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| nish |
 Posted: Mar 31, 2006 11:57 am |
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Planetarium
Joined: 29 Jan 2006
Posts: 715
Location: India
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I recently got an sms from my friend which actually was a puzzle. I solved it in within a minute! *_* Me = Genius *_*
Anyway, the puzzle really was easy. So I wanted to share it with everyone. It is pointless, but really, we love doing pointless things, ne! ^_^
So basically, when someone has solved the puzzle, I will write down the winner and the winner has to post a new fun puzzle. Any type of puzzle ^_^. *crosses fingers in hope that someone will reply and post more puzzles* ^_^
So here is the puzzle:
It is a 7 lettered word. 1234567
123 is a vehicle.
2345 is a pop group.
456 is a piece of luggage
567 is something that changes every year.
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Answer: Cabbage
Winner: Leili
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Simple isn't it ^_^. Its probably not whether someone can solve it, it is just how fast someone solves it.
Anyway, please do solve and post some more puzzles! ^_^ They don't have to be mathematical. Anything! Puzzles or riddles... anything is good to post here. |
Last edited by nish on Apr 01, 2006 6:48 am; edited 1 time in total |
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| Leili |
| Posted: Apr 01, 2006 1:24 am |
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さくらんぼ
Joined: 19 Mar 2006
Posts: 40
Location: California
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I think I got it. It sort of took a while, well more than a minute. Guess I'm not a genius, rofl. xD
The seven-letter word is: CABBAGE
...and I'm sure the other letters/words fall in place with the other clues:
cab, abba, bag, age. :D |
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| kikubelle |
| Posted: Apr 01, 2006 2:39 am |
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ユメクイ
Joined: 27 Jul 2005
Posts: 1026
Location: Toronto, Canada + Lalaland~
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Wow Leila that's amazing...
i was staring at it for 20 minutes and still couldn't get it
maybe i will get the next one  |
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| Leili |
| Posted: Apr 01, 2006 10:23 am |
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さくらんぼ
Joined: 19 Mar 2006
Posts: 40
Location: California
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Okay, my turn. xD This riddle had me thinking for a while, maybe because I was thinking too hard, lol. xD
The riddle:
Only one color, but not one size, Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies. Present in sun, but not in rain, Doing no harm, and feeling no pain. What is it?
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Answer: shadow
Winner: Lainay
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Good luck. :) |
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| Lainay |
| Posted: Apr 01, 2006 11:44 am |
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ハイパーガル
Joined: 21 May 2005
Posts: 641
Location: USA
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OMG! Hahaha! I THINK I got it...
Is it a shadow? |
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| kikubelle |
| Posted: Apr 01, 2006 12:56 pm |
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ユメクイ
Joined: 27 Jul 2005
Posts: 1026
Location: Toronto, Canada + Lalaland~
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too late...Lainay beat me to it~
okay my turn:
here is a math question, mcdonalds chicken nuggets comes in packs of 4, 6 and 10s. What is the highest number of chicken nuggets that one cannot buy?
correction: that is the typical mcdonalds...
i meant the imaginary mcdonalds comes in 4, 5 and 6's. What is the highest # of chicken #s u cannot buy! |
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| eyn |
| Posted: Apr 01, 2006 2:27 pm |
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羽ありたまご
Joined: 13 Apr 2005
Posts: 2094
Location: Canada
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I don't really get the question. If it's really a math question, then there won't be a highest number of nuggets that you can't buy because any prime number cannot be divided by any other number except by themselves and 1. Since there's infinitely many prime numbers, this doesn't really work out, right?
If it's an IQ question, then I don't think I know the answer.  |
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| kikubelle |
| Posted: Apr 01, 2006 3:46 pm |
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ユメクイ
Joined: 27 Jul 2005
Posts: 1026
Location: Toronto, Canada + Lalaland~
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its not an IQ question...its a math question...try it again?
i'll post the answer later...wanna see how witty some ch-ai members are! |
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| kakumei |
| Posted: Apr 01, 2006 7:28 pm |
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金魚花火
Joined: 09 Oct 2005
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what like 9? your wording is confusing me a bit
you can get 12 and 20 packs of nuggets here  |
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| kikubelle |
| Posted: Apr 02, 2006 3:53 pm |
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ユメクイ
Joined: 27 Jul 2005
Posts: 1026
Location: Toronto, Canada + Lalaland~
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9 is not right but keep trying hahaXD
its very tricky~
i couldn't get it...till my math tutor taught me how to do it...
i will post the answer tmrw |
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| horizon180 |
| Posted: Apr 06, 2006 10:24 am |
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SMILY
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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Location: Manchester, UK
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hmm, lets try and work through it systematically.
if you can buy packs of 4, then you CAN buy 4, 8, 12, 16, ...
so you CAN buy: 4x where x = 1, 2, 3, ... N (N being any natural number)
so, any natural number divisible by 4
if you can buy packs of 5, then you CAN buy 5, 10, 15, 20, ...
so you CAN buy: 5x where x = 1, 2, 3, ... N
so, any natural number greater than 4, divisible by 5
if you can buy packs of 6, then you CAN buy 6, 12, 18, 24, ...
so you CAN buy: 6x where x = 1, 2, 3, ... N
so, any number greater than 5, divisible by 2 and 3
so that largest number of nuggets that you CAN buy is a multiple of the LCM
Least Common Multiple of 4,5 and 6 = 60
Therefore, the highest number of nuggets that you CAN buy
= 60x where x = 1, 2, 3 ... N
so, the largest number of chicken nuggets that you CANNOT buy
= 60x - 1 where x = 1, 2, 3, ... N (where N is any natural number)
you could say 60x+1 but then 60x+2, 60x+3, ... 60x+58 are all numbers of nuggets that you cannot buy, including 60x+59 which is the same as 60(x+1)-1 and so the answer in a very algebriac way is
60x-1
as a physicist, i must tell you that the answer is probably, "how much ever you can afford with the money you have" or "infinity"
i feel like ive put too much thought into this ...  |
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| nish |
| Posted: Apr 06, 2006 10:31 am |
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Planetarium
Joined: 29 Jan 2006
Posts: 715
Location: India
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bhaiya.. you remember those times when while studying with Basant Sir... whenever you used to come across a tough question... you used to end up thinking really really really really complicated ways of solving and then you used to exhaust your energy and still not come up with the answer... what did Basant Sir say to you then.... "Don't think too much!!"
Things can be simpler than they appear!!
anyway... coming to the puzzle... here is a randomly picked number ^_^.... 21 ^_^ |
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| kikubelle |
| Posted: Apr 06, 2006 6:56 pm |
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ユメクイ
Joined: 27 Jul 2005
Posts: 1026
Location: Toronto, Canada + Lalaland~
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do you want more time to solve it horizon?
nish is right...
you over did it! its not like that...you made my head hurt hahaXD
nish you're cute~
21 can be maed from 3 packs of 5 and one pack of 6...
keep trying ^0^
i will post it after horizon doesn't wanna try anymore
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| Leili |
| Posted: Apr 06, 2006 9:29 pm |
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さくらんぼ
Joined: 19 Mar 2006
Posts: 40
Location: California
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Aha... tricky. @_@ lol, I get where horizon's going at... but I guess that's not it, lol. xD
I encountered a problem like this before, forgot the answer, though. ;___;
The only number I can think of at the moment is 3. o.O But, that means you're not really buying it or are you? xD. @_@ Ah, I'm confusing myself again. T_T Or you could lbuy a pack of 4 and throw one away. @_@ Ah, *confused like crazy* There's also 7, I think.... actually, I have no idea. I guess I'll just take a wild guess and go with 7. ^__^;; eh heh heh. |
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| horizon180 |
| Posted: Apr 07, 2006 4:37 am |
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SMILY
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
Posts: 495
Location: Manchester, UK
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hmm, you cant buy 3 and you can't buy 7 either.
4, 5 and 6 form a triplet of perfect numbers that can be added together multiple times to form all composite numbers greater than 7.
i realized my mistake when i was recalling number theory. my 60x-1 is indeed incorrect because (if x = 1) 59 = 11 x 5 + 4 = 5 x (6 + 5) + 4
so the answer would be 7, because the smallest perfect number formed by applying number theory to the (4, 5, 6) triplet is 8... ie this triplet permutes to form the following composite numbers: 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, .... infinty. the only number missing there is 7.
so the answer should be 7.
if not, then i will consider my intelligence insulted. im now going to go solve high order differential equations for fluid dynamics using method of imaging ..
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