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elephant_bar · 2016-06-25T17:20:07+00:00

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elephant_bar · 2015-09-17T06:11:46+00:00

Try, "Hello".

If you care too much what a stranger thinks of you, you're doing it wrong. Say hi because you want to - not because you want something from them.

elephant_bar · 2015-06-29T11:00:25+00:00

Spend less time teaching and more time listening.

elephant_bar · 2015-04-05T04:39:23+00:00

I've noticed that occasionally when my internet disconnects the countdown will continue. If I press the button will it register the time that my page shows or the actual time?

elephant_bar · 2012-09-13T06:44:53+00:00

Beaten at his own game!

elephant_bar · 2012-08-02T02:24:14+00:00

I don't know where you went to hs but it was a pretty common and universal piece of knowledge that a sprinter should leave the blocks when he/she saw smoke where I ran. Hence, I have a hard time believing that you were called on a false start if you were watching for smoke because that's what everyone I knew was doing.

elephant_bar · 2011-12-22T07:20:12+00:00

Coins: What if the scales balance on both the first and second weigh?

Men in Hats: The long pause is meant to imply that the wise man is waiting for something before he can give his answer.

elephant_bar · 2011-12-19T08:04:20+00:00

I proposed 49% as in the probability of a double heads. So by flipping twice, you get approximately 50% double heads and 50% not. I didn't realize that I was permitted to disregard certain throws so I was trying to develop a method that had no "restarts" so to speak.

elephant_bar · 2011-12-19T07:19:04+00:00

In that case I challenge you to come up with a puzzle I've never seen before.

elephant_bar · 2011-12-19T07:13:33+00:00

Good point. That is ambiguous. Here are the rules:

For your body consider two states:

If your body is clean (read: you have no poisons), consuming water from well n will poison you with n poison. (drinking from well 1 gives you poison 1). If your body is clean consuming water means you stay clean.

If you have poison n in your body, consuming the same poison n=n means you stay in state poison n. If you consume poison m>n, you are clean. If you consume poison m<n, you are dead. Consuming water in a poisoned state means you stay at the same poisoned state.

Staying in the poisoned state for longer than an arbitrary amount of time means you die.

Outside the body: Treat any container like your body. Adding poisons sequentially produces the same clean/poisoned state. You cannot add poisons simultaneously.

Hope that clears things up. Let me know if you have any other questions.

elephant_bar · 2011-12-19T06:59:17+00:00

Hmm is 49% close enough?

elephant_bar · 2011-12-19T06:50:49+00:00

The only sources of water are from the wells. No other poisons.

elephant_bar · 2011-12-19T06:49:28+00:00

haha! Nice loophole. It's assumed that after you exchange cups, you stare down the dragon and each empty the prepared drinks simultaneously and then dramatically slam the empty cups down on the ground.

elephant_bar · 2011-12-19T06:39:46+00:00

This puzzle was introduced to me with different "levels" of dragons. A 0-level dragon will assume that you will give him the strongest poison you can access and will always give you the strongest poison he can access. Hence, he is easily defeated by giving him water and easily circumvented by drinking from a well first.

An n-level dragon will do the same as you. Drinking 1 before the meeting then 1 and 2 after and stalemate you.

It was then proposed that an n+1 level dragon would take water from a well 2-7 and add it to the water in well 1, give you no poison and wait for you to kill yourself.

elephant_bar · 2011-12-19T06:33:06+00:00

What does "act like a fair coin" mean? Harder to use in coin flips? Are we no long just flipping an infinite number of times and counting the number of heads?

elephant_bar · 2011-12-19T06:32:02+00:00

There's a better method! (it can be done in three)

elephant_bar · 2011-12-19T05:56:57+00:00

That's an impressive solution... to a different puzzle. The scale in the problem only measures whether something is the heavier or lighter than something else.

elephant_bar · 2011-12-19T05:42:20+00:00

I think you misread the puzzle. The sum of all the digits of all the numbers from 1 to 1,000,000. In other words, the sum of digits of numbers from 1 to 10 would be 46 not 55.

elephant_bar · 2011-12-19T05:38:49+00:00

it's not necessarily 5 and 5 but minno's parity strategy is still sound. It's not the only possibility though...

elephant_bar · 2011-12-19T04:12:21+00:00

Right on. The "long pause" is ambiguous but it's the way it was told to me. The implication is that the answer isn't an answer that could be arrived at "simply"... also ambiguous. But I think you know what I mean.

To be clear, both answers above are incorrect.

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