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    Stegodon kk fusion's avatar
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    Default Self-referential aptitude test

    Have you seen this one already?

    http://drunkmenworkhere.org/170

    It's pretty tough but doable if you're willing to spend time on it.

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    Yeah, it took me a while but I finally got it. Once I realized that it would mark questions wrong until they became right it got a lot easier.
    So now they are just dirt-covered English people in fur pelts with credit cards.

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    I will try again tomorrow when I'm refreshed.

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    Sarah, I'll give you a hint:

    Spoiler (mouseover to read):
    I didn't mark C for a single answer.
    So now they are just dirt-covered English people in fur pelts with credit cards.

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    Unless you consider #20 to have only one possible answer, there's an alternate solution that's self-consistent :

    Spoiler (mouseover to read):
    1.D 2.A 3.D 4.B 5.E 6.D 7.D 8.E 9.D 10.A 11.B 12.A 13.D 14.C 15.A 16.D 17.B 18.E 19.D 20.A
    Actually, solutions, since you can have 14.B and 19.C.

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    Yeah, there are several different solutions, since it is self-referential but this was the one I came up with:

    Spoiler (mouseover to read):
    1.D
    2.A
    3.D
    4.B
    5.E
    6.D
    7.D
    8.E
    9.D
    10.A
    11.B
    12.A
    13.D
    14.B
    15.A
    16.D
    17.B
    18.A
    19.B
    20.E


    Which is different from parzival's by four answers.
    So now they are just dirt-covered English people in fur pelts with credit cards.

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    Porosity Caster parzival's avatar
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    It claims to have a unique solution, but in terms of its own constraints, it's missing one. Except that I have to laugh, because what I didn't notice before is
    Spoiler (mouseover to read):
    what the answers spell out. It wasn't until you listed it vertically, Zuul, that I saw it.

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