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Really HARD Riddle! HELP!!!
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ok... maybe is because you are given all the clues @ the same time. they actual problem would stager the clues. The street number of the house plays a vital role in this. Based off of all the permutations you should see that two of the permutations have the same product. This is where the house number plays in. Seeing that those two are equal you could not choose thus the next clue is given the oldest plays violin. Seeing that the other permutation has two older twins it would lead you to the 2, 2, 9.
I don't know why you guys are making all these assumptions...
There's not a specific age to learn the violin, and not everyone learns it anyway.
The house number across the street could be ANYTHING. It could be 5, it could be 1789. We don't know, so the clue is useless.
Their birthdays falling on the same DAY of the year means nothing to their relative ages (unless you could partial fractions of a year in the sum? Doubtful).
So any three numbers that add up to 11 will do it.
There's not a specific age to learn the violin, and not everyone learns it anyway.
The house number across the street could be ANYTHING. It could be 5, it could be 1789. We don't know, so the clue is useless.
Their birthdays falling on the same DAY of the year means nothing to their relative ages (unless you could partial fractions of a year in the sum? Doubtful).
So any three numbers that add up to 11 will do it.
The house number is very important. The way the question is generally structured, that is the last clue given, then after the second person in the story says he cannot solve it, the violin clue is given. This tells you (the reader of the riddle) that the possible answers both must have the same product or else the violin clue would be useless and the riddle would be unsolvable. Because the question _is_ solveable, you find the answers that have the same product and then take the answer that has an oldest child.
it's not between 1,1,11 and 2 2 9, it's between 2 2 9 and 1 6 6. Both have the same sum and the same product. That's why you need the last clue which states the oldest is not a twin. If the last clue was my oldest daughterS play the voilin, then 1 6 6 would be the answer, but since there is only 1 oldest daughter, the answer has to be 2 2 9.
That's where you are wrong, and where everybody is somehow making this blind connection. Their products are the same as the number across the street. That's all it says. We have no idea what that number is. There is nothing narrowing it down to that pair, at all.
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3,4,6. Adds up to 13... product is 72. The 6 year old plays the violin. This is a correct answer, as we have NO IDEA WHAT THE HOUSE NUMBER IS.
3 4 6 does add up to 13, but if this was the answer, then there would be no need for any other clues. You need two sets which have the same product and sum. The only two sets which do this are 1 6 6 and 2 2 9. That's why the last clue about the oldest daughter is needed. The OP worded the riddle poorly. The way frodick phrased it makes a little more sense, because the second guy says that he still doesn't know, meaning that he has two sets which both have the product equal to the address across the street. So then the oldest daughter clue indicates that the twins are not the oldest, so 2 2 9 is the only one that works using all the clues.
Gunslinger08
Lifer
This isn't logic or a proof of intelligence. It's about drawing unsupported conclusions from a lack of information. Completely against classical reasoning.
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