WockyChocky wrote:
Logic puzzle: You could use logic to figure it out, or you can brute force your way through it. Here is how to brute force it:
each white circle means you have 1 symbol in it's correct place.
ignore the black circles, they're for people doing logic.
snapshot your tablet.
Hold a little piece of paper to your screen and trace the white circles near the edge of the paper. You will use this to measure dots, instead of counting.
You have 15 white circles. That means only one symbol is wrong. To find out which one, change them one at at time.
1. Change the symbol in spot #1 and guess.
2. are there 16 white circles? yes, you are done!
3. are there 14 white circles? yes, then you just changed a correct one. Put ot back and proceed to tablet spot #2. go to step 1 and repeat with this tablet spot
4. if there are still 15 white circles, this is the tablet spot that is not correct. try all other symbols 1 at a time.
Thank you to ALL PPT POSTERS that continue to post variations on the Time Tunnel / Master Mind puzzler. It seems that IQ doesn't even matter much here, else there is some small mental leap I can't make. I feel kittens to the max; there is no puzzle I haven't been able to solve no matter how long. My problem is actually in the *ignoring* of some information. Even if i have it in my mind or on paper in front of me, and cover up all but one symbol, the rest remain in my mind, forever incessantly trying to calculate themselves into the entire equation. I can't seem to eliminate it through willpower alone even. I laugh and cry at the same time. I am the only person I know that can intuitively somehow actually START OUT in Time Tunnel with 3 of 4 green, then progressively get MORE and MORE incorrect as I go along.
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