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Contents 1 May 30 2 June 6 3 June 13 4 August 9 5 11th August 6 25th April 7 April 25 (number 2) 8 May 7 9 May 26, 2008

[edit] May 30

Stean, a small village and in the Harrogate borough of North Yorkshire, England. Foppe 16:08, 30 May 2007 (CDT)

Nope, mine's longer :) (you'll have to wait until next Wednesday to find out what mine is). --Skizzerz^{Talk - Contribs} 16:12, 30 May 2007 (CDT)

I thought satin at first, but guess not, since the one above isn't longer than yours. Baejung92 19:03, 30 May 2007 (CDT)

[edit] June 6

Going clockwise from the $50: $50 -> $5 -> $10 -> $2 -> $100 -> $1 -> $25 -- Prod (Talk) 20:25, 6 June 2007 (CDT)

Gee, so much for THAT puzzle. Lasted a whole 20 minutes. --Skizzerz^{Talk - Contribs} 20:35, 6 June 2007 (CDT)

Heh, the straightforward logic puzzles are easy :P Now, that previous puzzle was just evil >_> -- Prod (Talk) 20:56, 6 June 2007 (CDT)

Glad you liked it! I try my hardest to make them (or get them from such random sources that there is no way one can simply get the answer via a google search) :P --Skizzerz^{Talk - Contribs} 21:07, 6 June 2007 (CDT)

[edit] June 13

2 and a half numbers in each square, is this right?--Rocky ^{(Talk - Contributions)} 14:09, 13 June 2007 (CDT)

Disregard that.

Rocky kept posting while I was trying to! Hehe, anway, cut the 18 into two 10's horizontally. Then cut vertically to seperate the 1's and 0's to create a total of 7 in each section.--DukeRuckley 14:12, 13 June 2007 (CDT)

However, Rocky's is dated first on the sig time, so better luck next time :P Oh, and Rocky, don't delete that image, I need it for my archive. -- Safety Skizzerz ^{{{ Talk | Contribs | Spel Chek™ | VFG | RTFM }}} 15:03, 13 June 2007 (CDT)

Actually, take that back, Dukeruckley got the right answer. The total should be "7", not "2¹/₂". -- Safety Skizzerz ^{{{ Talk | Contribs | Spel Chek™ | VFG | RTFM }}} 15:04, 13 June 2007 (CDT)

Yeah, I realised that as I had to get away :(--Rocky ^{(Talk - Contributions)} 00:36, 14 June 2007 (CDT)

[edit] August 9

Well, I'm assuming you'd just fill the 2/3s cup one either by filling and pouring the 1/3 cup twice, or filling the 1/3 cup and dumping it into the 1 cup, and then filling the 1/3 cup again, dumping it into the 1 cup, and pouring the 2/3s of water from the 1 cup. For the 1/2, you fill the 1 cup up, then pour the 1 cup into the 3/4 cup until you fill it up, leaving 1/4 cup in the 1 cup. You can pour the remaining 1/4 cup into the 1/3 cup for temporary storage (assuming you properly mallocated the 1/3 cup), then you dump the 3/4 cup and fill up the 1 cup again, and pour it into the 3/4 cup until it's full. Then you have 1/4 in the 1/3 cup, and 1/4 in the 1 cup, totalling 1/2.  :P Procyon (Talk) 14:05, 9 August 2007 (CDT)

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Too late I guess, stupid 5 minutes.

For the 2/3 cup, just full the 1/3 cup twice and pour it in.

For the 1/2 cup, fill the 1 cup, then pour 3/4 of it into the 3/4 cup. Pour the remaining 1/4 into the 1/3 cup for storage. Empty the 3/4 cup and then again, full up the 1 cup, pour 3/4 into the 3/4 cup and then pour the 1/4 that was in the 1/3 cup back into the 1 cup so you have 1/2. Empty it into the oatmeal bowl for the 1/2. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 14:10, 9 August 2007 (CDT)

Yep, both right ^_^. I got the idea from a person that I was chatting with on IRC, who just had that dilemma about 20 minutes ago. Unfortunately for you, Notmyhandle, Procyon beat you to it. Better luck next time. -- Safety Skizzerz ^{{{ Talk | Contribs | Spel Chek™ | VFG | RTFM }}} 14:17, 9 August 2007 (CDT)

w00t! Procyon (Talk) 14:43, 9 August 2007 (CDT)

You people are a bunch of water wasters, here's a more efficient method. For the 1/2 cup, fill the 1 cup, empty into the 3/4 so that 1/4 is left. Pour that into the 1/3 cup for storage. Pour 3/4 cup back into 1 cup and top off the 1 cup with more water. Empty another 3/4 into the 3/4 cup so that 1/4 still remains in the 1 cup. Use whatever is in the 1 cup and the 1/3 cup since that adds up to 1/2. Empty the 3/4 cup back into the 1 cup and top off the 1 cup again. Fill up the 1/3 cup and you will have 2/3 still left in the 1 cup. Net wasted water: 1/3 of a cup. It saves at least 1 pouring if you don't worry about storage or saving water as well. -- Prod (Talk) 15:22, 11 August 2007 (CDT)

[edit] 11th August

Do you mean every day that the servants didn't keep it properly? I'm having a bit of trouble understanding, sorry.--Rocky ^{(Talk - Contributions)} 15:56, 11 August 2007 (CDT)

None--the servants would have kept the accounts, not the master. Baejung92 16:41, 11 August 2007 (CDT)

It's 14. They owe 30, which means they did it properly once and failed once. Then the master did it the rest. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 19:22, 11 August 2007 (CDT)

Sorry for the delayed response. Anyway, Baejung92 is correct. The servants kept the accounts, not the master (as it says in the first sentence). -- Safety Skizzerz ^{{{ Talk | Contribs | Spel Chek™ | VFG | RTFM }}} 15:08, 13 August 2007 (CDT)

[edit] 25th April

OK, I'm really not sure about the alternate but I got

1. 8 + 2 = 13 - 3
2. 8 X 2 = 13 + 3
3. 18 / 2 = 13 - 3 - 1
4. 8/2^-1 = 13 + 3

^_^ Procyon (Talk) 17:05, 25 April 2008 (CDT)

Uh, wow... o.0. nice work. You got the alternate correct, too, so I'd say that makes you teh winner. --Skizzerz (talk • contribs) 17:52, 25 April 2008 (CDT)

[edit] April 25 (number 2)

Saw the update and thought I'd give it a crack. Is the answer "rted"?--DukeRuckley^{Talk | Contribs} 18:47, 25 April 2008 (CDT)

yeah... it is... *wanders off to think of a harder puzzle* Come back next week or something, I only do max of 2 per week anyway --Skizzerz (talk • contribs) 21:45, 25 April 2008 (CDT)

[edit] May 7

Ok, this is my first try at the puzzle of the week:

They share the characteristic that there is a repeating pattern of: vowel - consonant - vowel - consonant .... etc. They also share the characteristic that they both don't use the letter 'U', but I'm pretty sure that is not important :)

--Bmuig 03:16, 7 May 2008 (CDT)

Yep, now get ready for another stumper :D --Skizzerz (talk • contribs) 15:10, 7 May 2008 (CDT)

[edit] May 26, 2008

First of all thanks for showing me how to upload.

Second, is the answer to the puzzle "detour"?

Thank you.