Fun With Idiotest

[Volante]

Who the H-E-double-hockey-sticks...

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flashes paper with spread out fingers?!

Got it after a couple minutes, but seriously...poor form there.

[BobF]

Where does

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fit in that scenario?

[opusthepenguin]

It's been a while since I posted one and I enjoyed this one:

The puzzle:

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It had zero chance of any contestants on that show getting it in the limited time they are given.

How much time are they given? I'm not bragging, because I get caught up in wrong trains of thought as much as anyone, but I happened to get on the right train for this one in less than 5 seconds.

[dhkendall]

I actually got that from different means:

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I thought it was a chain and guessed the correct sign because it would be next in the chain (looping to the first symbol at that point). Alternately, it's the only sign that was already used, and there was no reason to think there was a need to introduce a new one for the solution.

Hey, a right answer by a wrong method is still a right answer!

[bpmod]

You can also try asking a youngster if you have one around.

OK, I'll ask a youngster. I'm supposed to ask this youngster what, again? If I have something around? What is it I'm supposed to have around? And how would the youngster know if I don't know? (And I don't mean 'how would the youngster know whether or not I know'.)

Brian

[barandall800]

I actually got that from different means:

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I thought it was a chain and guessed the correct sign because it would be next in the chain (looping to the first symbol at that point). Alternately, it's the only sign that was already used, and there was no reason to think there was a need to introduce a new one for the solution.

Hey, a right answer by a wrong method is still a right answer!

That's how I got it too. Great minds think alike?

[econgator]

Hey, a right answer by a wrong method is still a right answer!

Nothing wrong about the method.

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The game is a chain (S > P > R > S > P ....)

[TenPoundHammer]

My fail was not processing "greater than" as "beats". Bad form.

Then again, we've all learned by now that I am horrible at Idiotest.

[JayK33]

I actually got that from different means:

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I thought it was a chain and guessed the correct sign because it would be next in the chain (looping to the first symbol at that point). Alternately, it's the only sign that was already used, and there was no reason to think there was a need to introduce a new one for the solution.

Hey, a right answer by a wrong method is still a right answer!

Haha that's how I got it, too. Funny how that works.

Also, going back to Page 1, I also guessed the knocker for the 'starts off silently' one because when you pull it back at first it's silent.

[MitchO]

I hate this show. I feel like it's the equivalent of enabling bad trivia questions.

[patkav]

Who the H-E-double-hockey-sticks...

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flashes paper with spread out fingers?!

Got it after a couple minutes, but seriously...poor form there.

I endorse this post.

[Volante]

I hate this show. I feel like it's the equivalent of enabling bad trivia questions.

They're not trivia questions, they're brain teasers.

[dhkendall]

Hey, a right answer by a wrong method is still a right answer!

Nothing wrong about the method.

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The game is a chain (S > P > R > S > P ....)

Yeah, but it wasn't intended at all. I still saw the symbols as representing

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0, 5, and 2 and couldn't see rock, paper, scissors at all. In other words, I fell right into their trap. Yet made it out by using their trap against them, kind of.

Anyways, I'm counting it as a definite "right answer arrived at by wrong methods" here.

[bpmod]

Who the H-E-double-hockey-sticks...

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flashes paper with spread out fingers?!

Got it after a couple minutes, but seriously...poor form there.

I endorse this post.

I second this endorsement.

Brian

[MitchO]

I hate this show. I feel like it's the equivalent of enabling bad trivia questions.

They're not trivia questions, they're brain teasers.

Hence "the equivalent of".

But to try to elaborate ... most of us who are use Facebook nowadays are probably subjected to that one friend/relative who posts the inane "Name a city that starts with 0", watch hundreds of people put things like Oberlin, only for the "gotcha" to be that it's actually a zero, not the letter O. Or that old "There are three words in the dictionary that end in -gry ... blah blah blah name the third word" where it ends up being "three" because it's the third word in the sentence. They're not even using clever twists of the English language, they're making awkward leaps.

But hey, I randomly came in here and pooped on something y'all were enjoying, so I apologize for that. Just had to be one of *those* citizens of the internet and express my opinion.

[Rex Kramer]

I actually got that from different means:

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I thought it was a chain and guessed the correct sign because it would be next in the chain (looping to the first symbol at that point). Alternately, it's the only sign that was already used, and there was no reason to think there was a need to introduce a new one for the solution.

Hey, a right answer by a wrong method is still a right answer!

I started that way -- then that reminded me of the intended answer. Because that's what it is.

Rex

[JonathanHenke]

Where does

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fit in that scenario?

Well, it <

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of course.

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[MollyQMurphy]

I got it (the latest puzzle) by thinking it was sign language, and making the images with my hand, and...voila! It's RPS; took 3 seconds. I so want to add Lizard, Spock. The Vulcan sign is perfect for Spock, but what is the sign for Lizard?

PS. Saw this show by accident once; I think I'll look it up again. Wasn't that fond of the format, but the purer form of it you present in this thread makes it a very interesting challenge. Thanks!

[MarkBarrett]

I could not resist sharing this one.

This is a puzzle from one of the 5/10 shows:

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This is the answer:

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(The bulb was incorrectly guessed by the contestant.)

This is why it's the correct answer:

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blue bird, blue cheese, blue moon

[econgator]

This is why it's the correct answer:

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blue bird, blue cheese, blue moon

Yeah, I'm not seeing it.