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by Tom C - Wed 19th Oct 2005, 1:02pm
jpd said: This one's a bit harder :-) I buy four items in a supermarker. Both the sum and product of their values is £7.11. What are their individual values? As Fitz said, "two packs of sausages constitutes one item", so i don't think this has a solution.

by jpd - Wed 19th Oct 2005, 9:28am
jpd said: ...supermarker... Obviously I meant a shop in which you can buy all manner of groceries, not a magical flying pen.

by jpd - Wed 19th Oct 2005, 9:22am
Slacker said: BBAB? This one's a bit harder :-) I buy four items in a supermarker. Both the sum and product of their values is £7.11. What are their individual values?

by mjb - Wed 19th Oct 2005, 8:59am
jpd said: Answer this multi-choice exam: BBAB seems to work.

by Slacker - Wed 19th Oct 2005, 8:57am
BBAB?

by jpd - Wed 19th Oct 2005, 7:59am
Bored Lilie said: If so, I make it 7..? I need to do some real work, and/or get a life :) Is the right answer. Doing work and getting a life are not allowed. Answer this multi-choice exam: 1. The first question with A as the correct answer is: A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 2. Which answer appears most often: A. C B. B C. A 3. The answer to Question 1 is: A. B B. A C. C 4. The answer which appears least is: A. A B. C C. B

by Richard - Wed 19th Oct 2005, 1:20am
Bored Lilie said: If so, I make it 7..? I need to do some real work, and/or get a life :) If all of the relations have to be there, then I get 7 as well. Man 1 and Woman 2 are married, and have a son, Man 3 who marries Woman 4. Man 3 and Woman 4 have 3 children - 2 girls, 5 and 6 and a boy, 7. Man 1 is a grandfather to 5,6&7 (1 grandfather) Woman 2 is grandmother to 5,6&7 (1 grandmother) Man 1 is the father of 3. Man 3 is father of 5,6&7 (2 fathers) Woman 2 is the mother of 3, Woman 4 is mother of 5,6&7 (2 mothers) 3 is the child of 1&2, 5,6&7 are the children of 3&4 (4 children) 5,6&7 are grandchildren of 1&2 (3 grandchildren) 5 is the brother of 6&7 (1 brother) 6&7 are the sisters of 5 (2 sisters) 3 is the son of 1&2, 5 is the son of 3&4 (2 sons) 6&7 are the daughers of 3&4 (2 daughters) 4's mother-in-law is 2 (1 mother-in-law) 4's father-in-law is 1 (1 father-in-law) 4 is the daughter-in-law of 1&2 (1 daughter-in-law). That's all of the requirements met. Can it be done in a better way? If you actually had 23 people, all related closely, then presumably, you'd have more than the required number in each category. There must be a maximum number of closely related people.....

by Bored Lilie - Tue 18th Oct 2005, 9:37pm
Bryn said: If not then I guess you only need two women and two men who can cover everything between them. If so, I make it 7..? I need to do some real work, and/or get a life :)

by Bryn - Tue 18th Oct 2005, 5:07pm
A certain family party consisted of 1 grandfather, 1 grandmother, 2 fathers, 2 mothers, 4 children, 3 grandchildren, 1 brother, 2 sisters, 2 sons, 2 daughters, 1 father-in-law, 1 mother-in-law, and 1 daughter-in-law. A total of 23 people, you might think, but, no. What is the minimum number of people here? Does the person to whom that relationship corresponds have to be there as well? For example, does the grandfather's grandchild have to be there? If not then I guess you only need two women and two men who can cover everything between them.

by jpd - Tue 18th Oct 2005, 4:53pm
mjb said: AFAICT, it's the Coffee-drinking German in the Green House Is the right answer. A certain family party consisted of 1 grandfather, 1 grandmother, 2 fathers, 2 mothers, 4 children, 3 grandchildren, 1 brother, 2 sisters, 2 sons, 2 daughters, 1 father-in-law, 1 mother-in-law, and 1 daughter-in-law. A total of 23 people, you might think, but, no. What is the minimum number of people here?

by mjb - Tue 18th Oct 2005, 4:46pm
jpd said: There are 5 houses ... but who owns the fish? AFAICT, it's the Coffee-drinking German in the Green House

by jpd - Tue 18th Oct 2005, 4:01pm
There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. Using the clues below can you determine who owns the fish? The Brit lives in a red house. The Swede keeps dogs as pets. The Dane drinks tea. The green house is on the immediate left of the white house. The green house owner drinks coffee. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill. The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk. The Norwegian lives in the first house. The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats. The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill. The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer. The German smokes Prince. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house. The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water.

by jmg - Mon 28th Feb 2005, 2:08pm
Not all that hard, but made me laugh... Royal autobiography, not appearing all at once? (3,2,3)

by bored at work - Mon 7th Feb 2005, 4:25pm
The code, math and general knowledge rounds were a bit of a disappointment after the image round though.

by Richard - Mon 7th Feb 2005, 9:08am
OK, got it now.

by Richard - Mon 7th Feb 2005, 9:07am
Andy said: http://www.etienne.nu/imagepuz/ umm, i'm stuck on the third one. any ideas? Any ideas on the 6th one???

by Evil eye - Sat 5th Feb 2005, 8:37am
It's a magic eye thing. My eyes hurtnow, i'msure that can't be good for you on a computersreen. The answer is 'o.htm'

by Andy - Sat 5th Feb 2005, 2:15am
http://www.etienne.nu/imagepuz/ umm, i'm stuck on the third one. any ideas?

by Mike - Tue 1st Feb 2005, 12:18pm
The Times are offering free day passes to their crossword content in celebration of the 75th birthday of the Times Crossword. Among other things, you can try the crossword editor's "fiendishly difficult" clue and win a crate of wine: One describing a vampire crossing short stretch of water - he apologised (8) E-mail answers to xchallenge@thetimes.co.uk by Monday 7th February. Perhaps if somebody here solves it, we can all enter and share the wine...

by gf - Tue 2nd Nov 2004, 8:08pm
Mike said: Perhaps Shirley Bassey would have got it? If she said she did, I wouldn't argue with someone built like that... ;-)

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