Riddler's Revival

[bigboab]

Yeah, so, um what is it then?

I think he meant the "feeling the need to correct someone else's grammar" kind of fail.


I copy/pasted the original text from somewhere else, by the way

We really need to treat this as an a Dickshun.

[Snee]

Yeah, so, um what is it then?

I think he meant the "feeling the need to correct someone else's grammar" kind of fail.


I copy/pasted the original text from somewhere else, by the way

Yeah, that and he needs to read up on conjunctions after commas.


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Rite, here's an old puzzle (couldn't think of any good riddles), I hope I remember it correctly:

You've got these nine dots, see.

. _. _.
. _. _.
. _. _.





Now, using no more than four straight lines, you are supposed to connect these nine dots. But you're not allowed to just make an asterisk or something, each line following the first has to begin at the same point the one before it ends.

Connect the dots, answer using paint or something.

(If this is unclear, I'll elaborate.)

It's very simple, really.

[Barbarossa]

Nice one! Like those sort of puzzles

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[Snee]

That was quick

First time I encountered it I was the only person who got it, in a group of maybe 20 people.

Most of them were girls, though

Your turn again

[Barbarossa]

I admit it's not the first time I've seen that one...


Here you go.

Census

A census taker approaches a house and asks the woman who answers the door "How many children do you have, and what are their ages?"

Woman: "I have three children, the product of their ages are 36, the sum of their ages are equal to the address of the house next door."

The census taker walks next door, comes back and says "I need more information."

The woman replies "I have to go, my oldest child is sleeping upstairs."

Census taker: "Thank you, I now have everything I need."

What are the ages of each of the three children?

[tralalala]

well i'm sure it has something to do with the fact he is a census taker, but i'm not american so i ain't got a clue.

[Snee]

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2, 2 and 9, I think, or at least that's a possible solution, the simplest possible one I could think of, anyways. There's an oldest child. So the highest number has to be unique. The number on the house next door didn't help me any, though.

I figure there has to be twins, 'cos that's sneaky. Once I decided that, it was easy.

[Barbarossa]

Well, you got the right answer somehow

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The key point is that he needed further information, so that there must have been two sets of factors of 36 that added up to the number next door. They could only be 9, 2 and 2, or 6, 6 and 1, so next door must have been 13. By telling him that she had an "oldest" child, that eliminated the second one. (assuming that twins are the same age )

If it had been any of the other factors of 36 (12+3+1=16; 3+3+4=10; 18+2+1=21; 9+4+1=14) he'd have known which one it was from the number next door, so wouldn't have needed to come back.

Your go

[tralalala]

sweet explanation Barbs.. You're good at this stuff aint you?

[Snee]

Well, you got the right answer somehow

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The key point is that he needed further information, so that there must have been two sets of factors of 36 that added up to the number next door. They could only be 9, 2 and 2, or 6, 6 and 1, so next door must have been 13. By telling him that she had an "oldest" child, that eliminated the second one. (assuming that twins are the same age )

If it had been any of the other factors of 36 (12+3+1=16; 3+3+4=10; 18+2+1=21; 9+4+1=14) he'd have known which one it was from the number next door, so wouldn't have needed to come back.

Your go

I bet you could hit 32 with liek decimals and imaginary numbers, yeah.


I gots to go off and eat and so forth, so if someone else wants to step in wih a riddle or puzzle, that's fine by me.