RE: Riddle me this.
June 17, 2017 at 10:55 pm
(This post was last modified: June 17, 2017 at 11:03 pm by emjay.)
Just another quick point about the assumptions Losty; my dad's analysis of the marbles puzzle was that it would also work with nine marbles... but it chooses eight so that it sends you down the wrong track of thinking about say dividing it into groups of four (when it needs groups of three to succeed... whether it's eight marbles or nine) which is what I did wrong with that puzzle. So perhaps the key to all these puzzles is to look carefully right from the get go and try and identify what assumptions it wants you to make, and then be very wary of them.
I don't know if it would ruin it to think aloud and try to analyse this puzzle in terms of assumptions? What do you guys think?
I don't know if it would ruin it to think aloud and try to analyse this puzzle in terms of assumptions? What do you guys think?