I have 7 puzzles below. Each puzzle has a prize, and the first person to solve that puzzle gets the prize. The twist: you don't know what prize you'll be getting. They'll be randomly pooled from the list below:
Ready? Here are the questions. See the last post for answers.
1. You have three cousins: Chief, Wolfgang, and Lobo. One day, you ask Lobo, "How old are the three of you?" He answers, "Well, the product of our ages is 490. The sum of our ages is 26." Feeling confused, you ask him for more clues. "Well...I'm the oldest of us three, and my age is twice that of Chief," Lobo says.
How old is Wolfgang? SOLVED BY MAYORKIYO
2. An unknown number of tourists wish to go on a trip. They decide to rent an equally unknown number of buses, each of which has a maximum capacity of 10 passengers. What we do know, is that, if all of the buses take on 8 passengers, one tourist will be left without a ride. And if the tourists try to fill up all the buses to maximum capacity, they will fill up all but one bus, which will have only one passenger.
How many buses and tourists are there? SOLVED BY DACOSIM
3. You have $2, $5, $10 and $20 bills. Without knowing which you're getting, you place your hands in your pocket and grab two of the bills at the same time.
How many possible combinations of two bills let you buy a $12 chocolate bar? SOLVED BY RANDOMSHEEP101!
4. Pietro and Julian went cherry-picking one day. "Hey, if you only picked 17 more cherries, then you would have picked twice the number of cherries I have right now, glitter," said Julian. "That's funny," Pietro replied. "If you picked 17 more cherries, then you'd have twice my number of cherries too!"
How many cherries have the two of them picked? SOLVED BY DOLBY
5. Vesta, Wendy, Eunice and Muffy just went on holiday. In addition, they brought along either a paper parasol, a lacy parsol, a mint umbrella, or a leaf umbrella. You know the following details:
- The villager with the mint umbrella did not go to the city, nor did she go to the island.
- Wendy went to the mountains.
- The villager who went to the city used a lacy parasol.
- Eunice decided to take a trip to the lake.
- Vesta uses a paper parasol.
Where did each of them go, and what umbrella did they bring? SOLVED BY LADY LOKI
6. The diabolical Tom Nook has trapped you in a 4ft by 5ft room and flipped a switch to fill it with water. He fills it with 100 cubic feet of water before dashing off to escape.
What should your minimum height be so that your head will be just above the water line? SOLVED BY PAWPAW
7. You are a contestant in an exciting game show where there are three doors, two of which contain a bag of coal, and one containing a shiny diamond, the grand prize. You pick a door, at random, at the beginning of the show. The host, wishing to make the game more exciting, opens one of the two remaining doors to reveal a bag of coal. He then gives you a choice: stick with your original choice of door, or change your tune and go with the last unopened door instead.
Assuming you want to win the diamond, should you or should you not stick with your first choice -- and why? SOLVED BY VODKASMIZMAR
Some more rules:
I'll reply as soon as possible if I see that you got a puzzle right. Good luck, and have fun!
e: Added a rule that one person can get one prize only, so more people can join ^^
- Hair-bow wig CLAIMED
- Leaf bed, sprout table, sunrise lamp, and a cherry-blossom clock CLAIMED
[*]Golden watering can and 2 blue rosesCLAIMED - 1 million bells! CLAIMED
- New Year's Noodles, a stewpot, and a ceramic hotpot CLAIMED
- Afternoon tea set plus a coffee cup CLAIMED
- A banana and a mystery prize CLAIMED
Ready? Here are the questions. See the last post for answers.
1. You have three cousins: Chief, Wolfgang, and Lobo. One day, you ask Lobo, "How old are the three of you?" He answers, "Well, the product of our ages is 490. The sum of our ages is 26." Feeling confused, you ask him for more clues. "Well...I'm the oldest of us three, and my age is twice that of Chief," Lobo says.
How old is Wolfgang? SOLVED BY MAYORKIYO
2. An unknown number of tourists wish to go on a trip. They decide to rent an equally unknown number of buses, each of which has a maximum capacity of 10 passengers. What we do know, is that, if all of the buses take on 8 passengers, one tourist will be left without a ride. And if the tourists try to fill up all the buses to maximum capacity, they will fill up all but one bus, which will have only one passenger.
How many buses and tourists are there? SOLVED BY DACOSIM
3. You have $2, $5, $10 and $20 bills. Without knowing which you're getting, you place your hands in your pocket and grab two of the bills at the same time.
How many possible combinations of two bills let you buy a $12 chocolate bar? SOLVED BY RANDOMSHEEP101!
4. Pietro and Julian went cherry-picking one day. "Hey, if you only picked 17 more cherries, then you would have picked twice the number of cherries I have right now, glitter," said Julian. "That's funny," Pietro replied. "If you picked 17 more cherries, then you'd have twice my number of cherries too!"
How many cherries have the two of them picked? SOLVED BY DOLBY
5. Vesta, Wendy, Eunice and Muffy just went on holiday. In addition, they brought along either a paper parasol, a lacy parsol, a mint umbrella, or a leaf umbrella. You know the following details:
- The villager with the mint umbrella did not go to the city, nor did she go to the island.
- Wendy went to the mountains.
- The villager who went to the city used a lacy parasol.
- Eunice decided to take a trip to the lake.
- Vesta uses a paper parasol.
Where did each of them go, and what umbrella did they bring? SOLVED BY LADY LOKI
6. The diabolical Tom Nook has trapped you in a 4ft by 5ft room and flipped a switch to fill it with water. He fills it with 100 cubic feet of water before dashing off to escape.
What should your minimum height be so that your head will be just above the water line? SOLVED BY PAWPAW
7. You are a contestant in an exciting game show where there are three doors, two of which contain a bag of coal, and one containing a shiny diamond, the grand prize. You pick a door, at random, at the beginning of the show. The host, wishing to make the game more exciting, opens one of the two remaining doors to reveal a bag of coal. He then gives you a choice: stick with your original choice of door, or change your tune and go with the last unopened door instead.
Assuming you want to win the diamond, should you or should you not stick with your first choice -- and why? SOLVED BY VODKASMIZMAR
Some more rules:
- You may answer more than one puzzle at a time, though for fairness's sake try not to answer more than 3.
- You may try more than once.
- Placing your answers in a spoiler is optional.
- As much as possible, please don't edit your posts! You may post merge, however.
- If nobody answers all of the puzzles in 30 hours from the time of this post, the remaining prizes will be raffled off!
- One prize per person only! (NEW RULE)
I'll reply as soon as possible if I see that you got a puzzle right. Good luck, and have fun!
e: Added a rule that one person can get one prize only, so more people can join ^^
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