Brain teaser / puzzle corner (part 2)

What wre we supposed to figure out? how thieves got in?

 

Good job! +142.31 minerals, since that's all I have

 

lol its a riddle i think its spost to be a list of metaphores discribing something and you need to guess what it is,

preaty sure its a mother goose rhyme

 

egg

 

So I looked up that coin puzzle tweak gave and here's the real solution:

LOL yea I knew there was not a definitive percent answer.

 

an egg

 

omg i had say it before you look up

 

whoa now that's one hell of a math. i only took up plane trigonometry. lol.

darn. i hate spywares.

 

Tweak im askin my "good at math friend" maybe he can help me with you chest with locks and 13 guys with keys riddle, thats not against the rules is it?
i think it is combinations
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I think ive got it TWEAK!!!! muaahahahhaa
I used combinations and factorials that i learned this year(which have very few uses apart from this!!)

Locks on the chest =   1716    =   13C7

Keys per guy =   924    =   (1716x7)/13    or  12C6  = 924

i did some mini examples like a chest with only three people ,  the chest had 3 locks and the guys had 2 keys each
and then i upped it to 5 people with a jump up to 10 locks and 6 keys per person.

You know that the majority is 7 so you want to find every COMBINATION of 7 out of 13  and assign the members of that group the key type that corresponds with 1 lock. That way if u have less than 7 in your group, say u have 6 then they are missing the key needed that is held by all 7 who are NOT there. (since each group of 7 has a needed key type) There are 1716 combinations of 7 in 13 thus there are 1716 locks

if there are 1716 locks and each lock has 7 keys, thats 12012 keys total divided by 13 people is 924!!!!!

TADAAAAAAA!!!!!

theres no way ur gonna get me to label 12012 keys!!!

 

gah you are soooooooooo wrong,

ill give you a hint,

(there is less then 100 locks and less then 100 keys)

does that help?

lol 17

 

Worth: 100 Minerals

What is greater than God, More evil than the devil, The poor have it, The rich need it, And if you eat it, you'll die?

If I find out you googled this, I'll eat your children.

 

It is nothing. =D This is a fairly old and well known riddle.

 

Well, damn you.

 

yeah, that was posted somewhere in the middle of part 1.

 

OH yeah, well I have a riddle for all of you: What's in my pocket??


Hah!! I just beat all of you with literature

 

a ring

 

a bannana

 

he is quoting frodo (edit: er bilbo) from the hobbit, and the answer there was a ring,

therefore
the one ring TO RULE THEM ALL!

thats why he mentioned liteature.

 

hey itsmyship
how long's a piece of string?

 

Dude it's definately a bannana... lol.