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You have just woken up. You recall the night before, being driven from your home to a luxurious hotel by some people of a company or organization or something-The Ofgelenkt Institute something or other. They requested you to be part of their testing program-with a reward of up to 500,000 dollars!...
Five - Flowers with One Missing
This puzzle is part of the "Piece de Resistance" series. Go back to Part 1 (Ace) for the story.Ace Two Three Four Five ...
Removing the silver matter, you see this handwritten text:
To the West is of conquer, of victory,
To the North is for leather laundry....
The sound of thunder's like a whip,
one takes a stab and makes a quip;
uncaps a bottle, lights a pipe,
accessing files of private type;
a mental crisis, break of dawn,
can experts solve what's going on?
A queen on the center of the board has 27 possible moves. Sometimes a queen can be trapped, like in the position below.
Note: This is just an example of a what a trap should be like-every possible square is covered. This is not meant to conform to all of my rules.
If a queen is on a central s...
Once, while I was traveling on a vehicle in the Caribbean, I watched a pattern form over the course of about 30 minutes. The rendering below is an approximation of that pattern from memory. The gray color is true, and represents an entire surface that’s visible from the interior of the vehicle. ...
