Help needed for word puzzle that is keeping me up at night

ChippingSodbury

Deleted User wrote: »

Technically the two 6 year olds in one of the possible answers from sum of 13 could be twins which would mean the oldest twin (by minutes) liked yogurt and also would satisfy the criteria.

It's only a makey-uppy story you know! But no, I'd say if they're twins, there isn't an older one as they have the same birthday. A more plausible argument would be if the two 6 year olds were "Irish Twins" i.e. born within 12 months of each other. So, for example, one could be born in January, the other in November and John & James bump into each other in December. That way, they could both be 6 but the January child is definitely older...

Anyway, here's another:
There are three boxes on a table. One of the boxes contains Gold and the other two are empty. There is a printed message on each box. One of the messages is true and the other two are false. The first box says 'The Gold is not here'. The Second box says 'The Gold is not here'. The Third box says 'The Gold is in the Second box'. Which box has the Gold?

Day Lewin

Useful after S - must be Shandy

jiltloop

I think I've worked this out.

The first box contains the gold assuming that the message on the first box is false, the second is true and the third is false. Any other assignment of true & false to the messages results in an impossible conflict.

kunst nugget

jiltloop wrote: »

I think I've worked this out.

The first box contains the gold assuming that the message on the first box is false, the second is true and the third is false. Any other assignment of true & false to the messages results in an impossible conflict.

Same answer as myself.

poster2525

There are three light switches outside a room.

You cannot see into the room nor use another person or device to communicate with.

You may enter the room once to examine the three light bulbs. How do you know which switch corresponds with which bulb?

Ronney

poster2525 wrote: »

There are three light switches outside a room.

You cannot see into the room nor use another person or device to communicate with.

You may enter the room once to examine the three light bulbs. How do you know which switch corresponds with which bulb?

Turn on switch one for a minute, then turn off Switch one and turn on two. Now enter the room. If bulb on its switch 2, if the bulb is off and warp switch 1, if off and cold Switch 3

Red_Wake

poster2525 wrote: »

There are three light switches outside a room.

You cannot see into the room nor use another person or device to communicate with.

You may enter the room once to examine the three light bulbs. How do you know which switch corresponds with which bulb?

I open the door of the room and turn them off and on in turn to figure it out.

poster2525

Red_Wake wrote: »

I open the door of the room and turn them off and on in turn to figure it out.

Assume door is locked and you can only enter once. Can't look under the door or through a window.

poster2525

poster2525 wrote: »

There are three light switches outside a room.

You cannot see into the room nor use another person or device to communicate with.

You may enter the room once to examine the three light bulbs. How do you know which switch corresponds with which bulb?

Put switch 1 on and leave on. Leave switch 2 off. Put switch 3 on for a few minutes then knock off. Enter room. The light that is on corresponds to switch 1. The light that is off and cold corresponds to switch 2. The light that is off and hot/warm is switch 3.

I haven’t a clue what’s going on in this thread

Hammer89

ChippingSodbury wrote: »

Here is the answer:
First piece of info: product of their ages is 36 so all of the factors of 36 are:

36, 1, 1 Sum: 38
18, 2, 1 Sum: 21
12, 3, 1 Sum: 16
9, 4, 1 Sum: 14
9, 2, 2 Sum: 13
6, 6, 1 Sum: 13
4, 3, 3 Sum: 10

Second piece of info: sum of ages is same as number of that bus. James can see the bus so he knows what the sum of their ages is. James then says "that's not enough info." so that means that there must be two sets of ages that have the same sum (two sets have 13 as sum above) so it has to be one of those i.e. 9, 2, 2 or 6, 6, 1.

Last piece of information: eldest likes yogurt implying that there must be an eldest. The two possibilities are 9, 2, 2 or 6, 6, 1 so it must be 9, 2, 2 given that the 6 year olds are twins and no eldest!

Do you regret going for the girl instead of the job?

How do you block your answer with the black?

I still don't know what a tracker mortgage is

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

How do you block your answer with the black?

It's a secrert

pleas advice

Deleted User wrote: »

How do you block your answer with the black?

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Hammer89

Black bars matter

ChippingSodbury

Hammer89 wrote: »

Do you regret going for the girl instead of the job?

Well, the job came with a free anorak, so yeah!