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It's been 6 years since I've done a puzzle thread.
Here goes. 24 hour time limit, PM me your answers. If you answer 5 questions correctly, you get 1 chance to be the Puzzle Master. If you get all 6 questions correct, you get 2 chances.
The thread will be locked until then.
1. Four chess players, Fred, Stan, Dan, and Steve competed in a tournament. At the end of the tournament, they said the following:
Fred: "I did not win 1st or 4th place."
Steve:"I got 4th place."
Stan: "I did not get 4th place."
Dan: "I won 1st place."
One, and only one of the chess players is not telling the truth. Who won the tournament? How can you tell?
2. The cost of 175 pens is greater than that of 125 pencils, but less than that of 126 pencils. The cost of one pen is a whole number of cents, as is the cost of one pencil. If you wanted to buy 1 pencil and 3 pens, would 100 cents be enough? (Show your work.)
3. What is the highest number of pawns that can be placed on a chess board so that no four pawns are in a line? Lines to avoid are verticals, horizontals, and all types of diagonal. No pawn may be isolated, all pawns must be a neighbor with at least one other pawn either vertically or horizontally. (use the CODE tag and Courier font to diagram your answer)
4. Which number is the odd one out and why?
3628, 2426, 4146, 1448
5. The diagram below features 4 houses, labeled C, X, Y, and Z. One of the houses, C, is located at the center of a circle, and the other 3 houses, X, Y, and Z are somewhere on the circumference. There are paths connecting the various houses as shown. A member of family Y decides to take a walk starting from his house going clockwise around the circular path. Meanwhile, another member of family Y walks along the straight path, visiting houses X, C, and Z in order, but not stopping, before returning home by the direct ZY path.
Assuming that the two members of family Y walk at the exact same rate, who arrives home first?
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Ron Miller
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Puzzle thread May 3, 2011
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