6 teams played in a "round-robin" soccer tournament, in which each team played each other team once. Each game had 3 possible outcomes: team 1 won, draw, or team 2 won. The winning team received 3 points, while the losing team received 0 points. In case of a draw, both teams received 1 point. At ...
Sorry. Immediately got jafe's, but didn't really have time to make a replacement...
So, here's a stupid one I've just slapped together. Accidentally alliterated half of it, so went all in (hopefully doesn't make it unnecessarily obtuse)
For the avoidance of doubt, I wasn't suggesting that Alconja was being slow about posting a replacement. (I've taken days in the past myself, I think.)
All good. I was being slow, and TBH, you reminded me that I hadn't actually posted one, so your comment was for the best. :)
Also, just to be clear on the potential obtuseness, the main part I'm marginally concerned about is the slightly dodgy def, and am (ab)using the "?" to preemptively absolve my sins. (that's how that works right?)
(To be explicit, yes I've solved it but no I'm not going to post the solution because it's well past my bedtime and I don't feel like writing more cryptic clues right now. Anyone else who gets it should feel free.)
Figured as much. Probably the approach I should've taken with jafe's, since I have more important things to do (for certain people's definition of "more important"). Speaking of which, back I go... g'night.
If only the four basic operations, concatenation and parenthesis are allowed, the largest number which can be obtained from $2$ $0$ $2$ $0$ is... $2020$ :-) (If exponentials were allowed, $20^{20}$ would be much higher, of course). But what is the smallest number which can be obtained?
I believe I have invented a new type of puzzle...
What is its name?
Colour-blind-friendly version available here.
Begin by solving the 16x16 sudoku; each of the digits 1-16 must appear exactly once in each row, column and thick-bordered 4x4 box. Then apply some grid-deduction-deduction (!...
@hexomino the "your first half" made me think of "yo" words (specifically right in the middle, though it needn't have been) and that somehow came to mind immediately
CCCC: Having climbed Pike's Peak, returned, unfortunately, for uni in Sweden (7)
@msh210 Hence my comments above (and the ?), but yes, think tabletop gaming to see a "counter" surface covered in cardboard gaming tokens, etc.
I suppose it should have been a ", for example" since it's describing one specific type of tabletop, but it feels like the most common usage (in my admittedly skewed subjective experience), and ...well, alliteration was more important than accuracy at that point. :P
recently I was doing some test and encountered this interesting question. I remember the question properly but I don't remember one option properly. If you know the last option, please feel free to complete the question as well
Three Fathers gathered
Cross a score minus two
The Assembled Ones gathered
Cross a score plus five
To rebut the Rebuttals
Cross five score minus five
Handed down their Decrees
Cross a score minus three
@MOehm "in the end free-wheeling"=_E _G, "thrown" about "tin"=RN (the newsreader) and "around"=A, yielding ERANG. As for all the above, "It comes" at the "back" (end): thus it's preceded by "bust"=BOOM. &lit BOOMERANG
That relies on three stretches, so I suspect it may be wrong. (1) tin=RN (they're not quite the same). (2) "thrown" as an indicator for being around another two components, nested. (3) "comes back" as an indicator for being at the end.
@msh210 Kinda. But different sorts of explosion. "Boom", in so far as it means an explosion rather than merely a sound that might accompany one, means explosive growth. "Bust" means bursting or breaking up, not necessarily (not even usually, I think) explosively.
@msh210 I learned English at school, of course, and in the first years we learned British English. Most of the English I'm exposed to today is probably American English. (Or, more likely yet, English written and spoken by non-native English speakers.)
I try to use British English if I can, but I know that my English is a mixture of British, American and German English. :)
In his book Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking Daniel Dennett describes a system of layering magic tricks in the following way:
There are some effects—they can hardly be called tricks—that might work only once in a thousand times! Here is what you do: You start by telling the audien...
It seems the official English taught here (Israel) is British. Which stands to reason, as it was a British colony. But many (I daresay most) of the English teachers are North American and I suspect a lot of American creeps in to the education. That, plus the obvious influence of American culture (movies etc) and the Internet, mean that English here is a huge mishmash, but I think mostly American.
Of course, the Internet -- and social media specifically -- mean that English even in Britain and the States is less different than it was a couple of decades ago. I suspect far more Americans understand Briticisms (and vice versa) now than then, for example. (This is based on my own impressions, not any study.)
"many (I daresay most) of the English teachers are North American": I mean the ones who are not Israeli. Many are Israeli.
I don't really have an excuse since I've been here nine years and came as a little kid... but I never went to school, so I never really got the necessary immersion.
@Mithical I like text-based communication but then (in Hebrew) my tendency to use old-fashioned Hebrew is even worse than in speech. I texted my kid's teacher recently "הריני מבקש..." and my kid said "why are you writing so formally?". Well, because I didn't realize I was writing formally. :-/
Two colour nonogram called Pensive. I’ve made some progress, but I am stuck. Can you help me find my next move in it? (Pensive is below)
If only the four basic operations, concatenation and parenthesis are allowed, the largest number which can be obtained from $2$ $0$ $2$ $0$ is... $2020$ :-) (If exponentials were allowed, $20^{20}$ would be much higher, of course). But what is the smallest number which can be obtained?
I believe I have invented a new type of puzzle...
What is its name?
Colour-blind-friendly version available here.
Begin by solving the 16x16 sudoku; each of the digits 1-16 must appear exactly once in each row, column and thick-bordered 4x4 box. Then apply some grid-deduction-deduction (!...
recently I was doing some test and encountered this interesting question. I remember the question properly but I don't remember one option properly. If you know the last option, please feel free to complete the question as well
Three Fathers gathered
Cross a score minus two
The Assembled Ones gathered
Cross a score plus five
To rebut the Rebuttals
Cross five score minus five
Handed down their Decrees
Cross a score minus three
In his book Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking Daniel Dennett describes a system of layering magic tricks in the following way:
There are some effects—they can hardly be called tricks—that might work only once in a thousand times! Here is what you do: You start by telling the audien...
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