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Post by Colleenz on Apr 18, 2012 20:05:12 GMT -5
Thank you to the Mod with the Dragon Tattoo - you were equally entertaining.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Apr 18, 2012 20:16:40 GMT -5
Can I get a Karma for not even opening thread until now and the game is over I got ya' too, NNP. ;D Damn if I had known it was that easy to get K's I would have started begging long time ago OH, and back at cha when I recharge. Had to K Apple earlier....
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Post by Apple on Apr 18, 2012 20:41:40 GMT -5
Thank you to the Mod with the Dragon Tattoo - you were equally entertaining. {{{Read swiftly minions lest I be banned soon}}} BOB ROSS ROCKS don't read this - we are hypnotizing you - go back to FOX TVBob Ross is awesome (but don't let him know I said that) Now I have to look at collenz's history to see why she's gonna be banned...
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Apr 19, 2012 9:30:49 GMT -5
Thank you to the Mod with the Dragon Tattoo - you were equally entertaining. {{{Read swiftly minions lest I be banned soon}}} BOB ROSS ROCKS don't read this - we are hypnotizing you - go back to FOX TVBob Ross is awesome (but don't let him know I said that) Now I have to look at collenz's history to see why she's gonna be banned... She knows that I despise that movie almost as much as I despise the spotted plague. NoName and Colleenz both get an extra karma for being nicer to me than apple.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jun 28, 2012 9:33:02 GMT -5
Problem 65 - EE-mazing!Instructions:Draw a single curve (no lifting your pencil or retracing) that passes through each of the dots once and only once. Your curve may pass through itself but may not pass through any of the walls. The sequence of letters (associated with the dots your curve passes through) must spell out a well-known EE phrase. Notice that the "rooms" all have numbers. The whole outside of the box is called "OUTSIDE". The correct solution to the puzzle is the sequence of rooms, including OUTSIDE, that your curve passes through. So for instance, if your curve starts in room 4, passes OUTSIDE through the 'N' on the left, then passes into room 3 through the 'S' at the top, the first three items of your solution will be: 4-OUTSIDE-3- ... 10 karma to the first person who posts the correct solution!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2012 9:42:58 GMT -5
Well, I figured out the phrase, but not all the lines. Can I get partial credit?
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Post by Colleenz on Jun 28, 2012 9:52:43 GMT -5
7 - out - 8 - out - 5 - 8 - 7 - 4 - out - 1 - 2 - 5 - 4 - 1 - out - 6 - 7 - 5 - 3 - out - 6 - 4 - 2 - 3 - out - 2
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Post by Colleenz on Jun 28, 2012 9:57:22 GMT -5
Oh - and I passed through walls because that's just how I roll Seriously though, by your own explanation you need to at least pass through the exterior walls. If your intention was not to pas through any interior walls just put an additional "out" between any room numbers since every room is adjacent to an outside wall.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jun 28, 2012 10:00:47 GMT -5
Collenz is correct. (With the exception of missing the last character in the answer, but we'll forgive her that. ) +10 K for Colleenz. And Beer, 3 karma for you if you give us all the phrase. The solution you gave doesn't pass through any walls. It passes through the dots. I suppose the dots are technically "on" the walls, and so perhaps that's where the confusion is coming in. My intent was that you treat the dots as "doors", since you're allowed to pass through them.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2012 10:02:48 GMT -5
"Who doesn't love the Muscle Up?" of course!
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jun 28, 2012 10:04:33 GMT -5
+3K Was it that obvious?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2012 10:05:40 GMT -5
Are you implying that it was obvious because I figured it out??!?!? Actually, I enjoy doing Jumbles so the words jumped out at me.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jun 28, 2012 10:10:16 GMT -5
More the language used in your reply. "The answer is ..., of course. " It implies the problem was an absolute no-brainer, and I hadn't thought it would be.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2012 10:13:07 GMT -5
It was the "well known EE phrase" clue. I saw "who" and the rest just fell into place.
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Post by Colleenz on Jun 28, 2012 10:13:45 GMT -5
After I tried spelling snow leopard and alcohol it was the first phrase that came to my mind.
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Jun 28, 2012 10:36:27 GMT -5
Are you implying that it was obvious because I figured it out??!?!? Actually, I enjoy doing Jumbles so the words jumped out at me. See there are more ways then one to solve puzzles.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jun 28, 2012 10:42:25 GMT -5
I suck at word jumbles. Also, they tend to be one of the simplest problems to solve algorithmically. The whole time I'm sitting there solving one, I'm thinking "You know, I could literally solve this thing with three lines of code." *sigh* Thwarted by my own word jumble challengedness.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2012 10:45:03 GMT -5
There, there.....Virg. I don't let my algorithm challengedness get me down! ;D
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Jun 28, 2012 10:47:00 GMT -5
I suck at word jumbles. Also, they tend to be one of the simplest problems to solve algorithmically. The whole time I'm sitting there solving one, I'm thinking "You know, I could literally solve this thing with three lines of code." *sigh* Thwarted by my own word jumble challengedness. Same here. My wife, who is smarter then me, excels at word jumbles and crossword puzzles and word games. Being an Engineer, I over think some brain teasers trying logic and math first.
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Jun 28, 2012 11:20:06 GMT -5
Darn - the one day when I had to be somewhere else this morning, and here's a BTOTD that I missed out on playing. We should have one or two a month. ["Challengedness? - Sounds like a word you'd use on "Change the Word" game when you're stumped]
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jun 28, 2012 11:50:31 GMT -5
There, there.....Virg. I don't let my algorithm challengedness get me down! ;D My archnemesis is those tangram puzzles. It must be the way my brain is wired, but I can spend half an hour on just one tangram and get nowhere. Mrs. Virgil can piece together five of them in five minutes. Not that she's a slouch at puzzles, but for hubby to be outperformed so drastically is just embarrassing. Anything to do with "math" she won't touch. My sister is a whiz with "permute the letters" type anagram games where the computer gives you a word and you need to make as many words out of the letters as possible in a certain amount of time. It'll put up GOALIES, and she'll have rattled off LAGS, SILO, AEGIS, SEA, AISLE, oh... LOSE, AGE, OGLES... by the time I've burbled out "Duhhhhh... GOALIE...?" My saving grace is that I can consistently beat her in Scrabble.
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Post by Jaguar on Jun 28, 2012 11:55:16 GMT -5
I beat my two sister's all the damn time in Scrabble. They think I'm studing the dictionary all the time, nah I'm just on here posting away. It's a fact that after that "certain" age if you don't use it you completely lose it. I see Virgil is over that age now......... ;D << explains everything >>
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2012 13:15:18 GMT -5
LOL! I'm going to give him a pass since it's his Birthday and all.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jul 12, 2012 10:55:06 GMT -5
Problem 66 - sEEgulls and ModssEEgulls (consult Cheesipedia) are brilliant people, but notorious for their fickle nature. They always know the correct answer to any question you ask them, but they're also known to tell lies from time to time. The trick is that any time a sEEgull answers a question truthfully, the next answer they give is guaranteed to be a lie. And if a sEEgull answers a question with a lie, they're guaranteed to answer the next question truthfully. In other words, they consistently alternate between truth and lies. EE mods are also brilliant (they know the correct answer to any question). But unlike sEEgulls, they answer every single question truthfully. Suppose a newcomer shows up to EE, where exactly three sEEgulls and one EE mod are presently online to answer questions. The newcomer knows everything I just told you, but he has no idea which posters are the sEEgulls and which one is the mod. He also doesn't know which sEEgulls are on "lie" when he shows up, and which ones are on "truth". Assuming he can pose two questions ( any two questions, not only yes/no questions) to any of the four posters (the two questions may be directed to different posters), what questions should he ask, and to whom, to determine with 100% certainty who the EE mod is? If it helps, let the four EE posters be called A B C and D. 7 karma to the poster who first solves the problem without cheating (e.g. Google, etc.) 10 karma to the poster who figures out how to solve the problem with one question!
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jul 12, 2012 12:01:01 GMT -5
Form one line now. No shoving. Don't make me call crowd control.
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Jul 12, 2012 12:05:45 GMT -5
I'm still waiting for my brain to kick into gear before I tackle this one.... I need nourishment first - then I might give it another read.
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Post by Jaguar on Jul 12, 2012 12:42:55 GMT -5
I looked at this and my brain left home. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2012 13:19:31 GMT -5
You ask any two who the mod is. if their answers are different then you know that one of them is the MOD and take a 50/50 guess; same thing if they answer the same -- you know one of the other two is the MOD and take a guess (I'm sure this answer may be partially correct but it is the best my algorithm challenged brain came come up with right now). ;D
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jul 12, 2012 13:56:46 GMT -5
You ask any two who the mod is. if their answers are different then you know that one of them is the MOD and take a 50/50 guess; same thing if they answer the same -- you know one of the other two is the MOD and take a guess (I'm sure this answer may be partially correct but it is the best my algorithm challenged brain came come up with right now). ;D Suppose you ask A and B who the mod is, and A says "A" and B says "D". You don't know if A's answer is a lie by a sEEgull or the truth by a mod. You know that B isn't the mod, but B's answer could also be a lie, in which case the mod could be A or C, or if B's answer is the truth, the mod is D. Hence you still only have a 1/3 chance of guessing the mod correctly. Suppose you ask A and B who the mod is, and A says "A" and B says "A". In this case, A could be the mod telling the truth, and B's answer could be the truth from a sEEgull -OR- both answers could be lies from sEEgulls. Again, you know that B isn't the mod, but you still only have a 1/3 chance of guessing which of A, C, or D is the mod.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2012 13:59:19 GMT -5
Then I change my answer to "rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock".
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