GAME: MindTrap

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Originally Posted by 3fingersalute

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This is what I was looking for.


The competition is amazing today. :D

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Originally Posted by 3fingersalute

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that answer would apply if he said using the Digits 1-9 only once
it's all about the syntax

If you give each letter of a word into its alphabetical position, you can then add these digits, or you can multiply them. For example CART = 3, 1, 18, 20. Adding gives 42 and multiplying gives 1080.

Can you find a word which has the same total whether you add them or multiply them?



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CAB: 3, 1, 2. Adding gives 6, multiplying also gives 6.

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Originally Posted by Khazad

that answer would apply if he said using the Digits 1-9 only once
it's all about the syntax

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You know, I should have noticed that.

How about a bonus eagle-eye point?

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Originally Posted by a d e p t

If you give each letter of a word into its alphabetical position, you can then add these digits, or you can multiply them. For example CART = 3, 1, 18, 20. Adding gives 42 and multiplying gives 1080.

Can you find a word which has the same total whether you add them or multiply them?

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heh, go for the cheap and blatently obvious answers

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Originally Posted by a d e p t

You know, I should have noticed that.

How about a bonus eagle-eye point?

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<shrek voice>that'll do Adept, that'll do</shrek voice>

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Originally Posted by a d e p t

If you give each letter of a word into its alphabetical position, you can then add these digits, or you can multiply them. For example CART = 3, 1, 18, 20. Adding gives 42 and multiplying gives 1080.

Can you find a word which has the same total whether you add them or multiply them?

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My head hurts too much trying to figure this one out

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Originally Posted by Khazad

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heh, go for the cheap and blatently obvious answers

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Not what I'm looking for, but have a lazy-*** bonus point for that too, since technically it fits. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif

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Originally Posted by 3fingersalute

My head hurts too much trying to figure this one out

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OK, mathmatically, the only 3 numbers I can figure that would be the same added or multiplied are 1, 2, 3.

1+2+3 = 6 and 1x2=2 and then 2x3=6

So:
1=A
2=B
3=C

CAB ??

BAC
(Blood Alcohol Content)

Or does this not count as a word?

BB

2x2 = 4
2+2 = 4

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Originally Posted by 3fingersalute

OK, mathmatically, the only 3 numbers I can figure that would be the same added or multiplied are 1, 2, 3.

1+2+3 = 6 and 1x2=2 and then 2x3=6

So:
1=A
2=B
3=C

CAB ??

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Got it.

3. :cool:

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Originally Posted by a d e p t

Got it.

3. :cool:

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What about BB ??

Here. That should give me enought time for a nap:


When the day before yesterday was referred to as the day after tomorrow, the day that was then called yesterday was as far away from the day we now call tomorrow as yesterday is from the day which we shall now be able to speak of last Monday as a week ago yesterday.

What day is it?



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Thursday.
Let the day number be D3 (arbitrary), then the day before yesterday is D1, so for it to be referred to as the day after tomorrow makes it D6, the day then called yesterday was D5 - which is as far away from the day we now call D4, i.e. was a day ahead. This is the same as yesterday, D2, is from Tuesday. So D2 is one day ahead of Tuesday = Wednesday and we want D3 = Thursday.