Todays Puzzel

[BanjomanParticipant @banjoman]

"Uncle", he cried; "'tis stumped I am"!

Either there's a semantic cop-out that I'm missing, or there's a real solution; in either case I am unable to figure out how you could make enough trees count a sufficient number of times to at least with some credibility claim them as different rows.

Anyway, for my part I cannot see the solution

But then again, I think I did use the qualifier "dimwit" to describe meself just the other day …

/Mattias

[BanjomanParticipant @banjoman]

Hang on a second! A five-pointed star configuration would do the trick, wouldn't it?!

Like so:

/Mattias

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Hi Mattias

Yes the star is the answer that I was looking for but these would also have been correct

Off to Haydock now.

Paul

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Here is a new puzzle

All students in the physics class also study mathematics.

Half of those who study literature also study mathematics.

Half of the students in the mathematics class study physics.

Thirty students study literature and twenty study physics.

Nobody who studies literature studies physics.

How many students in the mathematics class study neither physics nor literature?

Have fun

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

If there are 20 physics students who all take mathematics, and half of the mathematics students study physics, there must be 40 students in the mathematics class. If half of the 30 literature students take mathematics, then 15 of them take mathematics. Since none of the literature students study physics, only five students in the mathematics class study neither physics nor literature.

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Here is one for the more philosophical amongst you.

The path to enlightenment lies behind one of two doors.

In front of each door stands a guard who knows which door leads to enlightenment, but one of the guards always lies and the other one always tells the truth.

In your search for enlightenment, you are allowed to ask one guard only one question that can be answered "yes" or "no", but unfortunately, you do not know which guard is the liar.

You will be banished to the dungeon of logical illiteracy if you fail in your quest.

What question should you ask to find the path to enlightenment?

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