I had the worse day today. My car broke down, I was late to work, I forgot my lunch and to top it all off, my chef is on holidays. Due to being an emotional eater, it is in times like this when I miss his cooking the most.
To make me feel better, I made up my mind that I was going to cook one ...
Marty wants to play a word game with friends. He writes down a few words and tells them how much they are worth points.
MATH - 1 point
TREE - 1 point
HAND - 2 points
BOMB - 5 points
WING - 0 points
FINS - 0 points
He gives them this clue, "Count the fields, get the points."
How many points...
Across
1. Where people are shown in delight (8)
5. Stray people of Indo-Aryan heritage putting one foot in front of the other (4)
8. Loop back of static web address (4)
9. Wings of sparrow grant license to being a bird (7)
10. Falsely lead to agreement (4)
11. Elderly gang le...
In the magnificent country of Appelhaken there is a zoo. Not just any zoo, but a grand zoo, a magnificent zoo, called Appelhaken Grand Magnificent Magnificent Grand Grand Zoo.
In this zoo there are three food stalls and two exhibits. The Law of Appelhaken specifies that there must be a clearly m...
I thought I might try writing a riddle. Maybe this is too simple for some of the adept riddle solvers, but oh well. Here it is:
While I have six eyes, I don't need an optician.
There's just one factor to my primary condition.
Emerge from the inn, then head off to the right.
End with tea, where...
For any word we define it's alphabetic distance to be the total amount of places in the alphabet you need to traverse between each letter.
Example: WORD has a score of 25
8 character distance between W and O
3 character distance between O and R
14 character distance between R and D
which tot...
@Avi well, "T-shirt" is a synonym for "Tee-shirt", so that case is fine. but I'd say something like "type of worm" -> "inch" -> IN is probably too indirect for my tastes, at least
@Avi Took a look at this (though, as I said, I'm not a fan of riddles, so my feedback might not be too helpful in that part). Haven't figured out what you're going for with the cryptic.
Poor @MOehm, a 100% answerer, has been relegated to 9th place by rep, behind people with many good puzzles.
On another topic:
Awww. This got closed as duplicate? After all the trouble I went to making a comprehensible solution to a comprehensible problem, without involving advanced mathematical theory :-( — Rand al'Thor7 hours ago
Do we think this should really be a duplicate?
Even though it is technically the same question, you need a lot of mathematical training even to see that.
For me the problem is not so much "non-obvious" as "completely incomprehensible to non-mathematicians" (that goes for both the duplication and the original Q&A).
I mean, your original answer requires implicitly the assumption that the square you've drawn has opposite edges identified and the knowledge that a square with opposite edges identified equates to a torus/mug.
Probably most of the maths PhDs I know wouldn't get it.
So, the question is whether the same puzzle with two different phrasings is a duplicate. I think it is - fairly minor modifications turn an answer to one into an answer to the other.
(I also think you could copy your answer to that other question (making changes to phrasing as appropriate), because it's likely much more accessible - I would happily upvote it.)
@Deusovi Well, that's reducing the question to an obvious one by ignoring all the points I made about this specific case :-)
I don't think I could even copy my answer over without essentially copy-pasting the entire new question and explaining how that is equivalent to the old one, in the answer.
As an answer to the mathematical torus question, yours is much better. Mine, put there, would involve a long explanation of what this bridge thing is all about and why it's equivalent to joining points on a torus, which seems silly next to your simple elegant answer.
Well, I am talking about this specific case. The fact that it may be difficult to realize that two phrasings are the same doesn't change that they are. So I'm leaning in favor of the duplicate closure being warranted. (Besides, issues of redirection aren't really as relevant here -- it's unlikely other people will search for the particular question that you answered, only to be redirected to the one that they can't understand. It seems to be a phrasing created by the OP.)
As it has been 2 weeks and no progress has been posted for 1 week, I am posting the intended solution.
Firstly, it was required to parse the beginning:
My head hurts... I feel like I'm missing something.
"Avoid notes" starts with the left heading, reportedly. Ends firsts, like extremely terri...
There are two persons who make a bet on who will die first.
One of them is a character named "Undefeatable" Man. The other is a mortal human. He must die eventually.
"Undefeatable" man can't lose and can't die. In this case, the mortal human wins.
Question
Is there a name for this type of para...
I think I agree with the closing-as-duplicate. (And for what it's worth it was instantly obvious to me that the question was equivalent to "draw K_7 on a torus"; but of course what's obvious to one person may be very very non-obvious to another.)
Marty wants to play a word game with friends. He writes down a few words and tells them how much they are worth points.
MATH - 1 point
TREE - 1 point
HAND - 2 points
BOMB - 5 points
WING - 0 points
FINS - 0 points
He gives them this clue, "Count the fields, get the points."
How many points...
Across
1. Where people are shown in delight (8)
5. Stray people of Indo-Aryan heritage putting one foot in front of the other (4)
8. Loop back of static web address (4)
9. Wings of sparrow grant license to being a bird (7)
10. Falsely lead to agreement (4)
11. Elderly gang le...
Here's some number problems.
8:2::1:1::64:?
A:4::D:49::?:169
439: SQUARE::125:CUBE::216:?
A:8::M:5::J:1::O:10::M:?
I thought I might try writing a riddle. Maybe this is too simple for some of the adept riddle solvers, but oh well. Here it is:
While I have six eyes, I don't need an optician.
There's just one factor to my primary condition.
Emerge from the inn, then head off to the right.
End with tea, where...
For any word we define it's alphabetic distance to be the total amount of places in the alphabet you need to traverse between each letter.
Example: WORD has a score of 25
8 character distance between W and O
3 character distance between O and R
14 character distance between R and D
which tot...
As it has been 2 weeks and no progress has been posted for 1 week, I am posting the intended solution.
Firstly, it was required to parse the beginning:
My head hurts... I feel like I'm missing something.
"Avoid notes" starts with the left heading, reportedly. Ends firsts, like extremely terri...
There are two persons who make a bet on who will die first.
One of them is a character named "Undefeatable" Man. The other is a mortal human. He must die eventually.
"Undefeatable" man can't lose and can't die. In this case, the mortal human wins.
Question
Is there a name for this type of para...
I'm open and not closed
Or closed but not open.
If I'm not open and closed
And neither closed nor open.
