Tomcat

Well done Gents ... i put the bigger image up as the old image was to small but the new image you can spot the slight differences...  i wish i had the bigger image the first time i posted the puzzle . Its enough to drive one crazy if you cant get the answer and was bugging me for ages hence the re visitation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_square_puzzle

this one never got answered from years ago ...how does the white square get there  

It fooled me first time and i had to read up the answer.. i have enlarged the image this time around so PDogg may have another shot

This puzzle was made by  a New Yorker , Paul Curry in 1958 , but the principle used here of the dissection paradox goes back to the 16th Century

On 8/29/2020 at 1:16 AM, sydneyjohn57 said:

Would it be N? Same same upside down?

yes sir. all rotated 180 degrees they retain the same orientation is the answer... according to New Scientist

you got it Dixon ...correct .. i must admit i am useless at the wordy things . Also maybe you can figure out the Lita Bar 1000 baht note question as i cant understand it

nice Dave .. I think i met Pentire last time at one of Stogie Bears 49th birthday parties... Stogie was 49 for at least 4 years as i recall

And then this last one

Two English words begin with letters HE and end with the letters HE. Can you find them both . If you met enough Ladyboys you will probably relate to both words

There is a couple more from the New Scientist quiz that dont need a degree in Physics so i may as well post them.....so firstly..

what is the missing letter

H,Z,X,O,I,S....

OMG Dixon ...its right..... well done..

New Puzzle ..... from " The Brain  users guide" .. lateral thinking quiz

What five letter word becomes shorter when you add two letter to it ?

On 8/25/2020 at 6:31 PM, Tomcat said:

NEW puzzle

Many Scientists use this as a password ..... O,T,T,F,F ... as its the beginning of an infinite sequence with a simple rule ...and you wont ever forget it no matter how drunk you are

what are the next two letters of the sequence

 

Sydneyjohn and then DixonC got it correct

S S  are the next numbers standing for six and seven........ One , Two , Three , Four , Five.. and so on

NEW puzzle

Many Scientists use this as a password ..... O,T,T,F,F ... as its the beginning of an infinite sequence with a simple rule ...and you wont ever forget it no matter how drunk you are

what are the next two letters of the sequence

6 hours ago, Pdoggg said:

 

0.618034..... is the answer.
Note that this cutoff is the golden ratio minus one, known as the golden ratio conjugate. So using the golden ratio gives the best chance to win the gold bullion!

that was a tough one ...if i didnt have a day job i might have come closer  ...i was using pack of playing cards to try to figure it out 

its correct PD , i must admit i didnt figure it when i see it

On 3/6/2016 at 10:42 AM, Pdoggg said:

Two players go on a hot new game show called “Higher Number Wins.” The two go into separate booths, and each presses a button, and a random number between zero and one appears on a screen. (At this point, neither knows the other’s number, but they do know the numbers are chosen from a standard uniform distribution.) They can choose to keep that first number, or to press the button again to discard the first number and get a second random number, which they must keep. Then, they come out of their booths and see the final number for each player on the wall. The lavish grand prize — a case full of gold bullion — is awarded to the player who kept the higher number. Which number is the optimal cutoff for players to discard their first number and choose another? Put another way, within which range should they choose to keep the first number, and within which range should they reject it and try their luck with a second number?

 

My Answer

If you are on or over 0.5 you hold  .. under and press the button

the 4 of 3x3 are the ones that catch you out.. i missed them firstly

and now.....

Im now trying to figure " the highest number wins " puzzle , these things are tricky and this one is just that....im using playing cards to help figure it out

This was in New Scientist quiz a few weeks back and so 

What is remarkable about the following sentence....................

i am not very happy acting pleased

whenever prominent scientists

overmagnify intellectual enlightenment

18..... is my answer...sorry for the late reply

Oscar Wilde

On 5/28/2020 at 8:00 AM, Ashoka said:

 

However the best bond girl imo is Barbara Bach!

The best line i  remember was when Moore was with her in the escape capsule at the end ... he pays the villain who he just killed and was about to nuke the world a compliment..... he casually plucks the villains champagne bottle out of the bucket and quips         

" seems i misjudged Stromberg .... a Dom Perignon 52"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Red_Army

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lod_Airport_massacre

there you are

oh ..the Airport was renamed " Ben Gurion International Airport"  sometime after .. its in Israel , but its known as " Lod Massacre " in the history books.

Im amazed that no one has this .. it was a pretty big deal at the time... these guys were really heavy duty. i think it was a suicide mission 

On 8/17/2020 at 11:43 PM, Tomcat said:

The JRA..responsible for the Lod Airport Massacre.....so extreme they said that most members of their own population should be executed ,

Who were the JRA

bump

On 8/16/2020 at 3:44 AM, seven said:

 

 Baader-Meinhof. They were truly hardcore leftist.

 

Probably not as hardcore as the JRA ...responsible for the Lod Airport Massacre.....they said that most members of their own population should be executed , yes indeed, real loonies this bunch.....just take a look at Wikpedia

Who were the JRA

HDMI

High Definition Multimedia Interface

( as an aside most cheapo HDMI cables from China are wrongly wired to save money... they might just about work but crap quality as not all the pins are connected. I know this as i lent a Chinese factory sample HDMI tester to a friend who runs a big subscriber nerdy site on You Tube and he was surprised how many cables failed... the video got around 12,000 hits in the first hour)

If anyone wants to waste an hour of their life ill post a link 

what does HDMI stand for