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### The Dwarves' Test

A dwarf with a red dot will A dwarf with a blue dot will Therefore, on the $N$th day, all dwarves with red dots are present, and all dwarves with blue dots are not.
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### Five loaves and the extra traveller

Such an old chestnut! Each of them eats 5/3 loaves. The first traveler contributes 3 loaves, eats 5/3 himself, and gives 4/3 to the extra traveler. The second traveler contributes 2 loaves, eats 5/3 ...
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### Too Many Damn Buffalos

Wikipedia has a nice article on this. Buffalo buffalo (buffalo from Buffalo NY) [that] Buffalo buffalo buffalo (that the buffalo from Buffalo NY bully) buffalo Buffalo buffalo (are bullying ...
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### The Comforting Death Message

I've seen a variation of this before:
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### Two Clever and Thirsty Soda Packaging Workers

You and Roger are out of luck. Let the side length of the cube be $s$, so there are $s^3$ sodas. If $s$ is odd, then there will be an odd number of sodas left over, since $s^3$ is odd, and removing 4 ...
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### Which data file is genuine?

The real data set is: First clue: Second clue:
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### Five loaves and the extra traveller

Another way of getting the same answer as Gamow is to have each traveller notionally pay \$5. That gives them a pot of \$15, from which they distribute the money to those who provided the bread. They ...
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### Ernie and the Pirates of the Caribbean

In order to solve this problem, I used a combination of a flood-fill algorithm and Dijkstra's algorithm. I set up a large grid of cells over the map. Each cell remembers its current distance and its ...
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### The telltale code

I don't have time to flesh out every detail right now, but the story is clearly Some of the clues that give it away: Some more: In the back-story:
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The kingdom is guarded from foreigners, therefore the password is based on native language (which is of course English:):) ).
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### Uncle Mort's Idiots

I would suggest the combination Firstly, the "asking" code combined with the row of numbers suggests that they spelled out a word in ASCII code. The numbers on the front of the safe only go to 100, ...
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### Given these numbers, find the secret word

Assuming a mistake in the problem layout, we could get something with some significance: The error would be And with this
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### Too Many Damn Buffalos

Let's replace the place with New York Let's replace the verb with bully Let's keep the animal as buffalo Original: ...
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### I'm stumped on a simple roman numeral puzzle

Given that there's little context, it's hard to give a definitive answer, but I'd have to guess that the answer you are looking for is: This can be found by:
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### Find the composite poison in the wine bottles

A simple solution for 1000 prisoners 998 dead Number all prisoners and bottles 1-1000, and have each prisoner drink from ALL bottles except their matching number. The 2 surviving prisoners have ...
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### 5 Letter Word, Removing letters

This is an old one. The answer is: Because: And, of course, you can
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### Ernie and the Superconducting Boxes

First, we need to figure what is the minimum amount of superconductor that we'll lose when making the cut. Optimally, we can cut the large cube net into two smaller cube nets without any waste at all. ...
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### The box with the curious inscriptions

Them's five volumes and three sections alright. Blurb for the Volumes and Sections: Colophon. This puzzle's apparent construction. Missed clues:   (Would the hints have been necessary in the ...
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