Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[4candles]

After several recounts - only seeing 40 today.

[kitz]

yay thats what I get too.   The floor is all yours

[4candles]

Thank you kitz.

What 5 letter word, all upper case, reads the same upside down?

[kitz]

I'll have to get my thinking cap on for this one. 

So far I've come up with MADAM, but that doesnt read the same up side down, them so back to the drawing board 
Ive got a list of letters that looks the same upside down, hopefully only 5 letters shouldnt be that hard. 

[4candles]

Ive got a list of letters that looks the same upside down...

Hint: The question only specifies that the word should read the same upside down.

[kitz]

Hint: The question only specifies that the word should read the same upside down.

SWIMS?

[4candles]

Yay! - I knew you'd get it in the end 

Over to you kitz...

[kitz]

yeah.. finally lol.  Thankful that i decided S was going to be my starter letter and the middle one most likely to be a vowel if the 2nd letter was a consonant, so didn't actually take that long running through possible letters that would work with S.  I think the hardest part was my brain wanted to mirror letters rather than upside downing them.

_______________________________________________________________________

>> Over to you kitz. <<

I have one to post, but want to first make sure that I can solve it myself  which isnt easy when you have a cat trying to knock every object  from the desk to the floor and walk over the keyboard.

[kitz]

I have one to post, but want to first make sure that I can solve it myself

Sorry for the delay, I didn't want to publish a puzzle that I couldn't solve myself.  When I first found this brain teaser, I thought it would just take me a wee while to figure out the logic behind it and then publish.

A few days later and even after drawing on/off switches in Excel I still hadn't found a working solution.  I was stumped and had to peek at the answer.
I then groaned as I'd been looking at things from the wrong angle and not thinking outside of the box.

Having not been able to find the solution myself I was a bit hesitant about publishing it. But OTOH someone may wonder what was the puzzle that stumped me.   In the end I have decided to post it, but giving you the massive clue that I didn't have - don't spend too long looking for a logic pattern in the switches.

There is a lightbulb inside a closet. The door is closed, and you cannot see if the light is on or off through the door.
However, you know the light is off to start. Outside of the closet, there are three light switches. One of the switches controls the lightbulb in the closet. You can flip the switches however you want, but once you open the door, you can no longer touch the switches.

How do you figure out without a doubt which switch controls the light?