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Desardes
26-06-03, 08:45 PM
Here's another one of those logic questions. <i personally answered this in or around 2 minutes>.
A new building which rose to the height of 20 floors was created amidts the noisy neighbourhood of Gotham (this information is irrelevant; just wanted to create a mood). The supervisor tells his employee of a dilemma he's facing. There are 3 lights located on the top most part of the building and three switches on the ground floor. They have no knowledge to whether which switch belongs to which light. (Just don't ask me in regards to the weird construction they've created, play along). The elevator doesn't work so the employee wants to know which light goes for which switch and only going up ONCE and back. There's no one else in the building besides him.

Here's a hint: Use lateral thinking. Think outside the box. Oh, and another hint, the answer in which i'm looking for would probably only work for the lights and not for lets say....a surveillance camera.

joeschmoe
26-06-03, 09:05 PM
flip a light switch. wait a while. turn off the switch you flipped. flip another switch. go up to the top. the light that is on corresponds to the 2nd flipped switch. the warm lightbulb corresponds to the 1st flipped switch. the other lightbulb corresponds to the unflipped switch.

(I assumed that the lights are all off to start, as this method doesn't work if more than one light is warm)

Desardes
26-06-03, 09:16 PM
You didn't even give a chance for these other guys!

unbiased
29-06-03, 09:52 PM
I came to the same conclusion as joeschmoe...I won't repeat

MalcomBanned4?
30-06-03, 12:41 AM
Originally posted by Desardes
You didn't even give a chance for these other guys! 2 cents: Start a thread for "answers", post answers in that thread and in original just say __ was right.