Riddles

[Legion]

Jade is up...but if you got one post one it has been long enough that he gave up his right-away for posting, so it is now open to anyone

[Firemeboy]

I've got another interim one.

You are staying in a motel one night and your wallet is stolen from your room.  You tell the manager who promptly tells you that you must leave, seeing as how you can now no longer pay for your room.

"I will have my family send me the money", you say.  But alas, the money will not arive for 7 days.  

"If you have something to offer as collateral, then I will allow you to stay" the manager says.

You have a gold chain, but you don't really trust him.  You suspect that if you give him the whole chain he will likely take it, then kick you out anyway.  

There are 7 links in the chain, and each gold link is worth one night in the motel.  You decide that you will give him only one link per night's stay.

How many cuts do you have to make in order to have the proper number of links?

You have to back up your answer with verbiage...

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

one for that day (one link, one cut)
one for day 2 (one link, second cut)
one for day 3 (one link, third cut)
one for day 4 (one link, fourth cut)
one for day 5 (one link, fifth cut)
one for day 6 (one link, sixth cut)
a) you don't need to give him one for day 7, because you'll get the money that day
b) even if the cash is a day late, it's the last link, so you don't have to cut it.

so 6 cuts.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

and uh... I'll get your a riddle soon. sorry, I'm good at working them out, jsut not coming up with them.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I think this is just my friend being melodramatic because his ldr girlfriend stood him up, but here's the riddle he gave me:

what cuts deeper than any blade, sears the soul in the fires of hell, and crushes the spirit?

[Firemeboy]

I'm certainly not sexist enough to guess a woman...  

And 6 cuts is not correct, but a good guess.

[The Jade Knight]

No one told me I was up.

It almost makes me want to go post on the grumpy thread.

[Archon]

Firemeboy, in reference to the chain, does it have a clasp?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

is this chain joined at both ends?

[Legion]

what cuts deeper than any blade, sears the soul in the fires of hell, and crushes the spirit?

Betrayal

[Legion]

I've got another interim one.

You are staying in a motel one night and your wallet is stolen from your room.  You tell the manager who promptly tells you that you must leave, seeing as how you can now no longer pay for your room.

"I will have my family send me the money", you say.  But alas, the money will not arive for 7 days.  

"If you have something to offer as collateral, then I will allow you to stay" the manager says.

You have a gold chain, but you don't really trust him.  You suspect that if you give him the whole chain he will likely take it, then kick you out anyway.  

There are 7 links in the chain, and each gold link is worth one night in the motel.  You decide that you will give him only one link per night's stay.

How many cuts do you have to make in order to have the proper number of links?

You have to back up your answer with verbiage...

OK, depending on how you cut, and if you do not care about the chain (since you are cutting it I assume you do not care about it)  you can use one cut.  All you have to do is get something long enough  to cut the whole chain at once, then line it up and but.  Then all you have to do is give the guy as many as required

Jade if you want post one if you have one....please do not be grumy

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Betrayal

Well, that's not the answer the guy had in mind when he told me, but it's a good one, and related.

[Firemeboy]

The chain is not cut at both ends, it's a chain that you can hold at one end, and the entire chain would hang down like a rope.

And you love the chain, and will likely repair it after this episode, so you want to make as few cuts (as little damage) as possible.  

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

so the money comes in seven days. Have I paid for today?

If so, then there are five days to pay for, (tomorrow, day "3" day 4, day, 5, day 6) correct? If not, then there are 6 days to pay for (same list plus "today"). You need as many links as days to pay for, right? Day 7 does NOT need to be paid with links because the money will arrive that day.

You have to make as many "cuts" to remove links (assuming 1 cut = one link removed) as there are days to pay for, with a max of 6 cuts.

If you cut the MIDDLE link, though, you can pull that off and have two chains of three. That's one cut, today is paid for (assuming today isn't paid for). Then you can make 3 more by cutting the middle out of a set of three (4 days, 2 cuts). Then cut the middle out of the other set of 3. Making 7 days paid for in only 3 cuts.  

Man, I just needed to start thinking out of the box.

[Firemeboy]

You're on the right track.  You have to pay for 7 days.  On the first day the guy needs 1 link.  On the second day he needs 2 links, on the third, 3, etc. etc.