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At 4/24/05 11:25 AM, -snare- wrote:

You can join in if you hurry, everyone needs to hurry up though

I'm not going to be done today =\ *shame*
I do promise to have a solid update, though, and I should be able to finish tomorrow. I'm very happy about what I'm animating right now...they are my favorite 2.5 seconds yet! =D

chatzychatzy?

AH! Broken!

*fixes*

At 4/22/05 03:00 PM, AvatarEgo wrote: Let B = event no one in the group shares the same birthday
Let Bc = event at least 2 people share same birthday
P(B) = (365/365)(364/365)......(343/365) = 0.493
P(Bc)= 1 - 0.493 = 0.507

so.. 23 :)

Glory be! Well solved, sir! *gives spoils*

And now to check out your puzzle ^.^

At 4/22/05 02:49 PM, -snare- wrote: I love that menu, I can't wait for it to be finished

I'm gonna just make everything more high quality now, not so scetchy and stuff.

Have you started on the preloader screen?

I have music for you in chatzy .

At 4/21/05 11:03 PM, symbolmonkey wrote: here we go
http://www.zippyvideos.com/171293948197925.html
http://www.zippyvideos.com/7106506197935.html

That menu is amazingly snazzy! I think there should be some explanation of the controls for the cow...and does the cow still serve a purpose? Besides being awesome?

The names were a little hard for me to read (even when they were selected), but I am very tired right now, so that might not be a real problem ^.^

With your menu (and the extras was pretty dapper as well) and -snare- making the preloader and credits and still updating his flash...it's going to be so good....*tears up*

*can't wait until the collab is all put together and beautiful*

*is thinking of different ways to animate light...and dirt*

At 4/21/05 07:04 PM, catmaster1010 wrote: I have a good paradox. I like this one, and you really have to think about it.

This statement is false.

Modification:

The statement below is false.
The statement above is true.

fun stuff =D

At 4/21/05 07:23 PM, ilsoft wrote:
They are all really bats and not people since you didn't say they were people.
There are old people below them with a flashlight crossing the bridge.
You said people again so it doesn't matter.

This puzzle was already solved. But fine, they're bats.

Anyway, they all go to the end in 10 minutes and wait around for 7 minutes, making it 17 minutes.

Or:

They cross the bridge like you said and use something Einstien wrote to go back in time and make it 17 minutes.

I....I never thought of that. That's a new solution. Nice.

At 4/21/05 07:34 PM, NarcolepticAlarmClok wrote: Okay, I have an idea... Why don't they just throw the flashlight back once they've crossed?

Why bother? As AvatarEgo already showed, you don't need any of your trendy creative thoughts to do this puzzle. The solution was simple and elegant.

And, also, what is the significance of the flashlight? You never specified the time of day... it could be sunny. Or, maybe the flashlight acts as an augumented form of MACE, to weild off the bass, raven, Ann coulters, and other wild beasts. I don't know. It dont make no cent... :p

I often wonder about the significance of flashlights as well.

At 4/21/05 07:38 PM, morefngdbs wrote: Onerly picks Tenly & the flashlite up crosses -1min.
onerly goes back -1min.
onerly throws fivel over his shoulder- 1min.
onerly goes back -1min.
Onerly is tired so tooper picks him up(with flash lite of course) crosses the bridge 2min.
Done in 6 minutes motherfu---r , no muss no fuss ,if onerly was in better shape we could have finished in 5 minutes

Sweet. I'm glad this puzzle has been so thoroughly solved by you guys! Hell, I'm ashamed of posting such an easy one.

At 4/21/05 06:44 PM, donthurtme wrote: Well, i added up all the probabilities (1/365 + 2/364 + 3/363 + 4/362 etc.), and got an answer of 19, but I believe this has been suggested before. The 18th person has a probability of just 48%, the 19th is 54%.

your math is wrong, but at least you're answering the right question! =D The probabilities don't just get added up. Why would you add the probabilities for completely different situations?

Also, once you have 3 or more people, the probabilities are stranger. You could have multiple duplicate birthdays or triple-birthdays, or more...

This question may be too hard for most of you, which is ok. Here it is again, for you who are good enough to read the first post, but not interested in reading the ones in between:

Puzzle #3

Some bored guy decides to start a new thread on the NG BBS. He tries to imagine a thread that would be something lots of people would contribute to! After much consideration, he decides to make a birthday thread.

He opens with "hey every1! I thought it would be cool to make a thread for peeps who are having there bibrthdays. its ok if your birthday isnt today, just tell everyone what day it is and we can see who has teh same birthday as you LOL!"

How many people must post their birthdays on the thread for there to be a 50% chance that there is at least one duplicate birthday?

Good luck to those who try =)

At 4/21/05 05:54 PM, TheChaosDemon wrote: who the fuck cares?

Fair enough...

Will no one take up this cup? (the question is halway up this page)

To be fair, you will probably need a calculator or a powerful brain to get the answer...
But, so much glory to be had! =\ =/

At 4/21/05 12:52 PM, -snare- wrote: Has anyone got some upbeat holy type music or something?

Or just some fast stuff?

I have music musics! chatzy with me =\

At 4/21/05 12:15 PM, Heretic_X wrote:

Huh?

"In countries where Go is popular, ranks are employed to indicate playing strength. The Japanese formalised the teaching and ranking of Go, and modelled the system after their existing martial arts schools.

Players who are competent are ranked starting at 1 dan, through to 9 dan which is the highest rank (in the Japanese Edo period, only one player held this rank at a time, and was called Meijin). "

In some cultures, Go was so closely integrated into martial arts training that if you could beat your opponent in a game of Go, you could beat him in a fight.

Go information

At 4/21/05 12:16 PM, -0706- wrote: Those puzzles rape your mind.

Don't do puzzles children >: ( stay in school.

Lies! Drop out of school and live on the streets, doing puzzles like mad! Live in a box covered plastered with old crossword puzzles and word searches! JOIN ME!

-0706-, you may like the award picture for this puzzle...it would look awesome with your name on it....*tempt tempt*

At 4/21/05 05:41 AM, FeeL_Os_oFf wrote: 2 people. They have a 50% chance, their birthdays either match or they don't. 50-50 you see. I think that's true actually :/

As an excuse to bump this, I'll answer you in some more detail.

There are only two options when you have 2 people - the birthdays either match or they don't. However, the probability of each option isn't equal.

If the first person to post his birthday is Hitler, then you have April 20th as yer birthday to match. The second person to post has one way to match (having a birthday on 4/20) and 364 ways to not match (having any other birthday)

So, out of the 365 possible birthdays, only 1 will make a match, making the probability 1/365. Keep guessing!

PS. Ignore leap years, they're silly.
PPS. If you'd like, I could start making the award pictures BBS Sig-sized, if you want the chance to gloat over your victory with every single post you make. =D

At 4/21/05 11:54 AM, -Kenneth_V_Michaels- wrote: I've been practicing Tae kwon do for awhile.
Although I'm not with any school, nor do I have a belt. Wanna spar to see if I'm worthy of this 1st Dan?

The Kyu/Dan scale is shared by martial arts and the board game Go because Go used to be integrated into martial arts training! XD XD

At 4/21/05 05:41 AM, FeeL_Os_oFf wrote: 2 people. They have a 50% chance, their birthdays either match or they don't. 50-50 you see. I think that's true actually :/

With two people, there's a 1 in 365 chance that they have the same birthday. However, with 3 people, the probabiliy is trickier...

The award is finished and ready to be customized. This means two things:
1: I bump this thread
2: I go to sleep for some hours.

Good luck to anyone participating!

At 4/21/05 04:18 AM, Ravariel wrote: 19

With 2 people posting, they have a 2/365 chance of having the same b-day. Every person thereafter adds to the Numerator a number equal to the number of other people already posted, because he or she has a 1/365 chance of having the same b-day as any other person. Once you get to the 19th person you have reached a possibility of 191/365 which is greater than 50% (182.5 is exactly 50%).

You're certainly on the right track, sir, but this "adding to the numerator" method isn't accurate. The math is actually a bit uglier, I'm afraid =\

BTW, this award is looking pretty snazzy =D

At 4/21/05 03:46 AM, _MessiaH_ wrote: Whatever.

Good call.

I think this one is somewhat well known. If you know it, be a sport and don't tell the answer. And if you know the puzzle and want to pretend you figured out the answer on your own, wait a minute for me to finish the prize =D

Include your reasoning with your answers, please.

Puzzle #3

Some bored guy decides to start a new thread on the NG BBS. He tries to imagine a thread that would be something lots of people would contribute to! After much consideration, he decides to make a birthday thread.

He opens with "hey every1! I thought it would be cool to make a thread for peeps who are having there bibrthdays. its ok if your birthday isnt today, just tell everyone what day it is and we can see who has teh same birthday as you LOL!"

How many people must post their birthdays on the thread for there to be a 50% chance that there is at least one duplicate birthday?

Good luck =)
*gets to work on prize animation*

At 4/21/05 03:25 AM, AvatarEgo wrote: okay I know its now been solved... I took to long on paper I guess..
but here is the long extended explanation

Well solved, sir. *respect*

But your speed didn't match the glory and power of Qwoxyl, this time!

To Qwoxyl, the spoils!

At 4/21/05 03:12 AM, Qwoxyl wrote: The second one was easier than I thought it would be.

The person who shaked 8 hands didn't shake his own hand or his wife's hand (who didn't shake anyone's hand, the mean...). So the person who shook 7 hands was with the person who shook 1 hand, 6 with 2, 5 with 3, and the person who shook 4 hands was the wife.

So the answer is 4.

Whoa! Before I even got done replying, you bust out with the answer. Well done man! XD
The awards picture will be done in about 3 minutes, can't keep up with yer brain =D

At 4/21/05 03:03 AM, AvatarEgo wrote: this is a classic? I honeslty have never heard it... it seems to have some math involved... i'll have to get out a pad of paper and work on it for a bit here...

Classic as in, I love it, not as in, well-known. =) Glad it's new for you - and there's no math necessary, only logic.

At 4/21/05 03:09 AM, AvatarEgo wrote: are you missing any clues there.. that seems to be impossible to solve with out at least a little bit more info...

The beauty of this puzzle is how little information it gives. It IS possible!

At 4/21/05 03:11 AM, Bivouac_Tenure wrote: The wife shook 1 hand.

There are only nine possible answers here, and that means that process of elimination is a factor here. To combat that, you must PROVIDE YOUR REASONING with the answers. I won't confirm or deny yours until I see how you it =D

Sorry I didn't think of this in the first post.

Rule Recap
If you already know the puzzle, don't blurt out the answer. Whoever guesses first will get a special picture reward =D I'll give hints if people don't figure it out.

Puzzle #2
This one is classic. Please excuse my first person narrative. (I'm not married, but it helps to tell the puzzle this way =D)

My wife and I were invited to a party recently, a party attented by four other couples. Some of the 10 knew some of the others and some did not, some were polite and some were not. As a result, a certain amount of handshaking took place in an unpredictable way, subject only to two obvious conditions: No one shook his or her own hand and no husband shook his wife's hand.

When it was all over, I was curious. I went around the party asking each person "How many hands did you shake?...And you?...And you?" What answers could I have received? Conceivably, some people could have said none, and others could have given me a number from 1 to 8. That's right, isn't it? Since self-handshakes and spouse-handshakes were rules out, eight is the maximum number of hands that any one of the party of 10 could have shaken.

I asked nine people (everybody, including my wife), and the answer could have been any one of the nine numbers 0 to 8 inclusive. I was interested to note that the nine different people gave me nine different answers: Someone said "none," someone said "one," and so on until someone, finally, said "eight."

So, to recap. there were 10 people at the party, I asked nine of them how many hands they shook. As it happened, one person shook 0 hands, one person shook 1, one person shook 2, and so on all the way up to eight.

Now I ask you: How many hands did my wife shake?

At 4/21/05 02:22 AM, Blue_Hoody wrote: Onerly+Tooper, Onerly, Fiver+Tenly, Tooper, Onerly+Tooper = 17

Phew. That took a bit.

Really good, man. Sorry you just missed the award - thanks for taking it well! =D

At 4/21/05 02:31 AM, AvatarEgo wrote:
awesome!! alright, do you have another?

I do, but I think it would be classy to start it at the top of page two, helping out people who hate to read that first post. *waits*

At 4/21/05 02:18 AM, AvatarEgo wrote: okay I figured it out.. I want the award picture :D

Well done man! The spoils are yours! XD

At 4/21/05 01:59 AM, FeeL_Os_oFf wrote: Not really, cos they have to take the torch back anyway and that takes time as well.
I've tried every combination and 19mins is the least :s

Weak sauce. The solution is simple, but I'm not going to give it away. Keep trying, I'll spruce up the awards picture. You can do it, mans. 17 minutes. Very possible =D

At 4/21/05 01:37 AM, FeeL_Os_oFf wrote: Yea I knew that, it's still impossible. Unless you get rid of Tenley or Fivel

Bah! Yer wrong. Keep tooling around with it, don't give up. You'll get the answer.

Another hint:

The problem with sending Onerly back and forth is that when he accompanies someone, it's not very efficient. When, say, Tenly and Onerly cross the bridge, that's eleven minutes shortened to 10 minutes. When Tooper and Tenly cross, that's 12 minutes shortened to 10. And when Fivel and Tencly cross, that's 15 minutes shortened to 10 minutes.

Does that make any sense? Keep thinking. =)

At 4/21/05 01:28 AM, FeeL_Os_oFf wrote:

At 4/21/05 12:42 AM, ZombieLincoln wrote: There's just one order of people that results in 17 minutes total. *has faith in you*

I've tried everything, the least is 19 mins :(

It's not true man. There really isn't a big trick here...
But I'll give away the hint that should make the answer pretty clear. Just because one person brought back the flashlight doesn't mean that that same person has to cross the bridge right away...

So, try some more combinations. You could come by the answer completely by chance!

At 4/21/05 12:56 AM, AnarchistNemesio wrote:

:99% Proof. 1% influenced by the Internet.

I'd drink that.

Lame bump of my own thread, but I don't want my reward picture to go to waste. Anybody wnat to try the puzzle? The solution doesn't involve any trickery or even thinking outside the box. 2 people cross the bridge, 1 returns with the lamp, repeat until all are across.

There's just one order of people that results in 17 minutes total. *has faith in you*

At 4/20/05 11:47 PM, BurstFilms wrote: The group throws Tenley off the bridge because he's so fucking slow, no doubt really old, really fat, or crippled. He is slowing the expedition! After they throw Tenley off the bridge, they cross.

Throw Tenley off bridge (+1 minute)
Fivel and Onerly cross (+5 minutes)
Onerly returns (+1 minute)
Tooper and Onerly cross (+2 minutes)

GRAND TOTAL: 9 minutes, all for getting rid of slow-ass Tenley.

I thought there was one answer, but you guys are proving me wrong! There are many! Of course, Tenley puts up a fight and is heavy, so add 20 minutes for the throwing him off the bridge. I'm afraid you haven't won yet. =\

I just finished created a pretty sweet trophy picture that's ready to be customized for whomever wins this thing. Don't let the picture go to waste! Somebody earn it! =D