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2651: I Can't Get Behind That!

Jan 21, 2008 05:06

I may have jinxed myself by not gloating over my Power Grid win last session--thereby slighting the Power Grid Gads and incurring their Random-Factor-Driven wrath--but there were too many things on my mind at the time. The best win I could claim for tonight was solving Fawx's Puzzle-A-Day for the day after looking at it for about a minute, several ( Read more... )

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mortonfox January 21 2008, 15:13:52 UTC

Why do mathematicians confuse Hallowe'en with Christmas?

Because oct 31 = dec 25.
The version of the joke I heard used computer programmers instead of mathematicians though.

jen_aside January 21 2008, 19:09:11 UTC

Really? Computer programmers use octal? o_O

digoraccoon January 21 2008, 19:08:36 UTC

Ached?

Pipe Game ex_tailsy January 21 2008, 20:25:14 UTC

By the way, there is a rule in Pipe that we weren't considering that might have made your second game easier: the cards do not have to be played adjacent to one another. That is, as long as the cards are played on the imaginary grid and could eventually join the cards already there, you can play them anywhere. This makes it a lot easier to create pillars (and thus caps) out of nothing, rather than expanding a long pipe system that will become impossible to close. (It also reduces the importance of the card draw itself.)

jen_aside January 21 2008, 21:19:27 UTC

Hmm, maybe, but not the way Jon was playing =(

jen_aside January 26 2008, 01:47:14 UTC

1. ACHED. You can deduce logically that the secret word must use three letters shared by the two given words, then the fourth and fifth letters must each be one of the non-shared letters from the given words.

2. Because OCT 31 = DEC 25. 31 in base 8 [octal] = 25 in base 10 [decimal].