The Moon System of Embossed Reading (commonly known as the Moon writing, Moon alphabet, Moon script, Moon type, or Moon code) is a writing system for the blind, using embossed symbols mostly derived from the Latin script (but simplified). It is claimed by its supporters to be easier to understand than Braille, though it is mainly used by people who have lost their sight as adults, and thus already have knowledge of the shapes of letters.
== History ==
Moon type was developed by Dr. William Moon (1818—1894), a blind Englishman living in Brighton, East Sussex. After a bout of scarlet fever, Moon...
that's what they are in current order, at least
reorder in a chain based on anime and presumably we'll get the solution
Knowing it was a thing is step one. Noticing that all the characters obliquely described look like Moon Type letters is step two, and that's the bit I find super-impressive.
(Though I didn't know about Moon Type either.)
It requires not merely knowing Moon Type is a thing, but having it sufficiently available to memory that seeing a bunch of symbols that look a bit like Moon Type triggers the thought.
Now that we are here,
there's no going back,
just get another,
there's more in a pack,
Link me together,
to make me longer,
or double me up,
to make me stronger,
I wonder how many
there are of me,
I'll probably end up
in the sea,
Can you name me?
I came across a question today that was closed as a duplicate. One of the closers also answered the question (with 5 upvotes). Is the answer then considered low quality, and should be deleted? Or should it be ignored completely? It seems contradictory to me to close something as a duplicate (it h...
I'm one of a group of people building a big puzzle hunt. I have what I think is a pretty good idea for a puzzle, but I'm having trouble constructing it. Basically, what I need to do is make a sudoku but it needs to fit the following criteria:
1) It needs to be challenging, but not fiendishly ...
Imagine you have 2 types of chocolates (A and B). You randomly pick up two chocolates at once from your bag in a specific pattern. If the same type of chocolates come out, you give them both to your sister. If you pick up different type of chocolates, you put 'B' type back in your bag and give...
As the title says, you have a 10 boxes, a real number is in each, and they're ordered such that box 1 contains the lowest value, box 2 the second lowest, box 3 third lowest and so on, until box 10, which contains the highest value.
You want to be sure to pick the 5 boxes with the greatest total...
There are six suspects "Siva", "Durga", "Ekagra", "Naman", "Aniket" and "Manish".
Amartya has written the murderer name in secretly in his diary in a mysterious way as "DVVPQ".
Police were unable to solve the mystery so they called Dipjyoti.
After a minute, Dipjyoti was able to decipher the ciphe...
I can't find anyone of comparable eminence to extend the chain further at either end. Deaths on the same date as Feynman was born include Becquerel and Schwarzschild, fine physicists both but not in the Galileo/Einstein class and I think not even quite in the Feynman/Hawking class.
(actually I think Einstein > Feynman > Hawking; Galileo's early enough in the history of the field that it's hard to tell whether to put him above Einstein or below.)
Feynman -> Galileo -> Hawking -> Einstein. Hmm, it's a pity the order doesn't go E,F,G,H, isn't it?
(> means "greater scientist", -> means order of reincarnation)
Fans of coincidences may enjoy unsongbook.com. (This produces widely varied reactions; try a few chapters and give up if you just find it annoying rather than hilarious and intriguing.)
I can only enjoy this kind of thing if it's both me and the author together as spectators, and not just me gawking at a deranged person. For example, I was very uncomfortable reading the time cube site.
(in response to a challenge, he did the best job he could of "steelmanning" (opposite of "strawmanning"; constructing the least-crazy possible version of a theory) the Time Cube guy)
If a strawberry cake inequally cut facilitates a duck with a bow-tie
If a polyhedron is part of a ringed planet
If some spaceships contain an Escher figure
And if a blue juicer relies heavily on six pointless dice
What is an evading slinky relative to all of these things?
Wow. I said I might undertake to create fresh and witty Puzzling questions because brilliant men on the internet have solved my latest ones way too speedily for my foolish conceited pride - so everyone consider this a fledgling attempt I expect qualifies for favorable attention and greater vot...
You try fitting 50 words to that pattern and still have something that roughly incorporates a sensible thought without using any punctuation beyond a single period and one dash :)
"Now I, even I, would celebrate / In rhymes unapt the great / Immortal Syracusan rivaled nevermore / Who in his wondrous lore / Passed on before / Gave men his guidance / How to circles mensurate" is for me the gold standard in this sort of thing, though it falls over a bit at the very end word-order-wise.
I originally planned to stop at the first zero, but my text to that point made syntactic sense but hadn't actually said anything yet, so I had to press on
Also, "Today starts my new puzzle series" is, well, more or less literally true. :)
On a recent job application, I was asked to make a list of notes that I thought were pertinent to my being considered for the job. They asked me for "No more than 1101" numbered statements, and I think they said that each statement should contain two items, but I ignored that.
These are what I...
You are an investigator. You are to investigate The Joker to know on which day he usually going on a date with Harley Quinn. Inspector said that The Joker is always lying if and only if it's Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday. Inspector is saying the truth.
You: Well... I heard that you alw...
@Rubio - when you mentioned "If you're one of those PSEers who gets this instantly, consider leaving it for less experienced puzzlers to solve." was there some rep level above which you didn't want people to give it a shot? I consider myself less experienced, as I've been on PSE only 3 months, and struggle in puzzles that don't give an "aha" moment quite quickly. OTOH, I do have 4k rep, which can be viewed as high. Thoughts?
(Gamow is also very high-rep but largely absent these days; likewise f''; Beastly Gerbil is right up there too. But MOehm is the most unforgivable omission :-).)
Not necessarily. Though it depends how you want to look at it. For instance, someone might view it as imposition of someone's views or something like that.
If it were "Jon Skeet is going to force people to be feminists", that would be a problem for sure. But so far as I know the only power Jon Skeet holds is the power of writing lots of really good answers on Stack Overflow.
To celebrate the Pi-Day (3/14) adequately, a challenging math puzzle must not be missing.
Rules:
Fill in the numbers 1-9 exactly once in every row, column, and region.
On top of that, you need to use $\pi$ exactly three times in every row, column and region to fill in the remaining gaps.
...
You wake up in a daze in the middle of the night. You're in your bed, but something's... different.
Your cat, Mr. Snuffles, is gone.
Jumping out of bed, you see a trail of ginger cat hair leading out of your room. You follow it into the kitchen, and up onto the counter, where to your horror it...
"While abuse by women aimed at adult men exists, it's exceedingly rare" -> factually false
"Abuse by women aimed at children is much more common, but the roots of that abuse are also in patriarchy" -> so when a woman abuses a child, it's all the men's fault. Great logic there
I didn't need to be triggered this early in the day. :/
There is more to this text than can be immediately seen. Find the answer\hidden a layer inside/
Give an answer as the text inside of the answer\in here - 4 words/ that you find.
The former user Lukas Rotter has had1 an intriguing profile picture:
This looks like it's some kind of encrypted message! And just to confirm my suspicions, on his profile he says:
By the way, my profile picture is also a little puzzle. You'll get +0 reputation if you solve it!
Now I'm a...
Another Pi day themed puzzle like my other one.
I contain 5 letters,
I only have 1 syllable,
I can be referred to as money,
Or I can be the foundation of something wonderful (and quite popular too),
I can be followed by a word similar to “crazy” to be something sweet,
...
You have 3 numbers, each are randomly selected from 1-100.
I have 2 numbers, each randomly selected from 1-100.
What are the odds (percent chance?) that 2 out of 3 of your numbers match my 2 numbers, in any order?