Solve Enjoyable Enigmas with Mr.E's Challenge

[OmCheeto]

Next puzzle, I don't drink beer.

It's obvious the tolerance isn't that tight. The tolerance is more like a half pitcher either way.

sorry...

unsubscribed... (I really am, really stupid)

 

[Enigman]

Tilt the barrel till beer reaches the rim of barrel, at that point if you can see the top edge of bottom of barrel, it is half filled, if you can see the bottom of barrel its less than half, if not its more than half. I'm going to be busy for the next week; hence the prompt answer.
Regards.

 

[OmCheeto]

Resubscribe.

A Norwegian, an Italian, and an American jump from a plane.

Who lands last?

 

[OmCheeto]

Resubscribe.

A Norwegian, an Italian, and an American jump from a plane.

Who lands last?

Ok. That was silly.

Today, I have been sharing these puzzles, at work, ad absurd am.
It was my observation, that everyone was enjoying the conversation.

But then I realized, that the FBD I'd drawn on my hand, voiced by Zoob, was the solution, to the previous question.

I felt very silly.

 

[OmCheeto]

Tilt the barrel till beer reaches the rim of barrel, at that point if you can see the top edge of bottom of barrel, it is half filled, if you can see the bottom of barrel its less than half, if not its more than half. I'm going to be busy for the next week; hence the prompt answer.
Regards.

Ok. That makes sense.

But, when's the last time someone saw a symmetric barrel, in real life?

 

[drizzle]

Until Enigman is back, you give the next puzzle/s Om!

 

[OmCheeto]

Until Enigman is back, you give the next puzzle/s Om!

But, I don't know any puzzles.

I suppose I could post the puzzle that is the basis for the reason why I would unsubscribe from a thread in a tantrum^*. hmmm...

You are a dipstick manufacturer in Denver.
Hans, in Munich Germany, needs you to design a dipstick that measures the quantity of beer in his barrel.

Here's a picture of the barrel:

You don't have a computer, but you are very good at math. In fact, you are the smartest mathematician in the world.

Why can't you figure out where to put the marks on the dipstick. With the possible exceptions of full, half full, and empty? ​

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* The mere image of a sideways cylinder makes my blood boil.

 

[256bits]

Oh. I know that one.

Because the dipsick-mathematician and Hans can't agree on whether it is better to know if the the barell is half full or half empty.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I'll recycle something from a Sherlock Holmes story:

Sherlock Holmes' sidekick, Dr. Watson, was a medical doctor. When he set up practice he took over the office and clients of a doctor who was retiring from a life-long practice there. This office was on the second floor of a wooden building. There happened to be another Doctor in the same building, but access to his office was by a different set of stairs. By coincidence, the doctor currently there also took over the office and clients from a previous doctor who retired from life-long practice there, about the same time as Watson's predecessor.

The first times Holmes visited Watson's office he instantly congratulated him on having taken over for the far more successful of the two previous doctors. He was right, but Watson was baffled by how he could have known that was the case.

How could Holmes know, with a mere superficial look at the exterior of the two different offices, that Watson's predecessor had been the more popular and sought after doctor?

 

[Enigman]

I'll recycle something from a Sherlock Holmes story:

Sherlock Holmes' sidekick[Mr.E-WHAT? sidekick sounds so derogatory...how about chronicler?], Dr. Watson, was a medical doctor. When he set up practice he took over the office and clients of a doctor who was retiring from a life-long practice there. This office was on the second floor of a wooden building. There happened to be another Doctor in the same building, but access to his office was by a different set of stairs. By coincidence, the doctor currently there also took over the office and clients from a previous doctor who retired from life-long practice there, about the same time as Watson's predecessor.

The first times Holmes visited Watson's office he instantly congratulated him on having taken over for the far more successful of the two previous doctors. He was right, but Watson was baffled by how he could have known that was the case.

How could Holmes know, with a mere superficial look at the exterior of the two different offices, that Watson's predecessor had been the more popular and sought after doctor?

Just a drive-by...

 

[zoobyshoe]

Just a drive-by...

I know you're a Holmes fan, though, and may simply remember the answer. And in the story, Holmes blurts it out before the reader has time to ponder.

I'm wondering if, in the absence of such a spoiler, people can think of plausible clues. It's stipulated one doctor had a far better clientele for his whole career. Given the above info about the building and layout, what difference might we expect to see?

 

[Enigman]

I know you're a Holmes fan, though, and may simply remember the answer

Honestly, I didn't -wouldn't have answered it if I already knew it.

And in the story, Holmes blurts it out before the reader has time to ponder.

Holmes never 'blurts' he 'remarks'. Doyle uses that word almost exclusively for Holmes' deductions.

I'm wondering if, in the absence of such a spoiler, people can think of plausible clues. It's stipulated one doctor had a far better clientèle for his whole career. Given the above info about the building and layout, what difference might we expect to see?

Offhand I would say the extent of wearing out of benches in waiting room could serve as a pointer, especially towards the edges -If its too crowded. Recent renovations, better taste in decoration etc. would be other considerations. The face of the receptionist may be a clue too...
God, I need to stop procrastinating...I will have to unsubscribe from this thread...phone rings up at every post and shows annoying alerts about new posts...and I am a sucker for puzzles.

 

[Enigman]

Next one:
Find the next in series
3,1,4,1,5,9,2,_?

 

[Enigman]

Archie hates you all...

 

[drizzle]

Is it 7?

 

[Enigman]

It may be...logic please.

 

[drizzle]

Well, here's what went through my mind:

3 -2 +5 -11 +24 -44 +61
1 +3 -6 +13 -20 +17
4 -3 +7 -7 -3 +6
1 +4 0 -11 +3
5 +4 -11 +23
9 -7 +12 -25
2 +5 -13 +13
7 -8 0 +14
-1 -8 +14
-9 +6 -15
-3 -9 +16
-11 +5
And so on.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Next one:
Find the next in series
3,1,4,1,5,9,2,_?

the next is 6 and the one after that is 5.

I spent 20 minutes on it and then (DOH!) realized I should have seen it in a second.

 

[drizzle]

Is there a pattern, zshoe?

 

[Enigman]

the next is 6 and the one after that is 5.

I spent 20 minutes on it and then (DOH!) realized I should have seen it in a second.

OH YEAH! The answer is 6 its just the expansion of $$\pi$$. I am obsessed with Archimedes...
I thought Gad rounded it off...
^{I didn't get her logic at all...}
EDIT: Just got it...sooo complicated...no I didn't really get it...

 

[drizzle]

Doooh!

 

[lendav_rott]

Heh, when I saw 3, 1, 4 in the start I thought of pi right away. Seems to prove people are sharper in the morning, if it were night time I would have kept staring at it and never found the solution xD

 

[collinsmark]

I want another clue about the Sherlock Holmes story.

 

[Enigman]

I want another clue about the Sherlock Holmes story.

I wear and tear my socks as I don't change them too often...*
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*true fact.

 

[collinsmark]

I wear and tear my socks as I don't change them too often...*
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*true fact.

Hmmm. <scratches head> Hmm. Okay, here's what I've been thinking so far.

Holmes knows that Watson's predecessor was the more successful because the other physician's stairs had greater signs of wear and tear than Watson's stairs did.

Watson's staircase seemed comparatively unused: old, as though it must have been there for a very long time, yet such that it hasn't gotten much use either.

The other physician's staircase showed signs of frequent use as multiple re-varnishings, footpaths down the sides of the stairs -- instead of the center, meaning patients were going back and forth at the same time, getting around each other -- and signs of repairs and maintenance of the handrails and whatnot.

Since the other physician's predecessor did a fine job of healing boils, disease and the like, his patients would come back for many repeat visits giving that set of stairs plenty of foot traffic.

Watson's predecessor on the other hand would heal ailment's before they were even symptomatic. Watson's predecessor's patients were rarely ill thus they would rarely need to come into his office for repeat checkups making Watson's predecessor the better physician of the two.

Something along those lines?

 

[lendav_rott]

It does say the building is wooden - if you walk back and forth on a wooden surface, varnished or not, it eventually starts paling in comparison to its surroundings which gives it the "old" look. However, that alone doesn't explain why Watson's predecessor was more successful in his career. If the other doctor had the funds to continuously renovate and still have his office and its exterior look like it's seen traffic then I would say his turnover was much greater than Watson's predecessor's.
Of course, this raises the question what exactly Holmes's definition of success was.

There has to be something else.. it's Holmesian deduction after all, his deductions were always ironclad.

E: I'm not sure of anything atm, Holmes lives in the 19th century England IIRC he was born in 1850 something according to a story, whose title I can't remember. The time of this doctor business is a bit later than the start of the Industrial revolution in England (1760 or so iirc), which started elevating the population growth so there couldn't be a shortage of clientele. Gah I'm overthinking heavily.


NEVER...BlooDY..MIND...collinsmark should be right - "Wear and tear as I don't change too often." English can sometimes be.. especially when it's not your first language -.- I should always overthink so much when the answer is right before my eyes.

 

[Enigman]

Googled it up 'the stockbroker's clock'...Don't remember the name...Its been 8 years since I completed the canon...

"Your neighbor is a doctor," said he, nodding at the brass plate.

"Yes; he bought a practice as I did."

"An old-established one?"

"Just the same as mine. Both have been ever since the houses were built."

"Ah! Then you got hold of the best of the two."

"I think I did. But how do you know?"

"By the steps, my boy. Yours are worn three inches deeper than his. But this gentleman in the cab is my client, Mr. Hall Pycroft. Allow me to introduce you to him. Whip your horse up, cabby, for we have only just time to catch our train."

You both are over-thinking things...
No one renovates stairs...not in 19th century- not with a doctor's salary...especially if he's not too succesfull.

 

[Enigman]

Next one (one of the more sillier ones)
In a clock all the hands are exactly placed between numbers 1 and 2. What time is the clock showing?

 

[Enigman]

There has to be something else.. it's Holmesian deduction after all, his deductions were always ironclad.

Mmmm...not really, Holmes did make mistakes as in "Yellow Face" (I think)...

 

[lendav_rott]

Next one (one of the more sillier ones)
In a clock all the hands are exactly placed between numbers 1 and 2. What time is the clock showing?

My watch doesn't have a second-counter, although if the hour&minute hands were between 1 or 2 and coinciding then it can only be like 1:05-1:10 am or pm somewhere around that time. Cba to do the math right now.
Wait, exactly placed does mean they are exactly in the same positions in relation to the 12 marker?