There are 6 friends A, B, C, D, E and F who want to cross a bridge. However, there are two problems. First, the bridge can only accommodate two persons at a time. Second, it is night and they need the torch every time they cross the bridge (fortunately, they have one). The minimum time required b...
Examples of inputs and outputs:
Input: 3 7 20
Output: 1
Input: 17 2 1651
Output: 34
Input: 4 3 5
Output: 2
Input: 1000000000 1000000000 1000000007
Output: 49
Input: 27 37 100
Output: 99
Year is 2050. Aliens have been discovered and is now acknowledged as a friendly species towards humans. They now comes for regular visits on Earth and has a friendly relation towards humans. One day, a UFO was on a regular patrol toward Venus but suddenly it suffered a failure and crashed on Eart...
(1) How should the game end with best play on both sides?
(2) Use the clue to complete the bad pun!
My prefix is about
My infix wants to learn
My suffix wants to get things done
My whole is a redecoration
A woman is buying many coconuts for 5\$ a dozen. Afterwards, she is selling the coconuts for 3\$ a dozen.
After this transaction, the woman has become a millionaire!
How could that happen?
Hint:
Source:
I found this riddle on the webpage of Jürgen Stock.
However I think this riddle is widely k...
Ryan is an avid gamer. He has played all sorts of games ranging from consoles like Xbox, PlayStation, Nindento etc. to PC games to mobile games. One day, it was raining outside heavily and as always Ryan was into PC playing a game. Suddenly, his house was struck by lightening. As his PC was conne...
At birth, I was everything
At two, I was playful
At three, I wanted to communicate
At six, I experienced a setback
At seven, I was overly bold
At eight, I provided safe passage
By thirteen, I was languishing, abandoned in the suburban wilderness
By twenty, I was a giant
By twenty-three, no one wa...
The white pieces in the above position should maneuver themselves into the flipped starting position (i.e. king in e3). All pieces makes regular moves within the 4x4 center squares. By removing a pawn from the board to allow a moving space, find a way with least moves.
The other day, I was eavesdropping and I heard strange scraps of a one-sided conversation. Although I didn't get much out of it at first, I was able eventually to identify the speaker by his initials.
Well, if you're talking about breaking an old record, then yes, I take that very personally... ...
Initially, I played music, but after a spell,
they called me disreputable, I said "oh well"
The judge said I was out of order, but he was wrong,
I wasn't in at the beginning, but two places along
Is it inappropriate for me to to start something to eat?
I was just playing games, let me skip the re...
