The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

2007-05-18 Reply Admin

Anon:
A hundred prisoners are each locked in a room with three pirates, one of whom will walk the plank in the morning. Each prisoner has 10 bottles of wine, one of which has been poisoned; and each pirate has 12 coins, one of which is counterfeit and weighs either more or less than a genuine coin. In the room is a single switch, which the prisoner may either leave as it is, or flip. Before being led into the rooms, the prisoners are all made to wear either a red hat or a blue hat; they can see all the other prisoners' hats, but not their own. Meanwhile, a six-digit prime number of monkeys multiply until their digits reverse, then all have to get across a river using a canoe that can hold at most two monkeys at a time. But half the monkeys always lie and the other half always tell the truth. Given that the Nth prisoner knows that one of the monkeys doesn't know that a pirate doesn't know the product of two numbers between 1 and 100 without knowing that the N+1th prisoner has flipped the switch in his room or not after having determined which bottle of wine was poisoned and what colour his hat is, what is the solution to this puzzle?

Solution:

One prisoner knows, a crap ton of decietful monkies trying to cross a river, have more important things at hand than the debate of a brigand's mathmatical skills. In addition, Nth prisoner doesn't care about the other prisoners welfare (posion) or intrests (trying to figure out what color hat they have on).

Creepy metaphor.

2007-05-19 Reply Admin

I'm from the south where the whole Moonpie thing originated and they are eaten with R.C. Cola, not Tang you wtftards.

Some light reading for the search impaired: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonpie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.C._Cola

2007-05-19 Reply Admin

Anonymous Coward:
Google for "jack of clubs".

Haha, I learned something new.

Captcha: Pirates. Strangely appropriate...

2007-05-20 Reply Admin

Gir:
quake:
Anon:
A hundred prisoners are each locked in a room with three pirates, one of whom will walk the plank in the morning. Each prisoner has 10 bottles of wine, one of which has been poisoned; and each pirate has 12 coins, one of which is counterfeit and weighs either more or less than a genuine coin. In the room is a single switch, which the prisoner may either leave as it is, or flip. Before being led into the rooms, the prisoners are all made to wear either a red hat or a blue hat; they can see all the other prisoners' hats, but not their own. Meanwhile, a six-digit prime number of monkeys multiply until their digits reverse, then all have to get across a river using a canoe that can hold at most two monkeys at a time. But half the monkeys always lie and the other half always tell the truth. Given that the Nth prisoner knows that one of the monkeys doesn't know that a pirate doesn't know the product of two numbers between 1 and 100 without knowing that the N+1th prisoner has flipped the switch in his room or not after having determined which bottle of wine was poisoned and what colour his hat is, what is the solution to this puzzle?
There's a 50% certainty that 90% of the monkeys [WTF posters] will understand at most 0.125% of the riddle as written, (and consequently, only (1/inf)% will understand it as intended). Thus, the obvious answer is to force the monkeys to drink the wine, then dress up the remaining monkeys in the pirates' garb while the pirates steal the canoe and escape. Since that is the obvious answer, one must conclude that it is wrong. Therefore, since a swallow needs to beat its wings 43 times every second to maintain its air-speed velocity, the correct answer is "What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?".

What do you mean? An African or European swallow?

I don't know that!

2007-05-21 Reply Admin

[quote user="quake"][quote user="Anon"][...] correct answer is "What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?".[/quote]

African or European swallow ??

2007-05-21 Reply Admin

Anon:
A hundred prisoners are each locked in a room with three pirates, one of whom will walk the plank in the morning. Each prisoner has 10 bottles of wine, one of which has been poisoned; and each pirate has 12 coins, one of which is counterfeit and weighs either more or less than a genuine coin. In the room is a single switch, which the prisoner may either leave as it is, or flip. Before being led into the rooms, the prisoners are all made to wear either a red hat or a blue hat; they can see all the other prisoners' hats, but not their own. Meanwhile, a six-digit prime number of monkeys multiply until their digits reverse, then all have to get across a river using a canoe that can hold at most two monkeys at a time. But half the monkeys always lie and the other half always tell the truth. Given that the Nth prisoner knows that one of the monkeys doesn't know that a pirate doesn't know the product of two numbers between 1 and 100 without knowing that the N+1th prisoner has flipped the switch in his room or not after having determined which bottle of wine was poisoned and what colour his hat is, what is the solution to this puzzle?

42

2007-05-21 Reply Admin

M L:
Hungry Dude:
Now, what if you need some Tang to wash down your Moon pie?????
Let's take a look, shall we?

That, sir, was truly priceless. I damned near shot coffee out my nose.

I wish you worked in my office. I have to go down the corridor to get coffee.

2007-05-21 Reply Admin

Anonymous Coward:
Gir:
quake:
Anon:
A hundred prisoners are each locked in a room with three pirates, one of whom will walk the plank in the morning. Each prisoner has 10 bottles of wine, one of which has been poisoned; and each pirate has 12 coins, one of which is counterfeit and weighs either more or less than a genuine coin. In the room is a single switch, which the prisoner may either leave as it is, or flip. Before being led into the rooms, the prisoners are all made to wear either a red hat or a blue hat; they can see all the other prisoners' hats, but not their own. Meanwhile, a six-digit prime number of monkeys multiply until their digits reverse, then all have to get across a river using a canoe that can hold at most two monkeys at a time. But half the monkeys always lie and the other half always tell the truth. Given that the Nth prisoner knows that one of the monkeys doesn't know that a pirate doesn't know the product of two numbers between 1 and 100 without knowing that the N+1th prisoner has flipped the switch in his room or not after having determined which bottle of wine was poisoned and what colour his hat is, what is the solution to this puzzle?
There's a 50% certainty that 90% of the monkeys [WTF posters] will understand at most 0.125% of the riddle as written, (and consequently, only (1/inf)% will understand it as intended). Thus, the obvious answer is to force the monkeys to drink the wine, then dress up the remaining monkeys in the pirates' garb while the pirates steal the canoe and escape. Since that is the obvious answer, one must conclude that it is wrong. Therefore, since a swallow needs to beat its wings 43 times every second to maintain its air-speed velocity, the correct answer is "What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?".

What do you mean? An African or European swallow?

I don't know that!

it's about 11m/s, asuming there's no coconut pinned under the dorsal guiding feathers.

2007-05-21 Reply Admin

The real wtf is that I just tried searching for "moon pies" on amazon and the search results returned - what do you know! Moon pies.

2007-05-22 Reply Admin

P Sutcliffe's "High Class Butcher" to be found in Bradford!

(The place did exist, until they realised the coincidence... Now its Mrs G Sutsliffe's "Not so High Class butcher".

2007-05-22 Reply Admin

rgz:
Anon:
A hundred prisoners are each locked in a room with three pirates, one of whom will walk the plank in the morning. Each prisoner has 10 bottles of wine, one of which has been poisoned; and each pirate has 12 coins, one of which is counterfeit and weighs either more or less than a genuine coin. In the room is a single switch, which the prisoner may either leave as it is, or flip. Before being led into the rooms, the prisoners are all made to wear either a red hat or a blue hat; they can see all the other prisoners' hats, but not their own. Meanwhile, a six-digit prime number of monkeys multiply until their digits reverse, then all have to get across a river using a canoe that can hold at most two monkeys at a time. But half the monkeys always lie and the other half always tell the truth. Given that the Nth prisoner knows that one of the monkeys doesn't know that a pirate doesn't know the product of two numbers between 1 and 100 without knowing that the N+1th prisoner has flipped the switch in his room or not after having determined which bottle of wine was poisoned and what colour his hat is, what is the solution to this puzzle?

AWESOME!! I have nothing else to say. (Well Actually i was going to say 42 but someone already beat me to it.)

I have something to say. And that something is http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/polls/poll0248.html. Hey Anon, how about crediting your sources? I saw that riddle on www.irregularwebcomic.net weeks ago and Google doesn't suggest any prior source, so it seems all credit is due to David Morgan-Mar.

By the way, if you enjoyed that riddle, I suggest checking out David Morgan-Mar's webcomic (http://www.irregularwebcomic.net). It contains some truly excellent geek humour. Even more in keeping with this website's theme, check out his page of exotic programming languages at http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/.

Midori · 2007-05-23 Reply Admin

Moon pies on Amazon.com?

dwayner79 · 2007-05-23 Reply Admin

Holy Crap thank you all... this is the funniest thread in a while.

Special thanks to tang boy and "Jack of Clubs"

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