Given a unit square (blue in the picture), pick a point on one edge and label it A. Label the distance from the nearest corner to A as x. Pick one of the corners opposite A and label it B. Call the remaining edge C. There is a unique square with one corner at A, one corner on edge C and with the ...
I heard this from an elderly German gentleman with a strong accent. At first I thought he was reciting a Robert Frost poem, but then the last line confused me.
Some see de earth vill end times four,
Some see de t'rice.
From vot I've tasted of de four times,
I and zose who know for whom ...
I don't even know where the equations start and end
"From vot I've tasted of de four times, I and zose who know for whom it vas." Equals sign, numbers, and other variables, if you're there don't be afraid to come out... :)
I have to say my impression of that one at present is "VTC too broad". I'm very willing to have my opinion changed, but it looks as if Rand overestimated how uniquely-decodable his phonetic rough transcription would be. I am willing to eat my virtual hat if it turns out e.g. that there's a plausible way to interpret all of Rand's text as transcribing some equations, without irrelevant filler or mere metaphor. But I can't get anything out of "from vot I've tasted of".
And, y'know, you can take "for whom it vos" to be something like "4 u e twice" but this feels waaaaay too forced to me.
I wondered about that too! But I don't think it makes sense to have someone who's apparently German (or Austrian or something) saying "uno" in place of "one" or at least "eins".
If someone gets it in a new answer, they can get the bounty and poor Philipp's CW goes unrewarded. If someone edits the CW answer as Philipp intended, they get no reward for their efforts.
(If a bounty is awarded to a CW answer, I think the original poster of that answer gets the bounty rep.)
@cryptic-crossword-gurus: are indirect homophones equally frowned upon as indirect anagrams? e.g. could "Audible result" refer to a word which sounds like a synonym of "result"?
If so, I'm glad to retract, but I seem to remember this being OK. I try to double check for indirect anagrams, since I slip up on that sometimes.
Related question: what other indirects are generally considered fair game?
I feel like there's a gray area with extracting parts of words.
Head of X, Y heart seem to require the actual word.
But what about "Z dropping fourth"?
As a specific example, I used "cancel form's last" in a recent puzzle, where I was trying to use "form" to clue "body", dropping y to get BOD. When I wrote it, it looked OK...but when I went back later it definitely felt dirty.
@Randal'Thor AFAIK, the usual rule is that anagrams, letter extractions, and hidden words must be direct; indirection on everything else is generally fair game
(this is a "rule" I've picked up by experience, and it probably isn't formalized anywhere - I'm sure it's based off of what jafe mentioned, how many options there are for the solver)
I'm pretty much OK with it as long as it's not gratuitous. Usually those devices make a better surface, or help obscure the wordplay/definition boundary, and I regard both as legitimate uses.
This is not a chess problem!
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Can you arrange ten pawns in such a way that each pawn is at the inters...
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I heard this from an elderly German gentleman with a strong accent. At first I thought he was reciting a Robert Frost poem, but then the last line confused me.
Some see de earth vill end times four,
Some see de t'rice.
From vot I've tasted of de four times,
I and zose who know for whom ...
This is not a chess problem!
In the following position you can see six pawns that have been arranged into lines of three. Each pawn stands at the intersection of exactly two lines and each line contains exactly three pawns.
Can you arrange ten pawns in such a way that each pawn is at the inters...
Pride comes before fall, but I come before these words. Can you solve each of these clues to reveal me?
A five letter word will precede the word(s) in the following clues:
A race title. (_ _ _ _)
A popular vacation spot for those who like to explore.
(_ _ _ _ _ _)
Just add one letter an...
