Logic and math riddles

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  The king sits in his central room and the n prisoners are all locked in their sound proof cells. In the king&#8217;s central chamber is a table with a single chalice sitting atop it. Now, the king opens up a door to one of the prisoners&#8217; rooms and lets him into the room, but always only one prisoner at a time! So he lets in just one of the prisoners, any one he chooses, and then asks him a question, &#8220;Since I first locked you and the other prisoners into your rooms, have all of you been in this room yet?&#8221; The prisoner only has two possible answers. &#8220;Yes,&#8221; or, &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure.&#8221; If any prisoner answers &#8220;yes&#8221; but is wrong, they all will be beheaded. If a prisoner answers &#8220;yes,&#8221; however, and is correct, all prisoners are granted full pardons and freed. After being asked that question and answering, the prisoner is then given an opportunity to turn the chalice upside down or right side up. If when he enters the room it is right side up, he can choose to leave it right side up or to turn it upside down, it&#8217;s his choice. The same thing goes for if it is upside down when he enters the room. He can either choose to turn it upright or to leave it upside down. After the prisoner manipulates the chalice (or not, by his choice), he is sent back to his own cell and securely locked in.
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  The king will call the prisoners in any order he pleases, and he can call and recall each prisoner as many times as he wants, as many times in a row as he wants. The only rule the king has to obey is that eventually he has to call every prisoner in an arbitrary number of times. So maybe he will call the first prisoner in a million times before ever calling in the second prisoner twice, we just don&#8217;t know. But eventually we may be certain that each prisoner will be called in ten times, or twenty times, or any number you choose.
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  Here&#8217;s one last monkey wrench to toss in the gears, though. The king is allowed to manipulate the cup himself, k times, out of the view of any of the prisoners. That means the king may turn an upright cup upside down or vice versa up to k times, as he chooses, without the prisoners knowing about it. This does not mean the king must manipulate the cup any number of times at all, only that he may.
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Freaky Test

Got this as a forward from a friend of mine and was told that this works for almost every person he knows. This only takes a second to do and it’s amazing!

Read on …

Have you ever wondered if your mind is normal or different? Well, do this little mind exercise (no need to write anything down) and find out at the end!!

Free will or synaptic wiring? You be the judge.

Check out the following exercise, guaranteed to raise an eyebrow.

Now, click on this link »

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              QUICK!!! THINK OF A VEGETABLE! And then click here >>
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                You&#8217;re thinking of a CARROT, right?</p> 
                
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                  If not, you&#8217;re among the 2% of the population whose minds are different enough to think of something else. 98% of people will answer with carrot when given this exercise. Freaky, huh? Keep this message going. Forward it to people you know and see if they can see if they are usual or not.
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                  I was skeptical first, but it worked for many of my classmates here too ! And needless to say, it worked for me 🙁 Now it really feels bad to be in the 98% rather than in that 2% doesn&#8217;t it ?!
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4D Cube

A very interesting, perspective invoking picture of a 4D cube. Well ironically, its name is still a Cube in 4D.

Here’s a 4-D visualization of the cube in a raytraced Povray version of the picture.

Check out this site for more interesting trivia, facts and pictures related to math !

Premiere de Cocktail

The first cocktail ever made was in Mesopotamia 5,000 years ago, using wine, beer, apple juice and honey. Patrick McGovern defined the mix as “grog”, an archaic drink in the United States is sold as the “Midas Touch”. McGovern, a University Professor at Pennsylvania, one of the most important authorities in chemistry applied in archaeology, presented the results of a research on the banks of the Tigris between Iran and Iraq. This was said at the first day of the international convention on the archaeological study of wine organised in Scansano (Grosseto), land of the Morellino, by the City of Wine National Association and the University of Siena. In his report, McGovern spoke of the history of the evolution of wine-making in the east and west, giving analyses that prove how in some terracotta containers found on the banks of the Tigris river there were traces of tartaric acid (obtained during grape fermentation), honey, apples and fermented barley (used in beer). ‘Grog’ was also used by Etruscans, as can be proved through some containers found in southern Tuscany. The convention highlighted that the sylvan grapes were present in Etruria 6,000 years ago, much before the Greeks’ wine culture. Basically the Etruscans knew wine, so its use could have been already known before the Greeks in the Mediterranean. (AGI) .

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Wow, cool. Did anyone know that there is an archaeological study of wine ?? It is just amazing what people end up doing for a lifetime. And yeah, next time i’m in a bar, I’m going to try the Midas Touch. I think it is going to be one sweet drink !

Another Dilbert gem.

From Sep 4, 2005:

Star Wars – ASCIIfied

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<br />Good old ASCII never ceases to surprise !
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Art thou my God ?


Pictures are worth a thousand words. No point saying anything more on this other than Coool …

A funny video – Reporting Marijuana burn !

A friend of mine just forwarded me this really funny video. It is about a reporter who is trying to do his job standing amidst the mass burning of a load of marijuana that was captured.

He does try his best to say the words right but surely the passive smoking has hit his heights 😉 Nice one. Watch it …

Pain Comics

No idea how i got hold of this link but these comics are really good and funny. Here is one that started me to read more from the site.

This is a great night

This is fanstastic ! I am just drunk and am watching ‘That 70’s show’ and laughing my guts out … Apart from the fact that I have bulk loads of work to do, the show now reminds me of the so many good times I had with the boys back in college and in Blore. Those days ! I miss’em…

But anyhow, here I am, with a beautiful self made Rasam dinner and chips and beer in front of TV and computer about to play some games on a XBOX with some friends .. Life seems so perfect but maybe it is just the higher mind in me talking 😉 No special reason but just felt that I had to remember this day ! When i become sane again tomorrow, I’ll start cribbing as usual … So me checking out ! Ensoy.