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Offline iago

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Breaking out
« on: November 14, 2005, 11:23:05 am »
Cecil is in jail for five years for killing some hikers.  He decides he wants to tunnel out. 

He has very little to work with, however.  He has a spoon, a fork, and a toothbrush.  He also has to worry about disposing of the dirt.  First, he has to get the bricks out.  It takes about 1 month (30 days)/brick, using the fork.  Then he has to dig through 100 feet of earth.  If he removes 12 bricks, it take about 18 days to dig through each foot of earth.  If he removes 25 bricks, it takes only 14.1 days to dig through a foot.  In addition to the digging, he also has to dispose of the dirt.  For each foot he digs, he spends 7 days disposing of the dirt. 

How many days will it take Cecil to get out of jail?

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Re: Breaking out
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2005, 05:58:22 pm »
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I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: Breaking out
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2005, 06:02:54 pm »
Yep! :)

And btw, when I created this, I pulled all those numbers out of my ass.  Then I did the math for both routes, and they worked out to within 10 days of each other, and were ~7 years, right where I wanted it!  That was amazing luck, I just had to add 0.1 to make the two paths equal, to add a little extra confusion :)


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Re: Breaking out
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2005, 07:00:37 pm »
Wasn't this kind of like the Count of Monte Cristo?

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Re: Breaking out
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2005, 07:16:14 pm »
No.  He just tunneled to another cell.  It's retarded to tunnel off a sheer-cliff island.

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Re: Breaking out
« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2005, 07:29:54 pm »
No.  He just tunneled to another cell.  It's retarded to tunnel off a sheer-cliff island.

But... it worked in the movie T_T

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Re: Breaking out
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2005, 07:41:56 pm »
IIRC, I loved that movie. :)

My Computer Engineering teacher has a book of riddles sort of like this.  iago seems to be using Cecil in the way that other book uses Shadow.  Btw, Sideshow Bob > Cecil.
And like a fool I believed myself, and thought I was somebody else...

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Re: Breaking out
« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2005, 07:47:48 pm »
I actually made up this riddle from scratch.  I rock :)

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Re: Breaking out
« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2005, 05:57:41 am »
Trick question; Cecil is dead. (see other riddle)

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Re: Breaking out
« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2005, 06:46:47 pm »
This happened before he died.  DUH!