Topic: Brain Teaser [answer - page 2!] (Read 2235 times)
I'm going to guess one, albeit in reverse order for it wasn't stipulated.
EDIT: Only off by a prime number multiplied by another prime number.
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Big Hint #2 - The answer wouldn't be different if I used lower case letters instead of upper case, but the clue would only be one letter!
Would you care to explain the above for me, for I read it as if all the letters were put in lower case, the solution would be easier to solve, hence putting all the letters in lower case to visualize a solution.
Now, if you had said: The answer would be more difficult if I used lower case letters...
Then we all would have continue the quest staring at upper case letters.
Imagine the problem uses a magic black box that only outputs letters of a certain criteria:
letters ----->[MAGIC BOX]----> only letters that match criteria
So to make the puzzle, we put two sequences of inputs into the box:
letters A-R: ----->[MAGIC BOX]----> clue sequence
letters S-Z: ----->[MAGIC BOX]----> rest of sequence
When the criteria is "typography of letter includes a diagonal line", the outputs are:
letters A-R: ----->[contains diagonal?]----> clue:{A,K,M,N,R}
letters S-Z: ----->[contains diagonal?]----> answer:{V,W,X,Y,Z}
If the puzzle was created with lower-case letters however:
letters a-r: ----->[contains diagonal?]----> clue:{k}
letters s-z: ----->[contains diagonal?]----> answer:{v,w,x,y,z}
Using lower-case letters, it would be impossible to make a puzzle with the criteria "contains diagonal" that had
A. a good enough unique answer, i.e., if I asked you to "complete the sequence {z,y,x,w,v}", how would you know the answer is {k}? or
B. a non-obvious answer ("complete the sequence {k,v,w,x,y}")
Look here dick-for-brains, for one us needs glasses...
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Big Hint #2 - The answer wouldn't be different if I used lower case letters instead of upper case, but the clue would only be one letter!
Note the key word there in yellow. What does it read? Different. Correct! What if I were to say that somebody misread that word as difficult? Would that then make his argument valid? Thought so! But the word is different and not difficult. So I ask you one more time: Which one of us needs glasses? BTW, you're not a dick-for-brains
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Big Hint #2 - The answer wouldn't be different if I used lower case letters instead of upper case, but the clue would only be one letter!
Would you care to explain the above for me, for I read it as if all the letters were put in lower case, the solution would be easier to solve, hence putting all the letters in lower case to visualize a solution.
Now, if you had said: The answer would be more difficult if I used lower case letters...
Then we all would have continue the quest staring at upper case letters.
Imagine the problem uses a magic black box that only outputs letters of a certain criteria:
letters ----->[MAGIC BOX]----> only letters that match criteria
So to make the puzzle, we put two sequences of inputs into the box:
letters A-R: ----->[MAGIC BOX]----> clue sequence
letters S-Z: ----->[MAGIC BOX]----> rest of sequence
When the criteria is "typography of letter includes a diagonal line", the outputs are:
letters A-R: ----->[contains diagonal?]----> clue:{A,K,M,N,R}
letters S-Z: ----->[contains diagonal?]----> answer:{V,W,X,Y,Z}
If the puzzle was created with lower-case letters however:
letters a-r: ----->[contains diagonal?]----> clue:{k}
letters s-z: ----->[contains diagonal?]----> answer:{v,w,x,y,z}
Using lower-case letters, it would be impossible to make a puzzle with the criteria "contains diagonal" that had
A. a good enough unique answer, i.e., if I asked you to "complete the sequence {z,y,x,w,v}", how would you know the answer is {k}? or
B. a non-obvious answer ("complete the sequence {k,v,w,x,y}")
That's right! You get the genius award! I considered VWXYZ to be the answer, but had noted VWXY would also be a correct answer based on the information available.
I call foul and should be rewarded the prize. BTW, what was the prize?
You get a critique of your signature, which says BTC = $c2. Assuming that $ is a place holder for an input value of X dollars, than the units of your answer would be:
bitcoins = X * 89875517873681764 dollars*meters2*seconds-2
I guess I didn't realize that dollars stored kinetic energy...
That would be potential energy, and sure dollars store potential energy! Don't spend enough money on your house and it will fall down.
That's right! You get the genius award! I considered VWXYZ to be the answer, but had noted VWXY would also be a correct answer based on the information available.
I call foul and should be rewarded the prize. BTW, what was the prize?
You get a critique of your signature, which says BTC = $c2. Assuming that $ is a place holder for an input value of X dollars, than the units of your answer would be:
bitcoins = X * 89875517873681764 dollars*meters2*seconds-2
I guess I didn't realize that dollars stored kinetic energy...
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Big Hint #2 - The answer wouldn't be different if I used lower case letters instead of upper case, but the clue would only be one letter!
Would you care to explain the above for me, for I read it as if all the letters were put in lower case, the solution would be easier to solve, hence putting all the letters in lower case to visualize a solution.Quote
if I used lower case letters instead of upper case, but the clue would only be one letter!
The clue would be: "k", but the answer would be the same.
AKMNRVWXYZ
everything that has something diagonal in it... it had to be something with the shapes because capitalization changed things.
I'm not sure about Z, could be only \ are trigger shapes, but not /. Z is the only one that doesn't have a \
That's right! You get the genius award! I considered VWXYZ to be the answer, but had noted VWXY would also be a correct answer based on the information available.everything that has something diagonal in it... it had to be something with the shapes because capitalization changed things.
I'm not sure about Z, could be only \ are trigger shapes, but not /. Z is the only one that doesn't have a \
I call foul and should be rewarded the prize. BTW, what was the prize?
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Big Hint #2 - The answer wouldn't be different if I used lower case letters instead of upper case, but the clue would only be one letter!
Would you care to explain the above for me, for I read it as if all the letters were put in lower case, the solution would be easier to solve, hence putting all the letters in lower case to visualize a solution.
Now, if you had said: The answer would be more difficult if I used lower case letters...
Then we all would have continue the quest staring at upper case letters.
I demand a do-over or, at the very least, a new puzzle, after you apology, of course.
AKMNRVWXYZ
everything that has something diagonal in it... it had to be something with the shapes because capitalization changed things.
I'm not sure about Z, could be only \ are trigger shapes, but not /. Z is the only one that doesn't have a \
That's right! You get the genius award! I considered VWXYZ to be the answer, but had noted VWXY would also be a correct answer based on the information available. everything that has something diagonal in it... it had to be something with the shapes because capitalization changed things.
I'm not sure about Z, could be only \ are trigger shapes, but not /. Z is the only one that doesn't have a \
ASICMINER with a spelling error?
That would be sic [sic] if that's the answer.
I'm looking at something different.
a
You aren't going to solve it that way, what you should be looking at is:
A
AKMNRVWXYZ
everything that has something diagonal in it... it had to be something with the shapes because capitalization changed things.
I'm not sure about Z, could be only \ are trigger shapes, but not /. Z is the only one that doesn't have a \
wait, but there are many lowercase letters with diagonals...
Molecular has a correct answer (might not be the one deepceleron wants) but it does fit with the hints. If it was lowercase the only clue would be "k".
ASICMINER with a spelling error?
That would be sic [sic] if that's the answer.
I'm looking at something different.
a
You aren't going to solve it that way, what you should be looking at is:
A
The above negates the below:
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Big Hint #2 - The answer wouldn't be different if I used lower case letters instead of upper case, but the clue would only be one letter!
Hence showing the lower case letters. The diagonal route was where I was heading next, but nixed the idea after reading the above. I will be sad if the diagonal route proves to supply the answer.
ASICMINER with a spelling error?
That would be sic [sic] if that's the answer.
I'm looking at something different.
a
You aren't going to solve it that way, what you should be looking at is:
A
AKMNRVWXYZ
everything that has something diagonal in it... it had to be something with the shapes because capitalization changed things.
I'm not sure about Z, could be only \ are trigger shapes, but not /. Z is the only one that doesn't have a \
wait, but there are many lowercase letters with diagonals...
ASICMINER with a spelling error?
That would be sic [sic] if that's the answer.
I'm looking at something different.
a
You aren't going to solve it that way, what you should be looking at is:
A
AKMNRVWXYZ
everything that has something diagonal in it... it had to be something with the shapes because capitalization changed things.
I'm not sure about Z, could be only \ are trigger shapes, but not /. Z is the only one that doesn't have a \
ASICMINER with a spelling error?
That would be sic [sic] if that's the answer.
I'm looking at something different.
a
You aren't going to solve it that way, what you should be looking at is:
A
AKMNRBLN
ASICMINER with a spelling error?
That would be sic [sic] if that's the answer.
I'm looking at something different.
a
ASICMINER with a spelling error?
Complete this sequence:
AKMNR ...
AKMNR ...
Sorry, no correct answers yet. wah wah wah.
Big Hint #2 - The answer wouldn't be different if I used lower case letters instead of upper case, but the clue would only be one letter!
I may not be able to solve it, but I'll happily contribute to crowdsourcing the solution.
Considering the latest clues, visualize from which one of the following is most logical.
akmnrb
akmnrc
akmnrd
akmnre
akmnrf
akmnrg
akmnrh
akmnri
akmnrj
akmnrl
akmnro
akmnrp
akmnrq
akmnrs
akmnrt
akmnru
akmnrv
akmnrw
akmnrx
akmnry
akmnrz
I excluded a, k, m, n, and r in the above list, but here they are in case the sequence has repeated letters, which I believe we can exclude nonetheless.
akmnra
akmnrk
akmnrm
akmnrn
akmnrr
Complete this sequence:
AKMNR ...
AKMNR ...
Sorry, no correct answers yet. wah wah wah.
Big Hint #2 - The answer wouldn't be different if I used lower case letters instead of upper case, but the clue would only be one letter!
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