Aargh. We've gone from being inundated with Riley riddles and Riley riddles prefaced with remarks about how there are too many Riley riddles to being inundated by Riley riddle C4s.
All right students, take your seats for the "Spelling Bee." Perhaps I should say "Arranging Bee." Listed are the names of seven countries of the world. For the test, I have scrambled the letters that make up each name of the countries. It's up to you to rearrange them correctly. Five out of seven...
You see, I am that what makes you able.
What I am is an element stable.
Without me a name for oneself's lacking.
I'm in fish, Thai, Shiraz and unpacking.
You can try and guess what with mouth could rhyme.
Sixty times me is still quite a short time.
Plural's made with me for al...
All right students, take your seats for the "Spelling Bee." Perhaps I should say "Arranging Bee." Listed are the names of seven countries of the world. For the test, I have scrambled the letters that make up each name of the countries. It's up to you to rearrange them correctly. Five out of seven...
Certainly isn't. But it's not unreasonable to think that a cookie-cutter easy-anagram question of the sort you might see on the back of a children's cereal packet shouldn't be getting a lot of upvotes here.
There's nothing wrong with the question. Sure, it's very easy to solve, but our site is not only for puzzles that are difficult to solve. Someone who is brand new to puzzling might appreciate this type of puzzle. I have heard many people state that they find it hard to even begin answering any questions on this site, because they're all just too hard.
Those who find it trivial or uninteresting can just ignore it and move on to something else.
It's mass-producible and very low-effort. And the "hint" and warning are unnecessary, if nothing else.
I dislike it for the same reason I would dislike if someone posted, say, a Sudoku puzzle that had the entire grid filled except for one row. I'm not complaining about the difficulty, but the quality.
Riddle: n. - a person, event, or fact that is difficult to understand or explain; Infix: v. - implant or insert firmly in something. So, then we have [-i]D(-ate)L(in-)E (headless "idle" around suffix "-ate" and prefix "in-")
So the definition there is "riddle of infix" (that's the really bad part), and "idle" == moony
And even if that's wrong, I think what Gareth may not be happy about is that as a proper noun, it would be the pejorative "Moonie", whereas "moony" just means "dreamy". But I don't know for sure, of course
That's why I pasted the definitions that are nearest to making that make sense. Really, though, I can't think of anything that could possibly mean "riddle of infix", so I hope that's not the def.
For what it's worth, I've played around with the INX or IX as prefix and suffiix of "infix". INX could be part of sphinx, which can be an enigmatic person or a riddle, but I can't make an eight-letter word out of that, let alone make a headless moony from "sph--".
Four students entered their movie in a national student film festival. Using only the clues that follow, determine for each film the director, title, running time, and state in which each was produced (one of which is Pennsylvania). Th shortest film was 15 minutes long, and the longest ran 30 min...
WYM... looks to me like first-letters-of-words too.
"What you mean when ...", "it gives him something to hate", ... (I am not claiming that either of those contains any correct words, only that the sequence of letters feels like it fits the typical pattern of first letters of words in English text.)
A very quick web search suggests that people haven't investigated those statistics the way they have those of letters or words. Given a reasonable-sized corpus, it wouldn't be difficult to find e.g. the relative frequencies of initial letter triples.
Introducing the mysterious foo encoding... based on the common computer programming template variables foo, bar, and baz. This encoding is truly unknown, as a simple sentence of characters returns an unreadable mess of foos and bars and bazes.
Let's say I input the following into my personal enc...
What do the three words horizon, awakenings, and beaming have in common? Respond with two or more sentences.
You see, I am that what makes you able.
What I am is an element stable.
Without me a name for oneself's lacking.
I'm in fish, Thai, Shiraz and unpacking.
You can try and guess what with mouth could rhyme.
Sixty times me is still quite a short time.
Plural's made with me for al...
