« first day (3638 days earlier)      last day (17 days later) » 

6:31 AM
0
Q: Repeated Coin Flipping

Md Kaif FaiyazThis question is from Quantguide(Repeated Flipper): 25 fair coins are lined up and flipped once. Afterwards, remove all of the coins that showed tails, and repeat the aforementioned process until you have no coins left or all of the coins show up heads. Find the probability that you end the game ...

 
Massive hint for one of my as-yet-unsolved puzzles: the solution is featured on the Wikipedia front page today.
 
 
1 hour later…
7:38 AM
👀
 
"reference desk"?
 
inaccessible island rail sounds like some kind of north sentinelese public transport system
 
time to post 13 answers saying the solution is the inaccessible island rail
 
heh, one of the puzzles is titled "You can't reach the answer"
 
@msh210 That's the name of the Lit.SE mod room.
 
heh
 
8:22 AM
@msh210 yah looks like it's that one actually
 
@Jafe its answer is two words
oh, apparently the bird is also called the Inaccessible rail
 
a staircase has rails, inaccessible means impossible to reach...
apparently the finnish name of the bird is one word (because of course it is)... hermit+swamp+chicken all together without stopping for breath
meanwhile the english name has three words none of which are hermit, swamp or chicken
 
is the island (or archipelago) called hermit swamp in Finnish?
 
wikipedia calls it Inaccessible
i guess if you live on an inaccessible island you might be described as a hermit
 
8:38 AM
and if you're grumpy, a hermit crab
 
hehe
that's it, i'm starting a bucket list
1. access the inaccessible rail
2. move the immovable ladder
 
8:57 AM
definitely all of that
adding "touch mc hammer" to the list as well
2
 
9:40 AM
wait, wasn't apologies to robert frost solved?
 
9:56 AM
0
Q: King cake with shy guests

Fluorine Very distant inspiration from what a family member asked me some years ago on epiphany, this might be a classical logic exercise, but due to the flavor it's quite hard to find the same problem under a different formulation, let alone confirm an original. Additional note: This is a fairly easy on...

 
@Jafe yeah it was solved
I remember Gareth commenting on it
Though I don't see a green tick...
 
maybe it was revealed but nobody wrote down a full answer
Still around. Seeing your notes I see how close I was. I wont change my answer since I looked at it, but it was a close one! Thanks for the update. — mkinson Jul 27, 2020 at 12:52
yeah looks like the answerer just didn't update the answer
also known as the "take the bounty and run" approach
 
 
5 hours later…
3:11 PM
@msh210 Correct
 
 
1 hour later…
4:35 PM
CCCC: Sweet fruit, and hot dressing, are at odds with one another (5)
 
 
2 hours later…
6:21 PM
0
Q: Numerical sequence puzzle: 552175, 228496, 198479, 583317, 136722, 114383, 117045, ?,?

Fraternal9274So here's the sequence, that I composed on my own. 552175, 228496, 198479, 583317, 136722, 114383, 117045, ?, ?

 
 
4 hours later…
10:32 PM
0
Q: Geometry Puzzle: Tangent Circles with Integer Radii

BrandanTake as a semi-related example a series of circles with radii 10, 9, 8, ..., 2, 1. Place the first (largest) circle in the center and subsequent circles around it, keeping tangency between subsequent circles and the central circle. It would look like this: The puzzle prompt is this: Find a seque...

 
 
1 hour later…
11:47 PM
@PaleGraneBroccoli cut it out with the star spamming
 

« first day (3638 days earlier)      last day (17 days later) »