Saturday, 9 June 2018

Your composition length.

Song to pick one 


In group games, to pick one among many, the "inky pinky ponky" song, or a song similar to that.  For each word they point a person, the person to get the last word is picked up for the task. The person who sings the song must start counting themselves first.

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You are the composer

You are given freedom to choose song of your choice. Hence number of words in the song is also your choice. There could be 2, 3 or 4 players at the maximum in the game. 

Question

 You have to compose shortest possible song.  How many words will your song have, so that you get picked up for the task always?

Robot with Virus

Robot Mission:
There is a robot which wants to go from point A to point B.  Distance between them is 100km. The robot can travel at speed of 10km per hour. It has enough charging to travel 1000km.

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The Virus:
The robot got a SWIFT virus. Due to virus attack, the robot looses sense of direction.  In every 1hour, it travels 45mins towards point B. But then it chooses a random direction and travels in that direction for 15mins. Then it corrects the direction and tarvels again towards point B.


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Question:
How long(on average) will it take the for the robot to reach point B?
Let us assume the whole terrain is flat with obstructions.


Will you play the game?



Game:

There is a grid of 3x3 closed bloses. Three boxes have RED color, three have BLUE and another three have GREEN color in them. You got to pick 5 boxes.  If any of the 3 boxes you select are of same color, then you win. Else you will loose.

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You have 1L rupees with you. If you win the game you will get 3L and if you loose you will loose all the money.
Will you risk to play the game?