NeoPets Riddles (Lenny Conundrums) and Answers Here

in case anyone cares, it'd be 2^88

Yay, so now I can solve

We need to know:

how many squares?
how many (distinguishable) pieces?
how many of each (distinguishable) piece?

When I say "distinguishable", I mean "that you can tell the difference between". I'm not a Neopets member, so I don't have this information. But a clear statement of this information is necessary (though not necessarily sufficient) for computing a solution. Thanks.

Eliz.

88 squares.
2 different types of piece

and i dont think how many there are matters. ( say theres infinite to use of each kind )

ive tried and tried but the number im getting is rediculously huge lol ! X

jus for the record this is what ive done :-

2^88
then divide that by 2 get get how many times in a minute
then divide by 60 for hours
then by 24 for days
then by 365 for years.

but the number is still huge and im not sure what to do with it. im not sure if im going in the right direction with it but i thought id lend a hand xD hehe

I put in my "ridiculously huge" answer.. I think it's right.

There are basically black pieces and white pieces, and it would be impossible to tell the difference between different black pieces and white pieces. there are 88 playable squares. Since he fills up the whole board, we can assume that there are at least 88 black pieces and 88 white pieces (because in the game countless black pieces can be "converted" to white pieces and vice versa). They placed no restriction on the number of each, so I believe it would be safe to assume there are 88 of each colour.

sari what u send in. because i cant get a sensible number from my calculator lol ¬_¬.

did u use the same method as me ?

tehpie, I think your answer is right, I did (2^88*30)/31557600

which is:

(possible combinations * seconds for each setting up of game) / number of seconds in a year

It all seems mathamatically sound, and I can't see any other way.

the number of seconds in a year was calculated by:

365.25 days (to account for leap years) * 24 hours * 60 minutes * 60 seconds

yer sounds good

but the blooomin calc wont show a full number lol ! ¬_¬

no? mine showed a number x 10^20

xD

whoops, not tehpie, but the other user on the page beforehand which posted an answer xD

it's not exactly the same as mine, but due to the rounding, it doens't matter

If you use your calculater on your computer you can set view to scientific view and see the full number.

anyone got the answer
Bartleby the Skeith was bored one morning, and decided to pull out an empty Armada board and some Armada pieces. He filled the entire board with random Armada pieces, one in each space. Then, he emptied the whole board and did it again. And then again, and then again. He decided to keep doing it until he filled the board with every possible combination of pieces.


If it takes him 30 seconds to set up and then empty the board each time, how long will it take him to set up every possible combination? Please round to the nearest year.

anyone know the anwser

Im still Puzzled...
Any Idea what the answer might be?? Cause i can't figure it out yet.

Lets think about this...how many piece are there in armada? And how many squares on the board?

Armada
There are 24 ships 12 for each player & 88 spaces .. i'm still working on the math

I just found the site this week .. very interesting & helpful here.

he filled the whole board so he used 88 pieces
so its 88 x 88 is 7744 total ways

Armada
Keep in mind there are TWO types of ships .. that's what's been taking me so long .. working out the math.

He took RANDOM ships and placed them everywhere on the squares

Well I, for one, have no clue. If I figure it out I'll defiantly post it here!

This one makes my brain hurt, its just simple math but it's confusing because there are two kinds of ships, i was wondering if this had something to do with factorials? anyone know because if it does we are going to be dealing with a HUGE number for an answer.

(for all of you who done know factorials are when you do a problem like this 8x7x6x5x4x3x2=8!)

so i thought in this case it might be 44!+44! but im not sure and probably wrong, any thoughts are appreciated.

~Ace~