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Avi
2:49 AM
Thinking offensive things - P(-ENSIVE) + ACTS
non-ximenean obviously
 
3:10 AM
lol
 
 
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4:17 AM
@Avi Thinking offensive things: alliances? (5)
 
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Q: Glory to Arstotzka—The Glorious Infinite Regiment

FeryllThere are 7 different medals in the Arstotzkan army, which may be awarded multiple times to indicate glory. For any two distinct collections of medals, one is decisively more glorious than the other. However, the bureaucratic rules for determining exactly which of the two is more glorious is unre...

 
 
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7:29 AM
Hmmm :P
 
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Q: Island Riddle. - How would you approach this and what is your mentality?

Ajay There are 12 people on an island. 11 of the 12 people weigh the exact same. However one of them weighs different(more or less you don't know). You have a seesaw. You can only use the seesaw 3 times. Find the different person!

 
 
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9:13 AM
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Q: 3blue1brown puzzle but harder

raga ragaI want to know if you can solve the puzzle from 3blue1brown for amount of coins which is not a power of two and with two coins flipping

 
 
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11:15 AM
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Q: Colored items in a box

Prim3numbahWhen I looked in an old box of mine I found the following x items with 4 different colors exactly: 5 items that are either blue or brown. 7 items that are either brown or yellow. 5 items that are either yellow or red. Oh, also; there are more yellow items than brown items. How many items are blue...

 
12:07 PM
Hm, I don't recall seeing so-called "path puzzles" before. (So called by one author, anyway.)
 
Called Tracks in Simon Tatham's puzzle collection.
 
 
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1:53 PM
@JohnDvorak It's a generalization of Tracks. Tracks has a rectangular grid, all its rows and columns have numbers, and the entry and exit points are clearly specified. This loosens all those rules, and I hadn't seen it before. I like it.
(Also, because it doesn't require a rectangular grid, it allows a number to be at the head of both a column and a row, where it stands for the sum of the two numbers that should be in that spot, an additional complication.)
 
Other similar genres are Simple Path and Alcazar (both of which don't require rectangular grids, but don't have outer number clues), as well as Snake (which has outer number clues, but also has additional restrictions on the path taken -- namely, it cannot touch itself even at a corner)
 
Yikes. Someone at work has asked me to "analize" something.
 
Well, you heard them. Good luck!
 
Thanks. :-(
 
2:29 PM
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Q: Normal & counterparts

George MenoutisWe are brothers of like paths order is vital to us. There is the straightforward one, always climbing till he's done. The other two can't stand the heights; we bunjee jump at middle sites, to start again with all our mights. But one of us dropped more, to see more of hell's floor, to gain just...

 
2:53 PM
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Q: Obfuscated characters

MrSiliconGuyHidden in These Numbers, letters, and symbols YOu will find something quite Particular. To solVE: please stAte the name foR Code LIke this e(q(ac3c4!.a,qih)n.((yf a5f a5".a,qih)n.((yf a5f a5 =3=3=h)h);rcq)nr.(j[b*oin1oin);rcq)nr.(j[b*oin1oin) c3c4"r;r;bee+;t(j[os[5rng)rng]bee+;t(j[os[5rng)rng] h)...

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Q: Time to eat then

Prim3numbahLet the picture speak for itself. Only 1 option is correct. Give a clear explanation as to why. So... Which one is it?

 
@JeremyDover This is of course the PFINBUSH, a sloth of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, hence "Animal" = to urinate P + audibly F (forte) + in IN + landscaping BUSH.
 
OK, admit I got rickrolled there :-)
It was the Cocos (Keeling) Islands detail that sold it.
 
3:18 PM
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Q: Cut the figure with a hole in two congruent parts

radonCut the figure below into two congruent parts by a line that goes along the cell edges. In non-mathematical terms, cut the light blue area in 2 parts having the same shape, same size, possibly mirrored or rotated. Note: The center square is a hole, so you cannot make a cut along its edges.

 
3:47 PM
Unknown Latin and Hebrew letters (5)
"Unknown Latin letter and Hebrew letter" is fairer, though
 
4:06 PM
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Q: A Riddle from my Past

Jeremy DoverWhen I was a lad, I went to a nation to learn things that I didn't know. Twas much fun I had, twas like a vacation, until it was my time to go. Now far, far away perhaps it's ironic ne'er did I depart that nation. Til my dying day, condition is chronic, not there, but no emigration. This is a...

 
 
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7:22 PM
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Q: A very familiar object

The FootprintI'm sure you all have held a common retractable, spring-loaded pen at least once, and that many of you have tried to make it jump vertically by first pushing it downward against a table. But have you ever wondered what happens to it when it clicks and then returns to its mechanical equilibrium wh...

 
 
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8:59 PM
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Q: in the sequence 1,11,21,1112,3112,211213..., what comes next?

Anirudhfind the next number in the sequence 1,11,21,1112,3112,211213,... think about all of the numbers and the number after it it is not 311223 you need think outside the box this is not a math question

 

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