There is really no stopping solarflare ;) He solved the light-bulb riddle already :)
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There is really no stopping solarflare ;) He solved the light-bulb riddle already :)
The real answer should be the guy turns on all the switches, flips the master switch up, and while the mob boss is stunned by 8 bright light bulbs code_by_dimm_light can make a break for it. He grabs the candle on his way out, so if anyone comes near him he can burn them.
My first solution didn't use all the tools, but this one does ;) (including the candle), plus its a bit more exciting than flipping switches :).
Yves, I have post U pm with answer.
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Hehehe... but if really, we have another possible way. Code_by_dimm_light hear from sub-mafiaboss that they have energy only for 3 tests. That means they cannot check his solution by own tests. Of course, if they have list with answers, but with candle dimm can reduce to ashes it :) After that they ' ll not be able to prove him anything.
Ah, I gorgot to tell you that the boss is waering anti-glare sunglasses ;)Quote:
Originally posted by solarflare
The real answer should be the guy turns on all the switches, flips the master switch up, and while the mob boss is stunned by 8 bright light bulbs code_by_dimm_light can make a break for it. He grabs the candle on his way out, so if anyone comes near him he can burn them.
My first solution didn't use all the tools, but this one does ;) (including the candle), plus its a bit more exciting than flipping switches :).
No, but ! I won't let your devious schemes defeat the mafia boss :p
There is an old-fashioned refrigerator with a very small
freezer compartment which can hold up to seven ice cube trays
stacked, but there are no shelves to separate the trays. You
have fifteen trays, each of which can make a dozen cubes, but
if you stand one tray on top of another before it's frozen,
it will sink into the lower tray and you won't get full cubes
from the lower tray. You also can't turn the ice cube trays upside-down.
Without using anything but water and the ice cube trays, what
is the fastest way to make full ice cubes in seven trays?
Old-fashioned freezer ? Hey, my freezer takes at most 6 ice-cube trays, so does that mean it's from the stone-age ? ;)
Anyways, I PMed you an answer, not sure about it though...
Yves and Simon had the correct answer. (Yves first)
Even though it seems this is not quite a hot thread anymore, I'm not going to post the answer until I have given it some time.
Yves' original plan of attack was to separate four trays with three upsidedown trays. That's the reason I said you can't turn them upside down, because that response is too easy; but I couldn't think of a good reason in the real world to not permit the trays to be turned upside down ;). For the record, though, Yves did send the correct answer along with this idea.
lol I can't believe that that was actually the correct answer :p
You'd probably be better off putting a sheet of aluminum foil between the trays and freeze them all at once ;)