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Title: Testing the grey matter
Post by: Ian on July 23, 2019, 09:39:01 AM
 A bat and a ball cost £1.10 in total. The bat costs £1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?

Answer tomorrow....if I remember 🙄☹️
Title: Re: Testing the grey matter
Post by: iansoady on July 23, 2019, 12:35:31 PM
5p.
Title: Re: Testing the grey matter
Post by: Oldtimer on July 23, 2019, 11:05:59 PM
5p.
Correct
Title: Re: Testing the grey matter
Post by: Smithy on July 24, 2019, 07:30:08 PM
5p.

Spoilsport I wanted to seem clever by solving that!

Ian
Title: Re: Testing the grey matter
Post by: Ian on July 24, 2019, 08:45:54 PM
 Consider a certain amount of grey matter truly tested.......
Or was it?
Title: Re: Testing the grey matter
Post by: CrazyFrog on July 25, 2019, 05:18:22 AM
I thought the answer was 42  :(  ;)
Title: Re: Testing the grey matter
Post by: Moto63 on July 25, 2019, 07:27:57 AM
Well if it makes you all feel really clever, I'm still trying to work it out. Run out of fingers though 😉😉
Title: Re: Testing the grey matter
Post by: timbo on July 25, 2019, 10:27:55 AM
Me neither. This is doing my head in!  ???
Title: Re: Testing the grey matter
Post by: iansoady on July 25, 2019, 10:44:08 AM
The "automatic" reply is 10p. But that is 10p more than the bat......

I think I have seen it before somewhere so probably have an advantage.

As we're on games, most will have seen this but it's interesting nevertheless:


Title: Re: Testing the grey matter
Post by: Ian on July 26, 2019, 07:22:38 AM
I got the number of passes correct but I didn't notice the gorilla.....bugga. I'm too selective 🙄🧐
Title: Re: Testing the grey matter
Post by: iansoady on July 26, 2019, 08:43:57 AM
You're not supposed to mention that......
Title: Re: Testing the grey matter
Post by: SteveC#222 on July 26, 2019, 03:26:02 PM
Ok, now the grey matter is well and truly flexed another to try ......though you may have heard this one before..... :-\ :-\



"You’re in a room with two doors. There’s a guard at each door. One door is the exit, but behind the other door is something that will kill you. You’re told that one guard always tells the truth and the other guard always lies. You don’t know which guard is which. You are allowed to ask one question to either of the guards to determine which door is the exit.

What question should you ask?"
Title: Re: Testing the grey matter
Post by: Smithy on July 26, 2019, 03:55:32 PM
Is the question

"Why can I never remember the question even though I've heard this one before?"

Ian
Title: Re: Testing the grey matter
Post by: themoudie on July 26, 2019, 04:22:53 PM
I'm no wired for this stuff!  :-[

CSE Maths Grade1, O level Maths Fail!  :-X

Bl00dy algebra!

Regards, Bill
Title: Re: Testing the grey matter
Post by: Propellor on July 26, 2019, 10:48:07 PM
Ok, now the grey matter is well and truly flexed another to try ......though you may have heard this one before..... :-\ :-\



"You’re in a room with two doors. There’s a guard at each door. One door is the exit, but behind the other door is something that will kill you. You’re told that one guard always tells the truth and the other guard always lies. You don’t know which guard is which. You are allowed to ask one question to either of the guards to determine which door is the exit.

What question should you ask?"


You ask the guard which door will kill me.
Title: Re: Testing the grey matter
Post by: Moto63 on July 27, 2019, 07:15:50 AM
There's always one smart alec'y kid in the classroom isn't  there 😉😉
Title: Re: Testing the grey matter: spoiler alert!
Post by: iansoady on July 27, 2019, 08:53:08 AM
You ask one guard which the other one would tell you would kill you. If you ask the one who tells the truth, he will be told that the safe door is the killer and will tell you that. If you ask the one who lies, he will be told that it's the one that kills so will tell you that it's the safe one. So you choose the one you're told will kill you.
Title: Re: Testing the grey matter
Post by: Moto63 on July 27, 2019, 10:49:55 AM
Ok... in this case there's clearly two smart Alec'y kids in the class 😁😁😉
Title: Re: Testing the grey matter
Post by: Moto63 on July 27, 2019, 05:13:24 PM
SO.... there's an English cat, called one two three four  and a French cat called un deux trois quatre ...They have a swimming race across a river... they English cat wins. WHY??
Title: Re: Testing the grey matter
Post by: CrazyFrog on July 27, 2019, 08:17:33 PM
SO.... there's an English cat, called one two three four  and a French cat called un deux trois quatre ...They have a swimming race across a river... they English cat wins. WHY??

'cos the French cat can't swim?  :o
Title: Re: Testing the grey matter
Post by: Smithy on July 28, 2019, 04:42:49 AM
Because Un Deux Trois Quatre cinque. Under trois cat sank. Hey I might have one right!

Ian
Title: Re: Testing the grey matter
Post by: CrazyFrog on July 28, 2019, 06:47:22 AM
Because Un Deux Trois Quatre cinque. Under trois cat sank. Hey I might have one right!

Ian

Show off!  >:( :o ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Testing the grey matter: spoiler alert!
Post by: SteveC#222 on July 28, 2019, 08:04:33 AM
You ask one guard which the other one would tell you would kill you. If you ask the one who tells the truth, he will be told that the safe door is the killer and will tell you that. If you ask the one who lies, he will be told that it's the one that kills so will tell you that it's the safe one. So you choose the one you're told will kill you.

That's basically it.

You ask either guard which door the other guard would tell you is safe -
If you ask the lying guard he will know the other guard will tell the truth so he will tell you a lie.
If you ask the truth guard he will know the other guard will tell a lie so to tell you the truth he will also tell you the lie.

So whatever you are told by either guard is a lie so pick the other door!
Title: Re: Testing the grey matter
Post by: Moto63 on July 28, 2019, 10:34:45 AM
Sorry Pete, not correct on this occasion. However, Ian you can hold your head high. Correctamundo.
I got it off my 12year old boy the other day so thought it shud fit in nicely on the "test the grey matter" thread 🤣😉🤘
Title: Re: Testing the grey matter
Post by: Ian on July 28, 2019, 10:45:04 AM
This is going beyond what i had expected...there arent half some smart ar$es alecs on here!