Ditto - roughly /baɪoʊlɑgi/ and /baɪaləʤi/ for me. Even if you ignore the schwa (which could just come from a stress change), that second vowel and the g sound are completely different for me.
@GarethMcCaughan Agreed - but it's not that it's so far apart, it's that you have to do extra work and find one of many formes the answer could be from the nongram. If I saw the text "by O, log e" I probably would think of biology eventually, but not if I saw "ln e / ln 10 O" or even "log e O"
@MOehm Electronic warfare, EW, is a hack. Retired, it's WE. WEWAS with "hit" in two different places (once abbreviated as in baseball) is WHITEWASH, a cover-up.
(I suspect that's not quite right, since it's a little odd to refer to EW as a "hack".)
The missing punctuation should probably have been something that could have made it read "'was' and 'hit'". I had this one sitting in the "needs reworking" section of my little file.
@ThomasMarkov I don't know PSE mods' practices but it's technically impossible to close a bountied question and mods are encouraged to cancel (refund) the bounty if they need to close the question. That has never happened, iirc, in my years of modship on Judaism SE.
@GarethMcCaughan *This guy is Hungarian. While their behavior is inexcusable, I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the puzzles and say they might make sense in Hungarian. Even this guy blamed a translator at least once or twice.
It's certainly possible that language issues are part of the problem. I agree with Deusovi that it doesn't seem possible that they're all of the problem.
@GarethMcCaughan Like I said, inexcusable behavior. The puzzles may also be bad in Hungarian, but I'm willing to believe that this person has a bad translator too.
New puzzle idea: Preemptive Whac-A-Mole: Given patterns of behavior from different colored moles, and 4 blocks of colored moles each, determine an arrangement such that you may hit every mole as they appear
little bit more complicated than I'm willing to invest time into, though, so go for it if you like the idea
Ugh, Whenever I go to review queue, I'm still constantly seeing close votes on Archipelago/balazs.com's puzzles, presumably flagged by his multi accounts he keeps creating...
You are given a rectangular bowl with size 5x30x40 cm and you should put exactly one liter of water into the bowl.
You go to your kitchen, where you can put the water directly into the bowl from the water tap. You have no other tool beside the bowl.
How do you fill the bowl with exactly one lit...
@GarethMcCaughan That clue reminds me of the song Brandy: it's about heartache of a woman, whose name is also a drinking spirit. But she's not frigid, and "heartache of woman" doesn't clue her name (or the song's name).
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You are given a rectangular bowl with size 5x30x40 cm and you should put exactly one liter of water into the bowl.
You go to your kitchen, where you can put the water directly into the bowl from the water tap. You have no other tool beside the bowl.
How do you fill the bowl with exactly one lit...
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