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3) Rope Bridges
Four people need to cross a rickety rope bridge to get back to their camp at night.
Unfortunately, they only have one flashlight and it only has enough light left for
seventeen minutes. The bridge is too dangerous to cross without a flashlight, and it's
only strong enough to support two people at any given time. Each of the campers
walks at a different speed. One can cross the bridge in 1 minute, another in 2 minutes,
the third in 5 minutes, and the slow poke takes 10 minutes to cross. How do the
campers make it across in 17 minutes?
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inside the room. With the door closed from outside the room, you can turn the light
switches on or off as many times as you would like.
You can go into the room - one time only - to see the light. You cannot see the
whether the light is on or off from outside the room, nor can you change the light
switches while inside the room.
No one else is in the room to help you. The room has no windows.
Based on the information above, how would you determine which of the three light
switches controls the light inside the room?
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6) Mislabeled Jars
This problem is also called Jelly Beans problem. You have three jars that are all
mislabeled. one contains apples, another has grapes, and the third has a mix of both.
Now you are allowed to open any one jar and you can able to see one fruit. [ The jar
you are open may contain one fruit or two fruit. but you could able to see only one
fruit and you can't find weather the opened jar has one or two fruit]. How could you
fix the labels on the jars ?
7) Heaven Puzzle
A person dies, and he arrives at the gate to heaven. There are three doors in the
heaven. one of them leads to heaven. another one leads to a 1-day stay at hell, and
then back to the gate, and the other leads to a 2-day stay at hell, and then back to the
gate. every time the person is back at the gate, the three doors are reshuffled. How
long will it take the person to reach heaven?
this is a probability question - i.e. it is solvable and has nothing to do with religion,
being sneaky, or how au dente the pasta might be.
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allowed to specify a subset of the four tumblers and flip them simultaneously. To be
precise, he may choose one tumbler, two diagonally opposites, two adjacent,
three tumblers or four tumblers lying in front of him, and flip them
simultaneously. After flipping, if all four tumblers are upright, he wins the game!
Otherwise, the game continues and the evil goblin is allowed to rotate the table by an
amount of his choice. Can the blind gnome win the game with a deterministic
strategy?
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find a strategy for the Police to find one engineer with at most 49 questions?
2. Is this possible in any number of questions if half the people are managers?
3. Once an engineer is found, he/she can classify everybody else. Is there a way to
classify everybody in fewer questions?
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a game with him that might ensure their escape from the prison or might as well lead
them towards painful death. The prisoners think that this is the only chance for them
to be free again and agrees to him.
The warden tell them that there is a room which has just two switches which are
labelled 1 or 2. The switches may be up or down and the condition is not known at
present. They are not connected to anything. The warden may select any prisoner on
any day and send him to the switch room. The prisoner will have to select any one
switch and reverse its position i.e. if it is up, he will turn it down and if it is down, he
will turn it up. He can and must only flip one switch and then he will be confined to
his cell again.
The warden may choose the same prisoner more than one time and he will be
choosing completely randomly. But at a certain point of time, everyone will have
visited the switch room. And at any time, the prisoners may declare that everyone has
visited the room at least once. If they will be true, they will be set free but if they will
be wrong, they will be killed.
The warden gives them an hour to plan any kind of strategy and then they will be
confined to their respective cells and will never be allowed to meet. What strategy can
help them be free?
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only poisoned one bottle. Alas, the guards dont know which bottle but know that the
poison is so strong that even if diluted 100,000 times it would still kill the king.
Furthermore, it takes one month to have an effect. The bad king decides he will get
some of the prisoners in his vast dungeons to drink the wine. Being a clever bad king
he knows he needs to murder no more than 10 prisoners believing he can fob off
such a low death rate and will still be able to drink the rest of the wine (999 bottles)
at his anniversary party in 5 weeks time. Explain what is in mind of the king, how will
he be able to do so ? (of course he has less then 1000 prisoners in his prisons)
According to the story, four prisoners are arrested for a crime, but the jail is full and
the jailer has nowhere to put them. He eventually comes up with the solution of giving
them a puzzle so if they succeed they can go free but if they fail they are executed.
The jailer puts three of the men sitting in a line. The fourth man is put behind a
screen (or in a separate room). He gives all four men party hats (as in diagram). The
jailer explains that there are two red and two blue hats; that each prisoner is wearing
one of the hats; and that each of the prisoners only see the hats in front of them but
not on themselves or behind. The fourth man behind the screen can't see or be seen
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And finally....
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