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(Message started by: alien2 on Sep 18th, 2016, 1:13pm)
Title: The bed paradox
Post by alien2 on Sep 18th, 2016, 1:13pm
REVISION:

There is a bed in both bedrooms. Yet in the same house there is just one bed. How can this be?

DRAFT:

There is a bed in each bedroom. Yet in the same house there is just one bed. How can this be?
Title: Re: The bed paradox
Post by dudiobugtron on Sep 18th, 2016, 3:45pm
Because [hide]there is just one bedroom[/hide].
Title: Re: The bed paradox
Post by alien2 on Sep 19th, 2016, 2:09am
The wording is bad but I'm not Michael Jackson. I wanted to say that there are two bedrooms.
Title: Re: The bed paradox
Post by rloginunix on Sep 19th, 2016, 7:19am
The bed is an intersection of two sets: [hide]it belongs to two bedrooms simultaneously[/hide].
Title: Re: The bed paradox
Post by towr on Sep 19th, 2016, 8:46am
[hide]there's two houses[/hide]
Title: Re: The bed paradox
Post by alien2 on Sep 19th, 2016, 8:52am
Nice try both but I was thinking that there is one house only with one bed in one bedroom.  
Title: Re: The bed paradox
Post by dudiobugtron on Sep 21st, 2016, 2:41am
Just to clarify - there are two bedrooms in this house, and each bedroom has its own bed, and the bed is not [hide]in both bedrooms at the same time (like in the doorway between them or something)[/hide] - and yet there is just one bed in this house?
Title: Re: The bed paradox
Post by alien2 on Sep 21st, 2016, 3:30am

on 09/21/16 at 02:41:45, dudiobugtron wrote:
(...) and each bedroom has its own bed (...)

I'd say yes and no. Trickery is involved. I can't say more otherwise I'll give away too much or solve myself this strange riddle.  
Title: Re: The bed paradox
Post by rloginunix on Sep 21st, 2016, 6:26am
A bed in one bedroom [hide]is a mirror reflection[/hide] ...
Title: Re: The bed paradox
Post by alien2 on Sep 21st, 2016, 6:44am
Huh. I had something else in mind.
Title: Re: The bed paradox
Post by dudiobugtron on Sep 21st, 2016, 5:55pm
Are there [hide]two houses[/hide]?

Or perhaps the bed is [hide]moved around between the two rooms depending on when it is needed.[/hide]
Title: Re: The bed paradox
Post by alien2 on Sep 22nd, 2016, 1:22am
It is not being moved around. Just lie in bed, get a good night sleep, just as soon as you solve the riddle. Have you served in the army or you're married? Is there a difference?
Title: Re: The bed paradox
Post by dudiobugtron on Sep 22nd, 2016, 5:30am
Is one of the bedrooms [hide]outside the house[/hide]?
Title: Re: The bed paradox
Post by alien2 on Sep 22nd, 2016, 7:20am
Your guess is as cold as Frost Giants from Jotunheim.
Title: Re: The bed paradox
Post by rloginunix on Sep 22nd, 2016, 7:41am
[hide]Bunk bed[/hide]
Title: Re: The bed paradox
Post by alien2 on Sep 22nd, 2016, 7:48am
Nope. Nice try though.
Title: Re: The bed paradox
Post by Grimbal on Sep 22nd, 2016, 10:11am
[hide]
In the house there is a bedroom.
In the bedroom there is a puppet house.
In the puppet house there is a puppet bedroom.
In the puppet bedroom there is a puppet bed.

Nitpick: without a real bed, is it still a bedroom?
[/hide]
Title: Re: The bed paradox
Post by alien2 on Sep 22nd, 2016, 10:51am
Another nice try. Not good enough though.

Perhaps the riddle should've sounded like this: Prove that [hide]every bedroom has a bed.[/hide] Does this help?
Title: Re: The bed paradox
Post by dudiobugtron on Sep 22nd, 2016, 12:37pm
If the answer is: [hide]Each bedroom has the word 'bed' in it, but only one bedroom has a physical bed[/hide], then yes it helps a lot! :)

Although that would still fall afoul of this query:

on 09/22/16 at 10:11:05, Grimbal wrote:
[hide]Nitpick: without a real bed, is it still a bedroom?
[/hide]
Title: Re: The bed paradox
Post by towr on Sep 22nd, 2016, 1:02pm
If that were a problem [hide]how could anyone ever buy/sell a K-bedroom apartment/house. Apartments/houses are usually sold empty.[/hide]
Title: Re: The bed paradox
Post by alien2 on Sep 24th, 2016, 10:43am
Dudiobugtron's answer is the right one.


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