Lockdown Boredom Game Thread

[Tropical_Trish]

1) Ocean at the End Of The Lane

2) Dr. No

3) Great Gatsby

4) The Girl On The Train

5) Wind In The Willows

5) Slaughterhouse Five

6) Middlemarch

7) The Color Purple

8) Where The Wild Things Are (?!)

[Anniemcc2]

Well done Trish!

[Maelbrigda]

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2 - Dr. No

3 - The Great Gatsby

4 - Girl on a train

5 - Wind in the willows

6 - Slaughterhouse 5

7 -
8 - The colour purple

9 - Where the Wild Things are

[squern]

And do the monkeys have a parrot in each hand ?. This is crucial.

[Tropical_Trish]

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The answer is five!

1 rabbit saw 6 elephants while going to the river - Therefore, one animal (the rabbit) is going towards the river.

Every elephant saw 2 monkeys going towards the river. This is the tricky part, from the sentence it implies each of the 6 elephants saw 2 monkeys going towards the river, hence logically will be 6 x 2 = 12 animals (monkeys) going towards the river.

However, the statement does not explicitly say that “Every elephant saw 2 DIFFERENT monkeys…”, therefore implicit rules apply and infer that the 2 monkeys are the same.

So, the correct answer is that every elephant saw 2 monkeys, and by inference, the 2 monkeys are the same, hence there exists only 2 monkeys which are going towards the river.

Finally, every monkey holds 1 parrot in their hands. Therefore, 2 parrots are going towards the river.

So in total, 1 rabbit, 2 monkeys and 2 parrots (5 animals) are going towards the river.

(Google is a very good friend of mine!)

[Anniemcc2]

Just what himself says and he's the mathematician in this house!

The answer is five!

So in total, 1 rabbit, 2 monkeys and 2 parrots (5 animals) are going towards the river.

[squern]

I still think there is ambiguity about those parrots:"Every monkey holds 1 parrot in their hands"
If they only held 1 parrot, the phrase would have been "every monkey holds 1 parrot in both hands"
(Incidentally, the original statement is grammatically very bad; It should be "in its hands" - the other mixes the singular and the plural).
Therefore, since every monkey has 2 hands, the number of parrots is doubled.

[cambrensis]

Just what himself says and he's the mathematician in this house!

The maths are not the problem. It's the English that's a complete mess...reminds me of the old thing that starts: "If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half..."

[Anniemcc2]

[cambrensis]

Answer is 32