New iPhone Application

Nowadays I am thinking about a new iPhone application, which might use some iPhone SDK 3.0 features and cocos2d architecture. Thinking, thinking, thinking……………………………………… I would appreciate if anyone might give some input or share their idea, and I might make an application around it. thanx in advance

Murder or Suicide?

Last night I received a mail form friend with this subject. I thought that it might be a riddle or some problem for which I will have to spare some time and find solution. But when I checked it, I was surprised to see the following story:

Its still a mystery whether this incident took place or not? The same thing has been filmed in a major Hollywood Movie named “MAGNOLIA“. Here is the clip from  the movie of the same scene, of course the name of the characters as well as the dates are different from the one mentioned in your attachment.

Coins Riddle

There is a room with 100 coins, each coin has two sides: one black, the other white.

10 of the coins are with their white side up, the other 90 are with their black side up.

A blind man enters the room. He can do what ever he wants… what does he have to accomplish in the end is that he’ll have two groups of coins, so that in each group there are same number of coins with their white side up ?

Guess the ages

A conversation broke out between 2 friends:

Thomas: Peter, how old are your children?
Peter: Well Thomas, there are 3 of them and the product of their ages is 36.
Thomas: That is not enough.
Peter: The sum of their ages is exactly the number of beers we have drunk today.
Thomas: That is still not enough.
Peter: OK, my oldest child wears a red hat.
Thomas: OK, now I get it. Their ages are …

Any guesses???

1000 Doors

Well, I have decided to remove the Riddle page from my blog, and will post the riddles here as post, whenever any beautiful riddle will come across me

So here goes 1000 Doors!

There are 1000 doors in a hallway. Each door is numbered from 1 to 1000 in increasing order. Initially, all doors are closed. A person enters the hallway and opens all doors and leaves the hallway. Second person enters the hallway and closes all even numbered doors and leaves the hallway. Third person enters the hallway and toggles the state of all those doors whose number is a multiple of 3 and leaves the hallway. The fourth person toggles the state of those doors whose number is a multiple of 4 and leaves. Mathematically speaking, a person x enters the hallway, toggles the state of all those doores whose number is the multiple of x and leaves the hallway.

If 1000 persons enter the hallway, perform the required task and leave the hallway, then after the 1000th person, how many doors are still open?

If you can determine that how many are open, then you can easily determine what are the numbers of the doors that are open.

Seven Princes and a bag of gold coins

While discussing riddles during lunch time, an old riddle came in my mind. It was asked to me by my uncle when I was a kid, I solved it by doing some donkey work , but now I know how to do it in a very simple way. Will not disclose the answer soooon, lets see who can figure out this one………. if anyone visits my blog

Here it goes:

Seven princes went for hunting. They decided to adopt a Divide and Conquer approach, so that they can hunt more deers. The youngest prince stumbled over a stone and found something shining there. When he looked closely he found a bag of gold coins. He felt happy to find it. At first he thought he should keep it all by himself, but then he thought to share it with his eldest brother. His eldest brother being a selfish person decided to divide the coins evenly between them. As they performed this operation, they were left with a coin. Thinking who should keep it, the youngest one suggested to include one more brother in this plot. So, the coins were then distributed evenly between them but again they were left with a coin. Thinking who should keep it, one more brother was added and same thing happened………. they were left with a coin again. They kept on adding a brother and perform the operation and everytime they were left with a single coin. At last when coins were distributed among all seven princes……………………the coins were fully distributed and everyone had an equal share.

They went to the castle and told this story to their father. The king then asked his logicians the total count of the coins that was distributed evenly between the princes…………………… So here is the question…….. how many gold coins were in the bag??? The rest of the story will be disclosed later