Riddles and Puzzles
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The room with the lions as they will be dead if they haven't eaten for 3 years.
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Duh - 10 12 hour day and noon and midnight are level.
OK, the letters one. At the moment I haven't figured it out but I'm going to 'think out loud' in case it sparks something with someone else.
We have...
How should the top set of letters be arranged over the lower set of letters?
A B C D E F G
J F M A M J J A S O N D
There are 7 letters in the top set, and 12 in the bottom set.
I think it's safe to say that the bottom set probably represent the months from January to December, but we know the letters in the bottom set can be in a different order, as we've been told :
Try
A B C D E F G with
A A D F J J J M M N O S
The answer remains the same.
'The answer remains the same' is ambiguous. It could mean that the order of the top set is unchanged, despite the bottom set being rearranged, which means there isn't a direct correlation between the letters themselves. On the other hand, it could mean that the top row are in a different order because the bottom row have changed order, but the principle or rule which determines the order hasn't changed.
It hasn't been made clear whether the top set, however they need to be arranged, consists of 7 letters and 7 letters only, or whether the top row could be 12 letters, but they have to consist of the characters A-G. I lean towards 7 letters only, but I could be wrong.
If it's 7 letters only, then that suggests that 7 of the months of the year have an attribute not shared by the remaining 5. I've already tried placing A-G over the 7 months that have 31 days, and that was rejected as incorrect.
The number of letters in the names of the months range from 3 (May) to 9 (September), but assigning the values 3 through 9 to the letters A through G, and then applying those values to the appropriate month was also rejected.
The lengths of the months don't vary enough to have 7 different values : 28 (or 29) days, 30 days, 31 days. Even if you class the months gaining and losing an hour when the clocks change as a slightly different length, that only gives 5 different values.
Looking at the names of the months, there aren't seven different quantities of consonants (or indeed vowels), so I think that's a non-starter.
We've been told it's not musical, so nothing to do with the way black and white notes are laid out on a keyboard.
There are 7 days in the week, so it could be something to do with A = Monday, B = Tuesday... G = Sunday (or some variation thereof), and tagging each month with the letter that represents the first day of that month. Or the last? There are so many variables to take into account if that were the solution that it wouldn't be problem solving, it would be guesswork, pure and simple.
The months start with 8 different letters, not 7, so I don't think it's that.
Syllables in the names of the months? Not 7 different variants, so not that.
Astrological signs don't equate directly with calendar months, so even if there were 7 that stood out (are there 7 that are living, as opposed to inanimate objects for example?), I can't see how you'd relate them back to the months.
It's possible the that 'months of the year' thing is a red herring, but it seems a strange set of letters to choose otherwise.
I'll think on it some more...
We have...
How should the top set of letters be arranged over the lower set of letters?
A B C D E F G
J F M A M J J A S O N D
There are 7 letters in the top set, and 12 in the bottom set.
I think it's safe to say that the bottom set probably represent the months from January to December, but we know the letters in the bottom set can be in a different order, as we've been told :
Try
A B C D E F G with
A A D F J J J M M N O S
The answer remains the same.
'The answer remains the same' is ambiguous. It could mean that the order of the top set is unchanged, despite the bottom set being rearranged, which means there isn't a direct correlation between the letters themselves. On the other hand, it could mean that the top row are in a different order because the bottom row have changed order, but the principle or rule which determines the order hasn't changed.
It hasn't been made clear whether the top set, however they need to be arranged, consists of 7 letters and 7 letters only, or whether the top row could be 12 letters, but they have to consist of the characters A-G. I lean towards 7 letters only, but I could be wrong.
If it's 7 letters only, then that suggests that 7 of the months of the year have an attribute not shared by the remaining 5. I've already tried placing A-G over the 7 months that have 31 days, and that was rejected as incorrect.
The number of letters in the names of the months range from 3 (May) to 9 (September), but assigning the values 3 through 9 to the letters A through G, and then applying those values to the appropriate month was also rejected.
The lengths of the months don't vary enough to have 7 different values : 28 (or 29) days, 30 days, 31 days. Even if you class the months gaining and losing an hour when the clocks change as a slightly different length, that only gives 5 different values.
Looking at the names of the months, there aren't seven different quantities of consonants (or indeed vowels), so I think that's a non-starter.
We've been told it's not musical, so nothing to do with the way black and white notes are laid out on a keyboard.
There are 7 days in the week, so it could be something to do with A = Monday, B = Tuesday... G = Sunday (or some variation thereof), and tagging each month with the letter that represents the first day of that month. Or the last? There are so many variables to take into account if that were the solution that it wouldn't be problem solving, it would be guesswork, pure and simple.
The months start with 8 different letters, not 7, so I don't think it's that.
Syllables in the names of the months? Not 7 different variants, so not that.
Astrological signs don't equate directly with calendar months, so even if there were 7 that stood out (are there 7 that are living, as opposed to inanimate objects for example?), I can't see how you'd relate them back to the months.
It's possible the that 'months of the year' thing is a red herring, but it seems a strange set of letters to choose otherwise.
I'll think on it some more...
