Ark's Perplexing Puzzles

[SheikahWarrior]

Puzzle 023- Statements of Fact? -5PP

A. The number of false statements here is one.

B. The number of false statements here is two.

C. The number of false statements here is three.

D. The number of false statements here is four.


Which of the above statements is true?

There can only be one true one, meaning that there is 3 false ones, meaning that C is correct

EDIT-

Darn, ninja'd >.<

 

[arkvoodle]

I think that it's C, three. Because if any one of the statements are true, all of the others are false. Which means three are false and one is true. And presumably, at least one must be true because in order to choose an answer, you must be picking a true statement.

D contradicts itself by implying that all the statements are false, but if it's true, then not all the statements are false, thus making IT false. A and B imply that more than one statement can be true at one time, which makes no sense because they conflict with each other.

Correct = D! 2 PP for you.

Option "C" is the answer: three statements are false. Since each statement concludes that there is a different number of false statements, that proves that only one statement can be correct (hence the object is to decide which statement is true). Given that one statement is true, by definition, the other three must be false!

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Puzzle 024- The Pilot's Son- 10PP

A man and his son were traveling on a scheduled flight across the Atlantic. The man asked the flight attendant if his son could have a look inside the cockpit. The boy was allowed to do this and the pilot gladly explained about the plane and its controls. After the boy left, the pilot turned to the co-pilot and said to him, "That was my son."

How could that be?

 

[SheikahWarrior]

The pilot was female. It was his mother.

 

[arkvoodle]

The pilot was female. It was his mother.

Correct ^^. You are now on the leader board.

By the way, the puzzles right now are pretty easy, as I am trying to juggle schoolwork and the possible teams thing.

Puzzle 025-Dead in the Field- 5PP

A man is lying dead in a field. Next to him there is an unopened package. There is no other creature in the field. How did he die?

 

[badmuffins]

The person that delivered the package killed him.

 

[TheGreen]

The method of delivery killed him. Be it package canon, or a drop from a plane. The package killed him. It may or may not have been filled with bricks.

 

[arkvoodle]

The method of delivery killed him. Be it package canon, or a drop from a plane. The package killed him. It may or may not have been filled with bricks.

Exactly! 2PP

Puzzle 026- The Girl in the Elevator- 10PP

A girl lives on the tenth floor of a building. Every day she takes the elevator to go down to the ground floor to go to work or to go shopping. When she returns she takes the elevator to the seventh floor and walks up the stairs to reach her apartment on the tenth floor. She hates walking so why does she do it?

 

[ComposerBrother]

Either the girl normally rides the elevator to the 7th floor daily.
Or, she lives between/on the 7th and 10th floors.
Oh, and the man likes the girl.
*gets stabbed for missing the major part*

 

[arkvoodle]

Either the girl normally rides the elevator to the 7th floor daily.
Or, she lives between/on the 7th and 10th floors.
Oh, and the man likes the girl.
*gets stabbed for missing the major part*

Incorrect!

Try thinking of things from the woman's point of view.

 

[ComposerBrother]

Oh! I thought "she" was "he".
Anyway, she's too short to hit the "10th floor button", and she's just tall enough to reach anything that was 7 or below.

 

[Hero of Time]

Puzzle 026- The Girl in the Elevator- 10PP

A girl lives on the tenth floor of a building. Every day she takes the elevator to go down to the ground floor to go to work or to go shopping. When she returns she takes the elevator to the seventh floor and walks up the stairs to reach her apartment
on the tenth floor. She hates walking so why does she do it?

She needs to lose or weight so she walks a little up the stairs for exercise.

 

[arkvoodle]

Oh! I thought "she" was "he".
Anyway, she's too short to hit the "10th floor button", and she's just tall enough to reach anything that was 7 or below.

Correct~ 7PP to you

Puzzle 027- Lights of the Round Table- 30PP

King Arthur is preparing for a meeting of the round table. The seats at the round table are
numbered 1 through n. Each seat has a reading lamp and when Arthur goes into the round table
room he finds that someone has switched off some of the reading lamps. Being a king, Arthur
cannot simply switch on those lights that are currently off. He has to tell somebody else to do
it.
So Arthur has to write down a list of numbers of seats and then get a servant to flip the switch
on each light that is listed. The next meeting is to discuss the banishment of Merlin and the
meeting can only start when all of the lights are turned on. Using a crystal ball Merlin can see
the list of numbers that the king has written and is able to rotate the table before the servant
gets there.
So for example, if n=100 and the king asks for 3,28,97 to be flipped, then if Merlin rotates
the table by 10 places, the servant will in fact flip the switch on lamps that were in positions
93,18,87 and so may flip the switch on a light that is already on. The servant is not allowed to
use common-sense. Disobeying the kings instructions can be hazardous to ones health.

 

[zants follower]

What's the question its self? ._.

 

[athenian200]

The servant now actually needs to be told to flip 13, 38, and 7, in order to get the correct lights. Arthur may need to add 3, 28, and 97 to that list again if the servant flipped them off earlier.

I'm not sure if I answered the right question, though.

 

[arkvoodle]

The servant now actually needs to be told to flip 13, 38, and 7, in order to get the correct lights. Arthur may need to add 3, 28, and 97 to that list again if the servant flipped them off earlier.

I'm not sure if I answered the right question, though.

CORRECT~! And you jump straight to the top of the leaderboard with 60PP ^^

Puzzle 028- Buckets of Water- 30PP

You are in the desert and you have 3 buckets of water containing a,b,c ounces respectively. Here a,b,c are positive integers. You need an empty bucket for an unspecified purpose. Being in the desert you need the water and cannot just pour it away. You have to pour the contents of one bucket into another one. BUT in any pouring, you must double the contents of the bucket which receives the water. For example the sequence of bucket contents could be:

3 2 1
1 4 1
0 4 2

Now show that no matter what a,b,c are, you can always manage to empty a bucket under this constraint.