Timely Puzzle

I know its a decade I have asked a puzzle or infact posted something at all ..

Again its a sequence Puzzle which I got to know recently ( infact last saturday ). i am posting it coz I was able to crack it ...otherwise would I have ?

Ok ..The sequence is

1,6,11,4,9 ,......

Can you find the sequence ?

Cheers,
Madhu
--The titan

The Prize Winner

Everyone wants to be the prize winner . This is what happened in a party that I had attended recently . There were 3 prizes A, B and C . Prize A was the costliest . Prize B was a normal prize .Prize C was a googly prize . One of the prizes was promised for everyone . But there was a condition.

The participant had to make a statement . If the statement was true , he would get A or B randomly. If his statement was false , he would get prize C . Obviously as a participant I eyed the prize A. I went ahead and asked them a question which made the organisers to give me Prize A.

What do you think would have been my question ?

Cheers,
Madhu
- Questioning the Questions .

The Mathematician's delight

Its Sequence time again . Again this should be a simple one to crack .

2, 27 , 271 , 2718, 27182 ,....


If I give a hint , my teacher who taught me Maths would kill me.

Cheers,
Madhu
Not a Napier

Matreeex

Fill up the matrix

 _  T  T  F  F
 S  S  E  N  T
 E  T  T  F  F
 S  S  E  N  T

Hint: it's not 'E'

Sum it if you can

A bit early as promised last week. Coz want you guys to ponder over the puzzle being posted over the weekend . Guys find the Sum of this .

S h O L E -
B I L E -
S O L -
h E I L +
S O L E +
O h -
L I E -
S h O E -
h O L E +
B L I S S

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Cheers,
Madhu

Khul Ja Sim Sim

This week will play Khul jaa sim sim .You are a contestant on the game show.

Three closed doors are shown before you. Behind one of these doors is a car; behind the others are "Fish". You do not know where the car is, but the presenter does. You pick a door and presenter opens one of the remaining doors, which doesnot have the car ..
If you have already chosen the correct door, Presenter is equally likely to open either of the two remaining doors with the fish.After presenter has shown a fish behind the door that he opens, you are always given the option to switch doors.What is the probability of winning the car if you stay with your first choice? What if you decide to switch? Would you prefer to switch doors . Explain .

Cheers,
Madhu the monty hall

NB: From next week I will post puzzles on Fridays for you to think over the solution over the weekend . Check for other puzzles from the labels link.

Cake Cutting

This week's puzzle is a very simple one . BTW were you able to solve last week's puzzle. I need to tell you that one of my juniors got the right solution . So as a treat I gave him the cake below and this puzzle.


You have a round cake as a treat . With three straight slices of a knife, divide the cake into 8 equal pieces.



















Can you help him enjoy his treat .

Cheers,
Madhu
Cake Cutter as they call me @ work

Puzzling Prisoners

There are 100 prisoners assigned by numbers in 1 to 100 . Any number can be assigned to them . They need not be unique. They can talk one time before they assigned and then don't have any connection. Each one is requested to guess his number (they can use different strategies). He can see their numbers (but not their guess).
How can they do it so at least one of them guesses correctly his number?

If you get this puzzle , I get you a treat .

Answer for this would be posted in2 weeks time . All discussions are welcome .

Cheers,
Madhu
-Intelligent Prisoner

This week's puzzle

This week's puzzle is pretty straight forward one . I had shared a sequence fillups with my friends. As a sequel , I have a few more ..


1) M, V , E , M, J , ......


2) A , E , F , H , I , K , ....


3) 4, 27 , 3125 , 823543 , ....


I guess you shd be able to crack all the three. Post your answers as comments . Add your names when you are posting your comments.

Cheers,
Madhu the sequencer

Puzzling Pirates...

Its Puzzle time again . I was planning to post puzzles as often a spossible . Thought this is an interesting and a simple puzzle too.. If you get the answer, please post the answer with ur name.

Five pirates discover a chest full of 100 gold coins. The pirates are ranked by their ages. Pirate 5 is 50 years old, Pirate 4 is 49, and so on down to Pirate 1. To divide up the loot, they agree on the following:
The most senior pirate will propose a distribution of the booty. All pirates will then vote, including the most senior pirate, and if at least 50% of the pirates on board accept the proposal, the gold is divided as proposed. If not, the most senior pirate is murdered. Then the process starts over with the next most senior pirate until a plan is approved.
All Pirates are equally intelligent and selfish. Their preference is first to remain alive, and next to get as much gold as possible and finally, if given a choice between otherwise equal outcomes, to have fewer pirates on the boat.
Assume you are the senior most pirate in the group. Come up with a plan that maximizes your gold, and others will accept. How will you divide the coins? Can you generalise ..

Madhu
Captain of Pirates

Puzzles

One of my favourite passtimes is solving puzzles. My all time favourite is
Fill up the blanks with numbers
There are --- 0s,---1s,---2s,---3s,---4s,---5s,---6s,---7s,---8s,---9s in this sentence.

Hope to get puzzled and keep puzzling again.