Showing posts with label puzzle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label puzzle. Show all posts
Monday, December 7, 2009
Bumper Dumper
I am confused about why the bumper dumper costs $69.95 when it doesn't provide any more privacy than you would get from just squatting behind your car, and meanwhile afterwards the bumper dumper leaves you with the unpleasant task of disposing of a bag full of your own waste - is it the toilet aesthetic that people are paying for?
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Columbus etc
Hey Columbus people,
I'll be in town from Thursday around 10pm till Friday morning.
Wanna hang out?
Also, I'll take this time to describe what the hell this blog is. Its a place where stupid and not stupid shit can hang out...and do whatever. Post book/movie/recipe/life recommendations, things from the internet that are enlightening..or exactly the opposite. Post things like if you're going to be in Columbus, or Pittsburgh or something...or if something happened in your life that you want all of us to know about.
I'll also pose a puzzle here for you all (yinz since I'm in Pittsburgh) to ponder:
So a jailer puts ten prisoners in a line so that each prisoner can only see the prisoners in front of him. He also gives each of the prisoners either a white or black hat (you dont know anything about how many of each color hats there are). So prisoner 10 can see the hat colors of prisoners 1-9 ahead of him, but not his own hat. Prisoner 9 can see the hats of 1-8, but not his own or prisoner 10's. The game is... starting with prisoner 10 and moving up to prisoner 1, each prisoner has to guess the color of his own hat. If he gets it right, he lives and if he gets it wrong he dies. The guesses are said out loud and all the prisoners can hear each guess. The prisoners are allowed to determine a strategy before hand (and the jailer is even allowed to know their strategy). What strategy should the prisoners adopt to minimize the number of people who die.
It's not a riddle, meaning its not something stupid like "the jailer is a prisoner so he knows and can tell them" or anything else that makes it trivial. I heard this yesterday and it took me a while to get.
Alright...blog on.
I'll be in town from Thursday around 10pm till Friday morning.
Wanna hang out?
Also, I'll take this time to describe what the hell this blog is. Its a place where stupid and not stupid shit can hang out...and do whatever. Post book/movie/recipe/life recommendations, things from the internet that are enlightening..or exactly the opposite. Post things like if you're going to be in Columbus, or Pittsburgh or something...or if something happened in your life that you want all of us to know about.
I'll also pose a puzzle here for you all (yinz since I'm in Pittsburgh) to ponder:
So a jailer puts ten prisoners in a line so that each prisoner can only see the prisoners in front of him. He also gives each of the prisoners either a white or black hat (you dont know anything about how many of each color hats there are). So prisoner 10 can see the hat colors of prisoners 1-9 ahead of him, but not his own hat. Prisoner 9 can see the hats of 1-8, but not his own or prisoner 10's. The game is... starting with prisoner 10 and moving up to prisoner 1, each prisoner has to guess the color of his own hat. If he gets it right, he lives and if he gets it wrong he dies. The guesses are said out loud and all the prisoners can hear each guess. The prisoners are allowed to determine a strategy before hand (and the jailer is even allowed to know their strategy). What strategy should the prisoners adopt to minimize the number of people who die.
It's not a riddle, meaning its not something stupid like "the jailer is a prisoner so he knows and can tell them" or anything else that makes it trivial. I heard this yesterday and it took me a while to get.
Alright...blog on.
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