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14% |
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14% |
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cdnhollywood
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 Posted: 01/25/06 - 13:40 Post subject: Since you wanted something harder....SOLUTION POSTED
Use the poll to give your answer. This is a bit old, so some of you may know this one already.
There are three lamps on the second level of your new home, but the electrician put the three light switches on the first floor. Also, they are not labelled - you don't know which switch controls which lamp.
You're like me (lazy), and you only want to go up and/or down the stairs the fewest number of times (NOTE - going up, then down counts as 2 times). You cannot see the lamps from the switches - you must go to the second level to see them - and you're all alone.
What is the least number of times that you have to traverse the stairs in order to know which switch controls which lamp?
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JACKED UP
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Posted: 01/25/06 - 13:47 Post subject:
0. I sent a kid up n tell me which lamp is on when I flip each switch. 
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shelflifers
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Posted: 01/25/06 - 13:53 Post subject:
Is it bigger than a bread basket? whoops...wrong game.
Before I commit to this, is this a trick question? or is there an actual logical answer?
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karlene
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Posted: 01/25/06 - 13:53 Post subject:
4?
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shelflifers
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Posted: 01/25/06 - 14:03 Post subject:
Ok, I cheated but wow...that was a tough one!!
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Posted: 01/25/06 - 14:05 Post subject:
| shelflifers wrote: | | Ok, I cheated but wow...that was a tough one!! |
Respect the game, man!
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shelflifers
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Posted: 01/25/06 - 14:07 Post subject:
| MechEngDropout wrote: | | shelflifers wrote: | | Ok, I cheated but wow...that was a tough one!! |
Respect the game, man! |
My lack of patience defeated my attempt at being respecful. It happens. It's science.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 01/25/06 - 14:08 Post subject:
Tree fiddy!
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Posted: 01/25/06 - 14:15 Post subject:
Chuck Norris sees in the dark.
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blue
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Posted: 01/25/06 - 14:24 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | | Chuck Norris sees in the dark. |
chuck norris doesn't see in the dark, he creates the darkness around him.
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shelflifers
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Posted: 01/25/06 - 14:25 Post subject:
Chuck Norris's version of being on the Atkins Diet is eating lightbulbs.
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Posted: 01/25/06 - 14:27 Post subject:
| shelflifers wrote: | | Chuck Norris's version of being on the Atkins Diet is eating lightbulbs. |
chuck norris's version of hijacking a thread is roundhouse kicking a forum so hard that he creates an alternate universe in which he posts whatever the Eff he feels like.
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shelflifers
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Posted: 01/25/06 - 14:35 Post subject:
| blue wrote: | | shelflifers wrote: | | Chuck Norris's version of being on the Atkins Diet is eating lightbulbs. |
chuck norris's version of hijacking a thread is roundhouse kicking a forum so hard that he creates an alternate universe in which he posts whatever the Eff he feels like. |
All the content has been thematic to the original post. It's only been splashed with brilliance with the addition of Mr. Norris.
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cdnhollywood
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Posted: 01/25/06 - 14:51 Post subject:
The answer is 1.
Turn one light switch on, and wait a few minutes. This makes the bulb hot.
Turn it off, then turn on another switch. Run upstairs.
The one that's hot is the first switch; the one that's on is the second, and the others fall into place.
I love that one. And no, I didn't get it the first time either.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 01/25/06 - 14:54 Post subject:
| cdnhollywood wrote: | The answer is 1.
Turn one light switch on, and wait a few minutes. This makes the bulb hot.
Turn it off, then turn on another switch. Run upstairs.
The one that's hot is the first switch; the one that's on is the second, and the others fall into place.
I love that one. And no, I didn't get it the first time either. |
They could have been florescent bulbs. 
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