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@Avi Thanks. I occasionally visited Puzzling through HNQ, but I only started actively participating here a few days ago. The 40K is mostly from Code Golf.
You are in a room with 20 people(including you). There are two murderers. You are stuck there for 150 minutes.
Every 10 minutes, there will be a 'refreshed' batch of murderers. This means that the murderers may be murderers in the next round, or a citizen may be a murderer in the next round. Howe...
Frick it, I'm going to give my interpretation of it and let someone else take it since it's going to take a while to make clues for me now.
EX (exercise first) then we have to manipulate CLUES in a way and get IV somehow and mix them together to get EXCLUSIVE (definition "only"). Now, how to actually interpret all of the clue correctly?
Can you place all numbers from 1 to 16 into cells, such that the following 8 equations hold? Note that the operator "/" only works for non-remainder division, i.e. you can have "8 / 4" but not "8 / 3". As usual multiplication and division are performed before addition and subtraction. Good luck!
I was given a riddle last week that I have been mulling over for quite a while. The answer to the riddle is apparently supposed to unlock an account of mine that my friend took from me (with my permission, of course).
I would appreciate your help with this.
The riddle is "Golden name, golden bloo...
We were a very happy family of $3$ members, me and my mother and father. Sometimes my parents would go outside to visit my grandmother and I used to live alone freely, doing my work and reading storybooks in my freetime. However one day turned out to be creepy.
One day, my parents went out to vis...
@bobble Hoping to brighten your morning a little bit...my wife really liked your latest Around the Bend puzzle too. I would create a sockpuppet account to give you an extra upvote, but you've all figured out how to detect this :-)
Smart enough to solve this puzzle? Practised in the art of counting in multiple ways?
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This is a "B & A" puzzle linked to
What is a " B & A" puzzle?
It describes a before and after word chain which has a word in common. For example:
First Lady Gaga: Before would be "First Lady" and after would be "Lady Gaga"
Here are Three seperate Rebus B&As (three images) and one non Rebus. So ne...
@JeremyDover question: are all the topics of your cryptic family reunions those that you knew of way before you made the puzzles? Like, did you just go through your head knowledge and say "Oh, I think I can use that for another cryptic puzzle!"? Or did you have to research on a number of them to get topic ideas? :00
@oAlt I usually pick topics based on things that interest me, or that occur to me from life events. Once I find a topic, then I'll do some research to find good examples...there's nothing worse than having to bash out a clue for a word you're not excited about.
If I get to the point where I need to look for topics, I'll probably just stop. 33 is probably already way too many :-)
also yeah the conversion dictionary i set up will end up being ~6000 lines of Python ... surely we could shorten it somehow? import from a different file?
(The thing about him running for president of the United States is legit though, but considering he has no political background/experience, I'd be surprised if people actually vote him at all, unironically or ironically)
I do have a different answer now, though, but let me find the emoji since the keyboard version is different from the Messenger version, and I use the latter more often
To allow bicarbonate (added separately) to penetrate the leaves. Bicarbonate is a source of carbon, used since the leaves can't access CO2 when under water.
you probably shouldn't judge people on a single question, even though it's pretty tempting when some of the answers are funny - for the longer answers, I found it to be good practice to try to figure out what their thought process was, and see what ideas could have led them there. often you'll discover that they had a perfectly consistent model of how things worked, it just happened to be slightly different from the correct one
and for the short/nonsense answers? sometimes people are just having a bad day, or tired, or can't put more time into the assignment due to any number of real-life events, so they do the best they can with a limited amount of energy/effort/time available
@Avi "Breaking News: School closed due to wide spread E. Coli infection. Sources say it came from a science experiment after a student tried to wash the petri dish down the sink... more in the next hour"
as a TA, i had to clarify a lot of things for the students, and i ended up directly making posts on the class Q&A forum page explaining things where the professors were... less than perfect
Teachers have it rough. I only have to deal with maybe 11-ish students and their emails and stuff, I don't know how all my hs teachers do it with like 150-200 kids
Reverse deduced rules 1. numbers must match the size of their white islands 2. black squares must be part of L-trominos 3. black L-trominos cannot be adjacent