I'm not taking issue with the type of clue it is, mostly just that one of the definitions only comes from one arbitrary word of the clue. It's... unsatisfying, to say the least.
Only once I've seen it happen to, so far, is one that Will noticed, the other day, where the guy claimed to, specifically, have created them and had clearly copied every one from the same one site.
which is to say - no one would have had a problem, had he not made that claim
However, being unable to see deleted posts, anymore, I can't attempt to find that other person's post.
OK nm, Emrakul gave the answer (yes, questions were literally plagiarized)
but originally he was making it out as if the issue was that other people had math problems on the site and his had been deleted. (I VTCed the one he linked)
Yeah, everything stated in that post makes perfect sense, due to our differences.
I find myself forgetting to upvote questions, KoA, because it can be hard to tell if some of them are good until they get answers - at which point you're focused on the answers.
I went to visit a friend the other day, and was invited inside. When I entered, I spied an arrangement of various dominos, upon the table. They were not arranged, standing up, as if she had been meaning to do anything spectacular with them, but the arrangement did seem to be important to her. ...
As some of you likely know, ghoti is an interesting spelling of the word
Using:
This is a rather ghotiy way to spell the word. But in the same spirit, what common phrase is spelled below?
ugh theighmolo
Please mention each sound and what word it is taken from (there may be more than one ...
Yeah, that's why I've left it - just gradually getting downvotes (Never got any when it was active - people have just decided, months later, that it's inappropriate for some reason)
I want to either get an answer to my comment from the OP, or know what the answer to the question is, so I can remove the 'lateral thinking' tag: puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/32274/…
"lateral thinking" is pretty well understood to mean "this puzzle seems like it should be solved [way], when it should actually be solved [other way], providing a much more elegant answer"
there was one that was tagged "lateral thinking" and so I solved it with lateral thinking, but it was just a play on the word lateral, and that pissed me off.
I remember at one point, somebody even asked a meta question about that kind of thing, about making the tags part of the puzzle, so to speak, and it was (rightly) rejected. Don't send people down the wrong path. It's obnoxious and it doesn't make the answer any more satisfying.
yeah. red herrings are a) generally fine, assuming they're managed well, and b) ultimately unavoidable - you can't control how people are going to interpret your puzzle. but they're something you should avoid when you have control over them
Yeah - though honestly that second picture in Karen's puzzle..
Was not intended to be a red herring. I was just unfamiliar enough with the encoding process that I wasn't sure if it would be helpful to anyone, despite it being solvable without it.
At a certain point, I realized it wasn't helping, though.
Generally, if you see that everyone is focusing on something that isn't part of the solution, it's a good idea to drop a hint to set everyone back on the right path
Like, I'm all for giving away anything and everything for free, but we do live in a world where people's labor and time is valuable. At some point it's just not reasonable to expect free puzzles on a free website to be flawless.
I just think about growing up reading martin gardner and raymond smullyan books and shit like that and like. If I couldn't figure out the answer, and the answers weren't like, printed in the book somewhere, I was just SOL
the way we get impatient if a puzzle hasn't been solved in a couple of days, or even a month or something, that's an expectation that was completely unheard-of within my lifetime.
(I'm not criticizing impatience or anything, I'm impatient as hell)
well I shut everybody in here up with my introspection
I'm still trying to get Blender to run, but it's being worthless.
This issue appears to come up all the time, for them, and they do various things to bandaid it, but have never fixed it, because they can't figure out the cause.
...and we have a Blender SE - well I'll look into that, if this ever runs
Seen in a cryptic crossword (Metro, 9th May):
Continental stagecoach industry [9]
The answer is
but why?
Here's a good puzzle to end the day with. See if you can figure out what the image sequence is telling you.
Hints:
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2
As some of you likely know, ghoti is an interesting spelling of the word
Using:
This is a rather ghotiy way to spell the word. But in the same spirit, what common phrase is spelled below?
ugh theighmolo
Please mention each sound and what word it is taken from (there may be more than one ...
