@GarethMcCaughan Somehow skimmed over this comment, which makes my next line look like a complaint. I have no qualms with you having more rep. I mostly build puzzles because it amuses me personally, and without brilliant solvers like yourself, I wouldn't have an audience to spam my self indulgent bs at. :)
(And the puzzle that's germinating in my head at the moment is possibly the most self-indulgent I've ever come up with. Built almost entirely to humour me... potentially to my detriment, but we'll see)
(change of topic) with GPR's CC, obviously "take" could be a deletion indicator... do cryptic deletions need to be "remove an entire word", or can they just be "remove all letters of a word"? I.e. could "criminals take sanctuary" => [offenders]-[den] => offers, even though den != end?
Well my next one is... a bit different... and will hopefully be tuned a little more towards the "solvable by a reasonable percentage of bright people" rather than the "needing a group of the site's best working together in chat" end of the spectrum.
Minor question about site mechanics, Deusovi, did you get automatically notified by the secret @Deusovi in the following? (I'd also like to delete it after you see it.)
Truth be told, $\sf \phantom{\rlap{ @Deusovi }}\unicode{64}\nabla \kern-2mu \epsilon \upsilon \kern1mu \sigma o \nu \iota$, this $\rlap{\small\sf\kern5mu MF}\LARGE\raise-1.5mu\bigcirc$ certified Fool for $\sf\small M{\scriptsize\raise.5exA}\kern1mu\tau\kern1mu\eta{\scriptsize\cal \raise1mu J}\kern-3mu{\scriptsize\raise-.5exA}X$ enjoys the alternative puzzle of writing mathematics without it — humn12 hours ago
Here are some rebuses all about U!
The first is very easy, the second is moderate (you may need to think a bit on this one) and the last is moderate-hard (it is taken much, much further than the rest, probably too far for some).
All images constructed with U's, except for any rectangles.
...
aw, boboquack, I can't believe that rebus is still unsolved. It's the kind of thematic rebus I wish I'd thought up, but that hasn't helped me solve it.
A: 5 + (2 if rand(0,1) <= p) + (3 if rand(0,1) <= q) B: 8 + (2 if rand(0,1) <= r) + (2 if rand(0,1) <= r)
and I want the average of A+B in terms of p, q, and r I know how to do it with convolution for specific values of p, q, and r (at least I _think_ I've done that right...) but... beyond that I'm stumped
Mr. Peters, a freelance muscle-for-hire sort of fellow, had been manning his desk for days now waiting for something to do when at last the phone rang. A job! The nerdy sounding person on the other end of the line said this was urgent... that meant he could jack up his rate. Rubbing his hands t...
That's what I would have assumed too (like "core" or similar), but the guide I hit when I googled just implied any part of...
Either way, there should be some four letter word in this list that is wholly contained in some five+ letter word from this list... but I don't see it. Maybe I need a bigger dictionary.
What is the name of a word such as "Wheat" that when you remove the first letter, it is still a word, down to two letters?
Ex: Wheat, Heat, Eat, At... Spit, Pit, It.
What is the longest such word, in the English laguage?
Uhhhh, I was going to post a new puzzle today but my computer screwed up, became unresponsive and I lost the puzzle. I'll have to rewrite it tonight and post it tommorow
Oh wait no, I'm on a school trip abroad tommorow... It'll have to be next week
Yeah forgot to mention that: If I'm inactive for the next week or so, it's cause either the hotel wifi is bad or I don't have time. And also I'll be different time zone, american
Ummm... this is a little embarrassing, but I need a bit of help with my homework...
I got a riddle from English class, which I have no clue where to start deciphering:
Air I miss, comet I be,
Round, with a tail at the back.
Or is there? No, you may hear...
Up I would still be missed, u...
I came upon a wall across a path that I traversed
Without a route around it I cried foul with mighty curse!
I soon however noticed a door fixed on this divide
It wouldn't budge even when shoved no matter what I tried
To reach my destination I must find a thoroughfare
Or open this partition using...
The earlier polite exchange between @Gareth and @Sconibulus brought to mind an entry in the bash.org QDB, but bash.org appears to have gone awol. However, the power of teh intarwebz allows me to still share this wee gem. web.archive.org/web/20160310235322/http://bash.org/?23396
and indeed mine comes above Rubio's on web.archive.org/web/20170203212335/http://bash.org/?top -- but Rubio's is in second place. A little further down is the somewhat NSFW but also hilarious result of replacing "wand" with "wang" throughout Harry Potter.
Foreword: This is a puzzle. I wouldn’t read too much into it… unless it applies to you.
Although it is your prerogative whether to withhold judgment, or else harass posters on their poor puzzles, please take the occasion to not embarrass yourself or start unnecessary arguments, and instead sh...
Look at me!
Funny, Sad or Bold;
I'm just like clickbait, but range from times that are old.
You may see me while travelling, surfing, watching, and sometimes you
won't even know I'm there!
If you don't then I can really make you care.
When associated with some, leave...
One day, I found an odd newspaper lying on a bench called '$\large\bf\text{The Pitiable Coder}$'.
I opened it and to my delight found an entire page on puzzles! Most were easy, but there was one I couldn't solve:
$\boxed{\sf{New!}\ \sf{Introducing}\ \sf{a}\ \sf{new}\ \sf{type}\ \sf{of}\ \s...
so. ARCRANBC. Ar and Cr are elements but not An or BC; nor A, for that matter, so that isn't going to help. Anagramming to CRAB NARC obviously isn't helpful, alas. It almost contains an anagram of CARBAN which is almost an element :-).
Could be Ar C Ra N B C, I guess. If we convert those to atomic numbers and then letters, does that give anything?
maybe we could take ARCRANBC as a Vigenere key for something else with 8 letters, like PITIABLE from the title, but whichever way around I do it that seems to fail.
(looks like it begins PZV if I add and PRR if I subtract)
(but I make mistakes doing mental arithmetic so I might have goofed)
ARCRANBC isn't a million miles from being an anagram of CHARABANC but it's plenty far enough away from being one that that's no good :-)
Here are some rebuses all about U!
The first is very easy, the second is moderate (you may need to think a bit on this one) and the last is moderate-hard (it is taken much, much further than the rest, probably too far for some).
All images constructed with U's, except for any rectangles.
...
Mr. Peters, a freelance muscle-for-hire sort of fellow, had been manning his desk for days now waiting for something to do when at last the phone rang. A job! The nerdy sounding person on the other end of the line said this was urgent... that meant he could jack up his rate. Rubbing his hands t...
What is the name of a word such as "Wheat" that when you remove the first letter, it is still a word, down to two letters?
Ex: Wheat, Heat, Eat, At... Spit, Pit, It.
What is the longest such word, in the English laguage?
Does somebody know how to answer this question?
Since there are several solutions, please justify yours and tell why it is the right / best!
Look at me!
Funny, Sad or Bold;
I'm just like clickbait, but range from times that are old.
You may see me while travelling, surfing, watching, and sometimes you
won't even know I'm there!
If you don't then I can really make you care.
When associated with some, leave...
One day, I found an odd newspaper lying on a bench called '$\large\bf\text{The Pitiable Coder}$'.
I opened it and to my delight found an entire page on puzzles! Most were easy, but there was one I couldn't solve:
$\boxed{\sf{New!}\ \sf{Introducing}\ \sf{a}\ \sf{new}\ \sf{type}\ \sf{of}\ \s...
