I flash... But, illumination is not always to be found
I recall... Yet, others give me amnesia
I am little... Still, I can be quite large
I will carry things for you... Conversely, I must receive them first
I communicate very fast... Still, you prefer it that way
I am bigger than my older brother...
AK, you don't need to remove your messages. Please don't constantly remove them, especially when they're important to understanding the context of a conversation.
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dcfyj had the gotcha moment, so I deleted, and I don't delete key context chats intentionally . (Previous deletion of the ladybug picture was a mistake, though)
@Sid, I agree, it seems like a really weak puzzle in multiple ways and I have no idea why 18 people upvoted it. But it sometimes seems like votes and puzzle quality are inversely correlated. (They aren't really, but it's quite common for weak-but-approachable-looking puzzles to get way more upvotes than they deserve, and for tough interesting ones to scare people off and get few votes.)
While Bob was walking down the street one day, he met a wonderful woman that was attractive and smart and a great conversationalist.
After they had been chatting for a while the woman looked at her watch and quickly got up and scribbled something down while saying "I have to go, I'm running ver...
My formula: 1) Add visual components like images or GIFS 2) make it a cipher (because that's all I can) 3) Put "weird" in the title and maybe variations like "strange" in the body. This at least worked for me to get over 10 upvotes :P (only questions following this formula achieved that)
I usally like it if they're solved between 12-48 hours... If it takes longer I like to start a bounty, but unfortunately I'll have to resist starting a bounty on my current question as soon as I'll be able to... Otherwise people might exploit that in future questions.
@BeastlyGerbil That just happened on this last puzzle, but they figured it out. The great thing about this puzzle is eventually they'll get to the point where they can cross-check themselves and I won't have to tell them if they're wrong.
Is just had an idea for a puzzle that 1) is perfect to post on halloween (because of it's presentation), 2) fits the most probably next fortnight (IMO) and 3) fits the tags assigned to me here :P Now the most annoying part will be the "balancing" (i.e. not make it too hard / too easy)... Always failed at that so far... Anyone has advice how to determine the difficulty without having to have experience?
@LukasRotter getting difficulty right is one of the hardest parts. Best I can suggest is trying to do a dry run yourself and at every step, ask yourself questions like: what information do I need to get this bit? Where is that information available? What assumptions do I need to make? How many wrong assumptions are people likely to make?
@Alconja Thanks. The problem is that I always think the information needed to solve it is clear and everyone knows what to do with it. I guess I must bring on my best acting skills and somehow objectively judge the puzzle and what people could miss / misinterpret... That will not be easy :P
And I fear if I take too many misinterpretations of clues into consideration the puzzle might end up being too easy.
Oh, and I just noticed your link (just woke up, or at least that's my excuse)... Good man. Maybe I should suggest a new fortnightly challenge: Alconja's Assignments (I assign each user their own unique pair of tags). :)
The only problem with my current idea for a puzzle is that it's extremely trivial geometry, so I'm not sure whether it would deserve the gemoetry tag. But strictly following the tag description it would fit: "A puzzle related to shapes, geometric objects (polygons, circles, solids, etc.) of any number of dimensions, relative position of figures, and the properties of space. ". I.e. anything that involves shapes.
the bowdlerized British bird in the "dice star" puzzle has to be GANNET (it's a direct reference to a Monty Python sketch)
the foliage has, in two versions of the puzzle, been "rough-looking" and "under the weather". I guess both of those must be meaning "somewhat unwell". GREENS??
ohhhh and I guess the "missing ..." thing is PINING (for the fjords). I actually wondered about that before but failed to spot the other sense of "missing", d'oh
(that gives us the previously mysterious PNG, by the way)
but we're still short at least one APS word, so far as I can see
the pests could be VOLEs rather than MOLEs. Or maybe DEER or even BEAR, but I doubt it.
I'm still having enough trouble figuring out how this thing could start or end that I suspect there's at least one DEL word we haven't got right yet.
@Sconibulus I saw the designs vary between users... I was going to post my own version (similar to the others, but with some minor differences). I don't think people will mind, eh?
We've asked for burnination of several tags, and nearly every time we get responses telling us to go through everything to make sure that no questions end up with only irrelevant tags.
Whether it makes you laugh or not doesn't make it good (or not). But it did take some thought, and I had an "aha" moment when solving it, so that's a puzzle
@Alconja You're not supposed to vote just to 'balance' things. I downvoted that question not because it's too highly voted but because, funny as it is, it doesn't really belong here. (Nothing wrong with your answer, of course!)
@Deusovi I started that job for word-problem. Need to go back and finish it at some point, especially since nobody else has taken up the baton.
And I call for more delete votes on more crappy closed humour questions in here every so often.
Maybe I've got a skewed view, since I answered it before it had humour, so I didn't approach it as a joke, but as a puzzle, which, while very simple, was at least somewhat satisfying to solve
So, while I broadly agree that jokes are bad. I think this is a (super easy/simple) puzzle that happens to be humorous, as opposed to a joke that's vaguely puzzle-y.