TWCP OTD - 7th of March, 2017
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I'M OLD There are seven houses, In each house there are seven cats, Each cat catches seven mice, Each mouse would have eaten seven ears of corn, If sown, each ear of corn would have produced seven heqat of grain. How many things are mentioned altogether? (They made me sick with all those new things today, so before you the oldest known - written - puzzle, form Egypt)
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
"It never ceases to amaze me that a spacecraft launched in 1977 can be fixed remotely from Earth." ― Brian Cox
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I'M OLD There are seven houses, In each house there are seven cats, Each cat catches seven mice, Each mouse would have eaten seven ears of corn, If sown, each ear of corn would have produced seven heqat of grain. How many things are mentioned altogether? (They made me sick with all those new things today, so before you the oldest known - written - puzzle, form Egypt)
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I'M OLD There are seven houses, In each house there are seven cats, Each cat catches seven mice, Each mouse would have eaten seven ears of corn, If sown, each ear of corn would have produced seven heqat of grain. How many things are mentioned altogether? (They made me sick with all those new things today, so before you the oldest known - written - puzzle, form Egypt)
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I try not to involve wives in my posts :-)
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I'M OLD There are seven houses, In each house there are seven cats, Each cat catches seven mice, Each mouse would have eaten seven ears of corn, If sown, each ear of corn would have produced seven heqat of grain. How many things are mentioned altogether? (They made me sick with all those new things today, so before you the oldest known - written - puzzle, form Egypt)
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
Dunno. What's a heqat? (If I google it, I'll probably get the puzzle - it's reasonably famous)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'M OLD There are seven houses, In each house there are seven cats, Each cat catches seven mice, Each mouse would have eaten seven ears of corn, If sown, each ear of corn would have produced seven heqat of grain. How many things are mentioned altogether? (They made me sick with all those new things today, so before you the oldest known - written - puzzle, form Egypt)
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
There are seven houses, In each house there are seven cats, Each cat catches seven mice, Each mouse would have eaten seven ears of corn, If sown, each ear of corn would have produced seven heqat of grain. I had to lookup Hekat (unit) - Wikipedia[^].
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I try not to involve wives in my posts :-)
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Dunno. What's a heqat? (If I google it, I'll probably get the puzzle - it's reasonably famous)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
It is extremely famous... And heqat is a unit used to measure - grain too - in ancient Egypt... It is a kind of bowl of about 4.8 liter...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I'M OLD There are seven houses, In each house there are seven cats, Each cat catches seven mice, Each mouse would have eaten seven ears of corn, If sown, each ear of corn would have produced seven heqat of grain. How many things are mentioned altogether? (They made me sick with all those new things today, so before you the oldest known - written - puzzle, form Egypt)
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
Five "things" are mentioned: Houses, Cats, Mice, Ears of Corn, Grain. (Multiple instances of each "thing" of course). OR 7(H) + 49(C) + 2401(E) + 16807(G) = 19264. The 343 mice don't exist any more, having been eaten by the cats. Because the cats exist, the mice don't (and are therefore only "imaginary" or "remembered" things), so the ears of corn and their grain do exist. Although, the wording implies that the corn has not been sown, hence the grain doesn't exist; so maybe 7(H) + 49(C) + 2401(E) = 2457. OR the classical answer of 19607. The problem has been inadequately specified.
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Five "things" are mentioned: Houses, Cats, Mice, Ears of Corn, Grain. (Multiple instances of each "thing" of course). OR 7(H) + 49(C) + 2401(E) + 16807(G) = 19264. The 343 mice don't exist any more, having been eaten by the cats. Because the cats exist, the mice don't (and are therefore only "imaginary" or "remembered" things), so the ears of corn and their grain do exist. Although, the wording implies that the corn has not been sown, hence the grain doesn't exist; so maybe 7(H) + 49(C) + 2401(E) = 2457. OR the classical answer of 19607. The problem has been inadequately specified.
DerekTP123 wrote:
inadequately specified
And that was by intention... or it seems to...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Five "things" are mentioned: Houses, Cats, Mice, Ears of Corn, Grain. (Multiple instances of each "thing" of course). OR 7(H) + 49(C) + 2401(E) + 16807(G) = 19264. The 343 mice don't exist any more, having been eaten by the cats. Because the cats exist, the mice don't (and are therefore only "imaginary" or "remembered" things), so the ears of corn and their grain do exist. Although, the wording implies that the corn has not been sown, hence the grain doesn't exist; so maybe 7(H) + 49(C) + 2401(E) = 2457. OR the classical answer of 19607. The problem has been inadequately specified.
To further confuse: one example: 'ears of corn' = 2 things, 'ears of corn' and 'corn' itself. or for the pedantic, "How many things are mentioned?" None or one: 'thing'/'things' is never mentioned in the scenario (none), but is mentioned in the question (one) - depends if counting literally and where it's being counted. Heck, if English were easy then everybody would understand it.
