I feel like this new puzzle is a bit of a market test, as it were. Trying to see if anyone even cares enough for a crossword for the effort it takes to make one =D
there are a number of puzzles here where I take one look at them, and one look at whatever the clues are, and go "ok, I have no chance of getting this one"
this is why I answer so many riddles/rebuses/word problems, and so few math problems or things that require image manipulation (like that ENHANCE puzzle)
Catholic Praise Hymn makes me feel like I can do this ... but I sing in a church choir, and know scores of hymns ... and most of them are titled by their first lines, which are rarely 6 letters
The problem is that, in my opinion, the edit rules for Puzzling need a slight adjustment. Images should, in most cases, be considered part of the puzzle, unless it's VERY obvious that they are there mistakenly. However, we're not talking about a screenshot of a code editor or anything.
It's a song I sung at State, long ago, if that helps, Matt.
But that particular user has said absolutely stunningly backwards stuff like this before: last time it was about how Questions That Are Too Broad are scaring off potential users (as opposed to, say, the practice of closing questions we think might be too broad scaring off potential users); now it's "telling editors not to overstep their bounds" is scaring off new users, not new users having their posts unnecessarily and incorrectly edited
Yeah, I guess the funniest part to me is that she's characterizing the complaints as something harmful - I don't see them as anything other than justified complaints. If anything, I'm more comfortable in a place where people don't just let the administration do whatever they want with no complaint.
However she tries to defend that the question is purely about responses, though - she titled the post "Deliberate errors", as if to imply that people are making mistakes intentionally, and then getting upset when someone fixes them.
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Which is simply not what is occurring.
"I am not objecting to rolling back the edit."
"Here have been a few puzzles lately with "mistakes" in them that on any other site, the right thing to do would be to edit and fix. Here on puzzling, not only does the author undo the help,...."
"Tree-planting" puzzles are also known as "points and lines" puzzles.
The English puzzle author and mathematician Henry Ernest Dudeney was very fond of them.
In 1917, Dudeney published a collection of puzzles called "Amusements in Mathematics", which also contains the following classic puzzle:
...
hahaha ok so I clicked my notifications box and saw a comment from That Thread that I had missed earlier. "The editors can't read your mind. That doesn't make them imperfect." lol what. I'm pretty sure no one is perfect, as a general rule, and it has nothing to do with mind-reading.
Yeah, I will agree that "I don't make mistakes" (which, I don't actually know whether that's the actual wording or not, so that could be misleading) is... not the best response, but it's also not the first or only response, and feels a lot like cherrypicking
ah, yeah, that's not a great thing to claim, and I'll even admit that expecting people to just trust that everything you did was intentional is silly, but it's literally exactly as silly as saying "just because the editors can't read minds doesn't mean they ever make mistakes"
right?
to me, it's disconcerting to see someone with clout on the site being like "actually, no, editors are always justified, and it's bad that anyone even questioned it"
I agree about the attitude, though; all I'm really saying is that that's a secondary thing. There wouldn't be any attitude if people weren't mistakenly making edits
Well right -and it takes conscious effort to add an image to a post.
One should take a moment to make sure it wasn't intentional. it's perfectly okay, imo, to edit a puzzle AFTER the solution is found, if it's clear, at that point, that it was a mistake.
does anyone know how does GentlePurpleRain stays in the The Sphinx Liar for the whole time...I mean to say that he is always shown in the room...meanwhile I get out of it in just 1 hour of being idle
you know. I only really know what I know about star wars because a) I watched the movies a few times when I was a kid, and b) I was around people who really liked star wars a lot
left to my own devices, I probably wouldn't have retained much star wars knowledge. I liked it just fine, it just never did much for me. Plus as far as Harrison Ford goes, I liked Indiana Jones way better
It says in my textbook that:
$$\ce{CH4 + 2 O2 -> CO2 + 2 H2O}$$
which seems like a displacement reaction to me. Shouldn't the reaction be:
$$\ce{CH4 + O2 -> CO2 + 2 H2}$$
since $\ce{4H}$ are displaced by $\ce{O2}$ (becoming $\ce{2 H2}$), which makes the reaction balanced?
Why is the reacti...
It is because
Yes, almost in every
I noted down 54 different scenes in the movie and the whole movie can be divided into these 4 parts.
The buildup. It mainly shows Bruce when Superman was fighting with Zod. So, the movie begins with Bruce, the gunshot at his parents and his perception of S...
The Clues
All the information you can find is here in the post
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(All the information you need can be seen in the above section...
I'm assuming your puzzle's answers are in [a language that was spoken by people involved in the notable western-world happenings of 240BC, but I don't know which language]
yeah, not fond of that one
(but it's probably the most well-known language (to modern people) of that part of the world, of that time in history)
OK well I'll start: Before I realized there was a non-trivial language component, the word I have (had?) for the passel clue was CONSENSUS
which could still work
but I was basically going with the definition of passel (a word I hadn't really encountered before, as far as I can remember) as "a group of things or people"
I thought about jury, but part of the reason I came up with "coagluate" (still, probably wrong) is that it has an L which could give us "LAWS" or whatever the latin form is (lex? lege? I don't know)
Because this is a crossword and not doing so will frustrate you, in the end, I'm going to let you know that you're going down a rabbit hole, currently.
"Tree-planting" puzzles are also known as "points and lines" puzzles.
The English puzzle author and mathematician Henry Ernest Dudeney was very fond of them.
In 1917, Dudeney published a collection of puzzles called "Amusements in Mathematics", which also contains the following classic puzzle:
...
Is it a Zebra?
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(or if you prefer it without the spaces: 001011011110001...
This is my first rebus, and I only mention that because I needed more characters.
0
false
1 = 2
Who am I?
Hint:
Hint 2:
It says in my textbook that:
$$\ce{CH4 + 2 O2 -> CO2 + 2 H2O}$$
which seems like a displacement reaction to me. Shouldn't the reaction be:
$$\ce{CH4 + O2 -> CO2 + 2 H2}$$
since $\ce{4H}$ are displaced by $\ce{O2}$ (becoming $\ce{2 H2}$), which makes the reaction balanced?
Why is the reacti...
It is because
Yes, almost in every
I noted down 54 different scenes in the movie and the whole movie can be divided into these 4 parts.
The buildup. It mainly shows Bruce when Superman was fighting with Zod. So, the movie begins with Bruce, the gunshot at his parents and his perception of S...
The Clues
All the information you can find is here in the post
UmVtZW1iZXIgdGhhdCBhdCBmaXJzdCB5b3UgYXJlIG9mZiBieSBvbmUu
hs6QPnflXaeQCHuPlY2vXX3MjQNjV8b3W+MHjUII654kWpWGfV2s1M3upfgusCD15l5wLfu8FzxRHyv3e/kov31nqfgO88GaquFUDH/CFU4=
(All the information you need can be seen in the above section...
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lateral-thinking 0H828JD1FGHODB82JOO
$A_2$: computer-puzzles 01111011
$A_3$: visuallateral-thinking (Sorry if you are colorblind..)
$A_4$: visualcomputer-puzzles
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