Tricky Puzzles

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:28 am

Now you're right, mqdar. The letter "t" is the answer!

For those who're curious why: if you take the finished word "yrsvjrt" and shift it on your keyboard one key to the left it will then say "teacher".

Marinus · Post by **Marinus** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:31 am

Well that was tricky indeed!

I did think of shifting but totally not about the keyboard.

Marinus · Post by **Marinus** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:38 pm

1,1,a,b,c,d,(2+a+b+c+d)
Probably a=2 but about b,c and d I've still no idea.

Post by **tyteen4a03** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 3:23 pm

O think I will need an answer to solve this..or not!LOL

Dizzy1 · Post by **Dizzy1** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 12:46 pm

mqdar wrote:What comes next in this sequence of numbers?

1
2,2
1,1,2
2,2,3,7
1,1,2,6,10
2,2,3,5,11,23

I don't see where anyone tried to figure this out, yet!
So here's my silly guess:

1,1,2,4,12,22

speegled · Post by **speegled** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 1:02 pm

That's actually not silly at all.In fact, I too,think it's correct. Or I must be silly too

Marinus · Post by **Marinus** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 2:41 pm

Can someone please explain? For don't see any logic in it. Each line has 1 more number then the previous one. And except the first line, the last number of each line is the total of all the other numbers on that line.

Dizzy1 · Post by **Dizzy1** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 2:57 pm

I didn't really use that form of logic (if any).

And your logic sounds more logical.

I only tried a 'follow the sequence' theory (which isn't really a theory at all)

Here's what I did.

Original question here:
1
2,2
1,1, 2
2,2, 3, 7
1,1, 2, 6, 10
2,2, 3, 5, 11, 23

I used columns, instead of math. First 2 columns go from 1's to 2's, 3rd column goes 2,3,2,3,2,3, etc. 4th column starts at 7 and counts in reverse, 5th column starts at the 10 and counts upward, 6th column starts at 23 and counts in reverse.

(and you wonder why I call myself dizzy)

Marinus · Post by **Marinus** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 3:06 pm

Ok then!

With your 'follow the sequence' theory and my logic together, it should be:

1,1,2,4,12,22,42

Marinus · Post by **Marinus** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:09 am

Since Mqdar doesn't say anything I have a new puzzle. (Don't know if it's tricky

)

You're on your way to the city, and you come to a place where you have to choose left or right. One leads to the city and the other not. There are twinbrothers there, you can't see difference, but you know: One of them always lies, and the other always speaks the truth. You may ask only one of them, no matter who, only one question. What question you have to ask to know what's the way to the city?

A small variation: It's also possible if there are no twin brothers but only one person, and you know he either always lies or always speaks the truth.

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:35 am

For two persons: "Will the other person say that this road is safe?" Answer "Yes" means it's NOT safe, answer "No" means it is, doesn't matter if you ask the liar or the truth-teller.

For one person: The only thing I can think of is so incredibly cheesy:
"If you'd have a twinbrother, who is a complete opposite of you, if you always speak truth, he always lies, and vice-versa blablablabla continue with question 1".

Marinus · Post by **Marinus** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:51 am

Right!

For one person I had in mind:

"In case I would ask you: "".........?"", what would be your answer?"

or

"Are you the type that would say the city is to the right?"

But of course your solution will work as well. In all cases it is:
- * - = +

Marinus · Post by **Marinus** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:17 am

Anybody home?

It happened in that terrible night, my beard growed/grew(?) a handwith, that I left my camp for there was a bear in the neighbourhood. I walked south for an hour and then west for an hour. Then I thought it was save, so I went north for another hour, back to my camp.

What was the colour of the bear?

Lucky-Luc · Post by **Lucky-Luc** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:32 am

Come on, that's too easy!

This colour, of course.

Marinus · Post by **Marinus** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:42 am

Lucky-Luc wrote:Come on, that's too easy!

Sorry, I didn't remember a more difficult riddle.

Do you know one?

Lucky-Luc · Post by **Lucky-Luc** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:52 pm

Okay, you asked for it

:

There's a spy who wants to enter a town. The only way to get in is a gate which is guarded very well. So he decides to watch the inhabitants of the town as they are entering. A first person comes. The guard asks "6?", and the person responds "3" and passes. Then a second person comes. The guard asks "12?" and the person responds "6". This person may pass, too, and the spy thinks that he knows the solution, so he tries now. But when the guard asks him "16?" and he responds "8", he gets arrested.
What would have been the correct answer, and why?

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:00 pm

The correct answer would be to secretly show the TRUE password written on paper, and the number talk was a dud.

If not, then I guess 9? (following the sequence of 3, 6, 9...)

Dizzy1 · Post by **Dizzy1** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:05 pm

Would the correct number be 12?

(sort of an early morning type logic)

Lucky-Luc · Post by **Lucky-Luc** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:16 pm

Neither 9 nor 12, sorry. As a little hint: The second person didn't know about the answer of the first one; the first person was already in the town when the second one came.

(Oh, and no secret password or paper, but nice idea!)

dlcs18 · Post by **dlcs18** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:26 pm

32? The guard might have been drunk and forgot that he was doing half instead of double. LOL!

Marinus · Post by **Marinus** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:05 pm

I think we have not enough information to get the right solution.

Let some other people come to that gate and let's hear what the guard and the people say.

Dizzy1 · Post by **Dizzy1** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:12 pm

Was the number the person entering had to say, the number of people in his car?

Lucky-Luc · Post by **Lucky-Luc** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:21 pm

Dlcs, the guard was sober - at least sober enough to remember the correct solution

Marinus, sorry, I don't really want to add other persons. But of course I'm a nice person, so here's the correct answer to "16?". You might be even able to get it now, but I don't think so:

The correct answer would have been 7

Dizzy, you *could* solve the riddle only using the information you have. There are no special things about the persons who enter or anything. It's just so incredibely absurd that I'm pretty sure you might never get it.

Everyone: I'll probably post a few more hints in a couple of hours, but right now, I just enjoy it too much to watch your ideas - and how far they are away from the correct one.

Lutz · Post by **Lutz** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:59 pm

The correct answer is 7 because SIXTEEN has 7 letters

Got it before I read your spoiler

dlcs18 · Post by **dlcs18** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:01 pm

Lutz wrote:The correct answer is 7 because SIXTEEN has 7 letters

Oh my god *Slaps head* DOH!!!!!!!!!!

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:08 pm

OMG Lutz, there was me building horrendously complex math schemes that would tie these numbers together.
To be fair, though, I WAS distracted by a very similarly-worded riddle where the solution was dividing by 2 until you meet a prime number, rounding down if you meet an odd number.

Dizzy1 · Post by **Dizzy1** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:19 pm

Muzozavr wrote:OMG Lutz, there was me building horrendously complex math schemes that would tie these numbers together.

And I was thinking about Toon Town and the number of fingers the Cartoon Characters had!

dlcs18 · Post by **dlcs18** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:23 pm

Dizzy1 wrote: And I was thinking about Toon Town

What, the game or the place?

Dizzy1 · Post by **Dizzy1** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:25 pm

The Movie.

Edit: Well, actually the movie was 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' but a lot of the scenes were in Toon Town! Awesome!

I only wish there was a place named Toon Town in real life! I would live there!

Lucky-Luc · Post by **Lucky-Luc** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 5:39 pm

Congratulations, Lutz! I really didn't think anyone would figure it out without any help!

By the way, the original riddle is German. It works even better there, as there are three numbers that fit the scheme and that are maybe also a bit less obvious.