The day before yesterday, I was 20 years old, and next year I will turn 23. What day is it today?
Note: This is not lateral thinking, and the solution is real and makes sense.
@GarethMcCaughan Wasn't planning on giving any hints - I didn't think what I said crossed any boundaries, though. Sorry if it did and I didn't realize!
Hm, I wish there was a "solo team" marker. The names above me at the moment don't appear to be people's names, but someone could have given themselves a team name, so I can't be sure.
btw I tried to see where do the links from the last of those accounts takes me...looks like they want to steal my e-mail address, password and credit card details lol
Thanks @Rubio, @Ankoganit and @Sid for the congrats -- but my contribution to the team's victory was very small. I did come up with the team name, though.
oh I'm totally sure about that, they just want my credit card so that they can verify I can legally watch the live stream, nothing suspicious at all :P they even say it explicitly: Your credit card will NOT BE CHARGED for validating your account.
Based on the relationship between the shapes in the top row, fill the question mark with a shape from the right.
Source: Iranian Ph.D. university enterance exam 2016
Playing an online game I came across a small puzzle (a mini-game in game). The game is about getting draughts (not sure if that's correct English word for it - a player needs to get all in a row / column or a 5-square-diagonal). Let me show you a screenshot:
So, there's a Square 5x5 on which u ...
I took a long time to get to "maid", but I did it just before Gareth posted his answer. I spent a while trying "a servant turned" as the def., and looking at "TR + IN + IX" + some letters of "diamonds"
But obviously there's no way to make that work, and there's no anagrind
My first draft had "domestic servant", but that's needlessly specific and it sounds like a defitition straight out of the dictionary. It also makes the clue wordier.
I tried my best, but wasn't fully satisfied -- boasting isn't usually a thing it makes sense to refuse to do, because people don't generally ask you to do it.