@msh210 I check my pluralization of words around "data" by replacing it with "cats". If I have a grammatical (though likely nonsensical) sentence, all is good.
e.g. "Data suggest(s) that..." -> "Cats suggest that" vs "Cats suggests that", where the first is correct
Beginner puzzle
This puzzle is intended to be suitable for people who are new to puzzle solving.
Using the numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10 each exactly once, place a number into each circle so that the products of the three numbers along each edge are the same, and as large as possible.
This puzz...
What is this answer? I don't understand it, perhaps someone who is better at cryptography could explain. Found when going through the remaining cryptography puzzles
My original answer was bad, BUT i have a new answer:
use this code (search polynumcrypt in the search bar above), use one of the key generators, and send the key and the message to the recipient.
For the interested: I have winnowed the number of cryptography puzzles from a high of nearly 150 to 23. Until now, each time I was just going through the list and editing three questions which caught my eye.
Now that the number is so few I carefully looked over each remaining question. 6 of them need tag edits, which means the true number of cryptography puzzles will end up at 17, several of which are duplicates or variations of each other.
There are two types of square tiles. One type has a side length of 1 cm and the other has a side length of 2 cm.
What is the smallest square that can be made with equal numbers of each type of tile?
This puzzle is from a UK Junior Mathematical Olympiad.
@DannyuNDos as it's a number, I can't think of anything it can be besides seventy-something. And I guess that that something would have to be three, seven, eight, dozen, or score.
"Hundred three" and "million three" aren't really numbers: you'd need to say "a hundred three" or "one million three".
Anybody here good with cryptic crosswords? I have a clue and an answer that I have no idea how one was possible from the other and would like to understand it...
@Jafe @Ajean (If you're curious, just note that outside of cryptic crosswords, "without" meaning "outside of" is archaic. I don't think anyone uses it nowadays in actual speech)
Yeah, I had actually got the "without a" part sorta figured but couldn't come up with anything that made "pulse" make sense as the definition (since I didn't know it was a vegetable 😅)
i like to imagine the discussion becoming extremely heated and people being like "oh yeah? well i went outwith your mum"
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now that i looked it up i don't think it was a one-word ban, there's just a preference for universally understood words where such alternatives exist (and obviously "outside" is fine in scottish english)
Just curious has anyone had a look at my riddle, I am just wondering whether anyone is having a go and its way too difficult or not.
@Jafe I read your comments about my deletion yesterday, I thought nothing I did would salvage the wreckage even if I provided a full solution path since the other answer got more popular which usually signifies this. I have a perverse aversion to having unaccepted and largely ignored answers lurking around in my profile.
Deleting the part of the question where you admit it's a contest, doesn't suddenly make the question acceptable - it actually makes it worse, since it seems you're trying to hide something. — bobble7 secs ago
Strongly agree that deleting the bit where you admit it's a contest doesn't make a question acceptable! -- but actually what they said was that it's a "class-wide contest", which to me suggests it isn't a contest in the sense of the rules we use.
(Accepted answer to the meta question about ongoing contests proposes using math.SE's policy, which defines a contest to be "originally published by a third party, for the purpose of inviting submission of solutions", "publicly available", and "time-limited". This one seems clearly not "publicly available".)
It's clear that the submitter of that question was basically trying to cheat on their homework, and on the whole I think the world is a better place for the question's having been closed and a worse place for its not having been closed before someone answered it. But it's not quite an "ongoing contest".
I added another comment saying, "You could instead add more details to explain why this doesn't fall under the policy which I linked in my first comment."
I kinda wish we had an explicit "no, we will not do your homework for you" policy. The nearest thing we have, I think, is this meta question puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/41/… where the "no, homework should not be allowed" option got more votes than the other two contrasting answers I posted along with it -- [... continues]
... says roughly "meh, there aren't that many homework problems and it's not worth worrying about".
Beginner puzzle
This puzzle is intended to be suitable for people who are new to puzzle solving.
Using the numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10 each exactly once, place a number into each circle so that the products of the three numbers along each edge are the same, and as large as possible.
This puzz...
My original answer was bad, BUT i have a new answer:
use this code (search polynumcrypt in the search bar above), use one of the key generators, and send the key and the message to the recipient.
What 4-word phrase does the grid represents?
ISITMINEORI
ITINAMTRYIN
RISHELAREMO
ONGESTOFMIC
SYKINDLOCAB
TEDINAFRICA
