The Singapore Logic Puzzle
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Frelga, just a clarification: is the sum really (x + 1), not (x + y)?
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Oh, oops. You are correct (as always), it's X+Y. I fixed the puzzle post.
"What a place! What a situation! What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter."
Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
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I more or less ignored this (the Singapore logic puzzle) when it first started making the rounds (I recall someone, it may have been Lidless, posting it on their Facebook page and my response was "can we go back to talking about the color of the dress, I'm good at that"), but I showed it to one of my co-workers today and she got sucked into it and after she couldn't wrap her head around it I tried to explain, since I had by that point read the various explanations. Mind you, I didn't really understand it even then, but after analyzing the solution I finally thought I had it.
And I have now come to the conclusion there is a flaw in the puzzle. Someone smarter then me please help me out here.
And I have now come to the conclusion there is a flaw in the puzzle. Someone smarter then me please help me out here.
Hidden text.
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Arrrrgggghhhh! I can’t believe I spent sooooo much time agonizing over this. Thanks Ax.
I think I understand it now:
I think I understand it now:
Hidden text.
I'm not even looking at the hat puzzle.Re: The Singapore Logic Puzzle
Giggle. Hugs tinwë. You got it.
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Three logicians walk into a bar. "Y'all want a drink?" asks the bartender. "I don't know," says the first logician. "I don't know," says the second logician. "Yes!" says the third.
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What?
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Well, if the first two don't know, the third must know (if one postulates that one of the three must know). It makes perfect sense. <pounds cane on porch> <orders the two drinks the other logicians were too weak to admit they wanted>
<and they'll be paying for them, of course>
<and they'll be paying for them, of course>
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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To correctly answer the question "do you all want drinks?" with a yes, you need to know that every single member of the group wants one. To correctly answer it with a no, you only need to know that at least one member (e.g. yourself) does not want one.
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So is the joke that the 3rd logician is pushing drinks on the other two?
I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists
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If the first responder didn't want one, he'd know the answer was "no". So he said he didn't know. Which made it obvious that he wanted one.
Ditto for the second responder.
So the third responder knew that the other two wanted one, and he knew that he wanted one, so he knew they all wanted one.
Ditto for the second responder.
So the third responder knew that the other two wanted one, and he knew that he wanted one, so he knew they all wanted one.
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Ahhh, of course......
I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists
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Isn't y'all singular?
"What a place! What a situation! What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter."
Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
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So it was a logic game. I was confused because I was like - what was the Q? Not that I worked out any of it...
Giggle, prim & Frelga.
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Giggle, prim & Frelga.
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Yes, Frelga, and "all y'all" is the plural.
Or perhaps I'm missing a nuance here? I wish Anthy would show up and correct me!
Or perhaps I'm missing a nuance here? I wish Anthy would show up and correct me!
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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Or they could have been Irish, in which case nobody actually knew whether they wanted a drink until it had been offered at least three times.
I should write an "Irish Logic Puzzle". Would be much more fun.
I should write an "Irish Logic Puzzle". Would be much more fun.
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Do keep in mind that the size limit on posts here is 60,000 characters.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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How many of those characters are allowed to have an arc?