yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Off-topic] Archer:
Yeah, it was ridiculously obvious when I eventually saw it, but very well hidden. I like puzzles like that.
[Off-topic] mperales:
Thanks for the enjoyment. Are there any unanswered puzzles?
[Off-topic] Dirk:
Just this so far.
[Off-topic] :
Time?

-How cruel is the golden rule, when the lives we live are all golden plated-
[Off-topic] mazook98:
The equator?

<<work in progress>>
[Off-topic] Dirk:
Good answers but not the answer. :)
[Off-topic] :
I don't care about your answers...:rolleyes: jk :) Ummm....the definition of the word "the" depending on context?

-How cruel is the golden rule, when the lives we live are all golden plated-
[Off-topic] Archer:
Nothing ?
[Off-topic] Dirk:
You were almost there earlier with the geometry/physics line of thought...
[Off-topic] Archer:
It's not a circle is it?
[Off-topic] mazook98:
Space?

<<bringing it since 2010>>
[Off-topic] mazook98:
Btw, and unrelated, but this is a neat question (one of my favorites) to pose to your "math nerd" friends...

Ask about it, and ask them the most aggravating question... "Why not this?"

View attachment 740103

Watch smoke come out of their ears... hilarity ensues.

<<Robotron 2084 = Perfection>>
[Off-topic] mazook98:
Whoops....

This:

<<Robotron 2084 = Perfection>>
[Off-topic] Dirk:
A) It's a donut! (Or Torus to give it it's proper name)

:cool:
[Off-topic] 4silvertooth:
By removing the four square you make it octagon, circumference of octagon is not equal to circumference of circle. By removing more (8) square again you make it a Hexakaidecagon but circumference of Hexakaidecagon is not equal to circle... even removing infinite square you don't gets a perfect circle if you zoom it to infinite. And you will have to consider the hypotenuse of all the micro squares, and not sides.

www.visualtrig.com/polygons.aspx
[Off-topic] Dirk:
A new one..

Q) What can go up and down without moving?
[Off-topic] sakai4eva:
Stock market.
[Off-topic] Dirk:
My first thought too. There are so many correct answers that i say we should just list a few of the possibilities.

Temperature.
[Off-topic] 4silvertooth:
You: I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.

Morpheus: I know exactly what you

mean. Let me tell you why you're

here. You're here because you know something. What you know,you can't explain. But you feel it You felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there. Like a splinter in your mind -- driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?

You: The Matrix?

Morpheus: Do you want to know

what it is?

You: Yes

Morpheus brings two bowls and 100 pills, of which 50 are Blue and 50 Red

Morpheus : You divide this 100 pills in the two bowls, then I will blindfold you and mix the bowls around. You then can choose one bowl and remove ONE pill.

You get the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You get the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.

How will you divide the 50 Blue pills and 50 Red pills in the bowls so that you have the greatest probability to pick the Red one.
[Off-topic] Dirk:
1 Red pill in one bowl and the 99 other pills into the other one. Picking the correct bowl, (the one with the red pill), has a 50/50 chance; with 100% chance of there being a red pill in it if you chose correctly. Pick the wrong bowl and there's still an almost 50/50 chance of getting a red pill when you draw one out.

Is that right?
[Off-topic] 4silvertooth:
Yaa that's right.
[Off-topic] jorim.tielemans:
In each bowl 25 blue down and 25 red up.
[Off-topic] 4silvertooth:
No it wont stand that way.
[Off-topic] Etrick:
My favorite of all time...

what is invisible, weighs nothing, but if you put it in a barrel, the barrel is lighter?
[Off-topic] Dirk:
Helium?

10chars
[Off-topic] deliriousDroid:
Seems to obvious

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[Off-topic] stephj:
A little less than helium, a vacuum.
[Off-topic] dexter93:
You are on my mind sir XD

...aes eht rednu

peed morf tneS
[Off-topic] deliriousDroid:
A vacuum has weight to it. How about a black hole:D

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[Off-topic] Dirk:
Two Irishmen sitting in a boat that is slowly filling with water from a hole in the bottom. One starts drilling another hole. "What are you doing..?" screams the other, bailing frantically.

"I'm letting the water out" he replies.

The answer to the puzzle is a 'hole' isn't it?
[Off-topic] deliriousDroid:
Maybe I'm to sick and groggy to understand your paradox or whatever you wanna call it:P

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[Off-topic] Etrick:
Yes it is, a hole...

(u r correct itis a hole... Not u r correct, a-hole) lol
[Off-topic] Etrick:
At what point would one write, my love, if one should die tomorrow?
[Off-topic] deliriousDroid:
Dec 20, 2012:rolleyes:

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[Off-topic] Dirk:
I was doing ok up to this point, but i'll be buggered if i can make head or tail of that one! :o
[Off-topic] mazook98:
Oh, yeah, I get it... But remember, we're referencing 2 SEPARATE geometric shapes in this:

The circle and the ever-changing "square" ARE separate, though related, entities. So the argument "but circumference of Hexakaidecagon is not equal to circle...", though true, isn't relevant here.

What IS relevant, and which you have nailed, is this most pertinent point:

"even removing infinite square you don't gets a perfect circle if you zoom it to infinite."

'Approach to Infinity' is the "wrench in the works" of the whole thing.

But this "theorem" will confuse a LOT of people,and it's kind of amusing to watch them squirm until they figure it out.

<<work in progress>>
[Off-topic] Dirk:
Just trying to pronounce the word 'Hexakaidecagon' is enought to make me squirm! :D
[Off-topic] Etrick:
Writing a will... At what point?
[Off-topic] Etrick:
Maybe that'd why they call pi, pi... Lol
[Off-topic] deliriousDroid:
Is that the answer? If so... don't give away the answers so soon please:mad:

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[Off-topic] Etrick:
Nope. Just a lil clarification...
[Off-topic] mazook98:
At the "ball point"?

(@the same point @ which you would write anything????)
[Off-topic] Etrick:
Judges? Looks like we can accept that one... any writing utensil should suffice...
[Off-topic] Etrick:
another good one...

"Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is."
[Off-topic] sakai4eva:
This is the fsking internet. I'd think that the word puzzle has been overused by now.
[Off-topic] Archer:
I've never heard that one before. Language. :p

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[Off-topic] sakai4eva:
Heard it 9 years ago, from a smug B!@+CH of a sl:;t that likes to one-up me 'coz I'm smarter than she'll ever be.

I just told that the puzzle makes no sense and walked away.
[Off-topic] Etrick:
Neither had I. Found it reading about twain's ciphers and puzzles
[Off-topic] Archer:
I was actually being sarcastic. Maybe I should have used :rolleyes:
[Off-topic] husam666:
edit: wrong thread :o
[Off-topic] Archer:
Noob ;)
[Off-topic] sakai4eva:
STFU and GTFO nub.

Lulz.
[Off-topic] 4silvertooth:
www.fun-with-words.com/word_gry_angry_hungry.html
[Off-topic] 4silvertooth:
Bump Bump Bump count the number of Bump in this sentence.
[Off-topic] Archer:
Here's one.

What is x if...

x + 1 = x

Go.
[Off-topic] 4silvertooth:
X = 1/0 = infinity and infinity + 1 = infinity. So x = infinity.

Or

In programming language if you have same data on continues block of memory starting from memory location x than x = x+1 = data at that location.
[Off-topic] Dirk:
Four. Smart-arse!

:D
[Off-topic] mercianary:
How many F's are there in the following sentence? Only read it once.

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.
[Off-topic] :
3?

-How cruel is the golden rule, when the lives we live are all golden plated-
[Off-topic] husam666:
7

10chars
[Off-topic] mercianary:
No and no, not 7 or 3
[Off-topic] :
5? Idk.

-How cruel is the golden rule, when the lives we live are all golden plated-
[Off-topic] husam666:
almost, it's 6 :D
[Off-topic] mercianary:
Not 5 or 6 either.
[Off-topic] idavid_:
0 F's? :)

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[Off-topic] husam666:
8?

10chars
[Off-topic] mercianary:
Are you guessing or do you have a reason?
[Off-topic] idavid_:
Following sentence is the sentence right after. So it's the "Only read it once." The one with a lot of f's is 2 sentences after

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[Off-topic] Archer:
lol it took 1/2 hour to get the right answer. My A level maths tutor pulled his hair out for 3 weeks with that!

Well done!
[Off-topic] xaccers:
0 as the following sentance is "Only read it once"
[Off-topic] idavid_:
So... Correct?

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[Off-topic] mercianary:
Yep
[Off-topic] 4silvertooth:
In order to make French toast, you must fry both side of a bread for 30 seconds. Your frying pan can hold two slices of bread. How can you make three slices of French toast in just 1½ that's one and half minutes instead of two.
[Off-topic] Archer:
Do two sides, then take one piece out and start the other, whilst doing the second side of one. Then you after a minute you have 1 completed and 2 done on 1 side each. Do them both on the other side and it's done in 1:30.
[Off-topic] 4silvertooth:
Correct..
[Off-topic] Dirk:
A lorry is crossing a bridge that's a mile long. The bridge is strong enough to carry 6000 Kilos maximum, which is the precise weight of the lorry. The lorry is driven half way across the bridge and then stopped.

While the lorry is sat there a bird alights on it's roof. Does the bridge collapse?
[Off-topic] 4silvertooth:
It might not if the lorry looses (consume) fuel that's equal or greater than the weight of the bird.
[Off-topic] Dirk:
Correct, and well done for getting it so fast!
[Off-topic] 4silvertooth:
How can you measure half ltr of water with using just a single one ltr transparent mug.
[Off-topic] hiu115:
using logical thinking.
[Off-topic] 4silvertooth:
No it should be precise.
[Off-topic] hiu115:
Ok then:

Length x Depth x Height = ___Cubic centimetres (or in common form, litres)

for example: Length 20 x Depth 20 x Height 10 = 4000 Cubic centimetres/ 4 litres

and for your puzzle: 1/2 litres = 500 cubic centimetres, 1 ltr = 1000 cubic centimetres = 1000-500 = 500 litres left empty.

satisfied? thank me

________

Thank me!
[Off-topic] 4silvertooth:
Nope. With your method you will have to measure the mug. (Using scale or something) you can't use it. You have to use just that single 1 ltr transparent mug.
[Off-topic] dexter93:
Get another 1.5. Lt mug/bottle, fill it with water and pour the 1lt to the first mug, so that its full. Voila! You have your half lt left on the other bottle

...aes eht rednu

peed morf tneS
[Off-topic] 4silvertooth:
Nope. You cant use other 1.5 ltr mug/bottle.
[Off-topic] husam666:
fill half of the 1 ltr bottle, problem solved :p
[Off-topic] 4silvertooth:
Nope. There's better and easy solution and you get precise half ltr with that.
[Off-topic] husam666:
fill 1/2 of it with oil, it will float and the water will be at the bottom
[Off-topic] 4silvertooth:
Nope.
[Off-topic] Dirk:
Am i allowed to use scales?
[Off-topic] hiu115:
if you have the same mug like his, you are allowed.

as for the puzzle maker, you know the answer right? so what is it? fill half of it with sakaieva's beer?:D
[Off-topic] mercianary:
Assuming the jug is the same shape and size from top to bottom, ie like a beaker not a wine glass, tilt jug just so the top left is at the same level as the bottom right, then fill until water flows over the top.
[Off-topic] Dirk:
Knowing the specific heat capacity we should be able to work out how long it takes to boil off 1/2 litre of water, so we stick that sucker over a Bunsen Burner and break out the stop watch! :D

Can i use displacement to find out the volume of water?

Can i borrow NASA for the day + $2M in government funding to launch a research project to solve the puzzle?
[Off-topic] Etrick:
Fill with 100 proof alcohol, freeze. Pour off alcohol into seperate container. Thaw. Empty. Add alcohol back in. full with water. alcohol will float. Burn, evaporate, etc
[Off-topic] hiu115:
you know what? just see the water level.

Or you can just call a xenobiologist. i don't even know why i refer you to a xenobiologist...
[Off-topic] 4silvertooth:
You are correct.

Fill the mug and tilt it so that the water makes a diagonal.

Tip: Google 'mug' for images.
[Off-topic] Dirk:
Well i never..! :eek:

Good puzzle.
[Off-topic] hiu115:
Good puzzle. Remind me of tilting my mug when i'm wrong.
[Off-topic] 4silvertooth:
There are four adults who want to cross a river. They see two children playing in a boat. The boat seems to hold either weight of two children or one adult maximum. Can the four adult succeed in crossing the river? If yes how?
[Off-topic] mercianary:
Ignore this post, apparently its too early to distinguish the difference between the edit and quote buttons.
[Off-topic] mercianary:
Two kids take the boat across, one brings it back, then an adult goes across and the kid on the other side brings it back, repeat until theyre all across.
[Off-topic] 4silvertooth:
Correct.
[Off-topic] 4silvertooth:
Two brothers are 11 years together (Sum of their age is 11).

One is 10 years older than the other. Find out how old both of them are.

Hint: Its not what you think it is.
[Off-topic] Dirk:
10 1/2 + 1/2?
[Off-topic] stephj:
Here is another puzzle where it appears you do not have enough information.

A solid sphere has a hole drilled straight through it as per the attached image.

The hole is exactly six inches deep. What is the volume of the remaining object.

It is possible to Google the answer, but anybody can do that!
[Off-topic] 4silvertooth:
I think some parameters are missing like the diameter of the hole. What if hole is big in diameter?

Edit: Ok got it size of hole wont bother as if you increase the diameter you will have increase the size of sphere too, to get 6 inch deep hole.

Ans= Volume of sprere with hole will be same as volume of sphere without hole, I think.

Is it 113.04 ?
[Off-topic] Dirk:
Ignore.

Mind=Blown
[Off-topic] 4silvertooth:
You will have to find the volume of remaining metal after the hole is cut.
[Off-topic] stephj:
Near enough, real answer 113.097335 or to be perfectly correct 36*Pi

No matter what the size of the sphere, after you cut out the centre to leave a hole six inches deep, the remaining object has the same volume. If you work out the maths, the radius values cancel out and you are left with a constant for any sized sphere with a diameter greater than six inches.

This constant volume is the same as if the hole never existed at all, in a sphere with a six inch diameter.

The volume of a sphere is 4/3*Pi*r^3. With a radius of three we end up with 4*3*3*Pi = 36*Pi

A ring the size of the earth, six inches deep would have the same volume.

Well Done!
[Off-topic] :
What's there but not there? Visible yet intangible? And not always seen but will always return? :)

-How cruel is the golden rule, when the lives we live are all golden plated-
[Off-topic] Archer:
Your mum.
[Off-topic] Dirk:
Light/Daylight?

..or your mum.
[Off-topic] :
Your reflection. Or Johnny's Mom.

-How cruel is the golden rule, when the lives we live are all golden plated-
[Off-topic] Dirk:
Very good! :D
[Off-topic] :
Yeah, I made it up while I was on the bus this morning ;)

-How cruel is the golden rule, when the lives we live are all golden plated-
[Off-topic] stephj:
You have a large pile of wooden cube blocks, a pot of red paint, and a pot of blue paint.

You pick up a cube, pick a face, then paint it red or blue at random.

You then pick another unpainted face of the same cube, and paint it red or blue, again at random.

Continue until the cube is fully painted, (all six sides), then place it in the pile of painted cubes.

Continue until all the cubes are painted.

You then sort the pile of painted cubes into piles of identical cubes. If a cube can be turned or rotated so that all six sides match the others in that pile, it goes in that pile, otherwise it forms the first cube of a new pile.

When you have finished, how many piles are there?
[Off-topic] Archer:
Surely there's no definite answer for this. I could paint them all the same, in which case there would only be 1 pile, but I could paint just 1 of them differently and then there'd be 2 piles. Etc..
[Off-topic] Dirk:
Seven possible combinations of colour for each dice... 6 Red 0 Blue, 5 Red 1 Blue....all Red, all blue... etc..

*thinking cap on...
[Off-topic] Archer:
That's not the number of pattern combinations though. Remember you can rotate the cubes, so 4 red 2 blue has 2 possibilities, not 1 ;)
[Off-topic] Dirk:
I'm still getting to that bit... :o

I'm saying 9

Edit: There are 7 colour combinations for each dice. Only 2 of those have more than one possible pattern combo, 4 red 2 blue, and 4 blue 2 red. All the others only have 1 pattern combination, for example 5 red 1 blue.

I'm either barking up the wrong tree, or simply barking for putting my brain through so much stress! :p
[Off-topic] stephj:
Nearly there, what about three red, three blue?
[Off-topic] Archer:
3 red 3 blue has 2 combinations.
[Off-topic] stephj:
OK....... add 'em all up.
[Off-topic] Dirk:
Is there 2 pattern combinations for 3 red 3 blue? I'm looking around my desk for cube shaped objects!

Say there is, that makes 10 piles then?
[Off-topic] dajmacd:
I think 10 piles.
[Off-topic] Archer:
3 can be 2 red opposite, and 1 in the other 4 free sides, or 3 all together.

But it still doesn't mean you end up with 10 piles. The question doesn't ask what the most piles you can have is - it asks how many piles you end up with. That depends on how you paint the cubes, not how you can paint the cubes.
[Off-topic] stephj:
10 it is! The large number of blocks assumes that you will eventually hit all combinations.

There are ten possibilities.

All red (1)

All blue (1)

One red (1)

One blue (1)

with two faces there are two possibilities. The two faces are adjacent or opposite, no other possibilities, so

Two red (2)

Two blue (2)

With three faces there are again only two possibilities, the three faces are together around one corner, or two opposing faces with one connecting face. No other possibilities, so

Three red (2)

Note that three blue cannot be added to the list as three red has already covered it.

Add up the numbers in brackets. Done!
[Off-topic] Dirk:
Yeay for my brain! (Which incidentally hurts all over now).

Really could of used a cube shaped object to help picture those pattern combos though.

Good puzzle dude!
[Off-topic] Archer:
Am I just reading too much into the question then, because the answer to the question I read is not 10. It's anything between 1 and 10.
[Off-topic] Dirk:
I'm seeing it now. Just because there are 7 possible colour combinations doesn't mean you will hit every one. You might paint each and every cube 5 blue 1 red, right?

In that case 1 is the minimum number of piles and 10 is the maximum. The question would need a modifier to say that you keep painting cubes until you had at least one of every possible combination of colours.

Is that what you are thinking?

Edit: Or like you said before maybe the question should be what is the maximum number of piles? Does that work? Perhaps as the question stands it could be asked as a trick question. Eveybody except JCM says 10 and JCM sticks out his tongue and says anything between 1 and 10, actually! :p

A furthur mystery. Why upon reading wooden cube block did my brain jump to dice? There was no mention of dice, and yet i was imagining dice! :confused:

Can we do the puzzle again, with dice?

Am i going too far now?

Tell me when to stop.....
[Off-topic] Archer:
Thanks Dirk - I thought I was going mad there :)
[Off-topic] Dirk:
By my reckoning, there's at least a 99% chance that you are the only one out of the two of us that is actually sane! :D
[Off-topic] hiu115:
your brain is not a dual-core one :D

right about... now
[Off-topic] Dirk:
Another mystery...and it rhymes!!

How did i get this picture in the post, without first using an image host??
[Off-topic] Archer:
Hahaha - that's what happens when you delete an attached image :p
[Off-topic] Dirk:
Ok, so you have to have it attached, but is it normal to be able to also have it in the post itself? Is this something i should have known years ago and i'm just being a bit slow again? :confused:
[Off-topic] Archer:
I've been doing it for a while, but I don't think it's particularly common knowledge, hence the number of people using 3rd party sites to host images. Also, it's restricted by the site's size limitations on images.

Here's one that blew my mind when I found it.

Go back to the forum and double click a row that's a thread you created.
[Off-topic] Dirk:
I saw that when you mentioned it before. On both Chrome and IE8 (Home and Work PC's), you get an edit cue for a second but then it just opens the thread before you can change anything.

Ok hotshot, how did i do it this time..?
[Off-topic] Archer:
Don't double click the title - double click the row to the right, where it's empty.

Did you go back and remove it afterwards? I'm gonna try....

But I think yes! :)
[Off-topic] Dirk:
I think no :D

That's what i did before and it looks like it's worked until you reload the page, or Ctrl+F5.

The puzzle stands! :)

Space to the right... got it. It works :eek:

Nice find JCM!
[Off-topic] Archer:
Well gosh-darn it. Is it from another thread? Or is it from an old post where you just added the attachment, but the post doesn't get bumped because it's just an edit ;)
[Off-topic] Dirk:
You got it. It's attached to another post! (HERE) :D

So you could attach a screenie in one thread, and then use the URL to post the same image in other 'post your screenshot' threads!*

*Remember kids, that while this may not be an explicit violation of forum rules it may be frowned upon. I just dunno! :confused:
[Off-topic] stephj:
A man standing with his dog is facing his daughter in the park. They are 100m apart.

The man walks at a leisurely pace of one metre per second. The dog can run at four metres per second.

The man starts walking toward his daughter, releases the dog, and the daughter calls it. The dog runs toward her.

When the dog reaches the daughter, the man calls it and it runs back to him.

When the dog reaches the man, the daughter calls it and it runs back to her.

etc. etc. etc.

Until they all meet together.

Assuming the dog can make in instantaneous start/stop/turnaround, (in reality, it can't), how far does the dog run?
[Off-topic] Dirk:
God only knows, but that's gonna be one dizzy arsed dog! :p
[Off-topic] 4silvertooth:
No matters what the condition the father will reach daughter in 100 sec.(100m apart at speed of 1m per sec). In hundred sec the dog can travel max 400m.(at 4m per sec)

So I think 400m is the answer? Am I correct?
[Off-topic] stephj:
Correct! and that is the smart way to do it!

Otherwise:

On each return trip to the man, the dog manages to run 3/5 of the previous inward trip to the girl.

If you try to add all the individual run lengths together, you end up with the sum of an infinite series.

The maths will do it, and return the correct answer, but it's all good fun! We end up with :-

d*(1+2*(x + x^2 + x^3 +x^4 + x^5 +x^6..................))

Where d=100 and x=3/5

The sum of the infinite series works out to be (3/5)/(1-3/5) = 1.5

The total distance covered by the dog is:- 100*(1+2*1.5) = 400m
[Off-topic] 4silvertooth:
Wow maths is really cool.

But every complex problems in life really has a simple solution.

Nice puzzles from you. Looking forward for more.