Many years ago, I dabbled with various solutions to a programming puzzle asking one to implement a divisibility-by-3 checker in C without using addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, or modulus operations. Toying around with the idea, I found one variation of the puzzle that has a prett...
You can pose a cryptic clue. "CCCC" is the game we have where the person to solve each clue posts the next one in the chain, but you can just generally try out the clue outside of the C4 if you want.
On things changing: "The word they (with its counterparts them, their, and themselves) as a singular pronoun to refer to a person of unspecified gender has been used since at least the 16th century."
of course, when "he" became not gender-neutral, people had to look for options, thus the increased usage of singular they, which existed but was not popular
I'm trying to skirt the line between being helpful and giving it away, but I also can't tell whether people have been looking at it. There was the other big puzzle yesterday
I was trying to remember why I was busy yesterday: it was because I spent my afternoon transcribing anime alphabets, which made me have to work through the evening :P
On the C4 clue, does "unfair" mean information could be lost if printed (e.g. dodgy unicode chars/font specific things) or just that it uses non-standard cluing in some way (e.g. , = comma)?
I have no particular aspiration to be anyone's favourite anything (though I don't mind at all if I am). If Rand's PSE's favourite Brit, that's fine with me.
"Estimated number of times people viewed your helpful posts (based on page views of your questions and questions where you wrote highly-ranked answers)"
A 'C', an E-flat, and a 'G' go into a bar. The bartender says: "Sorry, but we don't serve minors." So, the E-flat leaves, and the C and the G have an open fifth between them. After a few drinks, the fifth is diminished: the G is out flat. An F comes in and tries to augment the situation, but is not sharp enough.
A D comes into the bar and heads straight for the bathroom saying, "Excuse me. I'll just be a second." An A comes into the bar, but the bartender is not convinced that this relative of C is not a minor. Then the bartender notices a B-flat hiding at the end of the bar and exclaims: …
It's an average normal everyday day. You find a piece of mail in your mail box. It doesn't look like the rest of them:
The text reads
Who sent this? Why? What should you do?
Continuing in the Twisted TV Titles and TV Title Mondegreens vein, here are some Misspelled Movies.
Each title is a homophone of (i.e. sounds the same as1) a real movie title, but is spelled and/or punctuated differently. I'll give a description of what the movie could be; you give the misspelle...
This is a simple little word game I devised, that may require a little out-of-the-box thinking. I'll give you a few examples of my rule:
The = 44
Boombox = 28
Gothic = 56
Hopeful = 70
Hopeless = 69
What's incomplete's number?
Now that's a much needed hint, since I was trying to chill the heat out of heart, and then tried to find someplace where I could remove the remaining T..
We're found in vans, in bags, on bikes,
Most everywhere that people dwell.
Dogs may hate us, but we bring
Important tidings, good or bad.
We're found in books, in maps, online,
Most everywhere that info dwells.
China may hate us, but we're here:
Even in this riddle, you know.
...
Used to threaten, used to defeat.
Sometimes it grows, sometimes it shrinks.
Used to conquer, used to protect.
It marks your downfall, it marks your success.
The true god of war, the creator of mess.
What is it?
Hint 1:
Hint 2:
An accidental discovery of mine, this groan-worthy riddle is answerable with a single character when posted in a Slack channel:
What governs the level of disease?
As this is my first riddle here I'm wary of making it too obscure, so here are a few hints:
Hint 1:
Hint 2:
Hint 3:
oh, ok. so the lifetime is separate from that. it just designates how long the link will last before decaying, but will auto destroy after a single use?
as a programmer i dont necessarily trust other peoples naming conventions. ive seen too many names that dont actually apply to what the named thing does
well, i can make a one time link then if someone wants to try it my riddle.
Ciphers, anagrams, and crossword-like clues of the usernames of our top Puzzling SE users (or) frequent Puzzling SE users. Should be fairly simple, so therefore, new users (up to 45 days, with rep < 250 of time of answer submission) can get easy rep and meet our community's moderators and top puz...