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I built this little checker in order for those who don't want the answer spoiled for them, to check their work. This is specifically for the Einstein Puzzle.
Click here to go back to the puzzle
Click here to go to the walkthrough
How to use it:
Let's say you want to check to see if the "Brit lives in the Red house". Below are a few charts separated by the Nationality of the owner. I've hidden the answers by changing the background color to the same as the font color. You can see inside the boxes if you highlight them.
Here are more detailed instructions:
Step 1. Go down to the section with...
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Einstein's Puzzle Thorough Walkthrough (Spoilers)- Pt3
This is the walkthrough for Einstein's Puzzle. If you haven't read the original puzzle/question, you should go ahead and click on the link below. Below will be the explanation of the method I utilized to solve the puzzle. If you want to avoid spoilers you should view the original question before reading below.
For Previous parts: Part 1, Part 2
You can find the Puzzle here.
Click here for a Spoiler-free answer check
Walkthrough:
So this is simple logic puzzle with no real tricks or second guesses. So all you really need is organization to solve this...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Einstein's Puzzle Thorough Walkthrough (Spoilers)- Pt2
This is the walkthrough for Einstein's Puzzle. If you haven't read the original puzzle/question, you should go ahead and click on the link below. Below will be the explanation of the method I utilized to solve the puzzle. If you want to avoid spoilers you should view the original question before reading below.
For Previous parts: Part 1
You can find the Puzzle here.
Skip to here if you just want a spoiler free answer check
Walkthrough:
So this is simple logic puzzle with no real tricks or second guesses. So all you really need is organization to solve...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Einstein's Puzzle Thorough Walkthrough (Spoilers)- Pt1
This is the walkthrough for Einstein's Puzzle. If you haven't read the original puzzle/question, you should go ahead and click on the link below. Below will be the explanation of the method I utilized to solve the puzzle. If you want to avoid spoilers you should view the original question before reading below.
You can find the Puzzle here.
Skip here if you want a spoiler-free answer check
Walkthrough:
So this is simple logic puzzle with no real tricks or second guesses. So all you really need is organization to solve this puzzle. I'll be breaking this...
Monday, February 24, 2014
Try the Einstein Puzzle
I love logic puzzles. They are fantastic for practice with deductive reasoning, but to be honest I was never very efficient with the way that I solved them. So when I recently heard about the "Einstein Puzzle", I decided I would try my luck at making an organized method for solving them. But before I get into that, I thought I would give you a chance to solve it for yourself.
Supposedly, the rumor goes that when Einstein created the problem, he believed that only 2% of the population would be capable of solving it. And while the validity of that statement...
Learning about the Mind through studying Mnemonics (Part 2)
This is the second part of an article, I highly suggest you read the first part before continuing with this segment. You can find the article here.
In part 1, we were introduced to the idea that our brains are much like a little attic, and have limited capacity to remember things. Only by grouping and packaging ideas together into clusters, were we able to hold a large amount of things in our mind at one time.
So basically, the concept of "clustering" a core component to our ability to think about more complex topics and ideas. It allows us to hold...
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Take the Simple 3 Question Challenge: The CRT
Here are 3 questions that I would like to pose to you. Go ahead and try answering them.
The first question:
A baseball bat and a baseball together cost $1.10. The baseball bat costs $1.00 more than the baseball. How much does the baseball cost?
The second question:
It takes 5 toy-makers 5 minutes to make 5 toys. How long would it take for 100 toy-makers to make 100 toys?
The third question:
There's a special patch of lily pads in a pond. The size of the patch doubles every day. On the 48th day, the patch has covered the whole pond. How many...
Friday, February 21, 2014
Riddle # 1 Walkthrough-The Liar and Honest Village (Spoilers)
This post is meant to walk you through the thinking you would have to do in order to solve the Liar and Honest Village riddle. If you have not read the riddle question yet, you should click here.
Warning, reading below may spoil the answer.
Here's some food for thought(Hint)
Notice that the liar guard's answer will always be the opposite of the honest guard's answer. Given that, so long as their answers differ, you won't be able to get anywhere in this riddle.
But that's the kicker.
So long as their answer differ.
So how do you get it that the guard will answer the same thing, no...
Practice Lateral Thinking with Riddle # 1:The Liar and Honest Village (The Question)
Riddles are fantastic ways to practice lateral thinking!
If you've heard riddles, you've probably heard the one about the liar's village and honest village. But allow me to remind you anyways:
Somewhere there lies a pair of villages. The first village is called "Honest Village" where all of its inhabitants always tell the truth. The second village is called "Liar Village" where all its inhabitants always tell lies.
One day, you are walking towards the village and run into a fork in the road. One road leads to the Honest Village, while the other leads...
Learning about the Mind through studying Mnemonics (Part 1)
Mnemonics and the Brain Attic
"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic..." said Sherlock Holmes, "... It is a mistake to think that the little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent."
It was back in the late 1800s that Sherlock Holmes first described the brain as a sort of attic with limited space. He described it as so small and limited that information, such as knowledge of the solar system, would clutter the room and would have to be thrown out.
Despite how dramatic the fictional Sherlock Holmes...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Learn about Context and the Deductive Process
Imagine this:
You are waiting in a hospital waiting room, just looking through the magazines and observing the other patients as they wait to be seen by the doctor. When a man who had just entered tripped and fell over the leg of one of the chairs. He stands up and begins to gesture and yell loudly at the receptionist.
Assume this is all you know. What can you tell about the man? Well, your first inclination might be to try and look at the thing that makes him stand out: his gestures and yelling. Perhaps we assume that his actions are a result of anger,...
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