(July 5, 2015 at 1:47 am)pool Wrote: Well,i thought long and hard about this puzzle and i came to the conclusion that it is impossible to determine its answer logically.Why would it be impossible to determine the answers logically? Just because you can't figure it out, doesn't mean it can't be done.
But purely creative answer seemed like a no brainer to me.So i kind of mixed some creativity into my logic[...]
You don't seem to be taking into account all the information in the puzzle - mainly that those are incandescent light bulbs (it's specifically mentioned in your puzzle!), which means they heat up. That's why - as some people already mentioned - you can turn one switch on (switch A) , wait a couple of minutes, then turn it off, turn another one on (switch B) and go into the room with the lights. One of the lights will be lit - that's the last switch you turned on (switch B), one light bulb will be warm - that's the first switch (switch A) you turned on and then off, and the third one will be off and cold - that's the third switch (switch C), the one you did not turn on at all.
It's very simple - and logical. No need to start jumping into "pure creativity", which is - essentially - nonsense and the cause of great many bad ideas.
And if that's still too complicated and you want a "purely creative" solution that kind of "works" - you can just start ripping the cables out of the wall, until you figure out which switch is connected to which light. But that's not the point of the puzzle.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
