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You have three switches in one room and a single light bulb in another room. You are allowed to visit the room with the light bulb only once. How do you figure out which switch controls the bulb? Write your answer in the comments before looking at other answers.


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If this were an interview question, the correct response would be "Do you have any relevant questions for me? Because have a long list of things that more deserving of my precious time than to think about this!

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[โ€“] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The "premise" is detecting that a now dark light was recently turned on by feeling for residual heat. "Hot" is a relative term.

[โ€“] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

actually not really - hot specifies HOT; if it were room temp, warm, warmer than another that sat unused - sure. but you're only flipping it on for a short time. HOT?

it's pedantic, but parsing is important here because some HR shitwad decided these silly stupid games were a valid hiring method on filtering pedants apparently