It's right, but the interesting part is how you get the answer. Someone can come up with the whole answer.Originally Posted by Cz
It's right, but the interesting part is how you get the answer. Someone can come up with the whole answer.
How ONEdrous TWO is truTH REEceived
FOUR him who'd deFI VErity
As hope the SIX ootheS EVEN sEIGHTs
So beNINE the uncerTEN's made
I should have known it would be something like this coming from Unne.
edit: I guess I owe an explanation of what made me think this way. St. Peter says "therein", which makes me think of words inside words. He also says "each is accounted for", meaning the final number should be counted up to in the riddle. "Take your time" - all I had to do was start saying it out slowly and bam. In the verse section, the last couplet clued me in to the indirect nature of finding the clues - the general idea of the truth appearing, truth defying, an uncertain answer as benign, something I dunno, it made sense, shut up I'm not sober.
Yeah, that was more or less how I got it. Lev's benign comment alerted me to the words-within-words thing, but I wasn't entirely sure what the final total was supposed to be. "Ten's made" sounded conclusive enough, so I went for that.How ONEdrous TWO is truTH REEceived
FOUR him who'd deFI VErity
As hope the SIX ootheS EVEN sEIGHTs
So beNINE the uncerTEN's made
I should have known it would be something like this coming from Unne.
edit: I guess I owe an explanation of what made me think this way. St. Peter says "therein", which makes me think of words inside words. He also says "each is accounted for", meaning the final number should be counted up to in the riddle. "Take your time" - all I had to do was start saying it out slowly and bam. In the verse section, the last couplet clued me in to the indirect nature of finding the clues - the general idea of the truth appearing, truth defying, an uncertain answer as benign, something I dunno, it made sense, shut up I'm not sober.
Sorry, should've explained myself earlier.
As for PG's puzzle, I agree with Neel's solution.
"The most important and recognize player in the history of the country."
Sometimes I wonder what my life would be like if I were as great as Paulo Wanchope.
Um, I don't have any puzzles, other than weird physics problems.
You might want to add to that first puzzle that the points ABC and XYZ are considered lines themselves. By making them mere markers (by that i mean, that you could pass through one point on the way to another, so long as you don't touch another connecting line) it actually is possible. but yeah, otherwise, you can only knock all but one line out. Not trying to nitpick, there are just tons of problems out there that require a backhanded solution like that.
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anywho, run this one. should be fairly simple and make room for a harder puzzle. Using a three gallon and a seven gallon container, and making no marks on the container (no saying "mark three gallons on the seven..." etc.) measure 5 gallons.
Alos, simple enough, arrange 12 lines of equal size and length, create 6 polygons of equal size and shape.
SA: You have two lines from C to X and none from C to Y.
for your problem: fill the 3 gallon container twice and dump it into the 7 gallon one, making 6 gallons. Then fill the 3 gallon container once more and dump what you can into the 7, leaving 2 gallons in the 3. Dump out the 7 and pour the 2 gallons into it. Then just fill up the 3 gallon container again and dump it into the 7. 5 gallons.
I don't have time to look up a puzzle right now, so someone else can post one.
xD
Yeah I was confused about that one because you don't need 12 lines.
shnap. my bad for insomniac posting. no overlapping the lines. Call me a retard and shoot me in the face.
That was in Die Hard 3!
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No, Die Hard used 5 and 3 gallon buckets to make 4 gallons, and the solution for that is a bit different.That was in Die Hard 3!
That bugged me in Die Hard because they didn't explain the process fully. So I had to mess around with the problem for a few minutes until I figured it out myself.
Shut up! >:O
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