Smart V Dumb
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Cablejockey | Wednesday, June 05, 2002 - 08:20 am     Did anyone figure out thoses puzzles before the players did? I could not figure out one! I felt so stupid--anyone else out there in the same brain-boat. |
Bob2112 | Wednesday, June 05, 2002 - 09:04 am     We (me, wife and kids) got 4 of the 5, but didn't get close to unscrambling the word. We do a lot of puzzles and brain teasers with the kids, so we have seen many similar puzzles. Anything with numbers or patterns, and we're usually OK. Now, back to that word. No matter how I arranged the letters, I kept getting: B I L L I S T H E M O L E I know it's more than one word (and don't ask where the B, H, or O came from), but that's what I got. I also think that Dorothy (not the mole, see earlier in this post :-) knew both answers they got wrong initially, and was just trying to attract attention to herself by "guessing" the correct answer at the last second. That's what I would have done. |
Julieboo | Wednesday, June 05, 2002 - 10:12 am     What was the word? |
Bob2112 | Wednesday, June 05, 2002 - 10:43 am     Anderson said it was : M I S T R U S T F U L N E S S but I keep getting : B I L L I S T H E M O L E Go figure! SpongeBob2112 Back to the suck thread for me ... |
Pamy | Wednesday, June 05, 2002 - 07:12 pm     How do you get Bill is the Mole from those letters???? Ther is no B in the letters they had to unscramble
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Angelnikki | Wednesday, June 05, 2002 - 07:36 pm     no B and no O and no H |
Llkoolaid | Wednesday, June 05, 2002 - 08:01 pm     I got the word, and the money one, you just start backwards on that kind of question. I knew how to get the paint but didn't have time to figure it out. I wasn't sure on the shapes, would have picked A but B was my second choice. I don't remember the other one. I love these kind of games. It has nothing to do with being dumb or smart. If you like to play these type of games you will see the same types over and over again and it becomes easier to get them. Some people like puzzles and some don't. I can see Dorothy getting Mistrustfulness at the last second because that is usually how these ones come to you, you just suddenly see the word and it makes sense, but when she said let's pick a random number like 90 and it was right I thought that was a little fishy. I still remember Kathryn solving puzzles on the last mole because the pot was too low and they wanted to get the prize up. I might just have to keep a closer watch on her and give Bill a rest. |
Pamy | Wednesday, June 05, 2002 - 08:05 pm     Where is BOB??? How did you get that answer? Enquiring minds want to know!!!
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Bob2112 | Wednesday, June 05, 2002 - 09:52 pm     Now I've done it. That's what I get for coming out of lurkdom. :-) See, I'm so bad with the letter puzzles that I just add and remove letters until I see what I want. I find them much easier that way. Sorry I didn't replay sooner. I've spent the last 6 hours driving to Ohio so I can spend the next 2 days riding the coasters at Cedar Point. I'll check in again Thursday evening to let everyone know if I see any other messages in the letters: F I L M N E R S S S S T T U U I think there have be some more clues in those letter.  |
Bob2112 | Wednesday, June 05, 2002 - 10:06 pm     Oh, the shapes you can get a couple of ways. Since there are 4 objects that were being selected in pairs, there are a total of 6 unique combinations (or is it permutations?). Choice B was the only pair in the bottom list that was not yet used in the top list of 5. The other pattern you might see was that 2 of the shapes had been used 3 times and 2 of the shapes had only been used 2 times. The shapes used only 2 times were both present in choice B. Also, I looked at the letters again and I got: S P O N G E B O B 2 1 1 2 I N T H E S U C K T H R E A D Please don't ask where the numbers came from. They are readily visible if you just squint a little and look at the letters upside down.  |
Faerygdds | Thursday, June 06, 2002 - 01:26 am     I am a math/word game person... my hubby is an anagram freak. He got the word in about a minute. I got the 90 one by working backwars. once I wrote down the algerbraic equation I realized how easy it was and just worked it backwards. They kept coming up with an odd number. My guess is their last answer was 45, so Dorothy may have just doubled it to 90 thinking.. If anything was it maybe it was that... actually quite logical. The only one I couldn't get was the circle with the leters in it. For some reason it just blew my buffer! |
Llkoolaid | Thursday, June 06, 2002 - 04:40 am     I forgot about the circle one but we didn't get the time to look at them that they did. I kept putting vowels in first and didn't have the time to do it. You either love these games or you hate them. I love them. |
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