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Logic Puzzles

DarkWolf May 28th, 2019

This topic will be exclusively for logic puzzles!

Do you prefer riddles? (click here to go to the riddle topic)

Let's start with a logic puzzle! Which square fits in the last grid?

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DarkWolf OP August 3rd, 2023

If presented with the words MAR, AM and FAR and asked to find the shortest word that contained all the letters from which these words could be produced, you should come up with the word FARM.

Here is a further list of words: ANGRY, LYNCH, MAGIC

What is the shortest English word from which all these words can be produced?

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cloudySummer August 3rd, 2023

@DarkWolf I found it, but I used a program that I wrote, because... anagrams are not my strength. I'll just wait to see what others come up with. It works without adding any letters, and the dictionary only knows a single word that would fit.

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Barltik2065 August 3rd, 2023

@cloudySummer

It is complicated when it isn't your native tongue.

With the English language usually there are patterns in Suffix, and Prefix
Suffix are more common which is where I would start
Such as LY, ED, S, or ING:
sING, pING, runnING, postED, usualLY or loveLY
and then there are times in the english language where it is combined
seemINGLY

English is one of the most complicated and contradictions out the ying yang

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cloudySummer August 3rd, 2023

@Barltik2065 Admittedly, I was also a bit lazy this time... And just wanted to know what the answer is, lol.

Thanks! (and it seems there are actually two words that can work! You found the other one.)

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Barltik2065 August 3rd, 2023

@cloudySummer

I hear ya!!

There are days I want to veg on a stupid movie.

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Barltik2065 August 3rd, 2023

@DarkWolf

MARCHINGLY

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Barltik2065 August 3rd, 2023

@DarkWolf

CHARMINGLY

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DarkWolf OP August 3rd, 2023

@Barltik2065

Charmingly was the intended answer, but any answer that's correct English is good enough πŸ˜„

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lazyKatz August 3rd, 2023

We all keep on trying giving our brain a work out. Isn't that the main thing😺

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Barltik2065 August 3rd, 2023

@lazyKatz

That is what I tell myself.
It is expected for me to have Alzheimer's.

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lazyKatz August 3rd, 2023

@Barltik2065

I admire the way your coping having that hanging over you..... You certainly put me to shame..... You have a very active brain 😺

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Barltik2065 August 3rd, 2023

@lazyKatz

I am sorry I put you to shame. That is never my intent. If anything I admire you also.

And also @CloudySummer.

You all inspire me. You all are blessings and keep me on my toes. All the while enjoying @DarkWolf β€˜s puzzles

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lazyKatz August 3rd, 2023

Porthos, Athos, D'artagnan and Aramis -the four musketeers - always up for a battle... of wits.

Everyone is welcome here πŸ˜€πŸ˜ΊπŸ˜€πŸ˜€

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DarkWolf OP August 3rd, 2023

@lazyKatz

I want to second that one! Everyone is welcome here πŸ˜„

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DarkWolf OP August 3rd, 2023

What number should replace the question mark?

22, 21, 30, ?, 38, 37, 46

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cloudySummer August 3rd, 2023

@DarkWolf 29 (-1, +9)

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DarkWolf OP August 3rd, 2023

@cloudySummer

Yup, that's it βœ…

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lazyKatz August 4th, 2023

@DarkWolf

Husband guesses it could be 29

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DarkWolf OP August 3rd, 2023

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cloudySummer August 4th, 2023

@DarkWolf Found the solution by trial and error and moving them around in a graphics program, but not by shifting the parts in my mind only (spoiler: https://imgur.com/a/4rUOmiF)

Maybe someone here can do it 'the right way'?

Barltik2065 August 4th, 2023

@DarkWolf

Spatial recognition is something I didn't develop because I don't see straight naturally. Later in life technology developed enough to where I acquired corrective lenses.

That being said, I am guessing: A is the odd one

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cloudySummer August 4th, 2023

@Barltik2065 Same :) I'm cross-eyed, too. I hadn't thought about it possibly being an explanation for being slow with this kind of task, but it might be!

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Barltik2065 August 4th, 2023

@cloudySummer

One eye I am 20 / 800 (on a good day), basically I am blind in one eye.

I think as humans, we compensate naturally. We have a loss (vision) and somewhere some how other areas compensate automatically

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cloudySummer August 5th, 2023

@Barltik2065 Yes, that's how it works, indeed!

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DarkWolf OP August 5th, 2023

@Barltik2065 @cloudySummer

A is indeed the piece that's not needed. Well done πŸ˜„

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lazyKatz August 4th, 2023

Maybe it's C....more of a guess than knowledge

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DarkWolf OP August 5th, 2023

@lazyKatz

C is needed to make the square, you can look at the image below. But it was a difficult one to solve visually.

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AngelLight99 August 5th, 2023

@DarkWolfD

AngelLight99 August 5th, 2023

@DarkWolf

D

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DarkWolf OP August 5th, 2023

@AngelLight99

The answer to the last tricky puzzle I posted is A, you can see the solution in one of the comments above this one.

Having said that, D is the correct answer for the puzzle all the way at the top of the page πŸ‘

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DarkWolf OP August 5th, 2023

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DarkWolf OP August 5th, 2023

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cloudySummer August 5th, 2023

@DarkWolf I'd throw out F, as all the others connect the cross with the dot when possible, but this one does not.

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DarkWolf OP August 10th, 2023

@cloudySummer

Yes, you got it! πŸ“ˆ

A is the same as G

C is the same as E

B is the same as D

That leaves F as the odd one out.

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