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A Trivial Pursuit #12 (Sports and Leisure 2/4): Logic Boat
The 6-letter word that can be extracted is:
The solution path:
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Colourful Scenery
Gladys is in
First let's look at
If it were
Now let's look
And we know
There is no way
Then,
Now we notice
From here
Then we
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Nonogram with story
The solved nonogram:
The clear squares finish the story.
As the dice come to a
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Who stole the cake?
In answering this question, I have made a number of assumptions:
A) That the cake was stolen by exactly one person.
B) The thief was one of five people interviewed.
C) That the lies spoken are ...
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Logic and Geometry Problem #5: does Savage Go have cycles?
I don't have a rigorous proof, but here's my take on it:
Every turn, the board ends up with one more stone on it unless a player is unable to play every stone.
If each player can play all of their ...
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“Pickled Walnuts” Logic Problem
From these statements, we can conclude that
This can be determined by:
This gives us:
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Pokemon battle puzzle: Chansey vs Wobbuffet
One detail that was missing from the question is what abilities both Pokémon have. Assuming standard abilities (i.e., Shadow Tag for Wobbuffet and Natural Cure or Serene Grace for Chansey), these do ...
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Mexican Standoff -- 4 way
Disclaimer:
These general observation about the 3-player version maybe helpful to appreciate the complexity of the generalized game, but I think for given accuracies the exotic cases do not matter, ...
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A Problem in Research using Logic
Ignore statements 1 and 5, and let Boolean variable $x_p$ indicate whether paper $p$ is poor. Then statements 2 through 4 can be expressed as:
\begin{align}
\lnot x_D &\implies (\lnot x_B \lor ...
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“Pickled Walnuts” Logic Problem
Here is my take on it. In a more human-readable form and, well, I don't get the same conclusion.
and
The conclusion is:
And you can note that sentence 1 is not necessary to reach that conclusion.
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Mexican Standoff -- 4 way
This is only a partial solution but I believe it shows how the general puzzle should be solved and is hopefully helpful for a complete solution. Namely I will only consider the case of 2 shooters with ...
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