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See, I do have a sense oif humour.

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The_Red_Hawk wrote:


See, I do have a sense oif humour.

Now if only you could spell, we'd be well on our way

Anyway, I think I have another solution. This one assumes you're dexterous.

Tie rope A to your waist, and climb rope B. Tie a knot with a preserved loop in the top of rope B, a loop that will remain tight if weight is put on it. Let's assume it takes 5 feet of rope to make the knot. Now tie the end of rope B to the end of rope A around your waist. You can loop your leg around rope B to free both hands.

Now, wrap your arm around rope B under the knot, grab rope B above the knot, and cut it between the knot and your arm. Feed the free end of rope B through the hole in the knot, and tie IT to rope A at your waist also. You'll probably need to stick your leg in the loop of the knot to free your hand, and then remove your leg afterward.

Climb up rope A and cut it at the top, and you will swing down. Since the loop is tied to the rope around your waist, you will knot fall. Tie the free end of rope A to one end of rope B, and then untie that end of rope B from your waist. You now have a 95 foot long loop of rope. Climb down, untie the knots around your waist, and pull the rope through the eye. You now have 95 feet of rope.

Basically, this method gets you 100 feet minus the amount of rope needed for your knot at the top. If you can make the knot only using 2 feet of rope, you get 98 of it at the bottom.

[Edited by DiMono on 01-30-2004 at 08:44 PM GMT]

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That's way more verbose than what I was looking for, but it has the main element I wanted - tie a loop, join the two ropes, and then pull the ropes through, taking almost all of it with you. Good job - you're up!


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Cool, here we go. This one's actually more familiar than people might think, so we'll see whose memory is up for the challenge:

Which of these numbers doesn't belong, and why?

7, 8, 13, 16

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Hmm, 7, because it contains no curved lines?

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Possibly, I don't see where the 'memory' and 'familiar' clue would come into that..
although this vaguely reminds me of the last puzzle in beethros dance of death but I doubt its related to that. though it could be related to DROD somehow, that would fit the memory thing..

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If we take them as DROD levels, 13 is the only one of the 4 that can be skipped by warping. (The level 4 warp room only goes up to 7, and the level 12 warp room only goes up to 16.)

Game on,

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It has nothing to do with DROD. This is the anything forum, remember?

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DiMono wrote:
Cool, here we go. This one's actually more familiar than people might think, so we'll see whose memory is up for the challenge:

Which of these numbers doesn't belong, and why?

7, 8, 13, 16

7. When written in Roman numerals, the numbers are VII, VIII, XIII and XVI, respectively. 7 is written with four straight lines, the others are written with five.

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7. When written in Roman numerals, the numbers are VII, VIII, XIII and XVI, respectively. 7 is written with four straight lines, the others are written with five.

Not the answer I'm looking for, but on the right track. I actually hadn't even noticed that when I posted the puzzle. If nobody figures it out then I'll give it to you for noticing something this cool.

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DiMono wrote:

Watcher wrote:
7. When written in Roman numerals, the numbers are VII, VIII, XIII and XVI, respectively. 7 is written with four straight lines, the others are written with five.

Not the answer I'm looking for, but on the right track. I actually hadn't even noticed that when I posted the puzzle. If nobody figures it out then I'll give it to you for noticing something this cool.

I suppose the odd one out also could be 16, being the only one that requires three different letters to write in Roman numerals.

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Alright, here's a hint: There is a thread on the forums specifically dealing with the solution to this puzzle.

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Cool, I posted a stumper... alright, another hint:

The solution has to do with the numbers' written forms.

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Eight has only one "e"?

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Eight has only one "e"?

...or...

- eight's the only one that starts with a vowel
- eight's the only one that doesn't end in N
- seven's the only one that doesn't have two consecutive consonants
- thirteen is the only one with an even # of letters
- thirteen is the only one with a non-prime # of letters

There's enough possibilities that I'm not interested enough to try to figure it out.


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also,

seven is the only one without an 'i' in it.

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This kind of puzzle isn't usually very interesting - it's basically taking random stabs at guessing "what property was the person who posted the puzzle thinking of". Interesting series puzzles require either a long enough series to eliminate spurious generalizations, or a property that is really very different than all the other ones (which may be the case here, but not if it's anything on the list above).

[Edited by eytanz on 02-02-2004 at 04:38 PM GMT]

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I don't think I can give another hint without giving away the solution, so I'll give this one to Watcher for noticing that totally amazing roman numeral pattern. The solution I was looking for was:

It takes seven lines to write the letters for the number 7.
It takes eight lines to write the number 8.
It takes thirteen lines to write the number 13.
It takes ten lines to write the number 16.
Therefore, 16 is the odd number out, as writing it out takes a different number of lines than the number itself.

Note: all these assume lower case and that e is made in one fluid motion.

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So who gets the next puzzle? Are you going to try again?

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He already said who's next...

DiMono wrote:
I don't think I can give another hint without giving away the solution, so I'll give this one to Watcher for noticing that totally amazing roman numeral pattern.

Game on,

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Oops. Missed it.

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Okay, next one.

On a small, desolate island, a number of chameleons live. There are 25 red chameleons, 30 blue chameleons and 35 green chameleons. These chameleons have some odd habits about changing colors: whenever two chameleons with different colors meet, they both change to the third color. If two chameleons with the same color meet, nothing happens.

Prove that it is impossible for all the chameleons to end up with the same color.

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I hope that made sense.

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It does, and it's correct. My solution was slightly different, but the basic idea was the same. You're up!

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OK, here's a good one I've recently discovered.

Three people are blindfolded and in a line facing a wall much like this:




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So the person in front can't see the two people behind him, and the person in the middle can't see the one person behind him. The three people are given hats at random from a bin of three white hats and two black hats so that no person knows what color hat they are wearing.

All three people remove their blindfolds at once. The person farthest from the wall sees the hats of the two people in front of him and says, "I don't know what color hat I'm wearing."

The person in the middle, after hearing the first person speak and looking at the hat of the person ahead of him also says, "I don't know what color hat I am wearing."

The third person, who can't see either of the other two then says, "I know what color hat I am wearing."

What color hat was he wearing?

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It's white.

Since the first person can't tell what colour he's wearing, the two people in front of him aren't both wearing black hats. This means at least one of them is wearing a white hat.

The person in the middle can either see a white hat, or a black hat. If he can see a black hat, then he must be wearing a white hat, or else the first person would have known his hat was white. Therefore the person in the middle is looking at a white hat in front of him.

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You got it. I love that puzzle.

You're up.

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Alright, here's what I've got:

The letters from the three words below can be taken apart, unscrambled and merged to form three separate words all of which are synonyms. Can you find them?

CLIMBER MONITOR NIECE

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IMBECILE MORON CRETIN

That what you wanted?

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Mattcrampy wrote:
IMBECILE MORON CRETIN

That what you wanted?

Well that's not a very nice thing to say to someone ...but yes, it's what I was looking for. You're up!

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I still can't find that neat puzzle I had, so instead I'm going to be tricky.

What the heck am I trying to say?

A   H   7   I   Y   16  A   N
8   R   R   27  T   25  10  17
O   15  1   M   E   R   A   H
2   9   U   14  26  T   18  11
S   W   3   I   D   24  P   6
H   H   13  19  Z   E   O   23
21  E   I   T   N   E   5   U
T   A   20  L   4   Z   22  N

Yes gents, it's a code.

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