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Everything Else / Re: Riddles Round 2
« on: September 21, 2005, 02:48:46 PM »
Friendly fire
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Everything Else / Re: Riddles Round 2
« on: September 21, 2005, 02:44:08 PM »
Cornice
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Everything Else / Re: Riddles Round 2
« on: September 21, 2005, 02:26:37 PM »
in Love
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Everything Else / Re: Riddles Round 2
« on: September 21, 2005, 02:16:56 PM »
Cornwall
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Everything Else / Re: Riddles Round 2
« on: September 21, 2005, 02:15:56 PM »
Speed trap
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Rants and Stuff / Re: What you wish you'd done on Saturday Night
« on: September 20, 2005, 10:36:40 AM »
And they dragged you in using a low mobile platform that rolls on casters.
A llama that pulls one of those is called a dolly llama.
A llama that pulls one of those is called a dolly llama.
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Everything Else / Re: Riddles Round 2
« on: September 20, 2005, 02:48:02 AM »
From the terms of the puzzle:
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Lietellers always lie by telling the exact opposite of the truth, when possible.
Outcasts alternate between telling the truth like Truthtellers and and lying like Lietellers.
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Rants and Stuff / Re: Shameless plug for my book signing
« on: September 20, 2005, 02:44:44 AM »
If I'd known you were getting my signature for investment purposes, I would gladly have personalized the autograph to "Dear eBay Bidder..."
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Everything Else / Re: Riddles Round 2
« on: September 19, 2005, 07:28:00 PM »Quote
he should be impeached for playing with people's lives like that.
Actually, under state law, the governor can only be removed from office if the chief justice of the state supreme court reaches into a bucket and pulls out an orange golf ball...
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Rants and Stuff / Re: What you wish you'd done on Saturday Night
« on: September 19, 2005, 05:38:42 AM »
If one of those llamas was cloned, would that make it the Dolly llama?
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Everything Else / Re: Riddles Round 2
« on: September 18, 2005, 10:17:59 PM »
And I see Archon beat me to it.
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Everything Else / Re: Riddles Round 2
« on: September 18, 2005, 10:16:28 PM »
Take 49 white balls and put them in the bucket with the 50 orange balls. (If the bucket will not hold 99 balls, then put as many white balls as possible in with the orange balls.)
Your chances are almost 75% (assuming the buckets can hold 99 balls).
The Governor then has a 50% chance of picking the bucket with only one white ball.
The other 50% is split between white balls (49/99) and orange balls (50/99). That works out to about 24.7% for white and 25.3 for orange.
Thus the total probability the governor will pick a white is about 74.7%.
Of course, if the fewer balls the bucket will hold, the less you can increase your chances.
Also, this doesn't take into account whether the governor has a tendency to take a ball off the top or to reach down and take a ball from deep inside the bucket. Knowing of such a tendency would allow you to increase the odds even further in your favor.
Good puzzle, firemeboy. I hadn't seen that one before.
Your chances are almost 75% (assuming the buckets can hold 99 balls).
The Governor then has a 50% chance of picking the bucket with only one white ball.
The other 50% is split between white balls (49/99) and orange balls (50/99). That works out to about 24.7% for white and 25.3 for orange.
Thus the total probability the governor will pick a white is about 74.7%.
Of course, if the fewer balls the bucket will hold, the less you can increase your chances.
Also, this doesn't take into account whether the governor has a tendency to take a ball off the top or to reach down and take a ball from deep inside the bucket. Knowing of such a tendency would allow you to increase the odds even further in your favor.
Good puzzle, firemeboy. I hadn't seen that one before.
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Rants and Stuff / Re: What you wish you'd done on Saturday Night
« on: September 18, 2005, 09:23:36 PM »
So, is one of those the Dalai Llama?
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Everything Else / Re: Riddles Round 2
« on: September 18, 2005, 09:06:55 PM »
Your solution works.
It's not the solution I was looking for, but I think that's because I'm not setting the limitations correctly. I guess I'll have to try to locate the exact wording of the original puzzle the i read.
It's not the solution I was looking for, but I think that's because I'm not setting the limitations correctly. I guess I'll have to try to locate the exact wording of the original puzzle the i read.
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Everything Else / Re: Riddles Round 2
« on: September 18, 2005, 01:07:10 PM »
The outcasts are each on their own rhythm.