A Noted Path

Personal blog of Theodore Nguyen-Cao

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Puzzle - 100 Doors

I’m a big fan of logic puzzles. Normally, we only get asked these kind of questions during interviews but they are pretty fun to think about outside of an interview setting.
Here we go:
There are 100 doors in a long hallway. They are all closed. The first time you walk by each door, [...]

Re: Gold Bar Riddle

As promised, click here the solution.
There’s only one way to pay the stone mason after the first day of work and that’s to cut the gold bar into two pieces, a 1/7th piece and 6/7th piece.The pharaoh gives him him the 1/7th piece.
At the end of day two, the pharaoh is able to make [...]

Gold Bar Riddle

I was recently given this puzzle and I thought I would share it with everyone else. So the puzzle starts…
There’s a pharaoh who wants to build a huge pyramid to compensate for his lack of self confidence. He hires a stonemason to build his pyramid in 7 days and agrees to pay the [...]

 

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