A mother (not yet a centenarian) and her daughter (who happens to share her mother's birthday) are both a prime number of years old. Moreover, in their lifetimes they have both been a prime number of years old at least a dozen other times. How old are they?
In retrospect the programming version of the CCCC definitely would've been way more fair than the dick joke version. (Yes, that's a hint. Probably not a helpful one.)
It was half-baked and the definition stood out too much. I didn't like it.
A group of at least 5 jealous professors are locked in a room. There is nothing else in the room but pencils and one tiny scrap of paper per person. The professors want to determine their average (mean, not median) salary so that each one can gloat or griece over their personal situation compa...
" no professor can discover any fact about the salary of anyone but herself?"... erm, seeing as the end goal is figuring out the sum of all salaries, good luck with that
@boboquack not anything automated, I watch questions I think are answered and if no Accept pops up in a few days I send a reminder. Unless it's @Randal'Thor's question as those can go unAccepted for months on end - I have given up tracking those.
tangentially related to this clue, I noticed that there is an item of clerical clothing called a CASSOCK. I do not want to elaborate further on what I thought when I saw that.
I told you not to do something and told you exactly why you should not do it. There is literally no benefit to doing it. And you think "hm, I'll go ahead and do it! no way it can be a bad idea!". :P
Interesting background on Bethesda's later games, which apparently were largely based on a world modeling technique they made for their DOS PC game Terminator: Future Shock back in 1995 - notably, their Elder Scrolls and Fallout games
And this is the second time it has happened. The first time, the door was open because I was just leaving for class when some guy came in and forcibly gave me his number saying he could teach me PHP...
@Wen1now I was about to. But, he probably sensed it and left as abruptly as he came, leaving his card and something else on the table..
funniest part is later we actually became friends and I reminded him of that, after which he laughed at himself realizing how useless it was to even try
@boboquack not at all. Yet he kept saying stuff like "Huh, so all you want to do is be a nobody who gets a diploma and leaves? Aren't you interested in GROWING as a PERSON? Don't you want to do EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES?"
I'm going to post an incomplete dot-to-dot drawing next as a "What is it??" riddle
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I'm actually sincerely hoping you're wrong. For "having soldiers and different animal species" - as chess really only has horses, and they're not even called that
Each cell of $\;8\times8\;$ table is colored either black or white such that every column has equal number of black cells and no two rows have equal number of black cells.
Find the maximum possible number of pairs of adjacent cells that have distinct colors.
The cells are adjacent if they sha...
Here are two linked puzzles !
First one is a riddle:
I am played in black and white
though probably not a game of might
Half of the field gets loaded at start
with equal forces on either part
It represents a war with pieces
having soldiers and different animal species
Who am I ?
Second one...
@Rubio unAccepted? Well, it's not good to raise novices to Accepted too quickly: next thing you know, they want to be Amyrlin Seat before they're even Aes Sedai.
FWIW I still don't think I understand (or, more accurately, I don't agree with) cock -> list. Surely cock (v.) is transitive -- you cock your hat or whatever -- and list (v.) is intransitive -- a ship lists?
The start or end of China Sea
With time can show a place to be
To sunrise: hunger satisfied.
Join Olaf II, a man who died
Place first again and wings are mine!
Now hush, and I'll enjoy my wine.
Please explain these curious couplets.
"It's such a shame when friends fall out." Daphne sighed and folded the newspaper neatly into quarters. "Darling, why are you yelping?"
"Your chihuahua keeps nibbling my toes!" Nora waved a hand ineffectually as a black-and-tan shape darted out of the shadows towards her feet. "Ouch!"
"She prob...
Son asked such a task. Continue the number sequence
5, 7, 8, 12, 11....
The son is in the second grade. They studied the operations of addition, subtraction and multiplication
@Rubio It's usual to separate words' letter-counts with commas in a cryptic clue enumeration. Would you like to comment on whether there's a particular reason why you've used a space instead?
My followup comment was going to be something about "yeah, cuz that's the only thing wrong with that sentence" - given that commatose isn't a word. But ffao's intervening commentary threw me off. :)
I've now typed "comm" way too much. It's feeling like a Contact game.
hmm, so it is. Perhaps the clue is missing a word.
@Rubio If stacksfiller's solution is correct, would you care to comment on (1) work->REAP and/or (2) the curious incident of the thing-inside-other-thing indicator?
The answer to 1 2 3 _ 5 is: "It's a trick question! Obviously the correct answer is to leave the blank empty. This is simply a partial Fibonacci sequence."
Confession: When Mike posted 1 2 3 _ 5 earlier I didn't read it, just glanced at it, and assumed that his choice of a too-easy sequence puzzle was the Fibonacci numbers with one missing :-).
Open challenge: Make a puzzle that consists of parts, where each part appears to be a very crappy puzzle, but somehow the different parts interact to form an actually cool puzzle.
A peasant had a square garden of $100 × 100$ meters divided into $100$ equal square plots. In the testament, he left to each of his $7$ male grandchildren $10$ contiguous plots, forming each of the $7$ batches the same figure. He also left to each of his $3$ female grandchildren $10$ parcels adj...
@boboquack I vaguely think Dharmendra has something to do with Dharma, which is a religious/ethical term (meaning law or something of the kind?) and I even more vaguely think Singh means lion. Clearly it's also a name and that's probably all it is there.