There's an isosceles triangle. Two of it's sides are equal to x and the remaining side is equal to y.
Can there be 2 points inside this triangle whose length is greater than or equal to x?
Source: I came up with this question on my own.
This is a variant of this previous puzzle.
Create two valid Chess games (A and B) with the minimum number of moves such that overlapping the two games creates a valid chess position.
The following rule will be considered.
Games A and B must have the exact same number of moves.
There can't be a ...
My doctor wants to establish a dosage for a new drug, so he gives me a bottle of 48 pills and tells me to take them throughout the month of June. I can take as many or as few as I like on any given day, so long as I take at least 1 pill each day. Show that there’s a sequence of consecutive days d...
The ambiguity kept me challenged for a while, as keeps can be an indicator and running can be on, and I also wasn't sure which side was going to be the def
The Harvard CS50x puzzle day (happening every spring) is a great place to go.
I've also written a book of these types of puzzles (link) and am currently posting on this site a few times with drafts for puzzles that will be going into my second book. Hope you enjoy!
I'm starting to test out puzzles for my second puzzle book (link to the first). They're all word puzzles based on ones you might see during Harvard's CS50x puzzle day. Try out this new puzzle I'm testing and share any feedback you might have to make it even better. Happy to share hints if you ask:
Would that be an appropriate measure here? If I'm not mistaken those are usually reserved for something that was a pretty noteworthy post that just doesn't meet community standards of today
This post isn't particularly noteworthy for the site
Suppose you repeatedly perform the sequence of moves (U' and R) to an initially solved Rubik's cube until it is once again in the solved state. (So move the top face to the right, then the right face up and repeat).
I was expecting this to perhaps take a multiple of 16 repeats of the sequence to ...
@PrinceNorthLæraðr [wordplay] for [def] is pretty common, in sense that that the wordplay part "stands for" the target word, or you perform the wordplay in order to get the word
@Ankoganit I've seen it, but I don't know if I like it. I think I'd personally avoid it because I can't really make sense of the relationship between the two
> The answer lies not in the count but in the role played by the connectors. A connector must connect – i.e. link together the wordplay in the direction of the solution, not detract from the solution.
@PrinceNorthLæraðr By the way, I'm still okay with this one; for me I can kinda see it as saying that [the word clued by the] definition [is the answer] for [the given] wordplay. Of course, open to other opinions
Most likely not the solution, but I found something funny, there's HEMLOCK, with could be something like HEM(-p)LOCK (though not sure how the wordplay would work for that), which is a high toxic plant
Everything is edible, somethings are just only edible once
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It's also a little suspicious though because HEMP is another word for weed, which is what you'd use to roll a joint
I had a solution that almost worked where BAS (ball-and-socket joints) containing AN AN gave BANANAS, which (setting aside the plurality mismatch) is a leaf that people often eat from, but the banana leaf itself isn't actually edible
plus I have no idea if BAS is actually an abbreviation people use
@RyanM As I used to tell my students, there's no such thing as a stupid question — just a stupid person asking. (You won't be surprised to learn I'm no longer teaching.)
@PrinceNorthLæraðr the best of luck to you. I remember that when I was in college, those who took orgo (I thankfully did not) said it was the hardest class of their college careers. (Ymmv of course.)
And yeah, I usually avoid using 'many' for big Roman numerals because I dislike the ambiguity but it's a widely used convention so I figured it was ok.