This is part six in my clichéd treasure island puzzle series, but can be solved on its own. The story carries on from part five.
Based on the information from the notebook, you at least know where to start. You head towards the sound of rushing water - briefly wondering what happened to you...
How many homophones can you cram into a single sentence?
Rules:
Sentences must be all in English. (no foreign words, like see & si (si is "yes", in Spanish)
Sentences must be lucid. (They have to actually make sense, not just be random words strung together).
Sentences must follow rules of gra...
You are cooking pancakes for your lovely wife. You want to sort the pancakes such that they increase in diameter as you move from the top to the bottom of the stack. The only operation you can perform on the stack is to insert your spatula into the stack and flip over (that is, reverse the order ...
This continues from Math tapestry puzzle #1. Find the rules there.
Continuing on from that, I saw my friend Jason come outside. We had a conversation about the things that are here. Suddenly he says: "Wait! I have to show you something." He shows me this:
NN 07
44 aa 32 39
...
Try to make all the numbers from 1-30 using 2, 0, 2, 0
Rules:
1. Use only the operations +, -, *, /, !, exponents and square root
2. No rounding eg. 20 / (2+0!) = 6
3. No adding extra numbers eg. 2 + 10 + 2 + 0 = 14
4. Concatenation is allowed only in combining 2 and 0 to become 20
5. Try to...
A different kind of math problem
$\text{If }$$(2+5=8),\ (8-3=1),\ \text{and}\ (4+3 = 9),$
$\text{Then, what is } (8-6+5) ?$
Bonus:
$\text{If }(8 - 2 + 7 + \text{P} = \text{A})$,
$\text{Then what is } (6 - 5 + 4)?$
My little brother likes puzzles a lot, and recently he started making his own.
The first ones were simple, but his newest got me good. He always describes one word with simple but not too revealing hints. One per day.
I can be found outside of cities.
In winter I freeze and become slippery.
Bu...
Below are five sequences of the digits 0-9 but each have been sorted based on a single criterion.
1) $1260459378$
2) $1742350698$
3) $0152469378$
4) $5463728190$
5) $1235904687$
Name the criteria used to sort each sequence.
The question relates to a recent puzzle : One is outstanding, the other doesn't belong: says Grandpa
Take the word PARENT for example.
If you take 2 consecutive letters out the remaining four letters give
you valid words
RENT PENT PANT PART PARE
Note you do not even have to Ana...
Today, my dear fellas, I want you to see,
that there is a whole new riddle by me.
The word I am seeking is not very long,
it's part of a show, where connections are strong.
The prefix is meant to be one single word,
that's made by cute kitten, I guess you have heard.
The infix i...
I ran across a cipher of the form NNN/N NNN/N NNN/N etc., where N represents integers. I feel like I've seen a puzzle like that before, probably here, but trying to search for this kind of pattern isn't obvious to me. Can some one give me some search tips or point me to somewhere that has tips?...
This puzzle is a spin-off from the 'This new puzzle type needs a name' series.
I have devised a new cipher and used it to encode its own name. I need you to tell me:
What is its name?
Colour-blind-friendly version available here. Those without colour-blindness may still find this link ...
one thing you can do, though it doesn't obviously help much, is to remove the edge extending rightward from "between" the two adjacent 3s on the lower left side.
I would say Keer-Xoff where the X is a guttural "ch" like in "loch" or "TeX" or "chutzpah". Though if talking to anglophones I would seriously consider Kur-choff on the basis that there's a good chance that's how they think of it :-).
An European mathematician likes to have a balanced breakfast every day.
It always includes whole milk and exactly one ingredient out of the list below:
Butter
Cheese
Yoghurt
What is the mathematician's nationality?
@Avi That looks like a Simon Tatham one. They always have unique solutions, unless maybe there's some non-default option you can select to allow multiple solutions.
As usual, you cross the street today, looking both ways to make sure nobody's coming. Suddenly, you hear the screeching of tires and see bright headlights as a truck makes an illegal left turn on red.
Well, that's it. You're dead now. Shame.
...
You wake up in a brightly lit room with a handsome looking bookshelf in front of you.
"Why, hello there," it exclaims, cheerily. You're confused; since when could bookshelves talk?
As if sensing your puzzlement, the bookshelf pats you on the back (they have arms now too?!), "Don't worry, you're dead now. Nobody can hurt you anymore."
After the fact sinks in, you suppose it's alright. After all, there is some sort of afterlife, after all. As if sensing your thoughts, the bookshelf asks, "Oh, did you think it was over so soon? No, no, of course not." (You think you heard a demonic cackle in there somewhere.)
"Well, the problem is, you'll fade away pretty quickly, if you're not the very best." You inquire, confused: "The best at what? That's not very specific."
A thick rulebook falls out of the bookshelf, turning itself to the center of the book. In golden letters, you observe the following text: "A person must be somehow great lest they suffer a hazy fate; their deeds must not be done in vain, or their spirit will be on the wane."
With great horror, you notice your pinky toe fading away.
you know how in Ghostbusters, Venkman says (about the Keymaster and the Gatekeeper) "Oh, wonderful, we have to get these two together", and Egon says "I think that would be extraordinarily dangerous"? I sorta feel that way about Avi meeting humn and for not dissimilar reasons :)
Further to Deusovi's remarks above, I suggest the following general principle: TSL is a place for conversation, not for thinking out loud. The reason for writing something here is that you have reason to think someone else here might want to read it.
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That doesn't, of course, mean that no one should say anything here unless they know in advance that someone else needs to read it. You can often have a pretty good idea that what you're going to say might well be appreciated. (And of course maybe sometimes one just needs to vent or something, and doubtless everyone will understand.)
@jafe That reminds me of some very cursory research I did ten years ago that looked for prevalence of "eyewear" and "eyeware" with certain collocates. "Eyewear" was more common across the board than "eyeware". But "eyewear" was even more more-common after "gabbana", less so after "prescription", and least so after "protective". (Those were the only three collocates I checked, or at least the only three I reported on. Like I said, very cursory.)
Yeah, we're a bunch of introverts here and probably don't go to a lot of parties, and in any case there are probably going to be no parties at all for the next few months at least.
Reminds me of that xkcd -- I can't find it in a simple search -- about how people who read (redd) books while walking in decades gone by are better adapted for reading phones while walking now.
It's 10x easier to walk while reading a book than to walk while reading a phone (e-readers excluded). Reason being, you have to focus way more on a tinier screen to read on a phone, as compared to (most) books
When Lenny was five years old, he hammered a nail into a tree near his house to mark his height. Fifteen years later at age 20, Lenny returned to see how much higher the nail was.
If the tree grew by 5 inches each month, how much higher would the nail be?
I have provided a hint if you need one:
Here is a What Am I riddle (that I made).
With an a, I'm a color
With an e, I'm a number
With an i, I'm an element
With an o, I'm a lot
With a u, I'm a container
What am I?
To prepare for a cordial greeting, what does she do?
To shoot as straight as she can, what does she have?
To breathe the purest air, what does she avoid?
I'll tell you what - me.
What am I?
This is part six in my clichéd treasure island puzzle series, but can be solved on its own. The story carries on from part five.
Based on the information from the notebook, you at least know where to start. You head towards the sound of rushing water - briefly wondering what happened to you...
How many homophones can you cram into a single sentence?
Rules:
Sentences must be all in English. (no foreign words, like see & si (si is "yes", in Spanish)
Sentences must be lucid. (They have to actually make sense, not just be random words strung together).
Sentences must follow rules of gra...
My prefix is playful
My infix is a position
My postfix is rocky
I am fake in definition
This continues from Math tapestry puzzle #1. Find the rules there.
Continuing on from that, I saw my friend Jason come outside. We had a conversation about the things that are here. Suddenly he says: "Wait! I have to show you something." He shows me this:
NN 07
44 aa 32 39
...
Try to make all the numbers from 1-30 using 2, 0, 2, 0
Rules:
1. Use only the operations +, -, *, /, !, exponents and square root
2. No rounding eg. 20 / (2+0!) = 6
3. No adding extra numbers eg. 2 + 10 + 2 + 0 = 14
4. Concatenation is allowed only in combining 2 and 0 to become 20
5. Try to...
A different kind of math problem
$\text{If }$$(2+5=8),\ (8-3=1),\ \text{and}\ (4+3 = 9),$
$\text{Then, what is } (8-6+5) ?$
Bonus:
$\text{If }(8 - 2 + 7 + \text{P} = \text{A})$,
$\text{Then what is } (6 - 5 + 4)?$
The clue is: One caregiver in particular turned indifferent. I think the answer may be "alienated" but I can't really explain it! Anyone?
The question relates to a recent puzzle : One is outstanding, the other doesn't belong: says Grandpa
Take the word PARENT for example.
If you take 2 consecutive letters out the remaining four letters give
you valid words
RENT PENT PANT PART PARE
Note you do not even have to Ana...
Today, my dear fellas, I want you to see,
that there is a whole new riddle by me.
The word I am seeking is not very long,
it's part of a show, where connections are strong.
The prefix is meant to be one single word,
that's made by cute kitten, I guess you have heard.
The infix i...
I ran across a cipher of the form NNN/N NNN/N NNN/N etc., where N represents integers. I feel like I've seen a puzzle like that before, probably here, but trying to search for this kind of pattern isn't obvious to me. Can some one give me some search tips or point me to somewhere that has tips?...
This puzzle is a spin-off from the 'This new puzzle type needs a name' series.
I have devised a new cipher and used it to encode its own name. I need you to tell me:
What is its name?
Colour-blind-friendly version available here. Those without colour-blindness may still find this link ...
An European mathematician likes to have a balanced breakfast every day.
It always includes whole milk and exactly one ingredient out of the list below:
Butter
Cheese
Yoghurt
What is the mathematician's nationality?
When Lenny was five years old, he hammered a nail into a tree near his house to mark his height. Fifteen years later at age 20, Lenny returned to see how much higher the nail was.
If the tree grew by 5 inches each month, how much higher would the nail be?
I have provided a hint if you need one:
To prepare for a cordial greeting, what does she do?
To shoot as straight as she can, what does she have?
To breathe the purest air, what does she avoid?
I'll tell you what - me.
What am I?
