What should I call this kind of puzzle?
Your mysterious aunt (not uncle!) sent you a computer for your birthday, but it seems to be password protected. Your aunt has sent you a riddle and a set of instructions for finding the password and unlocking your new computer.
The instructions:
The password of this computer will only be g...
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There was a riddle lying on the ground.
Ground ? Really ?
Riddle ? Really ?
Weird ? Really ?
Who knows ?
Metre sucks
Leaving her at the door, I went long...really long. She didn't knew I won't come back. A dog, a nun, a week and an year went by. The rain washed the footsteps of me. G...
Can you help me to find the value of angle a ?
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Today I have drawn a regular $18$-gon on a piece of paper. My drawing shows the $18$ vertices of the polygon labeled as $P_1,P_2,\ldots,P_{18}$ in clockwise order, and it also shows all $135$ diagonals.
Now looking at my drawing, it seems to me that the three diagonals $P_1P_{10}$ and $P_2P_{14}...
There are 27 people. At least half of them are truth-tellers, others are random answerers
We can ask any of them any yes/no questions.
We need to identify at least one of the truth-tellers using minimum questions.
I have a strategy for 25 questions but there is a better strategy that I am look...
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Old story.
The King has received X=950 bottles of wine, exactly one of which is poisoned enough to kill a man exactly 24 hours after ingestion. The King wants to feed some N soldiers some mix of the bottles of wine and figure out conclusively in exactly 24 hours the identity of the poisoned bott...
This seems more like a proof about induction
than a proof by induction.
But what is this proof really about?
That is, what circuit with an inductance of 4 henries between A and B
does that blob with a ? question mark represent?
What do the Lemma and steps 1 through 4 mean?
In a s...
Can someone please let me know how to i match the colours in the very first stage of solving Gear Cube as I am having difficulty in the first stage itself. I need simple and easy algorithms.
Put me before new
I make it too new!
Literally, burning wood.
I identify!
Every company has me.
Mark me, but how?
I am one!
Now, what am I?
Worry not—I will help you;
I am a word
that defines all of me.
I am also a weapon,
but that is a rather obsolete me.
For this task you will be presented four lists of eight items. All items consist of two parts. To make things slightly easier for you, the length of the shortest part is given.
In each list the items share a common theme; your task is to identify the odd one out. Once you have completed this ta...
Can you use the digits 2 0 1 and 7 only once to create the number 88 ?
What about this
where
