NeoPets Riddles (Lenny Conundrums) and Answers Here

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Yay, that's not really alot, but someone gave the answer out on the neoboards anyways.
Thanks for the help though. (:

Congratulations! You have guessed correctly in the Lenny Conundrum game (round 157). You have won 627 NP!

Because you were in the first 250 to guess correctly, you also have been awarded a Chocolate Orange Volcano, and receive a trophy and the Lenny Conundrum avatar!

hullo, I'm new to this forum, and I was wondering if anyone knows th answer to the resent one. my automatic guess would be 100, but i think that's probably wrong, so i'm asking y'all.

Hey! I'm also new to this forum. LC this week:

Old Cap'n Bloodhook, the captain of The Black Pawkeet, needed to pack away some of his hoarded dubloons. "I'll tell you what," he said, "if ye can help me figure out how many dubloons can fit into this tray, I'll be givin' ye a reward!"

So the tray is perfectly square, and just big enough to fit 10 dubloons along one side.

So, without overlapping any dubloons, what is the maximum number of dubloons that can fit in the tray?

I'm almost certain teh pictures of the dubloons are important.
I heard that if there is a 5 dubloon coin, then it would be worth 5 dubloons... so therefore... that's all i got so far.

I must go. good luck.

I'm not sure of the answer, but I was playing with quarters,
and 105 quarters will fit in a box that can hold 10 quarters a side.

hmm, im automatically thinking of 100 but i dont think it'll be that easy. do you think the value of each dubloon coin is important? it didnt ask for how many dubloon coins could fit but just how many dubloons. maybe that will help

I got 109.

I got it by typing out a grid of zeros, 10 0's across and 10 0's down.

I dont know that the dubloon coins could have anything to do with it, because how would you know how many of what value there are.

And the question doesnt ask for the VALUE of the coins, only how many dublons fit in the box.

lc
I think its just an A=L*W so 10*10=? I say this because it says overlap and overlap means to stack on top and none of these are. I hope this makes sense

Are the dubloons circular coins? So we're talking about a planar circle-packing problem?

Thank you.

Eliz.

im new here and i think that cause it doesnt say how many dubloon coins it just means the money so the coin with the most value is 200 dubloons and im not sure if this is true but it might mean 200x100=20000 or maybe it is 105x200=21000

those r my thoughts

dubloons are round

If the question does not in fact refer to "dubloon coins", please reply with the exact text of the question. Please also provide the comparative physical sizes of the variously-valued coins available.

Thank you.

Eliz.

This is obviously a trick question, and I'm pretty sure I've found the answer.

"big enough to fit 10 dubloons along one side."

doesnt say along the side of WHAT.. and the last subject was 'dubloons'

so the try fits 10 dubloons on a certain side.

That's what I entered.

10.

I found a cool site:
http://hydra.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/packing/csq/csq.html

It has a table that contains the maximum known radius for packing N circles into a unit square. For this problem (assuming it's a straightforward circle packing problem), look in the table for the smallest radius greater than or equal to .05. The solution (106) is one greater than simple hex packing which has 11 rows of 10, 9, 10, 9, 10, 9, 10, 9, 10, 9, and 10 coins.

The site also has pictures of the best known packings. Here's the one for this problem:



If you're really into this, the site has source code (C) for a program to search for optimal solutions.

Lenny Conundrum Week of March 15th
The answers 100, I think that this question is to test your logic skills, A perfect box with 10 dubloons that perfectly fit on one side. It's a perfect square so you can get the answer by 100 x 2. Make sense or am I just totally paranoid?

what if the dubloons are on their side you might be able to fit 10 on one side.. but if they are laying down or in a different posistion would that matter?

New here....
I'm new here but I am hoping to be able to participate in your LC discussions!

On this new one, wouldn't the answer be 100. If there were 10 along each side, wouldn't it be 10x10 if the box is a perfect square?

Look at markr's image. Because dubloons [circular prisms--that is, coins] are round, you can fit more inside a square box that is as long as ten dubloons on one side. The answer isn't the obvious 10x10.