Post by Anonymousperson5 on Jul 23, 2011 2:18:08 GMT
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I like puzzles. I hope several others do as well, because I'm starting a game on it.
Each time a puzzle is solved, I'll give the person who solved it a certain number of points. I'll find more puzzles for you each time a puzzle is solved. By the end of 50 puzzles, I'll give people prizes in Dan-Balls! I'm doing this just for fun. And if it's popular, I'll set a higher limit of 100 puzzles!Please don't try to cheat by asking people online. It's indecent and I doubt many have that inherent greed for DBs. If I find out I will terminate you and/or the game.
Other rules are that you can't guess again or anything like that. Plot it out on paper or something. Second, each time someone guesses wrong I raise the point value by half a point, and values can be changed in my opinion if a puzzle is named difficult by players. You may PM me the answer for a complementary prize if you have been disqualified from the current round. You may only vie for the complementary prize ONCE. Be sure to check back on this post for my frequent updates! And once more, PLEASE don't cheat.
Puzzle 12:
The rules of Kakuro are simple.
Look at the image below.
The numbers to the left of the box must sum to the number at the corresponding spot, in which case is 21.
The numbers to the bottom of the box must sum to the number at the corresponding spot as well, which is 15.
The box has no effect upon numbers to the left or top of it.
The numbers in the white spaces MUST be digits, and no number in the sequence may repeat itself, ergo 3+4+2+2+4 is not valid for the column due to the fact that the 2s and 4s repeat.
And so without further ado, here is puzzle 12. Fill all the white spaces.
Past puzzles:
Make a valid equation using all of and only one +, one -1, two 2s, one 3, one 4, one 5, two 6s, 4 parentheses, and one =.
The rules of Combiku are simple. Each row and column contains the full set of colors and numbers, and there is no color or number combination repeated in the puzzle. It's similar to the officers problem except in puzzle form. Don't worry, the puzzle's not a six-by-six. c:
This is a sample puzzle which I have solved and will help you learn:
Firstly, you can quickly determine the placement of the final red and final green boxes:
Then you can determine where the three blue boxes are:
Look at the upper left box. It cannot be a three because there is already a red three. Nor can it be a two because there is a two in that row. Therefore it is a red one:
Now you can determine where the red two is:
The center left box is a three because there is a one in its column and a two in its row:
You can now determine where the green one is because there is already a green two and three:
The rest is quite easy/self-explanatory:
The following is the actual Puzzle 9. The colors are FF0000, 00FF00, 0000FF, FF00FF, and 00FFFF.
Worth 5 points.
Winner: GV
56-25-45-1-51-88-74-2-17-61-65-84-39-3-33-26-96-87-4-18-46-72-52-5-40-95-69-6-57-99-19-34-27-7-62-81-66-86-20-8-41-47-94-83-9-53-77-35-10-28-91-21-70-58-42-11-75-79-63-48-90-36-12-22-29-92-54-67-73-100-43-13-30-85-59-98-23-49-82-37-14-80-64-55-31-71-44-50-15-24-60-97-89-76-68-38-16-32-93-78
Find the secret to the sequence. C: It's finite. Nobody likes it anymore 'cause I put it on the chat approx. 4 or 5 times in a couple hours. At any rate...
Worth 5 points
The most epic and horribly complex maze you will ever encounter or even see.
Please mark your path in the cyan (or, if inverted, red) provided. I have put security measures against the fill tool. Don't try it.
Go resize it or something. Invert the color. Whatever.
Portals are different colors. They teleport you to the spot of the same color.
When you receive a key you will teleport to the spot that is the same color as the background next to the key. Then you proceed to unlock the corresponding blue block.
Worth: 10
Winner: GV
Part one:
Draw a regular pentagon and a regular pentagram inside it. How many triangles are in this figure?
Part two:
In this sentence, the number of occurrences of 0 is _, of 1 is_, of 2 is _, of 3 is _, of 4 is _, of 5 is _, of 6 is _, of 7 is _, or 8 is _, and of 9 is _. Fill in the blanks with the correct digits.
Part 3:
What is the greatest number of bishops that can be placed on the board with none of them attacking each other?
Part 4:
Four matches of equal length are arranged in a cross. Move one match to create a square.
Part 5:
Two matches are arranged in a V, two in an = sign, and 3 are used as Is for the Roman numeral equation:
VII=I
EDIT: You can't just cross the equals sign. Doesn't work that way. c: Same for puzzle 7.
Move one match to make the equation true
Part 6:
How could one get 24 with 5, 5, 5, and 1? Only the four basic operations are allowed.
EDIT: Drax and Vert are attempting to find loopholes and are driving me nuts, so I'll say this. Only the four basic operations. No different interpretations, just the +, -, x, /. You use all, you don't reuse. Just four. Only four. And that is that.
Part 7:
5+5+5=550
Make the equation true with one stroke
Altogether worth 7 points (4 after deadline). Once more, MUST BE ENTERED TOGETHER OR WILL NOT BE COUNTED. Kfanks.
Winner: Elmach (after deadline)
Discover the secret to Abigail's world!
To exist in Abigail's world, a thing must meet certain criteria. Your task is to find these criteria by these. The criteria may have to do with any property of the thing, so be on alert. It may not even logically make sense.
Clues:
There is no sun or moon, but there are stars.
Anyone named Abigail can exist in this world. Of course, it's Abigail's world.
No gods or atheism exist. Religion does.
There are both virtue and hope. Youth exists.
People exist. There is knowledge and noodles.
Victuals exist. Hair and fashion do not.
Ghosts exist. Beasts do not exist.
Delis, cafés and restaraunts exist.
Language does not exist.
Each time you think you get it you PM me and ask. If I say yes you will receive the points as outlined below. If it is incorrect you do not have a chance to get points. If you have guessed correctly, DO NOT post the secret in the thread, chat, or ANYONE else. Instead, you get to torment those who don't know my posting clues of your own in the thread (I suggest you do, it raises fun content for near everyone). By the end of the deadline (2 days after the puzzle has started, or 7:13 AM 7/30 GMT), no one may guess further.
The first two people who guess correctly within the alloted time will receive three points EACH, the next two will receive two, and all the rest receive one.
Winners: None. Failure. Just wow.
Secret: The word must have two adjacent letters next to each other.
Question: Find the ONLY move as white that doesn't checkmate.
Answer: cxb6 e.p.
Winner: anon
Comp. winners: UC
Worth: 4, 1
Competitors:
GV: 25
ShiningSilver: 9
Anon: 4
Elmach: 4
Draxorion: 4
UC: 1
Sparkpowder: 0
Nmagane: 0
Prizes:
1st: 1000Â¥
2nd: 700Â¥
3rd: 500Â¥
Note:If this should probably be in the back alley or contests, move it how you wish. I don't go to either that often though.
I like puzzles. I hope several others do as well, because I'm starting a game on it.
Each time a puzzle is solved, I'll give the person who solved it a certain number of points. I'll find more puzzles for you each time a puzzle is solved. By the end of 50 puzzles, I'll give people prizes in Dan-Balls! I'm doing this just for fun. And if it's popular, I'll set a higher limit of 100 puzzles!Please don't try to cheat by asking people online. It's indecent and I doubt many have that inherent greed for DBs. If I find out I will terminate you and/or the game.
Other rules are that you can't guess again or anything like that. Plot it out on paper or something. Second, each time someone guesses wrong I raise the point value by half a point, and values can be changed in my opinion if a puzzle is named difficult by players. You may PM me the answer for a complementary prize if you have been disqualified from the current round. You may only vie for the complementary prize ONCE. Be sure to check back on this post for my frequent updates! And once more, PLEASE don't cheat.
Puzzle 12:
The rules of Kakuro are simple.
Look at the image below.
The numbers to the left of the box must sum to the number at the corresponding spot, in which case is 21.
The numbers to the bottom of the box must sum to the number at the corresponding spot as well, which is 15.
The box has no effect upon numbers to the left or top of it.
The numbers in the white spaces MUST be digits, and no number in the sequence may repeat itself, ergo 3+4+2+2+4 is not valid for the column due to the fact that the 2s and 4s repeat.
And so without further ado, here is puzzle 12. Fill all the white spaces.
Past puzzles:
Make a valid equation using all of and only one +, one -1, two 2s, one 3, one 4, one 5, two 6s, 4 parentheses, and one =.
:
The aquilot sum of the repeating number in Puzzle three, brought to the half power, times a dollar is the price of an orange. 9 apples are worth an orange. If 86*67=5700+31*2, then thirteen apples are equivalent to twenty-seven bananas. If not, they are equal to twenty-six bananas. Twelve bananas is worth a fifteenth of a kiwi, while the price of a starfruit is that of the price of a kiwi times the price of a banana, divided by the price of an apple. 1/5 starfruit is worth a lemon, while sixteen lemons are worth 600 blueberries. 500 blueberries are worth a strawberry, and forty-seven lemons and 30 strawberries are worth a silver bar. A gold bar's worth is the sum of one of each of all the previously mentioned objects. A copper bar is worth 400th of a gold bar, and a computer is worth 100 times that. If 323 is prime a computer is worth ten yo-yos, but if not, it is worth eighty-six yo-yos. If 866 is not divisible by six all these extra sentences are unecessary. 8 pawns, a queen and two rooks have a value of 27. The number of points GV has after puzzle nine is the number of yo-yos a pear is worth, and fourteen pears equal 47 17/37 peaches. So now may I ask, how many peaches can you buy with a thousand dollars with sales tax of 10%? As a whole number, of course, remainders omitted.
Also be glad I didn't incorporate other currencies. I might do a variant on this someday. With currencies, so beware...
Worth 5 points
Winner: GV
Answer: 13
The aquilot sum of the repeating number in Puzzle three, brought to the half power, times a dollar is the price of an orange. 9 apples are worth an orange. If 86*67=5700+31*2, then thirteen apples are equivalent to twenty-seven bananas. If not, they are equal to twenty-six bananas. Twelve bananas is worth a fifteenth of a kiwi, while the price of a starfruit is that of the price of a kiwi times the price of a banana, divided by the price of an apple. 1/5 starfruit is worth a lemon, while sixteen lemons are worth 600 blueberries. 500 blueberries are worth a strawberry, and forty-seven lemons and 30 strawberries are worth a silver bar. A gold bar's worth is the sum of one of each of all the previously mentioned objects. A copper bar is worth 400th of a gold bar, and a computer is worth 100 times that. If 323 is prime a computer is worth ten yo-yos, but if not, it is worth eighty-six yo-yos. If 866 is not divisible by six all these extra sentences are unecessary. 8 pawns, a queen and two rooks have a value of 27. The number of points GV has after puzzle nine is the number of yo-yos a pear is worth, and fourteen pears equal 47 17/37 peaches. So now may I ask, how many peaches can you buy with a thousand dollars with sales tax of 10%? As a whole number, of course, remainders omitted.
Also be glad I didn't incorporate other currencies. I might do a variant on this someday. With currencies, so beware...
Worth 5 points
Winner: GV
Answer: 13
The rules of Combiku are simple. Each row and column contains the full set of colors and numbers, and there is no color or number combination repeated in the puzzle. It's similar to the officers problem except in puzzle form. Don't worry, the puzzle's not a six-by-six. c:
This is a sample puzzle which I have solved and will help you learn:
Firstly, you can quickly determine the placement of the final red and final green boxes:
Then you can determine where the three blue boxes are:
Look at the upper left box. It cannot be a three because there is already a red three. Nor can it be a two because there is a two in that row. Therefore it is a red one:
Now you can determine where the red two is:
The center left box is a three because there is a one in its column and a two in its row:
You can now determine where the green one is because there is already a green two and three:
The rest is quite easy/self-explanatory:
The following is the actual Puzzle 9. The colors are FF0000, 00FF00, 0000FF, FF00FF, and 00FFFF.
Worth 5 points.
Winner: GV
56-25-45-1-51-88-74-2-17-61-65-84-39-3-33-26-96-87-4-18-46-72-52-5-40-95-69-6-57-99-19-34-27-7-62-81-66-86-20-8-41-47-94-83-9-53-77-35-10-28-91-21-70-58-42-11-75-79-63-48-90-36-12-22-29-92-54-67-73-100-43-13-30-85-59-98-23-49-82-37-14-80-64-55-31-71-44-50-15-24-60-97-89-76-68-38-16-32-93-78
Find the secret to the sequence. C: It's finite. Nobody likes it anymore 'cause I put it on the chat approx. 4 or 5 times in a couple hours. At any rate...
Worth 5 points
The most epic and horribly complex maze you will ever encounter or even see.
Please mark your path in the cyan (or, if inverted, red) provided. I have put security measures against the fill tool. Don't try it.
Go resize it or something. Invert the color. Whatever.
Portals are different colors. They teleport you to the spot of the same color.
When you receive a key you will teleport to the spot that is the same color as the background next to the key. Then you proceed to unlock the corresponding blue block.
Worth: 10
Winner: GV
Part one:
Draw a regular pentagon and a regular pentagram inside it. How many triangles are in this figure?
Part two:
In this sentence, the number of occurrences of 0 is _, of 1 is_, of 2 is _, of 3 is _, of 4 is _, of 5 is _, of 6 is _, of 7 is _, or 8 is _, and of 9 is _. Fill in the blanks with the correct digits.
Part 3:
What is the greatest number of bishops that can be placed on the board with none of them attacking each other?
Part 4:
Four matches of equal length are arranged in a cross. Move one match to create a square.
Part 5:
Two matches are arranged in a V, two in an = sign, and 3 are used as Is for the Roman numeral equation:
VII=I
EDIT: You can't just cross the equals sign. Doesn't work that way. c: Same for puzzle 7.
Move one match to make the equation true
Part 6:
How could one get 24 with 5, 5, 5, and 1? Only the four basic operations are allowed.
EDIT: Drax and Vert are attempting to find loopholes and are driving me nuts, so I'll say this. Only the four basic operations. No different interpretations, just the +, -, x, /. You use all, you don't reuse. Just four. Only four. And that is that.
Part 7:
5+5+5=550
Make the equation true with one stroke
Altogether worth 7 points (4 after deadline). Once more, MUST BE ENTERED TOGETHER OR WILL NOT BE COUNTED. Kfanks.
Winner: Elmach (after deadline)
Couple word puzzles. Have fun! Once more, they must all be submitted together.
Upon conversing with a peasant woman, a marketer asks the woman what the ages of her 3 children are. Smiling benignly, the woman cryptically replies, "Their ages multiply to 36."
The marketer frowns. A puzzle with insufficient information? "Well, carry on. We both know well I can't deduce from that!"
The woman declares, "Look in my basket. Their ages sum up to the number of eggs in my basket."
The marketer counted the eggs and thought. "I still don't quite know."
The woman looks at the marketer in the eye. "The eldest one is blond."
The marketer smiles. "Ah, I see. Farewell!"
And the two went their ways.
How many eggs were in the basket? What are the ages? (For the sake of the puzzle, assume twins are of EXACTLY equal age)
You walk into a store. A display of toys catches your eye. A block with three rods protruding up from it sits with seven rings of verying size around the left pole. Walking over, the shopkeeper tells you that this is a popular puzzle set. Confident it is difficult, he bets you $50 that you can't solve it. Accepting, you now look at the puzzle as the shopkeeper explains. "As you can see, there are seven rings of varying size. They are stackes with largest at the bottom to smallest up top. Now, the objective is to move the entire stack from left pole to right pole, with the center pole as a jump space. You may only pick up one ring at a time. No ring can be placed upon a ring smaller than itself. And you must keep all seven rings on the poles. Good luck."
The shopkeeper recedes into his quarters as you ponder the puzzle.
State full solution, with ebery step. Use following format:
1C (smallest ring to center)
2R (second smallest ring to right)
etc...
You get an extra point for having the fastest solution possible.
Altogether worth 5 points.
Winner: GV
Upon conversing with a peasant woman, a marketer asks the woman what the ages of her 3 children are. Smiling benignly, the woman cryptically replies, "Their ages multiply to 36."
The marketer frowns. A puzzle with insufficient information? "Well, carry on. We both know well I can't deduce from that!"
The woman declares, "Look in my basket. Their ages sum up to the number of eggs in my basket."
The marketer counted the eggs and thought. "I still don't quite know."
The woman looks at the marketer in the eye. "The eldest one is blond."
The marketer smiles. "Ah, I see. Farewell!"
And the two went their ways.
How many eggs were in the basket? What are the ages? (For the sake of the puzzle, assume twins are of EXACTLY equal age)
You walk into a store. A display of toys catches your eye. A block with three rods protruding up from it sits with seven rings of verying size around the left pole. Walking over, the shopkeeper tells you that this is a popular puzzle set. Confident it is difficult, he bets you $50 that you can't solve it. Accepting, you now look at the puzzle as the shopkeeper explains. "As you can see, there are seven rings of varying size. They are stackes with largest at the bottom to smallest up top. Now, the objective is to move the entire stack from left pole to right pole, with the center pole as a jump space. You may only pick up one ring at a time. No ring can be placed upon a ring smaller than itself. And you must keep all seven rings on the poles. Good luck."
The shopkeeper recedes into his quarters as you ponder the puzzle.
State full solution, with ebery step. Use following format:
1C (smallest ring to center)
2R (second smallest ring to right)
etc...
You get an extra point for having the fastest solution possible.
Altogether worth 5 points.
Winner: GV
Discover the secret to Abigail's world!
To exist in Abigail's world, a thing must meet certain criteria. Your task is to find these criteria by these. The criteria may have to do with any property of the thing, so be on alert. It may not even logically make sense.
Clues:
There is no sun or moon, but there are stars.
Anyone named Abigail can exist in this world. Of course, it's Abigail's world.
No gods or atheism exist. Religion does.
There are both virtue and hope. Youth exists.
People exist. There is knowledge and noodles.
Victuals exist. Hair and fashion do not.
Ghosts exist. Beasts do not exist.
Delis, cafés and restaraunts exist.
Language does not exist.
Each time you think you get it you PM me and ask. If I say yes you will receive the points as outlined below. If it is incorrect you do not have a chance to get points. If you have guessed correctly, DO NOT post the secret in the thread, chat, or ANYONE else. Instead, you get to torment those who don't know my posting clues of your own in the thread (I suggest you do, it raises fun content for near everyone). By the end of the deadline (2 days after the puzzle has started, or 7:13 AM 7/30 GMT), no one may guess further.
The first two people who guess correctly within the alloted time will receive three points EACH, the next two will receive two, and all the rest receive one.
Winners: None. Failure. Just wow.
Secret: The word must have two adjacent letters next to each other.
Question: Complete the sequence until you prove it goes into a looping pattern (Ergo, you prove after a certain point it loops forever) and state the looping number(s)
783-882-1032-36-243...
Answer: 783-882-1032-36-243-99-1458-702-351-153-153-153...
Worth: 4, 2.
Bonus: State the full pattern when you start from 579.
Answer: 579-1197-1074-408-576-684-792-1080-513-153-153-153...
Worth: 2
EXTRA BONUS: State what 1729 has to do with this pattern.
Answer: It is the sum of two positive cubes in two different ways, and is the first to do so. It is related because this sequence is based on sums of cubes.
Worth: 3
Winner (all 3): ShiningSilver
Comp. Winners: N/A
783-882-1032-36-243...
Answer: 783-882-1032-36-243-99-1458-702-351-153-153-153...
Worth: 4, 2.
Bonus: State the full pattern when you start from 579.
Answer: 579-1197-1074-408-576-684-792-1080-513-153-153-153...
Worth: 2
EXTRA BONUS: State what 1729 has to do with this pattern.
Answer: It is the sum of two positive cubes in two different ways, and is the first to do so. It is related because this sequence is based on sums of cubes.
Worth: 3
Winner (all 3): ShiningSilver
Comp. Winners: N/A
Part 1:
Part 2:
I put them in color, but you can write numbers and stuff provided you give a key.
You must submit BOTH answers to earn the point.
Worth: 2
Winner: Draxor (after deadline)
Part 2:
I put them in color, but you can write numbers and stuff provided you give a key.
You must submit BOTH answers to earn the point.
Worth: 2
Winner: Draxor (after deadline)
Question: Find the ONLY move as white that doesn't checkmate.
Answer: cxb6 e.p.
Winner: anon
Comp. winners: UC
Worth: 4, 1
Competitors:
GV: 25
ShiningSilver: 9
Anon: 4
Elmach: 4
Draxorion: 4
UC: 1
Sparkpowder: 0
Nmagane: 0
Prizes:
1st: 1000Â¥
2nd: 700Â¥
3rd: 500Â¥
Note:If this should probably be in the back alley or contests, move it how you wish. I don't go to either that often though.