Monday, July 02, 2007

Math Mess.

OK, I have a pretty high tolerance for honest mistakes. This however, is high cruelty.

I have a new phone, and it has this little game on it. The game is called "Adventure Quiz". Basically, it's a little puzzle / time killer kind of game. One of the things it presents you with is math puzzles. You have to pick the correct operators and sometimes values, in order to make a certain equation work. Normally, I'm pretty good at those. The current one had me stumped. So, being a frustrated geek, I sat down, and worked through all the permutations until I found the answer.

The answer was, there was no answer. No matter which ones you choose, the equation DOESNT WORK. There's no way to get this puzzle correct, and win the game, thereby getting the little bunny all his much needed carrots. The bunny is DENIED by cruel game designers.

If anyone can find an answer for this, I'm all ears.

(OP) represents a mathematical operator, +, -, * (multiplication), / (division).

(VAL) represents one of the following numeric value choices: 18, 20, 27, or 34.

The puzzle is this:

35 (OP) 252 (OP) (VAL) = 34 - 13

I know that 34 - 13 = 21. That part's easy. However, with those given values, there is no way to make that side of the equation equal to 21. It's just not possible.

Ah. It's the little things in life. They bring joy, and they bring pain. If you're lucky, and you're a bunny, they bring carrots.

But not today.

1 comment:

David M Maxwell said...

And later, calmer I figured it out.
35 - 252 / 18 = 34 - 13

Go figure.

-D.