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alien2
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Dean and Trigger are playing poker in Dean's flat. After a few games, Trigger says that he just remembered he forgot to turn off the headlights of his car, which is about two minutes away on foot. But then Dean stops him for a moment, proposing the real thing. He says, that when Trigger returns, there will be three pencils (with eraser) in a bowl, looking identical in all respects, except for the fact that he will mark each with a different felt pen. So when Trigger returns, Trigger will then shake well the bowl, right after Dean blindfolds himself. And w/o peeking, if Dean guesses all three colors right, he wins $1000, and there is no consolation prize as there are no points for second place. Triggers says, 'You're on!' Can Dean improve his chances?
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Re: The bet
« Reply #1 on: Apr 18th, 2007, 2:21am » |
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By cutting shapes in the erasers?
By choosing pencils of different lengths?
By heating/cooling some pencils?
By using 3 felt pens of the same color?
edit: I overlooked the fact that they should be all identical.
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Re: The bet
« Reply #2 on: Apr 18th, 2007, 3:33am » |
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O course Dean will guess all 3 colors right. After all, he marked them himself!
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Re: The bet
« Reply #3 on: Apr 18th, 2007, 6:14am » |
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on Apr 18th, 2007, 2:21am, Grimbal wrote:
By heating/cooling some pencils?
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You got it.
Note that I modified the riddle by adding 'looking' only, although quite important fact I forgot to mention.  
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Re: The bet
« Reply #4 on: Oct 26th, 2007, 8:15pm » |
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I was thinking that if the felt pens he used were scented, he would only need to smell the pencils.
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Re: The bet
« Reply #5 on: Oct 27th, 2007, 12:56am » |
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Not bad.  
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Re: The bet
« Reply #6 on: Jan 22nd, 2008, 9:53pm » |
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By putting magnets on each of them, holding some metal, and feeling the magnetic pull of each of them to determine the color.
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Re: The bet
« Reply #7 on: Jan 24th, 2008, 8:53pm » |
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I've never heard of magnetic colors. 
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Re: The bet
« Reply #8 on: Jan 25th, 2008, 7:05am » |
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No he remembers the colors by how magnetic each one is. Similar to the one where you chip off the erasers unevenly.
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Re: The bet
« Reply #9 on: Feb 7th, 2008, 11:48pm » |
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on Apr 18th, 2007, 2:11am, Iceman wrote:| So when Trigger returns, Trigger will then shake well the bowl... |
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... under a running cold tap!
Good luck, Dean! 
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