{"id":14014,"date":"2022-04-12T22:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T21:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14014"},"modified":"2022-04-12T22:00:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T21:00:20","slug":"watertight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14014","title":{"rendered":"Watertight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thankfully as it gives me something to write, I got home this evening and some family friends had come to visit and they recommended The 1% Club<\/strong> to people in the room, which I concurred with, and so I put it on over dinner after they’d left and fun was had by all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But my brother (younger than me, a fair bit more creative) came up with an answer to a question and I’m trying to work out why the logic is wrong. Forgive the crap screenshot:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now the correct answer is 4 – when watching it live on Saturday night I spotted that immediately thanks to pattern recognition – it’s the amount of times the lines cross (intersections if you like).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My brother looks at it and goes “8”. What an idiot! But his logic was quite interesting – if you take the first shape and take away the second shape that lies within it you get the third shape – 9-1=8. And I wracked my brains and couldn’t really find a fault. What’s the leap in logic I’m missing that makes it definitively incorrect?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thankfully as it gives me something to write, I got home this evening and some family friends had come to visit and they recommended The 1% Club to people in the room, which I concurred with, and so I put it on over dinner after they’d left and fun was had by all. But my\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3E2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}