While Puzzling.SE has some extremely clever and difficult puzzles that are being solved by people whose intellect amazes me, I wanted to make some graph puzzles that were specifically meant for complete beginners. This puzzle is a test run for this type. If you're looking at this puzzle and think...
I've created a mapping between words and complex-valued polynomials, and I've generated examples from word lists that I've I found on another puzzle. You don't need to study every one of these, but I recommend you study a few (1-5 of your choice) of them to get the hang of what the pattern is.
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(Taken from a mobile game)
You have a wheel of fortune with a total of 30 fields. You start with the following fields (name, size, minimal size, effect):
"Diamond Field" (D), size 2, min. size 1, get 10 diamonds
"Coin Field" (C), size 2, min. size 1, get 1.000 coins
"Unlucky Field" (U), size 2...
Here are some caIendar-styIe rebuses.
The tags are the hint.
$\dfrac{\mathrm{MAY}}{\sf\begin{array}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}\sf Sun& \sf Mon&\sf Tue&\sf Wed&\sf Thu&\sf Fri&\sf Sat\\ \sf {\color{red}{sos}}&2&3&4&5&6&7\\ 8&9&10&11&12&13&14 \\ 15&16&17&18&19&20&21 \\ 22&23&24&25&26&27&28 \\ 29&30&31& & &
What could possibly be simpler than a
triple beam scale?
(Ohaus Corp.)
A simplified triple beam scale, of course:
Just an identically spaced pair of notches on each of the three beams,
for 8 possible combinations of weight positions.
(No gradually sliding weights.
No attachment weights to h...
One day, you are caught by a evil wizard. He presents you with a prism, and says, "You can ask me to turn this prism to any $n$-angled right prism. Then you shall fill in $1$ to $3n$ with no repetition on each edge of the prism such that the edges that surround each face should have a same sum...
Last night I was playing a game of cards with my good friend Captain Pun and his wife.
All of a sudden, partway through a round, he threw down a card that bore this design:
Colour-blind-friendly version available here.
I asked him what it meant, but he remained tight-lipped, clearly waiting f...
Some objects also happen to be countries or nationalities. Can you find what these are:
I am a bird and a country
I am a long object and a nationality
I am a vegetable and a nationality
I am a cheese and a nationality
I am a yogurt and a nationality
A follow-up to Dmitry Kamenetsky's Objects that are countries or nationalities.
Can you figure out what these countries and nationalities are based on the clues?
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They
Have numbers and names but no address
Have eyes but can't see
Can land without wheels
Can soar without wings
If it is hot, they like it a lot (but you like them not!)
Who are they?
Please explain your answer below
We are looking for a 12-letter word.
Other (independently solvable) puzzles of this type: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
This is a Tapa puzzle.
Rules of Tapa:
Shade some cells of the grid. Shaded cells should form a single connected group; no 2×2 square should be fully shaded.
Some cells have clues in them. These cells cannot be shaded.
Clues give the runs of shaded cells in the eight adjacent cells, in...
