Riddles

[James_S_Saint]

@zinnat

A common man may not be able to find that but an electrician can do that.

Open the basement board and disconnect the negative wire from one switch. Now, connect this vacant switch point with the main positive point of the board, and on that switch.

Now, on one more switch from remaining two and go upstairs. If the light there is connected to the first switch, because of face to face, the light will either shine very brightly of bust.

And, if that does not happen, you will be able to recognize easily which other switch is connected to that light.

With love,
Sanjay

… creative, but that would only work on 2-phase power or on batteries (with each switch on a different phase). In the USA, you just blew a fuse.

[phoneutria]

@Arminius

@phoneutria

[tab]You go downstairs and flip two switches. If lights are off, the correct one is the one you didn’t flip. If lights are on… you go to the kitchen and grab a brew and chill :p[/tab]

No. That is no solution of the said riddle.

ok I simplify it: flip all 3 and grab a brew

[zinnat]

@James S Saint

@zinnat

A common man may not be able to find that but an electrician can do that.

Open the basement board and disconnect the negative wire from one switch. Now, connect this vacant switch point with the main positive point of the board, and on that switch.

Now, on one more switch from remaining two and go upstairs. If the light there is connected to the first switch, because of face to face, the light will either shine very brightly of bust.

And, if that does not happen, you will be able to recognize easily which other switch is connected to that light.

With love,
Sanjay

… creative, but that would only work on 2-phase power or on batteries (with each switch on a different phase). In the USA, you just blew a fuse.

Still manageable. Remove the thin wires of the fuse of the board and put regular wire instead. Fuse would not blow.

With love,
Sanjay

[zinnat]

And, if that board does not have fuse but it is in the mains or located elsewhere, there is another alternative.

Go upstairs, remove the light from its holder, find a thin wrapping coil from the kitchen, put it on the holder and fasten the light again.

Now, come down and on the switches one by one. Which switch will blow the fuse or trip the main OCB/ACB, that is our switch.

With love,
Sanjay

[James_S_Saint]

@zinnat

Remove the thin wires of the fuse of the board and put regular wire instead. Fuse would not blow.

With love,
Sanjay

Emmm… yeah … then your house burns down …

[tab]Just tie a string to the second switch that you had flipped before you go back up. [/tab]

[phoneutria]

Ok another one. Flip them one by one and then leave on the only one what doesn’t start anything in the basement.
Unless the switches are one for upstaits, one for the basement, and one for outside, in which case you grab the phone and swear at the dude who wired your house. Wtf.

[James_S_Saint]

@phoneutria

Ok another one. Flip them one by one and then leave on the only one what doesn’t start anything in the basement.
Unless the switches are one for upstaits, one for the basement, and one for outside, in which case you grab the phone and swear at the dude who wired your house. Wtf.

… or just read the labels …

[phoneutria]

Do you think that the dumb polack who put all my switches in the basement bothered to label anything?

[James_S_Saint]

@phoneutria

Do you think that the dumb polack who put all my switches in the basement bothered to label anything?

Of course not. I would expect the dumb pollock who bought the house to label them (along with a security light so that he could read them).

[phoneutria]

We’re white folk over here. If I buy a house with bad wiring, rather than label the mess, I rewire it.

[phoneutria]

and I hope we’re talking wall switches here, because if the switch board for the whole hose only has 3 switches, I’m going to go ahead and say that the wiring problem is a little bigger

[Organfailure]

Treat two switches as one. The rest is axiomatic.

[Arminius]

@Mithus

[tab]You turn on the first switch, leave it on and after 10 minutes you turn it off. Then you turn on the second switch and go upstairs. If the light is on, it’s the second switch. If the light is off, but the lightbulb is still warm, it’s the first switch. Else it must be the third one.[/tab]

That is right. =D>

So now we can go on with the next riddle.

Are you ready for the next riddle?

[phoneutria]

YEEEEE!
applause

[Arminius]

Two Liars.

Five persons A, B, C, D and E chat:
[list][list][list][list][list]A: “B lies if and only if D is telling the truth.”
B: “If C is telling the truth, then either A or D is a liar.”
C: “E lies, and also A or B lie.”
D: “If B is telling the truth, then A or C too.”
E: “Among the persons A, C and D is at least one liar.”[/list:u][/list:u][/list:u][/list:u][/list:u]
Two persons are lying. Which?

[James_S_Saint]

@Arminius

Two Liars.

Five persons A, B, C, D and E chat:
[list][list][list][list][list]A: “B lies if and only if D is telling the truth.”
B: “If C is telling the truth, then either A or D is a liar.”
C: “E lies, and also A or B lie.”
D: “If B is telling the truth, then A or C too.”
E: “Among the persons A, C and D is at least one liar.”[/list:u][/list:u][/list:u][/list:u][/list:u]
Two persons are lying. Which?

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[Arminius]

@James S Saint

@Arminius

Two Liars.

Five persons A, B, C, D and E chat:
[list][list][list][list][list]A: “B lies if and only if D is telling the truth.”
B: “If C is telling the truth, then either A or D is a liar.”
C: “E lies, and also A or B lie.”
D: “If B is telling the truth, then A or C too.”
E: “Among the persons A, C and D is at least one liar.”[/list:u][/list:u][/list:u][/list:u][/list:u]
Two persons are lying. Which?

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What is your precise answer?

[tab]I guess that your red and blue colored letters have a meaning. What is your conclusion, your exact answer?[/tab]

[James_S_Saint]

@Arminius

What is your precise answer?

[tab]I guess that your red and blue colored letters have a meaning. What is your conclusion, your exact answer?[/tab]

[tab]You can’t READ??

Hmmm… guess that is YOUR riddle to solve [/tab]

[Orbie]

It looks a lot like he is Leibnitz

Sorry I am on the wrong riddle, but am I close?

[Arminius]

@James S Saint

@Arminius

What is your precise answer?

[tab]I guess that your red and blue colored letters have a meaning. What is your conclusion, your exact answer?[/tab]

[tab]You can’t READ??

Hmmm… guess that is YOUR riddle to solve [/tab]

I am not the only one who reads your posts.

[tab]It is no problem to interpret your diagram, but: I am not quite sure whether all ILP members are capable of understanding your diagram.[/tab]