DM'ing

[deadly7]

This was, of course, what I meant, if it wasn't obvious already. I never meant to (nor does it seem I did...) say that you can either have 0 fighting or lots of fighting. I'd like to think I deserve more credit than that.

I visit other websites where people exist in lands of all-or-nothing instead of the fine gradient that is life. I sometimes forget I have more intelligent friends.

[iago]

No, no celullar automata.

Glad you found a campaign you enjoy. Puzzles like that sound completely boring, though. An hour spent "No wait, push 3!" "No wait, push 1 and 3!!" Did bad things happen if you pushed the wrong buttons?

We're level 1 and starting a brand new game that none of us has ever played. There's gotta be some simple stuff. And it's amusing to have the occasional puzzle.

Of course, we wouldn't spend an hour sitting around not getting it. The DM would start giving us hints and pushes if we didn't know. Fortunately, I recognized the pattern fairly quickly and, though I didn't know what the entire board represented, I did figure out what the next number in the sequence was.

[iago]

Hint: each column represents a number.

[Blaze]

Hint: each column represents a number.

7?

[iago]

Hint: each column represents a number.

7?

Your strategy of guessing randomly will eventually work, but not yet.

[dark_drake]

On a related note, this is from last week's Pathfinder session. You find a locked door with the following configuration of tiles:
https://yfrog.com/odnyrpbj

and 20 buttons labeled 1 - 20. Which do you press?

I would either push all of them, or the last one.

That'd both be wrong.

FWIW, I'm the one who figured out which button to press during the game, and I was right.

13?

[Blaze]

Hint: each column represents a number.

7?

Your strategy of guessing randomly will eventually work, but not yet.

I've had reasoning beside my last two guesses, with the most reasoning being behind the latest.  Oh well.

[iago]

On a related note, this is from last week's Pathfinder session. You find a locked door with the following configuration of tiles:
https://yfrog.com/odnyrpbj

and 20 buttons labeled 1 - 20. Which do you press?

I would either push all of them, or the last one.

That'd both be wrong.

FWIW, I'm the one who figured out which button to press during the game, and I was right.

13?

Lucky guess, or can you explain why?

[dark_drake]

Lucky guess, or can you explain why?

Fibonacci sequence . 1 (1 white square), 1 (1 white square), 2 (2 white squares), 3 (3 white squares), 5 (3 white squares and 2 black squares with the black squares overlaying two of the white ones), 8 (3 white squares, 3 black squares on top of those, and 2 white squares on top of 2 of the black squares).

13 would come next.

[iago]

Lucky guess, or can you explain why?

Fibonacci sequence . 1 (1 white square), 1 (1 white square), 2 (2 white squares), 3 (3 white squares), 5 (3 white squares and 2 black squares with the black squares overlaying two of the white ones), 8 (3 white squares, 3 black squares on top of those, and 2 white squares on top of 2 of the black squares).

13 would come next.

*applause*

To be honest, I didn't figure out how the '8' was encoded - the DM told me after - but the 1 1 2 3 5 pattern was enough for me to get it fairly quickly. I thought the black ones counted as 2, which made sense for 5 but not 8. We wound up saying screwit, let's try 13. And it worked.

[rabbit]

I don't see it

[Sidoh]

y'know...that's one of the first things i checked for. guess i was too lazy/dumb to see how it was encoded.

TAing discrete math does terrible things to you...

[Blaze]

My reasoning behind 7 was very close, ignoring fibonacci entirely.  I thought black squares were taking away, not adding.

[deadly7]

y'know...that's one of the first things i checked for. guess i was too lazy/dumb to see how it was encoded.

TAing discrete math does terrible things to you...

Completely OT: It amazes me how clueless my discrete math class as a whole was. As a TA is this normal? Do people just not understand logic?

[Sidoh]

Yes, there are quite a few that just don't get it. Some will begin to understand after you spoon-feed them. Most semesters, the drop rate is something like 40%.

This is the nature of a weeder class, I guess.