Troll King Contest

The First of April's coming. Time for some trolling, mathematicians!

Who's the biggest $\Large{\color{#20A900}{\textbf{Troll}}}$ on Brilliant?

Putting up a troll DP ain't making you the biggest troll, Prasun Biswas, you need to prove it. Claiming yourself to be a big Kadoobly Booist, or whatever it is, doesn't make you one, Agni, you need to prove it. And again, who was the King Of Trolls? Yet another chance to prove it.

In short, the participant who posts the most trolling problem wins. Here go the rules:-

$\bullet$ The Contest starts on the $20$ th of March, and ends on $29$ th March. Late submissions will not be accepted.

$\bullet$ Every member is allowed only $1$ entry. You can update your entry by editing your comment, or deleting it and adding a new one.

$\bullet$ Results will be announced on $31$ st March.

$\bullet$ For identification and to warn those who don't want to troll, please put the following line in the end of every problem. $\text{This is an entry in the Troll King Contest}$

$\bullet$ Since these are troll problems, do not give them levels. You can use topics if they are suitable.

$\bullet$ The entry with the maximum value of $Upvotes + \sqrt{Downvotes}$ will be declared the winning entry. The member who posted that entry will be the Winner of the Troll King Contest.

$\bullet$ Please Upvote all the entries you like, and do NOT Downvote any entries. (LOL Trolls used to downvote comments unnecessarily.)

Your turn . . . Don't forget to enter, like and reshare so that it reaches everyone. :D

Best of luck!

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Comments

Here's my entry https://brilliant.org/problems/never-gonna-give-...

James McGill - 6 years, 2 months ago

And that my friends is, what this jolly good sir demonstrated, is called being rickrolled

Mrinmay Dhar - 6 years, 2 months ago

LMAO

David Trinh - 2 years, 3 months ago

Disqualified. -_-

Satvik Golechha - 6 years, 2 months ago

Still the best troller... GOOD JOB!

Julian Poon - 6 years, 2 months ago

Did you disqualify just because it's a video ? or because of its content ?

P.S. I haven't yet watched it . I'll do it based on your response .

A Former Brilliant Member - 6 years, 2 months ago

Here's my entry

Pi Han Goh - 6 years, 2 months ago

Did you solve mine .. or u were trolled too? :P :D xD

Nihar Mahajan - 6 years, 2 months ago

Trolled !

@A Former Brilliant Member – Well my problem has '110 views (100%) 62 attempts (56%) 11 solvers (10%)' . It seems many people have been trolled. :P :D :) xD

@Nihar Mahajan – Congrats ! Troll king :)

@A Former Brilliant Member – Well , I also want to form a 400 followers problem. Which topic do you want? FYI: I haven't learnt Calculus and Computer science much. :(

@Nihar Mahajan – What should I say ? Whatever topic you may choose , I'll definitely try it it :)

If you insist , I'd like a Geometry problem since it's your speciality , right ?

And seriously dude , your followers really increase exponentially !

@A Former Brilliant Member – Yup! Ok , I will form a geometry problem. I have created a TONCAS configuration on my own ... but some part is still left , I will complete and post it soon on Brilliant. Also , its surprising why so many people are following me. Thanks!

@Nihar Mahajan – Dude, I see you are from M.Prakash sir's academy... I have attended INMOTC 2 times, so I know that only M. Prakash sir uses this word, TONCAS.... I'm gonna use that a lot in this year's IMOTC... @Nihar Mahajan you gonna appear for RMO this year?

Aditya Raut - 6 years, 2 months ago

@Aditya Raut – Yup! Last year I managed to get 34 marks since I didn't prepare much. But this year I am preparing harder. BTW Best luck for IMOTC , hope u get selected for IMO!!

@Nihar Mahajan – Ok . Btw what's TONCAS Config. ?

@A Former Brilliant Member – 'The Obvious Necessary Condition is Also Sufficient' . Well truly speaking , most of RMO geometry problems of previous years contain TONCAS problems.... So , it is good to practice them. TONCAS is generally associated with converses of a theorem or configuration...

@Nihar Mahajan – Thanks I didn't know that :)

I googled the word to get "The Original Nicolas Cage Appreciation Society" !!

Here's my entry click here

Here's mine!

If I have some free time, I might try and do better.

Calvin Lin Staff - 6 years, 2 months ago

Downvoting it.. so that there would be 9 downvotes and 9 is a perfet square... I have a mathematical OCD >_<

Aditya Pappula - 6 years, 2 months ago

Woah, magic.

Daniel Liu - 6 years, 2 months ago

here's mine ;)

Raghav Vaidyanathan - 6 years, 2 months ago

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Nope. Satvik does not want downvotes. So , 'if someone hates a problem or does a downvote intentionally', for such situations to be avoided , the haters or such pranksters would not downvote , since it will increase the points of the contestant due to + sign. However , some people have downvoted.

Example if A gets 3 upvotes and 1 downvote , whereas B gets 3 upvotes and 2 downvotes , then B will win. As simple as that.

@Nihar Mahajan – dude, by upvotes do you mean likes or something else ?

Rishabh Tripathi - 6 years, 2 months ago

The scoring system is fine, but the problem is with "troll questions". They should make atleast little bit of sense.

Archit Boobna - 6 years, 2 months ago

@Archit Boobna – I guess that's why they are called as Trolls :P

@Archit Boobna – that's right

Mayank Singh - 6 years, 2 months ago

Hi everyone !

Here's my entry !!

P.S. I don't know what a troll is or ... also this is my first Troll question , so it'd be nice if anybody could comment and provide a feedback :)

hmmmm trolling is....

better read this : " Trolling"

;)

Soumo Mukherjee - 6 years, 2 months ago

Ah! I guess it'll be quite difficult for me to become a Troll then :D

@A Former Brilliant Member – You can always submit another entry over the next few days!

@Calvin Lin – really 0_o

I will try to do better next time.

@Soumo Mukherjee – You really impress everyone with your choice of pics !

@A Former Brilliant Member – That's sweet ^_^

:) thanks

Here's my Entry

Vaibhav Prasad - 6 years, 2 months ago

This is my submission : Not Just a troll ,....... please upvote if you like :)

Krishna Ar - 6 years, 2 months ago

Well here is My entry

Mehul Arora - 6 years, 2 months ago

My entry

Michael Mendrin - 6 years, 2 months ago

YAY! The Contest is now complete!!!

Dude, be clear with what you mean! When i read this comment, I thought the contest is complete means over ! OMG ! lol

@Aditya Raut – Before you understand a comment, first figure out what the comment is. $\Large TR0LLED$

@Aditya Raut – Aditya, this is a TROLL forum!

Here's my entry.

Brian Charlesworth - 6 years, 2 months ago

Here they are my entry and this

Adarsh Kumar - 6 years, 2 months ago

Here's mine click here

Vaibhav Kandwal - 6 years, 2 months ago

Anyone Still Wants to know the Answer to any of these Problems, Try CTRL + W , :D

No thank you, I'll like to keep my tabs please.

tytan le nguyen - 6 years, 2 months ago

LOL Biggest troll. I got trolled twice... :-P

Here comes mine

Here's Mine....

Deal with it buddies.... ;) ;)

Also here is my Entry

Sid 2108 - 6 years, 2 months ago

Here's my entry. :3

Prasun Biswas - 6 years, 2 months ago

Paul Ryan Longhas - 6 years, 2 months ago

Here is mine Click

Parth Lohomi - 6 years, 2 months ago

This is My Entry. Hope you like it.

Purushottam Abhisheikh - 6 years, 2 months ago

Here's my entry Check this out

Manmeswar Patnaik - 6 years, 2 months ago

Here is my entry

Karthik Sridhar - 6 years, 2 months ago

PIace your finger perpendicular to the nearest fIat surface and trace the path of the girl's spinning Ieg; cIock-wise or counter-cIock-wise? Post above.

This is n0t an entry to the Troll K $\sqrt{-1}$ ng Contest.

John M. - 6 years, 2 months ago

This was shown in The Brain Games on National Geographic Channel...

This is photoshopping as i continuously wathed it and it moved in same sense but then suddenly it reverses its spin.

Gautam Sharma - 6 years, 2 months ago

Really ?? How ? for me it rotates in only clockwise direction .

@A Former Brilliant Member – Just see it continuously for veeery long (maybe it should occur within 1 min or less) it reverses its sense.

@Gautam Sharma – Yep . After 41 rotations in CW , it changed it's sense , but as soon as I lost eye contact it reverted back to it's original motion .

@A Former Brilliant Member – One thing more @Azhaghu Roopesh M did you just wake up or you didn't sleep?

@Gautam Sharma – I woke up at 3:00 , I slept at 10:30 pm

@A Former Brilliant Member – Nice.Early to bed ,early to rise makes a man healthy,wealthy and wise.

@Gautam Sharma – LOL!

@A Former Brilliant Member – Haven't you heard it before?It pretty popular i think?

@Gautam Sharma – That's what the lol was for :P How come you sound like Shakespeare so early in the morning ??

@A Former Brilliant Member – Natural born talent!! $\huge{XD!! LOL!!}$

@Gautam Sharma – Agreed :P

About 25-30 sec clockwise then 10-15 sec anticlockwise acc to me.

I think you're wrong!Try to time it again,and I'm sure you'll have different results.

Karla Orbita - 5 years, 11 months ago

Great . Do you know how to make a gif like that ?

@A Former Brilliant Member – Just i was thinking how to post that gif. so i don't know.

Were my timings correct approximately?

@Gautam Sharma – I woke up . Hbu ?

It really depends on who's watching so I can't really tell . It varies from person to person and depends on the level of concentration with which you are watching it .

@A Former Brilliant Member – I didn't sleep . i was going through revision of 11 class chem ,got bored and landed here also playing FUT 15.Do you like it?Well acc. to you what are the timings?

@Gautam Sharma – I am a great fan of FIFA ! But currently I am stuck with FIFA 14, I'll download FIFA 15 after JEE Advanced . For me as I said 41 rotations , so around 20-21 second CW and pretty much the same for ACW directions .

Btw even I was playing FIFA right now , that's why I was't able to reply to your comments quickly . And then now I was reading this .

@A Former Brilliant Member – Not intended to make you feel sad but FUT 15 is great.But EA servers suck.

@Gautam Sharma – Agreed , I play the pirated version though , using a crack . So I have to try to stay away from the servers !

@A Former Brilliant Member – But Fifa 15 doesn't run without net i think,does it?Because we will not be able to save game and many more things.

@Gautam Sharma – Oh don't worry abt that , nowadays a lot of cracks and mods are available to take care of that .

Also I think I should go now , I'll talk with you later . Are you on G+ ? U could contact me there .

@A Former Brilliant Member – yeah i tried to find you on G+ but couldn't.How to find you,Azhaghu the don--->7 desh ki police peeche hai kya?

@A Former Brilliant Member – I think it is same as we post simple gifs but we need that tpe of gif from some websit or upload to a website to get a link.I m trying it.

It depends on the observation point. This reminds of the concept of electrons contributing to magnetic moment. When it rotates and revolves, the plane from which clockwise rotation forms the south pole and the latter one forms the north pole and thus they behave as tiny magnets.

P.s - Also, you can see that this is a .gif file and not a .jpg file. As such, the whole "trick" is based on good Adobe Flash skills.

This is the answer to how many it takes to screw in a light bulb?

My one

Utkarsh Dwivedi - 6 years, 2 months ago

Who is the winner?

See the results, they're out and posted by Sir Linji.

Yeah i 'v seen them.Thanks. Why didn't you posted the results?

Can you give me its link? I have not been able to find it.

@Purushottam Abhisheikh – Click here for the results.

Anik Mandal - 6 years, 2 months ago

I Just got trolled.

Steve Chen - 6 years ago

Congrats.... :-P

Satvik Golechha - 6 years ago

@Satvik Golechha, so who won it?

A Former Brilliant Member - 3 years, 6 months ago

Here is my entry . $\ddot\smile$

Kunal Joshi - 6 years, 2 months ago

Here's my entry!

Here's my entry troll chemistry

Krishna Sharma - 6 years, 2 months ago

I believe if you write this is an entry to the troll king contest, people will obviously catch the thing.

Ronak Agarwal - 6 years, 2 months ago

That's a nice question dude , you sure about entering it as a troll question ?

And people will catch the trick to the problem as well.

@Ronak Agarwal – Hmm, ok .

Here's my entry! Hope you get trolled :D

Omkar Kulkarni - 6 years, 2 months ago

Here is my entry...

Pranjal Jain - 6 years, 2 months ago

Here's my entry My troll king question

Aniket Verma - 6 years, 2 months ago

Here is My entry to the Troll King Contest

Arpit MIshra - 6 years, 2 months ago

I could have made use of this one

My last question: https://brilliant.org/problems/integral-tkc/?group=fHRApdf66u2S

Bryan Lee Shi Yang - 6 years, 2 months ago

i do not know what was going on but it was amazing and interesting just blown my brain..

Hasan Ali - 6 years, 2 months ago

TRUTH

Brock Brown - 6 years, 2 months ago

Here is my submission

Hope you like it.

Thanks.

Kishlaya Jaiswal - 6 years, 2 months ago

Seems like, only a few have realized (perhaps only 1 till yet) the troll hidden in this question.

And that only person is the super troll @Pi Han Goh

Another name gets added to the list - @Azhaghu Roopesh M

And now I have 2 solvers of this problem. Won't you dare to attempt it?

Here is my entry Counting Blocks!!
See my profile pic . It is also a $troll$ .

@Satvik Golechha Its Kaboobly $\color{#D61F06}{\text{D}}$ oo!!!

Scooby Doo?

Kushal Patankar - 6 years, 2 months ago

Mine here

Kho Yen Hong - 6 years, 2 months ago

@Satvik Golechha can you make a set of all the entries in this contest?

@Calvin Lin sir, how to add all these problems to a tag? I made a tag #TKC but i see that moderators can't edit tags...

Anyway, Here's my entry

At last i have thought of something interesting .Here it is . You will get trolled whatever you do but is logical.

My addition here. :)

David Holcer - 6 years, 2 months ago

Here is probably the only ComputerScience Entry: Link

Agnishom Chattopadhyay - 6 years, 2 months ago

Btw what's the meaning of Kaboobly Doo ?

I also asked him in the other note but didn't get an answer.May be know i will get. try below problem by bryan lee shing. just below.and if after you see the solution you wanna break you pc i will help you.

@Gautam Sharma – Check out G+ will you ?

@A Former Brilliant Member – Yeah just a sec.

Google it

@Agnishom Chattopadhyay – Pls explain it .No article to the point on googling.Pls explain it

@Gautam Sharma – @bobbym none coined the phrase Kaboobly Doo when he met a girl who said around 80 non-sense things in a minute to describe her.

Calvin describes Kaboobly Doo as "It is agnishom-slang for 'It\'s Crap'" but I do not like to put it that way, exactly. I like this discussion

@Agnishom Chattopadhyay – Thanks :)

Even I'd a Computer Science Entry. And the these stats surprised me.

107 views, 50 attempts (47%), 6 solvers (6%)

My $2^{nd}$ Troll question

Here's mine

Vighnesh Raut - 6 years, 2 months ago

How to upload questions?

Didn't you upload that Troll question a while back ? The BMW one ? Have you forgotten how to upload questions or are you confused with something else ?

No I didn't know that?！

I've deleted my 1st troll ques

its my entry... long live Pakistan

Asad Mahmood - 6 years, 2 months ago

Check this out! My entry

Satyam Bhardwaj - 6 years, 2 months ago

This is my entry

Mark Vincent Mamigo - 6 years, 2 months ago

great thanks! :)

A very precise question

Vernier Caliper

Also see: Random Matrices and a Random Equation

Precision Graph - 6 years, 2 months ago

Here's my entry Experiment

Sharky Kesa - 6 years, 2 months ago

Link here

Is that a troll problem?

Kind of...

This is mine

Tuấn Khang Nguyễn Lê - 6 years, 2 months ago

please one more

Ansh Bhatt - 6 years, 2 months ago

Here's mine: my entry

Shreya R - 6 years, 2 months ago

It's a great contest!

Here's my This-is-my-entry-for-the-troll-contest-ish question

Sravanth C. - 6 years, 2 months ago

This is not a troll question, but I would like (or I urge ) everyone (especially @Satvik Golechha , @Prasun Biswas and @Calvin Lin ) to please take a look at this question. The problem is here.

Nice to see another problem from Technothlon! What was your rank?

Don't ask that dude... I lost my certificate.. :( and rank too and it was not good. I remember it was in some thousands

@Rishabh Tripathi – BuT i really loved Technothlon and I'm willing to take part this year again.

@Rishabh Tripathi – Yeah, even I loved it, I took it in Class 10, and I'm surely looking forwards to taking it in 11th and 12th also.

@Satvik Golechha – I took in 9th and willing to take in 11th but I'll need a partner of class 12th and its disgusting to know that most of the class 12th students of my school are not interested, as is their sense its a waste of time.. >:(

@Rishabh Tripathi – Why would you need a partner of class 12? In Class 10, I participated with my friend, who's even on 10th.

@Satvik Golechha – Really ??? but the organizers told that it was a rule that in junior group there should be one of 9th and other of 10th and in hauts one of 11th and other of 12th

@Rishabh Tripathi – They trolled you, then . . . We all (in 10th) participated with friends of class 10 only.

@Satvik Golechha – ohk.. then I'll too take part with 11th frnds, Hey, did you take part as a school representative or as individual contestant ?

@Rishabh Tripathi – As a school representative. BTW Please tag me, I couldn't know you'd replied.

@Satvik Golechha – Oh..k Dude.. I see you got a great AIR 59 in that, its very impressive.. and have you tried this problem ??

and sorry currently got slow connection, not allowing to tag.. :(

Wow! I have never seen so many downvotes in any discussion so far! I think most people are not reading the rules that giving downvotes also increases the points of contestant. Sharky Kesa is leading with 10 downvotes!

Or may be some vote up using down votes.

like i did i upvoted those which were awesome and downvoted those which were average coz downvotes count less than upvotes. CHEERS!!

Exactly ,the person may win by the number of downvotes.

Does Downvotes still count, Cause I have both of them equal.....

here is mine

challenge u all to try my troll

please share it. This question is meant only for fun.

Soumya Dubey - 6 years, 2 months ago

Here's mine : click here

Trung Đặng Đoàn Đức - 6 years, 2 months ago

Well without reasonable doubt, the Troll award goes to Andrei!

Woah, woah, woah, who said this was reasonable?

This is the prize-winning, trolliest problem!

@Satvik Golechha, Challenge Accepted! :D

was waiting for you dude.. where's your problem ?

I saw the post just about half an hour ago. I didn't even know that there was a contest going on. Now, I need some time to think of a good troll problem that can beat these entries. :D

@Prasun Biswas – ohh.kkk take time.. and I know you'll come up with a fabulous problem

Can we change our entry for the contest?

Yes, just update your comment accordingly. Or, if you want, you can delete your comment and them post a new one.

Math	Appears as
Remember to wrap math in `\(` ... `\)` or `\[` ... `\]` to ensure proper formatting.
`2 \times 3`	$2 \times 3$
`2^{34}`	$2^{34}$
`a_{i-1}`	$a_{i-1}$
`\frac{2}{3}`	$\frac{2}{3}$
`\sqrt{2}`	$\sqrt{2}$
`\sum_{i=1}^3`	$\sum_{i=1}^3$
`\sin \theta`	$\sin \theta$
`\boxed{123}`	$\boxed{123}$