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Interesting answer by the way. Unfortunately 3*3 is not 12 though ;)
Here's the intended answer to my previous puzzle:
povertyQuote:
Originally posted by solarflare
Name something money can't buy.
by the way, no correct answers on this one... :(:(:(
All these coin problems where you can only use balance scales... hmmm... You know, in my country, most post offices have real scales which weigh things in grams or ounces or whatever instead of against other things. Also, it doesn't cost anything to use, so you can weigh things like coins as many times as you want. Maybe I'm just special to have access to such an extraordinary tool, I don't know. But I guess these coin problems are just too unrealistic and impractical. The dwarves and dragons problem, now there's something that is likely to happen in the real world ;).
:D :cool: :cool: :p
I couldn't have put it better ;) Ok, let's rephrase my coin problem then.Quote:
But I guess these coin problems are just too unrealistic and impractical. The dwarves and dragons problem, now there's something that is likely to happen in the real world
You have twelve dwarfs. They go kill a dragon and get the phat loot. They decide to divide it up equally, but one of the dwarfs is a bit of a joker and took a different share. Noone knows which one it is though. So since the dwarfs are all of the same clan (the Yellowbeards), they are all the same model number and hence all weigh the same.
They don't have access to any high technology so they decide to figure out who is the joker by weighing themselves using a fallen tree. They realize that the tree won't be able to withstand more than three weighings, so they have to be very careful on the procedure. Luckily a wandering elf is kind enough to provide them with a solution that will find out which dwarf is the joker and whether he took more or less gold.
What did the elf suggest ?
Are the dwarfs going to kill the elf instead of trying to figure out who is the joker ?
WOW Yves M., how interesting!
Was that elf a drow? :) :D
JeffB
That depends on whether you believe that his solution actually works or is just an elaborate plan to kill the dwarfs ;)Quote:
Originally posted by JeffB
WOW Yves M., how interesting!
Was that elf a drow? :) :D
JeffB
The elf gave an incorrect solution! The dwarves didn't realize this until after their third weighing, and went on the tree branch a fourth time. It broke, of course, and they plummeted 4 feet (long distance for a dwarf) into the murky swamp below. The elf was going to then kill the dwarves and eat them, but the dragon came back to life! It ate the elf as the dwarves came out of the swamp. The dwarves slayed the dragon again and got double the gold! Yes, that's right, the dragon's gold reserves regenerated when it was resuscitated. So the dragon is dead, the lying bastarrd elf is dead, and the dwarves have double the gold! Oh, and by the way, the jokester dwarf confessed. The end!
Since the subject of this thread is "Try to solve this interesting logical task" I thought I'd add another interesting logical task...
Whats wrong with this picture?
pm answers to me!
;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) :cool: :cool: :D
Not exactly a difficult logical task ;)
Hum and your solution to the dwarfs riddle second edition... what can I say... There is another outcome ;)
[edit:
Wow, I didn't expect this one to fall as quickly ;) solarflare PMed me his solution to the 12 coin problem and it's correct.]
It's funny, though! It scared the cr*p out of me the first time I saw it... my speakers were pretty loud...Quote:
Originally posted by Yves M
Not exactly a difficult logical task ;)
Actually, it was pretty difficult for me... at first I expected the solution to be symmetrical, but it's not! Very odd.Quote:
Originally posted by Yves M
Wow, I didn't expect this one to fall as quickly ;) solarflare PMed me his solution to the 12 coin problem and it's correct.
:D :cool: ;) :p :p :o
Well, I didn't have the sound on since I was listening to music ;)Quote:
Originally posted by solarflare
It's funny, though! It scared the cr*p out of me the first time I saw it... my speakers were pretty loud...
Yep, it's much more interesting than the one where the coin is lighter. The solution is "sort of" symmetric, but it's true that you have to think about it a bit before you get it.Quote:
Originally posted by solarflare
Actually, it was pretty difficult for me... at first I expected the solution to be symmetrical, but it's not! Very odd.
:D :cool: ;) :p :p :o
Actually I got the riddle off some other forum some years ago. After I posted it here I had to spend a quarter of an hour finding a solution, since I wasn't sure anymore that it was even feasible :p
Yves, I just read your "new" riddle, but the solution (or the method used) is EXACTLY the same as the one I already posted here to the previous coin problem.
Hum, are you quite sure, Mr. Simon ? The point being that in my riddle you don't know whether the false coin (resp. the dwarf joker) is lighter or heavier. Have you tried it ?
I can tell you that the solution is quite a bit different from the one to your problem ;)
That makes it different indeed.