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"A puzzle for yous all..."

My first is in biscuit but never in cake
My second's in awesome but not in great
My third is in mother but not seen in dad
My fourth is in sunny but never in sad
My fifth is a vowel found in water not creek
My sixth is found only in one day of the week
My seventh's two of three that you learn when you're young
My eighth's not in song but it's there when it's sung
My ninth's in eleven and twelve, not thirteen
My tenth is in island and river, not stream
My eleventh's in precious and secret and paste
My twelfth is in phantom and spectre and haste
My whole stalks the night in a quiet dreamlike state
With no memories the next day of being out late

I can't disprove Flanders, he got it right. However, I can't reach his answer in logical steps starting with the given information, either.

In other words, I don't know how he got the answer*, or how to prove it's the only correct solution.


(* I suspect either guesswork or use of a search engine)

Well...what has roads but no cars, rivers but no water and hills but no trees?

VenomByte wrote:
> Gangsta Hamsta wrote:
> mäddmuñ wrote:
> Weedy - 1
> Triplets - 5 each
> Rastus - 9
>
>
> Not actually the answer I had, but I can't see why it doesn't work.
>
> I can. The land has to be split in accordane with their work rates.
>
> Take a constant k to link productivity with field allocation
>
> Thus
>
> 9k + 5k + 5k +5k = 1/5
>
> If follows that k = 1/120
>
> The other equation gives
>
> 5k + 5k + 5k + 1k = 1/6
>
> Which gives the result that k = 1/96
>
> Therefore that solution is incorrect.




Heh, this is true. Nice one!

Try and disprove Flander's one then.
Thats the answer I had ie 49 pieces of land.

Flanders wrote:
> The triplets got 13 each and good old Rastus got 9.
>
> Dah dah....

Prove it, don't just hash the problem into a search engine.

Gangsta Hamsta wrote:
> mäddmuñ wrote:
> Weedy - 1
> Triplets - 5 each
> Rastus - 9
>
>
> Not actually the answer I had, but I can't see why it doesn't work.

I can. The land has to be split in accordane with their work rates.

Take a constant k to link productivity with field allocation

Thus

9k + 5k + 5k +5k = 1/5

If follows that k = 1/120

The other equation gives

5k + 5k + 5k + 1k = 1/6

Which gives the result that k = 1/96

Therefore that solution is incorrect.

The triplets got 13 each and good old Rastus got 9.

Dah dah....

yea sorry Gangsta Hamsta, i double checked and you were wrong it should be

Doc
Happy
Smelly
Sneezy
Stumpy
Sleepy
Grumpy
Dopey
Droopy
Bashful

Still think I'm right :-P

Mine is different to Maddmun's though!

wait, ah, they are both wrong. YOu put nedless information in sometimes though.

(Random names used)
Sneezy is beind Dopey, Stumpy and HAPPY. HAPPY is in front of sneezy,

The why did you say well done to me?

What did I get wrong?