The worlds first riddle!

Please explain why you are reducing her age twice.

TAKE AWAY
I get two solutions:

_755
6718
-----
7473

6718
_755
-----
5963

and

_755
6723
-----
7478

6723
_755
-----
5968

Both yield D9TY as the solution.

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one had been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one's tears.


Mark:

TAKE AWAY
I get two solutions:

_755
6718
-----
7473

6718
_755
-----
5963

and

_755
6723
-----
7478

6723
_755
-----
5968

Both yield D9TY as the solution.


My dear chap, you have two solutions because there are but two solutions.

We can see our possible values of D?T? are 5963 and 5968. In the case of 5963, the 3 is represented by Y. In the case of 5968, the 8 is also represented by Y. This means our word is guaranteed to end in Y so we have D?TY

Both answers have 9 as the second digit, so both are the same word. We are looking for another vowel to represent 9 which has not been used before. This leaves us with either I, O or U.

The only four letter words in the dictionary from these is DUTY/DOTY




However, I believe the answer is:
64 years old less 12% = 56 rounded up.
56 less 12% = 49 rounded up.

The difference in this case between 64 and 56 is 8.

8 less 12% = 7 rounded up.


Mark asks, "Please explain why you are reducing her age twice."


If I may refer to the question note:

Do NOT presume that the numbers of 49 and 7 were the actual numbers that were printed. Of course, those numbers are obviously not the numbers that were printed.

Those numbers each had an original number that was typed, which was reduced by the fixed percentage and rounded up.


Therefore we have; True age / Typed age / printed age.

The question was printed in the magazine New Scientist; sometime later I read the answer, which simply said: 64 years old, with no details. If you can arrive at their answer any other way - go for it!


Mismi puzzle

William March
William June
William September
William January

Is it something along the lines of: Four seasons will a year make?





FOMRMAITSISON

nooooooooo

wanna try again? :wink:

[size=7]mis(s)information[/size]

bills in different months or bills by month?Miss information?

Miss mi writes;
"nooooooooo

wanna try again?"


If I strike out- I'm outta here! I'm only interested in playing with you if I get to first base, and still have a chance to go the whole way. Hey! Did that sound the way it was meant? I don't want you to take it the wrong way.

William March
William June
William September
William January

The months pass William by?

TTH said: bills in different months or bills by month? :wink:
monthly bills - yep!


Try...pitiful - really :wink:

Mark:

FOMRMAITSISON = mis(s)information

It sure was


TTH:

Miss information


Miss mi wrote, "Try...pitiful - really"

I love it when you sweet talk me!






In the below equation, each letter is a different integer between 1 and 9.

a² + b² + c² = d² + e² + f²

I found a solution to the equation.

I then altered just one of the integers on each side of that solution to create a second solution.

I then altered just one of the integers on each side of the second solution to create a third solution.

I then repeated this on the third solution to produce a fourth solution.

All four solutions were different.

The fourth solution produced a larger sum than the first solution.


What was the value of (a² + b² + c²) in each of the four solutions in order

SQUARES
[size=7]62, 77, 122, 98[/size]

So what way would be the wrong way to take that?

Ok, so some of you know I haven't had much luck with chicks. So I thought I would run my latest pickup line past you - what do ya think:


- Excuse me, I'm sorry but I can't help but notice how much you look like my first wife, may I ask you your name.

Chick: ("How many times have you been married?)

- Never!


Do you think that could be too subtle for those North of the Mason-Dixon Line?


Mark:

SQUARES
62, 77, 122, 98


Each solution must have 1 digit changed from the previous solution on each side of the equation. As a basic example:
1 + 2 + 3 = 4 + 5 + 6
Could be changed to 1 + 2 + 4 = 7 + 5 + 6
Of course the equations are not equal, but it illustrates the point on changing 1 digit on each side.

You could write a script to produce only unique answers. For example:
a,b,c = 1,4,9
d,e,f = 3,5,8
This arrangement of numbers can be written many ways; to just show one of the ways.

The output is the following:

149358
156237
168249
238456
267348
378459

These are the only possible sets of 6 digits you can use. You can of course rearrange the first 3 digits and the last 3 digits in any way you want, and also swap over the first 3 digits with the last 3 digits. At the end of it though, the sum will always be the same no matter which way round you put them.

Then just use trial and error to get the answer which is the following:

1st solution: 2,3,7 = 1,5,6 Sum = 62
2nd solution: 2,3,8 = 4,5,6 Sum = 77
3rd solution: 7,3,8 = 4,5,9 Sum = 122
4th solution: 5,3,8 = 4,1,9 Sum = 98

This satisfies the requirements of the question in that the fourth answer is a larger sum than the first, all 4 solutions are different and each one has replaced just one digit on each side of the equation to get to the next solution.


A rebellious Southern belle named Miss mi enquires, "So what way would be the wrong way to take that?"

"Quite frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

"The south will rise again." :wink:

Signed; Rhett



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WILLWOWDS

"I saw that going differently in my mind."

Tryagain" Ok, so some of you know I haven't had much luck with chicks. So I thought I would run my latest pickup line past you - what do ya think:


- Excuse me, I'm sorry but I can't help but notice how much you look like my first wife, may I ask you your name.

Chick: ("How many times have you been married?)

- Never!


Do you think that could be too subtle for those North of the Mason-Dixon Line?

better hope it's not...loses something when you have to explain it doesn't it?

Uh, okay, great pickup line
gone back with the wind?
wind in willows?

Try here is one if you're not having any luck with chicks.

Put your finger in your mouth and place it wet on a woman's shirt sleeve and say, want to come home with me and dry your clothes?

Does that one work for you Dutchy?

Tried and proven, would I tell a lie if it didn't work? :wink:

You are smooth Dutchy
Hi mismi40

Here Try, take your choice

"I saw that going differently in my mind."

What went through my mind and what I wrote, may not be the same…It is a Sunday after all. :wink:


"Put your finger in your mouth and place it wet on a woman's shirt sleeve and say, want to come home with me and dry your clothes?"

Dutchy, you sweet talkin' bastid! I bet you can charm the Dingo's outta the trees.


TTH, you're way ahead of the game…that was my punch line!