@Alconja Guidelines & examples are definitely useful. I'm probably over-thinking this (i.e. worrying too much about the definition), but I voiced my criticism in the appropriate chat room. (Please also tell yours of my idea with the net, which is a restricting idea)
The tag description of mechanical-puzzles says "Puzzles that are physically made and have some sort of mechanism for turning or moving them, such as Rubik's Cubes or trick boxes." - Can I also tag a question that fabricates a physical game which doesn't exist yet and explains the "rules" in text form mechanical-puzzles?
One of the numbers here could be changed
to a specific value so that every statement is true.
One plus one equals two.
Two plus two equals four.
Five plus ten equals fifteen.
Which number could be changed?
To what possible values?
To change a number means to...
@Sid Gareth's mind doesn't work like the rest of ours. It makes great leaps of intuition while the rest of us are still struggling with sorting out the details. By the time we begin to make any progress on the puzzle, he's already had a solution for several hours. :)
@GentlePurpleRain He is an AI. That is the only explanation. Apparently, the reason, he never posts any question. He just answers any sane questions we can come up with.
@Sid I think it was the odd one out that gave it away. I don't think it was too easy; I find that I generally solve this sort of thing either rather quickly or not at all. @GentlePurpleRain I suggest that there's some sort of confirmation-bias thing going on; I'm pretty sure I've seen you solve things I've got no idea where to start with. @dcfyj I came very close once, if you recall :-).
There was lots of complicated reasoning all of which turned out to be completely irrelevant, and a final bit that IIRC I didn't get because obviously "dcfyj" was a nonsense result and I hadn't managed to decode it right.
Always a little sad from the time-taken-to-write-40-cryptic-clues vs. time-taken-to-solve-40-cryptic-clues perspective, but I'm consoled by people getting to enjoy it (and by the fact that cryptics are kind of fun to write as well).
Also, you all want to hear something funny? I just thought I was late for class, ran to the building, and it turns out I wasn't late - I was an hour early and I walked in on another, unrelated, class.
@Deusovi Similar thing happened to me in 5th grade... But I was so under stress that I didn't even realize I was in the wrong class until I saw that a stranger was sitting on my seat...
One thing to do is to hang up a paper on every toilet door writing something like "In consequence of the recent events all toilets are being monitored. This is in interest of your security." Probably doesn't work in college anymore, but the reactions of the younger people were priceless. (in my country 5th - 12th graders are in the same school building sometimes)
And if you plan to do something, always make sure to have multiple layers of human proxies. I.e. tell person A to tell person B to tell person C, etc. to do thing X. This way your identity is far more secure :P For this reason I used to have the "nickname" "the root of all evil", though... (only a few people knew of it, obviously) Good times :P
Does anyone know whether community adshave to promote a product/sercive that costs something? I.e. am I allowed to just promote my own, free services on a website? (which, of course is related to types of puzzles) I didn't see anything in the body of the post that would suggest so, but am still a little bit unsure (ads I've seen on other sites also only promote products with a price).
@Sconibulus Every image I have posted has been created using LaTeX. If you need a particular scheme, I can help you make it (unless you prefer making it yourself).
Those dice were all created using a foreach and some data processing. Very basic stuff but that allowed me to avoid typing for 3 days.
By the way, I'm about to post my fourth puzzle. It's a crossword, so nothing particularly mysterious, but I'm typing the clues and it's getting really long (and they're written in a block).
@dcfyj A C language?? Well... bits of Java syntax are a bit like bits of C, but Java's a lot more bloated than that. I programmed in Java a bit many years ago. Such a lot of procedures and types to learn.
@Alenanno I found something that made it work great, so I can probably send you the dice now; do you want just the public die facings, or would you prefer the opportunity to quality control the whole puzzle? If the latter, I'll need an email address or some such to send it
Yeah, basically, do you want to be able to solve the puzzle; or would you prefer to make certain that a puzzle with your name on it as a contributor is good
I mean, I don't think it's bad, but I made it, so I probably can't judge it unbiased
Anyway, I'll probably post my real ad in a few months (how precise). I don't think it's something that is necessarily needed, but the votes will speak for themselves, I guess.
@MariaDeleva In case you're being serious right now: My actual ad will of course not be about black rubik's cubes and rebus beads. I just exaggerated the black cube idea because it's somewhat ironic. I still have to decide whether the actual website/topic will be worthy of an ad in the end.
@GarethMcCaughan That's awesome. Perhaps we should start a consultancy together? "...what's that? Oh, I know you hired us to integrate your CRM with AD, we just thought a rebus based authentication system would increase end user engagement. ...also, while we're on the topic, I notice your website is in plain English. Have you considered Vigenère?"
@Alenanno I am an English speaker trying to learn Italian, and I know you are an Italian speaker. I wanted to get Oxford Paravia Italian Dictionary but it is out of print, and Collins Italian Dictionary Complete and Unabridged has too few entries. Is there any good big bilingual Italian-English English-Italian dictionary I can buy now? I know there is the Ragazzini but I feel that is more for Italians trying to learn English and not the other way around.
@Alenanno I'm getting very close now, I think. But there are still a few clues I'm struggling with, even things like 4 down with only one letter left to find.
I started off on the wrong track at first because I was sure 1 down was LUMBERJACK :-P
@WillHunting I used to have a Garzanti back when I was learning English, although it could be used the other way as well. Right now I used WordReference.com (which is very good, I've used it for years).
@Alenanno I see. I am aware of the fact that these bilingual dictionaries often provide more information on one language than the other, which is the language being learnt, so it will have more material on say irregular verbs and stuff like that for the foreign language. That complicates matters a bit.
@WillHunting Honestly, I'm not sure. I mean, I never used it. But Zanichelli, Garzanti, these are all very good brands. I suppose you could check for reviews online? Maybe on Amazon even.
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@Alenanno I see. Thank you. I will consider both the Hazon Garzanti and the Zanichelli Ragazzini then. In fact, I emailed Oxford to request they publish a new edition and emailed Collins to request they double the number of entries in the next edition, but I don't think that is likely to happen.
One of the numbers here could be changed
to a specific value so that every statement is true.
One plus one equals two.
Two plus two equals four.
Five plus ten equals fifteen.
Which number could be changed?
To what possible values?
To change a number means to...
I believe we may be speaking about:
I will continue to fill this in shortly.
