NeoPets Riddles (Lenny Conundrums) and Answers Here

If you need help, this could get you started: http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/doubling/index.html

I know how to get the pattern but I don't know how to get how many neopets are infected in one minute :/

Not one minute. Every neopet infects another neopet every five minutes

there is no constant number per minute, it keeps growing

I must be doing it wrong then because I don't get the answer on a five minute interval :/

Yes. A five minute interval

Wait, nevermind, I'm not even done xD I was thinking it was 2 mill, not 262 mill

If you are doing an exact calculation of a continuous function that doubles every 5 minutes, then you won't get the answer on a five minute interval. However, according to the problem, this is a step function, that only increases its value every 5 minutes.

ummmmm... Okay? b Did you hget the answer? Would you like to copare?

Oh, wow. That was the worst sentence that coiuld ever possibly be written.

All these people getting 140? I got 135.

so did I.

Its 140, use the donuts thingy posted before, double de donuts 20 times, then you will get like 1'000.000 something, copy it and in keep doubling it x 2 (of course) by yourself using a calculator you will notice that you can double it in total 28 times until you get 268.000.000 something , now, look at the amount of total neopets, well its less than the amount you got but its near, so you need 28 infected neopets to infect all neopia (268.000.000 something) now the time, it takes 5 minutes to infect another neopet no? so 28 (neopets you need) x 5 (time) = 140 minutes. its impossible you get 135.

Oh, crap. Did I do that? I THOUGHT I PMd you guys!!! Oh.. Crap..

I REALLY don't now. I SERIOUSLY thought I Private messaged you guys.. :'(

There goes some neopoints.. ARGHHH

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Answer was 140.

How I personally solved it. It's not the most efficient way, but it helped me to think about what I was doing. I did the first few by hand, and made up an arbitrary time for when the infections started (12:00). OK, so at 12:00, one Neopet was infected. Then, at 12:05, that one Neopet affected another, so 2 total were infected. Then at 12:10, those 2 affected 2 more, so 4 total were affected. So, the formula was log base 2 of "number of Neopets" (somewhere over 262 million, according to http://www.neopets.com/petcentral.phtml) * 5 (minutes). I used the calculator at http://logbase2.blogspot.com/2008/08/log-calculator.html to determine the log base 2 number. That gives 27.96. Don't forget to round up! Rounding down would not affect every Neopet. So, it's 28 * 5 = 140.

New puzzle is up - looks like letter sudoku:
In this puzzle, there are twelve different letters. Fill in the grid so that:
- Every row contains one (and only one) of each of the letters.
-Every column contains one (and only one) of each of the letters.
-Every 4x3 grid contains one of each of the letters.

Then, unscramble the circled letters to spell something found in Neopia! Submit ONLY the answer with no other words or characters. (Adding spaces in the appropriate places is OK!)