Yeah, I was under the impression that Perth was the winner when considering a "city" to be places with population greater than a million, but googling shows that isn't the case either (Auckland - Sydney apparently beats it by about 25kms).
I'm sure you can easily come up with some definition that makes Perth the leader. I'm guessing it's the most isolated city when defining city as "population greater than a million" and isolation as "distance to a population greater than 100k".
(either way, absolutely a clever clue - and certainly fair enough for this context)
Thanks. I tried to give enough info in the clue to make it easier than usual, considering the unusual wordplay — so "city" alone wouldn't cut it, for example. But "Australian city", besides making it too easy, would also make for a very strange surface. So I went with "isolated city", which Perth is known for being.
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I've got three answers on there already. At this point I'd like to consult some group think, tho Archipelago has not yet responded to my latest attempt.
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Problem with the question rep being raised to 10 is that it makes it harder to hit exact milestones. I'm on 90,005, and not feeling inclined to go hunting for 5 answers to downvote.
There's certainly a plausible family of guesses about the mechanics. Unfortunately it seems like there are several details that could go multiple ways, and possibly hundreds of slightly different things we need to do to get the answer...
(Integration could be enciphering or deciphering. A1Z26 or A0Z25 or something else. TLSBF meaning reverse letters, reverse words, move one letter from end to start -- and apply as either part of enciphering or part of deciphering. Polynomial coefficients lowest to highest or highest to lowest. Apply process to message as a whole, to each line, or to each word. If either of the first two, ignore spaces or treat as zeros. If the latter, presumably work mod 27 not mod 26.)
Or of course I could have completely the wrong end of the stick.
I think that makes 240 variants to try.
(Ignoring the possibility that actually what we need to do is something entirely different.)
It looks as if parity/"trinity" considerations make it possible to rule out some possibilities.
Specifically, ones that require "integration" as part of the deciphering process seem impossible because there will be (mod 26) places where we need to divide an odd number by an even or (mod 27) places where we need to divide a non-multiple-of-3 by a multiple of 3, no matter what decisions we make about all the other things. I think.
(Integration also has the problem that about half the time its result is not unique, at least in the mod 26 case: e.g., 2/2 could be either 1 or 14. But differentiation has a different problem: it implies that enciphering is integration, which means that many many messages are not encipherable, which seems like a fatal problem for a cipher. So maybe indeed I have completely the wrong end of the stick.)
Of course there's a different way to apply the ideas of integration/differentiation to sequences of numbers, namely taking cumulative sums / differences. But hint 2 seems to point pretty decisively to the other way of thinking about it.
All handmade!
Answer is a thematic word.
Take away my first letter, then take away my second letter. Then take away the rest of my letters, yet I remain the same. What am I?
A wonderful new chess problem has appeared lately that is most wonderful. I am here to share it with the world today. But you must solve it in order know about it’s glory!
It’s White to move and mate in four.
Peter Hoffmann, berlinthema.com, 12/8/19
May you solve it first and appreciate it’...
Coldport is celebrating having a new town hall by laying a tiled design in the public square in front of the building. The design is also square: $5\times 5$ tiles square, in fact, and features three interlocking paths in three colours. The coloured squares around the edges of the grid indicate...
This puzzle is the FINAL part of the ‘Twelve Labours’ series, and contains spoilers for previous instalments, which can be found here: Prologue | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12
With all twelve labours finally completed, Hercules slunk back home, exhausted. His mothe...
Here is what happened:
He sailed along 25 reefs, passing 1 chameleon, in order to see her sweet bosoms.
What's her name?
Hint:
I know, this is going to look, and sound very confusing, but I'm participating in an ARG.
The ARG, includes very difficult puzzles, and riddles that I cannot solve.
I need your help, I will provide as much details of the arg as possible.
Heres a picture of a puzzle that includes a code within ...
