I'm on my "craptop" at the moment, which predictably doesn't see a lot of use. so yeah, it'd sat here, tabs open, attentively following along as new messages were added, to give that wonderful screen shot. The past couple of days have been remarkably ... chatty.
Create a star-shaped crossword using 6 letters English words.
Clues for the crossword is not needed.
Use common English words.
Direction for diagonals is TOP to DOWN.
Direction for Horizontal is LEFT to RIGHT.
Example:
The words used in the example are : states, latent, steaks, strait and ...
This puzzle is closed because it is considered as "Too Broad"
Create a star shaped crosswords
I thinks these puzzles are also "Too Broad". but why not closed as "Too Broad"
Fruit Transformation
Want to go from MANILA to UGANDA
So what kind of Too Broad puzzle is OK and what is not ?
Here come mo -Roman numerals — just like
Roman
numerals,
only mo’ so.
(Explained as we go.)
What number can spell itself in two different ways
with mo-Roman letter substitution?
For example, the number 6
can be spelled in one way with mo-Roman letter substitution:
6
 
In the spirit of the What is a Word™/Phrase™ series started by JLee, a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Unionized Word™.
Use the examples below to find the rule.
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Rules:
Create a star-shaped crossword using 6 letters English words.
Clues for the crossword is not needed.
Use common English words.
Direction for diagonals is TOP to DOWN.
Direction for Horizontal is LEFT to RIGHT.
Example:
The words used in the example are : states, latent, steaks, str...
ok guys, so i have been given this puzzle by my friend (who is a qualified military cryptographer). I am completely stuck as for what the hell to do, i feel like I have exhausted every possibility. Im told this website holds the top 1% of knowledge! please help, guys and girls!
Lovely she was, oh the things I wanted to do to her...
Going to that nice restaurant, eating everything I could and even
more.
Giving her that ring was hard, I desired to keep it for myself so bad.
She was full of energy but after a while, I became tired and it was
getting ...
I've linked the Wikipedia article "list of US states". It has the same information, although not as concise. And maybe I should have said "postal abbreviations" instead of just "abbreviations". That seems to be the "official" name, although I see the postal abbreviations used practically everywhere.
No. I think Florid and Marineland and maybe some others were deliberately used to hint at US states. There's also the potential red herring of Unionized vs. Un-ionized that a commenter posted. I didn't think about the latter.
"... rots in the circles of hell." - I'm not sure why you think that you think about ROT9 when the drawing has 13 circles, even if Dante's Hell has 9. ROT13 is much more common.
I'll just say that rand's just being more Libertarian here, so I'm not too fussed but I feel it was a tad unfair (it's more fair when there's a grid because you would have cross letters at least)
Personally I'm in the middle and don't mind either way, but that's probably from seeing enough now -> "no w" and nod -> "no d" from some setters... (but as I said, easier with cross letters)
Wouldn't do it personally though, but that's just setting preferences
It's slightly better there, since the split was at IN-, and "semi-nate" can be parsed that way with a strong argument (since semi- is a combining prefix that means "half" But even a strong argument would only make it tenuous at best.
Hehe. Actually MACHINE and WINCED were nice. I retracted my earlier whinge about the latter
For the record, like @Sp3000, I had "OUG" for a long time (like I said, I ignore punctuation first off, I actually assumed that comma was intended to be distracting), but couldn't connect it to anything because (...and, I think this is where the fairness of the clue really suffers) I literally never thought of "inch" as something splittable that way.
@Sp3000 What do you make of Gareth's CCCC? We've got a vague hint and the confirmation that Techidiot's try THEORETIC has at least one part of the wordplay.
I was hoping it would be IMMEDIATE, but I can't seem to get that to fit. I'm secretly hoping that "me in Europe" isn't "'me' in some European language", with the language unspecified for sake of surface. "Duty" doesn't seem to have many options, maybe "tax" or "rate". No idea about "state" - too many options.
The following is probably not a very large hint for my CCCC clue, but I will give it anyway because I feel slightly guilty about it: The clue would be slightly more correct if the "It's" were removed from the front. (But the surface reading would be spoiled, of course.)
the "to keep" could also refer to the duty: duty to keey me, and then everything in Europe. Europe isn't necessarily the EU, there's also the European Community EC which would make the word end in C. That's more likely than a word ending in U.
In theory, yes, but for this CC I think that would be too long. If it were "keep in Europe" it might be a place name and even the definition, but as is I think it's just a containment instruction.
@n_palum I think there will be rot 13 at some point..
That's the only cipher I can think of. The rest looks like some kind of encoding.. Most probably ASCII
@Sconibulus I had only two things in my attempt the def identification and wordplay.. And one of them is right as per Gareth.. So that whole thing might not be the def..
The grammar of the cryptic reading seems strained. The containment section seems tantamount to: The string "CA" *has* the string "I TAX" *to keep* the string "MOI".
@MOehm The nesting is not the problem, it's the grammar. We cannot say "String A contains string B contains string C." We must say "String A contains string B which contains string C."
I had the word yesterday, It wasn't until a little while ago when I actually started looking at state abbreviations that I saw the C*A, and that order let me see TAX, and then the I, and then I was staring at MOI for about 5 minutes before it registered. And then I looked up and @MOehm's message noticing TAX and MOI appeared on my screen. hehe
Also, @Rubio, your revised version now has the wrong syllable stresses on the second line.
on the other hand, I like the surface of your current C4.
@Deusovi since you're here, if you are able to replace "fortit" in my comment about 10 up from the latest with "fortiter" which is what I was unsuccessfully trying to persuade my phone to let me enter during the painfully short editing window, I would be grateful. But no problem if not.
I came along this puzzle somewhere it a logic-related lecture:
There are two prizes: Prize A and prize B.
When you make a true statement, then you win prize A.
When you make a false statement, then you do not win prize A
What do you have to say in order to win prize B?
The solution, for those...