riddles
« Reply #34 on: October 20, 2011, 06:26:01 PM »
 

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The Guru leaves on the night she says that because she has looked in the mirror.
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Re: riddles
« Reply #35 on: October 20, 2011, 07:08:11 PM »
 

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Would the 2 + 2 x 2 = X be X = 8?

Nah, you fell for it but I think I'm right in saying when this is surveyed, most people say 8.

As for the riddle above, it's explicitly stated that the Guru has green eyes, so it can't be her.  Anyone who was alone with her (or with her and only brown eyed people), though, would be able to leave but that's too obvious, I think.

EDIT:  I think I'm getting this, actually.  If you saw only 1 person with blue eyes but they DIDN'T leave that night, then you know that they're not sure 100% that they have blue eyes, so you must have blue eyes as well.  Does that logic expand up to 100, though?  If there are 3, they can see 2 but both stay the 2nd night, so they're still not sure, so YOU must have blue eyes as well.

OK, the blue eyed people leave on the 100th night, the brown eyed people leave on the 101st night (since they were all certain they had blue eyes, everyone else must have brown eyes; simple step) and the Guru can never leave.
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Re: riddles
« Reply #36 on: October 20, 2011, 07:18:01 PM »
 

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No one leaves the island, they can't speak therefore they can't tell the person on the ferry their eye color.
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Re: riddles
« Reply #37 on: October 20, 2011, 07:41:23 PM »
 

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Quick ones;

1. How far can you run into the woods?
2. My bedroom has 4 south-facing windows.  Where am I?
3. What was the highest mountain before Mount Everest was discovered?
4. I bring my book up to the attendant at the counter, pay for it and leave it there.  Why leave it?
5. For $5, I'll cut a log in half for you.  How much to cut it in 4?
 

Re: riddles
« Reply #38 on: October 20, 2011, 07:45:37 PM »
 

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#2 - The North pole ... #5 - $15
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Re: riddles
« Reply #39 on: October 20, 2011, 07:47:38 PM »
 

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#2 - The North pole ... #5 - $15

You got the North Pole.  $15 is wrong.
 

Re: riddles
« Reply #40 on: October 20, 2011, 07:53:01 PM »
 

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Hmmm, thought I would have got #5 right too. Back to the drawing board...
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Re: riddles
« Reply #41 on: October 20, 2011, 08:04:30 PM »
 

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Hmmm, thought I would have got #5 right too. Back to the drawing board...


Oh, no... wait.  It is right, I thought I put down a different starting amount.  Durrr... that one's a bit crap, anyway.
 

Re: riddles
« Reply #42 on: October 20, 2011, 08:13:21 PM »
 

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1. You can run until you reach them, or until they end. One of those two.

2. North pole (though you didn't specify that they were on different walls - maybe you have a really weird floorplan?)

3. Mt. Everest, assuming you didn't mean what was the highest mountain discovered.

4. Overdue book at the library?

5. $10?
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Re: riddles
« Reply #43 on: October 20, 2011, 08:27:02 PM »
 

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So close!  Sins was right with the $15 for number 5, I messed up.

You didn't get number 1; both your answers are wrong. 

The rest are dead right.
 

Re: riddles
« Reply #44 on: October 20, 2011, 09:15:57 PM »
 

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How far can you walk into the woods?
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Re: riddles
« Reply #45 on: October 20, 2011, 11:31:18 PM »
 

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Half way, after that you would be walking out of the woods
 

Re: riddles
« Reply #46 on: October 21, 2011, 02:49:38 AM »
 

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OK, the blue eyed people leave on the 100th night, the brown eyed people leave on the 101st night (since they were all certain they had blue eyes, everyone else must have brown eyes; simple step) and the Guru can never leave.
Nicely done, except the brown eyed people don't leave, since all they know is they don't have blue eyes, they could have green eyes.
 

Re: riddles
« Reply #47 on: October 21, 2011, 05:33:56 AM »
 

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Half way, after that you would be walking out of the woods

Bingo, nice work
 

Re: riddles
« Reply #48 on: October 21, 2011, 06:39:41 AM »
 

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Half way, after that you would be walking out of the woods

DING DING DING We have a winner.
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Re: riddles
« Reply #49 on: October 21, 2011, 11:03:46 AM »
 

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Sweet! I got 2...not bad
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