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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #25 on: May 28, 2024, 10:00:55 pm »
I play Oxygen Not Included and Factorio for this sort of thing. :D
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #26 on: May 28, 2024, 10:56:28 pm »
I usually do a Sudoku puzzle every day. I can do the Easy and Medium ones usually in a day... The hard ones can take me two days. *Done while on bathroom breaks only.

@ChemEngrMBA ... pertaining last puzzle... I am gonna guess two... The both men who met going to the town... so two.
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #27 on: May 28, 2024, 11:12:04 pm »
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #28 on: May 28, 2024, 11:16:30 pm »
Quote from: ChemEngrMBA on May 28, 2024, 06:00:28 pm
Okay all you thinkers, here is a riddle for you:

A prison was overcrowded and the warden decided to free a prisoner.  But he wanted someone to earn their way out.
So he brought in three prisoners to his office and said, "Behind you is a guard with a duffel bag containing five hats.
Three are black, and two are red.  He will put one on each of your heads at random.You will not be able to see the hat
on your own head but you can see the hats on other prisoners. If you can tell me the color of your hat, I will pardon you
immediately.  But you must not guess.  You agree that if you guess and are wrong, you will be shot immediately.

All agree.

First prisoner:  I can't tell. 
Second prisoner:  I don't know.
Third prisoner who is blind:  I know.

Does he?  Explain.

First prisoner could not have seen two red hats, lest he would know his hat was black.

Second prisoner would then know that either his hat or the third prisoner's hat was black (or both).  If he sees a red hat on the third prisoner, then he knows his hat is black.  Thus, the third prisoner must be wearing a black hat.
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #29 on: May 28, 2024, 11:27:06 pm »
Got one in 3 and the NY one in 4 today... with the wife's help on the last one.
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #30 on: May 29, 2024, 07:08:38 am »
OK. Tried it, got it in 3.
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #31 on: May 29, 2024, 12:49:43 pm »
This and a dollar will get me a cup of coffee at McDonalds.
But I don't drink coffee.

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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #32 on: June 03, 2024, 01:28:54 pm »
Got it in two today.
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #33 on: June 16, 2024, 01:01:12 pm »
Third Wordle solution this month on my second try.

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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #34 on: June 16, 2024, 06:46:05 pm »
Got it in two.

And the St Ives question: one. Everyone else was on the road, presumably going elsewhere.
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #35 on: June 17, 2024, 05:31:30 pm »
Forward to the Future!

And back to the past...
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #36 on: September 19, 2024, 01:44:39 pm »
Millions do Wordle.  Do you?  Why not?  Do you want your mind to deteriorate?

Two threes today. You can't beat luck.
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #37 on: September 20, 2024, 01:36:31 am »


K V O X T Y G V M A U     M V I     A O     H M R Y V E T I     Q M O     T Y     I P I V K E U I     A O
 

L V M E Z.    E U     T F I V I     M Z O Y Z I     I B U I      F I V I     Y Z     T F I     L V E I H E Z G   
 

V Y Y A     Q F Y     B E C I U     T Y     U Y B R I     K V O X T Y G V M A U?






Hint: T = T



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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #38 on: September 20, 2024, 02:59:50 am »
Quote from: AllThatJazzZ on September 20, 2024, 01:36:31 am
K V O X T Y G V M A U     M V I     A O     H M R Y V E T I     Q M O     T Y     I P I V K E U I     A O
L V M E Z.    E U     T F I V I     M Z O Y Z I     I B U I      F I V I     Y Z     T F I     L V E I H E Z G   
V Y Y A     Q F Y     B E C I U     T Y     U Y B R I     K V O X T Y G V M A U?

Hint: T = T

CRYPTOGRAMS ARE MY FAVORITE WAY TO EXERCISE MY BRAIN.
IS THERE ANYONE ELSE HERE AT THE BRIEFING ROOM WHO LIKES TO SOLVE CRYPTOGRAMS?
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #39 on: September 20, 2024, 03:21:49 am »
Before the last race at Pimlico, Lenny got a tip that the race was fixed and that one of these three horses would be the winner:

Greaser at 2:1
Joe Mama at 3:1
Fat Boy at 4:1

Assuming that this tip proves to be true, how much would Lenny have to bet on each of the three horses to win in order to guarantee he would come out $39 ahead?
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #40 on: September 20, 2024, 08:40:16 am »
Quote from: Hoodat on September 20, 2024, 02:59:50 am
CRYPTOGRAMS ARE MY FAVORITE WAY TO EXERCISE MY BRAIN.
IS THERE ANYONE ELSE HERE AT THE BRIEFING ROOM WHO LIKES TO SOLVE CRYPTOGRAMS?


@Hoodat


 :thumbsup:


Nicely done! Does that mean that there's a fellow cryptogram enthusiast here on TBR?
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #41 on: September 20, 2024, 06:14:16 pm »
Quote from: AllThatJazzZ on September 20, 2024, 08:40:16 am

@Hoodat

 :thumbsup:

Nicely done! Does that mean that there's a fellow cryptogram enthusiast here on TBR?

@AllThatJazzZ

I'm not a fanatic, but I do enjoy them.  I remember someone posting one daily on TOS, and I would do those.
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #42 on: September 20, 2024, 07:14:02 pm »
Tennis partners and I got two threes yesterday on Wordle and Wordley.
Incredible!  Any three is amazing and lotsa luck.  Two threes in one day?   Extremely rare.

Back to back threes, yesterday and again today.  We are on a roll - whole wheat.
I did cryptograms daily for years, then cancelled my local paper when it went full Leftist.
Wordle/Wordley have taken the place.


I ask the Good Lord to help me do all I can for others every single day, and this is all I get?
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #43 on: September 26, 2024, 04:32:56 pm »
Persian puzzle

Five thieves stole some coconuts one evening.  But none of them trusted the others so unknowingly, each one got up that night in succession and counted all the coconuts, took one fifth for himself and buried them in a secret location, and had one odd coconut left over which he gave to their pet monkey to eat.

What is the fewest number of coconuts they could have stolen?
[It is not a simple answer.]

Please show us your calculations.

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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #44 on: September 29, 2024, 04:51:18 pm »
NONE of you can answer the riddle.  Well, neither could I.  But I found out the answer is 3,121 coconuts.
Carry out the division by 5 five times and you get one left over every single time.\

Wordley in two today, in thirty seconds.  Wordle took five tries.
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #45 on: November 17, 2024, 07:15:04 pm »
Since I started playing Wordle and later on, Wordley, I have accumulated 219 THREES and 48 TWOS as of today.
Previous entry above was #47 in TWO.  Pure luck. Today's was much easier due to lucky first word, and Wordley showing double letters.

Here is today's WORDLEY:

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« Reply #46 on: November 21, 2024, 06:49:00 pm »
WORDLE in 3 today, and WORDLEY in 3 today.

WORDLE in 2 yesterday, and to my shock, WORDLEY in 2 yesterday

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« Reply #47 on: November 21, 2024, 06:50:43 pm »
TENNIS PARTNERS GAVE FIRST WORDS WHICH WERE SUPERB!
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Re: Your Brain - Use It or Lose It
« Reply #48 on: November 22, 2024, 10:49:08 am »
"QUEUE" is brutal for that word game.
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« Reply #49 on: November 22, 2024, 09:01:12 pm »
Try FLUFF or EERIE
How about PIZZA
That was the word last month

I got 2s on WORDLE and WORDLEY on Wednesday and
3s on both yesterday and another three today.
"So I got that goin' for me." - Caddy in Caddyshack
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