This is a simple Sudoku. The only thing different from a regular sudoku are the symbols used: HAPY2017*. The snowflakes (a.k.a. asterisk) are like any other character.
Wishing you a Happy New Year 2017 and have fun solving puzzles!
I'm not just being butt-hurt about it being painful. It's, like, impossible to solve this if you hadn't been in here telling us what pieces to look for. Puzzles shouldn't be like that.
Look at other people's - they use bold markers, or italic, or spray blood on letters, or SOMETHING
Expecting someone to guess that because you put first-letters stego in plain sight for riddle one, means they should look at first letters of everything from then on, is waaaay too far a stretch
@Techidiot, I once had a steganography puzzle that hinted with names of people and although I thought it would be fairly easy, it didn't turn out so - as people were interpreting the clue hidden in the names in many different ways.
If a game I play required me to look up how to do things in it that wouldn't be likely to be found without literally trying to brute force The Entire Damn Game, trying every twist and knob and verb on every object and block and door and room
It's tedious. You feel like you have a list of 5 things to try on every single word, line, stanza of the puzzle in every possible permutation, because, well, it said "stego" and there might be something there.
@Will Sure, but that doesn't make them good. (And actually, there's contextual clues in an adventure game anyway. Among other things, you know when trying to do something is wrong - it tells you You can't do that here/now/with that.
And some things just make sense to try together. So it's not blindly trying anything and everything anywhere and everywhere.)
Anyway. Your puzzles have a lot of ingenuity and cool concepts in them, and they keep improving. I hope some additional constructive critique will continue to make them better and more enjoyable to the solver.
A bird, a plane? I am more like the rain
"Stupid", "insane", all the cowards complain
Near the end of the run, I slow my pace
And thence ended the fun, and my heart's race
What am I?
No offense for using the word "coward", just a figure of speech.
@Mithrandir I have a puzzle more or less ready for the Clue you sent me (just need to put everything together and add some filler text). When would you like me to post it?
Short Steganographic Riddle!
Every time you ask me, where do you stay?
It's vague but I stay here, I will say.
We are three, you know it. Check if it fits your height.
3 elders of this riddle decide my name, begin from the right.
Let's add a couple of lines more, to add a little spice...
Btw, this Clue puzzle has taken me quite a while to create, and has lots of different ideas put together in it. I really hope people will appreciate it :-)
I wish I had more time for puzzles, but right now, I barely found time to create a simple sudoku - and I have been trying to find the time for a few days now. Haha. :)
If we took the no-computers tag really seriously we would solve the Sudoku on paper, but then not be able to upload the answer because you'd have to use SE and that would involve a computer :P
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #23: Seasonal...
Today, when you go to your mailbox, you find a thin card-sized envelope from your (in?)famous uncle—a games and puzzles creator of dubious skill and legendary absentmindedness, who you now reflect didn't send his usual holiday card.
Y...
You are given 99 coins which consists of 30 fake ones. You also have a digital balance scale with perfect precision that shows how much difference between weights you put on. For example, if you put 10 g on the left side and 20 g on the other side, it will show -10, otherwise +10.
You know that...
@BeastlyGerbil ok :) You know, at first I did a completely different sudoku - it stated Christmas instead of Happy 2017 :) But then I decided it is too late for Christmas :)
I couldn't actually solve the one my friend gave me. But then I looked it up and it had 88 solutions so thats probably why. GPR found that MAT made it unique. I made the excuse its a welcome mat :P
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #23: Seasonal...
Today, when you go to your mailbox, you find a thin card-sized envelope from your (in?)famous uncle—a games and puzzles creator of dubious skill and legendary absentmindedness, who you now reflect didn't send his usual holiday card.
Y...
This is a simple Sudoku. The only thing different from a regular sudoku are the symbols used: HAPY2017*. The snowflakes (a.k.a. asterisk) are like any other character.
Wishing you a Happy New Year 2017 and have fun solving puzzles!
A bird, a plane? I am more like the rain
"Stupid", "insane", all the cowards complain
Near the end of the run, I slow my pace
And thence ended the fun, and my heart's race
What am I?
No offense for using the word "coward", just a figure of speech.
Short Steganographic Riddle!
Every time you ask me, where do you stay?
It's vague but I stay here, I will say.
We are three, you know it. Check if it fits your height.
3 elders of this riddle decide my name, begin from the right.
Let's add a couple of lines more, to add a little spice...
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #23: Seasonal...
Today, when you go to your mailbox, you find a thin card-sized envelope from your (in?)famous uncle—a games and puzzles creator of dubious skill and legendary absentmindedness, who you now reflect didn't send his usual holiday card.
Y...
You are given 99 coins which consists of 30 fake ones. You also have a digital balance scale with perfect precision that shows how much difference between weights you put on. For example, if you put 10 g on the left side and 20 g on the other side, it will show -10, otherwise +10.
You know that...
