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cocobobo

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A hammer and a nail cost a total of $1.10.
The hammer costs $1 more than the nail. What is the cost of the nail?
 

UltimaOnline

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Challenge yourself to solve the famous triangle puzzle *without* googling out the answer.

Below the four parts have been reorganized. The four partitions are exactly the same in both arrangements. Why is there a hole?

Missing_square_puzzle-AB.png
 

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Three men in a cafe order a meal the total cost of which is $15. They each contribute $5. The waiter takes the money to the manager who recognizes the three as friends and asks the waiter to return $5 to the men.

The waiter decides that instead of going to the trouble of splitting the $5 between the three men, he simply gives them $1 each and pockets the remaining $2 for himself.

Now, each of the men effectively paid $4, the total paid is therefore $12. Add the $2 in the waiters pocket and this comes to $14.....where has the missing $1 gone from the original $15?
 

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The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever is a logic puzzle by American philosopher and logician George Boolos and published in The Harvard Review of Philosophy in 1996.

Three gods A, B, and C are called, in no particular order, True, False, and Random. True always speaks truly, False always speaks falsely, but whether Random speaks truly or falsely is a completely random matter. Your task is to determine the identities of A, B, and C by asking three yes-no questions, which you must correctly come up with yourself ; each question must be put to exactly one god at a time. Each god knows the true nature of the other gods, and they understand English, but will answer all questions in their own language, in which the words for yes and no are da and ja, in some order. You do not know which word means which.

Boolos provides the following clarifications : a single god may be asked more than one question, questions are permitted to depend on the answers to earlier questions, and the nature of Random's response should be thought of as depending on the flip of a fair coin hidden in his brain: if the coin comes down heads, he speaks truly; if tails, falsely. Random's response of da or ja is random per question (ie. might not be consistently True or False throughout the 3 questions asked, which makes the puzzle slightly harder), and not per session (ie. will be consistently either True or False throughout the 3 questions asked, which makes the puzzle slightly easier).

See attached image for the Solution (the 3 required correct questions you need to ask are in quotation marks).

Solution_HardestLogicPuzzleEver.jpg
 

wikiphile

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A Mexican farmer sells one avocado to an American fruit seller for USD5

US government wall taxes for the same avocado makes it cost: USD5+20% taxes = USD6

Trump tells Mexico to build a wall.

Who pays for the wall?
 

eatshitndie

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A Mexican farmer sells one avocado to an American fruit seller for USD5

US government wall taxes for the same avocado makes it cost: USD5+20% taxes = USD6

Trump tells Mexico to build a wall.

Who pays for the wall?

avocadoes are used in copious quantities in mexican restaurants to make guacamole. since illegal mexican immigrants almost always patronize cheap mexican joints for cheap burritos, tacos, enchiladas, fajitas, and salads that are topped with guacamole, they will remit less gringo money to mother mexico and instead spend more on their favorite food across the border.
 

tanwahtiu

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U toss a coin and it is Head. Then toss again it is Head. Toss again it is Head. Tossed again it is tail.

What is likely the next toss. Head or tail.
 

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You are stuck in a room with a cobra , a jiu hoo kia and an Ah Neh while holding a fully loaded pistol :biggrin:
Who are you gonna shoot first , and second ? :p




 

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Dishonest question, asker is DISHONEST:

Solution: The gradient of the teal hypotenuse is different than the gradient of the red hypotenuse.

http://www.folj.com/puzzles/easy.htm


You googled out the answer.

The question by itself isn't dishonest. If you make the erroneous assumption that the teal and red triangles have the same hypotenuse gradients, when the question never said this was the case, well that's on you.

So the moral of the question : don't assume what seems to be obvious is necessarily true.
 
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