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  2. Three-act structure - Wikipedia

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    The third act features the resolution of the story and its subplots. The climax is the scene or sequence in which the main tensions of the story are brought to their most intense point and the dramatic question answered, leaving the protagonist and other characters with a new sense of who they really are.

  3. Wolf, goat and cabbage problem - Wikipedia

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    The key to the solution is realizing that one can bring things back (emphasized above). This is often unclear from the wording of the story, but never forbidden. Knowing this will make the problem easy to solve even by small children. The focus of the puzzle is not just task scheduling, but creative thinking, similarly to the Nine dots puzzle.

  4. Missing dollar riddle - Wikipedia

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    There seems to be a discrepancy, as there cannot be two answers ($29 and $30) to the math problem. On the one hand it is true that the $25 in the register, the $3 returned to the guests, and the $2 kept by the bellhop add up to $30, but on the other hand, the $27 paid by the guests and the $2 kept by the bellhop add up to only $29.

  5. Monty Hall problem - Wikipedia

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    The game host then opens one of the other doors, say 3, to reveal a goat and offers to let the player switch from door 1 to door 2. The Monty Hall problem is a brain teaser, in the form of a probability puzzle, based nominally on the American television game show Let's Make a Deal and named after its original host, Monty Hall.

  6. The Three Questions - Wikipedia

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    "The Three Questions" is a 1903 short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy as part of the collection What Men Live By, and Other Tales. The story takes the form of a parable, and it concerns a king who wants to find the answers to what he considers the three most important questions in life.

  7. Wheat and chessboard problem - Wikipedia

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    One of them includes the geometric progression problem. The story is first known to have been recorded in 1256 by Ibn Khallikan. [3] Another version has the inventor of chess (in some tellings Sessa, an ancient Indian Minister) request his ruler give him wheat according to the wheat and chessboard problem. The ruler laughs it off as a meager ...

  8. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia

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    The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was first proposed by Georges Polti in 1895 to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance. [1] Polti analyzed classical Greek texts, plus classical and contemporaneous French works. He also analyzed a handful of non-French authors.

  9. As I was going to St Ives - Wikipedia

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    The problem has been paraphrased by modern commentators as a story problem involving houses, cats, mice, and grain, [11] although in the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus there is no discussion beyond the bare outline stated above. The hekat was 1 ⁄ 30 of a cubic cubit (approximately 4.8 L or 1.1 imp gal or 1.3 US gal).