heh, thanks! I might've been able to come up with something cleaner had I not tried to get the clue to you all fairly quickly
(the original clue was for AGAPE but was entirely different - then I noticed that "gap" was roughly "mouth", thought it would work better as a surface, and saw A(-w)E surrounding it)
I'd considered something along those lines, but "heartless" and things of that ilk typically refer to the center letter, which doesn't exist in AW(GAP)E
it takes me a little too long to make them up on the spot, and then I end up doing stupid things like indirect anagrams and make Deusovi use his angry eyes, and we can't have that now can we.
Though I do get a few semi-decent ones out in Contact from time to time ;)
Warning (seems like I'm doing that a lot lately): the above clue is a little bit... creative in its interpretation of rules (though hopefully not to the point of outright breaking them).
@Ankoganit @Deusovi "Common time" as in 4/4 time (to fit with the rhythm theme)
Nah, some CCs are so good it's hard for them not to have been done before, so it's to be expected
Kind of like when I came up with "Put on a very quiet German song (7)" and immediately looked it up to see that yup that exact phrasing has appeared in a paper
Alice, Bob, and Charlie were given three numbers, respectively. They were said that all the three numbers were positive integers and the sum was 101.
Alice: I know you two have different numbers.
Bob: Aha, I got it. I found all the numbers.
Charlie: Me, too. I know our numbers, now.
Alice: Al...
Ever use MathJax to display mathematical expressions?
Expressions related to fractals?
Ever used it to display fractals themselves?!
The time has come.
These fractals are based on the iconic
dragon curve
and raise two questions.
What is the rule behind these arrangements of letters?
A c...
I'm just tired and have work to do so I didn't make much of an effort to understand, but I get it now
Anyway, cool fact of the day:
If you put 'of the day' in front of anything, it makes it sound really important. Also, sometimes people make the assumption that you'll give more things 'of the day'.
$$The\ MathJax\ Sandbox$$
It's occasionally difficult to figure out if your MathJax will work in a post, even if it works/doesn't work in the preview. Also, sometimes you want to experiment with stuff that you might use in a puzzle. So... it's always good to have a sandbox. This is primarily for...
A widely held belief has it that the word kangaroo comes from an Australian Aboriginal word meaning "I don't know." This is in fact untrue. The word was first recorded in 1770 by Captain James Cook, when he...
a man with 90 sheeps, he wants to sell them in a market far from his farm by 30km (miles) he went searching for trucks to load his sheeps so he found out that every truck can carry 30 sheeps and he have to pay 1 sheep for every 1km to every truck driver (1sheep/km/driver).
In the of the day he m...
@boboquack It looks like a cell drawing, complete with nucleus. hehe
@boboquack I do agree the \safe sandboxing in the sandbox should be there. Would you mind editing that into the top post as a ready-to-copy-pasta snippet with an explanation of why (and how) to use it?
I want to share one more chapter of the puzzle crime story I make for my website. All of the information for solving this puzzle is contained in the text and the image below. As usual, any feedback will be highly appreciated. Thanks!
In the moment Sanders entered the hut, the electricity insi...
Dear @EveryoneInTSL - A house facing North and South, but not East and West is attracting a lot of generally unique answers, many of which are not particularly great but none of which one could point to and say is plainly blatantly wrong. I suspect this is mainly because the puzzle is underspecified, so we're not really sure what its asker means by "facing". Does anyone feel this is close-worthy until the ambiguity is addressed?
(It's on HNQ, and isn't exactly putting Puzzling's best foot forward)
I'm voting to close this as off topic, with our custom 'not fully defined' off topic reason, until this is edited to be less broad and to have a confirmable answer. — Mithrandir4 mins ago
Custom close reasons are a great boon to Stack Exchange sites, allowing the community to provide more tailored advice to site-specific situations. Their big problem (aside from being limited to three by default) is that they are all lumped under "off-topic". This is often confusing.
I suggest th...
@Sid Yes, I agree, the apples are not exactly equivalent to the bananas. But the sheep are almost exactly equivalent to the apples, because there are multiple trucks. Not quite exactly equivalent, but awfully similar.
@Rubio well if you have to lose 65 out of 90 sheep just to get to a market I think you're going to find maki profits is a pretty difficult thing to do... :P
Trying something new here.
The following is the first of a set of hidden messages from a story.
Find the hidden sentence in this set of images. The order if from left to right and then to the second row.
For full size image, right-click the image → open in new tab.
For a little hint, check ...
@Sid It can really stuff things up - for instance if you redefined \array, no-one else can use array from wherever your post is on the page to wherever someone else redefines \array to its original definition (I'm not even sure what that is).