Paper Puzzles...

[Crossbreed]

A thread for text & graphic puzzles.

(It's okay to share your number guessed,
but use the spoiler tags for your reasoning or don't show it.)​

 

[StephF]

Having knowledge is easy, being able to use that knowledge is hard.
To put that another way, there are many paths to a solution and the person who knows that is smart.

Spoiler: Answer

The answer is 2

 

[Crossbreed]

When I first solved this, it was by thinking like a programmer, but the pre-school rationale becomes clear right away.

 

[AGXStarseed]

In the spirit of honesty, I have no idea.
My maths is shoddy at best but I've no idea how to approach this.

 

[Crossbreed]

If you look at it like a pre-schooler, you can figure it out. (They have less maths than you do. )

 

[AGXStarseed]

If you look at it like a pre-schooler, you can figure it out. (They have less maths than you do. )

I've no idea how to "look at it like a pre-schooler" - pre-school (or reception year as we call it here in the UK) was a long time ago.
You mind telling me in a spoiler how to approach this for future reference? (otherwise it's just going to bother me big time).

 

[Crossbreed]

I will after a number of people have posited an answer.

 

[AGXStarseed]

I will after a number of people have posited an answer.

Never mind, I've just worked it out now.
(I should have kept an open mind instead of been so focused on what I thought was there)

 

[Crossbreed]

That only took you 29 mins. If you are correct, that's faster than the programmer...

 

[AGXStarseed]

That only took you 29 mins.

Not as smart as a pre-schooler, then.
Ah well, I can laugh at myself for that.

 

[Vinca]

A thread for text & graphic puzzles.

(It's okay to share your number guessed,
but use the spoiler tags for your reasoning or don't show it.)​

Spoiler: Answer and working out

2581 = 2

workings out

6666 = 4
0000 = 4
9999 = 4

therefore

6 has a value of 1
0 has a value of 1
9 has a value of 1

1111=0
2222=0
3333=0
5555=0
7777=0

therefore

1 has a value of 0
2 has a value of 0
3 has a value of 0
5 has a value of 0
7 has a value of 0

if 8809 = 6 and 0 and 9 each have a value of 1, then 6-2=4 4/2=2 therefore 8 has a value of 2

This was Fun

 

[Crossbreed]

This was Fun

Yours was the programmer approach. If you look back at your process, you may be able to spot the pre-schooler approach.

 

[tree]

Spoiler

It's just counting the circular shapes in the numbers.

Oh.
I see.
Yeah.
I didn't enjoy that at all.

 

[Crossbreed]

Oh.
I see.
Yeah.
I didn't enjoy that at all.

Over-thinking a problem is common among engineers, too.

 

[Abe1]

Answer in the spoiler, and looks like I agree with the answers so far yay.

Spoiler

My thoughts is the answer is 2.

Each number corresponds with a different assigned number and from a process of elimination.
2 and 5 and 1 are zero.
while 8 is 2, add these all up and the total is 2.

 

[Flinty]

Spoiler

2, being the number of full loops within the digits

And yet I spend so much time avoiding pre-schoolers.

 

[Crossbreed]

Spoiler

It's just counting the circular shapes in the numbers.

Every numerical reply was correct and tree was first with the simplest answer!

 

[Crossbreed]

New puzzle...

What is the number of the lot that is occupied?
(Remember to put your answer in a SPOILER block.)​

 

[AGXStarseed]

New puzzle...

What is the number of the lot that is occupied?
(Remember to put your answer in a SPOILER block.)​

Got it.

Spoiler

87

 

[tree]

New puzzle...

What is the number of the lot that is occupied?
(Remember to put your answer in a SPOILER block.)​

I thought at first it was something fun about 16 & 6 being ten apart, and 68 & 88 twenty apart,
so 98 would have to be 30 apart, but not 30 less because the pattern would be [from the left]
More,Less, More, so the answer would have to be 128.

Which it is not.

Spoiler

The car is parked on 87. To understand what the numbers are you have to be able
to place yourself in the proper relationship to them. I am so bad at this I don't think I can even
explain it. You stand...facing outward? From the back of the car? As if you were standing with your
face pointing out from the screen/in the direction of the front of the car
? Instead of where you really are, looking at it. Or you could say,
turn the puzzle upside down. Rotation or any kind of movement is difficult to impossible for me
to describe. I get lost.

Other things similar to this that I am no good at
include Spy vs Spy cartoons, Manga or comic
books without text.