GAME: MindTrap

[Stalemate]

May have been asked before.


Mack White stopped his tractor trailer at the foot of an old bridge.

The trailer was air tight except for two screen doors at the rear. The trailer had a second set of doors which could be closed over the screen doors enabling him to seal the trailer air tight.

Mack closed the second set of doors and began to pound on them.

When a passerby asked him what he was doing, he replied, "I've got 2000 pigeons in the back and I think they're too heavy for this old bridge. I'm making the 'little buggers' fly around so they'll lighten the load 'till I get across".

Will Mack's idea lighten the load or will it be the same?


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It will be the same.

The air pressure caused by the downward flapping of the wings will counter the benefit gained by the birds being in the air.

[edball]

May have been asked before.


Mack White stopped his tractor trailer at the foot of an old bridge.

The trailer was air tight except for two screen doors at the rear. The trailer had a second set of doors which could be closed over the screen doors enabling him to seal the trailer air tight.

Mack closed the second set of doors and began to pound on them.

When a passerby asked him what he was doing, he replied, "I've got 2000 pigeons in the back and I think they're too heavy for this old bridge. I'm making the 'little buggers' fly around so they'll lighten the load 'till I get across".

Will Mack's idea lighten the load or will it be the same?

The same because it is air tight.

[Deity]

Does that mean you haven't played Hexagon yet or you just haven't beaten the score ?

Played a couple of times, to get used to the game, but I've got too much going on at work.

[Stalemate]

The same because it is air tight.

Yup.

1.


Explanation?

[edball]

Played a couple of times, to get used to the game, but I've got too much going on at work.

I understand...play from home then....

I just posted in the WOTPP thread asking for more volunteers, maybe we'll find some old video game players.

[edball]

Yup.

1.


Explanation?

The trailer being air tight would create a vacuum-like environment, the birds weight would still be counted even if they were flying because they would still be adding to the mass of the trapped air.

[Stalemate]

The trailer being air tight would create a vacuum-like environment, the birds weight would still be counted even if they were flying because they would still be adding to the mass of the trapped air.

I'm giving you the full 3 then, as you obviously knew the answer but just forgot to expand a bit.

[edball]

I'm giving you the full 3 then, as you obviously knew the answer but just forgot to expand a bit.

I was trying to give the short explanation before Diety beat me to the punch.

[Stalemate]

The owner of the 'Soul-Ace Hotel' asked Hardy Pyle to go to the local butcher shop to buy some steaks.

The butcher told Hardy that he had 18 steaks for sale which varied in quality. Half of the steaks were worth 4 pounds and the other half worth 6 pounds.

If the butcher selected the steaks they would be 4 pounds each and if Hardy selected them they would be 6 pounds each.

Bearing in mind that the butcher will obviously choose the lower quality steaks, what should Hardy do in order to get the best all-around deal?



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Hardy should buy them all.
Since he is buying the steaks for a hotel, to purchase 18 steaks is not unreasonable. By purchasing them all, he will get both the 4 pounds and the 6 pounds steaks at the low price of 4 pounds each.

[Deity]

The owner of the 'Soul-Ace Hotel' asked Hardy Pyle to go to the local butcher shop to buy some steaks.

The butcher told Hardy that he had 18 steaks for sale which varied in quality. Half of the steaks were worth 4 pounds and the other half worth 6 pounds.

If the butcher selected the steaks they would be 4 pounds each and if Hardy selected them they would be 6 pounds each.

Bearing in mind that the butcher will obviously choose the lower quality steaks, what should Hardy do in order to get the best all-around deal?

Buy all of the steaks.

[edball]

The owner of the 'Soul-Ace Hotel' asked Hardy Pyle to go to the local butcher shop to buy some steaks.

The butcher told Hardy that he had 18 steaks for sale which varied in quality. Half of the steaks were worth 4 pounds and the other half worth 6 pounds.

If the butcher selected the steaks they would be 4 pounds each and if Hardy selected them they would be 6 pounds each.

Bearing in mind that the butcher will obviously choose the lower quality steaks, what should Hardy do in order to get the best all-around deal?

Have the butcher pick out half for him, then change his mind and take the other half.

[Matridom]

just buy the best steakes, the question never specidfied what conditions applied to WHO was choosing the steaks, only what each WOULD do if given the chance.

So for Hardy to get the best deal, he just needs to pick the steaks himself and get the best hlaf.

[Stalemate]

Buy all of the steaks.

That's 3.

Explanations would vary on this, so I'm not being fickle about it.

[Stalemate]

Duncan Drivel was riding a particularly frisky horse when suddenly its bridle came off.

As they raced down the road, a screaming Duncan clung to the horse's ears for dear life. Out of the corner of his eye, Duncan saw a car coming, and realizing the horse was completely out of control, he panicked. Flailing his arms about, he accidently caused the horse to come to an abrupt halt.

What could Duncan have done to make the horse stop?


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He covered the horses eyes. If a horse, or just about any animal can't see where they are going they will almost certainly stop dead in there tracks.

[Spork]

Duncan Drivel was riding a particularly frisky horse when suddenly its bridle came off.

As they raced down the road, a screaming Duncan clung to the horse's ears for dear life. Out of the corner of his eye, Duncan saw a car coming, and realizing the horse was completely out of control, he panicked. Flailing his arms about, he accidently caused the horse to come to an abrupt halt.

What could Duncan have done to make the horse stop?

He let go of the horse's ears.