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Rubio
Rubio
7:42 AM
@bobble unlikely. The game description contemplates “variants” as to specifically how arrow tiles are played, and “ambivalent” rules regarding blanks; asking for a generalized optimization move strategy to cover all such permutations seems … naive (and, probably, too broad as it’s effectively asking, in one question, how to optimize play for each and every permutation.)
Even pinning it down to one specific set of rules, at first blush it looks too complex a game (due to rapid combinatorial explosion) to “optimize”; I’m not even convinced you can prove a given player can guarantee a win from some starting state, but Puzzling users surprise me routinely with what they can solve, so I’d be happy to be wrong.
@msh210 welcome back online :)
CCCC: Novel escape after warden turned and you left with no entanglement (12)
At last unstalling the game again. Enjoy
 
 
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oAlt
oAlt
8:52 AM
I can't get DRAG ("guard" (warden) turned and U left) out of my mind
 
msh210
msh210
9:30 AM
@Rubio thanks
@Rubio yeah, sorry about that
 
 
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Jafe
Jafe
10:53 AM
@oAlt i think that's it
DRA(-u)G< + (ON*) + FLIGHT is a novel
a flight is an escape (e.g. in "fight or flight")
 
Rubio
Rubio
11:41 AM
@Jafe this is it
 
 
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Jafe
Jafe
1:17 PM
CCCC: One of European Union's leaders visiting Chinese province, instead of another Chinese province (5 x4)
just to clarify, 5 x4 means there are 4 possible answers, all 5 letters long
 
AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
1:30 PM
@Jafe a quad-Schröedinger
 
msh210
msh210
it's a humdinger
H[e/u]bei and H[e/u]nan
(definition is "Chinese province" at the end)
 
Jafe
Jafe
that's right!
briefly tried to fit hainan in there for a fifth one but that would have made for a ridiculously convoluted clue
 
msh210
msh210
Maybe just it and H[e/u]nan.
CCCC: Deep-sea diver? (4)
 
AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
2:10 PM
 
oAlt
oAlt
@Jafe thx for putting it and my mind to rest hahah
@msh210 is that BASS ddef, both meaning deep (in terms of frequency/sound) and sea diver (it's a fish)?
 
msh210
msh210
@oAlt yep
 
oAlt
oAlt
CCCC: Moonwalker is concerned, keeping Jackson alive; guitarist Gibb shields Queen vocalist (4 6)
 
msh210
msh210
2:37 PM
Guitarist Gibb can be Maurice, Barry, Robin, Andy, or Steve (all related to one another) afaict
 
msh210
msh210
2:49 PM
Oh, or Spencer. Also related.
 
 
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Gareth McCaughan
Gareth McCaughan
4:47 PM
@bobble The question seems mostly to be "please write all the code I want for me", and if that's what they want then they'd better pay me to do it and I suspect they won't like my rates :-).
(And I am reluctant to engage in comments on their closed question because reading what they have written I find myself filled with the perhaps-unfair conviction that they will want everything explained in great detail, won't understand things readily, and will feel that if all their wants aren't met then it's my fault.)
 
 
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Sphinx
Sphinx
6:15 PM
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Q: An animal climbing something (forward/backward slide): is there a generalized solution?

Alexander A snail is at the bottom of a 30 foot well. Every hour the snail is able to climb up 3 feet, then immediately slide back down 2 feet. How many hours does it take for the snail to get out of the well? That's a very interesting kind of puzzle for me. Well, I know the answer; I figured it out by t...

calculation-puzzle
 
 
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Sphinx
Sphinx
7:55 PM
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Q: A sultan, two wise men and two numbers. How to guess both numbers if one man knows the product and the other one knows the sum?

Alexander A long time ago there lived a sultan who had two wise men (named Ali and Wali), who were perfect mathematicians. Once the sultan called his wise men and said to them: "I have two natural numbers in my mind. Each of them is strictly greater than 1, but at the same time strictly less than 100. I'l...

mathematics meta-knowledge
 

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