Blackjack Brainteaser discussed in Blackjack/Gambling at Wizard of Vegas

glenwiggy

Threads: 28
Posts: 55

Joined: Mar 26, 2012

January 8th, 2016 at 6:15:35 PM permalink

I found this on my "riddle-a-day" calendar for today...give it a shot!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByNlO__CmSA6ZHpFN2NrUlhFWGc/view?usp=sharing

Glen Wiggy
Author of "1536 Free Waters and Other Blackjack Endeavors--Finding Profit and Humor in Card-Counting"

teliot

Threads: 43
Posts: 2871

Joined: Oct 19, 2009

January 8th, 2016 at 6:41:21 PM permalink

Add up all the squares, with Ace = 1, you get 84, which is 21 x 4. So the answer is that there are four regions that add up to 21 each, with Aces = 1. If you count any Ace as 11, then the total is either 94 or 104, neither of which is divisible by 21.

So. Four regions, Ace = 1. You can do it!

Climate Casino: https://climatecasino.net/climate-casino/

Wizard
Administrator

Threads: 1540
Posts: 27925

Joined: Oct 14, 2009

January 8th, 2016 at 7:16:43 PM permalink

Is Colorado adjacent to Arizona? If so, here is my...

solution

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence. These little problems help me to do so." -- Sherlock Holmes

teliot

Threads: 43
Posts: 2871

Joined: Oct 19, 2009

January 8th, 2016 at 7:22:23 PM permalink

Nice ... there is a solution without a diagonal. Funny, I was just looking for a solution *with* diagonals when you posted that.

Climate Casino: https://climatecasino.net/climate-casino/

Wizard
Administrator

Threads: 1540
Posts: 27925

Joined: Oct 14, 2009

January 9th, 2016 at 3:19:01 AM permalink

If not...

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence. These little problems help me to do so." -- Sherlock Holmes

RS

Threads: 62
Posts: 8626

Joined: Feb 11, 2014

January 9th, 2016 at 3:39:16 AM permalink

left side, 2/9/10

3d, 5c, 3c, 10h

Ad, 8d, 5s, 7h,

and remaining

Jump to: