The professor turned to me and said, "I believe that all numbers in mathematics can be expressed with only 6 symbols."
"A bold claim," I replied. "I suppose the you want all numbers to be encoded in base 6."
"Not at all. I am referring to Base 10."
"Then how is such a thing possible?" I questi...
Here are 3 Japanese symbols.
竜 : Dragon
昇 : Rise up
拳 : Fist
Can you find the video game related word I am looking for by using only these 3 symbols as clues?
This is an entry to the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #25: wordplay.
"These words! – they come falling free; / speech: daft here, deft there..." — Emrakul
You know, I've kept some words. Words that work for me. No no, they aren't really my slaves, just my pets. They never said they don't lik...
I am trying to get a successful blindsolve using the Old Pochman method.
I got my cubed scrambled, and I have no idea what to do with memorization when:
I need to shoot to a corner that has the buffer piece in it, but with the wrong orientation. How would you memorize this sequence? For letter ...
Good luck!
Which country remains after you've removed all these countries from the grid?
BELGIUM
GREECE
GUINEA
ITALY
LESOTHO
MALDIVES
MOZAMBIQUE
NORWAY
PARAGUAY
PHILIPPINES
RWANDA
SOUTH KOREA
TAJIKISTAN
Rotate (like Julius) the grid cells by the numbers of the...
Once upon a time, a little user named Solvilocks
tramped into the woods and happened on a house
with three puzzles cooling on the windowsill
and nobody home.
The first puzzle was much too hard. “Ow!”
The second puzzle simply seemed too easy. Sneer.
The third puzzle was, well, a different s...
1.
In an Italian Swiss city,I am the head
Of a bride locked in a box until she was dead
2.
Perhaps from Orange in France,we are dry,dry,dry
We three are a bittersweet mix-hi!hi!hi!
3.
Quite disturbed,I ended up in a California city
Where little champions sang how I was so pretty
4.
I en...
This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series inaugurated by JLee with his original Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Flipped Word™.
Use the following examples below to uncover the rule.
Here is a CSV version.
Flipped Words™, Not ...
Here's a nurikabe for you. Let's see who can solve it first.
I was working on a very simple puzzle late last night whem I fell asleep at the keyboard.
I awoke this morninf to find that somehow, my puzzle had been corrupted!
I was, of course, very disappointed that such a thing had happened, until I wracked my memory for what the initial puzzl was going to ...
Some time ago I met an old man who handed me a scrap of paper and told me:
Dargloc - the treasure hunter is searching. You must be quicker. The key to success is to obey the rule:
"If Dargloc rests now? You have to hurry." But do not dare to repeat yourself.
Then he disappeared while I was ...
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You speak the answer. And of course, a trapdoor opens up and you fal...
We're happy to report that phase one of our top navigation redesign testing went very well. We're going to be starting phase two very soon, and wanted to give you a preview of things to come and some details about the test.
As soon as the test begins, users with 499 rep or below stand a good cha...
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As you say the word, the floor starts rising. You are now able to reach the trapdoor.
You push it open and climb out. You blink in surprise. You appear to be in the same place you were for Clue Sixteen. When you take another glance, however, you notice that it...
