I flew on a lark, sang on a trill, crashed on a wing. What am I?
I've tried to figure out this riddle posed in a comic book. There was no official answer, but it is visually suggested that it is comprised of only 2 letters (The context was a crossword death-trap, and the word in question was mar...
Operation - we can choose $H$ blocks at a time and can fill those blocks with digit 1.
we can do this Operation as many times we want.
if block has already 1 in it and we are going to put 1 again then as a result 0 will get stored in it.
We want to fill as many 1's in first n blocks and as much ...
You are playing a online RPG game with 9 friends of yours (10 people in total) and in the game there is a 2 players dungeon where you level up every time you enter and complete it and only two people get inside at most. At the beginning of the game everybody is level 1 as usual. Before the game r...
This type of puzzle goes by many names: Nonogram, Picross, and Griddlers are all mentioned on the Wikipedia page, Simon Tatham calls it Pattern, I was introduced to it as Descartes Rainbow, ...
The puzzle starts with a given arrangement of numbers around a grid. Let's assume it's a square, $n\ti...
Based on the problem in GeeksForGeeks here. I came across a solution here.
The question is as follows
Given an array arr[] of N integers. Do the following operation n-1 times.
For every Kth operation:
Right rotate the array clockwise by 1.
Delete the (n-k+1)th last element.
Now, find the el...
You are given 10 coins, 7 of which are genuine and weigh the same.
Of the fake coins, 2 are slightly heavier than a genuine coin (they both weigh the same), while the third fake coin is slightly lighter than a genuine coin.
The lighter coin together with one of the heavier coins weighs as much a...
What are the Missing Members in this Prime Series?
what is the Significance of this Sequence?
$19$, $17$, $13$, $?$, $?$, $3$, $2$
I had the strangest dream last night:
I am in field of red stones. I start walking around until a smell of
fresh coffee catches my attention. I follow it until I see a large
cave, and in its entrance there's a snake. The snake speaks to me: "I
will let you enter only if you can tell m...
We have a sequence of numbers say X. The goal is to divide this sequence into 2 parts such that the sum of the Greatest Common Divisor(G.C.D) of both the sub-sequences is maximum.
Note : The G.C.D of a sequence is the G.C.D of every element of the sequence.
E.g. G.C.D of (4,4,8) is 4
This is yet a fairyly ordinary word ladder on the chessboard.
Sequence:
PAWN > KNIGHT > ROOK > QUEEN > KING
Note:
1) only words in Wiktionary with an “English” entry are allowed. No “Old English”, “Middle English”,…
2) For fun and simplicity, QU can be counted as one letter.
Rules:
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I hate heights, not that depths are any better. As soon as I can see how far away the ground is, I'm filled with this uncontrollable fear and urge to get down -any survivable way to get down is better than this.
My captors seem to find my fear interesting, as if they have something to gai...
I'm in the midst of developing a game for several friends as a friendly competition.
It begins with generating the largest distinct semiprime feasible with factors that closely related in length where the 8 highest order bits are all '1's.
In contemplating this I realize that this is, I belie...
