Brain teaser thread

[rah]

Originally posted by rah

so he must be 50 years old and the children's ages must be 5, 10, and 49.


Nasty.

Nice try.

[loinburger]

Originally posted by rah
So, who owns the camel?

The German, in the White house on the far right. He/she also drinks water.

[Stefu]

First house: Yellow, Norwegian, Water, Dunhill, cats
Second house: Blue, Dane, Tea, Blend, Horse
Third house: Red, Englishman, Milk, Pall Mall, birds
Fourth house: Green, German, Coffee, Prince, (camel)
Fifth house: White, Swede, Beer, Blue Master, dog

[Stefu]

And my this answer:

He's fifty, because I once knew one half-insane person, and he was only 25!

...which is correct, though the logic is bit woozy (I confess nothing!) was well before rah's.

[loinburger]

Oh crap, I forgot that the Dane drinks tea. I had the Norwegian drinking it.

[Stefu]

Oh, you get to submit the next one, loin. I'm too tired.

[rah]

This test was given by the German Institute of Logical Thinking in Berlin
1981. The failure rate was 98%.

The 98% failure rate bothers me, since a pure guess should be right 20% of the time and the fact that the study was given by Germans and the answer is Germans should have made that a logical guess and raised the guess percentage.

House 1 House 2 House 3 House 4 House 5
Norwegian Dane Englishman German Swede
Water Tea Milk Coffee Beer
Yellow Blue Red Green White
Dunhill Blend Pall Malls Prince Blue Master
Cat Horse Bird XXXXX Dogs


HAHAHAHA Loin got the German part right, by just the margin that I beat Stefu before.

But since Loin missed on the extra info he provided, (mistake) I declare Stefu the winner for the complete answer. You're good, it took me longer than you took to figure it out originally.

Your turn Stefu, congrats.

RAH

Yes your guess of 50 was before mine, but similar to my decision against Loin. I was the winner of that one

[loinburger]

Dammitalltohell, I had a riddle all worked up, and now I forget it, so here's an easy one instead...

More beautiful than the face of your God,
Yet more wicked than the Devil's forked tongue.
Dead men eat me all the time,
Live men who eat me die slowly.

[Stefu]

I declare Stefu the winner for the complete answer. You're good, it took me longer than you took to figure it out originally.

Well, you just got to apply a little methodology - and pen'n'paper (notepad in this case) - and you can solve any of these (well, the ones which have solutions, anyhoo)

[Tuberski]

I was on my way, made on incorrect mark and blew my train of thought.

I was almost there.

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Stefu
Well, you just got to apply a little methodology - and pen'n'paper (notepad in this case) - and you can solve any of these (well, the ones which have solutions, anyhoo)

They had a ton of these on the Analytic portion of the GRE's, but they provided a lot of extraneous data that had to be sifted out. Made it a real pain in the ass.

[rah]

Originally posted by Stefu


Well, you just got to apply a little methodology - and pen'n'paper (notepad in this case) - and you can solve any of these (well, the ones which have solutions, anyhoo)

I used pen'n'paper for that one too. But being part german, I had to make a real NEAT grid to help me solve it. It took me almost an hour, where you took less than 30 minutes. If someone had posted it in less than 15 minutes, I would have declared cheat, that they must have seen it already or looked it up on the internet..

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by loinburger
More beautiful than the face of your God,
Yet more wicked than the Devil's forked tongue.
Dead men eat me all the time,
Live men who eat me die slowly.

Words?

[loinburger]

Nope

[Stefu]

Wutang... cheese?