The 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
This 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...
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
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.
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.
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...)
Inspired 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.
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