Puzzlezz (?)

Hey Guys,

Hope you all doing good!! I came across few interesting B-School Puzzles. Try and solve them. Leave your answer as comments to the post, but try and be honest!!

• 1st one:

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There is a dragon with three heads, and three tails. And hou have a sword. You can either cut 1 head or 2 head or 1 tail or 2 tails of the dragon. If you cut 1 tail, 2 new tails appear. If you cut 2 tails, one new head appears. If you cut 1 head, one new head appears. And if you cut 2 heads, nothing appears. So in minimum how many strikes can you kill the dragon i.e. cut all its heads and tails.
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• 2nd one:

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Emily writes a list of 10 numbers less than 100. Her list contains number in ascending order (i.e. smaller number appears before the greater one). Few other peculiarities of her list are: The difference between any two adjacent number is also a number in the list and when these number written in words, the total number of alphabets in each number is also is in increasing order. (i.e to say if the previous number has 3 alphabets in its word form, (eg number '2'), then the next number has more than 3 alphabets in its word form.)

Find the sum of all the 10 numbers of the list that Emily has!!
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Well dats two for now. Have one more but for that will have to make a small pictorial presentation, so will add that in this one soon!! Till then try and solve them, especially the second one, which is quite challenging..

Commomwealth Youth Games 2008

Hi All,

This is a great time for all the sports lovers across the company as one of the biggest extravaganza is happening in Pune and that too just couple of miles away from the office. There are about 71 countries participating with a total strength of 1200 athletes. The beautification work done for the games is really good as the main route for the Chatrapati Shivaji Sports Complex passes from the road below the office. However the matter of concern is that "IS THIS GONNO BE MAINTAINED AFTER THE GAMES". Please let me know your views on the same. Hope to see you all at the games.......

Regards,

Sarvesh.

Smoking ban in the office......!!!!!

Hi All,

According to the Government of India , the smoking ban in public places is appreciable. I guess we should have taken this decision out of personal interest. However I am sure there will be people who oppose the very decision of banning smoking in public places, as rightly said by one of my friend, "I have been smoking for 11 years and my parents dint find it out, how on earth will the administration catch me". I have also figured out few more problems to this ban like lot of people will find alternate places like roads, terraces, toilets etc. How will we take care of cleaning and maintaining these properties.

Lets me know your views on the same.

QED Community on Orkut

For all you ardent (and not so ardent) fans of Orkut..please visit and join my QED Community: http://www.orkut.co.in/Community.aspx?cmm=14548011

And here is one created by good 'ol Nilay:
http://www.orkut.co.in/Community.aspx?cmm=29955812

Cheers,
Yadu

QED's Kerala Samaj Community

Hey Guys,

Do you all have any idea that in our QED, a new Kerala Samaj is being formed. This samaj thinks they are in majority and are now looking for members. It has already got 6 members with Santosh, Research Team Head, leading it and are expecting more from rest QEDians. So if any one interested get to him or other members of this Keral Samaj.

In order to compete Shri Sir has also announced Marwadi-Gujarati Bhai Bhai Samaj... You can even apply to this Samaj...!! [;-)]



List of members are as follows: (as per available information)

Kerala Samaj:
1. Santosh Abraham (Head Samaj Member)
2. Sheela ArunKumar
3. Suresh Nair
4. Vainu Sashi
5. Deepa SreeKumar
6. Joes


Marwari Gujarati Bhai-Bhai Samaj
1. Shri Mundada (Head Samaj Member)
2. Nilay Mehta
3. Poonam Agarwal
4. Priyesh Agrawal
5. Mukesh
6. Vishal
7. Atil Chaudhary
8. Chetas Desai
9. Satya (Converted)

Time to change our C3

With two consecutive birthdays (Gurpreet & Priyanka) and three days of consecutive Cake Cutting Ceremony (C Cube) I think most of the QEDians are now bored of cakes. Though most of the times cakes are good yet its time to be innovative and change our C3 Ceremony to something innovative. The month of August has maximum birthdays and each time cake has assumed the "same old story" format and there's nothing new in it. Infact today, even the Birthday Song seemed to be faded with people singing it for the sake of singing.

So what say QEDians?
I think best would be a Pizza Cutting Ceremony!! ;-) I don't know who get these cakes, but if our HR/Management could manage on each occasions & can get something nice as Pizza. Even if its not on each occasion we can wait for few of the birthday treats to accumulate. I don't think many of us would mind accumulating Birthday Treats and having a big bang at one go!! But in that case it is necessary to ensure that these uncelebrated birthdays are counted and recorded properly with their respective budgets.

Your Comments/Compliments are Welcomed.

Great Inventions...compliments from Ashutosh

Discoveries and Inventions by Men And Women
Men discovered COLOURS and invented PAINT,
Women discovered PAINT and invented MAKEUP.

Men discovered the WORD and invented CONVERSATION,
Women discovered CONVERSATION and invented GOSSIP.

Men discovered GAMBLING and invented CARDS,
Women discovered CARDS and invented WITCHERY.

Men discovered AGRICULTURE and invented FOOD,
Women discovered FOOD and invented DIET.

Men discovered FRIENDSHIP and invented LOVE,
Women discovered LOVE and invented MARRIAGE.

Men discovered TRADING and invented MONEY,
Women discovered MONEY and invented SHOPPING.

Thereafter Men have discovered and invented a lot of things...
While Women STUCK to shopping.