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Confusing Brainteaser, can anyone help?

katangel26 | 16:51 Wed 25th Oct 2006 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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Here we go, it just confuses me!

'When the day after tomorrow is yesterday, today will be as far from Wednesday as today was from Wednesday when the day before yesterday was tomorrow. What is the day after this day?'

Any ideas anyone?

Write up of a previous example of a solution to a business problem

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crofter

katangel27 - Are you sure that there is a solution?

I make the first "day" 3 days' time and the second "day" 3 days' ago. Including the real "today", these give a span of 7 days. For a solution to exist, this span should be an even number of days!

Or have I made a booboo?

katangel26

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There is an answer because its for a competition, you made more sense of it than I did tho lol

gen2

crofter's statements are correct right up to the last line.

The original "today" has to be the Wednesday. Then the first 'new today' is 3 days ahead and the second 'new today' is 3 days behind, ie equally far from Wednesday.

That makes the day after the 'second new today' a Monday.

katangel26

Question Author

So Monday is what I'll send in as my answer then. Thanks

crofter

Hold it, katangel26! It may not be as easy as that!

What is meant by "this day" at the end of the puzzle?

I agree with gen2's sorting out that when the puzzle begins, we have a Wednesday! I called this starting point the "real today", but it is just posible that that is what the setter means by "this day". With this interpretation, the day after the "real today" is Thursday!

Over to you gen2 - or to others on AB. Katangel26 needs help!

katangel26

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I do need help, I'm normally extremely logical but this has totally thrown me!

Muffet

What fun we do have!
I'm just wondering - if the first today is three days ahead , and the second is three days before, and both are equidistant from Wed., doesn't that make this day Wed. and make Thursday the answer?
On the other hand, because you can go in either direction, say this is day 1. The day after tomorrow is day 3, which is day 4's yesterday. So that's day 4 . For the second bit, you could say that tomorrow will be day 2, which is day 4's day before yesterday. So day 4 again, in which case it could be any day of the week.
Not too helpful perhaps.

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