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[Prophet]

Yea, Nothing is more powerful than God, or more evil than the devil. Poor people don't have much or nothing and rich ppl need nothing.

[fallen]

ELI M. BORDEN, Ph.D.

What is greater than God and more evil than the devil; the poor have it, and the rich need it, but if you eat it, you'll die? “NOTHING.” NOTHING is greater than God, and NOTHING is more evil than the devil. The poor have NOTHING, and the rich need NOTHING. If you eat NOTHING, you’ll die after a period of time.

Edited by fallen, 27 August 2005 - 08:24 PM.

[Squee]

...That's not really a logic question but more a riddle.

[Bowlin]

Nothing.

Correcto! And the first to answer!
I was aware that it was not a logic question, by the way.
But in a way, like logic, it takes a fair amount of inference in order to reach a conclusion. This question, which qualifies as a riddle, causes the brain to go through near the same process as a logical mind. Making it valid for a certain logical reasoning.

Anyhow, back to the logic questions.
We'll cast off again with a fantasy logic problem that I hope you'll enjoy .

Question #7:

Twinkle, the fairy, was having a bad day. She was falling out with all her friends over the most ridiculous of things. What time did she fall out with each friend, what type of being were they and what was her problem with each?

Name: Asher, Boleyn, Cherry, Dasha, Flo
Time: 7:00am, 7:30am, 8:00am, 9:00am, 10:00am
Problem: Laughed, Looked at her, Spoke to her, Telephoned her, Woke her
Type of Being: Dragonfly, Dwarf, Elf, Fairy, Pixie
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The telephone call was a problem to Twinkle, as she was in the bath at the time, before being spoken to was a problem.

Twinkle was angry with Asher as she looked at Twinkle in a way that Twinkle thought was disrespectful. This was not at the latest time & Asher was not a Dwarf.

Boleyn, another fairy, caused Twinkle to have a problem exactly 30 minutes after the Dragonfly caused a Twinkle to have a problem.

The Dwarf, who didn't cause Twinkle to have a problem at 9:00am, had laughed in Twinkle's presence and this had caused Twinkle to believe that she had something wrong with her face for some strange reason.

Cherry, who was not an elf, caused Twinkle to have a problem exactly one hour after Flo caused Twinkle to have a problem, but Cherry did not wake Twinkle up and Flo was not an elf.

The problem Twinkle had at 8:00am was not caused by being looked at or telephoned, but was caused by either Asher or Dasha.

The Pixie did not annoy Twinkle by waking her up after she had just fallen asleep again.

[Eternyte]

Asher - 7:00 - Looked at her - Dragonfly
Boleyn - 7:30 - Telephoned - Fairy
Cherry - 10:00 - Laughed - Dwarf
Dasha - 8:00 - Woke Her - Elf
Flo - 9:00 - Spoke to her - Pixie

p.s. I hate long ones that make you think

[Bowlin]

Asher - 7:00 - Looked at her - Dragonfly
Boleyn - 7:30 - Telephoned - Fairy
Cherry - 10:00 - Laughed - Dwarf
Dasha - 8:00 - Woke Her - Elf
Flo - 9:00 - Spoke to her - Pixie

p.s. I hate long ones that make you think

Superb! You've managed to figure it out correctly!
I say, we have some smart people in the community here, that can comprehend and figure out. Or some people that already know the answer. Impressive work.
Now, to further it, I shall up the difficulty.

Question #8:

There are five houses in a row, each of a different color, and inhabited by 5 people of different nationalities, with different pets, favorite drinks, and favorite sports. Use the clues below to determine who owns the monkey and who drinks water.

The Englishman lives in the red house.
The Spaniard owns the dog.
Coffee is drunk in the green house.
The Russian drinks tea.
The green house is immediately to the right of the white house.
The hockey player owns hamsters.
The football player lives in the yellow house.
Milk is drunk in the middle house.
The American lives in the first house on the left.
The table tennis player lives in the house next to the man with the fox.
The football player lives next to the house where the horse is kept.
The basketball player drinks orange juice.
The Japanese likes baseball.
The American lives next to the blue house.

[Trevayne]

From the left:

Yellow, American, Football, Water, Fox
Blue, Russian, Table Tennis, Tea, Horse
Red, Englishman, Hockey, Milk, Hamster
White, Spaniard, Basketball, OJ, Dog
Green, Japanese, Baseball, Coffee, Monkey

The Japanese man owns the monkey. The American drinks water.

This is sometimes called the "Who owns the Zebra?" puzzle and has taken many forms over the years.

[Sneaky]

Japanese owns mokey, american drinks water. I see that Aeryn posted...i didn't read it yet. lol.

[Sneaky]

aww not fair he's done it before! And it took me 15 minutes more, at least, than it did for him. Oh well, I still got it...and i've got the two pages of crossed out work to prove it!

[Ryuku]

I don't like logic tests, they're soooo hard for me

I like riddles, they're more fun, they trick the brain, rather than make it think normally

Edited by Ryuku, 28 August 2005 - 07:16 PM.

[Sneaky]

Shows that i didn't copy aeryn--





Made a mistake on my 1st page, so that has a bunch of stuff I crossed out.

[Bowlin]

From the left:

Yellow, American, Football, Water, Fox
Blue, Russian, Table Tennis, Tea, Horse
Red, Englishman, Hockey, Milk, Hamster
White, Spaniard, Basketball, OJ, Dog
Green, Japanese, Baseball, Coffee, Monkey

The Japanese man owns the monkey. The American drinks water.

This is sometimes called the "Who owns the Zebra?" puzzle and has taken many forms over the years.

Absolutely correct!
And you're also correct about this puzzle taking many forms over many years.
Impressive work.
But now, just for fun, let's have a question that doesn't have to do with logic. Something that perhaps none can answer. But if you've heard the question before, , you'll know what I mean.

Question #9 (non-logical): And the category is Hydromagnetic Magnetoidal Dimensions.

When traveling at a subsonic speed during the last one hour of hypersleep, which vector of the Romulan nebula will suffer the wrath of the impenetrable quickening?

[Trevayne]

The Backstreet Boys.

<3 ATHF

[<3!]

I wonder how many people are just googling and how many are actually working these out for themselves...

[Pieeno]

I wonder how many people are just googling and how many are actually working these out for themselves...

pffft your such a googlist, what about ask jeeves?!?

[<3!]

I wonder how many people are just googling and how many are actually working these out for themselves...

pffft your such a googlist, what about ask jeeves?!?

Ask Jeeves = (n)

[Ryuku]

LOL, I saw that episode but I didn't remember the actuall question.

[Bowlin]

The Backstreet Boys.

<3 ATHF

Trevayne has it again!
I thought that question would lighten the mood for everyone.
Because the next question I'm going to ask you is one that is from the Harvard Review of Philosophy. Supposedly, the Hardest Logic question of all.
Now, I know that most of you will google this, or askjeeves it, or some other search engine that links the words you type in to a certain internet location, but I put this question on here for the sake of one of you to claim fame with your own intelligence or for the sake of actually learning something.
I wish you all good luck who want to actually solve this puzzle, the best of luck.
I shall proceed.

Question #10:

Three gods A, B, and C are called, in some order, True, False, and Random. True always speaks truly, False always speaks falsely, but whether Random speaks truly or falsely is a completely random matter. Your task is to determine the identities of A, B, and C by asking three yes-no question; each question must be put to exactly one god. The gods understand English, but will answer all questions in their own language, in which the words for "yes" and "no" are "da" and "ja", in some order. You do not know which word means which.

[Sneaky]

Ok...I'll take a stab.

Wow...this is incredibly difficult. lol. I just sat here for at least 10 minutes and I've had to cross off every idea I've had.

I need you to clarify... Da and Ja are the words for yes and no, but I don't know which one means yes and which ones means no? I just know those words are the equivilent of either yes or no?

Edited by Sneaky, 30 August 2005 - 02:50 AM.

[Bowlin]

Ok...I'll take a stab.

Wow...this is incredibly difficult. lol. I just sat here for at least 10 minutes and I've had to cross off every idea I've had.

I need you to clarify... Da and Ja are the words for yes and no, but I don't know which one means yes and which ones means no? I just know those words are the equivilent of either yes or no?

Yes, and I'll clarify it a bit.
"Da" would equal yes, and "Ja" would equal no. I understand what you might mean when you see 'You don't know which word means which'. This is because it is said in a language you might not understand, depending on their language.

[Dark]

grrr anything i think of ends up in singleing out the random god to a choice of two ... this is hard my head hurts

[Sneaky]

But I know Da is yes and Ja is no? It's given that if I ask them a question and they say "da," they are responding "yes."?

[Crane]

Here's an old riddle... fans of Sonic the Hedgehog may know this, as it appears in an episode of SatAM!

I run and run but never hide;
I am often looked at but never seen;
And people panic when they do not have enough of me.
What am I?

ADDENDUM: Question #10 has me totally confused!

Edited by Crane, 31 August 2005 - 01:59 AM.

[Sneaky]

Time?

[Ryuku]

You: Is 2+2 4?
God A: Ja

You: Is 2+2 4?
God B: Da

You: Is 2+2 4?
God C: Da or Ja

This is just an example, but no matter what you ask them, will it be impossible to tell the truth teller from the random if they both say the truth? Unless you ask them questions about each other. I'm just a little child, but I really can't quiet understand it.

Edited by Ryuku, 31 August 2005 - 03:16 AM.

[Äññöÿäñcë]

This is really hard

[Eternyte]

clue: "iff"

[Crane]

Time?

Correct.

[Raylen]

#10 is kinda similar to that other puzzle with only 2 of em, and you have 1 question. You have to ask like "If i asked the other dude some question, what would he say?"

So i assume for this one you'll have to do likewise

Would try myself but i need to go to bed