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Geek Culture / TWO LOGIC PROBLEMS

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comando 300
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Here are two logic problems,I know the answers to them.I'll give you all some time to solve them.Then I'll give the answers.


1.There's one bulb in a cabin and three swicthes outside of the cabin.You can lift up the switches one at the time.
You have to know which switch light on the bulb.


2.You are in a cabin.You just have one match.And there sre an oil bulb,a fire place and a candle.Which one you light on first?

Post your answers.

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Pincho Paxton
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Answer 1 is look through the window.
Answer 2 is the match.

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http://winch.dbspot.com/
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You two solved them,congratulation.

Here's another:

It's more powerful than God,more evil than the Devil,the poor people have it, and the rich people don't want it.What is it?

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Jeku
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nothing

http://www.automatongames.com/
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Ian T
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Those have nothing to do with logic . They have to do with latteral thinking. I do wish people would learn what the heck they're talking about these days.

--Mouse: Famous (Avatarless) Fighting Furball

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Pincho Paxton
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Not sure which category they fall into. My dictionary is a bit fuzzy about what lateral thinking actually means. It says Illogical answer to a problem, but if that were true then there would be no answer to the problem, because any answer to a problem has to be logical.

Pincho.

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A milkman has two empty jugs: a three gallon jug and a five gallon jug. How can he measure exactly one gallon without wasting any milk?

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some are math problems,another are only logic and other are both

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Fill the 3 gallon, pour it into the 5 gallon.
Fill the 3 a second time, then pour it into the 5 until it's full.

What's left over in the 3 gallon jug is 1 gallon.


"Computers are useless they can only give you answers."
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Riddle of the Sphynx:
What walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs in the afternoon, and 3 legs at night?

"eureka" - Archimedes
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'because any answer to a problem has to be logical.'

The question and answer themselves must be logical, but the content of the answer can be completely illogical. Valid and True are very different .

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Money.
I heard that one before.

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money? how does money have legs?

"eureka" - Archimedes
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A Lobster!

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The answer is a man.


Ancient Chineese proverb:
[/i]Man who go to bed bit itchy bottom
wake up with stinky finger[i]
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Jake the peg on a horse!

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Quote: "What walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs in the afternoon, and 3 legs at night?"


Thinking outside of the cube here..
Either I'm being a little too precise, or its a cunning riddle.
I noticed you didn't say only 4, 3 or 2 legs..so really anything with 4 legs.
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ok heres one...

people who make it dont want it, people who buy it dont use it , people who use it dont know it

~Adikt Studios~
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A coffin.

What are the next two letters in the following pattern and why?

w,a,t,n,t,l,i,t,f,p,?,?

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w,a,t,n,t,l,i,t,f,p,?,?

The next letter is 's' because that spells watntlitfps which is goetic shorthand for Wan't Little FPS. That means you want a First Person Shooter with midgets involved! Which is something that I have been looking forward to fort a long time!

Pincho.

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@ Trowbee they're metaphores for a humans life

Morning = Early life (baby crawls on all fours)
Afternoon = main life (Man walks on two legs)
Evening = late life (Man uses walking stick)
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The next two letters are 'a' and 'w'. Pretty easily actually.

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Oh yeah. Pretty clever.



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I have a plank of wood, weighs 8 kilos excactly, i saw it into 8 pieces excactly, how much does either piece weigh?

www.tinnedhead.tk watch this space for the first ever calculator to show the working out. also look out for our first game- ww.exor-mk1.tk
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What is wanted by eastern people, held by northern people, praised by southern people, but not heard of by western people?

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Less than one kilo. You lose a little bit with the sawdust.
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A...EF.HI
.BCD..G..

How does the rest go?

[EDIT]Erm. Didn't look too good before. How about now? Bugger.. maybe as code box... Not really. Sigh... still, should get idea. ie. A is on top, then B on bottom followed by C and D on bottom, then E above, then F against it, then G below, then H and I above.

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I think its something like:



It's an old mensa test thingy if I remember rightly.

Answer explained here:



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Yep. Although "A" isn't too obvious with Courier in code window.

Is apparently a test they gave to really young kids. Most kids got it correct really easy. Most adults either can't get the answer, or take ages. Mainly because they try to apply logic (I had a complicated algorithm for it) to the list of letters. Even when you tell them it is easy, and kids can get it. More fun in a programming office, where everyone thinks they tops.

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lol, nice one.


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Sleeveless is the largest what?

Then comes tomorrow and you're a little shorter of your breath and one day closer to your death...
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Pyramid Word

Then comes tomorrow and you're a little shorter of your breath and one day closer to your death...
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