Kogorous Riddle Thread and eworms Deduction Thread

[VQ]

Easy one:

Spoiler:

You find a riddle about a sequence of figures in an old book, but because the paper is too old, some parts of the figures are not visible.
Try to find the next figure of the sequence:

Spoiler:

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|     |
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Too hard to do curves with ascii...

at C-Squared like this?

Spoiler:

     )(
     ()

Spoiler:

No, the answer is 5, the figures are just numbers:


Your turn C-Square.

Sorry about the game RL hit my system for a few days.

No problem, waiting for your next move.

[Akonyl]

Question about above while the minimum might be 2X5, this is my problem with that as the answer it means all soldiers were hurt. Granted the max of all gives the possibility on 15 being unhurt at all. So if you weight the injuries like this : Unhurt - 4, one injury - 3, two injury - 2, three injury - 1 all injury - 0, then using that riddle max the weight so you have the least hurt and the max weight

a) It may mean all the soldiers are hurt, but the criteria was stated as "least number of soldiers with all four injuries". I'm not sure why you're finding issue with the fact that all the soldiers were injured: it's a riddle, not some test of morality or benevolence.
b) Your proposed riddle isn't much of a riddle at all. Because applying an injury to a soldier always reduces their "point value" by 1, no matter how you distributed the injuries you would end up with the same final score. So if the goal is then "least # hurt and max weight", the max weight part is irrelevant and it instead becomes "least # of hurt soldiers" anyway, which is just whatever the highest injury number was.

[c-square]

Palindrome time again!

What the pet owl thought when the air conditioner broke:

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[Akonyl]

Spoiler:

too hot to hoot

the owl part made it too obvious

[c-square]

Spoiler:

too hot to hoot

the owl part made it too obvious

Owl have to make it harder next time.  

Your turn!

[Akonyl]

How about

A farmer decides to go to the market to sell some corn and some peas he has. He only has one large burlap sack though: a family heirloom that has been passed down for generations (don't ask). He also doesn't want to mix the corn and peas together, so how does he-- scratch that, that's not the riddle.

The farmer, being a smart man, solved that riddle himself. He filled the bad 1/4 of the way with the corn, took a roll of twine out of his pocket and bound the sack right above the corn, and poured the peas over in the next 1/4 of the sack. Thus, the peas and corn couldn't touch, and he felt like quite the genius.

So, the farmer goes to the market to sell his goods. There, he meets a customer interested in his wares. Curiously, the customer has a burlap sack of his own: Also a family heirloom, and of roughly the same size, shape and color of the farmer's. The customer tells the farmer he wants to buy the corn, but not the peas. The farmer, being a man of business, doesn't want to drop any food on the ground at all (or for that matter, anywhere else other than the burlap sacks), and both men want to keep their burlap sacks in pristine shape. They're also horribly attached to their heirlooms, each unwilling to let the other man hold their family heirloom.

The farmer was smart enough to solve the first riddle, but not the second: How can the farmer sell the corn to the customer, without selling him the peas as well, without mixing the two products, and without damaging or switching sacks with the customer?

[VQ]

Question:

Spoiler:

Couldn't the farmer just sell first the peas to someone else in the market and then go back and sell the corn to that guy?

[Akonyl]

Question:

Spoiler:

Couldn't the farmer just sell first the peas to someone else in the market and then go back and sell the corn to that guy?

The farmer looks around at other people in the market: They're all staring at the farmer with their eyes and mouths wide open, enraptured by the riddle. They believe the farmer and the customer can sort it out themselves, and don't want to interfere.

There's one man who doesn't seem very impressed, but he's wearing an "I hate peas" shirt. The farmer figures he shouldn't be included in the riddle either.

[Kogorou]

Spoiler:

The farmer gets a pipe and puts it in the sack. opens the knot a bit to let the pipe pass to the corn. Then he can push the corn out thru the pipe under the given circumstances.

[Akonyl]

Spoiler:

The farmer gets a pipe and puts it in the sack. opens the knot a bit to let the pipe pass to the corn. Then he can push the corn out thru the pipe under the given circumstances.

for the sake of the riddle let's say that the only knot the farmer knows how to make are Gordian Knots, such that they can't be undone unless you cut them in half. So, if a knot is to be loosened, it can only be undone.

the solution is also a (relatively) quick one, that doesn't involve shoving corn piece-by-piece through a straw (or other similar method).

[VQ]

Spoiler:

I think the farmer could pour the peas into the customer’s sack, then bind it above the peas like he did with his sack and turn the sack inside out. Then pour in the corn, unbind the sack and pour the peas back into his sack.

[Akonyl]

curse you VQ, I knew your answer was right before even opening the spoiler D:

so your turn again.

[Kogorou]

You should have mentioned the knots earlier!
Damn...

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[VQ]

My turn again:

Spoiler:

Time for another chess riddle:

You are the player with the white pieces. How do you get a checkmate in 3 of your moves?

curse you VQ, I knew your answer was right before even opening the spoiler D:

so your turn again.

Such a rude thing to say to a lady, shame on you.
Anyway the solution was quite clever, you guys can try it using a plastic bag and a string.

[Akonyl]

pssh, I'll curse who I want to

*places an anti-riddle-solving hex on VQ*