Warning: this question requires knowledge of complex numbers.
An Euler's identity is an identity, in which each of the following appears once and only once:
the constant $0$: neutral element for addition;
the constant $1$: neutral element for multiplication;
the constant $e$: base of natural...
7 submarines are placed on an x, y grid - 0 to 111. They are located on whole numbered locations. Each submarine starts from any selected location with a given fixed speed and fixed direction, reaching another point on the grid every second. The submarines continue simultaneously in the given di...
@GentlePurpleRain Implausibly plausible: DEMESNES is DEE, ESS, and the last half of hyMN all woven together into deMesNes = lands = “parts” as in “parts unknown”.
@GentlePurpleRain This is a partial guess, but I suspect it might be DESCANTS - def "hymn's parts," D + ES (sounds like the letter "S") + CANTS, but can't seem to figure out how to get CANTS from "woven into last half"
@Deusovi You'd be very surprised if Rubio didn't have what where? The thing and location being discussed immediately above were a blue Send button on this page.
@Deusovi @Rubio but in a sense (woven) is here an anagram indicator, and this would render the whole clue an indirect anagram or are we allowed to intertwine words as such?
Let's say I want to spread a puzzle into several small parts and want to limit the puzzle to just interactions inside puzzling.SE. For example, players have to use SE's search bar with clues in the main puzzle to search for the spread out posts.
Can I make some posts that only hold small pieces ...
FWIW I saw "demesnes" about three minutes after the clue was posted but couldn't find any way to make "parts" be a definition of "demesnes". So I hope it's wrong :-).
(though I didn't see how to make it an actual regular intertwining as opposed to an anagram -- it didn't occur to me to put the M and N in the middle rather than at the ends.)
Incidentally, definitely MN and ESS not MNS and ES. I don't think you can use MNS as "half of hymns".
I have two dates:
Mon 04 Jan 2010 03:03:07 PM EST Monday, November 3, 2014 10:01:33 AM
Somewhere in this dates are hidden flag in format KBI{flag_here}.
Do you have any idea or hint what can I do?
@Rubio This is correct. DEE and ESS and MN woven together. I realize that "parts" is not the best definition for DEMESNES, but I think it works with a little imagination. (It's in the Thesaurus)
You should be able to tell what I'm saying by looking at what I'm doing with my hands and combining the expressions on my face. Just be careful to mind your p's and q's (and your i's and j's).
0440061002000400 1810120509300520!
000010101410133502100645 08000820 1130060502300555 0120054005500720...
"You know, these little devils?", says Grandpa
"Billions of them. Everywhere. Here, ouside! Very useful"
"but their names get bad wrap, you know", he sighed.
"They are mostly pluses and minuses. Well some are stars, squares and
polygons too. And,son, they always need help to enter...
@Avi A synonym is generally fine as a definition in a cryptic clue (unless I'm missing something), but "part" and "demesne" just aren't synonyms so far as I can see. I mean, a demesne can be a part of something, but anything can be a part of something.
anyway, no matter; I'm sure I've perpetrated worse myself.
I still don't get it, I'm afraid. "These parts" just means "here". A demesne can happen to be here, just as a city or a field can, but PARTS can't define CITIES or FIELDS.
Nope, still (sorry!) completely confused. Doesn't "parts unknown" just mean "unknown places"? Again, a demesne is in a particular place, just as a city or a field is, but "demesnes" is no more a synonym/definiendum for "parts" or "places" than "cities" or "fields".
Again, of course this isn't a big deal and I'm sorry to go on about it. But as long as I keep seeing justifications that don't make any sense to me I'll explain why they don't make any sense to me :-).
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Our gentleman is obviously named Vance, as in Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration. Someone with an illness is often said to suffer from their ailment, so someone suffering may have a disease; here, our disease is ADD. The part about first troll letter is clearly Avi just trolling us, so we ignore it. So now, if we put our gentleman in "suffering", we have AD(VANCE)D, or pronounced (def.). Easy! #BadC4Solutions
this was meant to come with an image of po from kung fu panda holding a sword but i can't figure out how to attach it on mobile so you'll have to use your imagination
Here's 3 number puzzles/series. I'll give hints tomorrow if noone is able to solve them
11, 31, 71, 91, 32, ?
1, 1, 2, 6, 36, 44, ?
IF, 132 = 72
208= 200
390=288
then what does,
8932= ?
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@Avi some more indicators: "Obstructs" can mean "contains", in the sense that it bars the word from getting out. "Ending" can mean "last letter". "Supporter of" can mean "appearing beneath in a Down clue". "Gathering" can mean "anagramming". "Resources" can mean "letters". I may've missed some.
Is it valid to create new tag - "ascii-art"? Thinking about using it for puzzles where visually reasoning about the placement of ASCII characters is required to deduce a solution
In that, I'm creating the tag because I have such a puzzle, and I hope somebody can put that as the intent on the tag-wiki
My first twice flies you
My second twice puzzles you
My third twice measures you
My fourth twice tests you
ASCII from my first,
Shaped like my first,
Anchored on my first,
Misses 1 of my first
Catching a loss,
I become my head;
Taking two more,
A triangle instead
When filled as so,
My th...
@Rubio that's probably right, and a valid complaint - I've seen it before, but I probably wouldn't use it myself (if not for the fact that I had a fixed phrase I was working with)
I have two dates:
Mon 04 Jan 2010 03:03:07 PM EST Monday, November 3, 2014 10:01:33 AM
Somewhere in this dates are hidden flag in format KBI{flag_here}.
Do you have any idea or hint what can I do?
"You know, these little devils?", says Grandpa
"Billions of them. Everywhere. Here, ouside! Very useful"
"but their names get bad wrap, you know", he sighed.
"They are mostly pluses and minuses. Well some are stars, squares and
polygons too. And,son, they always need help to enter...
Here's 3 number puzzles/series. I'll give hints tomorrow if noone is able to solve them
11, 31, 71, 91, 32, ?
1, 1, 2, 6, 36, 44, ?
IF, 132 = 72
208= 200
390=288
then what does,
8932= ?
My first twice flies you
My second twice puzzles you
My third twice measures you
My fourth twice tests you
ASCII from my first,
Shaped like my first,
Anchored on my first,
Misses 1 of my first
Catching a loss,
I become my head;
Taking two more,
A triangle instead
When filled as so,
My th...
