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RANDOM RIDDLE [message #299114] Mon, 26 November 2007 11:55 Go to next message
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You are wearing a blindfold and thick gloves. An infinite number of quarters are laid out before you on a table of infinite area. Someone tells you that 20 of these quarters are tails and the rest are heads. He says that if you can split the quarters into 2 piles where the number of tails quarters is the same in both piles, then you win all of the quarters. You are allowed to move the quarters and to flip them over, but you can never tell what state a quarter is currently in (the blindfold prevents you from seeing, and the gloves prevent you from feeling which side is heads or tails). How do you partition the quarters so that you can win them all?
Re: RANDOM RIDDLE [message #299119 is a reply to message #299114] Mon, 26 November 2007 12:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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That was quite hard to understand, and i still don't fully understand what you mean.

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Re: RANDOM RIDDLE [message #299122 is a reply to message #299114] Mon, 26 November 2007 12:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Take your blindfold off.
Re: RANDOM RIDDLE [message #299124 is a reply to message #299114] Mon, 26 November 2007 12:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Get someone else do to it for you?

Actually, you didn't explicitly state we submit our finished piles several times over, so you could just keep trying.


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Re: RANDOM RIDDLE [message #299136 is a reply to message #299114] Mon, 26 November 2007 13:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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There can't be infinite area and quarters, therefore, this scenario can't occur.

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[19:16:48] <APBBR> @ryan3k: THE ENFIELD DEFIES THE LAWS OF PHYSICS BECAUSE THE BULLETS INSTANTLY HIT THEIR TARGETS LOL
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Re: RANDOM RIDDLE [message #299140 is a reply to message #299114] Mon, 26 November 2007 13:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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move one quater at a time onto the floor - and feel it with your toes what way up it is.
Re: RANDOM RIDDLE [message #299154 is a reply to message #299114] Mon, 26 November 2007 14:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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You cant split infinite...

Keep trying, you'll fail every time.


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Re: RANDOM RIDDLE [message #299156 is a reply to message #299140] Mon, 26 November 2007 14:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Have someone else do it.
Re: RANDOM RIDDLE [message #299165 is a reply to message #299114] Mon, 26 November 2007 14:36 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Take the blind fold off...

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Re: RANDOM RIDDLE [message #299167 is a reply to message #299114] Mon, 26 November 2007 14:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I'm guessing he meant finite.

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Re: RANDOM RIDDLE [message #299273 is a reply to message #299114] Mon, 26 November 2007 23:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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lmao


Without loss of generality, let's say you have 7 coins, 5 of which are tails. I claim you can choose any 5 of these 7 coins, flip your chosen coins, and the number of tails in the chosen set and the remainder set will be identical.

7 coins, 5 of which are tails.

Chosen
Remainder

HTTHT
TT


Flipped chosen
Remainder
THHTH
TT

thus something like this:

chosen = 20, remainder = *infinity - 20*
flip those 20, your done. the number of tails is now equal in both piles ^.^

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Re: RANDOM RIDDLE [message #299279 is a reply to message #299114] Mon, 26 November 2007 23:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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another one....


-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-

Add punctuation to the following phrase to make something gramatically and logically coherent:

i had had had tom had had had had had had had had the praise of the teacher

-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-

^.^
Re: RANDOM RIDDLE [message #299289 is a reply to message #299114] Mon, 26 November 2007 23:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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COMMAS!

I, had, had, had, tom, had, had, had, had, had, had, had, had, the, praise, of, the, teacher.

Done.


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Re: RANDOM RIDDLE [message #299293 is a reply to message #299289] Mon, 26 November 2007 23:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Charlie 319 wrote on Tue, 27 November 2007 00:53

COMMAS!

I, had, had, had, tom, had, had, had, had, had, had, had, had, the, praise, of, the, teacher.

Done.


FAIL! TOTAL COMPLETE EPIC FAIL!
Re: RANDOM RIDDLE [message #299296 is a reply to message #299114] Tue, 27 November 2007 00:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
my commas never fail me! Crying or Very sad


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Re: RANDOM RIDDLE [message #299299 is a reply to message #299114] Tue, 27 November 2007 00:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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*destroys all helichoppers in exsistance with a comma*

still like them?
Re: RANDOM RIDDLE [message #299303 is a reply to message #299114] Tue, 27 November 2007 00:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Qwertwert125, you are truly the worst gate keeper ever. These riddles are terrible and not well thought out.

You don't even have a good opener like "Answer my riddles three..." or something.


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Re: RANDOM RIDDLE [message #299306 is a reply to message #299114] Tue, 27 November 2007 00:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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mr oblivion


i ask you


why is there no correct answer to this question?


fear me or i sahll do one of the following:
1)make you brain explode with a logical paradox from hell.
2)*use a statement of death, doom, and disembowlment surrounded by asteriks of debotchery*
3)eat cake.
Re: RANDOM RIDDLE [message #299307 is a reply to message #299114] Tue, 27 November 2007 00:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Because any amount of punctuation won't fix the sentence.

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Re: RANDOM RIDDLE [message #299308 is a reply to message #299114] Tue, 27 November 2007 00:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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THE FOLOWING QUESTION: why is there no correct answer to this question?

and bite me: I had had "had". Tom had had "had had". "Had had" had had the praise of the teacher.


^.^


fear me or i sahll do one of the following:
1)make you brain explode with a logical paradox from hell.
2)*use a statement of death, doom, and disembowlment surrounded by asteriks of debotchery*
3)eat cake.
Re: RANDOM RIDDLE [message #299312 is a reply to message #299114] Tue, 27 November 2007 01:17 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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    _______________________________________
   /                                       \
   |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   |
   |                                       |
   |                                       |
   |___/---\_______________________/---\___|
         0                           0

in what direction is this bus traveling and why? *snickers*

to the right, or to the left?

p.s. kindergardners were asked this, and 9/10 got it right, can you?


fear me or i sahll do one of the following:
1)make you brain explode with a logical paradox from hell.
2)*use a statement of death, doom, and disembowlment surrounded by asteriks of debotchery*
3)eat cake.
Re: RANDOM RIDDLE [message #299317 is a reply to message #299114] Tue, 27 November 2007 01:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I'm going to say right, otherwise it would crash into the left hand side of the screen.
Re: RANDOM RIDDLE [message #299326 is a reply to message #299308] Tue, 27 November 2007 02:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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qwertwert125 wrote on Tue, 27 November 2007 02:47

THE FOLOWING QUESTION: why is there no correct answer to this question?

and bite me: I had had "had". Tom had had "had had". "Had had" had had the praise of the teacher.


^.^


That sentence is still not grammatically correct, hell its not anything correct.


qwertwert125 wrote on Tue, 27 November 2007 03:17

    _______________________________________
   /                                       \
   |   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   |
   |                                       |
   |                                       |
   |___/---\_______________________/---\___|
         0                           0

in what direction is this bus traveling and why? *snickers*

to the right, or to the left?

p.s. kindergardners were asked this, and 9/10 got it right, can you?


Since when do teachers use Ascii art to test children? I vote BS on any claimed statistics.

Answer is: It's not moving.


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Re: RANDOM RIDDLE [message #299342 is a reply to message #299114] Tue, 27 November 2007 06:48 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Never, ever try to give riddles, ever.

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[19:16:48] <APBBR> @ryan3k: THE ENFIELD DEFIES THE LAWS OF PHYSICS BECAUSE THE BULLETS INSTANTLY HIT THEIR TARGETS LOL
[19:16:52] <APBBR> @ryan3k: CHRONO TECHNOLOGY IN TEH BULLETS


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[22:48]<APBBR> @V0LK0V: AOL COMING UR WAI K
[22:48] <APBBR> Host: Quitting due to Westwood Online connection loss.

Re: RANDOM RIDDLE [message #299363 is a reply to message #299140] Tue, 27 November 2007 07:44 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Nightma12 wrote on Mon, 26 November 2007 15:32

move one quater at a time onto the floor - and feel it with your toes what way up it is.

Great now I cant see where the quarter fell.

AND it's off the table now.


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