Friday, 18 March 2011

Card piles

Answer to yesterday's riddle: He is a priest, and he marries other couples.

I actually laughed at how many people thought he's dead! Anyway, this next one is a toughy, and isn't too intuitive. There's no trick involved (well, maybe a little) but rather a bit of thinking:

You are blindfolded and given a deck of 52 cards. You are told that exactly 13 random cards in this pack are facing up, while the other 39 are facing down. Without removing your blindfold, you must divide the deck into two piles such that both contain the same number of face-up cards. If you like, the piles need not be the same size.
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26 comments:

  1. Pamela18 March 2011 at 02:47

    Quite interesting. When will you post the solution? Eagerly waiting for it.

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    Best of Luck!!!

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  2. The Game Store Guy18 March 2011 at 02:48

    Oh wow...Um? I don't even know. o_o

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  3. baka123618 March 2011 at 03:04

    cut the cards in half(literally, like with scissors). The one half is on in the one pile and the other half in the other

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  4. Justsayin'18 March 2011 at 03:04

    Oh man I could not get yesterdays and now it seems so obvious! lol.

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  5. Erika18 March 2011 at 03:13

    Colour me mindfucked. I've just woken up, too early for this XD

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  6. akrater18 March 2011 at 03:21

    Uh, this one is difficult. Tried something but it didn't work, ended up having 5|7. :/

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  7. Jay18 March 2011 at 03:22

    i give up. :(

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  8. Aru18 March 2011 at 07:33

    I'm too dumb for this :(

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  9. Christophe18 March 2011 at 08:05

    I'm going to take a guess, and I can't really explain out why, but I would count out a pile of thirteen cards and flip them over. Then, leave the rest.

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  10. Anonymous18 March 2011 at 09:41

    Nice one!!!
    http://fassionsanne.blogspot.com/

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  11. Stef Pelgrims18 March 2011 at 10:02

    ask someone else to do it?

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  12. Found on the Internet Today18 March 2011 at 10:07

    Hmm, don't get this one, nor can I come up with a witty half answer.

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  13. Jett18 March 2011 at 10:25

    This one has me stumped

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  14. chronometer18 March 2011 at 12:29

    Hard one.

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  15. Justin testing18 March 2011 at 12:52

    Eat 50 cards.
    Put each remaining card in separate deck.
    Pray to God.

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  16. Paranormal Explorer18 March 2011 at 14:57

    Take 13 cards off the top of the deck and flip them over to make one pile and the rest of the deck is the other :)

    You should probably have changed the number of face up cards in the deck to an even number because the solution is too obvious with an odd one :)

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  17. Justin18 March 2011 at 15:00

    Okay, I'm stumped...

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  18. pokerblogger18 March 2011 at 16:25

    Not easy! :D But gonna follow you. This is like a daily braintraining! :D

    http://pokeretc.blogspot.com/

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  19. Big Unicorn18 March 2011 at 16:33

    If the cards have been preshuffled THEN the cards were put face up, the face up cards should feel different and are therefore sortable.

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  20. ed18 March 2011 at 18:47

    i can do this trick without a blindfold

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  21. Anonymous18 March 2011 at 20:27

    I... don't know but it's a nice puzzle :P

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  22. Electric Addict18 March 2011 at 22:23

    use magic

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  23. HiFi18 March 2011 at 22:45

    This one's tough. I would split the cards up into two equal sized piles and hope for the best.

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  24. LordKmet19 March 2011 at 23:41

    This one is great. Maybe this helps mathematicly. (I can't put it in one equation) : There is total of 13 FO (flip over) cards. So when we select 13 random cards the number of FO cards is X (Range:0-13). In the rest of the cards (39) there is now 13-x FO cards left. So basically by flipping over your 13 cards pile here are now 13-x FO cards too. Hope you can understand what I am talking about.

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  25. SportsGuyBrandon20 March 2011 at 08:02

    This one is kinda hard.

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  26. Desuuuu21 March 2011 at 09:14

    OH MAN I NEVER GET ANYTHING RIGHT

    Brb suicide

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