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digitalmaster287

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Well if my math is right then the answer to the triangle question is :

1=COS A (find angle A dont have calculator)

A= 2100*sin A

Unless theres some sort of trick to it...
 

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Um . . . yeah, there's a trick.

I got a couple.

1. Say you have 9 bowling balls, and they all way the same except one heavier one. You have a balance. Using the balance twice, find the heavy ball.

2. You're in a group of 100 people, and there are 1000 pancakes to split between them all. A plan needs to be made to distribute them, so every one has a number. Starting with number 100, that person has to propose a plan, and that plan needs 50% of the vote of all one hundred people to pass. If it doesn't, then person 100 gets kicked out with no pancakes or voting rights, and its person 99's turn to come up with a plan, and so on. Your number is 100. Everyone else is perfectly logical and greedy, so they want the most pancakes they can get. Propose a plan so that you get the most pancakes, and the plan gets passed.

edit: if either of these have been mentioned, oh well, i'm not gonna read 52 pages.
 

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Well if my math is right then the answer to the triangle question is :

1=COS A (find angle A dont have calculator)

A= 2100*sin A

Unless theres some sort of trick to it...
Well the only way to make CosA=1 is if A=0 (or 2pi) obviously... don't need a calculator for that.

Anyway that means every angle is zero, in other words, the "triangle" has an area of zero.
 

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Here's another one:

I do not breathe, but I run and jump. I do not eat, but I swim and stretch. I do not drink, but I sleep and stand. I do not think, but I grow and play. I do not see, but you see me every day. What am I?
 

mario-man

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I've heard this before. It's some kind of mythological creature.

Sweeeet!!! I actually got one right.
 

Sandy

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The answer is:

Man, who crawls on four legs as a baby, walks on two during adulthood, and uses a cane during old age.
 

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The story behind Einstein's riddle is that Albert Einstein created it in the late 1800s, and claimed that 98% of the world population couldn't solve it. I am not sure of the true origin, but I have seen this one floating around the internet, and it is a good brain exercise. Here it is:

- In a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.

- In each house lives a person of different nationality

- These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.
 

mario-man

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I don't get what the riddle is.
Are we supposed to formulate the different things like house color, beverage, cigar brand etc....??
 

mario-man

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That's why I thought it was a mythological creature. Because it was!! It was just the person that asked it instead of the answer. Lol
 

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so what's the question?
Who own the fish?

Necessary clues:
1. The British man lives in a red house.
2. The Swedish man keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Danish man drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the center house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The Blends smoker lives next to the one who drinks water.
 

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Who own the fish?

Necessary clues:
1. The British man lives in a red house.
2. The Swedish man keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Danish man drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the center house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The Blends smoker lives next to the one who drinks water.
SPOILERS!
The German owns the Fish.

Eh, honestly it wasn't that hard. Definitely interesting but it only took me about 15 minutes and a tiny bit of trial error. It's pretty logical once you get the first few pieces and they work out.

Only "2%" solve that? It must be more than that.


Hey, by the way mario-man, don't give up just because something looks hard! You don't know until you try.
 

digitalmaster287

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Well the only way to make CosA=1 is if A=0 (or 2pi) obviously... don't need a calculator for that.

Anyway that means every angle is zero, in other words, the "triangle" has an area of zero.
O wow...I feel really stupid now. I need to stop trying math when i'm low on sleep.

And I reallly doubt that only 2% of the world can solve that because when I first solved it I was in Gr 8 and another person in my class solved it as well IIRC.
 

mario-man

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I did more than just look at it. I did read it and, I guess, it seemed harder than it obviously was. I've done smaller versions of that kind of riddle, but it just seemed like there were too many clues to sort out.
 
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