My father was never too close to his kids, but when his fishing trawler mysteriously disappeared in a storm to the South of Guam, his wife and her three sons still felt the loss deeply. I, being the oldest and least emotional of them, felt compelled to investigate what the Navy and NOAA wouldn't....
There are two kangaroos on an x-axis ready to jump in the positive direction (i.e, toward positive infinity). The first kangaroo starts at x1 location and moves at a rate of v1 meters per jump. The second kangaroo starts at location x2 and moves at a rate of v2 meters per jump. Given the startin...
If you'd like to check out a similar puzzle I made, check out The Word Web of horror - Clue Twenty Two.
Oops. You think, that after the spider invited the fly in, I'd be smart enough to stay away from the spider's house. But no. I foolishly wandered too close, and now I'm trapped here, stuck i...
A tournament has 2 teams of 24 people each of weight 1. Each team sends one person into the pit where they fight until one consumes the other taking on all their weight.
The probability that one person consumes the other $ = \frac{their\ weight}{total\ weight\ in\ pit}$ i.e. for first fight eac...
A prophet denies his existence. What is my anagram?
Note: I hope I have used the correct tag. I'm not a crossword doer but I believe this is the sort of clue you might find in a cryptic crossword.
My initial question had lots of answers, and my second had too many constraints. So, I have removed some constraints and added another. Same rules as before, but we are now using $[0,6]\cap\mathbb{Z}$. Also, the four corners should sum to $15$, the number at top-left.
15 5
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People say they like math but hate science. But they don´t know that math is science and science is math. So why dislike math or why dislike science?
There are 4 words: A, B, C, and D
A and B are synonymous verbs.
C and D are two letter words.
A C D and B C D are English phrases (mostly American) with opposite meaning from each other.
What are the words?
Pnoat aptbw ldvpv iqujz wgyxg xtmqn yijfx tamvy bhfyq cmrll rsqhn wfnql gcbkt ygfxn yyshl ikwwj byf.
Time for a more challenging encryption, seeing how riddle #3 was decrypted so easily. First, I must note that this encryption was inspired during a chess match I partook in. I call it the ENIGMA CIPHER, a more notable cipher for those of the old Opord Analytical community.
Now, the riddle below...
I dont know if this is going to be any good but this is my first attempt at on of these puzzles.
The following piece of code relates to a famous saying/phrase/article/piece.
public void main(){
try{
if (this is realLife | this is fantasy){
int i = 1 / 0;
}
...
I have been trying to figure out what these items have in common:
A desk
100 Tonnes
A Spider
I thought it may of been Spider Man, or a Trojan Horse. But no luck.
