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by LittleZbot » Wed Jan 01, 2014 6:27 pm
BUMPER CARS
I think everyone stopped posting on this because they freaked out upon seeing Yot Yot's huge puzzle. I personally don't have the time (even with christmas break) to figure it out, but it'd be a shame to leave this topic to rot. So I've found several puzzles for you guys to figure out in the meantime!
EASY:
1. If you know me then I am nothing, but if you don't, then I am something, what am I?
2. I am lighter than air but a million men cannot lift me up. What am I?
3. What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
4. When you have me, you feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you don't have me. What am I?
5. You're in a deep, dark jungle. You have a matchstick, a wooden stove, and a lantern. What will you light first?
6. Where can anybody but you sit?
MEDIUM:
1. Remove six letters from this sequence to reveal a familiar English word. BSAINXLEATNTEARS
2. You own a lake where there is a small island. You want to build a house over there and need to carry the required stuff. Sadly, you have no boat, ship, or anything that you can use to transport all the material to the island! What will you do in order to carry the stuff to the island?
3. I have one, you have one.
If you remove the first letter, a bit remains.
If you remove the second, bit still remains.
After much trying, you might be able to remove the third one also, but it remains. It dies hard!
4. After teaching his class all about Roman numerals (X = 10, IX=9 and so on), the teacher asked his class to draw a single continuous line and turn IX into 6. The only stipulation the teacher made was that the pen could not be lifted from the paper until the line was complete. What did the class do?
5. George attends a party where he quickly gulps down a large iced tea before unexpectedly having to rush home. He suffers no ill effects but other people at the party who drink the iced tea become violently sick. Some even die. Why did the other people become sick whereas George didn't?
6. What number comes next in this series? 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, 312211, 13112221
HARD:
1. Ten pirates find a buried treasure of 100 pieces of gold.
The pirates have a strict ranking in their group: Pirate 1 is the lead pirate, Pirate 2 is second-in-command, Pirate 3 is the third most powerful pirate, and so on.
Based on this ranking, the pirates decide on a system to determine how to split up the 100 pieces of gold. The lead pirate (Pirate 1) will propose a way to divy it up. Then all the pirates (including the lead pirate) will vote on that proposal. If 50% or more of the pirates agree on the system, then that is how the gold will be divied up. However, if less than 50% of the pirates vote for the proposal, then the lead pirate will be be killed. The next-most powerful pirate will then become the lead pirate, and they'll restart the process (Pirate 2 will suggest a way to divy up the gold and it will be voted on by the rest of the pirates). This will keep going on until finally a proposal is agreed upon.
All of the pirates are very smart and very greedy. Each pirate will vote against a proposal if they know that they would end up with more gold if that proposal were to fail. A pirate also will never vote for a proposal that gives him 0 pieces of gold.
You are Pirate 1. You must come up with a proposal that will give you as much gold as possible, without getting yourself killed. Keep in mind that the rest of the pirates all know that if your proposal fails, then Pirate 2 will succeed at coming up with a plan that benefits him the most while not getting him killed.
What's your proposal?
2.
There is a prison with 100 prisoners, each in separate cells, which are sealed off, soundproof and windowless. There is a lobby in the prison with a lightbulb in it. Each day, the warden will pick one of the prisoners at random (even if they have been picked before) and take them out to the lobby. The prisoner will have the choice to flip the lightbulb switch if they want. The lightbulb starts in the "off" position.
When a prisoner is brought out to the lobby, he also has the option of saying "Every other prisoner has been brought out to the lobby." If a prisoner chooses to say this and it is true, all the prisoners will go free. However, if a prisoner chooses to say this and it's wrong, all the prisoners will be executed. So a prisoner should only say this if he knows it is true for sure.
Before the first day of this process begins, all the prisoners are allowed to get together to discuss a strategy to eventually save themselves.
What strategy could they use to ensure their eventual salvation?
GOOD LUCK
Code:
Red: Unsolved
Green: Solved
Grey: The forum's usual text color, so nothing.
Last edited by
LittleZbot on Thu Jan 02, 2014 2:21 am, edited 5 times in total.
To Shorty, who was immortalized in an adventure.
To Marinus, who was my community older brother.
To Janet, who I will remember every time I wear a toque.
May these lost Wonderlanders find true adventure beyond us.
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