ASP.NET Debugging : Logic Puzzles

Logic Puzzle: Jelly Beans

Tom — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:00:32 GMT

Hope this one is a little harder then the last one. Please keep in mind that all comments will remain hidden until I post the answer to allow others to try to solve it.

Puzzle

You work at a factory that creates bags of jelly beans. You make three types of bags, one that is all green, one that is all red, and one that is a mix of red and green. Someone walks into your office this morning and tells you that the bags are labeled wrong. Now you cannot see through the bags to see the contents, your fellow employee asks you to figure out which are which. But there is a catch. Opening a bag costs money and so they want to label them all correctly with opening the fewest amount of bags. Also, touching or pulling out a jelly bean also costs money as it is contaminated. So they want you to do it looking at the fewest amount of jelly beans as well. (No, you can't just peek inside a bag)

How many bags do you need to open and how many jelly beans do you need to look at? What would you do?

Logic Puzzle: What comes next?

Tom — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:00:00 GMT

What row of numbers comes next?

1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221

Logic puzzle: Russian Roulette

Tom — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:00:00 GMT

Here is another logic puzzle, see what you think:

You are tied to your chair and can't get up. Here's a gun. Here's the barrel of the gun, six chambers, all empty. Now watch me as I put two bullets in the gun. See how I put them in two adjacent chambers? I close the barrel and spin it. I put the gun to your head and pull the trigger. Click. You're still alive. Lucky you! I'm going to pull the trigger one more time. Which would you prefer, that I spin the barrel first, or that I just pull the trigger?

Logic Puzzle: Buying donuts puzzle

Tom — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:00:00 GMT

I thought it would be fun to try something new here. So I am going to present a logic puzzle and let people try to answer it. I will post the solution in the future but I want to give people a chance to try to solve it.

So here is the first puzzle:

A baker sells donuts in boxes of 6, 9, and 20. What is the greatest number of donuts that it is impossible to buy?