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Are there always 2 teams such that they have together defeated every other team
Answer:
Explanation:
A natural follow-up question is whether there's any
To this the answer is
Explanation:
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Are there always 2 teams such that they have together defeated every other team
Proof without words (inspired by xnor’s answer)
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Reconstructing the results of a 5-team soccer tournament
LOGIC AS USED TO SOLVE THE PUZZLE: The first thing to note is that with 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw, and the known points totals, we must have the following end outcomes in terms of wins, draw ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #06 (Sports and Leisure 1/4): Life Goals
Well,
So we complete the table to get
where
Now
thus:
Well, now, what about
So our final answer is
One thing I was puzzled by but forgot about when writing up the answer:
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Reconstructing Euro results
First, let's figure out who won each match...
Now that we know the outcomes of each match, it's time to figure out the scores. It turns out that Spain is again relatively easy...
Now for the other 3 ...
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Australian landmarks
Well, here's the thing:
This didn't make a whole lot of sense to me until I saw
That means we need to find
Sounds easy right? Well, here's why Jafe was having trouble:
Therefore, the answer to ...
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What happened to my connecting wall?! (I suspect vowel play...)
Here's the completed grid:
And these are the categories:
My approach was to start with the entries with many vowels, keeping in mind the tags and alphabetization. I was able to guess EUAOIA UIEA and ...
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Twelve Labours - #04 Erymanthian Bar
The answer is
The diagram below shows the path of the shot. The diagram is made from flipping and inverting the snooker table at boundaries such that all paths would be straight lines.
Here is the ...
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A special soccer tournament
I decided that the easiest way to start this problem was
Then I counted up the points for the last 8 teams and
Most importantly,
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Quadritaisho: The sports bet
I think you're gonna lose your bet. Here's why:
Now, as requested, let's shade in the rooms with black symbols:
This does look awfully familiar...
At this point, it's perfectly reasonable to be ...
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Reconstructing World Cup results
It's interesting that the answer is unique, given that it's from a real game.
The answer is:
Let's start by finding out the outcomes (win/draw/lose).
Since the sum of points is 16,
and based on the ...
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Introducing: FootChess!
Completed solution, expanded from @Techidiot, and assistance from @DennisJaheruddin and @dcfyj
Black's turn
Two options for white's turn
Black's Turn - Credit to @DennisJaheruddin for exploring ...
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Reconstructing the Candidates Tournament 2018
I am assuming the shared nationalities rule means that the Karjakin-Kramnik, Kramnik-Grischuk, and Karjakin-Grischuk games occurred in rounds 1, 2, and 3, but that the one Russian player not involved ...
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Capital city with two clues
All hints point to countries missing their first letters:
Bamako
La Paz and Sucre
Athens
X
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A professional geographer who is a sports enthusiast
I believe that on the bottom we will find...
Why?
Hm. Somewhere in Spain, Portugal and Japan. Not sooo helpfull. But wait..
So, for the final step:
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Olympics connect?
Okay, this is a puzzle I've looked at multiple times over the past couple of years and never managed to find my way through to a solution. So - full disclosure - I've done some research online to see ...
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What city am I supposed to be travelling to next?
You start at:
Then:
This is a:
And Rochester is:
Then at Rochester:
Exactly at:
And there, you'll find:
Where you:
Which leads you to:
And then:
Leading you to:
And there, you will find:
...
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Hypothetical scorelines in FIFA World Cup 2022
The missing player is:
and the result of the game between Portugal and South Korea will be:
To find these out, we must deduce that the scorelines here are generated by...
With this rule, we can ...
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Twelve Labours - #04 Erymanthian Bar
I think the answer is
With the correct shot
Oh, a quick note about part of the shot:
And here are some wrong answers:
If anyone has more, I'm happy to add them!
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A Trivial Pursuit #18 (Sports and Leisure 3/4): Connected
Wall 02:
Wall 06:
Wall 07:
Wall 08:
Wall 11:
Finally, an observation:
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College Athletes
Ok here goes:
To solve this you need to...
Puzzle 1 Answer is
Puzzle 2 Answer is
Puzzle 3 Answer is
Puzzle 4 Answer is
Puzzle 5 Answer is
Puzzle 6 Answer is
Puzzle 7 Answer is
Puzzle 8 Answer ...
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