A Little Puzzle 4 U...

[HUDSONJONES]

here's a quick brain teaser...

using a 5X5 chess board layout, arrange 5 Queens and 3 Pawns so the Pawns are not in any danger from the Queens(usual chess moves)...

 

[Rice Rocketeer]

wait..let me get my chess board up...

 

[SandStorm]

eh? ya can't have 5 queens!

 

[HUDSONJONES]

Originally posted by Jazza
eh? ya can't have 5 queens!

just work the puzzle out...

 

[HUDSONJONES]

c'mo people, think!!!!

 

[piesupreme]

it's impossible. you can' do it. if it is, i've just been mucking about for 15 minutes tryingt o figure it. tell me! PM me! just feckin tel me sso i can take the weight off my mind!

 

[jag_man_v12]

you've got me

 

[Monaro]

I suck. The most I can get is 1.... but I haven't really tried hard

 

[Monaro]

Woohoo! Just got 2!

 

[Monaro]

Am I allowed to stack them on top of each other?

 

[piesupreme]

i don't think so. i'm thinking there's a catch somewhere. there has to be.

 

[HUDSONJONES]

0 0 0 P P
q q 0 0 0
q 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 p
0 q q 0 0

 

[HUDSONJONES]

ok heres the next one, if i am 10 km from a coin, and each day i travel half the distance to the coin, how long before i am at exactly the same point as the coin...

 

[MistaX]

Originally posted by HUDSONJONES
ok heres the next one, if i am 10 km from a coin, and each day i travel half the distance to the coin, how long before i am at exactly the same point as the coin...

Never.

 

[Deathhawk]

Originally posted by MistaX


Never.

Exacty. (That means I agree)

 

[Monaro]

what is the radius of the coin? If you are measuring from the center of the coin then you will eventually touch it at some stage, but you will never get to the center of the coin

 

[MistaX]

He said the exact spot, you'll never get there

 

[Driven_out]

who cares if you are not exactly on the coin. if you can reach it, pick it up and go home. lol

 

[HUDSONJONES]

Originally posted by Driven_out
who cares if you are not exactly on the coin. if you can reach it, pick it up and go home. lol

true

 

[F2002]

would really help if i knew how to play chess !

 

[Rice Rocketeer]

this is so hard! ahhhhhhhhhh

 

[HUDSONJONES]

Originally posted by Rice Rocketeer
this is so hard! ahhhhhhhhhh

what is,

both answers are in this thread.........

 

[piesupreme]

the coin thing, works on the same princple as a half-life of an element. when carbon-dating, the element (for sake of arguement, uranium), will lose half of it's radioactiveness every X years. it will eventually get to 0, but not for another good few 100,000 years. to carbon date something would be to measure it's half-life, form the carbon in the element (if any), and find out how old it is. just an interesting point there.