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Ares[Effort] *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
DEMACIA6550 Posts
March 14 2009 20:56 GMT
#1
1.In this thread you will write some riddles and in spoiler write the answer
2.If you have a riddle but do not know the answer also post that in bold or make it stand out some way
3.If you're going to answer someone else's riddle please put it in spoiler
btw this is just a example so don't take it to seriously ^^

example 1.What can you catch but you can't throw?
+ Show Spoiler +
a flu


example 2.What came first the chicken or the egg?
Don't know

#1.

You are wearing a blindfold and thick gloves. An infinite number of quarters are laid out before you on a table of infinite area. Someone tells you that 20 of these quarters are tails and the rest are heads. He says that if you can split the quarters into 2 piles where the number of tails quarters is the same in both piles, then you win all of the quarters. You are allowed to move the quarters and to flip them over, but you can never tell what state a quarter is currently in (the blindfold prevents you from seeing, and the gloves prevent you from feeling which side is heads or tails). How do you partition the quarters so that you can win them all?
Moderatorgold coin
Djabanete
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States2786 Posts
March 14 2009 21:02 GMT
#2
+ Show Spoiler +
Since the number of quarters in infinite but the number that start in tails position is finite, you have 0 chance of picking a tails quarter if you just reach out and grab one. So what you do is grab 20 quarters, flip them all over, put them in a separate pile, and declare victory. This assumes the tails start randomly distributed, or that you have some means of selecting at random.
May the BeSt man win.
LTT
Profile Blog Joined March 2003
Shakuras1095 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-14 21:12:40
March 14 2009 21:11 GMT
#3
On March 15 2009 06:02 Djabanete wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
Since the number of quarters in infinite but the number that start in tails position is finite, you have 0 chance of picking a tails quarter if you just reach out and grab one. So what you do is grab 20 quarters, flip them all over, put them in a separate pile, and declare victory. This assumes the tails start randomly distributed, or that you have some means of selecting at random.


+ Show Spoiler +
It's simpler than that. You don't mess with chance at all. Just grab 20 and flip them. If you grabbed all 20 tails, each pile will have 0. If you grabbed 19, each pile will have one. Etc, etc.
Malongo
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Chile3472 Posts
March 14 2009 21:21 GMT
#4
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Just flip them all and make an infinite line. There are infinite tails at any side
Help me! im still improving my English. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. M. G.
MasterReY
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Germany2708 Posts
March 14 2009 21:22 GMT
#5
lol hi effort <3
you want to get the gg.net riddle thread to tl.net?

good choice, since this is one of the tl.net worthy threads created in gg.net
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Ares[Effort] *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
DEMACIA6550 Posts
March 14 2009 21:25 GMT
#6
On March 15 2009 06:22 MasterReY wrote:
lol hi effort <3
you want to get the gg.net riddle thread to tl.net?

good choice, since this is one of the tl.net worthy threads created in gg.net


Hello =), might as well since I'm a TL.Net user now. I wouldn't have put it here unless it was my thread ^^.
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Klive5ive
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United Kingdom6056 Posts
March 14 2009 21:31 GMT
#7
On March 15 2009 06:11 LTT wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 15 2009 06:02 Djabanete wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
Since the number of quarters in infinite but the number that start in tails position is finite, you have 0 chance of picking a tails quarter if you just reach out and grab one. So what you do is grab 20 quarters, flip them all over, put them in a separate pile, and declare victory. This assumes the tails start randomly distributed, or that you have some means of selecting at random.


+ Show Spoiler +
It's simpler than that. You don't mess with chance at all. Just grab 20 and flip them. If you grabbed all 20 tails, each pile will have 0. If you grabbed 19, each pile will have one. Etc, etc.

+ Show Spoiler +

Djabenete is right though, technically if you grabbed 20 coins they are all heads anyway.

You could grab any number of coins and as long as you flipped 20 over you would win.

The infinity thing doesn't really add anything to the riddle.
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Ares[Effort] *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
DEMACIA6550 Posts
March 14 2009 21:34 GMT
#8
An Arab sheikh is old and must will his fortune to one of his two sons. He makes a proposition. His two sons will ride their camels in a race, and whichever camel crosses the finish line last will win the fortune for its owner. During the race, the two brothers wander aimlessly for days, neither willing to cross the finish line. In desperation, they ask a wise man for advice. He tells them something; then the brothers leap onto the camels and charge toward the finish line. What did the wise man say?
Moderatorgold coin
TarsTarkas
Profile Joined April 2007
United States169 Posts
March 14 2009 21:44 GMT
#9
On March 15 2009 06:34 EffOrt wrote:
An Arab sheikh is old and must will his fortune to one of his two sons. He makes a proposition. His two sons will ride their camels in a race, and whichever camel crosses the finish line last will win the fortune for its owner. During the race, the two brothers wander aimlessly for days, neither willing to cross the finish line. In desperation, they ask a wise man for advice. He tells them something; then the brothers leap onto the camels and charge toward the finish line. What did the wise man say?


+ Show Spoiler +
switch camels
Those who think they know everything, are very annoying to those of us who do. - Mark Twain
Culture
Profile Joined October 2007
Canada488 Posts
March 14 2009 22:01 GMT
#10
On March 15 2009 06:11 LTT wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
It's simpler than that. You don't mess with chance at all. Just grab 20 and flip them. If you grabbed all 20 tails, each pile will have 0. If you grabbed 19, each pile will have one. Etc, etc.


Correct. The interesting implication here is you have some sort of infinite monetary reward, thus devaluing our economy further but providing an infinite supply of copper and nickel.
Lemonwalrus
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States5465 Posts
March 14 2009 22:03 GMT
#11
On March 15 2009 06:44 TarsTarkas wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 15 2009 06:34 EffOrt wrote:
An Arab sheikh is old and must will his fortune to one of his two sons. He makes a proposition. His two sons will ride their camels in a race, and whichever camel crosses the finish line last will win the fortune for its owner. During the race, the two brothers wander aimlessly for days, neither willing to cross the finish line. In desperation, they ask a wise man for advice. He tells them something; then the brothers leap onto the camels and charge toward the finish line. What did the wise man say?


+ Show Spoiler +
switch camels

+ Show Spoiler +
The way the proposition was worded, the father was leaving his fortune to a camel instead of to one of his sons, they are going to beat him up.
Culture
Profile Joined October 2007
Canada488 Posts
March 14 2009 22:30 GMT
#12
On March 15 2009 07:03 Lemonwalrus wrote:


The way the proposition was worded, the father was leaving his fortune to a camel instead of to one of his sons, they are going to beat him up.


Actually it says 'will win the fortune for its owner.'
Klive5ive
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United Kingdom6056 Posts
March 14 2009 22:35 GMT
#13
On March 15 2009 06:34 EffOrt wrote:
An Arab sheikh is old and must will his fortune to one of his two sons. He makes a proposition. His two sons will ride their camels in a race, and whichever camel crosses the finish line last will win the fortune for its owner. During the race, the two brothers wander aimlessly for days, neither willing to cross the finish line. In desperation, they ask a wise man for advice. He tells them something; then the brothers leap onto the camels and charge toward the finish line. What did the wise man say?

+ Show Spoiler +

Agree to split the money 50/50?
Yeah, he pointed out that the other Brother was not currently on his Camel so they could jump on the wrong camel and race it to the line.
Don't hate the player - Hate the game
Ares[Effort] *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
DEMACIA6550 Posts
March 14 2009 22:55 GMT
#14
You are an archaeologist that has just unearthed a long-sought triplet of ancient treasure chests. One chest is plated with silver, one with gold, and one with bronze. According to legend, one of the three chests is filled with great treasure, whereas the other two chests both house man-eating pythons that can rip your head off. Faced with a dilemma, you then notice that there are inscriptions on the chests:

Silver Chest: Treasure is in this Chest.

Gold Chest: Treasure not in this Chest.

Bronze Chest: Treasure is not in the Gold Chest.

You know that at least one of the inscriptions is true, and at least one of the inscriptions is false. Which chest do you open?
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LTT
Profile Blog Joined March 2003
Shakuras1095 Posts
March 14 2009 23:03 GMT
#15
+ Show Spoiler +
Open the Bronze chest. If it were in the Silver, all answers would be true. If it were in the Gold, all answers would be false.
Hot_Bid
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
Braavos36374 Posts
March 14 2009 23:05 GMT
#16
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Klive5ive
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United Kingdom6056 Posts
March 14 2009 23:06 GMT
#17
On March 15 2009 07:55 EffOrt wrote:
You are an archaeologist that has just unearthed a long-sought triplet of ancient treasure chests. One chest is plated with silver, one with gold, and one with bronze. According to legend, one of the three chests is filled with great treasure, whereas the other two chests both house man-eating pythons that can rip your head off. Faced with a dilemma, you then notice that there are inscriptions on the chests:

Silver Chest: Treasure is in this Chest.

Gold Chest: Treasure not in this Chest.

Bronze Chest: Treasure is not in the Gold Chest.

You know that at least one of the inscriptions is true, and at least one of the inscriptions is false. Which chest do you open?

+ Show Spoiler +

You open the Bronze chest.
All the possibilities of true and false create contradictions EXCEPT Silver false, gold true, bronze true.
(my table)
Silver bronze gold Chest?
t t f fail
t f t fail
f t t Bronze
f f t fail
f t f fail
t f f fail

Don't hate the player - Hate the game
fanatacist
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
10319 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-14 23:10:24
March 14 2009 23:09 GMT
#18
+ Show Spoiler +

Silver chest = c1
Gold chest = c2
Bronze chest = c3

+ = in chest
- = not in chest

Statement 1 = s1
'' 2 = s2
'' 3 = s3

s1 = +c1
s2 = -c2
s3 = -c2

If at least one is true and at least one is false, then the answer is Bronze chest. If the options are 1 false, 2 true, then it plays out like this:

s1 = F
s2 = T
s3 = T

Because s2 and s3 cannot contradict each other, they have to both be either false or true. Therefore, the other option is

s1 = T
s2 = F
s3 = F

In the first scenario, the treasure is in the Bronze chest because s1 = +c1 is false, and s2,3 = -c2 is true, so that only leaves +c3.

In the second scenario, the results are that s1 = +c1 is true, so it is in the Silver chest, but it also says that s2,3 = -c2 is false, so it must be in the Gold chest as well, so there is contradiction.

QED, Bronze chest.
Peace~
fanatacist
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
10319 Posts
March 14 2009 23:11 GMT
#19
On March 15 2009 08:05 Hot_Bid wrote:
[image loading]

Lol.
Peace~
Pawsom
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States928 Posts
March 14 2009 23:15 GMT
#20
On March 15 2009 08:11 fanatacist wrote:
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On March 15 2009 08:05 Hot_Bid wrote:
[image loading]

Lol.

oh my god.

I clicked it at least 10 times
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