Brain-teasers~

[Alice]

Happy new year everybody~! (Or whoever comes to cbox anymore xDDDD)

How about some puzzles? :D

1. There are 10 siblings. Let's say me, Alice, is the 8th child. The oldest daughter is the second son's younger sister and the third son's older sister. The fourth son is the second daughter's older brother and the oldest daughter's little brother. There are no boys in between the third and fourth daughters. Got all that? Ok then, tell me, is the third-youngest child a boy or a girl?


2. Here's one for math lovers. So, I went to this store and bought this really cool fountain pen. I got it for 10% off the original price of $3,000. I brought the pen over to the cbox and showed it too Boot, who absolutely fell in love with it too. She offered to pay me 10% more than what I had payed for the pen. I love money, so I agreed to her offer. Did I make a profit? If so, how much money did I make?


3. There's a small city out in the country. Sadly, accidents and crime in the city have sky-rocketed in recent years, but the authorities noticed that there's one place in town that has a higher injury and death rate than the other parts of town. Which is it? The monument, the fire station, the park, the police station, the crossroads, the church, the cemetery, the hospital, or the school?


4. UGH, I am SO frustrated! I have these power lines outside my house, and the birds have taken to flying up and sitting on the wires. It's really annoying! Each time I clap my hands, half of the birds will get frightened and fly away, but one bird will always come back! I've been standing outside on my lawn clapping my hands all day, but the number of birds always ends up right back where it started! So, how many birds were on the power lines to start with?



5. I went to London for vacation and took a ride on a double-decker bus while I was there. The tour guide on the upper level told me that, including myself, there were 25 tourists in the lower level and 40% as many tourists in the upper level. How many people total were on the bus?



6. I'm furious! Somebody ate my piece of chocolate cake, and I was saving it for later! WHICH ONE OF YOU COMMITTED THIS AWFUL CRIME?!?!

You all responded in this order:

Lacey: I didn't eat it!
Rice: Neither Lacey or Shoe ate it.
Boot: I didn't eat it either!
Shoe: Boot is telling the truth.

Somebody isn't telling the truth, and that person is the cake-gobbler. So, who ate the cake?




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That's it for now! I wanna see if anyone can get them. xD (Boot probably knows all of them)

If you guys like them, I'll post more! They're fun!

[Lacey]

So... My brain just about DIED because of the first one... >.> But I can take a good guess at the last one.

I think I ate the cake. Because today in gym my coach was yelling at us for not counting during excersizes and everyone yelled that they were. She talked about how if you answer quick like that it's something like the profession of guilt. That and I like cake.

[Alice]

Oh my gosh, thank you so much for actually replying to this, I didn't think anyone would. xDDDDDDDDD

And nope, it wasn't you. You're innocent. ^.^

I'll be glad to give out hints.

And the first one isn't that hard. Just think about the third youngest child. Where is he/she in position to all of the other siblings?

[Lacey]

Okay, so the other ones are too logical so I'll just do math. Because math rocks. So, 10% of $3,000 is $300 dollars. So if you got 10% off then you would have gotten the pen for $2,700. But if Boot paid you 10% of $2,700 dollars, she would've paid you $270 dollars more. So you WOULD'VE made a profit because she would've given you $2,970 and you only paid $2,700.

And I really shouldn't have done all of that because I could've just divided $2,700 by 10 and realized that you would've made a profit because it said Boot paid you MORE than what you paid for the pen. But whatever.

And I'll die if that isn't right. >.>

[Alice]

That's right. xDDDD Good job you math whiz~ I got it wrong on my first try.

[Leila (Shoe)]

Pretty obviously, Rice ate the cake.
I didn't read the other ones yet.

[Abby]

the cake one:

it can't be rice..because if it was, she'd be telling the truth..saying it wasn't lacey or shoe. and it says that the person who's telling a lie is the guilty one. -scratches head- it can't be shoe because if she was lying, boot would have eaten it with her. it can't be lacey, because if it was.. rice would be lying. it can't be boot because if it was, shoe would be lying. i am going to be in a corner in fetal position now xD

[Lacey]

The answer to the bird riddle is two. It's weird, but I think it's the right answer. Half of the birds leave, but one comes back. But if the number always returns back to the original, I'm kind of guessing that the one bird that goes to the wires again is half of a couple. Two birds to start with, one leaves and returns which makes it two again.

So yeah. Two birds.

And I'm going to guess on the bus one also. So, I did this cross multiplication thing and did x/40 and 25/100 and got 40 times 25 which equals 1000 and I divided that by 100. So 10 is 40% of 25. So that's thirty-five. BUT you've only accounted for the passengers including yourself. You haven't accounted for the guide that told you or the driver.

Thirty-seven people rode the bus.

[Alice]

Well, hello there you fine individuals!

You guys are totally over-thinking the cake one. ;D Well, maybe you aren't... Uhm, think of the one person that has nobody elses claims to back them up. Who's the only person standing alone on their statement?

For the double-decker one, your math just made my brain explode, Lacey. xDDD Just remember this; there's a tour-guide on the bus too. And, what else does a bus need to operate? Think about that. xD

The bird one is correct! Huzzah! ^.^

Oh, and if you guys really like these puzzles, and if you have a DS, I highly reccomend getting the Professor Layton games. They're puzzle games, and these puzzles all came from them. But I altered them a little. Muahahaha. So, yeah! xD

[Leila (Shoe)]

Oh maybe I ate the cake?
The thing is no one ever denies Rice of eating the cake.

[Leila (Shoe)]

Maybe Alice ate the cake.
Because she never talked. xD

[Alice]

DING DING DING. I ate the cake. ^.^ I was lying all along. I accused you all of eating my cake, and you all weren'y lying. I was. I had nobody else to back up my claim. MUAHAHAHAH.

[Boot]

Is it okay if I put a puzzle too? :'D This one was one of my favorites from Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box xD It was kind of hard for me though.


Five cows are grazing at the festival. Two of them are Troomoo cows, a breed that only tells the truth. The other three are Nowhey cows, a different variety that always lies. Using the following statements from each cow, find all the Nowhey cows.

A: D is a Nowhey, I promise.
B: Oh no, C isn't a Troomoo cow.
C: A ain't a Nowhey cow. No way.
D: E's a Nowhey if I've ever seen one.
E: B's definitely not a Troomoo.

[Leila (Shoe)]

The third one is the hospital.

[Rice]

I ate the cake? I feel like Mycroft Holmes. -twists umbrella-