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 Thursday, 22 September 2005 10:39 AM
I finally figured out how to get the correct answer, but it has nothing to do with the name of the puzzle... am I missing the point? Or maybe the problem, as currently stated, is overdetermined....
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| roy andrea crabtree |
Location:
greensboro, usa
USA
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#5385
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 Thursday, 22 September 2005 04:58 AM
"Introduction to General Systems thinking"
Weinberg, Gerald
Are your lights on?
A better hint:
How many petals are oaround the rose_s_?
Time to solve: < 30 seconds.
BUT: Not really.
Only on the trials I instantiated.
What actually _is_ the eigenstate?
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Adam Foreman  |
Location:
Brisbane
Australia
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#5384
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 Thursday, 22 September 2005 03:59 AM
Such a simple answer that drives people insane
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C. Clark Carnahan  |
USA
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#5383
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 Wednesday, 21 September 2005 10:49 PM
My friend introduced me to this brain teaser and guarenteed me that I could not figure it for at least a week. It took an hour.
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Josh  |
Location:
Colorado
USA
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#5382
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 Wednesday, 21 September 2005 08:42 PM
ok... they say the longer it takes you to figure out, the smarter you are, whichc honestly insults me. Im a pretty smart person, but this thing took me maybe 15, 20 seconds to figure out.
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Chaz  |
Location:
Kentucky
USA
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#5381
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 Wednesday, 21 September 2005 08:10 PM
A good exercise . . . it took me a good 20 minutes to get it.
The most needlessly confusing aspects of the layout are:
1. The implication that the dice have to be in a certain order.
2. The misleading ambiguity of the name.
Having read the Bill Gates story, I suspected that order may not matter, though this is unclear at the start. On perusing other versions of the game, I found one in which the dice are thrown randomly. Immediately I realized the solution.
Thanks for a neat site!
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WildCard9  |
Location:
Tewksbury, MA
USA
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#5380
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 Wednesday, 21 September 2005 08:03 PM
Took me a while to catch on, I was overthinking the problem. Once I realized that dice position (the basis of my theory) doesn't matter, I got it.
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| Solomon Vidaver |
Location:
Baltimore, MD |
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#5379
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 Wednesday, 21 September 2005 04:27 PM
Someone owes me a pack of cigarettes.
Neat riddle, thanks.
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 Wednesday, 21 September 2005 12:05 PM
hi i am gabi from hungary.
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| Bob Garagliano |
Location:
California
USA
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#5377
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 Wednesday, 21 September 2005 11:54 AM
Four tries and I got it.
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