Long ago, there existed a species of fighting chameleons. These chameleons were divided into six types of matching color and strength:

Black were the strongest, followed by

blue,

green,

orange,

yellow and

white which were the weakest.

Whenever two chameleons of the same color met, they would fight to the death and the victor would become stronger and change color (eg white to yellow). Black chameleons would fight eternally.

The small island of Ula was initially populated by a group of fighting chameleons. For this group

a) the colors present each had an equal number of chameleons (for example, group = 3 black, 3 green and 3 yellow)

b) it was not made up entirely of white chameleons

After all the possible fighting was done, there remained one black and green and no blue or orange chameleons.

How many white chameleons remained in the island? Prove it.

(In reply to re(2): solution (explanation) by TomM)

I deleted that one for you... The problem with focusing the "Preview" insead of "post" is that "Post" is the only real submit button. "Preview" triggers some javascript in a half-assed attempt on my part ot avoid writing too much code. (I don't want to swap them since then people with no javascript wouldn't be able to submit)

Sorry for all the tech talk...

On the other hand, the ability to delete your posts is not a bad idea. I may add it for higher-level users soon. Only problem is that right now I'm fairly busy with other stuff - hence the lack of updates.

Posted by levik on 2002-07-30 04:46:55