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Q: Riddle I am seeking the answer to,

Pankaj SharmaThe Riddle is for you to solve they came in groups of five, The Birds and the bush began to burn, From school he televised, Nicholas trapped inside himself, you must find the light, Over the bathtub the siblings burnt, Thus began the global fight

 
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5:16 AM
when I somehow wrote three comments - well, I tried my best in that FP review ^.^
6:05 AM
Oho, it's crossword time
...and I may not make it since I'll be busy in a few but still gonna solve on my own hehe
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Q: Going in circles

JafeThis is part 11 of the puzzle series that started at Living the traveller's dream. Each part is solvable on its own. Dear Puzzling, Don’t ask me how or why, but this week I have ended up at almost the exact same place as I was a few weeks ago. Let’s just say that some places are worth visiting...

6:37 AM
ooh cryptic
i may have arrived too late though - looks like Gareth's here
7:06 AM
apparently not!
 
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8:06 AM
29 minutes
hahahah
8:47 AM
meanwhile it's taking us days to figure out this one c4
9:19 AM
@Stiv Ugh, I keep coming back to this list but I'm still drawing blanks
 
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11:34 AM
@oAlt You and me both!
12:18 PM
5-letter word for survey + A seems promising since -a is a common ending for geographical names but i'm not finding any good candidates for the first word
"where olympia is" surely must be a unit
12:58 PM
@Jafe area can also be S.
1:25 PM
If Olympia is on the side of a mountain, maybe 'where Olympia is' can be MOUNT? If 'area' is A, AMOUNT is a synonym for survey. Similar for MARVEL (set of comics, area of Olympia) except that being a synonym for survey seems a stretch.
@Amoz at this point I would be fine with either of these
Mount Olympia is a mountain in Greek mythology / regular Greece maybe, right?
nvm that's Olympus :facepalm:
Olympia is in Greece I think
2:26 PM
Could someone please protect puzzling.stackexchange.com/q/110894 ? It's already attracted three binary-search answers from 1-rep people, probably coming in on the HNQ and not properly reading the question.
2:57 PM
Not 100% sure it's really needed (a few not-very-good answers don't do much harm) but done. (The relevant documentation says questions should be protected when they are getting too high a volume of bad answers "to be moderated in a timely manner"; I think naive binary search answers to that question deserve downvoting and explanation of why they're wrong rather than anything more moderation-y...)
Yeah, but it's tiring to do the same explanation over and over. It can be unprotected once it gets off HNQ
 
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4:40 PM
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Q: 100 prisoners and a secret number (sequel)

Jerry DeanInspired by this brilliant puzzle by @DmitryKamenetsky! Much to the annoyance of the guards, the sly prisoners bribed a guard and learnt about the number in the envelope in advance, and the first prisoner was able to "guess" the correct number! The guards had no choice but to release them all. On...

 
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8:21 PM
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Q: Sum and product of 9 digits

ThomasLAdding single digits 1 to 9, the result is 45 and their product is 362880. Are there any other 9 single digits with sum 45 and product 362880?

 
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9:34 PM
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Q: Find three functions, each of a different variable, that when added up agree with the given table of values

JonGI have the following set: x1 x2 x3 Nx 30 50 20 83 30 20 50 79 45 15 40 74 65 35 45 72 50 20 30 77 55 25 30 79 $$f_1(x_1) + f_2(x_2) + f_3(x_3) = N_x$$ Nx Max = 100, Min = 0 or 50 Goal: Nx = 100 (what are x1, x2, x3 when Nx = 100?) $$x_1 , x_2 , x_3$$ range 0 to 100, they are...


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