Lets have a 10x10 GRID with 12 empty bases. The rest of the grid is filled with tetrominoes.
With red color are marked the 5 regular tetrominoes and with green color the 2 reflections. Each base is marked with an orange color.
The following conditions apply:
The trail has to be continuous.
The t...
how wrong is it to use "riddle" as a generic term for puzzles? outside of PSE, i mean
i know i used to do it before joining here but as a non-native that of course doesn't mean much
merriam-webster's definition is "a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed", which seems a lot broader than ours ("a riddle gives indirect clues about an unnamed object or concept to be identified")
"Riddle" is a fairly accepted word for "puzzle", in the sense you quoted. (So not grid-deductions or crosswords) For obvious reasons, a tag that means "puzzle" would be a terrible idea here. So we semi-artificially restricted it to things similar to what would normally be denoted as a "rhyme riddle" (though non-rhyming stuff is allowed here) or, and I've seen this less, a "poem riddle".
First def in OED is "A question or statement intentionally phrased to require ingenuity in ascertaining its answer or meaning, frequently used as a game or pastime; an enigma; a conundrum." which may not be exactly the PSE tag meaning but is definitely in the same vicinity.
You are given an unbiased fair coin, ie., a coin that produces heads with probability 0.5. Can you use this coin to simulate a biased coin that produces heads with some given probability $p$ ?
This is a reversal of my previous puzzle. Thanks to happystar for the idea. Simulating an unbiased coin ...
An eccentric billionaire plays a game with you. She has an urn with 100 gold coins. Each time, you can take any number of coins from the urn. If you take n coins, she will flip a fair coin. If head, she adds one more gold coin to the urn. If tail, nothing happens. She stops flipping at the nth ta...
My friend sent me an email this time. I had only just woken up, and was very sleepy (my head actually dipped down many times, but that helped me with this new problem.) It went like this:
Well, well, well. Good work with the first one, although it wasn't all that hard, was it? Well, here's anothe...
My friend was reading a newspaper and I caught a glimpse of a rather mystifying cryptic clue on one of the pages. I've been unable to solve it ever since and it's driving me crazy! Here's my "best" attempt, although it has several problems:
K AR(A CT Y)T'S CT
Obviously, "karactytsct" is not an ...
We know that you would like to discuss. TSL does not exist solely to provide you with what you would like. It is a place used by dozens of people. Would you walk into a library and start talking loudly about this thing you want help with?
@RajorshiKoyal I think you are failing to understand something very important. What you get to do here is not determined solely by what you want. If this is something you are unable to understand -- if no amount of being told that you shouldn't do what you're doing will stop you, when you want something -- if you think the rules don't apply to you when you want something -- then we will have to take appropriate action.
How would you enter
retsubkcolB
spelled backwards into the comment box below and press the "Add comment" button (nothing will happen, as there's only 11 letters) using at most 10 clicks in total?
You should end up with something like this:
Requirements:
You may only use a mouse - Right-clic...
You have a white grid of size
a) 9x9
b) 10x10
and you are asked to paint some squares black. Your generous friend has given you a challenge:
Can you paint them so that each white square has only one adjacent black square?
After some puzzling around, you proudly present to your friend a piece o...
Can you fill the cells with integers so that all the equalities must be true?
My friend was reading a newspaper and I caught a glimpse of a rather mystifying cryptic clue on one of the pages. I've been unable to solve it ever since and it's driving me crazy! Here's my "best" attempt, although it has several problems:
K AR(A CT Y)T'S CT
Obviously, "karactytsct" is not an ...
How would you enter
retsubkcolB
spelled backwards into the comment box below and press the "Add comment" button (nothing will happen, as there's only 11 letters) using at most 10 clicks in total?
You should end up with something like this:
Requirements:
You may only use a mouse - Right-clic...
You have a white grid of size
a) 9x9
b) 10x10
and you are asked to paint some squares black. Your generous friend has given you a challenge:
Can you paint them so that each white square has only one adjacent black square?
After some puzzling around, you proudly present to your friend a piece o...
