MOehm was deliberately misleading earlier when someone mentioned a specific list of off-white shades and asked "which one", I said it might not be any, and MOehm said "Gareth is right; it isn't any of them"
(because indeed the answer isn't any of the things in that specific list but it is in fact a variety of off-white)
I expect the reason why Sp3000 was amused at the talk of indirect anagrams is because there are in fact no anagrams at all in the clue.
Cosmic Latte is a name assigned to the average color of the universe, given by a team of astronomers from Johns Hopkins University. In 2001, Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry determined that the color of the universe was a greenish white, but they soon corrected their analysis in a 2002 paper, in which they reported that their survey of the color of all light in the universe added up to a slightly beigeish white. The survey included more than 200,000 galaxies, and measured the spectral range of the light from a large volume of the universe. The hexadecimal RGB value for Cosmic Latte is #FFF8E7.
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Right. And the solution is also an anagram indicator.
I expect it's possible to make a longer clue of the same type -- e.g., maybe using "about" or "around" to signify backwards-ness -- but I didn't want to keep the CCCC community waiting for longer than necessary :-).
fwiw it doesn't feel like a big advantage; I think the main impact is that there's one possible interpretation of a key word that I can probably safely ignore.
oh yes, so we can. As it happens I already saw it briefly before the deletion, but it means that e.g. Rubio would be at a slight advantage in solving this one.
So, I found this image. I feel like it wants something
You might wanna go ahead and download the image, because it will be useful to be able to scribble around on the image for counting and stuff. It won't mind
What does this image want?
P.S. The puzzle is all in the image. It knows to tell ...
I've been working on this meta puzzle all day and can't get over the last hurdle (https://www.sporcle.com/games/jyrops/avj_puzzle_hunt_04). I solved the initial puzzle, but there's a two word sequence hidden in the final solution. When you pick each flag, you get a series of capital N, S, E, W, ...
Remember the day when you grew up and didn't wanted to play anymore with toys?
Well, I remember the same happening with me. But, well, my toys were smart. And may be they left a goodbye message for me.
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@Rubio Oh, it's because it was closed too recently. Until you get 20k, you have to wait a couple of days between closure and VTDing. OK, pinging @Gareth instead.
the pedantic answer evidently is part of the "test", or anyway as two answers could be "right", you could also thus always count someone wrong. not sure that makes it a puzzle per se but it's more than just a reading exercise '
@Techidiot Just look at the burger.. and like Gerbil had pointed out.. there are hundreds of solutions so that should tip you off to not filling it out
The +2 (mixed +3) -11 s -> take the value of *the* add 2, take the value of *mixed* add 3 multiple these and reduce the total by 11 multiply by value of *s* :-)
"Battle of the Bastards" is the ninth episode of the sixth season of HBO's fantasy television series Game of Thrones, and its 59th episode overall. It was written by series co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and directed by Miguel Sapochnik.
In the North, the armies of the eponymous bastards, Jon Snow (Kit Harington) and Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon), face off in a battle for control of Winterfell. The Bolton army defeats most of Jon's forces, largely composed of Wildlings. However, Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) arrives with Petyr Baelish (Aidan Gillen) and the Knights of the Vale and they defeat...
Yeah interestingly enough I can't find a reference in any of several dictionaries to it being an adjective, though I assume Deus has one that so lists it
Cosmic Latte is a name assigned to the average color of the universe, given by a team of astronomers from Johns Hopkins University. In 2001, Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry determined that the color of the universe was a greenish white, but they soon corrected their analysis in a 2002 paper, in which they reported that their survey of the color of all light in the universe added up to a slightly beigeish white. The survey included more than 200,000 galaxies, and measured the spectral range of the light from a large volume of the universe. The hexadecimal RGB value for Cosmic Latte is #FFF8E7.
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Oh hey @Deus - note for ya, 2012rcampion recently moved a bunch of what used to be googledrive documents for a number of his puzzles on to his own domain. I don't think it's a problem, but wanted to make sure someone weighed in on it if needed.