Hen, Corn, Fox Challenge

[AV1611VET]

How many creatioanists x how many years will it take to figure out that evoltuion is real

Excuse me, but I have been saying evolution is real for five years straight here.

Remember my Roundup™ ?

 

[AV1611VET]

DP

 

[Lillen]

I remeber this from Psyktrek 2.0 an interactive psychology course on CD i got from a family member who got a Ph D in psychology and a scienists degree.

I don't trust psychology any more... it doesn't have anything to offer me. Little Hans is a patented stereotype among with the rest of Freud's patinents...

As for me i saw the horse but i did not start weeping! The thing they do with their patients is making them be confronted with the horse, then beat the patient so much until he start cry... I think that is wicked of them! Wolves...

 

[Hespera]

What about a horse like this?

"One day while crawling in the grass a bug was eaten by a horse! it was warm and dark inside the horse so the bug went to sleep. When the bug woke up it was still warm and dark, but, the horse was gone!"

would you weep? would you trust the horse after that?

 

[Lillen]

I am not sure what you are saying here?!? Am i the bug?!?

I know that many psychiatrists sees their patients as "...kryp". Usually these kinds of psychdoctors like Sadomachichism! And these people are the material that is going to save me? No wonder i rely upon Jesus!

The test on Psychtrek included orcs, and i passed the test in the minimum boattrips possible and in one try!

 

[TemperateSeaIsland]

I'd be surprised if this isnt answered quickly...

"What can you put in a bucket that will make it lighter?"

 

[Timothew]

I'd be surprised if this isnt answered quickly...

"What can you put in a bucket that will make it lighter?"

A candle?

 

[AV1611VET]

What about a horse like this?

"One day while crawling in the grass a bug was eaten by a horse! it was warm and dark inside the horse so the bug went to sleep. When the bug woke up it was still warm and dark, but, the horse was gone!"

would you weep? would you trust the horse after that?

Trust the horse for what? to eat me again?

No, I wouldn't.

 

[AV1611VET]

I'd be surprised if this isnt answered quickly...

"What can you put in a bucket that will make it lighter?"

A hole.

 

[FrenchyBearpaw]

Excuse me, but I have been saying evolution is real for five years straight here.

Which is why you are a H. sapiens!

 

[Blayz]

An cruel dictator arrests a locks up in solitary confinement the 100 most intelligent people in his country. He explains to them that each of them has been given a tattoo on their forehead, either a white circle or a back one, and that there is at least one white (and one black) in the group.

Each person is given a folder with photographs of the other 99 people, their respective circles clearly shown.

The cells contain no mirrors or polished surfaces, there is no way for any of the people to directly observe their own tattoo.

The dictator explains that every day for the next 100 days, the cell doors will unlock between 4pm and 4:30pm. If on any one of those 100 days all (and exactly all) of the people with black tattoos exit their cells, everyone will go free. If at anytime any person with a white tattoo exits their cell (or even opens their unlocked door), everyone will be executed.

On the 40th day at 4pm all the people with black tattoos open their doors and exit their cells, none of those with white tattoos do so.

Having successfully completed the challenge, the dictator releases all the people.

1) How many people had black tattoos
2) How did the people know, and solve the challenge?

 

[AV1611VET]

Which is why you are a H. sapiens!

Nope -- not that kind of evolution.

I believe in limited evolution.

 

[Timothew]

A hole.

You said A hole.

 

[Mystman]

1) How many people had black tattoos
2) How did the people know, and solve the challenge?

If I'm reading it right: Only 1 person had a black tattoo? In his folder he could see that the other 99 people had white tattoos so he felt save going outside?

Seems a bit too simple.. I'm probably missing something

 

[Blayz]

If I'm reading it right: Only 1 person had a black tattoo? In his folder he could see that the other 99 people had white tattoos so he felt save going outside?

Seems a bit too simple.. I'm probably missing something

You are on the right track to solving it but no, the answer is wrong.

This may help: Why did the correct number of black tattooed people wait till day 40?

 

[Nostromo]

Did it take that long for them all to pluck up the courage to scalp themselves and look at their own tattoo?

Edit: Or perhaps they just made video calls on their mobiles and saw the others' tattoos.

 

[Mystman]

You are on the right track to solving it but no, the answer is wrong.

This may help: Why did the correct number of black tattooed people wait till day 40?

Can the prisoners communicate with each other, inside or outside their cell? Can they pass each other (pages) from the folder?

I always find it very hard to think of solutions when I think that I already know a "correct" one. Could you tell why the 1 black tattoo answer is wrong? Or are there multiple solutions?

 

[Blayz]

Can the prisoners communicate with each other, inside or outside their cell? Can they pass each other (pages) from the folder?

No. This is also not a lateral thinking problem, or one for which the answer is based on some kind of trick or play on words.

I always find it very hard to think of solutions when I think that I already know a "correct" one. Could you tell why the 1 black tattoo answer is wrong? Or are there multiple solutions?

There is only one solution. Again, why wait until day 40, or to put it more hint like, I can tell you that the people could not have known the correct answer before day 40.

You started with some good inductive reasoning, continue it.

 

[Mystman]

No. This is also not a lateral thinking problem, or one for which the answer is based on some kind of trick or play on words.



There is only one solution. Again, why wait until day 40, or to put it more hint like, I can tell you that the people could not have known the correct answer before day 40.

You started with some good inductive reasoning, continue it.

I have no idea

 

[plindboe]

You have a hen, a sack of corn, and a fox.

You must get them all three across a lake - one at a time.

If you take the corn, the fox eats hen.
If you take fox, hen eats corn.
If you take hen, fox doesn't eat corn, BUT if you next take fox, he eats hen when you go back for corn. BUT if you next take corn, hen eats corn when you go back for fox.

How do you do it?


I'll give the answer to the first person to respond - that is, if you don't know the answer already.

First you wait for the chicken to lay an egg. Then you throw the egg and yell "fetch!". You can now safely take the corn to the other side while the fox is busy locating the egg, and consuming it. Even if the fox finishes quickly, it will be full from the egg, and therefore won't eat the chicken while you are away. You then take the fox to the other side and then the chicken. Problem solved.

Peter