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Jashwini
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| | Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - 11:49 am: | 
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Can anyone solve this
THERE ARE 5 PIRATES WHO HAVE TO SPLIT 1000 COINS OF GOLD. THEY ALL LINE UP
AND PROCEED AS FOLLOWS:
THE FIRST PIRATE IN LINE GETS TO PROPOSE A WAY TO SPLIT UP THE GOLD(e.g.
EVERYONE GETS 200 COINS). THE PIRATES INCLUDING ONE WHO PROPOSED, VOTE ON
WHETHER TO ACCEPT THE PROPOSAL.
IF THE PROPOSAL IS REJECTED, THE PIRATE WHO MADE THE PROPOSAL IS KILLED.
THE NEXT PIRATE IN LINE THEN MAKES HIS PROPOSAL, AND THE 4 PIRATES VOTE
AGAIN.
IF THE VOTE IS TIED, THEN THE PROPOSING PIRATE IS STILL KILLED.
A PROPOSAL IS ACCEPTED ONLY IF A MAJORITY OF THE PIRATES AGREE ON IT.
THE PROPOAL CONTINUES UNTIL A PROPOSAL IS ACCEPTED OR THERE IS ONLY 1 PIRATE
LEFT.
ASSUME THAT ALL PIRATES WANT TO BE ALIVE; THEY ARE VERY GREEDY; BEING
PIRATES THEY WANT TO SEE OTHER PIRATES DEAD; ALL OF THEM ARE EXCCELLENT
PUZZLE SOLVERS.
WHAT PROPOSAL SHOULD FIRST PIRATE MAKE?
SCRATCH YOUR HEAD.
THIS IS A GENUINE PUZZLE.
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Prafull
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| | Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - 6:56 pm: |
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Click on this to check out ans. to pirate puzzle :
http://www.dse.nl/~puzzle/teasers/pirate_treasure_us.html
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Jashwini
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| | Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 11:15 am: |
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Prafull thats good
Another brain teaser
The descriptor sequence is a sequence of numbers in which the digits of each number describe the preceding number. The first number is 1. This number consists of one 1, so the second number is 11 (that is, one-one). This consists of two 1's, so the third term is 21. This consists of one 2 and one 1, so the fourth term is 1211. The first six numbers in the sequence are
1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, 312211.
Show that no digit greater than 3 ever occurs, and that the sequence 333 never occurs.
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Peshawa
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| | Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 9:48 pm: |
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First anwswer is each number is even or odd description is nothing but taking modulo to 3(zero represent by 3 )hence no number of grater than 3 can occur in this sequence
second hmm lets see
my guess is if they happen (suppose) then sequence is adinfinitum with the 333's that is it has to start with 333's to get 333's (a kind of loop ) but to prove thats the case is point)
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Jashwini
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| | Friday, June 25, 2004 - 8:37 am: |
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A conundrum is a puzzling question or problem in which the person trying to solve the problem may need to ask questions to gain the information needed to solve it. The following conundrums range from easy questions which require no answer, to extremely difficult problems which have been known to keep people guessing for hours, weeks, or even months!!!
Good luck, and HAPPY CONUNDRUMING!!!!!
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Quickies
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If a turtle loses its shell is it naked or homeless?
If fire fighters fight fires and crime fighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight???
If nothing sticks to teflon, then how do they make teflon stick to the pan?
Why do Kamikaze pilots wear seatbelts?
Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
If love is blind, then why is lingere so popular?
Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
If a black box flight recorder is never damaged in a plane crash, why dont they make the whole plane out of that stuff?
Why is there an expiration date on sour cream?
If most car accidents occur within 5 kilometers of home, then why doesnt every one just move 5 k's away?
Why are psychics still working if they all know the winning lottery numbers?
If you try to fail, but you succeed, which have you done?
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Medium Ones
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1. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
2. Farmer Joe was cleaning out his big old dusty farm shed. He dragged out an old water container which was full of old dirty water and it weighed 5 kilograms. Joe put something in the container and then it weighed less. What did he put in the container?
3. The great archaeologist Mark Spot was digging in totally frozen ground when he came across a preserved body. As soon as he saw the body he knew that it had to be Adam, the first man. How could he be so sure of this?
4. A patient is rushed into the emergency ward of the Conundrum National Hospital after a horrific road crash, and is in urgent need of an operation to save his life. The surgeon on duty walks into the room and says "Oh my god! I can't operate on this boy. He is my SON!" but the surgeon was not the boy's father. How could this be?
5. An electric train is travelling at 100 kilometers per hour. The wind is blowing in an easterly direction at 25 kilometers per hour. Which way is the smoke from the train blowing?
6. A man was sitting in his cabin writing a letter during a lightning storm, when suddenly he died. How did he die?
7. A cock lays an egg right at the border between the US and Canada. Both countries are arguing who will get the egg, because both feel they have the right to take it. But who really does have the right?
8. What is greater than God, More evil than the devil, The poor have it, The rich can't get it, and if you eat it you die?
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Really Long and Difficult Ones
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A. Every day a man leaves his apartment on the 46th floor and rides the lift down to the first floor to go to work. Every evening at about 6 pm he gets in the lift, takes the lift up to the 38th floor, gets out and walks up the stairs the for the remaing eight floors until he reaches the 46th floor. Why?
B. A woman is standing next to a telephone box that is right at the edge of Victoria Falls. She decides that the best thing to do would be to end her life by going over the edge of the falls. She throws herself into the rapids at the top of the falls, and from this point on she knows that there is no turning back. As she rises to the surface she hears the ringing of the phone in the phone box and cries Oh my god! I've made a terrible mistake!!EShe tries to swim to the edge but there is nothing she can do as the current is too strong , and she is dragged over the falls to her death . Why was she so upset when she heard the ringing of the phone?
C. A man kisses his wife goodbye and leaves his house, heading for work. About 20 minutes from home he sees a car crash and knows that his wife is dead. How can he be so sure?
D. George and Mildred are found lying on the floor, dead, in a puddle of water and broken glass. What happened?
E. Two men were found dead in a cabin on the top of a hill. How did they die?
F. A man rides to town on Saturday, stays two nights, and then rides home on Wednesday. How does this happen? (and yes he definitely stays two nights!!)
G. A man was found dead in the bottom of a phone box in a pool of blood and broken glass. How did he die?
H. A man walks into a bar and asks for a glass of water.The bartender pulls out a gun and points it at him. The man says "Thankyou" and leaves the bar. Why???
I. A woman was found lying dead, face down, in the middle of the desert. Around her were 3 open packs, and her hand appeared to be clutching something tightly. What happened?
J. There was a murder in my front yard. The neighbours saw it but the police weren't called. The best detectives in the world couldn't find a body. What happened?
K. A man pushes his car to a hotel, pays the owner of the hotel and pushes his car away. What was he doing?
L. A man is found dead, hanging from the rafters of a room. There are only four things in the room: a hook hanging from the ceiling, a rope attached to the hook, a man hanging from the rope and water on the floor. The ceiling is 15 feet high, and the man's feet are 8 feet from the floor. How did the man hang himself?
M. An astronaut lands on the planet Zebor and is confronted by two identical aliens : one who always tells the truth and the other one who always tells lies. There are two doors, one leading to a cave of unlimited riches and the other to a giant human eating plant. He is allowed to ask one of the aliens one question to choose the right door. What should he ask?
N. A man got up in the middle of the night and went to the toilet. When he'd finished what he was there for, he flushed the toilet, turned off the light, and went back to bed. When he awoke in the morning, he listened to the radio and promptly committed suicide. Why did he commit suicide?
O. Two towns are separated by a field. One fine Saturday morning all of the kids came out of their houses from both towns and ran into the field. Suddenly they all stopped, looked at the field in horror and ran back into their houses crying. The field was empty except for two piles of stones in the middle of it. What happened?
P. A woman with her wedding ring finger missing and a man get off of a train, and are met by a man that they haven't seen for thirty years. He pulls out a gun and kills her. The police take no action. Why?
Q. You're in a room with three light switches, each of which controls a light in three seperate rooms. Once you leave the switch room you cannot go back inside, but you are only allowed into each of the other rooms once. How do you tell which switch turns on which light?
R. A man is found dead in the middle of a paddock, completely naked and clutching a straw, what happened???
S. There was a train with exactly 87 people (including the conductor and driver). The train crashed and no one died, but on the police list, it said two dead. How is this so?
T. There is a man dead in an alley with 52 bicycles around him. He had been shot. There was a large pile of dollar bills around him. Why was he shot?
U. There is a man lying face down in a pool of water, dead, in the middle of a forest with a pack on his back. How did he die?
V. A man leaves home running, turns left, runs forward, turns left again, runs forward, turns left again, and returns home to find a masked man. Who was the masked man?
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Menikhil
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| | Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 12:15 pm: |
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Here is another one....
A person has 64 pieces of cigerrete. He can join 8 pieces to get one cig. So how many cigs. can he make.....the answer is not a straight answer....think...its not so hard.
bye.
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Chandya
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| | Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 2:13 pm: |
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9 cigarettes. one butt and 9 pairs of 7 cigarette pieces.
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Msgadgil
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| | Monday, March 14, 2005 - 3:11 pm: |
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100 boys standing at random in 10 - 10 formation.
1> the tallest boy in each column is found
out and the shortest among such 10 is
named as 'T'
2> the shortest boy in each row is found out
and the tallest among such 10 is named as
'S'.
during these operations, the order of standing of these boys is not disturbed.
what, among the following, will be the relation between the heights of 'T' and 'S'
A) T >= S
B) T <= S
C) T = S
Further, if possible, tell me the implications if case (C) were true.
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Nandya
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| | Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - 2:48 pm: |
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gaaDgaIL kuzlaI baoiXast XaaLa hÜ hIÆ
T=S yaaca Aqa- hI XaaLa na@kI %yaa Xyaamak davarcaI dance school AsaNaar...sagaLo ksao AgadI ditto
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Shriramb
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| | Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 7:51 am: |
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If the heights of the boys are random, then T >= S is true.
Nandya's conclusion regarding case C is incorrect.
If T = S, then there is at least one boy who is tallest in his column and shortest in his row and if we assume that no two boys have the same height, then there is only one boy like this.
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Msgadgil
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| | Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 4:55 pm: |
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EaIramaÊ tumacaM ]<ar barÜbar Aaho. AaiNa tumacyaa caar AÜLI vaacaUna AsaM vaaTtM kI tumhalaa %yaamaagacaM
reasoning pNa laxaat AalaM Aaho
Since u r Engineer, try this one:
Diametrically, through a sphere, a hole was drilled. the volume of the left over part was 100 cu. cm. What is the length of the hole?
This problem is not incomplete.
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Jit
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| | Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 5:38 pm: |
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approximately between 5.75 and 5.76 cm
Let me know if I am correct
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Msgadgil
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| | Thursday, March 17, 2005 - 9:25 am: |
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You are correct, Abhijit. Good one isn't it?
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Pha
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| | Thursday, March 17, 2005 - 10:26 am: |
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drill cross-sect area ha sphere cross-sect area cyaa maanaanaI nagaNya Aaho AsaM gaRiht QarlaM tr 5.76 ho ]<ar yaola.
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Jit
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| | Thursday, March 17, 2005 - 2:48 pm: |
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its actually well known should I say corollary !! you can find the proof for such problems here
http://jacq.istos.com.au/math/answer2.html
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Msgadgil
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| | Thursday, March 17, 2005 - 3:11 pm: |
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sankalp, you need not make that assumption. Abhijit nao idlaolaI linkpha
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Pha
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| | Friday, March 18, 2005 - 4:29 am: |
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p`Uf sahIyao² qaÐ@sa ijatÊ imaihr.
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Aschig
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| | Monday, March 21, 2005 - 2:56 am: |
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dubbed to be the hardest puzzle on the net, this ia a big treasure hunt, but without any gold pot at the end (except for the satisfaction you may get in getting there
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Chioo
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| | Monday, April 18, 2005 - 12:03 pm: |
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javal javal varsh zale, pan ya conundrumsla jaun konich kase uttar post kele nahi???
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Mahaguru
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| | Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - 4:15 pm: |
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ek rajaa hÜta. %yaalaa 4 raNyaa hÜ%yaa AaiNa p`%yaok raNaI pasauna ek ek maulagaa.
ekda rajaa yauwavar gaolaa. %yaanao yauw ijaMkuna Barpur ihro lauTuna AaNalao. %yaanao to sava- ihro mahalaat
zovalao AaiNa JaÜpI gaolaa.
pihlaI raNaI AalaI . itnao to ihro paihlaoÊ ivacaar kolaa kI ho rajaacao ihro mhNajao 1 / 4 ihro Aaplaoca Aahot mhNauna itnao 4 samaana Baaga kolao AaiNa %yaatlaa ek Baaga svatÁ kDo zovalaa .
4 samaana Baaga kolyaanaMtr ek ihra ]rlaaÊ tÜ itnao Aaplyaa maulaalaa KoLayalaa idlaa AaiNa inaGauna gaolaI.³]da.
samajaa 17 ihro hÜtoÊ itnao 4 Baaga kÉna 1 / 4 mhNajao 4 ihro zovalao AaiNa ]rlaolaa 1 ihra maulaalaa idlaa ´
qaÜD\yaavaoLanao dusarI raNaI AalaI. itlaa pihlyaa raNaInao kolaolyaa vaaTNaIba_la maahIit navhto. itnaohI
³]rlaolyaa´ iháyaaMcao 4 samaana Baaga kolaoÊ ek ihra prt ]rlaa tÜ itnao pÜralaa idlaa AaiNa 1 / 4 ihssaa Gaovauna inaGauna gaolaI
yaaca p`maaNao itsaáyaa va caÝqyaa raNyaaMnaI kolao. %yaaMnaa AgaÜdrcyaa raNaInao kolaolyaa vaaTNyaaMba_la
zavauk navhto. %yaaMnaIhI prt 4 vaaTo kolao. 1 ]rlaolaa ihra pÜrlaa KoLayalaa idlaaÊ ek vaaTa svatÁ gaovauna
gaolyaa..
qaÜD\yaavaoLanao rajaa ]zlaa. %yaanao raNyaaMnaa iháyaaba_la ivacaarlao. savaa-MnaI saaMigatlao kI AamhI
ihssao kÉna ekek ihssaa Gaotlaa Aaho. rajaanao ]rlaoyaa iháyaancao prt 4 ihssao kÉna caÝGaIMmaQyao vaaTuna
Taklao. 4 samaana Baaga kolyaavar prt ek ihra ]rlaa tÜ %yaanao %yaacyaa maukuTat laavalaa.
tr ekuNa iktI ihro rajaanao lauTuna ³ijaMkuna´ AaNalao hÜtoÆ
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Boli
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| | Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - 6:02 pm: |
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Mahaguru, The Raja brought 1021 diamonds.
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Mahaguru
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| | Thursday, July 21, 2005 - 2:44 am: |
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Boli - barobar aahe ! 
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Msgadgil
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| | Saturday, September 10, 2005 - 2:28 pm: |
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I checked the clock, it was past 4' o clock, but not yet 5'o clock. After sometime, the hour and and minute hands had interchanged their earlier positions. what was the original and final time correct up to seconds?
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Maj
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| | Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - 3:53 am: |
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After some time when hr and min hands had interchanged position, was that also between 4 and 5o'clock?
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Meggi
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| | Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - 7:16 am: |
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Answer is 4:42 and 8:24. Is that correct? Mahesh, what you are saying is not specified, hence no need to stick to the position between 4 and 5 after interchanging. But one thing is clear, after interchanging Minute Hand will be between 4 to 5.
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Sorry, mii prayatn kelaa paN uttar delete kele! he uttar he kaa?
4.59.59 v/s 11.24.59
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Milindaa
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| | Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 9:03 am: |
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Meggi caM ]<ar barÜbar Aaho
ilaMbaUÊ 11.24 laa tasa kaTa 12 cyaa evaZa javaL jaat nahIÊ jaovaZa 4.59 laa imainaTkaTa jaatÜ
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Limbutimbu
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| | Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 9:32 am: |
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tuJa barÜbar ho imailanda²
malaa Ajauna naomak laa^ijak laavata Aala naahI ho² p`ya%na krtÜ ho XaÜQaayacaa kI Meggi na trI ]<ar ksa kaZla
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Msgadgil
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| | Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 10:26 am: |
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sorry! many answers to the same questions! take one more data.
the time after which the hands had interchanged positions wasn't more than 1 hr. now tell the answer.
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Maj
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| | Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 12:13 pm: |
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4:27 and 5:23, right?
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Meggi
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| | Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 4:05 am: |
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nahi Maj.. mala vatata 5:23 mhanaje pahilyanda jeva vel baghitali teva Taas kaata 4 chya 3 ghara pudhe asanaar ani taas kata 3 ghara pudhe mhanaje 4:36 (taas kata 12 min madhye ek ghar chalato...mhanun 12 * 3 = 36 min) mala vatata ya puzzle cha answer seconds pan consider karun dyayala hava...Msgadgil ajun answer taku naka.. 2 divas vel dya...hint dili tari chalel
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Limbutimbu
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| | Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 5:06 am: |
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It could be 4.31 and 6.22 ! if i am not wrong 
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Meggi
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| | Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 8:49 am: |
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Limbu, time difference is not more than 1 hr
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Some answers for post by Jashwini on June 25 2004
A. The man is very short. His cannot reach to the 46th Floor button in the lift.
So he presses 38th floor button, maximum til his hand reaches.
But while coming down, he can press 1st floor button.
L. The man hung himself standing on ice. After some time, ice melted.
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Meggi
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| | Tuesday, September 27, 2005 - 7:16 am: |
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I think the answer is 4.26 and 5.22.
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