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lololol
Profile Joined February 2006
5198 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-09-19 03:59:42
September 19 2006 03:39 GMT
#81
Watch riddle solution(aka #2):
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Q1: If I ask is there a car behind 1 will you light in blue?
Q2: If I ask is there a car behind 3 will you light in blue?
This way the answers will always be the same no matter which color means yes and which no.
Car at 1 - Blue, Yellow
Car at 2 - Yellow, Yellow
Car at 3 - Yellow, Blue
Edit: Blue, Blue - There are 2 cars behind 1 and 3 ))

Ofc, it could be for cars at 1/2 or 2/3 or goats behind 2 door combinations or yellow instead of blue, it doesn't matter.
I'll call Nada.
StylishVODs
Profile Joined December 2005
Sweden5331 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-09-19 03:56:35
September 19 2006 03:40 GMT
#82
#2
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Ask this:
Would you flash yellow if i asked you if there was a car behind door 1?
Would you flash yellow if i asked you if there was a car behind door 2?

According to Reach, he is the fastest learner he has ever seen. He start bw only like 2/3 years ago. Infact, his bw history knowledge is so limited, he didn't even know what the map Guillotine was.
BlackJack
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
United States10574 Posts
September 19 2006 03:45 GMT
#83
Asking it if it will flash a certain way sounds kind of retarded and will probably just end up creating a paradox that it cannot answer.
Hot_Bid
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
Braavos36388 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-09-19 04:08:36
September 19 2006 03:45 GMT
#84
Two quarters are randomly flipped in the air.

If you had to choose whether they land "same" (heads/heads or tails/tails) or "different" (heads/tails) which would you choose and why?

PS This is a pretty easy riddle.

answer below:

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"same," because at worst, "same" is 50%, while variantion in anything, wind, coin, whatever, can cause "different" to be less than 50%
@Hot_Bid on Twitter - ESPORTS life since 2010 - http://i.imgur.com/U2psw.png
lololol
Profile Joined February 2006
5198 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-09-19 03:52:26
September 19 2006 03:46 GMT
#85
On September 19 2006 12:45 BlackJack wrote:
Asking it if it will flash a certain way sounds kind of retarded and will probably just end up creating a paradox that it cannot answer.


It's no paradox, you're not asking it what will flash for your current question, but a specific simple question, so there is a sure answer.
I'll call Nada.
AcrossFiveJulys
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
United States3612 Posts
September 19 2006 03:50 GMT
#86
On September 19 2006 12:45 Hot_Bid wrote:
Two quarters are randomly flipped in the air.

If you had to choose whether they land "same" (heads/heads or tails/tails) or "different" (heads/tails) which would you choose and why?

PS This is a pretty easy riddle.


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doesn't matter. There are 4 possible outcomes:

1- heads, heads
2- heads, tails
3- tails, heads
4- tails, tails

so you have a 1/2 chance of getting the same, and a 1/2 chance of getting different.
StylishVODs
Profile Joined December 2005
Sweden5331 Posts
September 19 2006 03:52 GMT
#87
lololol u edited your question to my answer >:O why why why^^ coz im right
According to Reach, he is the fastest learner he has ever seen. He start bw only like 2/3 years ago. Infact, his bw history knowledge is so limited, he didn't even know what the map Guillotine was.
Hot_Bid
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
Braavos36388 Posts
September 19 2006 03:52 GMT
#88
to AcrossFiveJulys:

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it does matter, as you are not accounting for the possibility that the coins are not perfect
@Hot_Bid on Twitter - ESPORTS life since 2010 - http://i.imgur.com/U2psw.png
lololol
Profile Joined February 2006
5198 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-09-19 03:55:08
September 19 2006 03:53 GMT
#89
On September 19 2006 12:52 AnOth3rDAy wrote:
lololol u edited your question to my answer >:O why why why^^ coz im right


I'm not sure what you mean, because we wrote the same answers, I was just first, you could've just copied and changed it a bit to look convincing
I'll call Nada.
StylishVODs
Profile Joined December 2005
Sweden5331 Posts
September 19 2006 03:55 GMT
#90
I remembered your answer differently, and when i updated it was Edited.. :O anyway i dont care, i hated that riddle took me 3 hours to figure out, my day is ruined. thnx alot mr riddlerer .!._Ò.ó_.!.
According to Reach, he is the fastest learner he has ever seen. He start bw only like 2/3 years ago. Infact, his bw history knowledge is so limited, he didn't even know what the map Guillotine was.
LTT
Profile Blog Joined March 2003
Shakuras1095 Posts
September 19 2006 03:57 GMT
#91
#2

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We want a set of questions where there are three unique answers that are independant of the watches settings.

Consider the questions: Is the Car Behind door 1 or 2? and Is the Car Behind door 2 or 3?

C = car, G = goat. Doors are presented in order from 1 to 3
Case:
CGG Yes, No
GCG Yes, Yes
GGC No, Yes

Now, for our questions to ask the watch, use the following:
Is the answer to the question "Is the car behind door 1 or 2?" blue?
Is the answer to the question "Is the car behind door 2 or 3?" blue?

Blue = Yes, Yellow = No

cgg Blue, Yellow
gcg Blue, Blue
ggc Yellow, Blue

Blue = No, Yellow = Yes

cgg Blue, Yellow
gcg Yellow, Yellow
ggc Yellow, Blue

We get the same results irregardless of the truth values of the watch. If Blue, Yellow pick door 1, If the answers are the same pick door 2, If Yellow, Blue pick door 3.
Ethenielle
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
Norway1006 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-09-19 04:05:05
September 19 2006 04:02 GMT
#92
On September 19 2006 12:45 Hot_Bid wrote:
Two quarters are randomly flipped in the air.

If you had to choose whether they land "same" (heads/heads or tails/tails) or "different" (heads/tails) which would you choose and why?

PS This is a pretty easy riddle.


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if you had to choose... well, i'd take the heads/heads, mainly because the sky is green and the sun is blue.

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fun with a thread where you can actually abuse the spoiler tags without going offtopic


I remembered your answer differently, and when i updated it was Edited.. :O anyway i dont care, i hated that riddle took me 3 hours to figure out, my day is ruined. thnx alot mr riddlerer .!._Ò.ó_.!.

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you don't care but your day is ruined? :/ what a paradox!
Theres a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
lololol
Profile Joined February 2006
5198 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-09-19 04:04:05
September 19 2006 04:03 GMT
#93
Why everyone started posting answers to #2 right after me posting it?

All riddles are now solved
I'll call Nada.
lololol
Profile Joined February 2006
5198 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-09-19 04:06:02
September 19 2006 04:05 GMT
#94
On September 19 2006 12:55 AnOth3rDAy wrote:
I remembered your answer differently, and when i updated it was Edited.. :O anyway i dont care, i hated that riddle took me 3 hours to figure out, my day is ruined. thnx alot mr riddlerer .!._Ò.ó_.!.


I just changed the wording a bit and cleaned it up, because my english needs some work The question was for a car at one and a goat at 2, but it didn't need the second part anyway, it was part of my previous attempt at finding solution, so I removed it, because it doesn't matter.
I'll call Nada.
StylishVODs
Profile Joined December 2005
Sweden5331 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-09-19 04:21:18
September 19 2006 04:08 GMT
#95
Quarter answer

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It will most likely be Heads/tails or Tails/head H = heads T = tails also | means arrow down and in the second throw the first two arrow downs are from the "H" in the first throw and the 3rd and 4th arrow down is from the first throws "T".. its so damn hard to sketch something

First throw
| .... |
H....T
Second throw
|...|..|..|
H T H T

you see that there are 4 possible outcomes now. it can be HH HT TH or TT. So HH has only 25% chanse and TT has also only 25% chanse.. this means TH and HT has 25% each and together they ahve 50%...

According to Reach, he is the fastest learner he has ever seen. He start bw only like 2/3 years ago. Infact, his bw history knowledge is so limited, he didn't even know what the map Guillotine was.
DarK]N[exuS
Profile Joined April 2006
China1441 Posts
September 19 2006 04:32 GMT
#96
On September 19 2006 12:45 BlackJack wrote:
Asking it if it will flash a certain way sounds kind of retarded and will probably just end up creating a paradox that it cannot answer.


So what, you won't think about whether it works but instead choose to ridicule people who are correct when you're too dumb to figure it out yourself?
Where joy exists despair will always beckon.
Luhh
Profile Joined October 2003
Sweden2974 Posts
September 19 2006 04:47 GMT
#97
On September 19 2006 12:45 Hot_Bid wrote:
Two quarters are randomly flipped in the air.

If you had to choose whether they land "same" (heads/heads or tails/tails) or "different" (heads/tails) which would you choose and why?

PS This is a pretty easy riddle.

answer below:

+ Show Spoiler +
"same," because at worst, "same" is 50%, while variantion in anything, wind, coin, whatever, can cause "different" to be less than 50%


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Don't you mean the other way around? The same will be less than the different, because one coin may land in the extreme on it's edge, albeit they're both still close to 50/50.
I wouldn´t call him stupid, but let´s just say he´s unlucky when thinking...
Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary25990 Posts
September 19 2006 05:13 GMT
#98
Hot_Bid, your logic is quite flawed.

First off, you didn't say the quarters are identical, so one could have a bias to heads while the other to tails. Because the bias could be either way on either coin, there's no reason to even consider this.

Secondly, you say they are randomly flipped, but then you bring up factors like wind. So, say for the average height of a flipper, this wind is causing a large distribution of 29 rotations. So what? They were randomly flipped, so if they started on heads, they're more likely to land on tails. Because they are randomly flipped, there's a 50% chance they will start in either orientation, and therefore your wind bias makes no difference.

So we have coins with random bias starting in a random orientation. No matter what outside bias you put on that system, it's going to be random. Your answer of "same" doesn't make sense to me at all.
Moderator
Hot_Bid
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
Braavos36388 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-09-19 05:17:55
September 19 2006 05:17 GMT
#99
i meant not perfect as in heads or tails can be favored due to the grooves in the coin

they are both quarters and are identical coins, its just that not heads or tails is necessarily 50% chance to land

sorry if i was unclear...

if all quarters were uniform, but you were unsure which side (heads or tails) lands more often, "same" would be correct
@Hot_Bid on Twitter - ESPORTS life since 2010 - http://i.imgur.com/U2psw.png
rpf289
Profile Joined October 2004
United States3524 Posts
September 19 2006 05:18 GMT
#100

4. A man is in a rowing boat floating on a lake, holding a brick in his hands. He throws the brick over the side of the boat. The brick sinks quickly. Does the water level in the lake go up or down? Explain.

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The water level of the lake does not go up or down. The brick going into the water does not displace any more water than it did when being supported by the canoe.
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