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A puzzle that requires formal logical deduction to arrive at the solution. This suggests more than merely reasoning through clues to find an answer (you might want [situation] for that).
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help me please with this question from pdf book for logic tests
This is what I got, it led me to a 50/50 where it could go either way so there's either something I'm missing or I'm barking up the wrong tree, but my guess is that:
For the X in the center:
For the …
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5 Precommitting Pirates Puzzle
I believe:
We actually don't want to work backwards for this one.
So:
My explanation is a bit messy, I know, and I very well may be missing a possibility, but I think this is at least pretty …
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Winning Strategy for the Magician and his Apprentice
Expanding on Omega Krypton's solution:
The first number represents the apprentice's cup, the other 4 are the magician's guesses.
This is a rather ugly and hard to remember combination, though it …
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Don’t let this daunting equation dissuade you to deduce the desired result
I believe A, B, P are
Some deductions I came to before brute forcing
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Find the “X “in the Box
Disclaimer: I'm typing this out as I'm thinking this through, so it's a bit disorganized. I'll go back and work on cleaning this up when I get the time.
Initially, looking at the rings:
Further te …
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Jack and Jill went up the Hill to play
I'm going to assume that if the fourth card is drawn, and a multiple of 3 is never reached, the game is considered drawn and this is not a win condition for Jack.
Let's start with the easy part:
N …
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Crypt Arithematic problem
There are actually 11 solutions to this problem, to my knowledge. Duck's solution appears to be the only one where all the digits are unique, but there are also the solutions of:
In fact, there are …
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