wertyiu102/playnow254,
I agree, I did give some pretty big hints about how to solve the LC last week, including pretty much exactly where on the site to go. However, I didn't give the actual answer or exactly how to solve it. I also didn't give out the big hints until 7-8 hours after the LC came out. I should also mention that the final answer was posted on other sites about ten minutes after the LC was released, so I wasn't depriving anyone of their chance for a trophy, I don't think.
I would be curious as to where you think I should have quit on giving out hints or which hints you would have liked me to not give out. A while back, we commonly had people on this forum just blurting out the final answer. When able2know introduced the thumbs up/down rating system, some of us started using that to vote down posts we thought gave too much information. My personal philosophy is that I want to encourage people to work on the puzzles and do at least some of the work themselves, but I'm willing to try and get people who are struggling to the point where they can successfully solve the problem. I kind of feel that we have cut down the hints lately to the point where we are losing the community discussion. Anyway, if you have specifics about what you would have liked me to do differently last week, I would like to hear them.
@lennyfan,
Last week's puzzle is closed now, so the detailed solution:
In the first chapter of the comic (http://www.neopets.com/faerieland/tfr/comic.phtml?chapter=1), there are four pages. If you look at the initial letter in each speech bubble on the first page, you get TTSAHWH which is the first line of the puzzle. The second and third lines contain the initial letters from the speech bubbles on pages 2 and 3. So the obvious thing to to is look at the initial letters of the speech bubbles on page 4. This results in ITNAHOY, which was the answer to submit.
Here is round 375:
Suppose, at a certain festival, they are serving pie. The pies are flat on the bottom and flat on the top. The top is a circle with a radius of 5.5 inches. The bottom is a circle with a diameter of 8.5 inches. The height of the pie is 2.8 inches. Otherwise, they're all completely normally pie shaped.
There are 375 pies, and, for some strange reason, they're all made out of solid granite. If granite weighs exactly 171.6 pounds per cubic foot, how much do all 375 of the pies weigh, put together? Please round to the nearest whole number, and just submit a number as your answer, with no other information.
@beebzzz,
again, pretty straightforward. be careful of the dimensions and units used.
the sum of the digits of my result is 25
@beebzzz,
hmm my digits sum to 24, 4 digits
but i accidentally submitted the wrong answer.
I have to go with the 4 digits, sum of 25.
As a hint for those that are having trouble, a pie shape can be considered a truncated cone, or frustum.
ohw ait yeah i messed up ignore me
I totally did this wrong. I got a really huge number.
koalabears23 -- did you remember to convert the cubic inches into cubic feet?
I did that. My sister was looking at it and pointed out that it was 8.5 inches in diameter. I thought that was the radius.
Grr. I still did it wrong. I think I might have the wrong formula.
I have 4 digits, sum of 25. 2 hints:
1 . There are two ways (formulas) to solve the volume of the pie.
2. UNITS!
Well, I know I'm converting units. But I just keep getting really big numbers. Like 6 digits.
First answer:
5 digits, sum: 22
not promising.
am I missing something?
@playnow254,
also my
answer:
I got 12775
Can anyone tell me what's going on?
Between these two bold words
Highlight with cursor
If you haven't figured it out yet, don't look
The only thing I know is if it's 4 digits, the pie has to be less than 1 cubic foot. Because if it was 1, then the least it could be was 64350, which is 5 digits. Unless I'm just really missing the whole concept.
@koalabears23,
Yeah, the pie is less than 3 inches high and less than a foot across, so no surprise that it is less than a cubic foot in volume.
@koalabears23,
Well, think of it logically... a standard pie is not going to be bigger than a cubic foot (one foot x one foot x one foot). I only have dreams of such huge pies!
I agree with the 4 digits, sum of 25.
@skutn1em,
Sorry lennyfan... posted before I saw yours.
I have 7 digits... sum of 18.. D::
