You have 12 coins 11 are real, one is fake but you don't know if it is lighter or heavier.
You have a scale that gives you output but you don't understand it (let's say it is written in a foreign language that you don't understand).
Using 4 weightings how do you determine who is the fake coin?
Th...
I got a (German) puzzle advent calender. Today's puzzle is the following:
We are looking for a full (German) sentence. If you aren't a German speaker, this is the sentence we are looking for:
The question is, how do you find this answer?
Hint: The "solution" has this to say about the process to...
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"They predicted a blizzard in Edmonton, so I caught an earlier fli...
Based on Xkcd's Boat Puzzle
At the riverbank, a sucession of people have given you a large lump of objects to transport across the river. These are:
101 cabbages
2 goats, one of which eats wolves
4 wolves, one of which can operate the boat alone
A swarm of cabbage moths
A colony of termites
The...
I edited the description of four tags to fix some minor typographical errors, however, my edits were rejected because they do not “improve the quality of the post.”
In computer-puzzle, for example, the comma must go inside the quotation marks; also, curly quotes are used in good typography:
"Tag...
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What do we need to buy for our glorious Christmas dinner? Create a shopping list of all the things to get by decip...
I got a (German) puzzle advent calender. Today's puzzle is the following:
We are looking for a full (German) sentence. If you aren't a German speaker, this is the sentence we are looking for:
The question is, how do you find this answer?
Hint: The "solution" has this to say about the process to...
Based on Xkcd's Boat Puzzle
At the riverbank, a sucession of people have given you a large lump of objects to transport across the river. These are:
101 cabbages
2 goats, one of which eats wolves
4 wolves, one of which can operate the boat alone
A swarm of cabbage moths
A colony of termites
The...
