Riddle

[Primo Carnera]

This is a most unusual paragraph. I'm curious as to how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out. Try to do so without any coaching or Googling

Sorry, I couldn't resist googling it. Very clever and very interesting.

Your post is not unusual, my post is.

WTF is going on?

Your post in actually unusual

But this post is also unusual, don't you think?

You are messing with me.

No I'm not. And this is again an unusual post. It has unusual things in it.

[X]

or not .....

[Master]

4Q All.

There are five bags of gold that all look identical, and each has ten gold pieces in it.

One of the five bags has fake gold in it.

The real gold, fake gold, and all five bags are identical in every way, except the pieces of fake gold each weigh 1.1 grams, and the real gold pieces each weigh 1 gram.

You have a perfectly accurate digital gram scale and can use it only once.

How do you determine which bag has the fake gold?

[Primo Carnera]

4Q All.

There are five bags of gold that all look identical, and each has ten gold pieces in it.

One of the five bags has fake gold in it.

The real gold, fake gold, and all five bags are identical in every way, except the pieces of fake gold each weigh 1.1 grams, and the real gold pieces each weigh 1 gram.

You have a perfectly accurate digital gram scale and can use it only once.

How do you determine which bag has the fake gold?

Aha! a solution is not forthcoming right now . very unusual again I think, infact this is odd . Do you concur?

[X]

Hmm .... ....... how about if you put all the bags of gold on the scales (hence using it once) and then take the bags off one by one while watching the weight. Once it reduces by 11 grams, then that is the bag full of fake gold. Alternatively, if the last bag remaining weighs 11 grams then that is the fake one?

[Batman]

4Q All.

There are five bags of gold that all look identical, and each has ten gold pieces in it.

One of the five bags has fake gold in it.

The real gold, fake gold, and all five bags are identical in every way, except the pieces of fake gold each weigh 1.1 grams, and the real gold pieces each weigh 1 gram.

You have a perfectly accurate digital gram scale and can use it only once.

How do you determine which bag has the fake gold?

Ok I think I have it but I could be way off you take 1 coin from the first bag 2 coins from the second 3 coins from the 3rd etc, depending on how many .1 grams it is over would tell you which bag is the fake gold...does that make sense?

So if the total ways .3 grams over then you know that is fake.

It works in my head

[Batman]

4Q All.

There are five bags of gold that all look identical, and each has ten gold pieces in it.

One of the five bags has fake gold in it.

The real gold, fake gold, and all five bags are identical in every way, except the pieces of fake gold each weigh 1.1 grams, and the real gold pieces each weigh 1 gram.

You have a perfectly accurate digital gram scale and can use it only once.

How do you determine which bag has the fake gold?

Ok I think I have it but I could be way off you take 1 coin from the first bag 2 coins from the second 3 coins from the 3rd etc, depending on how many .1 grams it is over would tell you which bag is the fake gold...does that make sense?

So if the total ways .3 grams over then you know that is fake.

It works in my head

Right O, I can try and explain this a bit better now I'm on my laptop and not on my phone

so...

bag 1 - 1 coin
bag 2 - 2 coins
bag 3 - 3 coins
bag 4 - 4 coins
bag 5 - 5 coins

all get weighed at the same time so you are only using the scales once (not adding or removing weight as the other posts suggested)

so if they were all real gold you would have 15 grams total

however many 0.1 grams it is over by will show which bag is the fake, so for example if you have 15.3 grams then you know that the 3rd bag is the fake, 15.5 and you know that the 5th bag is the fake

[Primo Carnera]

4Q All.

There are five bags of gold that all look identical, and each has ten gold pieces in it.

One of the five bags has fake gold in it.

The real gold, fake gold, and all five bags are identical in every way, except the pieces of fake gold each weigh 1.1 grams, and the real gold pieces each weigh 1 gram.

You have a perfectly accurate digital gram scale and can use it only once.

How do you determine which bag has the fake gold?

Ok I think I have it but I could be way off you take 1 coin from the first bag 2 coins from the second 3 coins from the 3rd etc, depending on how many .1 grams it is over would tell you which bag is the fake gold...does that make sense?

So if the total ways .3 grams over then you know that is fake.

It works in my head

Right O, I can try and explain this a bit better now I'm on my laptop and not on my phone

so...

bag 1 - 1 coin
bag 2 - 2 coins
bag 3 - 3 coins
bag 4 - 4 coins
bag 5 - 5 coins

all get weighed at the same time so you are only using the scales once (not adding or removing weight as the other posts suggested)

so if they were all real gold you would have 15 grams total

however many 0.1 grams it is over by will show which bag is the fake, so for example if you have 15.3 grams then you know that the 3rd bag is the fake, 15.5 and you know that the 5th bag is the fake

You soooooo fucking looked that up!

[Batman]

4Q All.

There are five bags of gold that all look identical, and each has ten gold pieces in it.

One of the five bags has fake gold in it.

The real gold, fake gold, and all five bags are identical in every way, except the pieces of fake gold each weigh 1.1 grams, and the real gold pieces each weigh 1 gram.

You have a perfectly accurate digital gram scale and can use it only once.

How do you determine which bag has the fake gold?

Ok I think I have it but I could be way off you take 1 coin from the first bag 2 coins from the second 3 coins from the 3rd etc, depending on how many .1 grams it is over would tell you which bag is the fake gold...does that make sense?

So if the total ways .3 grams over then you know that is fake.

It works in my head

Right O, I can try and explain this a bit better now I'm on my laptop and not on my phone

so...

bag 1 - 1 coin
bag 2 - 2 coins
bag 3 - 3 coins
bag 4 - 4 coins
bag 5 - 5 coins

all get weighed at the same time so you are only using the scales once (not adding or removing weight as the other posts suggested)

so if they were all real gold you would have 15 grams total

however many 0.1 grams it is over by will show which bag is the fake, so for example if you have 15.3 grams then you know that the 3rd bag is the fake, 15.5 and you know that the 5th bag is the fake

You soooooo fucking looked that up!

Nope, I've heard it before (when I was on my old team at work we would do fucking hundreds of these things to pass the time) I'm terrible at maths and shit like that so I had to really rack my brains to make sense of it again.

It's the the bloke who diddles 3 people out of their bill and there ends up being a missing pound