Difficult Puzzle: ABBA

[Ucallme]

How many ABBA can you see, check below:

-----------
----A-A----
--A---B-A--
--A-B-B-A--
--A-B---A--
----A-A----
-----------

Hope this makes sense

Will say the answer when you guys give up

Amphrax/Arauddry

 

[sxx]

Hope this makes sense

no

 

[Dudley52]

wtf?

 

[Krait]

Lost me too.............. so i'll guess 6.

 

[Ucallme]

How many ABBA can you see, check below:

-----------
----A-A----
--A---B-A--
--A-B-B-A--
--A-B---A--
----A-A----
-----------

Hope this makes sense

Will say the answer when you guys give up

Amphrax/Arauddry

Ok i'll try and explain

How many ABBA can you see, which means you can any direction but can only go through 1 character at a time. I'll give a few examples, see below:

-----------
----A------
------B----
------B----
--------A--
-----------
-----------

In the above you can see two ABBA, 1 going down and 1 going up.

-----------
------A----
------B----
----B------
--A--------
-----------
-----------

-----------
-----------
------B-A--
------B-A--
-----------
-----------
-----------

Hope the above examples make sense.

Amphrax/Arauddry

 

[Dwun]

17

stopped counting because my eyes strated to bleed:eek2:

 

[Bonehead]

-----------
----A-A----
--A---B-A--
--A-B-B-A--
--A-B---A--
----A-A----
-----------

I can only see one

nah, has to be way more then 17, if u count as he mentioned above.

 

[Dukat]

How many ABBA can you see, check below:

-----------
----A-A----
--A---B-A--
--A-B-B-A--
--A-B---A--
----A-A----
-----------

Hope this makes sense

Will say the answer when you guys give up

Amphrax/Arauddry

Wouldnt it be around 39 or 40 ish? Not sure I'm understanding this right but you're asking how many combinations of ABBA there are in that grid?

 

[AngelHeal]

How many ABBA can you see, check below:

-----------
----A-A----
--A---B-A--
--A-B-B-A--
--A-B---A--
----A-A----
-----------

Hope this makes sense

Will say the answer when you guys give up

Amphrax/Arauddry

i can only see A's and B's with -... no ABBA so 0

ok it's simple, connect the first a to as many abba's u can..
then go the the 2nd a, but you CANNOT count a abba u allready counter befor.

ie:

1a 2b 3b 4a is 1

but

4a 3b 2b 1a isnt 2

 

[AngelHeal]

i can only see A's and B's with -... no ABBA so 0

ok it's simple, connect the first a to as many abba's u can..
then go the the 2nd a, but you CANNOT count a abba u allready counter befor.

ie:

1a 2b 3b 4a is 1

but

4a 3b 2b 1a isnt 2

i think its 21 (or 42 if u DO count backwards aswel)

 

[Ucallme]

Wouldnt it be around 39 or 40 ish? Not sure I'm understanding this right but you're asking how many combinations of ABBA there are in that grid?

I'll give you a clue

Its more than what you said

Amphrax

 

[tris-]

im guessing about 80

 

[Dukat]

If its more than 40ish I'd say it'll be alot more - was thinking of standard multiplication but this must be orders of magnitude higher.

Depending on how you calculate it, I would say 256, 400 or 1600 ofcourse this assumes you can re-use 3 letters that have already been used in one combination of ABBA, with only one of the letters being new.

 

[noblok]

102?

 

[AngelHeal]

how many times do u see NOOB

NOOB
OBON
OONB
BOON


to that ×3, and thats how noobish u are mwhuahaha ...right

 

[tris-]

we need some kind of maths formula tbh. no way you can tell just by looking at it

 

[noblok]

I just looked at it. My method was to draw it a few time on a piece of paper and see how many times I could form abba one letter at a time. The numbers above/next to the A's are the ammount of different ways you can get there from the bold one.

[font=verdana]
       1   1
    /  A  A  /
2  A  /  B  [b]A[/b]    
3  A  B  B  A  2
3  A  B  /  A  1
   /   A  A   /
       1   1[/font]

or 15. The mirror image will have the same ammount, so you only have to this for 5 of the 10. At least, that's how I think it works. It's faster than figuring out a mathematical formula at least .

Edit: I'm probably all wrong though .

 

[Ucallme]

102?

very close mate nice try, but wrong.

Amphrax/Arauddry

 

[noblok]

104 then? If that's not it, I'm giving up .

 

[Ucallme]

104 then? If that's not it, I'm giving up .

still wrong nice try and very close

Amphrax/Arauddry

 

[Overdriven]

Something like 114 isn't it?

 

[treamos]

112 or something

 

[Ucallme]

would you like the answer?

Amphrax/Arauddry

 

[CorNokZ]

hell yeah.. I was thinking it was somekinda trick question so was gonna say 1

 

[Rellik]

its 122 you newbs!

 

[vavires]

112

 

[Ucallme]

How many ABBA can you see, check below:

-----------
----A-A----
--A---B-A--
--A-B-B-A--
--A-B---A--
----A-A----
-----------

Hope this makes sense

Will say the answer when you guys give up

Amphrax/Arauddry

Answer to the above is:

106

1st A at top: You can see 6 ABBA
2nd A at top: You can see 6 ABBA
3rd A Right Side Top: You can see 15 ABBA
4th A Right Side Middle: You can see 15 ABBA
5th A Right Side Bottom: You can see 11 ABBA

which equals: 53 so times that by two and you get 106

Amphrax/Arauddry

 

[AngelHeal]

Answer to the above is:

106

1st A at top: You can see 6 ABBA
2nd A at top: You can see 6 ABBA
3rd A Right Side Top: You can see 15 ABBA
4th A Right Side Middle: You can see 15 ABBA
5th A Right Side Bottom: You can see 11 ABBA

which equals: 53 so times that by two and you get 106

Amphrax/Arauddry

wanne know what i see?

Abba baab bab ab bababb

 

[Straef]

...right

Riiiiiight...

 

[Sharaft]

arauddry, see you bored at work or something.... why not just call me? as i cant call you.. :S