Archive for 'Mind Bender Solutions'
You May be a Doubter ... But I say: "Yes, we can!"
Posted on 23. Feb, 2009 by Chris Lang.
The Weekend Financial Review ran several articles, which seemed to echo many of the sentiments contained in my last blog about the Capital City Markets — but perhaps putting things a little more bluntly. Brisbane Mark Ludlow (on page 2) referred to Queensland as having moved from "boom state to gloom state" — because of [...]
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Mind Bender # 15 : Solution
Posted on 12. Jun, 2008 by Chris Lang.
The challenge in the last Mind Bender was to calculate the value of "X" in the following equation ... This time, there were a number of people who came up with the correct answer: Ron Drewitz, Daniel Hayden, Dominic Gatling, John Murphy, Margaret, Elka Melman, Tracey Bryan, Matt, Geoff and Vince Psaradakis. So, well done [...]
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Mind Bender # 14 : Solution
Posted on 30. Apr, 2008 by Chris Lang.
Well, this Mind Bender stumped all but one person — Daniel Hayden. So, well done! Remember ... you had to balance 12 nails on top of a single nail, hammered into a block of wood.
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Mind Bender # 13 : Solution
Posted on 22. Dec, 2007 by Chris Lang.
Most people managed to get it right ... well, nearly. A few of you thought it might be a pen — but the minute or two "recovery time" refers to a quick sharpening of a Pencil, after the fall. Whereas a pen (or Biro) may actually fail to work again. Anyway, it was good to [...]
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Mind Bender # 12: Solution
Posted on 12. Dec, 2007 by Chris Lang.
My apologies for not providing you with the solution before now. However, the past few weeks have been rather hectic. You needed to sit back and think on this Mind Bender.
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Mind Bender # 11: Solution
Posted on 05. Nov, 2007 by Chris Lang.
This time, there were a number of people able to "engineer" a 9-minute period for this Hourglass problem. However, only a few of you managed to capture the spirit of finding the most elegant solution. Well done! Start by turning both hourglasses over together.
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Mind Bender # 10 : Solution
Posted on 01. Oct, 2007 by Chris Lang.
Last month only two people managed to come up with the correct solution, as well as the reason why. Therefore, I held back their postings until now. The answer is that you should certainly take the odds of 30:1 on offer — because your chances of winning the wager are considerably better than that. Anyway, [...]
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Mind Bender # 9 : The Solution
Posted on 27. Aug, 2007 by Chris Lang.
As you could see from the various responses posted for this Mind Bender ... there is clearly more than one way to share the Wine Barrels between the three brothers. However, the challenge this time was to come up with the solution that was the most elegant in its simplicity.
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Mind Bender # 8 : The Solution
Posted on 01. Aug, 2007 by Chris Lang.
The responses to this month's Mind Bender were really quite interesting. And some of them stemmed from making an assumption based upon social bias.
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Mind Bender # 7 : The Solution
Posted on 22. Jun, 2007 by Chris Lang.
It's not quite the end of the month, but those of you wanting to put forward a solution seem to have done so by now. And I deliberately held off posting your proposed answers — so that everyone could submit without any distraction. But all your answers are up there now. In posing the Mind [...]
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Mind Bender # 6 : Solution
Posted on 01. Jun, 2007 by Chris Lang.
The idea of introducing these monthly challenges was to help you to stretch your thinking. But sadly, some people are simply using Google to discover the solutions. This month, the challenge was to come up with the common words that contained five consecutive Vowels and Consonants. The emphasis being on "consecutive" and "common" ...
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