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    Default Something to make you think (but don't think too hard)


    I got this in about 3 or 4 minutes so apparently, I have a juvenile intellect heh

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    Default Re: Something to make you think (but don't think too hard)

    Only a few minutes here, but I'm alright with math and number patterns. When I looked up how the kids figured it out I laughed as I never would have thought to do it that way.

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    Default Re: Something to make you think (but don't think too hard)

    There's more than one way to do it? PM me with the details lol - anyone else - feel free to PM me with an answer and I'll confirm it heh

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    I'm terrible with math, so I had to look it up since I still have an insatiable curiosity.

    I laughed. And then cried.

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    well f*** me in the goat a$$

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    Default Re: Something to make you think (but don't think too hard)

    I've been doing some digging around for this and found some really complex and technical ways of "solving" it - it is my opinion that these methods "happen" to come out with the correct answer by coincedence - the original puzzle is meant as one that can be solved by a pre-schooler who would be unlikely to build complex relational tables or work out technical methods involving prime numbers and algebraic substitution....

    In other words - real the original title heh - DON'T THINK TOO HARD

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    Default Re: Something to make you think (but don't think too hard)

    Quite literally speaking: Think like a pre-schooler. I tried doing that. I still failed. lol

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    Default Re: Something to make you think (but don't think too hard)

    **** spoiler tags don't work on this forum...

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    Default Re: Something to make you think (but don't think too hard)

    Funny stuff. I love math puzzles. I got it right away too. Maybe it was a book my mom handed me when I was in 4th grade. It was a post graduate level math book where they gave you all kinds of tricks for solving long complicated equations. Unfortunately I would fail the "Show your work" section and then have to prove how I did the math.

    Great stuff!

    (Someone PM me the different ways to solve it, I am curious).
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    Default Re: Something to make you think (but don't think too hard)

    My solution was "It's impossible". My way of preschool thinking.
    Two years. They were great. Let's make the next ones even better!

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