Logic Puzzle, Anyone?

I know, kinda heavy for a Sat. night, but I just finished this and had to share:
http://proveyourlogic.com/

Let me know how you do :D

:D

Maybe I can give you a hint. Several of these were very challenging! :)

I'm on the fish one now and I think I've got that one but haven't been back to try it

Zornhau and I discovered, doing this, that our brains work quite differently on these kind of puzzles. There were ones that were easy for me but difficult for him, and vice versa...

:P

This seems more like a riddle than logic. Either that, or I'm just pissed that I can't get past the second one!

:crazy:

thanks

I got to level 12 before I gave up.

Too stressful for someone who is 1/2 inebriated.

so it might be a matter of updating or configuring your browser, if you can't see it

...Life preserver seems the right answer but I guess not. Joining Fox Mulder in tossing the computer: :argh:

...made of metal, with a chain attached.

Shouldn't it read:

"Poor people don't have it
Rich people don't need it"?

Anyway, I made it through...

I thought i nailed it with "Oil" but apparently not:)

...it makes the world go 'round.

I still think oil fits better with the current way things are:)

...they could have asked. There are lots of things poor people don't have that rich people don't need.

Between my wife and myself we finished it, but the tortured language (obviously written by someone for whom English is a second language) did make it hard in spots. The bookworm puzzle had us doing a forehead slap once we realized what we had done wrong, a real "duh" moment there. The one where certain 4 digit numbers equaled some one digit number seemed kind of random. Not really a puzzle, just a random but decipherable code.

I even drew I diagram, and I can't see how it's _not_ the answer I came up with. Highlight below to see my answer.

| 0.25" | 2" |0.25" | 0.25" | 2" | 0.25" | 0.25" | 2" | 0.25" |

There are seven inches between the inside front cover of volume one to the inside back cover of volume 3, which would mean the bookworm traveled 7 inches, unless I'm missing something very obvious.

With the spines of the books facing toward you, volume one is on the left, volume 2 in the middle, and volume three on the right. Now think about where page one of volume one is. How about the final page of volume 3? Without giving away the answer, that's the key to the puzzle. To put it another way, if the books were written in Japanese, your answer would be correct.

I don't know what answer you are coming up with, but the correct answer ends in ".0" which, being the good engineer that I am, I included since all the measurements offered included at least one decimal place.

Now I'm stuck on the "triangles" puzzle. :grr:

I quite liked the "mathematician in the pub" one. It was a cute way of making people see past numbers and focus on the symbols instead.

...for you to type your answer. You might need to update your version of Flash Player if you can't see it.

For question two, think of each letter as the initial of a word. The words together form a sequence. <spoiler below>

















































The sequence is the numbers from one to nine, spelled in words.

Yeah, baby!

So I figure I won't say it to avoid any possible stalker freepers.

Although if there are any very hot straight/bi women or gay/bi men who want to stalk me, PM me. :)

I just got lucky and guessed the right answer. :)

I just couldn't see a pattern there.

It was the one where the guard gives a number and the person gives a number in return.

Can anybody explain what I missed there?

nevermind. I just got it now that I looked at it again.

I can't believe I didn't see that last night. I musta been REALLY tired. :P

Like I said, I musta been REALLY tired last night. :P

This is on the instructions page :rofl:

The instructions go on to say:

The game have 25 levels and after you finish the last one there are fields which you have to fill in with your information in order to prove your logic and be in the list. Good Luck!


What is this, a test of Engrish?

Not that I've savaged their command of Engrish, I'll go take the test.


Back in a few...

just a bunch of old riddles. :boring:

But I can't see it right it now.

Annoying to get this far and then be stumped.

I'm stumped. I've even gone back and "cheated" by putting every month of the calendar year into the box, and it tells me all of them are wrong. If the name isn't a calendar month, how could I possibly be expected to guess what it might be????

On Edit: Never mind.... It helps to read the question carefully before attempting to answer it. :blush:

"his mother have four kids".

The triangle one was just annoying.

I also had to guess on the one with the mathematician in the pub, but then the answer came to me later.

The others were all head slappers so far once it becomes obvious...but I'm just not seeing this one yet.

I just had to count them. Perhaps there is an easier way, a formula or something, but I couldn't figure it out.

Then see how row 2 relates to its sum
how row 3 relates to its sum
etc.

Swipe below for hint if needed


2x2x2= 8
3x3x3= 27
4x4x4= 64
so the 20th row would be...

what the hell am I missing?

I've been going round and round with all sorts of calculations. But shapes? I still don't get it. Four of a kind can be 4 or 0, whether they're rounded shapes or stick-like ones. :banghead:

;)

It was driving me mad!

jumped back on yet. :shrug:

I'm now stuck on the 'letters f' puzzle

Help me out when you get to the boots..

Remember, there are 2 boots in each pair. :)

so...about that damn snail??/

And remember that he is climbing up 1 foot (or was it inches) every day....except for on a certain day in which he climbs to the top and doesn't fall back.

Okay..another hint. On day 27 he has climbed 27 feet...the next day....

And count how many of that shape are in each 4-digit number

I got what happens once a minute, twice a moment and never in a thousand years...but what ELSE was in there?

you enter "The letter" that happens once a minute, twice a moment etc...and then it takes you to a page that says "Yes there is M, but there is also..." and you're supposed to enter something.

Think 'one letter back' then answer that riddle.

b=a
c=b
d=c
e=d
f=e

etc...

(so the word 'the' would look like 'uif' in the riddle)

The level asking who the killer is? For some reason, I just can't get that one!

:shrug:

Could you give me another hint?

Duh! Thanks for the help! :hi:

Which page says the truth?

x(

try one less..

but I have no idea why it's right! :D We are cheaters.

When a page says something like

37 pages are lying

All the pages before it are wrong ("lying") since their number of "lying" pages is less than 37.

When you get to 1000, either page 1000 is correct, or it's lying.

It can't be correct, for then the page itself would be lying (since there are 1000 pages). And it can't be both correct *and* lying.

So it's lying, and it's *not* true that 1000 pages are lying.

If page 999 is correct about all the other pages, then it fits. (pp 1-998, plus p. 1000)

:nuke: <-- my head now

I can't stand it! I just can't stand it! :cry:

illogical person here? :crazy:

We're probably killing it, all playing at once.

x(

I'm stuck on the snail :grr:

Because he doesn't ahve to slip back down. :)

32
31
30
29
28

somebody hellllllllpppppp

32
31
30
29
28

somebody hellllllllpppppp

32
31
30
29
28

somebody hellllllllpppppp

:banghead:

Be patient with the clicky. :)

You know it's under 30, because he only has to go 30 and he goes AT LEAST one inch each day. Now all you have to figure out is however many days, plus one day where he goes 3 inches. :)

:applause:

out and we can all move on. :D

I can't fucking do math, and it seems to me there are a LOT of possible answers here, not least of which because it's not clear whether they mean "How many fish did each brother catch at first?" or "How many did they collectively catch at first?"

:rofl:

Oh, God, that's a keeper!

Each time a brother takes his share, there is an even third to take out, plus one. So each time it has to be something like

10 fish (removes 1, takes his share of 3 fish)
... (which leaves 6)

13 fish (removes 1, takes his share of 4 fish)
... (which leaves 8)

16 fish (removes 1, takes his share of 5 fish)
... (which leaves 10)


13 doesn't work, since we're left with 8. But 16 works (leaves us with 10). So what gets us to 16?

See, the tortured syntax did not make it clear that they were all taking fish from the same pile. THANK YOU. You are very, very smart.

totally don't get this one

After I thought about the one I was stuck on, I felt dumb for not figuring it out right away.

25

First brother chucks one fish out, divides the remaining pile of 24 into thirds and takes his share (8 fish), leaving 16 fish.
Second brother chucks one fish out, divides the remaining pile of 15 into thirds and takes his share (5 fish), leaving 10 fish.
Third brother chucks one fish out, divides the remaining pile of 9 pile into thirds and takes his share (3 fish) leaving 6 fish.

You have to make the fairly absurd assumption that each brother recombines the fish into one pile after taking his share. Otherwise, the other brothers would presumably suspect some sharing had already taken place.

I don't even see a question!

well, except: "...But there is also?"

HUH?? There is also what? what? what do you mean??

+3 on the one that says P, and -1 on the other page. M +3 letters is P...

Here are the answers to all 25 of the riddles. I've whited out the font of the answer so you won't see it unless you're absolutely desperate and want to see the answer. Just highlight the white text after each level number for the solution.

Level 1: Nothing
Level 2: T
Level 3: First
Level 4: 5
Level 5: Anchor
Level 6: Thursday
Level 7: Water
Level 8: 2
Level 9: 6
Level 10: Gregory
Level 11: 999
Level 12: 3
Level 13: 2
Level 14: Mother
Level 15: The Maid
Level 16: M
Level 17: E
Level 18: 13
Level 19: 28
Level 20: Everest
Level 21: 25
Level 22: August
Level 23: 8000
Level 24: 35
Level 25: 59

:hi:

:patriot:

...nor does it make sense. I spent hours and hours calculating it and I kept getting answers of 8040 and 8163 and 8120 and etc. I could not get the same answer twice because when calculating, I tended to drift off in my countings: 33, 35, 37, 38, 39, 41, 43, 47 and etc. It was quite frustrating because I really felt I could do this without further help! So crack the code for me...how did you arrive at the answer and is it really what I read in your answer post?

Your thread title said level 25, but it sounds like your post was describing the question for level 23. I think you may be getting them backwards.

I double checked my answers above, and the answers that I gave for both levels 23 and 25 are correct.

As far as how I derived my answers...

Level 23: I used Excel and just plotted out the numbers in a triangle pattern as shown in the question. It was much easier than doing it manually, as you can use a lot of "+2" formulas to fill in the numbers quicker. Then on the 20th row, I just used a "SUM" function to add the numbers on that row.

Level 25: The key here was the wording of the question, and honestly, I don't remember now what the question asked exactly. It said something to the effect that the water doubles in size every day and that the city will flood on day 60. The question then asks on what day will the city be half full with water, and with the water doubling in size every day...well...that's how I got my answer.

I hope this helps. :hi:

For 23, it's the number of the row cubed.

Leave it to me to find the hard way to figure out something simple. I don't know why I didn't see that pattern in the row totals!

Thanks! :hi:

I had calculated by hand 3 times one night, got three differing answers and used up chances guessing around the number multiple times... this took a couple of hours..., I tried again on the next night and after another hour or so I gave up.

For some reason, after giving up, I had gotten it into my head that I was on the very last puzzle, #25 when I was still back at #23. Hence my frustration when #25's answer did not work for #23's question! Thanks for the aid. I will not add my name to the end list...I was unable to earn that distinction.

My hat is off to those who made it. :toast:

Thanks for all the hints and clues, I finally got through the whole DAMNED thing, and half the battle was figuring out what the writer was actually trying to ask!

Not my entire name.

this graphic is from a similar problem and illustrates the solution really well...
http://www.pzzls.com/bookworm_puzzle/solution.html

-As an aside, I'm amazed at the # of responses :D

The front page is where?

:D