[March Madness] A Battle of Wits (Finished)
March Madness has run half its course, and it is far from over. Do you have the brains to match your fighting skill and artistic talent? Outsmart your opponents, and carry your team to victory!
There are two tasks you must accomplish:
First, you must create a riddle, logic puzzle, lateral thinking problem, or any other type of brainteaser. PM both the problem and the answer to me. After the deadline has passed for the first part of the event, problems will be made available here.
Once the problems are made public, you may attempt to answer any of them, except those submitted by members of your own team.
· You may now attempt to solve any problem which was not submitted by a member of your own team.
Each winner for the following criteria will receive an item corresponding to the team that they have chosen:
· Most problems solved
· Most creative solution to a problem
· Best presentation of a problem
· Submitting the most intricate problem
Points will be awarded to teams for each individual problem solved depending on its difficulty, and the amount of time that it remained unsolved.
Both the submission and answering processes will be judged by representatives from each team.
Solutions must be submitted by midnight, March 31st (according to UTC/GMT).
Problems:
Originally Posted by 1
You are walking down at the side of the road, on a nice warm day, of 28degrees Centigrade, at approximately 5pm when suddenly 3 large, angry looking Tori's grab you an pull you into the back of a 2.75Tonne(metric) pure colored truck and slam the doors shut.. you roll about the truck as it moves off, and curse your luck, it was far to dark to recognize any of their head textures, and you didn't even hear a familiar kiai sound. You hear a feint hissing sound and start to feel very very sleepy..........
...You wake to find yourself locked into air temperature controlled (tolerance of +-0.05/0.333seconds degrees Centigrade) square room with dimensions of 6m x 6m x2 high. The temperature outside is 21.7C, and falling at a rate of 1.7C per hour and will continue to do so until 7am
The walls are made from polished wood panels, set on one side of the room, just off center is 1.8m x 0.9m steel door with a large socket where the handle should be. Set on the opposite wall is a large digital clock displaying the time in minutes an hours, it reads 23.45 it also displays the temperature it reads 22.2. The ceiling is a grid of 6 equally sized panels, half of them, in a diagonal pattern with no two tiles sharing a facing side, are large heat lamps, each with a large mercury vapor lamp. Each lamp will produce 3000 joules of heat over a 2cubic M area per hour. The other tiles are shower heads, running with a gentle stream of water from the center of the tile, the water is 2degrees C, an flowing at 30Litres per minute. The floor is single large drain grate, made from thick stainless steal.
Q1 - what will the Temp display read after 15minutes
Q2 - what will the Temp display read after 30minutes
Q3 - what will the Temp display read after 1 hour
Originally Posted by 2
You have to draw/connect ONE STRAIGHT line to turn the following false equation into a true one. 5 + 5 + 5 = 550. You may not cross out the equal sign to make a "does not equal" sign.
Originally Posted by 3
Without me there is no ring
Without me, A Cithara can't sing
Keys pressed on our modern effects
Would be useless without my assets
What am I?
Originally Posted by 4
Two siblings
Who live next to each other,
That can never see each other.
What are they?
Originally Posted by 5
What can run but never walk, what has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, what has a bed but never sleeps?
Originally Posted by 6
I am your friend when you're lonely,
but a burden when you're not.
I give you pleasure and excitement,
and yet discomfort and loneliness.
Who am I?
Originally Posted by 7
There's a loop and the two corners at the bottom are cut off. The inside corners of the loop have this kind of puffy, cottony little pad. The whole loop is used for some electric entertainment, and it is spray painted as a color, what am I?
Originally Posted by 8
What can be painful but also soft?
Originally Posted by 9
Five old storytellers, now since forgotten,
Long ago deceased from our world.
Each of them have different date of death,
different coffin, different gravestone,
they are buried next to each other,
and they were known for their titles
My question is, when were Jack visited by Death?
1. The one who died in 1965 rests in a maple coffin.
2. Jason died in 1968.
3. The one who died in 1980 have gravestone shaped as cross.
4. The willow coffin is next to, and on the left of the mahogany coffin.
5. The one who have been buried in willow coffin have wooden gravestone.
6. David were known for being "good".
7. The one that rests in stone coffin were known as "liar".
8. The one buried in middle have plain gravestone.
9. The one who died in 1974 rests in first grave
10. One known as "honest" rests next to John.
11. Noah rests next to person known as "liar".
12. The one known as "wisest" have no gravestone.
13. The one who died in 1982 were known as "evil"
14. The one who died in 1974 rests next to one buried in oak coffin.
15. The one known as "honest" rests next to one with angel gravestone.
Originally Posted by 10
You are standing in front of two doors, one leading to heaven and the other to hell, but you do not know which is which. Beside you are two angels, and every angel can either tell the truth all the times or always lie. Every angel knows where each door leads to, and every angel knows the others character. You may ask just one of the angels a single question, in order to find out what door you should take, your goal is to find the door that leads to heaven. What will the question be?
Originally Posted by 11
Guided only by words and numbers. I have became the meeting place of both the brightest minds and darkest hearts. I hold knowledge of all things that you know and more. Yet I would die if not given the great power that I both share and keep for you. I am younger that most of the world, yet more well known than any pop icon or historical figure. I am very real, yet immaterial.
What am I?
Last edited by Wight; Mar 28, 2014 at 01:38 AM.