Here's a special and interesting chess problem that I came across the other day.
It's White to move and checkmate Black in 7 moves.
Source: Милошески, Бошко
Mihajloski, Zlatko, Novi temi 1975 Comm.
As usual, no using a computer and no Googling or anything like that for the solution. You mus...
I make bullions balloons billions (#5)
These statues are wonderful! I'm investing in the sculptor.
Move faster! I need to finish the 18th hole before noon.
I'm moving as fast as I can! I need to work smarter, not harder.
I'm not joking! You'd better not get in my way.
...
This is a three-dimensional nonogram. The first six squares depict the layers of a $6\times6\times6$ cube. The final square gives the enumerations for the Z-axis, top to bottom. Some rules:
The grid has five different colours: Red, blue, green, orange and purple. The black numbers can refer to ...
Well. I thought I was on to something with somehow ruining DALMATIAN to DAMNATI[la] and then setting a bit ON for DAMNATION which would make my blood pressure rise lol
But I can’t see any sane construction for that. If Dalmatian had been misspelled with -ion it might have worked.
There is no name for me in ancient texts, but my name now is a combination of my two parts. Avid readers may know me from a certain young adults novel as well.
I'm not super confident abuot the bit-setting, especially because it probably doesn't really work surface-wise, but I tried to make a follow-up of Rubio's pet-with-ruined-tail c4 and all other substitutions I could think of were much clumsier. (And the clue was already clumsy enough.)
@jafe I first wanted to make that just "digital", but the fact that "digitalis" is also a word came in handy.
It’s obvious. A running group is clearly a group of LAPS and “end” is doing triple duty, signaling we’re putting an end of E[-nd] at the end of laps for LAPSE, a period of time. I can’t believe nobody else got this. *cough*
Here is the heptagram:
Rules are the same as for the octagram. However, the heptagram has the very nice property that all words are unique. I.e., as you go around, you will not encounter any duplicate words, neither at the vertexes nor along the arrows.
Note to @Randal'Thor and @Sconi...
My daughter's birthday is coming up. Here's a fun party game we can play to celebrate. (Bring your wallet!)
I have a pair of 6-sided dice, and a standard deck of 52 cards.
You place your stake (say €1) on the table and get to pick either my age, or my daughter's age. Both of these nu...
We have a graph-theory tag which covers puzzles involving graphs, for example:
Step into the Octagram
but calling it 'graph-theory' is a bit prententious for a site called 'Puzzling'.
May I suggest a new tag called simply 'Graphs', or just a name change of the existing tag.
Alice and Bob are playing a card game with the following rules:
Alice selects two piles of 3 cards from a standard 52-card deck and places the piles in front of her, face up. Bob can see these cards.
Bob takes the deck and selects a 5-card poker hand without showing his cards to Alice. B...
Of all the more than a Trillion messages he can deliver, he has especially selected this message for all.
Follow his(normal chess moves for the Knight) path to get the message.
His journey starts with D4 cell and ends in B5 cell. Of course, he can continue his message for more newcomers by hop...
Here's a special and interesting chess problem that I came across the other day.
It's White to move and checkmate Black in 7 moves.
Source: Милошески, Бошко
Mihajloski, Zlatko, Novi temi 1975 Comm.
As usual, no using a computer and no Googling or anything like that for the solution. You mus...
I make bullions balloons billions (#5)
These statues are wonderful! I'm investing in the sculptor.
Move faster! I need to finish the 18th hole before noon.
I'm moving as fast as I can! I need to work smarter, not harder.
I'm not joking! You'd better not get in my way.
...
$DEPUS$
$SRST$
$UDQD$
$CTQU$
$DTPR$
$PQR$
$SDE$
$VRR$
$CVV$
$DUU$
$QP$
$TT$
There is no name for me in ancient texts, but my name now is a combination of my two parts. Avid readers may know me from a certain young adults novel as well.
Here is the heptagram:
Rules are the same as for the octagram. However, the heptagram has the very nice property that all words are unique. I.e., as you go around, you will not encounter any duplicate words, neither at the vertexes nor along the arrows.
Note to @Randal'Thor and @Sconi...
We have a graph-theory tag which covers puzzles involving graphs, for example:
Step into the Octagram
but calling it 'graph-theory' is a bit prententious for a site called 'Puzzling'.
May I suggest a new tag called simply 'Graphs', or just a name change of the existing tag.
