@Aranlyde If you're talking about the fact that the different color channels make 1-by-n "bars" of letters, that's what Alconja and I were alluding to in our earlier comments.
The specialness of the O in my first comment was meant to refer to the fact that in the blue channel, it's part of two intersecting bars, which doesn't happen anywhere else.
rot13(Svaqvat gur syrrg bs onggyrfuvcf va gur lryybj punaary.)
Hm, maybe there's more to do.
Yeah, I think a different method of extraction seems reasonable, now that I think about it. (I thought there was a different hint involving the word PiIsNot3 extracted, but that's probably reading too much into it.)
I understood the black/grey/brown to be hinting at using rot13(pzlx fcnpr naq jnf ybbxvat znvayl ng gur lryybj punaary (frr zl rneyvre pbzzrag nobhg fhoznevarf), ohg fgvyy jnfa'g svaqvat nalguvat va gurer orlbaq nccnerag tebhcvatf juvpu znqr zr srry yvxr V jnf ba gur evtug genpx, whfg ...fghpx)
@Deusovi Yeah, you're still going to get there that way since rot13(lryybj va pzlx vf (ebhtuyl) whfg erq+terra va eto)
(or more cleanly just the black bits in the blue channel)
Yeah, exactly. But the hints seemed to ignore my thoughts about the O being "special", so that made it seem it like the information we had gotten was incorrect.
and the colors are weird on that O even if you didn't find the bars
The wordsearch itself was not actually needed to solve the puzzle; in the first version the clue from it was "RED FISH", but using it as a triple hint was much more useful
(Is there a name for this type of puzzle, by the way? I'm familiar with the "usual" one, and I think I remember seeing something like this before, but I'm not sure.)
Nice puzzle (though I would never have got there - I didn't even know that the little ones were submarines in battleships, let alone that there was a deductive puzzle type based on it... I was just blindly looking for clusters/overlaps/anagrams that fit the shapes in the border)
I had heard of regular Battleships (and solved a fair amount of them). I don't think I've ever done a Retrograde, and I'm not sure if I've seen one before, but the rules were natural enough.
GMPuzzles (gmpuzzles.com/blog) is pretty nice -- they have a blog of logic puzzles of various genres, plus a few books (for a few bucks each) with a bunch of instances of specific genres.
I also really recommend MellowMelon's puzzle books - his Fillomino book was what got me into solving Japanese-style logic puzzles in the first place.
Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of Conceptis. Computer-generated logic puzzles are generally less fun (though they can be a nice way to pass the time sometimes).
Embed them in something else. I want to see more elaborate, multi-layered, original-design puzzles again on the site. It feels like there's been less lately (though maybe I've just missed stuff).
Yeah, it does feel like that. I've been more into variety cryptics recently, which are a different brand of elaborate. Though I did have a few ideas for a puzzle in the "elaborate mess" style that we all know and love -- unfortunately, I haven't been able to think of a good answer line for it.
Speaking of, anyone got any ideas? One thing I noticed was maybe "Unruly start" could be an anagrind to get some way towards "STRAT*+(egy)" (for line, as in a line of play).
With "start" and "head" in there, it's hard to know how to parse things, but my interpretation of the hint is that the "X has Y out of" structure is a deletion.
(though I'm not sure that's 100% legal?? should it be headS? (and yes, I wrote the other one, so I'm questioning my own legality))
other minor thing I noticed is that infirmary => CLINIC, and head nurse => NIC (nurse in charge), such that "infirmary has head nurse out (of)" could be CLI, but cli is a pretty clunky chunk of letters to be turning into a word without much else to work with.
For the record, the only word I could find with NOOL in the middle is SNOOLING, which is a Scottish term for the act of cowering in fear, so it doesn't fit the definition in this case
If the hint means that "head" clues the first letter of multiple words, then I'm not sure which ones we're supposed to take
Nope. As far as I can see, it could be unruly, unruly start, out of line, line.
How about a stupidly dodgy construction: ANARCHIC (def: unruly), with "start to infirmary" => A (i'm sure we can find a synonym of infirmary that starts with an A), then N_IC ("head nurse" => nurse in charge) "out of" (wrapped around) ARCH ("line").
I really want to make CONTRARY work. Def: unruly, N_ ("head nurse"), which is inside ("has") COT (relates to infirmaries), and (RAY)* ("out of line"). That extra R doesn't seem to be clued anywhere though...
And COT to clue "start to infirmary" doesn't seem to be right
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Well. I’ll give you this. Im on mobile atm so cant easily give a link but both WARD and INFIRMARY have a sense of a division of a prison or institution for medical care. So infirmary here is intended to clue WARD. apologies if that is too distant; it seemed sufficiently close when I was looking it up to validate.
(A ward is not limited to just being a room in a hospital)
I think it was a pretty good clue, definition really could've been either of the two sides, and there were just so many ways to parse the wordplay. Nice job!
And cryptic clues are meant to be unfair, y'know :)
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I want to share a question that is created by myself.
I will give a hint in 24 hours and my answer in 3 days given that nobody could answer my question.
Here is my number sequence:
1441,2882,5764,?,103840
If you guys want some extremely challenging questions. Please check these two questions ...
My friend Richard is a huge TV fan so I recently asked him for some recommendations.
He wouldn't tell me his favourite show but sent me a list of descriptions of some shows he likes to watch:
Drama, set in the sixties, focusing on the executive of a company which produces alcoholic drin...
A word loved by poets in five equal parts
The end of a dog is how two of them start
The third can be found in the land of Jafar
The fourth can be useful to learn where you are
The fifth is a word that an anchor might use
Announcing the start of tonight's evening news
...
This puzzle is part 13 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
Dear Puzzling,
Today I visited a certain tall building. Not recommended i...
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