I was wondering if anyone could help me find a puzzle on this site.
It was a really long time ago 6-7 months ago maybe, but the gist of the puzzle was decoding a song. The puzzle used some sort of decimal encoding that was based on changes in words. You would start with the first word in each line and mark that with a number. Then all subsequent words in that line would be defined by the difference between the first word and that word.
@boboquack @n_palum thanks for trying, but I couldn't find it among music and the puzzle was definitely way more number oriented than the shifted books one.
We have a well known peg solitaire which is not played yet as seen below:
At most how many squares can you make by joining the points as exemplified below?
Note: No ball (point) in the middle! so dont add that up to your sum.
This post is not a puzzle. There is nothing puzzly hidden inside it or the self-answer, posted at the same time.
What exactly is a cryptic crossword clue, and how do I write one?
The translate: tool available to mods in chat seems to be broken. It refuses to translate things for me:
(this was in the sandbox)
This has been confirmed to not work very often for other mods in the TL as well. Can we please fix this, if it's not a problem on the Bing side?
I begin with deception in the way that I act
Then grow in obsession with only the facts.
I sometimes yell loudly and sometimes I whisper
Some things may confound me but don't let me wither
For if I'm neglected in present or past
Your life is affected and peace may not last
What a...
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<<---First clue
<---Previous clue
Aha! You think, and type in the answer. Ding! The pad beeps, and opens a previously-hidden drawer. Inside is what appears to be a... bunch of strange sentences, each written on a separate strip of paper:
Yes - that is correct. Yes - I will [ripped], and th...
I was going to a place for some summer school(in winter :). But when I first landed on the airport, to attend the school. I just took a random picture, for the memory. However, I later realized something weird in it.
The story although true but has nothing to do with the picture.
Do you also see...
@manshu Yeah, that's not a good clue. For one issue, there's not an anagram indicator (unless you count "may", which I wouldn't). For another, "She" is a terrible definition.
Just when you thought the good old days of
New Mathematics
were safely
dusted,
here comes another lesson on the similarities of
numbers in different bases.
For this lesson puzzle,
1008 means the digits 100 in
base 8,
which equals the familiar 64
(in base 10),
which itself is represented as 641...