ms.doha gave hats with different non-zero single digits(two of which are factors of the third)to ms.haha, ms.lola and mr.hehe. the three of them cant see the digits on their on hat though they know of the rule that two are factors of the third. the following conversation ensues.
ms.haha: I don't...
In an interview the interviewer asked me a question based on date.
Suppose in a office, at the manager's desk there are 2 wooden cubes to show the date of month, every day the manager sets the cubes to show the current date of month.
What will be the number at the surface of cube?
Suppose 70% of people in a country of 100 crore population loses their jobs. What will you do to provide a steady income($10/day as per current value)those people who lost their jobs?
This is a follow on from my previous word puzzle:
Highest scoring words based on distance travelled along the alphabet
The twist in this puzzle which opens it up a lot more is that the alphabet can be traversed in a circle.
More formally: We define the circular alphabetic distance of a word to...
An extremist religious organization called "The Redeemed Against Scientific Usurpation of God's Authority", or RASUGA, have converted the world's leading time travel researcher to their beliefs. Using his credentials, he assisted RASUGA in stealing his time machine from his lab at the CERN facili...
@ThomasMarkov I wouldn’te add hints until at least 24 hours have gone by with no forward progress, and I personally tend to wait 48+ in general. If there’s some piece or step you expected to be pretty quickly gotten and it wasn’t, that might be worth dropping a hint earlier on to get eyes on it again.
So I think I’m going to pull my CCCC from the OK room here as I think that room’s cryptics are intended to be easier than that one is, and it hasn’t seen any progress in a good while. Anyone think that’s cool? ...not cool?
@Hosch520 welcome here! The CCCC pinned has already been solved. Check the conversation above to find the answer, CHAFFINCH. The next CCCC is being constructed.
@Avi Look in a few different dictionaries and thesauruses (thesauri?) for inspiration. You could also try a site like this, to find existing clues for a given word.
This puzzle is part of the ‘Twelve Labours’ series, but can be solved independently. Previous instalments can be found here: Prologue | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11
It was coming up to five-twenty-five and Hercules had finally reached the last item on his laborious lis...
Beastly brawl begets batch of black and blatantly blue butchers. Crack the coming crossword to create curious clues, then tally total troublemakers that tussled:
Clues:
Across:
1. Vote to mention cutoff by heartless ultimatum (10)
6. Warden tried to conceal burning (6)
8. Marry at last afte...
Beastly brawl begets batch of black and blatantly blue butchers. Crack the coming crossword to create curious clues, then tally total troublemakers that tussled:
Clues:
Across:
1. Vote to mention cutoff by heartless ultimatum (10)
6. Warden tried to conceal burning (6)
8. Marry at last afte...
This quiz is about the 8-puzzle. It is a board with 9 fields. There are 8 tiles with numbers from one to eight. One field is empty (0). You can slide numbers around the board: But only numbers next to the empty field can be slid into the empty field:
The puzzle is:
0 ...