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Citizen Premier
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 | 01:08 AM
Took me a while. I'd comment more on it, but I'm afraid I'd ruin it for everyone else. |
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 | 01:22 AM
Although I think "The smarter you are, the longer it takes" was just a way for the professor to cover his own butt. |
Sharruma
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 | 01:43 AM
I'm a genious, I can't get it ;( |
Sharruma
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 | 01:50 AM
Okay I got it, must've taken me nearly fifteen minutes though. |
Projectmayhem
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 | 04:49 AM
It's a one trick horse. 5's are worth 4, 3's 2. End of story. It's just damned frustrating when you try to add, multiply fucking everything.
It's the epitome of the obvious hiding in plain sight. This type of shit has led me to question school on more than one equation. |
Ellie
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 | 07:09 AM
This was so painfully obvious, I don't get the point. I am usually thick as a brick on these kinds if things. Buh. |
Nick
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 | 07:27 AM
"It had taken Dr. Duke well over a year himself, and he would always explain that the smarter you were, the longer it took to figure it out."
I first saw this when a chemistry teacher of mine invited the class to join the 'polar bear club'- all you had to do was tell him how many 'polar bears' there were round the 'ice-hole'. and not tell anyone the secret, obviously. |
Alex
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 | 11:11 AM
I'm obviously a complete idiot because I got the answer instantly. And I think this is an instance where it's okay to say that 'any idiot should get the answer right away.' But if you're a genius, it might take a little longer. |
Charybdis
in Hell
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 | 04:50 PM
Yeah, first try. Damn, I thought I was smarter than that. I guess I should have lied and said three days. |
MrKurto
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 | 04:57 PM
"Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 | 10:22 PM
Although I think "The smarter you are, the longer it takes" was just a way for the professor to cover his own butt."
i agree.
i think you just have to be open-minded to think of the solution. my brother still can't get it.. and he's a regular idiot |
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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 | 01:15 AM
Don't read on if you haven't solved it yet!
But anyways, I think the smartest person would figure it out first; I spent a lot of time trying to work with the numbers, but a person with a sense of the real would realize the significance of the dice and that the problem involved shapes and not numbers. |
Maegan
in Tampa, FL - USA
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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 | 11:42 AM
...I never was good at this sort of thing. Even after reading everyone's hints (& I thought I had it once...), I didn't get it. I guess I'm just thick. Although...maybe the reference about the smartest people not figuring it out has to do w/ people who understand a lot of #s, shapes, patterns will work too hard to see what is actually being shown. Overthinking things. So people w/ a simpler thought process will not have any of that in their head while looking at it. |
thunder
in England
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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 | 11:52 AM
yay I figured it out! Took me about five minutes so I can't be that smart |
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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 | 05:27 PM
Well, the belief that smarter people take longer to solve it would be contrary to "the seminar program" which I am in. It's an advance series of classes in my school and many others for student who score exceptionally well on a pattern-recognition test. I think that whoever says this test takes smarter people longer would insist that mathmatically-oriented people are smarter. Might I remind you that there is no clinical definition for "smart?" |
Razela
in Chicago, IL
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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 | 05:34 PM
Yah, so I've been working on this thing around 5 minutes and don't think I'm even close. I'll think I have it and get a few in a row, then it's wrong. I know it's something easy and simple, but it's just not coming. Is it safe to say that college has destroyed my chances at ever understanding another simple puzzle? |
Dave Lowe
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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 | 06:23 PM
Took me about 15 mins to figure it out and I've got an IQ of 129 (thats 2 points off joining MENSA). I think the smarter you are thing is a loada rubbish, its more a test to see just how creative and open-minded you are. |
Boo
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Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 | 05:27 AM
Ok, took me about ten minutes to get this.
It's kinda logical in a really bloody annoying type of way. |
Maegan
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Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 | 09:32 AM
...Okay. I was just trying to boost my own ego, since I obviously haven't gotten it.
GAHH!! Maybe I'm just not creative or open-minded. And to think...part of my employee evaluation was based on my creative ability & my ability to think outside the box. Guess I should give that extra $2/hr back. |
X
in McKinney, TX
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Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 | 09:42 AM
Hmm, I have been working on this all weekend, while only taking Bathroom breaks. Will one of the(to be politically correct) "Educationally Challenged" people tell me how to do this?? |
Boo
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Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 | 09:51 AM
Where does asking someone else for the answer come under the whole intelligence ratio thingy?
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