C4 hint 3: The answer isn't in Qat. But a search reveals that it does appear in a number of reports and scientific papers. It seems most of them have to do with nutrition.
I consider it an amazing though very challenging puzzle:
1 2 3 4 5 = 5 4 3 2 1
One must insert exactly five pluses (i.e. five addition signs) somewhere between those ten displayed figures in such way that it becomes a true mathematical equality. Also, you can't rearrange/transpose the figures; no...
How many times does the digit $0$ occur in the list of numbers from $1$ to $10^{100}$, inclusive? Computers are allowed, but can you solve it without one?
Combine digits you have into numbers and perform mathematical operations with them to get the rest of the digits. You may use all mathematical operations.
You start with 0.
Example:
You have digits 0, 1, 8. You perform the following operation: 10 - 8 = 2. You have obtained 2.
Rules:
You may us...
Words that might mean something like "with layers rubbed away", and fit the clues: DESQUAMED, DEMUCOSED. DEBRIDED seems promising, but is only 8 letters (and is in Qat). I can't figure out any wordplay that might fit with these, though.
Also DELIBRATED (10 letters).
DESKINNED can mean both "removed the outer layer" and "dethroned".
DIMINUTEDcould be the solution, if you look at it as a double-def. Something with layers rubbed away is made smaller, and the fourth book of A Song of Ice and Fire was reportedly cut down significantly from its original length... #GraspingAtStraws
Although I'm not at all convinced that "Ice and Fire" in the C4 has anything to do with A Game of Thrones.
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@msh210 The solution is DEBRANNED. (A Feast for Crows, the fourth book in the Song of Ice and Fire series, does not feature one of the main characters, Bran, at all.)
I'm wondering if it is possible to make a 3x8 grid using 6 tetrominoes, 2 Is, 2 Ls a Z skew and square tetronimoe. I believe it may be impossible but would like to know why. Thank you