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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: jbox on March 27, 2006, 01:22:24 am
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Try this one. (http://www.philosophers.co.uk/cgi-local/wason.cgi?num=1) I think I went cross-eyed thinking about the tattoo one. :dizzy:
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Questions must be randomized because I didn't get a tattoo question, but overall I found it very easy. I got all 4 right and I just skimmed for the needed info on the last two questions. I was a comp sci major in college and had to take a lot of logic classes, so maybe thats why it was so easy for me.
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I didn't get the tattoo one either, but I got them all right as well.
Filing Mr Smith
You answered:
Correctly!
This question has been answered correctly on 32% of occasions.
Even Vowels
You answered:
Correctly!
This question has been answered correctly on 16% of occasions.
Pension Troubles
You answered:
Correctly!
This question has been answered correctly on 59% of occasions.
Dancing with Mushrooms
You answered:
Correctly!
This question has been answered correctly on 50% of occasions.
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For some reason this made me remember the "game" Petals Around a Rose. Take a look and see if you can figure out how to come up with the right number.
http://crux.baker.edu/cdavis09/roses.html
Theres also a funny story about Bill Gates and this game:
http://www.borrett.id.au/computing/petals-bg.htm
He couldn't figure out how to find the numbers so he started memorizing what the answer was to each combination of the dice.
*edit* and I should probably mention I figured out petals around a rose in about 1/2 dozen rolls when I was first shown it. Remember the name of the game is important.
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I personally prefer sudoku. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku)
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I got the tatoo one. It was fine. In fact all four of my questions were essentially exactly the same logic question under different circumstances. Like asking, "If I have four bananas and I give one away how many are left? Okay....now if I have four oranges and I give one away how many are left? Got it? Okay now, if I have four apples...."
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Petals Around a Rose
I kept getting small numbers and couldn't figure the dang thing out. Had like 5 rolls (didn't get higher than a six each time,) then read your Gates article. On the third example they showed, I got it.
That first link with the actual game doesn't give ANY hints whatsoever, which was probably why it was so hard initially...that and my consistently low rolls. I think you need those big rolls to help figure it out. Well, and I missed your hint in your post too when I first played it, so that definitely DIDN'T help... :banghead:
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I personally prefer sudoku. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku)
Yep, lots of those here (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=44742.0).
And to those who insist on bragging about their implication 133tn355, feel free to tell me how many unique binary boolean operators there are if you want? :applaud:
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In fact all four of my questions were essentially exactly the same logic question under different circumstances.
I figured the answers were to obvious, so checked the opposite just to throw off the survey.
I got them all right, because it said I got them all wrong.
I still don't understand how these were tough questions.
A person has to be 21 or older to drink alcohol.
Which one(s) might be breaking the law?
A is 23
B is 19
C is drinking beer
D is drinking coke.
Can someone explain to me how these was a trick questions?
The tattoo one was just the same thing only worded differently.
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And to those who insist on bragging about their implication 133tn355, feel free to tell me how many unique binary boolean operators there are if you want? :applaud:
off the top of my head I can think of 10, am I right or did I miss some?
edit* just thought I'd post the ones I thought of, == != < > =< => and or xor xand
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Can someone explain to me how these was a trick questions
Because people are idiots? :dizzy:
Xor...sounds like a cool name for somebody.
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And to those who insist on bragging about their implication 133tn355, feel free to tell me how many unique binary boolean operators there are if you want? :applaud:
off the top of my head I can think of 10, am I right or did I miss some?
edit* just thought I'd post the ones I thought of, == != < > =< => and or xor xand
Not bad, anyone else want to take a guess?
edit* by the way, != and xor are the same thing. Also, what the heck is "XAND"?? Did you mean "NAND"?
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And to those who insist on bragging about their implication 133tn355, feel free to tell me how many unique binary boolean operators there are if you want? :applaud:
off the top of my head I can think of 10, am I right or did I miss some?
edit* just thought I'd post the ones I thought of, == != < > =< => and or xor xand
Not bad, anyone else want to take a guess?
edit* by the way, != and xor are the same thing. Also, what the heck is "XAND"?? Did you mean "NAND"?
heh, I was close. Its been about 5 years since I've gone over that stuff so I'm just glad I was close :)
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Well, I just figured it would be easy since everyone here is a super logic genius! :) You don't actually have to know what they are in order to work out how many of them there are either.
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Does anybody here know who Silly Sally is? ;)
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Does anybody here know who Silly Sally is? ;)
Silly Sally went to town, walking backwards upside down." Silly Sally is a topsy-turvy cumulative tale about a girl who walks to town on her hands and starts a small parade..
Hope that helps ;D
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Does anybody here know who Silly Sally is? ;)
Silly Sally went to town, walking backwards upside down." Silly Sally is a topsy-turvy cumulative tale about a girl who walks to town on her hands and starts a small parade..
Hope that helps ;D
Was she wearing a dress? >:D
I don't see what was so hard about the Petal and Rose. Took me 1 roll to figure out and 2 to confirm.
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Some people tend to overthink it. Which is what the article was saying.
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Some people tend to overthink it. Which is what the article was saying.
That explains it. I wasn't thinking, which is why I got it right, and which is also the reason I didn't read the article.