I can fluff
I can smash
I can read
I can write
Turn me around
and I will scar
More than one
then I'm red and far
Bonus (requires VERY specific knowledge):
I saw kings but no kingdom ,
I saw a half dozen lovers but one was left over ,
I saw racism but no one discriminated on color ,
I saw mathematicians but all of them didn't knew why they started everything from two,
All of them lived happily but there was a serious villain among them ,
More I...
There's big hint about palin(d)romes in the title. There's the evil desserts/stressed live thing that hints at palinderomes. The Yoda hint and "Don't think too far forward" hints are supposed to hint at palindromes (albeit they don't quite work, imo). Then someone really finds a way to morganise the two phrases so that they are palindromes.
And he final answer is symmetry, which we are supposed to get from the fact that these phrases are -- surprise, surprise! -- palindromes.
Attempting to update the archive - anyone have the solution for "Brightness comes from rest in languid liniment (6)"? I can't find Rubio's solution for it.
@GarethMcCaughan Thanks. I feel better now. (At the core, there is that super idea to apply de Morgan's laws to regular phrases. Everything built around that, especially the hints, doesn't really work for me.)
it was something that could have worked, maybe if the answer was a word to be discovered from the clues and not guessed at when a series of seemingly un unrelated clues were forced together
I think having satisfying answers that match satisfying puzzles is something I'm also a bit weak at
@Deusovi But she's an architect! Well, Styx acknowledges that the stab at symmatry was a guess. Personally, I don't associate Rome with symmetry, either. The Colosseum and the buldings in the Forum may have been symmetric once, but now they are beautifully unsymmetric.
Versailles, on the other hand, has a very symmetric layout.
I want this to be EX(QU(IS)IT)E - IS circled by QUIT ("exit") inside EXE (type of file), but I don't see how this is like a corpse, except maybe that it can mean delicate.
I am quite attractive
I memorize things galore
Don't like ten (and a half)
And number twenty four
A host, water or air
Is all I need and care
Colourful I am
But dangerous, beware
@Deusovi So, once again: EX(QU(IS)IT)E as in Excquisite Corpse - IS circled by QUIT ("exit") inside EXE (type of file). Thanks, @Sid, for explaining the definition to me.
"like a corpse, maybe?" is the def - I assumed just using "like a corpse" would be a bit sketchy (especially because most corpses aren't actually "exquisite"), so the "maybe" was to clarify that the definition was a bit weird
but usually I don't try to solve them because I don't feel like making one, but I thought of a nifty one that I'd like to put out so I have a reason to try now :P
In the comments to this answer, my instincts to correct Fillet and make sure everyone understands what I was actually asking are SO STRONG, but I know that comments are not for extended discussion, I should just let it go. puzzling.stackexchange.com/a/53595/12914
A spy has been allotted a task of following a man (innocent until proved guilty) around the world. The spy's boss does not trust anyone in the office, so they decide to exchange messages in an encrypted form which only they understand.
The spy follows the man and sends his location to his boss ...
@Mithrandir FWIW I've VTC too. But doing so as a dupe of the one that bleh linked in the comments. Yes the numbers are different, but the "puzzle" is identical. I.e. "What mathematical trivia do you know about making really big numbers that can be formed out of a limited number of match sticks?"