The worlds first riddle!

timing tim ing


blood water


1 d
2 r
3 a
4 c
5 u
6 l
7 a


DEAL


ALL world

Uh, oh. Q3 is over, and Pittsburgh blew a chance to stretch their lead.


cover
agent


little little
late late

Person/ality..........split personally

bowl ............orange bowl
face............bold faced

m
r
o
t
s

storm all ready building up?

bend
sdraw.....bend over backwards


rush............gold rush

noon th3e...........3 in the afternoon

yo__ mind...........ur (you're) out of your mind

DEAL.........big deal

timing tim ing................. split double timing?

blood water.....blood is thicker than water

ALL world................its a small world after all

cover
agent ..............under cover agent

little little
late late..........2 little 2 late

dadpad:
good job on all but "storm" and "timing"


man
board


mmanoon

man overboard

man in the moon



yes we didnt think those would be right

pittsburgh
seattle

Just to keep things tidy heres what I havnt got..............yet


teselbgave

gsge

ro
ot

19 rib

Sn man

m
r
o
t
s

the line
.. . . . .^ (is this symbol supposed to be here?)


eden
. . . . . . . .^ (and here?)

A.
smupoke... up in smoke

speak spoken spoken (the original has an X thru speak but I cant do that here)

pittsburgh
seattle


ohhhhhhhhhhhh steelers over seahawks..... it superbowl sunday, monday here and were back at work so your

Xbehind

The ^ symbols are pointing to relevant locations in the puzzle on the preceding line. The dots are just to get them aligned correctly.

pittsburgh/seattle was a shot at Try

Xbehind: is that a puzzle?
[size=8]behind the times[/size]

I assume this is a puzzle:
speak spoken spoken (x through speak)

[size=8]don't speak before spoken to[/size]

Super Bowl XL free zone - where we don't mention the result.

Trust DP to get all the easy ones…except

ro
ot = square root!

Rap:
House painting
12 hrs
1/t=1/30+1/20=2/60+3/60=5/60
t=60/5=12

If I may be so bold as to explain in Australian:
Mark can paint at a rate of 1/20th of a house per hour.
Rap can paint at a rate of 1/30th of a house per hour.
Combine their efforts and they can paint 1/20 + 1/30 = 1/12th of a house in an hour.

So if their rate is 1/12th of a house per hour it will take 12 hours to paint an entire house.


Invading country

Using a bivariate probability function P(x,y)
x by sea, y by sea P(x,y)=0.8
x by sea, y by land P(x,y)=1.0
x by land, y by sea P(x,y)=1.0
x by land, y by land P(x,y)=0.6
The Motto of my clan, the MacDonald of the isles is "Per mare per terras" by land and by sea
except in this case its not an ?'and' its an ?'or'

so xs=1-xl and yx=1-yl
P(x,y)=0.8xs*ys+1.0xs(1-ys)+1.0(1-xs)ys+0.6(1-xs)(1-ys)
P(x,y)=0.4xs+0.4ys-0.6xs*ys-.06
To optimize xs and ys set dP(x,y)=0
And
dP(x,y)=dP(x,y)/dx*dx/dy+dP(x,y)/dy*dy/dx=0
since dP(x,y)/dx <>0 and dP(x,y)/dy<>0 then
dy/dx and dx/dy=0
dys/dxs=0=-0.6xs+0.4 so xs=2/3
dys/dxs=-0.6ys+0.4 and ys=2/3
so country x should assume that the probability of country x is going to invade by sea is 2/3
and country y should assume that the probability of country y is going to defend by sea is 2/3
Putting these values into P(x,y)
P(x,y)=0.6(1-2/3)(1-2/3)+(2/3)(1-2/3)+1(1-2/3)(2/3)+0.8(2/3)(2/3)=7.8/9=78/90=(2*3*13)/(2*5*3*8)=13/15
So if both sides optimize their strategies the probability of country x successfully invading country is 13/15.

Don't mess with Rap - Best answer ever!


"MacDonald of the isles"

One of the most interesting and intriguing periods of Scottish/British history.


Shari:

Coffee break

Big Bad Wolf... aka ***!

Uproar

Little Miss Muffet

Age before beauty

slow down

For instance

once in a blue moon

Too funny for words

A cut above the rest

tickled pick


"?TICK(s) < "

Wrong end of the stick.



Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw."
Dwell dweeb dwindle

six or more things that you can wear on your feet that begin with the letter "S."

Sandals, socks, slippers, shoes, stockings, and my not so favorite stillettos.

Ah, stilettos, now you're talking.

Boy, you sure started something with your,' walk in the park'.



Mark:

PAINT
T/20 + T/30 = 1
5T = 60
T = 12

INVASION
We're looking for an equilibrium.
Xs is the frequency of attacking by sea
Ys is the frequency of defending the sea

From X's perspective:
if Y defends the sea, the payout is .8Xs + (1-Xs)
if Y defends the land, the payout is Xs + .6(1-Xs)

Since we're looking for an equilibrium, these must be equal.
Therefore:
.8Xs + (1-Xs) = Xs + .6(1-Xs)
Xs = 2/3

From Y's perspective:
if X attacks by sea, the payout is -.8Ys - (1-Ys)
if X attacks by land, the payout is -Ys - .6(1-Ys)

Again, these must be equal.
Therefore:
-.8Ys - (1-Ys) = -Ys - .6(1-Ys)
Ys = 2/3

They should each roll a die, and attack/defend by/the sea if they roll greater than a 2.

The probability of a successful invasion is:
(.8 * 2/3 * 2/3) + (1 * 1/3 * 2/3) + (1 * 2/3 * 1/3) + (.6 * 1/3 * 1/3)
= 16/45 + 10/45 + 10/45 + 3/45
= 39/45
= 13/15

Most impressive.

feeling on top of the world
read over the fine (small) print
top secret

half hearted
get up and go
downright stupid
painless operation
split personality
middle C
beaten black and blue


Dadpad:
.5 hearted
half hearted - "just wanted to get one in before anyone else did."

Sorry mate, that Mark is on fire.





PUNCTUATION
period, comma, semicolon, colon, hyphen/dash, slash, question mark, exclamation point, apostrophe, quotation mark, parenthesis, bracket, brace, backslash.
RIDDLE
bow

CRIME
Since I'll be indifferent, the set the probability of my testifying to .5.
Therefore, the expected sentences are:
His:
10(.5p) + 20(.5(1-p)) + 0 + 3(.5(1-p))
= 5p + 10 - 10p + 1.5 - 1.5p
= 11.5 - 6.5p

Mine:
10(.5p) + 0 + 20(.5p) + 3(.5(1-p))
= 5p + 10p + 1.5 - 1.5p
= 1.5 + 13.5p

I'm indifferent if
11.5 - 6.5p = 2(1.5 + 13.5p)
8.5 = 33.5p

p = 17/67


The way I see it: If you confess, there is probability p of two confessions and (1-p) probability that only you implicate your partner. If you don't confess there is probability p that neither of you implicate each other and a (1-p) probability that only you are implicated. Let s donate one unit of suffering. One year in jail yourself would cause you 2 units of suffering, and one year of your partner serving would cause you 1 unit of suffering.
The table below shows the total suffering given the four possibilities:

Your partner
-----------------------
confess not confess

Y confess: 10*2+10=30 0+20=20
o
u not confess: 2*20+0=40 2*3+3=9


So given the probability p of your partner confessing if you confess the expected, or average, amount of suffering would be 30p + 20(1-p)=10p+20. If you don't confess the expected amount of suffering would be 40p + 9(1-p)=31p+9. To find the indifference point equate the two expressions:
10p+20 = 31p+9
11 = 21p
p=11/21 =~ 52.4%.
Thus if you think your partner's probability of confessing is greater than 11/21 = ~ 52.4%.you should confess, otherwise you should keep your mouth shut.




World
World
World <



Symphon




BJaockx



UP
SIT



HOROBOD




Someone asked this question, I worked out an answer that was so far out…Can you do better?

"If you could travel in a space ship at the speed of light away from our solar system, how long could you see the sun?"

other easy ones from mark

gsge.............. scrambled egg

eden
. . . . . . . .^ .......out of eden?

the line
.. . . . .^...... toe the line?

1 d
2 r
3 a
4 c
5 u
6 l
7 a
..............count dracula


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World
World
World < .............3rd world

Symphon ...............unfinished symphony

BJaockx..................jack in the box

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I'll just leave a few for TRY to do.

timing tim ing

teselbgave

19 rib

Sn man

m
r
o
t
s



and a couple for mark

UP
SIT

HOROBOD

G'day DP and gang, how u'll a doin?

"gsge.............. scrambled egg"

Doh! How come I did not see that one, nice work. - now post a few…

19 rib--Adam's Rib is Eve

Sn man--"You gotta have heart" from the Wizard of Oz--[size=7]Tin Man[/size]

m
r
o
t
s
Tom Clancy [size=7]Red Storm Rising[/size]

UP
SIT
[size=7]Sit Up[/size] and pay attention Rap this one is for markr

HOROBOD
[size=7]Robin Hood[/size]-Men in tights.

Rap

Try:
bingo on square root

dadpad:
not what I had in mind for "eden" and "line"

rap:
yes on "storm" and "Sn man", but not on "rib"

Remember, 19 could be just as well be some other numbers as well (2, 3, 5, ...)

[size=8]sit up
Robin Hood[/size]

Go Rap, good work.



"UP
SIT"


Oooop's

Should have read:


SHUT
SIT



INMATEE



Finger
Finger
Finger
Finger



THODEEPUGHT



>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Quite




Mark, can you assist with a list of any un-answered (fab) puzzles of yours?

[size=8]sit down and shut up
deep in thought
quite right
forefinger[/size]

Unanswered puzzles that I submitted:

teselbgave

37 rib

the line
. . . . ..^

eden
. . . . . . . . . . . ^

timing tim ing

This hasn't been solved.

maybe this makes a bit more sense: