Do you look up puzzle solutions if they take you too long or do you keep at it until you figure them out yourself...

Do you look up puzzle solutions if they take you too long or do you keep at it until you figure them out yourself, even if it blocks your progress with the game?

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I'd rather a game tell me upfront if it'd ever reach that point for some players.

I look it up if I have a hard cap on when I need to be in bed because I'm autismo and would probably lose sleep thinking about it. This has happened twice: the keypad puzzle in Silent Hill 3 hard, that constellation shrine in BotW.

>warden will let prisoners go if they win his silly game
who hired this guy anyway?

If there are X white hats then on day X of the game the people who see X-1 white hats will step forward and win.

The solution is a variable due to the random nature of how many hats there are and how long it takes for the prisoners to coordinate who steps out on what day. If they don't kill each other first.

Some associate of the Fashion Police it sounds like

there is something wrong with your chromosomes

Are you implying that is not the correct solution?

Someone with complex motives

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I'm not saying anything is changing X is a constant in my example. The prisoners can come to that solution even if they aren't allowed to communicate at all.

The question seems weirdly phrased, but I assume it's saying they can't communicate to each other what hat they have on

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Depends, if It seems like I could figure it out then I wait a bit then try again, if it feels like I won't be able to figure out the answer / if it seems unfair / badly made then I'll probably check online. Usually avoid to use internet when playing.

edit: My bad misread, I guess it's the same answer as what I'm saying below just differently put.

Nah, you just ask everyone to tell how many white hats they see. The ones that see one less than the others are the white hats and just have to step forward

*blocks your path*

If I can't solve a puzzle after not looking at it for a day and coming back to it then I'll look it up.

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I don't even try them. I don't play games for puzzles. Either get me to combat, lore or waifus, or stop wasting my time.

Correct.

8.67 times? So 9...?

78/9

My bad yeah still misread. Yeah they can't communicate verbally so that's not exactly the answer.

Found another way though, to communicate said number they just have to step up at day X, X being the number of white hat they see. That way everyone seeing one less hat than the others (meaning they have a white hat) will step up one day sooner than the ones having a black one.

Explain.

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Last time I put Strange Journey on hold till I figured out the count to 30 game.

I had to look up the constellation shine solution too, I don't know why I couldn't figure it out when it was pretty straightforward in hindsight.

Nevermind, it was wrong

count how many lines you can draw with the dip you fuckboy

I want to understand what you thought, user.

You run a cafe that serves four kinds of customer. Those who drink plain tea, who always tell the truth; those who drink plain coffee, who always lie; those who drink milky tea, who always lie, and those who drink milky coffee, who always tell the truth.

Three men (referred to as A, B and C) walk into your cafe, and make the following statements.

>A: I drink Coffee and B drinks Milk.
>B: I drink no milk and C drinks Tea.
>C: I drink Coffee and A drinks no milk.

You are, for a time stumped as to what to serve these men, before your assistant barista snaps his fingers and tells you he knows what to serve. You ask him how he figured it out, and he admits that he had already served one of the 3 men the day before, and remembered his order already.

He asks you if you would like to know what he knew, to make it fair, but you smile and tell him that you already know what to serve all three men.

What do you serve A, B, and C?

Put Three left three right
A. They are the same weight.
-> Put the remaining two on each side to find the lighter one
B. One is lighter.
->Put two of them on the scale to find the lighter one. If they are the same weight then it's the one that you didn't put on the scale.

123 on left 456 on right

If left is heavier then you can weigh any two out of the 4 5 and 6 against each other and either one will be lighter or the one you didn't weigh is lighter.

If right is heavier you do the same thing with 1 2 and 3.

If neither is heavier than just weigh 7 and 8 and one will be lighter.

Correct.

What I thought was to count the lines he was able to draw and divide that by the lines in the greater triangle, what I failed to do was account for the lines already present from previous triangle drawing. This is how a full days work and a few beers affect the mind.

What did he mean by this?

*slaps your gfs ass*

I give them what they asked for. I don't get paid enough for this shit.

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It takes as many days to escape as there are white hats. Eg. if there are 50 white hats, they will escape on day 50.

Good job anons.

ezpz

If the puzzles are the point of the game, looking them up would be retarded.

If someone just shoved puzzles into a game they have no business being in, I probably looked them up before I even considered solving them.

This one's dumb, I'd say eight

Correct.

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All of them will live

Nigga that raft isn't gonna go back by itself.

Nevermind that's wrong

13

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if the puzzles are shit, I'll look up the solution
see: The Witness

If they can all see each other, then they already know how many prisoners with white hats there are, but the part at the end "if all the prisoners know that there is at least one person with a white hat", then that implies there's only one hat and they guy who's wearing it is blind

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F

>If they can all see each other, then they already know how many prisoners with white hats there are

What kind of freakish mutant are you if you can see the top of your own head.

top left's subtitle is lying
top right makes sense
the impossible cube can very well be recreated as it's a corner outline of a simple cube, what about it makes it an impossible cube? what areas should I focus on that make it an impossibility?
the right table has an extra leg? what?
and the pyramid stairs are built such that the corner closest to the viewer is at the highest elevation, whereas the opposite end is at the lowest, rendering it's feasibility to 'COMPLETELY POSSIBLE'

is this supposed to make me exceptionally mad? because I'm super fucking mad
now explain to me why I'm stupid

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How does the clock treat midnight and noon? I'm not burger, I don't know your clocks.

12:00 for both.

Can't see your own hat. You just have to step up at day X where X is the number of hats you see. That way everyone with a white hat will step up the same day (one day earlier than the black hats would have stepped up)

I agree with Ross when it comes to puzzles. I enjoy getting stumped. But some games (mainly point and clicks) that basically require trial by fire in order to figure it out i will look up immediately.

I might give in on some of these Layton puzzles but ill hold off for as long as i can. I managed to get through puzzle agent without a guide but it took nearly a week.

Incorrect. On literally every count.

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5 if it shows 12:00 instead of 00:00

42 it is then. Isn't it always?

1-5am 1ea
10:11 (total 6)
11:X1 (excluding 11:11) (total 11)
11:1X (total 21)

Times 2 for pm

00:0*
01:11
02:22
03:33
04:44
05:55
11:1*

Fourteen total.

If he sees everyone else then he can see that everyone else is wearing red hats

It's a subtle autism test
guess how you did

All wrong. Here's Hint 2 because the first one is useless.

You mean 18.

11:11
11:10
10:00
12:22
01:11
02:22
03:33
04:44
05:55

Doubled for A.M. and P.M.

my girlfriend got Pandora's box mispriced at GAME for 0.99p and started playing through it while I was there
one of the first puzzles was genuinely one of the most stupid puzzles I've ever done.
You have to identify which apartment he's in from a series of clues in text, but literally all of the apartments fit the description.
I got mad.

00:00
0:001
00:02
etc to 09:00 so thats 6
01:11
02:22
03:33
04:44
05:55
10:00
11:10
11:11
11:12
etc to 11:19 so thats another 6
12:22?

So either 24 or 25 times. My maths or reasoning is probably a bit wonky on account of not sleeping.

Or maybe not entirely. Here's Hint 1 anyway.

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>2 swords
is this a jojo's reference?

Oh right it's one of those retard clocks that don't switch off leading 0s either.

So full hours 1 through 10, plus 9 (30)

Doubled 60.

>Oh right it's one of those retard clocks that don't switch off leading 0s either.

That will have literally zero effect whether it did that or not. "In a row", user.

Fuck, It's completely wrong, the etcs should be another 7 and the first etc is up to 00:09 and I didn't account for the am/pm

someone else can decifer this shit, an attempt was made.

Hint 3.

I knew this puzzle would cause trouble. kek

Here's a better one:

A warden has 100 prisoners and an unlimited number of hats for each of 100 possible colors. He places a hat on each prisoner's head. The prisoner can see all the hats except his own. At least one prisoner has to guess the color of his hat, otherwise they all get executed. The prisoners are not allowed to communicate during the trial, and they're not allowed to know each others' answers. However they're allowed to agree on a strategy before the trial.

a) Prove that there is a strategy that guarantees they succeed.
b) Prove that if one of the prisoners is not allowed to see not only his hat, but one other prisoner's hat, then no such strategy exists.

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two prisoners trade hats

Nope. I guess everyone has lost patience by now so here's the solution.

This is pretty old but I think it's
Milky Tea
Plain Tea
Milky Tea

Each prisoner stares at a person sharing the hat color of the guy on their immediate left. If there is no matching color, the prisoner stares at no one instead.
If at least one prisoner is staring at someone else, the guy on their left can say their hat color because they know its the same as the person being stared at.
If no one is staring at one person in particular, anyone can guess their hat color because it is the color that is not among the 99 other guys they can see.

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Fuck me I'm so stupid, I counted 6:66 7:77 8:88 and 9:99

If we're allowing body language, you might as well say they use their strategy time to teach everyone sign language.

I don't play puzzle games so I have no problems looking up the solutions when a dev memes one into my game.

Okay smart guy, so how can this be solved with no one allowed to turn their head?

Staring is communication. The strategy should work even if all prisoners are completely isolated and are just told of the other prisoners' hat colors.

It can't be solved because the answer is a variable. Also it's the fucking bait-riddle girl that proposes trick questions.

>tfw dum dum

Incorrect on all counts.

I collaborate with other players to figure shit out and then write the guide no one has written yet.

If you have referred to the wiki for solutions, you are welcome.

Here's the answer:
Prisoners give each color a number from 0 to 99, and each of them is given a number from 0 to 99. Each prisoner sums up the numbers of all colors he can see, substracts the sum from his own number, divides the result by 100 and chooses the remainder as the color number he chooses.
Tell me why this works.

Because they're communicating it doesn't work.

a punch to the face for being cunts