A little brain teaser....

[flymo]

A little brain teaser for a Friday afternoon. Don't cheat, use your brain. Post your answers but please don't give the solution away or you'll ruin it for the others.

10646

[Jayneflakes]

I have a higher level of education, I went to two universities to study drinking and Sha**in* and I think that the answer is two.

Am I right?

[Bibio]

i'm thick and say 5

[tigersaw]

two

[wyrdness]

I obviously have the brain of a pre-school child.

I'd say that the answer is 2.

[the white rabbit]

As an affirmation of my superior intelligence, I haven't got a fnuckin clue :lol:

[kellyjo]

two

[acting_strange]

As an affirmation of my superior intelligence, I haven't got a fnuckin clue :lol:

I'm with this one:smt082

[acting_strange]

Ok so the answer is actually 2

[joshwalker094]

Two, i seen this on Facebook the other week or the org I can't remember, its easy :)

[Bibio]

well i'm off to the back of the class with all the cool kids.

[kellyjo]

Well I got the answer off someone else. I was looking for something far too difficult. Left to my own devices i'd have still been sitting here sunday trying to work it out.

[Bibio]

Well I got the answer off someone else. I was looking for something far too difficult. Left to my own devices i'd have still been sitting here sunday trying to work it out.

that's cheating so detention for you. now go and stand in the naughty corner.

[andrewsmith]

As an affirmation of my superior intelligence, I haven't got a fnuckin clue :lol:

And that makes me 3

[Fallout]

Arghhh, that got right on my titties!! ;D I had to cheat. I spend all day working with numbers. I can't look at them like pre-schoolers do!

[allantheboss]

5.8·10^73

Obviously a false equation, both sides aren't equal in any case. This means we have infinite amount of possibilities. If you use the polynomial of N points corresponding to the trend where f(xi) = yi and (i E N..-1), a graph plot gives a value at x=2581 of 5.8x10^73

..I believe

[allantheboss]

Or two... whichever... hahaha

[wyrdness]

5.8·10^73

Obviously a false equation, both sides aren't equal in any case. This means we have infinite amount of possibilities. If you use the polynomial of N points corresponding to the trend where f(xi) = yi and (i E N..-1), a graph plot gives a value at x=2581 of 5.8x10^73

..I believe

That's exactly what my pre-schooler said too.

[Bibio]

mine usually said 'get out the class your annoying everyone'. i also had a chair outside the heads office with my name carved on it :-)

[Jayneflakes]

Being a complete child, it took me two minutes, however when I showed it to the wife, she was baffled until I explained it. It is much easier when you stop working in base ten!

:D

[flymo]

just needs a little lateral thinking

[Bibio]

i actually come to the correct answer in my head straight off but being a numpty with dyslexia my brain decided NO it can't be that simple so i went about looking for another answer and convinced myself that it was correct.

does anyone else on here have wars going on in their brain like to people arguing when you try and figure something out?

[Bibio]

ooohhh and if anyone is interested in arithmetic heave a read of this

http://www.jimloy.com/arith/trachten.htm

i had the book once and it's so feckin simple.

[DaveRushton]

I dont have a clue, someone pm me how they did it? Doing my head in!

[DaveRushton]

Just realised lol....simple or what!

[flymo]

Just realised lol....simple or what!

ha ha, well done.

[Bluefish]

As an affirmation of my superior intelligence, I haven't got a fnuckin clue :lol:
I'm with you :rolleyes: Don't see a pattern.

[MisterTommyH]

Well that took a fooking age to get. Reminds me of Keith Lemons favorite board game.

[Teejayexc]

FFS !

After reams of A4 thrown, nay hurled to a quickly growing mountain in the corner of my office the light finally dawned.

Where do I sign up for play school :-(

[appollo1]

haven't got a clue!!


no doubt when someone explains it to me i will feel really stupid!

[flymo]

haven't got a clue!!


no doubt when someone explains it to me i will feel really stupid!

put yourself in the mind of a six year old and limit your thinking to what they might know (or more importantly what they wouldn't know). It's your knowledge that clouds how you look at it.

[Mrs DJ Fridge]

The answer is 2, so simple, just like me, DJ is tearing his hair out (or would be if he had any)

[DJFridge]

Aha, just tumbled it. That was evil, my brain is really hurting now from trying to work it out when I just needed to switch my brain off completely and look at the patterns, not the pattern.

[Bri w]

Well, that's 15 mins of my life wasted and I'm still none the wiser.

But I have disproved the "intelligent people struggle thing - thicko's struggle too.

[andrewsmith]

Well, that's 15 mins of my life wasted and I'm still none the wiser.

But I have disproved the "intelligent people struggle thing - thicko's struggle too.

Bri go to Reeder thread

[Bri w]

Bri go to Reeder thread

Thanks Smiffy!

I now feel fulfilled...:D

[Richie]

Mother F word... that took some doing... think I got it. is it 2?
if I'm correct does 6890 = 5 ???

[BanannaMan]

Not a clue.
Had to cheat. Even then it took me a minute.
Way over thinking but probably due to my absolute hate of fricking math. :smt019

[flymo]

Mother F word... that took some doing... think I got it. is it 2?
if I'm correct does 6890 = 5 ???

yep, you've cracked it

[the white rabbit]

I see now. Cunning. Well done pre-schooler Richie :smt019 :smt039

[SuzukiNess]

<--- joins bibio at the back of the class ...

[cluffy]

Im not getting this, suppose that means im really intelligent then? ... I dont think so :)

[Geodude]

Ahh how clever the solution is staring you in the face :)

[Milky Bar Kid]

Can we get the answer to solving it yet?

[Geodude]

Cant spoilt it for others mbk, but dont think numbers ;)

[Richie]

took me 2 bloody hours yesterday and a few quaffs of Whiskey too :)

[Bibio]

as i said i 'seen' it straight away but them logic took over as the answer was just to simple and staring me in the face.

[Fruity-ya-ya]

Just worked this out with the aid of a hangover :cheers:
'Although I needed a black coffee first' = 14

[Owenski]

had to be told the answer... wouldnt have got it in a million years.

[Berlin]

about 20 minutes it took but I did have the clue from here not to think in base 10 which made it very easy :-)

C

[Teejayexc]

about 20 minutes it took but I did have the clue from here not to think in base 10 which made it very easy :-)

C

No it fecking didn't!

That sent me off on a totally different, and wrong, tangent.

[Berlin]

:smt082

[Richie]

Agreed with TJ, I was thinking Hex and binary.... not the ***** of the number.

[flymo]

:-)

[phi-dan]

I've just had it explained to me by my 5yr old. So much for my BSc then...

[andrewsmith]

It took me 3 hours and a few bottles of beer to crack it

[flymo]

ok then.... check out the number of circle shapes in each number.

[tigersaw]

oooooooooooo. Thats not how I worked it out, but yea, easy peasy.

[Jayneflakes]

ok then.... check out the number of circle shapes in each number.

I liked that one, thanks for sharing. Go and give the impossible quiz a go, that is damn annoying! :-D

[Milky Bar Kid]

Oh yeah!!! I was looking for something faaar too complex...

[Bluefish]

that's just stupid

[Amadeus]

There are 2 solutions (providing the same result), one already cited, anther using substitution.
I do like puzzles.

[timwilky]

oooooooooooo. Thats not how I worked it out, but yea, easy peasy.

No that would be 12.

Damm once I got it 2. The clue is in the pattern, not the number values.

Damm got to the second page and realised the method had been revealed

[Mikey10]

baffled me so much just cheated but once i knew its seemed so obvious look at it like a child would then the mathematics of the problem as easy to see so no matter if the numbers were in a different random order i would /should be able to figure it very quickly. :study: