Kaikitsune Makoto Posted January 3, 2003 Posted January 3, 2003 My love towards riddles, logic and clouds forces me to riddle you people. 1. We assume that every sumoforum member has different amount of emails in their inbox (one might have 21 and another might have 87 etc.) 2. But nobody has EXACTLY 167 emails in their inbox. 3. Lastly, there are more sumoforum members than any single member has emails in his/her inbox. What is the maximum amount of sumoforum members so that the aforementioned assumptions hold? (Forget the real sumoforum member number 101 now. That has no relevance. Imagine you have no idea how many members there are in reality.)
Kotoseiya Yuichi Posted January 4, 2003 Posted January 4, 2003 Yay, I got the same number as well. If it's indeed the correct one, this riddle must be one of Kaikitsune's easier ones. (Hmmm...)
Manekineko Posted January 4, 2003 Posted January 4, 2003 Forget it, I just found a hole in my logic... (Blush...) My, this edit sure is handy....
Kaikitsune Makoto Posted January 4, 2003 Author Posted January 4, 2003 Correct answers yes. I would have liked to see the non-edited post of Manekineko-zeki but was too slow to witness a hole in the logic :-D If it's indeed the correct one, this riddle must be one of Kaikitsune's easier ones. Riddles can be good without being difficult ones. This wasn't hard one but required some thinking. More difficult ones will come later though ;-) Many various kinds of riddles are faschinating and challenging. The next one is a very basic easy riddle with a nice flavour! The distance between Tampere and Helsinki is 200km. Train leaves the station at Helsinki at noon and another train leaves from Tampere to Helsinki exactly 1 hour later. Trains travel at a speed of 100km/h. When the trains meet, which one is closer to Tampere?
Doitsuyama Posted January 4, 2003 Posted January 4, 2003 Hmm, if the trains are objects without any length, of course both have the same distance to Tampere when they meet, namely 50 km... But if "closer to Tampere" means closer to the destination Tampere, then the train from Helsinki is closer...
Kaikitsune Makoto Posted January 5, 2003 Author Posted January 5, 2003 Yes, naturally both trains are at same distance from Tampere when they meet. This was a representative of riddles where unnecessary information is given to derail from the path of simple logic and common sense heh. And the offered additional views on how to interprete the sentences and concepts were good and anticipated too ;-)
Kaikitsune Makoto Posted January 18, 2003 Author Posted January 18, 2003 After a creative break, couple more riddles on their way to digress you from your daily thinking processes at work/school/toilet. You walk calmly to the entrance of a sumoforum dungeon (where naughty sumoforum members are locked up with nothing but yaocho claims documents and three fat rats in mawashi). There you encounter three guards who look odd and have stupid names A, B and C. Some of these guards have a feature of always telling the truth whereas some always lie. Your idyllic mission is to find out who are truth-tellers and who always lie. 1. If A says: "We are all liars" and B says "Exactly one of us is a liar", can you deduce based on these comments whether B is a liar or truth-teller? And what is C? 2. What about if A says "I am a liar but B isn't"
Doitsuyama Posted January 18, 2003 Posted January 18, 2003 1. If A says: "We are all liars" and B says "Exactly one of us is a liar", can you deduce based on these comments whether B is a liar or truth-teller? And what is C?
Kintamayama Posted January 18, 2003 Posted January 18, 2003 Takasago Oyakata decided to make some chanko. As he was passing it around, Asanowaka commented that there were 34 pieces of chicken in the soup and between him, Touki, Asashouryuu,Asasekiryuu and Senshuuyama , they had to divide them so that the Makuuchi rikishi would have two more pieces than the Juuryou ones. Is this possible?
Yubiquitoyama Posted January 18, 2003 Posted January 18, 2003 Hm. I had put some incorrect comments here at first so I jsut deleted them all... :-D
Manekineko Posted January 18, 2003 Posted January 18, 2003 Takasago Oyakata decided to make some chanko. As he was passing it around, Asanowaka commented that there were 34 pieces of chicken in the soup and between him, Touki, Asashouryuu,Asasekiryuu and Senshuuyama , they had to divide them so that the Makuuchi rikishi would have two more pieces than the Juuryou ones.Is this possible? Perfectly possible. Asashoryu and Touki are two makuuchi, and Asanowaka, Asasekiryu and Senshuyama 3 juryo rikishi. If each juryo getd 6 pieces, and each makuuchi 8, it's 18+16=34. Since I'm guessing this after 9 hrs straight of playing "Zeus, master of Olympus" (yeah, on Saturday night, no life, huh?), be kind to possible mistakes.
Hoshifransu Posted January 19, 2003 Posted January 19, 2003 That's right ! That's my boring way to find it : 3 wrestlers from Juryo division : x + x + x 2 wrestlers from Makuuchi : (x + 2) + (x + 2) which makes : x + x + x + (x + 2) + (x + 2) = 34 so : x + x + x + x + x + 2 + 2 = 34 so : 5x + 4 = 34 so : 5x = 30 so : x = 6 and : x + 2 = 8 so : 8 for the Makuuchi and 6 for the Juryo division ! But I'm not sure Toki will be happy with "only" 8 pieces for his big body. Asasekiryu and Senshuyama, attention to your chicken ... And now, ladies and gentlemen, that's Hoshifransu's problem, in fact, it is not a "logic and riddle", sorry, but a guess : A web site sells this good, gimme the price in $ (or euro, this is almost the same thing) of this : SUMO "MAWASHI" 100% Cotton / Made in Japan No. SIZES S 45 x 360 cm M 45 x 450 cm L 45 x 550 cm XL 46 x 600 cm Sizes:S-M-L-XL White color Price : ? The solution, later ... (I'll give the real web site url) :-D Try to approach the real price !
Kintamayama Posted January 19, 2003 Posted January 19, 2003 A web site sells this good, gimme the price in $ (or euro, this is almost the same thing) of this : SUMO "MAWASHI" 100% Cotton / Made in Japan $38000. Real dollars.
Kotoseiya Yuichi Posted January 19, 2003 Posted January 19, 2003 Hmm, the XL size would cost... 50 Brussels roubles. Anything like it?
Hoshifransu Posted January 20, 2003 Posted January 20, 2003 $38000. Real dollars. Hey, I didn't say it was Takanohana's mawashi !
Hashira Posted January 22, 2003 Posted January 22, 2003 I know what i'm asking for for my birthday! :-D what's the easy mawashi?
Hoshifransu Posted January 23, 2003 Posted January 23, 2003 A training mawashi ? A mawashi only for young apprentices ? ???
Kaikitsune Makoto Posted January 23, 2003 Author Posted January 23, 2003 3 genki sumoforum members walk in the park admiring the agility of squirrels in the trees. One member always tells the truth (pathological truth teller), one member always lies (pathological liar) and one is more or less normal (despite the fact that she/he likes henka more than anything in sumo) and sometimes tells the truth AND sometimes lies. All of a sudden member A recites a sentence with solemn tone of voice: "I am normal!". B stares at A in awe and after 2.8 earth seconds says calmly "That is true!". C squats down and performs a brilliant shiko and utters "I am not normal". An evedropper behind a near-by tree is informed that one of these sumo forum members is pathological truth teller, one is pathological liar and one is normal (minus excessive henka loving). The question is who is what!? This one is a bit more challenging one but a good riddle! All similarities to active or passive actual sumo forum members are coincidential and the riddle is utmost fictive. Good luck!
Yubiquitoyama Posted January 23, 2003 Posted January 23, 2003 I suppose thatA is a lier, B is normal and C is a truthteller, unless I missed something vital
Guest Kyukenzan Posted January 23, 2003 Posted January 23, 2003 My humble solution is that A is the liar, B is the more or less normal guy and C always tells the truth. Edit: Seems like Yubiquitoyama was also right (Punk rocker...)
Amanogawa Posted January 24, 2003 Posted January 24, 2003 My guess is that the one who said "I'm normal" is a pathological liar, the one who said "That's true" is a henka-fan (Punk rocker...), and the rest one is a pathological truth-teller. All similarities to active or passive actual sumo forum members are coincidential and the riddle is utmost fictive. Okay good. (Hehe...)
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