RiddleRound the Game

[Turpentity]

Okay, this a game I invented a few days ago before I joined this guild.

Okay, so here's how it goes: I tell a riddle. Then you, the players, start guessing what is the correct answer. The one who guesses the answer gets a reward and a chance to tell a new riddle (this is voluntary: if the winner does not want to tell a riddle, I or someone else will).

Understood? Good smile

The reward for the first round winner is an electric orange!

And here's the riddle (And Lyssan, the riddle I sent you in my application was accidentally incorrect. Here's the corrected version):

In a certain lake in the US, a special type of water lily was planted: every day, it's leaves doubled their number; 1 leaf came two, two came four, four came 8 and so on. In 30 days the whole lake was totally covered by the leaves.

One year later, a surprise: another waterlily was found from the lake, and it grew the same way as the first waterlily; every day the number of the leaves doubled.

How long time will it take from two waterlilies to cover the lake completely?  

[EstoPerpetua]

Well you said previously that the lake was already covered in 30 days by the first lily's leaves. Wouldn't that mean that it would take no days since the lake had been already covered?  

[Turpentity]

And as I also said, the second waterlily came to the lake the SECOND year. This means that the first lily hasn't filled the lake yet. Both lilies start from the same point (one leaf). So, how many days does it take from 2 waterlilies to cover the lake when it took 30 days from 1 waterlily?  

[EstoPerpetua]

Oh... Okay. Then it would take 15 days. 30/2=15.  

[Turpentity]

Nope. Wrong answer.  

[EstoPerpetua]

Oh... Exponents... I hate exponents... Where's a calculator when you need it?  

[Sita Harker]

30 days because the 2nd lily wouldn't stop the 1st from growing at the same rate it woulda. I mean, if you mean for the lake to be covered by BOTH, then 2 years 30 days.  

[Total Affinity]

how about i year for the first waterlily then add 15 days for the next waterlily plus the previous one to cover the lake so 1yr and 15days  

[Turpentity]

Wrong and wrong.  

[Turpentity]

And if you want, you can always use common sense. How on earth could it possibly take one year if there were two of them instead of one? neutral  

[Darknight Silver]

60 days, perhaps? Or maybe 120 days?  

[Lyssan]

Gee, I'd have to agree with Sita here, thirty days. If both are started from stage one and both grow at the same rate, it would take thirty days for both waterlilies to cover the lake... If you are starting at opposite ends of the lake and only need to know when the lake is covered, not caring if it is done by both or not... then my answer would be 29 days because each lily would have exactly one half of the number of leaves to cover the lake on that day. Of course, if the two are competing nutirents and sunlight, killing each other off by blocking the sun, it kind of depends on where they are in replationship to one another in the lake... I could go on and on and on here... but I won't. he he he  

[Turpentity]

DING DING DING! We have a winner! The correct answer is 29 days!

Why? Think of the waterlily: Every day the area it covered on the lake doubled. On day 29, the lake was half filled. When day 30 came, it was full of leaves. Now, add a second waterlily. They BOTH reach the "half filled lake" -stage in 29 days. Half + half equals one. Simple, when you think of it. biggrin

Lyssan has won the prize, an electric orange! Congratulations!

Now, do you want to tell a riddle or shall someone else do it for you?  

[Lyssan]

Oh I am so happy.... I'm going to hold it and love it and squeeze it... ooo... juice, yech, now I"m all sticky.

Now I will tell a riddle, hope you like it? wink


If it has a quart capacity, how many pennies can you put into a empty piggy bank?

As for the first riddle, I wonder how many people started to do the math, not realizing that if they both had the same growth rate, they'd be covering exactly one half of the lake on the same day? I know I almost did, then it hit me. One of those face palm moments, I'm afraid. xd

The reward for the second round is a funky banana!  

[Turpentity]

Ooh, how funky. razz

Mm-hm..how many pennies..hmm confused

I would sayy..as many pennies as the piggy bank can fit. xd

(Btw, drugs are bad, mkay?)