@oAlt Yeah, me, too, at first. Then I gave up on that tack (starting from the wordplay) and decided to start from known (3,4) cities. New York and San Jose didn't work, and Tel Aviv was the next one I thought of.
oh well I guess you can justify the Y using "y'all" which means "you all", and BOD could be body which is made up of body parts, but I'm looking for wordplay that's stronger than that
The C4 is clearly™ uv−Svdu (="integration by parts"), with the minus sign counting as a character. The wordplay is: "u" is following "UV–SVD", Universitat de València – State Valencian Diplomator.
@DanielS Now I see why I was stuck with your puzzle - I was so certain I had discovered the phrase 'POP ARTIST' (rather than 'PO', 'P' and 'DRAWERS') that I couldn't see anything else there! Still thinking about the 'lanolin-enriched' aspect, but glad to see my original groupings held up after your hint was published :)
@bobble what's off topic here is a matter of vote/consensus. Just because you personally take issue with a question doesn't mean it's officially off-topic and certainly doesn't warrant down-voting good-faith answers. — caPNCApn7 hours ago
This is highly voted; do people really want me to stop close votes and down votes?
Yeah, but I was annoyed at their insinuation I disliked the answer because of a personal feeling, rather than because of a policy against the question.
And my down votes are mine to use as I see fit
At least I know I'm still mean old bobble to the general populace
@DanielS To rust is to oxidise, which looks similar to 0x1d15e, a hexadecimal encoding of the decimal number 119134 (where 0x indicates that the encoding is hexadecimal)
4*(1+3+5+7)=8^2
4*(sum of odds from first to kth odd number)=area of a square region=4*k^2
k-1 is the number of Ls.
You can solve the 1012 problem via considering 1010 and the extra 1*2 not added via a L, one L would be too big. to make the extra is too big.
14400/4=total area/area each=3600,n=60
@juicifer I haven't figured out what this is. Would you mind enlightening me?
@oAlt They're different from one another in the U.S., in Israel, and IINM in England. (But in the U.S., "did you attend [university/college]?" is answered "yes" even if you attended [college/university].)
@msh210 In Canada, a college is more career-focused (focused exclusively on teaching skills required for a particular career), and while university also does this to some degree, it also has a more academic component.
...some degree... Pun not intended, but celebrated nonetheless.
In the UK a 'college' is something you attend between ages 16 and 18 before university, or it's a subdivision of a 'collegiate' university like Oxford, Cambridge or Durham, where each of the colleges has a degree of autonomy over who, how and what it teaches.
@GentlePurpleRain Ditto for my 'degree of autonomy' - not even noticed until I just read your comment...!
In the U.S., a college is an undergraduate subdivision of a university, devoted usually to a specific set of subjects (e.g. a university may have a college of liberal arts & sciences and another of fine arts, and it's the university that officially confers the degrees), or it's an institution of learning that is equivalent to the above but is not part of a university that also comprises other colleges (so Foo College can be a standalone degree-granting institution).
Adults in the UK can attend college after 18 too, but that's most common for professional qualifications (e.g. in the trades - plumbing, electrics, etc.) or courses just for personal interest (like a short pottery course or life drawing...).
"undergraduate subdivision of a university, devoted usually to a specific set of subjects" — or the division can be geographic, such as State University of New York, which has colleges at Albany, Oswego, etc.
@Stiv But people in one Oxbridge college can take classes in another, right?
Yeah, lessons for the same course get taught in different rooms in different colleges all over the city, and in many cases courses have a mixed body of students from various colleges. Often the chief distinction is which college you have a dorm in, and which team you support in the rowing.
I played around with many versions of the clue; I ended up with two of them crossed, which didn't make sense. The edited version above should be OK, though.
This is part 16 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end.
The final answer is a thematic 8-letter word.
Text content of image (for accessibility):
Grid rows: CHARM; PULSE; FAXED; TIBIA; WONKY.
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4*(1+3+5+7)=8^2
4*(sum of odds from first to kth odd number)=area of a square region=4*k^2
k-1 is the number of Ls.
You can solve the 1012 problem via considering 1010 and the extra 1*2 not added via a L, one L would be too big. to make the extra is too big.
14400/4=total area/area each=3600,n=60
This is part 16 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end.
The final answer is a thematic 8-letter word.
Text content of image (for accessibility):
Grid rows: CHARM; PULSE; FAXED; TIBIA; WONKY.
8 bullets on ...
