A light jigsaw puzzle.
Start with a square. Assume two adjacent sides (top and left) are always straight and the other two adjacent sides (bottom and right) can be either straight, convex or concave. That gives $3 \times 3 = 9$ possible squares. Below we see $3$ example squares where the bottom...
Wonder if anybody can get this... (This is my first puzzle with this format; apologies if I made it too easy or hard.)
My prefix will scare you,
My infix will restrict you,
And my suffix will uplift you.
My prefix is a game object,
My infix is a game trigger,
And my suffix is loosely relative.
I'm working through the logic-grid puzzles in the book called "Montague Island Mysteries" by R. Wayne Schmittberger. The particular puzzle I'm on is Puzzle 5.3 where breakfast guests choose food items from each of five food categories (juice -- orange juice, grapefruit juice, prune juice, tomato...
This is like the "four four's" puzzle.
The challenge is to represent any integer using $\pi$,$\pi$,$\pi$,$\pi$ (uses $\pi$ exactly $4$ times).
You can use common functions on a calculator:
Normal arithmetic operations $+ - * /$
Square root $\surd$
Exponential $(X^Y)$
Negative() or minus sign ...
In Smullyan's "Logical Labyrinths" there is the following problem 1.11:
(INTRODUCING THE NELSON GOODMAN PRINCIPLE).
Suppose that you visit the Island of Knights and Knaves because you have
heard a rumor that there is gold buried there. You meet a native and you
wish to fund out from him whether ...
@Stiv Nothing fancy. I use an image editor (Paint.NET on Windows) on a copy of the crossword grid. I use a monospaced font; the particular one I've been using lately is Cascadia Code, which IIRC you can get for free from Microsoft. (Maybe it comes automatically if you install the new "Windows Terminal"?)
It's almost but not quite true with that one that if you pick the right size then you can enter horizontal text as letter/space/letter/space/letter/space... and vertical text as letter/newline/letter/newline/letter... and get the correct spacing for a square grid.
Paint.NET only does integer font sizes, so sometimes it's necessary to enlarge the grid to find a size that works correctly for either across or down clues. Then I can either pick a size that works for (say) across answers and enter just a couple of letters at a time for the downs, or else use very slightly smaller letters when entering down answers.
It does let you enter some text, then move it around to get it positioned correctly in the grid before it actually modifies the image.
I suspect that better results might be had with e.g. proper crossword typesetting software like Qxw, or maybe Excel, but the approach I use is pretty straightforward and the results are acceptable.
@GarethMcCaughan Ah, thanks for the info! In the past I've sometimes resorted to individual textboxes for each cell in MS Word, and you end up spending so long formatting it that inevitably you get beaten to the answer. The day I finally got the answer in first to one of jafe's cryptic crosswords was a happy day indeed!
Maybe. But if it's going to provide special features for solving crosswords, does it also need to support solving sudokus, and path-type grid puzzles where you have a path around the edges of the cells, and path-type puzzles where you have a path through the middles of the cells, and puzzles where some cells need to be shaded in different colours, and, and, and ... ?
I am huge and I am old
I also am "beginning"
While someone, let me call him scrooge, just cheaply is producing
To get line one, the key gets split into more than one word
Line two includes Pope Gregory, whose system is preferred.
Finally line three will be the word in proper meani...
Three friends go on a picnic.
John brings a loaf of sliced bread. Raj brings sliced tomatoes and Von brings a package of sliced cheese.
They make sandwiches and eat them. John’s sandwich has 2 slices of bread, 2 slices of Tomatoes and one slice of cheese. Raj makes a sandwich with 2 slices of b...
Tired of the constant challenges Holmes was setting me, I decided to set him one of my own.
“Here’s a conundrum for you, Holmes. How long a word you can make from your own full name? That is, to say, from the letters SHERLOCKHOLMES?”
“Well, Watson,” Holmes replied, “that quite depends. Am I a...
London, 17:15.
Inspector Arbor wasn't quite happy with the current situation. Normally, he would have enjoyed this sunny Saturday outside at the Park but now wasn't the time for that.
Valuable Information about the whereabouts of royal artifacts have been stolen by a mysterious man named "Norm...
I've seen "[he/she/it] [does X]" as definitions before. I'm against them, but they are a pretty well-recognized thing in both straight and cryptic crosswords
I could be the one that heals you
I could be the one that kills you
You might recognise me on paper but not my name
I was 11., 12. and currently 13.
I am an indicator that someone learned hard
I am often used in TV to make evil look smart
Who/What am I?
I think this code is my masterpiece- let's see what you think:
159368358147349358267359259267348169367149159248348147168169147268349259149267168367147359358169257269347158269159257257358249259168358147349358
In all seriousness, though: I came up with this cipher recently to test a friend of min...
Wonder if anybody can get this... (This is my first puzzle with this format; apologies if I made it too easy or hard.)
My prefix will scare you,
My infix will restrict you,
And my suffix will uplift you.
My prefix is a game object,
My infix is a game trigger,
And my suffix is loosely relative.
Split me in two
I make you excavate
Take me as one
I enumerate
This is like the "four four's" puzzle.
The challenge is to represent any integer using $\pi$,$\pi$,$\pi$,$\pi$ (uses $\pi$ exactly $4$ times).
You can use common functions on a calculator:
Normal arithmetic operations $+ - * /$
Square root $\surd$
Exponential $(X^Y)$
Negative() or minus sign ...
I am huge and I am old
I also am "beginning"
While someone, let me call him scrooge, just cheaply is producing
To get line one, the key gets split into more than one word
Line two includes Pope Gregory, whose system is preferred.
Finally line three will be the word in proper meani...
Below is a picture and a set of numbers. There are 9 question marks. Try replace them!
Three friends go on a picnic.
John brings a loaf of sliced bread. Raj brings sliced tomatoes and Von brings a package of sliced cheese.
They make sandwiches and eat them. John’s sandwich has 2 slices of bread, 2 slices of Tomatoes and one slice of cheese. Raj makes a sandwich with 2 slices of b...
Tired of the constant challenges Holmes was setting me, I decided to set him one of my own.
“Here’s a conundrum for you, Holmes. How long a word you can make from your own full name? That is, to say, from the letters SHERLOCKHOLMES?”
“Well, Watson,” Holmes replied, “that quite depends. Am I a...
London, 17:15.
Inspector Arbor wasn't quite happy with the current situation. Normally, he would have enjoyed this sunny Saturday outside at the Park but now wasn't the time for that.
Valuable Information about the whereabouts of royal artifacts have been stolen by a mysterious man named "Norm...
Find a word which by rearranging its letters, it contains:
A location in Alaska
A film where a Chaplin performs
A meteorical medical condition
I think this code is my masterpiece- let's see what you think:
159368358147349358267359259267348169367149159248348147168169147268349259149267168367147359358169257269347158269159257257358249259168358147349358
In all seriousness, though: I came up with this cipher recently to test a friend of min...
