CC query: How would you indicate part of a word being shifted? E.g. ABCDE -> CDEAB. I know that an anagram would be sufficient, but I'd like to indirectly clue the word being shifted and don't want to use an indirect anagram.
@bobble Some ideas: "rotating", "rolling", "cycling", etc. Since this is non-standard, I would be very careful to clue the motion very clearly, and not mix it in with other wordplay elements.
Alice and Bob are playing checkers. After some time, Alice gets bored because she keeps on losing. Bob then gets the idea to combine chess and checkers. Here is how it goes:
Rules
Normal checkers rules apply, but instead of capturing by jumping over enemy pieces, pieces capture just like chess ...
@bobble You're right. I posted that CCCC when I was tired. I had meant to put a ", e.g." at its end, and forgot to. (That would've taken care of the definition half. For the first wordplay element, there would still be a definition by example, but for first/last names that's not such a big deal, I think.)
Police officers entered the home of Dr. Erwin Schrödinger. The neighbours had reported that the doctor had locked his cat in a box and was subjecting it to "particle physics", whatever horrors that may mean. As there were lives at stake – nine, potentially – the department had obtained a speedy s...
I think this type of puzzle format is a bit different from some you already have seen.
I call them B & A puzzles. After you solve them you will likely know what that means.
There are six seperate rebus/wordplay types listed below. The answer to each one is two words minimum. (May include numbers)...
A group of prisoners is standing in a line.
They all wear a hat (of a single color).
They all can only look straight ahead, i.e. only see the hats of the prisoners before them.
Luckily the warden has told them all the colors.
Prisoner A says: I see 1 blue hat.
Then prisoner B says: I see 2 red ha...
It's a moderately famous film. Features a large rotating black hole, and the publicity for the movie makes much of the fact that they had Kip Thorne consulting on getting the visuals something like right. It will not surprise you that some of the other "science" in the movie was not so accurate :-).
Per Deusovi, from a construction perspective, it is OK to insert unneeded punctuation, but not delete needed punctuation. So from a solving perspective, always be ready to ignore punctuation and capitalization
Okay so you have a plane flying right and you decide to drop a parcel? If you change the altitude, how much does that change how far the parcel will travel?
Okay this is confusing. Bobble can you just help me out
I'll give you the question with different numbers, because I'm trying to understand the concept
"A plane is flying and drops a parcel on an island. If the plane's altitude decreased by 1/4, how much farther must the plane be from the island to land the parcel?"
That's really up to the individual circumstances and the particular room - there's not going to be a overarching answer that applies to every situation.
So if you're designing a clouds logic puzzle, and you can guarantee that all the clouds are exactly 2x3, what sort of interesting things can you do with designing and cluing?
@bobble I think a good rule of thumb for tutoring is probably like if it looks like other people are talking or it's becoming too crowded that it's safe to move another room
Alice and Bob are playing checkers. After some time, Alice gets bored because she keeps on losing. Bob then gets the idea to combine chess and checkers. Here is how it goes:
Rules
Normal checkers rules apply, but instead of capturing by jumping over enemy pieces, pieces capture just like chess ...
My prefix is for great necessities,
My suffix is for dirty beasts,
My infix is for you and me,
My whole is found in libraries.
What am I?
Here's some examples of rotting links. Why are they rotting, and what links them?
And finally some that don't rot at all (at least, not currently)
