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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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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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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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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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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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Logic and Geometry Problem #5: does Savage Go have cycles?
A cycle on a degenerate case is possible:
Similar idea can probably be done on larger boards, but need to show the build up until the cycle steady state.
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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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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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What are the largest and smallest numbers in decimal base in this special Sudoku?
The highest value is:
The lowest value is:
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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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“Pickled Walnuts” Logic Problem
From these statements, we can conclude that
This can be determined by:
This gives us:
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Mexican Standoff -- 4 way
Given that everybody knows the probabilities and everybody keeps their gun for the next rounds, it would be best to be
Because
Starting from round 2
And of course round 3(when there are only 2 ...
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