{"id":412,"date":"2010-09-17T13:20:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T11:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wsnoi.com\/tn\/?p=412"},"modified":"2010-09-17T13:50:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T11:50:39","slug":"3-ways-to-solve-1-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsnoi.com\/tn\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"3 ways to solve 1 Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Puzzle:<br \/>\n<\/strong>One day you find yourself receiving another\u00a0 FW:-type of e-mail being titled \u201cPuzzle\u201d.<br \/>\nSince you\u2019re already bored of dealing with the puzzles your boss is paying you to solve each day you decide to give it a shot.<\/p>\n<p>Next thing you\u2019re reading is:<br \/>\n<em>\u201cOnly skilled people can open this file. Once you succeed to open this file, you will find names of the people who have managed to open this &#8230; Now it is your turn!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Darn. This must be something! Sounds like there is an actual Hall of Fame cropped up inside that file. I must have at least finished my PHD to get myself listed there as well. So if that puzzle is so difficult, will I find just any names in there? And who do they think I am to be able to open this file at all?<br \/>\nWell,\u00a0 it was my wife who sent me this, so I dropped that whole fear about my PHD.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so to spice things up, the creator of this puzzle thought he\u2019d be creative by giving us a small background story:<br \/>\n<em>\u201cA man wanted to get into his work building, but he had forgotten his code. However, he did remember five clues.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nGet on with it already!<br \/>\n<em>\u201cThese are what those clues were:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The fifth number plus the third number equals fourteen.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The fourth number is one more than the second number.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The first number is one less than twice the second number.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The second number plus the third number equals ten.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The sum of all five numbers is 30.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If I\u2019d ever think of some code to get into a building, I\u2019d sooner forget these lousy clues rather then to forget the whole FUCKING CODE!<br \/>\nAnyways, I happen to be the most patient person you\u2019d ever met. So let us answer this question:<br \/>\n<em>\u201cWhat were the five numbers and in what order? The answer unlocks the attachment above! :-)\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nOf course there could only be one combination hidden inside that password line. But let me tell you this: up until now I found at least THREE ways of getting to the solution among my contacts. In the end I decided to reward ourselves by \u2018Gold\u2019, \u2018Silver\u2019 and \u2018Bronze\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My wife Jenny got the Golden solution:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Replacing all numbers by letters per position, you could come to A B C D and E.<br \/>\nDefinitely the code \u2018ABCDE\u2019 will not be accepted. So with the given clues we\u2019re going to figure out which letter represents each number.<\/p>\n<p>From the given clues we have the following relations :<br \/>\n1) C+ E = 14<br \/>\n2) D = B + 1<br \/>\n3) A = 2B -1<br \/>\n4) B+ C = 10<br \/>\n(1) \u2013 (4) gives us : E \u2013 B = 4<\/p>\n<p>With the help of what we now know about B, we\u2019re able to figure out more about the other letters:<br \/>\nA = 2B &#8211; 1<br \/>\nC = 10 &#8211; B<br \/>\nD = B + 1<br \/>\nE = B + 4<\/p>\n<p>Still we need to get ourselves to\u00a0 A+B+C+D+E = 30.<br \/>\nLet\u2019s rewrite this to: (2B-1) +B + (10-B) +(B +1) + (B + 4) = 30.<br \/>\nAnd condense the rest to:<br \/>\n4B + 14 = 30<br \/>\nB = 4<\/p>\n<p>Jenny just cracked the code!!!<br \/>\nA = 7 \/ B = 4 \/ C = 6 \/ D = 5 \/ E = 8<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile I tried my LUCK and the Silver solution:<br \/>\n<\/strong>I\u2019ll just afford myself making two assumptions:<br \/>\n1. Could the 5 numbers be unique numbers?<br \/>\n2. Could it be that those numbers follow up like it is with 12345?<\/p>\n<p>After knowing the result I happened to, indeed, be so lucky and started with the last clue: The sum must be 30.<br \/>\nDefinitely 1+2+3+4+5 won\u2019t bring me there. So let me start with 5+6+7+8+9.<br \/>\nNope, that makes a total of 35. I need to make it less five.<br \/>\nAh, 4+5+6+7+8 makes 30 alright!<\/p>\n<p>With that problem solved all I need to worry about is the order. Just like in Mastermind.<\/p>\n<p>Now, only 6+8 will result to 14 (first clue). So it\u2019s XX6X8 for now. X representing the numbers I haven\u2019t figured out yet.<br \/>\nFrom here on it\u2019s all very simple. The third number happens to be in the fourth clue as well, so I can only give the second position to number 4 (4+6 = 10). Third clue is peanuts now. (4+4 )-1 = 7.<br \/>\nLeaving 5 to be on the fourth place.<\/p>\n<p>Just to make sure let us read the second clue once again:<br \/>\n<em>\u201cThe fourth number is one more than the second number.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em>Ah well, I figured that out. Didn\u2019t need that clue anyways!\u00a0 But it was my LUCK which gave me a good headstart!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Then Jenny\u2019s colleague Anthony found yet a third way to solve this Puzzle. Leaving him with the Bronze solution:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HE USED GOOGLE!<\/p>\n<p><em>( Now if\u00a0one day you happen to receive this same e-mail, can you find it within your heart to add the text:<br \/>\n&#8216;solved with the help of Tycoon Newspaper&#8217;!!!!<br \/>\nI might even reward you with a Platinum solution. Har har&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Puzzle: One day you find yourself receiving another\u00a0 FW:-type of e-mail being titled \u201cPuzzle\u201d. Since you\u2019re already bored of dealing with the puzzles your boss is paying you to solve each day you decide to give it a shot. Next thing you\u2019re reading is: \u201cOnly skilled people can open this file. Once you succeed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eindelijk-uitgeworteld","category-english","category-webs-best"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsnoi.com\/tn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsnoi.com\/tn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsnoi.com\/tn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsnoi.com\/tn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsnoi.com\/tn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsnoi.com\/tn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsnoi.com\/tn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsnoi.com\/tn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsnoi.com\/tn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}