A few riddles on request...

[Jumping Jo Flash]

Originally posted by Damaso

It really wasn't that hard to get ya know!
How 'bout these:

1) When you give me away you must remember to keep me.

2) I get wet when I'm drying.

Oh yeah, elephants aren't scared of rats or mice! It's just an urban legend, probably started by some cartoon.

2) is a towel,

and 1 i have no idea!

[octothorp]

Originally posted by flipshark

3) You have 3 piles of pennies in 8 rows. They add up to 9 each way, across and down. It's a square with nothing in the middle. You get 4 more pennies. Total of 28 pennies. Arrange the pennies in 8 rows to equal 9 every way that you can add them. You can take pennies away from a pile or add to the piles and the number of pennies in each pile do not have to be the same. For example you can have a pile of 2,and a pile of 3, and so forth. But they have to add up to 9, across, down and vertically if needed. They can be put in any shape. It does not have to be a square. You have to use all 28 pennies.

So for this one, can you build a square as follows?

2-6-1
6___6
1-6-2

Or does it have to add up across the middle axis (the rows that currently add up to 12)?

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ps. I should note that my best understanding of the starting setup is:
3-3-3
3___3
3-3-3
[Edited by octothorp on 07-09-2002 at 03:42 PM]

[MasterShin]

Originally posted by octothorp
So for this one, can you build a square as follows?

2-6-1
6___6
1-6-2

That isn't good, cause it has more than 28 pennies...

I now got the idea of the problem... Thanks

[MasterShin]

Is this legal:
18
__18
____18
______1

If you draw it on a math paper, you see there is no line between the eights or the ones - just 1+8 everywhere...
And it is 28 pennies...

[MasterShin]

A made a program which goes over all the sorting opions of 0-9 in 10 positions and found these answers to the riddle:
(Apple+Lemon+Pear+Banana=Orange)

A B E G L M N O P R
7 0 5 6 2 3 4 1 8 9
8 5 4 9 3 6 0 7 1 2
8 5 6 9 1 3 2 7 4 0

[flipshark]

Originally posted by MasterShin
A made a program which goes over all the sorting opions of 0-9 in 10 positions and found these answers to the riddle:
(Apple+Lemon+Pear+Banana=Orange)

A B E G L M N O P R
7 0 5 6 2 3 4 1 8 9
8 5 4 9 3 6 0 7 1 2
8 5 6 9 1 3 2 7 4 0

congratulations!