@Deus Grrr... I had the solution and emailed him about the ambiguity, then when I was in class he responded - but you had to go and put your one up. :P
The sentence has to be grammatically correct, and probably shouldn't be too nonsensical. Here are a few examples:
Is he in on it?
Is it to be me?
Ma, Ed is in my gi!
Note: This puzzle will obviously have multiple answers, and the current "winner" will be unseated again & again o...
@Alconja That's a pretty good interpretation, but not quite. (And I think maybe "hot air" could be a definition for "red herring", but definitely not for just "herring.")
It'll be more complicated than that. E.g., parity constraints are probably important. My guess is that there isn't any proof that (whatever solutions there are) are all the solutions, that doesn't involve substantial brute-force case checking.
Welcome welcome fellow puzzlers, to the Second Sesquiannual Puzzling Tag Cleanup!
Another year and a half has slipped by, and my, look at the tags! Er. Time. Tags have a nasty way of accumulating detritus in the corners, nooks, and crannies of the site, and hey, guess what? It's time to clean '...
The letters of a message are converted to Morse code, with a space between each pair of letters and two spaces between each pair of words. Each pair of elements (for example dot-space, dash-dash, and so on) is then assigned a number from 1 to 9. A message written in this system is as follows:
51...
@TheGreatEscaper so I stumbled across a solution to Part One using only 19 letters fitting inside the grid - is that a feature of the intended solution?
A simple puzzle: given below are three word sequences. Each of them decreases monotonically (and two of them also decrease linearly). What is the next word in each of these word sequences?
INSIST, ACCIDENTAL, WHY, WAR, PIE, LAG, BEE, ???
FUNKY, TOUGH, ENIGMA, ATTIC, MIX, EYE, TEN, ???
TECHNOL...
Ye fathom the riddle, extort the key
So mundane an' tedious, devoid of glee.
Rooted, the ardour, winces 'n quivers.
Something neoteric, novelty imbued
Erect the cipher; From it extrude.
Gnarly but recherche cipher.
DgPlvtkYztbQtlfGHwRK
rXIrQQJilsxOUGiHTBQC
Am I allowed typing up notes in a word processor, or do they have to be written up by hand on paper?
Obviously, no brute-force, no calculators, but if it's stuff that I could just as well do on a paper (ie.: "I'm assuming a double single letter word would be a bit odd, so 3 is not the double space,") is that permitted?
It's obviously unenforceable anyway. I take it to mean: don't do anything with a computer that you couldn't do by hand quickly and with minimal actual brainpower. So I'm perfectly happy using a computer to do simple arithmetic on a no-computers puzzle but I wouldn't use one to search a list of 5000 numbers for one satisfying some property; I'm perfectly happy checking a word definition in the online OED but I wouldn't search through a wordlist on my computer.
I mean, for any given dominosa puzzle, you should be able to solve it using only logic. The fact that that particular one is split doesn't change that (for the actual dominosa part) but the jigsaw part might be a bit trial and error.
(I would be rather concerned about mammals in chat, especially if it's some random Aussie marsupial. But anyway, I'm leaving now, so bye all, and good luck dealing with the smell.)
That kid needs a girlfriend or something ... give him something to do with his spare time.
That's his whole M.O. these days. Spin up a new profile, get some rep, post something that looks like an actual puzzle but usually isn't sensibly solvable, hide from the ban hammer as long as possible, get nuked from orbit. Wait rand(30) days, repeat.
What really irritates me is that he's actually smart, and (as here) is perfectly capable of producing at least decent, if unimaginative, puzzles. If (while?) he really cared, he could put out some good stuff. Not entirely sure when or why he decided to be a thorn in PSE's side rather than a contributor to the community, but frankly it's a damn shame.
He got banned for plagiarising something, and then being a snotty little #&^(@# and rubbing it in everyone's faces that he'd done so and not been caught at it
(Nah. I could hit this site from several IPs without even trying, and if I really cared I could make a few hops along the way - and I have a static iP)
Well yeah. But so was he. At least I assume so; dynamic pools aren't limitless, nor are they particularly broad, and from what I've read the tools here aren't so stupid as to be unable to realize that 145.123.11.35 and 145.123.11.67 are quite possibly the same net.jerk
This question is inspired by this puzzle.
You have an $m \times n$ chessboard with $m \le n$. Alice and Bob alternately move the rook (horizontally or vertically, through any number of squares). As the rook moves, it leaves a trail of painted squares: every square through which the rook passes ...
So I was sitting in this nice little pub minding my own business when this party of 6 people walked in and sat down at the table next to me. The group looked kind of odd.
There was this woman with Platinum blonde hair and purple eyes. Her clothes seemed kind of burnt too.
A guy with dark hair...
Here is another Matchstick puzzle. May be you have seen it. I have used Cotton Swabs in my picture below. I have used a digital display.
ORIGINAL : 23 x 1 = 91
By moving THREE or less swabs make the equation appear correct. You cannot completely remove swabs.
Use 2 swabs for +, one swab for -,...
Alright detectives, we got a good ol' who dunnit here.
Notes given to you by the department before you begin your examination of the place:
May.
Unclear reasoning.
During evening.
Raining.
You approach the house, seems relatively new, your buddy motions over towards a group of adults...
The sentence has to be grammatically correct, and probably shouldn't be too nonsensical. Here are a few examples:
Is he in on it?
Is it to be me?
Ma, Ed is in my gi!
Note: This puzzle will obviously have multiple answers, and the current "winner" will be unseated again & again o...
Welcome welcome fellow puzzlers, to the Second Sesquiannual Puzzling Tag Cleanup!
Another year and a half has slipped by, and my, look at the tags! Er. Time. Tags have a nasty way of accumulating detritus in the corners, nooks, and crannies of the site, and hey, guess what? It's time to clean '...
Ye fathom the riddle, extort the key
So mundane an' tedious, devoid of glee.
Rooted, the ardour, winces 'n quivers.
Something neoteric, novelty imbued
Erect the cipher; From it extrude.
Gnarly but recherche cipher.
DgPlvtkYztbQtlfGHwRK
rXIrQQJilsxOUGiHTBQC
This question is inspired by this puzzle.
You have an $m \times n$ chessboard with $m \le n$. Alice and Bob alternately move the rook (horizontally or vertically, through any number of squares). As the rook moves, it leaves a trail of painted squares: every square through which the rook passes ...
So I was sitting in this nice little pub minding my own business when this party of 6 people walked in and sat down at the table next to me. The group looked kind of odd.
There was this woman with Platinum blonde hair and purple eyes. Her clothes seemed kind of burnt too.
A guy with dark hair...
Here is another Matchstick puzzle. May be you have seen it. I have used Cotton Swabs in my picture below. I have used a digital display.
ORIGINAL : 23 x 1 = 91
By moving THREE or less swabs make the equation appear correct. You cannot completely remove swabs.
Use 2 swabs for +, one swab for -,...
Alright detectives, we got a good ol' who dunnit here.
Notes given to you by the department before you begin your examination of the place:
May.
Unclear reasoning.
During evening.
Raining.
You approach the house, seems relatively new, your buddy motions over towards a group of adults...
