djm@ariel.UUCP (D.MORGAN) (01/10/85)
Announcing:
The first net-wide Puzzler's Puzzle Quiz.
Each week a new puzzle will be posted to the net. Anyone is eligible to
mail the puzzler a response to the puzzle. These people will be awarded
points based on how they answered the question. This will continue week after
week. The person with the highest point total after a certain number of weeks,
(not yet decided upon) will win the Quiz and will be named the Puzzler of the
Year and awarded the personal satisfaction of being the best. There are a few basic rules as follows:
1. No answer may posted to the net except by the Puzzler himself.
Penalty: That question is declared void (no points given) and
the offender can not answer the next five (5) puzzles.
2. If you arrived at your answer by looking at answers in quiz
books please specify when you reply. You will still get a few
points but not as much as someone who answers correctly on
their own.
The puzzles will vary in difficulty and will range from logical to mathematical
to tricky. Rule number on is very important and if it is violated too often
the Quiz will be abolished.
The answer to each quiz will be given in the next weeks puzzle. The persons
who answered correctly will also be posted at that time. A ranking of
people who have responded will to puzzles will be posted monthly.
Mail all responses to {ihnp4,allegra,seismo,decvax,ucbvax,mcvax,}!ariel!djm
or simply respond to the question with the r key.
A summary of how scoring will be done will be posted next week along with the
length of the Puzzler's Puzzling Puzzle Quiz.
The Puzzler
--djm@ariel.UUCP (D.MORGAN) (01/19/85)
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Puzzler's Puzzling Puzzle Quiz (2)
This weeks puzzle:
Man A leaves home, makes three lefts and arrives back home
again. There he meets Man B who is wearing a mask. What is Man A's
occupation?
Answer next week. And remeber NO posting answers to the net and NO cheating!!
*THE PUZZLER*
mail answers to: {ihnp4,allegra,seismo,ucbvax,mcvax}!ariel!djm
must be received by 1-26-85
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SOLUTION TO LAST WEEKS PUZZLE:
One man drinks untill the level of the water exactly bisects the glass as
it is held to his mouth; that is, untill the water exaclty reaches the top
of the bottom of the glass, and the surface of the water creates a plane
connecting the bottom to the rim.
Diagram:
/\ ---------- top of glass
/ \
/____\ ---------- water level
\ /
\ /
/ \/
|
|
bottom of glass
Congratulations to the following people who got the answer and thus recieved
one point:
Joe Konstan, Matt Crafford, Gerald Collins, Lance, bj!smith, Alan Dewar,
Seth Lipkin, Peter Barada, Norman Diamond, David Lampe, Sam Black, Doug Gwyn,
Charles Haynes, berry, Larry Bickford, Joe Ramey, Mark Bigger, Tom Truscott
Bennet Todd, Bob Stewart, C. Shub, Larry Parmelee, and houxz!halle1.urol@ecsvax.UUCP (Floyd A. Fried) (01/24/85)
SInce his is returning to the back of his house he is obviously a garbage collector. F.A. Fried Chapel Hill (urol)
gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) (01/29/85)
> must be received by 1-26-85
No fair! We were all at the Uniforum/Usenix conference all week!jeff@hpcnoe.UUCP (jeff) (02/09/85)
Oh, you mean the glass was full (how did they drag it across half the desert without spilling a drop or having it evaporate ?-)