Timeline for Witches and Cats
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| Mar 5, 2016 at 17:35 | history | edited | Haobin |
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| Jun 6, 2015 at 23:17 | comment | added | Daphne B | Googling this question, I see that other sources ( alwaysrightusuallycorrect.blogspot.com/2005/10/… , docstoc.com/docs/89850685/MENSA-Brain-Teaser-Archives-%28DOC%29 ) give 3.5 instead of 5 for the ratio of legs to heads. I'm wondering where user170141 got it, and if that source just has a typo? | |
| Jun 6, 2015 at 3:08 | history | edited | JLee | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 30, 2014 at 2:38 | comment | added | Ken Y-N | If the witches had been celebrating Halloween with warlocks and their spirits, what if some of the witches were legless? | |
| Sep 27, 2014 at 19:51 | comment | added | user170141 | I was thinking that maybe the riddle was a play on some common fairytale which has flying cars/witches, like the Wizard of Oz. | |
| Sep 27, 2014 at 12:14 | comment | added | Florian F | Or they expect mensans to immediately compute heads+legs=72, legs=5*heads => 6*heads = 72 => heads=12. Or they expect mensans to think outside of the box: If witch cats can fly, why wouldn't they have 6 legs? | |
| Sep 27, 2014 at 6:57 | vote | accept | user170141 | ||
| Sep 27, 2014 at 6:55 | comment | added | user170141 | So, the book gave the answer 12 witches and four cats. I strongly believe that this answer is incorrect as others have signaled to. | |
| Sep 27, 2014 at 6:26 | answer | added | klm123 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 26, 2014 at 21:27 | answer | added | DevOfZot | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 26, 2014 at 20:14 | answer | added | DiscOH | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 26, 2014 at 19:01 | comment | added | DevOfZot | This would seem to be impossible. The leg-to-head ratio is 4 for cats and 2 for witches; no combination of them can result in a leg-to-head ratio of 5, unless a) we can have negative numbers of witches, or b) some of them are headless. | |
| Sep 26, 2014 at 18:09 | history | asked | user170141 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |