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apoptoxin4869
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the ghost of christmas thingy?
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rigel126
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A stove sits down and never gets up.
Fire eats all that it is given and will never be satisfied until it burns out.
Smoke goes away and never returns.

I've heard of this before, and you're a great big meanie Tetsu! It's hard for anybody to come up with three answers at one go!
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rigel126
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??? No answer? Should I post a riddle then?
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go ahead
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rigel126
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Hmm. Here's a really corny logic kind of riddle.

You have nine coins and a balance (the kind that represents the constellation Libra). These coins are identical in every way, but one of them is a fake, and it is slightly lighter than the others. Unfortunately, the difference in weight is too subtle for you to detect that you must use the balance to help you. You are only allowed to use the balance three times in order to find the fake coin. Do you know how to do it? As my plant pathology lecturer loves to say, the answer is in the question.
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similar riddle was asked before. in your scenario, its possible to get the answer with only two weighings.

1) take any three and put on one side of the balance, put another three on the other side.
if one side is lighter then the fake coin is one of the three coins on that lighter side.
if both sides are equal then the lighter coin is one of the three unweighed coins.
either way, step one narrows the fake one down to three coins.

2) take the three suspect coins and put one on each side of the balance.
if one is lighter then that one is the fake. if they're equal then the third unweighed coin is the fake.


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Uuuu.... that seemed too easy. ><"

Anyways, your turn Am.
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haha most people like easy questions that require little thinking but they all got scared away when i showed up.

here's a not-so-difficult one. about a 2 or 3 out of 10 on my personal scale.

john's doctor prescribed him two anti-cancer medicines (lets call them A and B) and he needs to take one pill of each per day.

on the first day john puts one pill of A in his hand and accidentally dumps two of B into his hand.
unfortunately, the two types of pills all look identical except for their color and john happens to be colorblind.

how can john not waste any pills without overdosing/underdosing or get help from someone to ID the pills?
Edited by amginE, Mar 14 2011, 02:01 PM.
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compare the color to his shirt cuz one of it is the color of his shirt :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
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colorblind: i don't think that word means what you think it means
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aren't someppl kinda half color blind or something?????? my friend is kinda................... she cant see dark green DDDDDDDDDDD:
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I just joined today cause i've been reading the riddles for the past.....2 hours or so.
i think i got this.
add another of A. crush them all up. dissolve in water. drink half of the water day 1 and the other half day 2

though i think im wrong cause theres something to do with the colour
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amginE
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Haha, leave it up to Topocct to come up with a crazy creative solution!

Your idea works, but there's a much more straightforward way. No water involved.
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i think top gets to choose the next one, regardless of whether that was the answer you were looking for or not. at least, that's my vote.
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I don't mind either way. If Topocct chooses to post another one that's fine by me. Of course, then the "real" answer won't get revealed if that happens.
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i refuse to post then
i wanna know the answer (and i have no riddles)
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i have met (but not talked to at great length) color blind people. if it means: that the world is represented in black and white like an old movie. he should just go compare the color of the pills to something of the same color. however a better answer would be to take the medicine in his hand and in the bottles to a friend and ask them to check the pills.
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I have a friend who is color blind. He sees green as brown/dark red
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...there's more than one kind of colorblind people. some just see some colors as others, while others don't see colors... maybe. i can confirm the first type though
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do you know that there are people who can listen to music and see something artistic??
i forgot what they call it already, but they are not using their imagination to see it
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sounds cool, wish i could do that

EDIT: this is too simple, but he sets the pills aside and takes the right amount of each. the me asks a friend to check the pills, easy, lazy
Edited by daystar, May 1 2011, 12:12 AM.
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Yuki
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LOL lazybum~~~~~
they say people who can do that can unleash their brain's potential better than we do. Cool, right?
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yes, arn't we lazy?
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Yuki
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during weekends i usually wake up around 10am and my bro calls me a lazybum just because he wakes up 5 min earlier than me, can you believe that?
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and no one has yet to figure out the actual riddle
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daystar
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yes, i can

and i don't think the riddle will be answered by me
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Yuki
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Lick each pill......Maybe the different types of pills taste different?? 0_0
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probably not... i still like the crazy creative solution
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what colour are the pills and what kind of colour blindness does he have?
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daystar
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...good question
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Yuki
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amginE, are you going to reply to his question?
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... I dunno
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Zwagon
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well, i didn't exactly post my question that long ago....
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Yuki
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LOL why are you answering on behalf of amginE?
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because it's unrealistic to expect an answer from him for at least 12 hours ._.
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daystar
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... Or less
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Yuki
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haha true.....he doesn't usually go online at this time....
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... He seems to keep some of the same hours I do

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Yuki
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really? what time is that??
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Zwagon
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well, daystar's time zone is probably GMT -6 if that helps
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central.
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hmmm.......btw can we go back to the topic, now? has anyone tried the boat test thingy which requires you to transfer 3 monks and 3 barbarians across the river with one boat? If the barbarian outnumbers the monk, they will eat the monk. So, how do you solve this problem?
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pffff, eat
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??? what do you mean??
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...sounds like a stole puzzle...
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"they will eat the monk" that part sounds ridiculous
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LOL cos they're barbarians!! they are cannibals so they eat humans! LIKE I DO!! *ROAR*
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but, barbarian doesn't mean cannibal D:
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...yeah. How many can the boat carry? How many trips do you get?
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Zwagon
May 3 2011, 10:28 AM
what colour are the pills and what kind of colour blindness does he have?
irrelevant.

you can just assume that the pills look identical

as for the monk and barbarian question:

Code:
 

BM
BM
BM


Send two barbarians over

Code:
 

BM B
M
M B


And one back
Code:
 

BM B
M
BM


Then both barbarians over
Code:
 

M B
M B
M B



And one back
Code:
 

M B
M B
BM


Two monks over
Code:
 

BM
BM
BM


And one of each back
Code:
 

BM
BM
BM


Two monks over...again
Code:
 

BM
B M
B M


And the barbarian goes back
Code:
 

B M
B M
B M


Two barbarians over
Code:
 

BM
BM
B M


And one goes back again
Code:
 

B M
BM
B M


Two barbarians over and you're done
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BM
BM
BM


Making for 11 crossings. Moral of the story? Don't travel with barbarians
Edited by amginE, May 4 2011, 07:34 PM.
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