This is a Statue Park puzzle.
Rules of Statue Park: (shamelessly stolen from an earlier puzzle by @Deusovi)
Shade some cells of the grid to form the given set of pieces. Pieces may be rotated or reflected.
Pieces cannot be orthogonally adjacent (though they can touch at a corner).
All unshaded ...
This is the fourth Chain Puzzle in the Tabletop Games series, in which all puzzles are themed around board games, card games, tile games, and the like. The answer to this puzzle is a thematic word or phrase. The solver whose answer is awarded the green checkmark has first refusal on the opportuni...
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D'Arvit is the most commonly used Gnommish word in the Artemis Fowl series. We know it's a swear word from the first time it's introduced:
“D’Arvit!” growled Root. (There is no point translating that word as it would have to be censored.)
-- Artemis Fowl, Chapter 5: Missing in Action (emphasis m...
I am an undergraduate student studying languages and give private lessons to secondary school students to help them learn English. Recently one of them suddenly asked me during a lesson whether I could help him solve a logical problem given to him by his math teacher as a part of an assignment. I...
