HERCULES is pretty famous, and it's R (singer-songwriter kelly) plus C (constant) following HE (that guy), with the 'S at the end, but there's no way to make the remaining ULE and also you'd need to reuse the "that guy's" for a proper definition, it can't just be "famous" which is an adjective
C = constant being either the speed of light or whatever you call the +C you add at the end of integrals
wikipedia says it's "constant of integration" which is unexpectedly understandable... i assumed it would be some greek term i had never heard in my life
CCCC: What's written near the very end of document is an indication of the person being referred to having "completed an advanced university degree, getting the highest grade possible in the matriculation examination in Finland". That was an excessively drawn-out way of delivering the message, to the point of not being worth my time. (4, abbr.)
@Jafe What's written near T (the very end of document) is DR (doctor (an indication of the person being referred to having "completed an advanced university degree)) getting L (laudatur (the highest grade possible in the matriculation examination in Finland)
= TLDR (too long didn't read (That was an excessively drawn-out way of delivering the message, to the point of not being worth my time.))
Hello! My buddy and I have been trying to figured out how to solve this puzzle sent to us by a professor several weeks back. All we've been asked to answer is, "What do you think is the correct answer and why?". For some context, our professor is a mathematician who creates puzzles as exercise p...
In this case, the clue can be parsed such that the wordplay yields "zero". But alternatively, the clue can also be parsed such that the wordplay yields a different word, in this case three letters long. Your job now is to find that other word
(Here it is likely that another person may find the other answer, and if it comes to that, I honestly would not be sure who should make the next C4. Hence ideally I would want the same person to find both answers to the clue so that that problem could be avoided.)
Mini-challenge: I hid the name of a shape in the answers to the past X clues, where X ≤ 20. What is this shape? (Disclaimer: not all answers do the same job.)
(And in case anyone needs clarification, for the purposes of this mini-challenge, ONE and ZERO are counted as one answer since they come from the same clue)
"Blue" means "despondent", and "screen" means "darken something, keep it out of the sun". I'm guessing there may be some 7-letter word that means both those things (despite the differing parts of speech), but can't find it.
@TakingNotes Perhaps the solution to your CCCC is LOWPASS: LOW=blue, PASS=screen; &lit; a lowpass filter removes the high-frequency part of the signal, i.e. screens out the blue as opposed to the red. The only thing I'm uncomfortable with here is PASS=screen; you can pass a screening test or whatever but surely screening is what the tester does and passing is what the testee does, and I'm not seeing another meaning of "pass" or "screen" that makes that work better.
@oAlt ok I've got it. your last 13 answers were AUGMENTATION, SOLIDIFY, MINOTAUR, COLOMBIA, IN SHORT, SINUSOID, MOON, PHOTOSYNTHESIS, ISOLATE, CONFESSION, BALLOON, HISTORIC, and then ONE or ZERO. if we take the Is and the Os in the first twelve answers as 1s and 0s, we get 10, 011, 10, 001, 10, 101, 00, 001, 10, 010, 00, 101. pairing them up gives us 6 5-digit binary numbers - 10111 10001 10101 00001 10010 00101 - which, when converted to decimal and then to letters via A1Z26 - give SQUARE
My Christmas cookies are gone! When I came into the kitchen this morning, the box was empty. All that remained were a few crumbs and this note:
We absconded.
You never saw that coming, did you? Well, we are not returning until our demands are met! We refuse to continue under these abysmal condit...
You see someone moving stuff. They say "don't mind me, just headscarf bio (11 3 9)."
What's going on?
Clues:
[Contextual image: music notes, two +1 markings]
Instructions:
Name that actor
_ _ _ _ _ _ C _ _ _ _
