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Jackpine Radical

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11. I don't think guessing will result in 20% correct.

Reply to JimDandy (Reply #4)

Sun Mar 8, 2015, 03:39 PM

Mar 2015

To get the first one correct requires you to make 4 choices of attribute for the first house, each with a 1/5 probability of being right, and so on. I'm too rusty at permutations & combinations to calculate it all, but the odds are a lot less than 20% of getting them all correct.

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Have you tried Einstein's Impossible Riddle? [View all] jmowreader Mar 2015 OP

This looks like fun!! arcane1 Mar 2015 #1

Used 'House Positions' as a column also. JimDandy Mar 2015 #2

You don't really need a house positions column jmowreader Mar 2015 #3

Perhaps that's why it took me so long JimDandy Mar 2015 #4

note that it's 2% can solve, not 2% can get the right answer fishwax Mar 2015 #9

Good distinction. n/t JimDandy Mar 2015 #14

I don't think guessing will result in 20% correct. Jackpine Radical Mar 2015 #11

You'd be right if you had to get all the categories correct. JimDandy Mar 2015 #15

Duh. Jackpine Radical Mar 2015 #16

perfect as a sticky wall exercise/riddle hopemountain Mar 2015 #5

Took me about 40 minutes. Kaleva Mar 2015 #6

I think I know krispos42 Mar 2015 #7

Looks like a logic puzzle. CrispyQ Mar 2015 #8

I saw a variation of this, traced back to a 1963 Reader's Digest. lastlib Mar 2015 #10

I don't think one has to guess at all Kaleva Mar 2015 #12

Maybe not, I'm just going from a vague memory.... lastlib Mar 2015 #13

I tried this over and over again Special Prosciuto Mar 2015 #17

No, but I've tried Epstein's note from Epstein's mother. Joe Shlabotnik Mar 2015 #18

Einstein didn't write this Blue_Tires Mar 2015 #19