What is curious about this paragraph? Alright, I'm not going to make it lipogrammatic: 'Here, have seven e's!' Just in case, I'll put every letter in - ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ! So, it must be something else. Yes, there is punctuation, of all sorts. What you're looking for is not about letter ...
There's certainly enough hinting in the puzzle and hints to make a good case for one encoding method in particular, with multiple different clues to tie it into. Good partial-answer fodder, perhaps.
Meanwhile I was looking for some puzzle having to do with Christmas crackers
I should really finish reading scrollback, in order, next time :)
@Randal'Thor that latest puzzle, unlike my paper, has no articles in it at all.
Below is a safe, requiring a four digit passcode. To find the correct code, all you need to do is follow the instructions.
There was a lot of ciphertext underneath instruction six which read:
OQIPM E JZHPM AFUDLK HVYBX NBCBA MBZR JHQIA CQIOM WHTMVIPE BJL XBGJTW QA FVFLTH PJXEBHCM ZE ESJW...
Anyway, there were two images of heads and 33 "TIL" ("today I learned") statements.
The TIL statements were false and/or nonsensical, but they seemed to be close to true.
And in fact, they could be made true - by anagramming and removing a letter from one word in each statement.
For instance, "TIL The first 13 Olympics only had one Steven" turned into "...had one event [+S]".
Then, we realized that all of these facts were something that could be learned from TED-Ed videos. (That's also where that head shape came from.)
Each image in the head came from a TED-Ed video. We then put the corresponding extra letters from the sentences into the blanks of "their" videos and read them off according to the black dots.
That gives the phrase "TIL HANDS CAN COUNT USING BIRYANI AT END".
The natural way to adjust that statement is to turn BIRYANI into BINARY.
In another puzzle, we got a little bound book titled "The Puzzle at the End of This Book". It had hand-drawn pictures parodying The Monster at the End of this Book and was the most adorable puzzle I've ever seen.
My 10-year-old daughter counts in binary on her fingers. It's actually useful sometimes -- she plays the cornet in a brass band and sometimes there are several bars' rest.
On the topic of unsolved, @deus none of the inscriptions have been solved :P Volatility finished the constellations, but couldn't make headway on the return trip.
I don't feel the need to go to sleep in the middle of the day... anyway I can hardly survive an 18 hour long day without an hour or so of powernapping, so kudos to you for surviving 38
(Oh, I forgot - there's an additional rule in Cross the Streams. It has to be connected á la LITS puzzles - no 2x2 squares, all connected orthogonally)
"So how's your boyfriend doing, the math student?" "Don't mention that crazy pervert to me anymore! We broke up." "How can you say such a nasty thing about him? He seemed to be such a nice boy." "Imagine! He was restless during the days and couldn't sleep at night - always trying to solve his math problems. When he had finally done it, he wasn't happy: he would call himself a complete idiot and throw all his notes into the garbage. One day, I couldn't take it anymore, and I told him to drop math. You know what he told me?"
Yeah, Math does that to you. You lose a ton of confidence thinking "That should have been done earlier. How am I such an idiot?" Yet, you just can't stop doing it. It's like an addiction. Helps people get high...
Your friend has given you a very unusual birthday present.
It is a round box, and inside the lid are $n$ buttons equally spaced in a circle.
The box functions like this; you can press two buttons, and then the box will shut by itself and spin the buttons around by one place (you don't know whe...
Essentially, my solution was more similar to the table turning problem rather than the sleeping beauty problem
That's the one where there are toggle switches, you don't know the initial configuration, and you need them all to be on, and the table turns a random amount each time
The steps are supposed to lead on from each other, anyhow...
(this is probably also me saying not to worry about the LICHTENSTEIN in the E, at least until you're told to look there :P sneaky solvers getting ahead of the game)
One of y'all needs to go solve the Times already, lol. I've all but given the game away with my latest hint, I believe. Someone's gotta be able to make some headway on it now
Otherwise, I'm on the verge of having to make a promised edit to the Tidbits section
cuz we're about to have to welcome Deus to the 30K club
☆ Be the first
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semiminibinononohohohologram
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“ ! ” you interject?
Might not be quite as supercalifragilisticexpialidocious as it sounds, though.
What looks like an inf...
I've only dabbled from time to time; I found a couple promising midi files for something I wanted to hear, but the banks that came with the midi player I was trying were utterly awful. I found better ones online but still not what I'd call good.
The one in that Medley was fairly good actually. Well, until the repetitious beating notes in the lower register near the end; it wasn't particularly kind to those. The rest sounded good
I can't even answer the hint. I have no idea. It looks like single-wide, double-wide, and outline, but that graphic makes it awful hard to distinguish them
-warning : true story alert-
In my high school years, I used to be in the chess club. One day, my friend taught me the famous 4 move win and told me how it was "the best, the fastest, most awesome winning strategy ever".
Later that night, it made me think... was it really the best move? I th...
I just got my first ever square 1 ( a Rubik's cube related puzzle ) and I have this case which I can't find any help on. An adjacent edge swap, with the equator solved. There is the parity algorithm which switches the two adjacent pieces BUT it also flips the equator. Help?
Here's a sudoku puzzle with a twist!
The numbers given in the squares are actually the sum of the numbers in that region. For example: 18= Sum of the numbers in the 4 yellow squares or 12= Sum of the numbers in the 2 green squares and so on.
So here are the rules:
no row or column should h...
Below is a safe, requiring a four digit passcode. To find the correct code, all you need to do is follow the instructions.
There was a lot of ciphertext underneath instruction six which read:
OQIPM E JZHPM AFUDLK HVYBX NBCBA MBZR JHQIA CQIOM WHTMVIPE BJL XBGJTW QA FVFLTH PJXEBHCM ZE ESJW...
88 = 5 = 1
90 = 4-7 = 2
95 = 1-10 = 2
02 = 9-12 = 2
09 = 2-3-11 = 3
10 = 8 = 1
12 = 1-4-7 = 3
17 = ?
What is the missing info about?
☆ Be the first
to make your own
semiminibinononohohohologram
☆
“ ! ” you interject?
Might not be quite as supercalifragilisticexpialidocious as it sounds, though.
What looks like an inf...
I just got my first ever square 1 ( a Rubik's cube related puzzle ) and I have this case which I can't find any help on. An adjacent edge swap, with the equator solved. There is the parity algorithm which switches the two adjacent pieces BUT it also flips the equator. Help?
Here's a sudoku puzzle with a twist!
The numbers given in the squares are actually the sum of the numbers in that region. For example: 18= Sum of the numbers in the 4 yellow squares or 12= Sum of the numbers in the 2 green squares and so on.
So here are the rules:
no row or column should h...
