On December 26, 2023 at 1:06PM EST Hyperion wrote:
I dont think I could ever have made the common denominator link on my own. Frustrated with myself on this one.
On February 5, 2023 at 1:08PM EST atancr02 wrote:
While my computer science background helped me with 8-Bit Classic, it hurt me on this one.
I got caught up with the OR and NOT and was thinking about binary logic rather than probability. I should have focused on the "What are the odds" and the fact that marbles in a bag is the most common probability example when thought in school
On January 10, 2023 at 12:19PM EST Just-A wrote:
This was incredibly frustrating in the sense that the "lead-in text" really hammered home both "Chinese" and "astrophysics" and I was therefore confident the puzzle had something to do with the Chinese zodiac. I spent far too long attempting to decipher the marbles into years and assign corresponding marble colors to their respective animal counterpart before finally giving up, looking at the first hint, sighing in frustration at the simplicity of what could otherwise have been an interesting thematic puzzle, and quickly "solving" the calculations and letter assignments.
On January 3, 2023 at 5:48PM EST Watchoverya wrote:
The odds and common denominator came pretty smoothly but now what?
On June 30, 2022 at 9:16PM EST hotshelbs wrote:
Very EZ puzzle. well done.
On December 29, 2021 at 8:07PM EST TucanaStar wrote:
Should have been and instead of or
On December 29, 2021 at 3:36PM EST theoremsolver responded to Onecheck:
same and i read the narrative carefully and i thought it was gonna be in another language and i thought there were 2 separate possible letters for the “or” ones so i got “bhackswab/j” and i kept putting variations into google translate and was so confused
On January 4, 2021 at 1:01PM EST Onecheck wrote:
The use of or instead of and threw me off
On July 28, 2021 at 8:40PM EST Dre responded to Onecheck:
Using “and” would change the probability and then the corresponding letter would be wrong
On January 4, 2021 at 1:01PM EST Onecheck wrote:
The use of or instead of and threw me off
On January 17, 2021 at 12:13PM EST ukla wrote:
Whew! That took some thinking. Sure sped things up after I looked at the first hint, though.
On January 4, 2021 at 1:01PM EST Onecheck wrote:
The use of or instead of and threw me off
On December 31, 2020 at 9:02AM EST quiinc wrote:
This was the first of the theorems where I thought the narrative was a complete misdirection. I was thinking, based on the narrative, that the solution involved removing the subtracted marble in a progression down through each marble set. For example, the black marble would disappear from all of the rest of the sets because it gets subtracted in the first. And where you had "either or" choices, you created two possible paths. Ultimately, I figured I'd be left with some set of marbles that would reveal the answer. That would have fit the narrative. I wasn't even close. As soon as I read the beginning of the first hint, I understood that solving the puzzle had absolutely nothing to do with the narrative.
On January 17, 2020 at 12:25AM EST Richelieu responded to echidnasunrise:
Certes, or you could say 7/13, and therefore 14/26.
On December 22, 2019 at 9:05PM EST echidnasunrise wrote:
Final set of balls is 21/39....
On December 31, 2019 at 11:23AM EST ReverendTed wrote:
This one annoys. The clue I missed was that the number on the marble is a count for how many marbles in the set. I grumble at thee, M!
On December 22, 2019 at 9:05PM EST echidnasunrise wrote:
Final set of balls is 21/39....
