Can you solve this?

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Here is a mind boggling question I found, and I thought I would share it with everyone here to see if they can figure it out. So.. Have fun

Before A, B, C, and D ran a race they make the following predictions:

A predicted that B would win.
B predicted that D would be last.
C predicted that A would be third.
D predicted that A's prediction would be correct.+

Only one of these predictions were true, and this was the prediction made by the winner. In what order did A, B, C, and D finnish the race.

I will post more later, and I will give the answer if no one can figure it out, but for now I have class.
 
Easy. C. err... wait, no... B!!! wait... C again.! no.. its a trick!... no... A!!

no seriously, D cant be correct if only one is... so that leaves ABC...
B is also wrong, as only the winners prediction is wright, and if B won A's prediction would also be right. that leaves A and C...

and A cant be right as the winner cant be correct in saying that another person won...

so the answer is C!!!

man im bored...
 
god damn i read the question wrong... .oh well, i cant be bothered to do it now. i got #1 right though.
 
Heh, I did it twice, got it wrong the first time cause I misread it. Always do that. Any more of these? I like logic puzzles :)
 
C is first....A is third....D is second and B is last....
 
Sally's father had 6 daughters, their names were..
Yaya, Yeye, Yiyi, Yoyo, Yuyu and ....?
What was the sixth daughter's name?


I know I asked this here before.. and it's not so much a logic puzzle, as more of a riddle.. but it is logical :)
 
sally.. and the first one was easy too (assuming c d a b is correct, that it)
 
Heard the daughters one. Try this -

Brothers and sisters have I none but that man's father is my father's son.
 
Bad^Hat said:
Heard the daughters one. Try this -

Brothers and sisters have I none but that man's father is my father's son.

His son
 
Heh, I never finished the second. I cracked and read the spoilers and I still couldn't get it to work. Think I was doing the beer wrong... meh.
 
i have done the crimson room one B4, its quite easy as you just click randomly.annoying some things you have to click precisely on a tiny part to actually count as clicking it...

*edit* oh wait, this is a different one.. better crack this :)

*edit* oh wait... i think i played the second room to this one... just looked through the keyhole and saw the one i did ages ago :)

*edit* theres a bin behind the fridge whick i cant get to...
*clicky**clicky**clicky**clicky**clicky**clicky*
damn mouse.
/me buys new mouse
*clicky**clicky**clicky**clicky**clicky**clicky*
damn game.
 
I've done the Crimson Room, but never got along with the Veridian one....
 
i need help.. i have got all 6 cards with chinese sybols, i have lit the inscence, i have placed all my items around it and when i "ting" the cup it says i can almost feel the dead persons spirit. what now? i have most of the items...
 
gah i hate this thing...just click everywhere...

i've got a lighter, two photos, some hair, some medicine, some beer, and 3 chinese letters....a bit lost now :/
 
has anyone tried to figure out what the backmasking is saying in the veridian room when you open that door? i tired to clean it up a little, but i can't make sense of it.. something like:

"you dive into unbelievab(ly) deep sockets(?). heavenly help (hell?). they're so skill-less (?), submis-ahh *garbled mess*"

don't spoil it for me, i ant to figure it out on my own like it did that other room :)
 
Tredoslop said:
wtf????

by the way.. one of the cards is near the celieng. and one is on the lamp but you must click to veiw the lamp when you can only see the lamp out of the corner of your eye...

I CANT EXPLAIN THINGS WELL
 
CDAB was the corrent answer for #1

Now for # 2

Person A is charged with the task of determining the ages of person B's three children. B tells A that the product of the children's ages. Again, A replies that another clue is needed, so B tells A that the oldest child plays the piano. After hearing this clue A tells B the ages if the three children.

How old are the three children?
 
WhiteBoy said:
CDAB was the corrent answer for #1

Now for # 2

Person A is charged with the task of determining the ages of person B's three children. B tells A that the product of the children's ages. Again, A replies that another clue is needed, so B tells A that the oldest child plays the piano. After hearing this clue A tells B the ages if the three children.

How old are the three children?
the answer is Mozart.
 
WhiteBoy said:
CDAB was the corrent answer for #1

Now for # 2

Person A is charged with the task of determining the ages of person B's three children. B tells A that the product of the children's ages. Again, A replies that another clue is needed, so B tells A that the oldest child plays the piano. After hearing this clue A tells B the ages if the three children.

How old are the three children?

Can't solve this without the product...seen it many times already...:)
 
The Thing said:
Can't solve this without the product...seen it many times already...:)
Yeah you can. If no one can answer it in a bit, I will give the answer.

ops oh crap..
I forgot to type the sum...
 
WhiteBoy said:
Yeah you can. If no one can answer it in a bit, I will give the answer.

No, you can't...there are infinite answers then. :O
 
Sorry sorry.. Typo back there..


Person A is charged with the task of determining the ages of person B's three children. B tells A that the product of the children's ages is 36. Again, A replies that another clue is needed, so B tells A that the oldest child plays the piano. After hearing this clue A tells B the ages if the three children.

How old are the three children?
 
Oh crap.. Not again..

I left out an entire sentence..
So sorry about that.. Read this one...


A person is charged with the task of determining the ages of B's three children. B tells A that the product of the childrens ages is 36. After considerigng this clue, A replies that another clue is required so B tells A the sum of the children's ages. A replies that another blue is needed, so B tells A that the oldest child plays the pianno. A after hearing this clue, A tells B thhe ages of the three children.


How old are thew three children?
 
WhiteBoy said:
Sorry sorry.. Typo back there..


Person A is charged with the task of determining the ages of person B's three children. B tells A that the product of the children's ages is 36. Again, A replies that another clue is needed, so B tells A that the oldest child plays the piano. After hearing this clue A tells B the ages if the three children.

How old are the three children?

Mmmmkay?...Fits all the requirements..:)
 
hmm, i don't see how to narrow it down. 6, 3, 2 works. but so does 4, 3, 3 (i guess you could argue that a 4 yr old won't be able to play the piano); 12, 3, 1 also works, and so does 18, 2, 1 (maybe an 18yr old isn't a "child"). without the sum, you can't eliminate any of those possiblities, and i don't see how the piano clue would distinguish between 2 of those choices (at least).
 
Let me go take a shower and I will type out the answer, hopefully without any copying mistakes.
 
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