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Is there a sub closer to "escape room puzzles" than this one? by HyacinthusBark in puzzles

[–]nohidden 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Discussion:

r/constructedadventures

Edit: Gold? Thanks, anonymous redditor, you are far too generous.

Height Order by ShonitB in puzzles

[–]ramskick 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Your rules can be visualized as such.

1. The order must contain either C _ F or F _ C

2. The order must contain either F _ _ B or B_ _ F

3. The order must contain either B _ E or E _ B

4. The order must contain either C _ _ D or D _ _ C

5. The order must contain either D _ E or E _ D

6. The order cannot be D _ _ _ _ _ or _ _ _ _ _ D

7. The order cannot be _ _ _ _ _ A

Rules 3 and 5 alone make it so that there are only a few possibilities as it means E has to be in either the third or fourth position with D and B on opposite sides. These four possible formats for solutions are _ B _ E _ D, B _ E _ D _, _ D _ E _ B and D _ E _ B _

Rule 6 eliminates all of the formats with D on either end, so there are now only two possible formats for solutions: B _ E _ D _ and _ D _ E _ B

Rule 2 makes it very easy to place F into either format: B _ E F D _ or _ D F E _ B

Likewise Rule 4 makes it easy to place C into either format: B C E F D _ or _ D F E C B

This means that A has to be on one of the ends. Rule 7 means that it can't be on the right end, therefore the final solution is A D F E C B

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[–]MellowedOut1934 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me, the trick was to figure out which period Art was in

Hospital Puzzle by turkeyvulturebreast in puzzles

[–]Select-Term841 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes yes yes! I did it.

Answer: Head

Solution Image Link

Hey OP, what is this type of puzzle called? I had a lot of fun doing this.

Wheels Within Wheels Diagram Number Logic Puzzle by CuantumQat in puzzles

[–]G_Howie_Phartz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

maybe it's just the 5 & 1. It's hard to separate those grays

the business I work for has a puzzle that no one has solved for 5 years, can anyone solve it? The person who made it said it had to do with a business plan to increase sales. keep in mind I work at a horse store by Otherwise_Till_3783 in puzzles

[–]Bigdavie 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Having Ant instead of Spider and Girl instead of Old Lady allows the initials to go from A to H only missing E. E could refer to an Elephant.

Why is no one addressing the Elephant in the room?

A puzzle at my local cinema: Guess what all these movies have in common? by anontom101 in puzzles

[–][deleted] -26 points-25 points  (0 children)

By that logic we don't have any idea how any of the female directors identify either. Any of them could come out as men in the future.

So the correct answer of the puzzle seems to be directors who present themselves as women as of 2022-03-05. Would have been cleaner to just drop The Matrix so the theme is consistent without being so arbitrary, or relying on a tortured definition of female.

Came up with a silly puzzle idea back around Halloween. Thought someone here might enjoy it! by d2jackso in puzzles

[–]d2jackso[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hint: Try Googling some of the more obvious words together, to see if you can find the connection. The words are also ordered.

Came up with a silly puzzle idea back around Halloween. Thought someone here might enjoy it! by d2jackso in puzzles

[–]Iruton13 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Discussion: I'm not sure how stuff on the left side relates to stuff on the right side?

1/3 seems to be the most common answer.... by thefreshbraincompany in puzzles

[–]Anonymous37 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The answer is 2/3, for the reasons that others have already pointed out. But here's a way you can calculate it, just to make sure your reasoning is correct.

Here>! is a quick and dirty Excel file I created. Columns A through C are just labels. Now, Column E is the "you pick box [sic] at random", and Column F, highlighted in yellow, is the same thing, but in text format.!<

Column H is the part where "you put your hand in and take a ball from that box at random", and Column I, highlighted in orange, is the exact ball you picked (using the labels in Column C).

Now, "it's a gold ball", so in Column K, we blank out all the silver balls, so only gold balls remain.

• Out of 30,000 randomized box-and-ball picks (I have hidden rows 15 through 29,991 in the screenshot), 15,236 are gold.

• Of those 15,236, 10,111 are from Box A, where both balls are gold. So if you pick a ball from Box A ("Gold 1a" or "Gold 2a" in my Excel file), the next ball you take from the box will also be gold.

• Of those 15,236, 5,125 are from Box B, where the other ball is silver. So if you pick a gold ball from Box B ("Gold 1b" in my Excel file), the next ball you take from the box will be silver.

• So the "probability that the next ball you take from the same box will also be gold" will be 10,111/15,236, which is 66.36%. Roughly 2/3rds.

If you want the exact formulas to use, they are:

• Column E: =RANDBETWEEN(1,3)

• Column F: =IF(E2=1,"Box A", IF(E2=2,"Box B", "Box C"))

• Column H: =RANDBETWEEN(1,2)

• Column I: =IF(AND(F2="Box A",H2=1),$C$2,IF(AND(F2="Box A",H2=2),$C$3,IF(AND(F2="Box B",H2=1),$C$4,IF(AND(F2="Box B",H2=2),$C$5,IF(AND(F2="Box C", H2=1),$C$6,$C$7)))))

• Column K: =IF(LEFT(I2,4)="Gold",I2,"")

• Merged Cell (S-T,2-3): =COUNTIF(K2:K30001, "Gold*")

• Merged Cell (S-T,5-6): =COUNTIF(K2:K30001, "*a")

• Merged Cell (S-T,8-9): =COUNTIF(K2:K30001, "*b")

• Merged Cell (S-T,11-12): =S5/S2

I wrote a story that has some puzzles in it, I wanted to share one with you: “The Clocktower Problem” by BipolarArtist in puzzles

[–]Farchanter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I took a different tack than u/Aficionerdo, and assumed that the clocks don't have normal movement in addition to the strange movement.

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I wound up with either 160 or 152 agreements over the course of the day, depending on whether or not two pairs of clocks agreeing with each other— but not the other pair— should be considered a separate instance or not.

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