The One Where Everything Is "Jumbled"

                  Richa has been challenged by her friend, Naveen to solve the following  “Jumbled Set” of four questions. The rules are simple:

• (Rule-1): No three of these four questions have same option as their answer.
• (Rule-2): Q.4 must be answered just after Q.2.

She has promised you a treat, if you could help her.

Give it a try !

Question 1:
Which question’s answer will you get at last?
1) 1        2)4         3)2        4)3


Question 2:
How many questions do have (3) as correct option?
1)2            2)0        3)1        4) None of the above


Question 3:
Which one  is the basic question that you must answer first, to be able to answer the other question(s)?
 1)1          2)3        3)2        4)4


Question 4:
What is your answer to question 2?
1)4        2)3        3)2        4)1


Guidelines: Give complete strategies used to get the answer that would help our team and your fellow contestants to know the way you thought.

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Regards

Team Techno'13

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The One In "The Drowning City"

The  city of skyscrapers consists of buildings of heights ranging from one to nine arranged in a 6x6 grid. (Rule-1)The number of people living in each building is equal to its height. (Rule-2)Rows 1,2,3 are similar to the rows 4,5,6 respectively and column A is similar to column D, columns B and C are reverse of columns E and F respectively. (Rule-3)Around any building there is no building of the same height. Also there is no building with a height difference of 1 to the right, left, up and down of a building.

It is the rainy season of 2013. the city is flooded and a rescue team headed by Uttej roams (outside the grid) with a boat and a flashlight, (Rule-4)on top of column F, moving anticlockwise, and ending at right of the first row. They light the flash along the row or the column corresponding to their position. (Rule-5)All the people of a building are rescued if that building can be seen, that is, if there is no building of greater or equal height between it and the flash. (Rule-6)The numbers written at top of some rows or beside some columns represents the number of people rescued when flash is lighted from that position.

                                        

Question 1:
How many people will enter the ship when the flash is lighted from the bottom of column B?
1) 4        2) 11        3) 12        4) 20


Question 2:
How many people died in the flood?
1) 18        2) 26        3) 25        4) 24


Question 3:
How many more people would have been saved if the flash were lighted along the diagonals as         well?
1) 9        2) 10        3) 11        4) 12



Guidelines:
Give complete strategies used to get the answer that would help our team and your fellow contestants to know the way you thought.
To give the reason for a particular step, you can use the Rule numbering as per the Question.

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Regards

Team Techno'13

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The One Where 'Techno' Thinks Outside The Box

Hello all!

It was overwhelming to read all of your answers. Some of you really took a very interesting approach towards the question. You all really forced us to follow your pathway and rethink your way.

Good job guys!!

Now it is the time to reveal the most awaited answers...

Box-1:   Sunday

Box-2:   Winter

Box-3:   Hang on (for) a minute

Box-4:   What goes up (must/should) come(s) down

Box-5:   Making up for losses

Box-6:   Backwards

Box-7:   Three degrees below zero

Box-8:   No one is perfect

Box-9:   No excuse(s) for it

Box-10: No time left

However some of the answers given by you all have been taken as alternate solution, and have been added to our final Solution draft. These are: 

Box-1:   Today is Sunday/Sunday Today

Box-2:   'O' fell from the tower

Box-3:   Hangout/ Hangover still in me

Box-4:   What goes comes back

Box-5:   Making up for (the) lost time

Box-6:   -

Box-7:   -

Box-8:   All in one/Jumbled one(s)/No one

Box-9:   Fit for it

Box-10: Time never waits/Time waits for none/Time-out

Continuing the discussion further, tomorrow we will be taking up the comprehension section. In the start, “JUMBLED”, "THE DROWNING CITY” and “FOLLOW THE ARROW” will be discussed. Hope to see you all with the same enthusiasm.

We will also be introducing the chief organizers of Techno'13 in the upcoming days. Stay tuned for more.

Till then this is Team Technothlon signing off for today!

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Regards
Team Techno'13

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The One Where You Think Outside The Box

Section: Think Outside The Box

Interpreting pictures and phrasing it in words is one task but what if you have to transform words into words and phrase it to give a meaning. Here is a group of mystery boxes to test your logic. Best of luck and keep going!!

Guideline to be followed:

• To discuss about the ith box, your comment should be like: 

"Box-i: Your approach and the final answer". 

    

                              

       

                             

The One Where The Tables Turn - Inspire Technothlon

"To be once in doubt, is once to be resolved". So here is the team Technothlon to answer and discuss all your doubts regarding the paper. Basically we would be taking up a few questions each day. We would like you all to have a healthy discussion sharing your answers and approach; comment on our posts with the same; reply if you feel someone is going in a wrong direction. After going through all the discussion we will be posting the final answers on the very same day.

Here’s your chance to get your answers added to the final answer keys. As learning is an open ended phenomenon, there is no limit of imagination and thinking. Technothlon has been inspiring young minds for over a decade, now it’s time for the young minds to inspire Technothlon too by their wits.

So guys buckle up your paddles and get ready for the thrilling Discussions of Technothlon'13 prelims question paper. Best of Luck!

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The One With The Ultimate Paper

When the team techno sat down together to make the questions we were not sure of what the final outcome would be but we were sure of one thing that the hours the students would spent while solving the paper should be completely different from all their past experiences. It was a challenge to test your logic and analytical skills and make the participants enjoy the experience.

Seriously, being on the other side of the table, we Chief Organizers more importantly; students of IIT-G salute our teachers for the effort they put in to inspire us. We tried our best to make this paper of Techno'13 a fun experience for you and now is the time for you to solve and show your innovation.

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Junior Squad Question Paper

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Hauts Squad Question Paper

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The One Where It All Began

It has been many years since Technothlon’s inception – Ten, to be precise. Well, the idea to conduct Technothlon began in 2004. In hindsight, we feel it was a masterstroke. What the creators thought of Technothlon back then, we will never know. In the past ten years, it has have gone from strength to strength. The numbers that it represents, namely participation, centers etc, have seen an almost exponential growth. Technothlon seems to have evolved into an ‘uncommon’ entity! ‘An examination that students appear to love’. We call it an uncommon entity because the words ‘examination’, ‘students’ and ‘love’ are rarely seen together in the same sentence.

This Blog is a means to reach out even further to Technothlon’s numerous fans, enthusiasts and well-wishers who are out there. We will share the many experiences we had with the city representatives, the participants and their escorts provide a sneak peek into what goes on during the meetings and also share the thoughts and feelings of the Technothlon’13 and Techniche organizers.

We have a really good feeling about this! Technothlon has invaded many realms of a student’s life. Besides, it’s time to stamp its digital signature onto the Blogging Arena! 

To know more, keep reading all the posts that we put up.

Credits:  Siddhartha Nambiar, Organizer-Tecnothlon'11

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