Comments on: Lazy Sunday Post: Puzzles! http://jmccormick.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/lazy-sunday-post-puzzles/ A baby blog chronicling the newbie parent experience! Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:54:43 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Puzzle Post Answers « The McCormick Blog! http://jmccormick.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/lazy-sunday-post-puzzles/#comment-55 Puzzle Post Answers « The McCormick Blog! Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:26:01 +0000 http://jmccormick.wordpress.com/?p=86#comment-55 [...] of you figured out the answers to the puzzles given out in my Lazy Sunday Post: Puzzles post. Click the link to read it if you haven’t because the link below will give you the [...] [...] of you figured out the answers to the puzzles given out in my Lazy Sunday Post: Puzzles post. Click the link to read it if you haven’t because the link below will give you the [...]

]]> By: Juggling Mike http://jmccormick.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/lazy-sunday-post-puzzles/#comment-47 Juggling Mike Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:12:35 +0000 http://jmccormick.wordpress.com/?p=86#comment-47 Ah! That's how it's done! Nice one! Not sure about the dwarves... interesting... Ah! That’s how it’s done! Nice one!

Not sure about the dwarves… interesting…

]]> By: AugustClo http://jmccormick.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/lazy-sunday-post-puzzles/#comment-46 AugustClo Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:38:54 +0000 http://jmccormick.wordpress.com/?p=86#comment-46 For the 3 first answers, I agree with Juggling Mike. For the 4th, I do remember the solution but cannot draw it here 5/ you switch one on, wait for a bit. Switch it off and switch another on. Then you go check the room. If the light is on, it is the last one you switched on. Else you touch the bulb: if it is hot, it is the one you switched on and off, else it is the one you did not touch. Another puzzle for you: 100 dwarfs are working in a golden mine. One of them is a thief and his gold bars weigh 1g less than the other ones. How can you determine who is the thief with only one weigh? For the 3 first answers, I agree with Juggling Mike.
For the 4th, I do remember the solution but cannot draw it here
5/ you switch one on, wait for a bit. Switch it off and switch another on. Then you go check the room. If the light is on, it is the last one you switched on. Else you touch the bulb: if it is hot, it is the one you switched on and off, else it is the one you did not touch.

Another puzzle for you:
100 dwarfs are working in a golden mine. One of them is a thief and his gold bars weigh 1g less than the other ones. How can you determine who is the thief with only one weigh?

]]> By: Juggling Mike http://jmccormick.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/lazy-sunday-post-puzzles/#comment-45 Juggling Mike Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:33:51 +0000 http://jmccormick.wordpress.com/?p=86#comment-45 1) They are back to back 2) Second Place 3) 16 days 4) Not sure.. I have seen this one so often, yet I never remember it. 5) I would switch two on and then check. If the light is not on, then the third switch is the light switch. If the light is on, it is one of the two, but this qould require a second look after turning one off to see which on it really is. This means there is "chance" involved. If there is a sure-fire way of always knowing, then I don't know it. 1) They are back to back
2) Second Place
3) 16 days
4) Not sure.. I have seen this one so often, yet I never remember it.
5) I would switch two on and then check. If the light is not on, then the third switch is the light switch. If the light is on, it is one of the two, but this qould require a second look after turning one off to see which on it really is. This means there is “chance” involved. If there is a sure-fire way of always knowing, then I don’t know it.

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