When I was in college, each semester there were companies that would buy back your used textbooks. One semester I brought my books to the book-buyer, who said "We'll pay you $41". He grabbed a thick stack of one-dollar bills and, with the thumb of his other hand, "buzzed" off a stack of them in l...
activity of daily living, bringing to their senses, category of borel spaces, clarence la verne butler, deprived of legal rights, describe in vivid detail, republic of south africa, strength of enemy forces, treading in black waters, and unlikely to cause injury
(Well, there are more, but they're all abbreviated or NSFW.)
This is in the spirit of the What is a Word™/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it an Eco-Friendly Word™.
Use the examples below to find the rule.
$$\begin{array}{|c|c|}\hline
\bbox[yellow]{\textbf{Ec...
usually only websites that the school have approved are allowed (at least at my school). But apparently someone requested that stack overflow was allowed to help with computing, so my school just allowed stack exchange
No sword, no arrow, no club in my hand,
But strength of sheer muscle foretold the beast's end.
Nine heads and more, the slithering beast had,
I called upon rocks to bury it dead.
The goddess felt so lonely I had to spend a year,
To capture gold and bronze on top of wounded deer.
A ...
@TheGreatEscaper I keep forgetting you are from Southern Hemisphere. And There, I was wondering which school begins in February when School years are supposed to end. :P
Yeah... when I first dropped by Puzzling was full of series/copycat puzzles, would be a shame to see that resurface
The problem with this type in particular is that it's very easy to misjudge difficulty as the one writing it, and I'm sure most posters haven't put in enough thought into cluing/confirmation
Back in high school, I thought of a code to secretly communicate with a few of my close friends. The key to this code is excessively and readily available by using google in 1 second if you know what to search for.
"What-is-this?" can be encoded as 74185-5316-905316?
"teacher" is 5289168
"poses...
You can play it online here: https://www.brainzilla.com/logic/zebra/meeting-room/
Five bosses, each one from an specific department, are in the meeting room. How much each boss earn per month? Where do they go on vacations?
ties: black, blue, green, red, yellow
names: Adam, Julian, Nathan, Mic...
As per chess standards, a1 position is for white side and the square is black square
what if a1 is at black side
Else,
what if a1 is white instead
Puzzle Question
The permutation collision gives of combination near to end game combination, but never be by. Or is it could.
As wha...
This question already has an answer here: Brooklyn 99 riddle: Weighing Islanders [duplicate] 3 answers So, I've seen many answers to this riddle and there's a really easy solution that no one seems to have found yet so I wanted to put it up. Here's the riddle: "The…
Heh. A tag badge can be revoked on recalculation, if e.g. things get retagged or closed. So, er, if you only just have a gold tag badge for some tag, and you use it to zap a question with that tag, I guess you can lose the tag badge. ... I don't think that would then invalidate the closure, but it would be entertaining if it did. There'd be an infinite cycle (until you got more suitably-tagged questions or the question got more close votes).
@Randal'Thor well, couldn't you get a tag badge for a non-upvoted answer, if you already had the score component from other answers and only lacked the quantity component?
@Rand wait, why haven't you got silver logical-deduction already? It says you have 611 rep and 85 answers, which is comfortably more than enough. Are a lot of them communitiwikified or something?
oh
no, that's 85 questions, not 85 answers; my mistake
This is an entry to the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #25: wordplay.
An Argentine once left some interesting words. Luckily they were translated to English.
Time to chop the end up.
I gave my heart for this.
Take something from this endless first mate.
The way to travel if you're la...
I have the same feeling that it ought to be Borges but only because he's one of the not very many Argentinians I can think of. (Maybe "argentine" is being used to mean "silver" and we're looking for Nate or Long John...) And yes, the clues seem to be cryptic-like but looser.
@Silenus Putting up a partial answer with exactly one of the clues done feels to me like a bit of a rep-grab...
I have answers for 6,9,10,11,13,14 (and maaaybe 4).
Translating them into Spanish and googling produces nothing useful.
I remark that 14 is the number of lines in a sonnet but have no particular reason to think that that is significant.
I wonder whether "Take something from this endless first mate" might yield EVE ("first mate"!) but I don't see how to get "Take something from this endless" to do it wordplayily.
I was wrong about which bit was def. That must be right.
first letters of translated-into-spanish words looked briefly as if they might be something in English, but if so then probably my online wordlists are inadequate.
(Of course when I say X doesn't work I mean my attempt at X hasn't worked; I would advise others not to trust that, because I make lots of mistakes.)
(for the avoidance of doubt, I wasn't saying "I bet other sites don't have anything like that, so Literature shouldn't". I was expressing actual lack of knowledge.)
@MariaDeleva (just coming back - I also had considered 'python' but "pi ton" (which I gather is what you were going for?) doesn't actually sound like "python" so - I'd have to say that wp doesn't work)
well see that's the other problem; "over 3000 kgs" would be more than 6600lbs. It'd be over 6 metric tons, and over 3 normal tons, but would still be a good bit more than (pi) tons
It is a bit late into this new year, being that we're already in the second month, but we are now cycling the Community Promotion Ads for 2017!
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Wah! A great show has been put up. You sit in the seat, skeptically looking at the magician in the stage. "Volunteers" he asks "is anybody willing to volunteer on the next act? I need a volunteer". You, somehow, is selected.
Slowly, desperately slowly, you enter the stage. The magician declares ...
(object constructors in Common Lisp are usually defined to use keyword arguments: (make-king :name "George" :number "3"). But you can define them to use positional ones instead (make-king "George" 3); in that case the parameters are being specified by order of arguments, or b.o.a. -- and so the thing you've thus defined is called ... a BOA constructor.)
I don't know whether the term "BOA constructor" was ever actually used much, or whether it's just that Guy Steele felt like having a little joke when he wrote "Common Lisp: the Language". I would not put the latter past him; he was most very extremely fond of puns.
er, is; I don't mean to imply that he's dead or anything
Munch trachea gag! Gaga at churchmen! (actually, if that works then "egg at a churchman" is more promising; perhaps we can use "toss" or something as an anagram indicator)
(I am as it happens irreligious but not especially anticlerical, which is just as well since my father-in-law is an Anglican vicar)
(and so far as I can recall I have never tossed an egg at him)
Hey, I'm not hard to predict. You could replace me with a random cryptic criticism generator and a bot that closehammers questions seemingly at random.
"Yes, an electronic brain," said Frankie, "a simple one would suffice." "A simple one!" wailed Arthur. "Yeah," said Zaphod with a sudden evil grin, "you'd just have to program it to say *What?* and *I don't understand* and *Where's the tea?* -- who'd know the difference?"
This is in the spirit of the What is a Word™/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it an Eco-Friendly Word™.
Use the examples below to find the rule.
$$\begin{array}{|c|c|}\hline
\bbox[yellow]{\textbf{Ec...
No sword, no arrow, no club in my hand,
But strength of sheer muscle foretold the beast's end.
Nine heads and more, the slithering beast had,
I called upon rocks to bury it dead.
The goddess felt so lonely I had to spend a year,
To capture gold and bronze on top of wounded deer.
A ...
Back in high school, I thought of a code to secretly communicate with a few of my close friends. The key to this code is excessively and readily available by using google in 1 second if you know what to search for.
"What-is-this?" can be encoded as 74185-5316-905316?
"teacher" is 5289168
"poses...
You can play it online here: https://www.brainzilla.com/logic/zebra/meeting-room/
Five bosses, each one from an specific department, are in the meeting room. How much each boss earn per month? Where do they go on vacations?
ties: black, blue, green, red, yellow
names: Adam, Julian, Nathan, Mic...
As per chess standards, a1 position is for white side and the square is black square
what if a1 is at black side
Else,
what if a1 is white instead
Puzzle Question
The permutation collision gives of combination near to end game combination, but never be by. Or is it could.
As wha...
This is an entry to the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #25: wordplay.
An Argentine once left some interesting words. Luckily they were translated to English.
Time to chop the end up.
I gave my heart for this.
Take something from this endless first mate.
The way to travel if you're la...
It is a bit late into this new year, being that we're already in the second month, but we are now cycling the Community Promotion Ads for 2017!
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