mercurytheatre
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Post by mercurytheatre on Mar 2, 2013 14:29:28 GMT -5
oh wait...in a perfect world...i would say 2....
......ummm....you would have to weigh all of them....
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Post by InsertBrainHere on Mar 9, 2013 13:00:28 GMT -5
I finally got around to looking at the solution, and I don't understand it, sorry.
It involves dividing the coins into two groups of 50 and each group into three groups, where one has 16 and the other two have 17. I can't make sense out of this solution.
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Post by AntiArbitrator on Mar 13, 2013 18:26:33 GMT -5
Here is a puzzle from a game I am enjoying. There are 4 pictures. Using the alphabet letters that are provided, determine one word that relates to the pictures. WHAT 5 LETTER WORD RELATES TO THE 4 PICTURES? ![]() |
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Post by InsertBrainHere on Mar 16, 2013 12:12:56 GMT -5
This paragraph is odd. What is its oddity? You may not find it at first, but this paragraph is not normal. What is wrong? It's just a small thing, but an oddity that stands out if you find it. What is it? You must know. Your days will not go on until you find out what is odd. You will pull your hair out. Your insomnia will push you until your poor brain finally short-circuits trying to find an oddity in this paragraph. Good luck.
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Post by AntiArbitrator on Mar 16, 2013 13:11:56 GMT -5
This paragraph is odd. What is its oddity? You may not find it at first, but this paragraph is not normal. What is wrong? It's just a small thing, but an oddity that stands out if you find it. What is it? You must know. Your days will not go on until you find out what is odd. You will pull your hair out. Your insomnia will push you until your poor brain finally short-circuits trying to find an oddity in this paragraph. Good luck. The paragraph indicates advancing degrees of paranoia but ends on a positive note with “good luck”. |
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Post by InsertBrainHere on Mar 16, 2013 13:20:24 GMT -5
This paragraph is odd. What is its oddity? You may not find it at first, but this paragraph is not normal. What is wrong? It's just a small thing, but an oddity that stands out if you find it. What is it? You must know. Your days will not go on until you find out what is odd. You will pull your hair out. Your insomnia will push you until your poor brain finally short-circuits trying to find an oddity in this paragraph. Good luck. The paragraph indicates advancing degrees of paranoia but ends on a positive note with “good luck”. That's not it. |
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Post by InsertBrainHere on Mar 16, 2013 13:26:01 GMT -5
oh wait...in a perfect world...i would say 2.... ......ummm....you would have to weigh all of them.... Let me just put the whole answer here. Imagine that you have in front of you fifty coins. They all look exactly alike except one of them is a fake. Because it's a fake, it weighs a couple of grams more than a real coin. So, if you had a balance scale, and you knew which was the fake coin, you would put it on one side of the scale, a good coin on the other side and it would be immediately obvious from this imbalance which was the fake coin, because it's heavier than a real coin. you would divide the 50 coins in half. What you do instead is divide the coins into three piles. Two piles of 17 and one of 16. You take the two piles of 17 and you put those on the scale, and you keep the 16 pile aside. Right away, you can see that you're going to eliminate not half the coins, but two thirds of the coins. Let's assume that one of the 17 is the heavier one. You throw everything else away. You've only made one weighing and you've narrowed it down to 17 coins. Now, you could divide the 17 in half, but better still, divide it thirds so you've got six and six and five. And you can see very clearly that you're going to be able to do this because the next group would be three and three, and then one and one. |
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mercurytheatre
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Post by mercurytheatre on Mar 21, 2013 16:42:40 GMT -5
Hey gang  What do Del Monroe and Gary Burghoff have in common? |
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Post by AntiArbitrator on Mar 21, 2013 17:21:34 GMT -5
Hey gang ![]() What do Del Monroe and Gary Burghoff have in common? They both played as soldiers? |
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Post by mercurytheatre on Mar 21, 2013 20:17:06 GMT -5
They both reprised their roles from a movie to a TV series.  |
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Post by avp60685 on Mar 22, 2013 12:43:46 GMT -5
Here is a puzzle from a game I am enjoying. There are 4 pictures. Using the alphabet letters that are provided, determine one word that relates to the pictures. WHAT 5 LETTER WORD RELATES TO THE 4 PICTURES? ![]() Snore? |
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Post by AntiArbitrator on Mar 23, 2013 12:44:11 GMT -5
Snore is correct.  |
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Post by MNBird on Apr 7, 2013 22:01:23 GMT -5
Here is a puzzle from a game I am enjoying. There are 4 pictures. Using the alphabet letters that are provided, determine one word that relates to the pictures. WHAT 5 LETTER WORD RELATES TO THE 4 PICTURES? ![]() SNORE |
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Post by MNBird on Apr 7, 2013 22:05:40 GMT -5
This paragraph is odd. What is its oddity? You may not find it at first, but this paragraph is not normal. What is wrong? It's just a small thing, but an oddity that stands out if you find it. What is it? You must know. Your days will not go on until you find out what is odd. You will pull your hair out. Your insomnia will push you until your poor brain finally short-circuits trying to find an oddity in this paragraph. Good luck. None of the words have the letter e in them. |
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Post by InsertBrainHere on May 4, 2013 12:11:54 GMT -5
This paragraph is odd. What is its oddity? You may not find it at first, but this paragraph is not normal. What is wrong? It's just a small thing, but an oddity that stands out if you find it. What is it? You must know. Your days will not go on until you find out what is odd. You will pull your hair out. Your insomnia will push you until your poor brain finally short-circuits trying to find an oddity in this paragraph. Good luck. None of the words have the letter e in them. Right. I forgot to come here. So here's another one. A retired man mows his own yard with a gasoline push mower. Over the years, the gas mileage goes down so he brings in the mower to find out why. They replace spark plugs and do everything else possible to fix the situation, and yet the number of times the man can mow the yard each time he fills the tank continues at a lower level than before. Why? |
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Post by AntiArbitrator on May 4, 2013 13:03:28 GMT -5
None of the words have the letter e in them. Right. I forgot to come here. So here's another one. A retired man mows his own yard with a gasoline push mower. Over the years, the gas mileage goes down so he brings in the mower to find out why. They replace spark plugs and do everything else possible to fix the situation, and yet the number of times the man can mow the yard each time he fills the tank continues at a lower level than before. Why? Is it because he is old and retired so he moves slower and it just takes him longer to mow the lawn? |
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Post by AntiArbitrator on May 4, 2013 13:07:21 GMT -5
I need help! I am stuck on the Iconmania game because I do not recognize this character/logo. Can anyone identify it for me, please? ![]()
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Post by InsertBrainHere on May 5, 2013 14:14:38 GMT -5
Right. I forgot to come here. So here's another one. A retired man mows his own yard with a gasoline push mower. Over the years, the gas mileage goes down so he brings in the mower to find out why. They replace spark plugs and do everything else possible to fix the situation, and yet the number of times the man can mow the yard each time he fills the tank continues at a lower level than before. Why? Is it because he is old and retired so he moves slower and it just takes him longer to mow the lawn? Right. |
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Post by InsertBrainHere on May 18, 2013 11:45:01 GMT -5
An Olympic athlete set a world record in the long jump. And yet he did not receive a gold medal. Or a silver. Or a bronze. Why?
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Post by AntiArbitrator on May 18, 2013 11:54:47 GMT -5
An Olympic athlete set a world record in the long jump. And yet he did not receive a gold medal. Or a silver. Or a bronze. Why? When he broke the record, he was not participating in the Olympics. |
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Post by InsertBrainHere on May 18, 2013 12:22:01 GMT -5
An Olympic athlete set a world record in the long jump. And yet he did not receive a gold medal. Or a silver. Or a bronze. Why? When he broke the record, he was not participating in the Olympics. I said Olympic athlete intending to mean he was in an Olympic event at the time. Sorry I didn't make that clear. |
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Post by AntiArbitrator on May 18, 2013 13:00:26 GMT -5
When he broke the record, he was not participating in the Olympics. I said Olympic athlete intending to mean he was in an Olympic event at the time. Sorry I didn't make that clear. Thanks for the explanation. Second attempt: He was in a team event and the rest of the team did poorly. |
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Post by InsertBrainHere on May 22, 2013 9:24:39 GMT -5
I said Olympic athlete intending to mean he was in an Olympic event at the time. Sorry I didn't make that clear. Thanks for the explanation. Second attempt: He was in a team event and the rest of the team did poorly. I thought of that too. It was an individual event. |
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Post by mazeman on May 22, 2013 10:58:44 GMT -5
An Olympic athlete set a world record in the long jump. And yet he did not receive a gold medal. Or a silver. Or a bronze. Why? He was disqualified? For.....hmmmm.... juicing? |
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Post by InsertBrainHere on May 25, 2013 12:00:50 GMT -5
An Olympic athlete set a world record in the long jump. And yet he did not receive a gold medal. Or a silver. Or a bronze. Why? He was disqualified? For.....hmmmm.... juicing? He did nothing against the rules. I have two more, but I ask everyone to keep trying to come up with an answer for this one. What man was Vice-President of the United States and succeeded the man who in turn succeeded him as President? You are blindfolded and have mittens on your hands. Someone dumps a bunch of pennies on a table and tells you ten of them have the heads showing. Using your hands inside the mittens you divide the pennies into two groups. How do you gurantee there are an equal number of coins with heads showing and tails showing? |
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Post by InsertBrainHere on Jun 2, 2013 15:03:46 GMT -5
P - Tamara Wells
C - Sue Thieu-Day
1B - Angela Hu
2B - Diane Watt
3B - Ida Noah
SS - Ida Gibb-O'Donahue
LF - Yvonne Starling
CF - Brianna Cosby
RF - Nola Barnes-Dexter
Anyone want to guess who the coach is?
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Post by InsertBrainHere on Jun 6, 2013 15:04:37 GMT -5
Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
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Post by AntiArbitrator on Jun 7, 2013 21:38:12 GMT -5
What man was Vice-President of the United States and succeeded the man who in turn succeeded him as President? Lyndon B. Johnson succeeded Richard Nixon as Vice President. Tricky Dickie succeeded Johnson as President. |
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Post by AntiArbitrator on Jun 7, 2013 21:51:35 GMT -5
An Olympic athlete set a world record in the long jump. And yet he did not receive a gold medal. Or a silver. Or a bronze. Why? The athlete set a record, which was then surpassed, in turn by the men who won the bronze, silver and gold... |
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Post by InsertBrainHere on Jun 12, 2013 11:15:17 GMT -5
An Olympic athlete set a world record in the long jump. And yet he did not receive a gold medal. Or a silver. Or a bronze. Why? The athlete set a record, which was then surpassed, in turn by the men who won the bronze, silver and gold... I thought of that but no. There is one other way. |
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