Ten boxes are given with $a_1,a_2,a_3,a_4,a_5 ......a_{10}$ number of balls in them respectively .These boxes are randomly ordered but $a_1,a_2 .....a_{10}$ is told.We can arbitrary select a box and guess number of balls in it.If our guess is greater or equal to number of balls in it then we win ...
I bought this set of wooden blocks at a garage sale today, and although it was a challenge to fit them in the box, I suspected they were more than just a packing puzzle. Can you guess what else they are used for?
Hint 1:
Hint 2:
@msh210 PER SE (intrinsically) + IDS (jet vanguard, somehow?) is Perseids, the meteors that fall through the sky. I have two possible explanations, one being IDS, a leader in Nanojet aerosol printers. The other is an Intrusion Detection System to spot, e.g., enemy jets entering domestic air space.
For what it's worth, the Tornado fighter has an IDS (interdictor/strike) version. (Yes, that's just as obscure knowledge as promoting a "small business in Albuquerque" (self description of IDS on their website) to a leader in nanojet printing.) Interdictors operate far behind enemy lines. Apart from that, I have problems to see how the Tonadio aircraft can be described as vanguard.
I'm ... not sure how something like that should be clued, but I don't think "vanguard" cuts it personally. The rest of the clue was enough to get an answer, though, so I guess all's well that ends well.
I'll leave that to my cryptics betters to give a ruling on. "ID's followers" seems like it'd be valid to give JE (though not JET) to me, but only just barely. I personally wouldn't do "jet preceders".
Hm. Caesar-like rotation of letters isn't one of the standard wordplay mechanisms in cryptics, so you'd probably have to indicate it more directly, say "Caesar's jet". Look at clue 18 here.
Just "rotation" usually means to shift-rotate the letters of a word, eg SCAR > CARS. Or it might even be an anagram indicator. (Everything can be an anagram indicator. But you knew that. :))
Come to think of it, "predecessors" might not be so bad to indicate a Caesar shift. The vanguard are those at the foremost front, so that could indicate the first letters of something.
You are given the task as translator for a new language. There is no dictionary but you are given the following translations to help you.
kisha dogafam kotirash ‘Someone has shot the squire.’
flori konekash dogredam ‘The barmaid has seduced the colonel.’
kisha drosin doflorim ‘Som...
@MOehm (re Caesar, "predecessors", and "vanguard") okay, thanks
By the way, if the cccc clues are coming too fast / at the wrong hours for the usual pinner(s) to pin, should I step in? I'm a mod on another site so have pin abilities here, too.
Since a closed question is now listed as "on hold" for the first five days, I think the page should play hold music (autostart on load). This feature would supply the following advantages:
It would make even clearer to the asker that the question is on hold.
It would be an immediate indication ...
@OmegaKrypton see https://www.crosswordunclued.com/2009/07/connectors.html near the bottom; “with” isn’t a very good connector word between wordplay and def. my last clue would have ended with “turned over drug with a sarcastic remark” but for that. For future reference. That site is another good resource.
Not sure really if this fits into the category of a puzzle, but its an abstract problem I'm trying to solve for a side hobby of mine and would appreciate your input on it!
Inputs = [set1, set2.... setn] and x
Each set is list of varying length with random integers.
Find the solutions (if ...
This puzzle refers to a feature of right angle pyramid:
The relation between the three perpendicular surfaces areas and the diagonal surface area is given as - $S^2x+S^2y+S^2z = S^2d $
Visit the link for details.
enter link description here
The challenge is to unfold the 3D pyramid surfaces i...
The police handcuff a prisoner, place him in the back seat of a four-door sedan police car, and close all the doors. The controls in the back seat are disabled so the prisoner cannot open the back doors, nor operate the back windows. There is a barrier between the front seat and back seat, which ...
My teacher gave me this problem.
There is a triangle with angle with 30 degrees (so opp/hyp = 0.5)
This specific triangle has an area equal to it's perimeter.
All I got furthest to was that hyp is 2a, opp is a and adjacent is root(3) * a.
Anyone able to help?
It's time for round two!
Given that:
-Black has 6 pawns and a king
-White has three pieces of any kind you to deduce the identity of and a king
Construct:
-A legal position in which both sides help to give a legal sequence of 13 mutual checks
Positional variations are allowed. To my knowle...
@msh210 There's a userscript written by Alconja that some of us use. I'm not at my laptop at the moment, but it should be relatively easy to find on StackApps.
aye. thus, my stock comment to people who don't use the rot13 tagging at all, or do it in some weird variant:
> You might consider using this format for rot13 comments: rot13(Uv zbz!). One of our regulars wrote a userscript to decode rot13 text on hover, and using that format for such text is a welcome convenience for those of us with that userscript.
The answer to this puzzle is my first name. What is it?
If no progress is made after a week or so, I'll slowly give hints. It's not too hard of a puzzle, so long as you take everything into account.
Bonne chance !
I bought this set of wooden blocks at a garage sale today, and although it was a challenge to fit them in the box, I suspected they were more than just a packing puzzle. Can you guess what else they are used for?
Hint 1:
Hint 2:
You are given the task as translator for a new language. There is no dictionary but you are given the following translations to help you.
kisha dogafam kotirash ‘Someone has shot the squire.’
flori konekash dogredam ‘The barmaid has seduced the colonel.’
kisha drosin doflorim ‘Som...
Not sure really if this fits into the category of a puzzle, but its an abstract problem I'm trying to solve for a side hobby of mine and would appreciate your input on it!
Inputs = [set1, set2.... setn] and x
Each set is list of varying length with random integers.
Find the solutions (if ...
This puzzle refers to a feature of right angle pyramid:
The relation between the three perpendicular surfaces areas and the diagonal surface area is given as - $S^2x+S^2y+S^2z = S^2d $
Visit the link for details.
enter link description here
The challenge is to unfold the 3D pyramid surfaces i...
My teacher gave me this problem.
There is a triangle with angle with 30 degrees (so opp/hyp = 0.5)
This specific triangle has an area equal to it's perimeter.
All I got furthest to was that hyp is 2a, opp is a and adjacent is root(3) * a.
Anyone able to help?
It's time for round two!
Given that:
-Black has 6 pawns and a king
-White has three pieces of any kind you to deduce the identity of and a king
Construct:
-A legal position in which both sides help to give a legal sequence of 13 mutual checks
Positional variations are allowed. To my knowle...
The answer to this puzzle is my first name. What is it?
If no progress is made after a week or so, I'll slowly give hints. It's not too hard of a puzzle, so long as you take everything into account.
Bonne chance !
