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Recently I have been playing a great mobile game called Dicast: Rules of Chaos and it has inspired me to make this puzzle.
This puzzle proceeds on an infinite number line, where each integer is represented as a cell. You start on the cell marked 0. You have the following ten cards available:
One...
I've found this problem in an older book which goes by the name of Logical aptitude circa 2019. It doesn't list any other markings. The thing is no matter how I attempt to look into it, I'm trapped in circles as I have no idea on how to approach this problem.
The problem is as follows:
The figur...
Here is the first question.
You are given a square piece of paper with no marks on it. With this paper, you have to make a wolf's template.
You are given no tools such as a ruler or scissors, and all you can do is fold the paper and make an one hole with nail or hole puncher. You can produce the...
I've found this problem in a Logic and Reason book from 2000's which seems to be reprinted or adapted from Martin Gardner's book of recreational puzzles. In the beginning it seemed rather easier but I couldn't find a way to solve it properly and ended up just guessing.
But does it exist a way to ...
I did it! A unique solution for the bobblie Statue Park which forces my pet deduction . Time to re-re-re-re-check that no alternative solution paths were introduced. I'm so happy!
According to my Google Sheet, I've been constructing this puzzle on and off for 10 days. The last few nights I've been working solely on it, spending ~2 hours (with a few short breaks when I got stuck) fiddling with the clues back and forth.
I know what I call "survival" Japanese: I can ask for a bathroom, a menu, a trashcan, directions, read & speak prices, and do all the necessary salutations to a formal enough point where people wouldn't be completely "ew, foreigner". I also know the word for "foreigner". And that's about it :)
I do want to get better about learning other languages, English and very shaky Spanish is all I've got going for me. Would be really helpful in my job and/or life to learn some more
When I visited DC with a research group, we went to a Cuban restaurant where the waiters only spoke really rapid-fire Spanish and assumed we did too. I was the only one who could translate for our group, so they would explain something on the menu and I had to repeat "mas lenta... mas lenta..." (slower) and be like "okay yes... it's some kind of chicken... with sauce..."
@Sciborg Japanese light novels tend to have bizarre titles
"Is it wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon?" , "Do you love your mom and her two-hit multi-target attacks?", "My little sister can't possibly be this cute" are some examples
I mean, a friend of mine forced me to watch one called "Beyond the Boundary" where a girl could control her own blood and there were like 3 separate main characters with awkward fetishes
I mean don't get me wrong there's anime I love and really enjoy, like I genuinely love stuff like Death Note, Black Butler and Psychopass that has strong plots and characters and great art style, but a lot of it is just strange and not my taste I guess.
(that too, they're happy to welcome people - i'm not particularly active there (actually, not sure i've joined any games?) but they were nice when i came in)
although admittedly it would be hilarious if we ever played voice chat among us and you're expecting me to sound manly and then my RuPaul-sounding ass starts talking
@PrinceNorthLæraðr thanks for helping out. Also thanks @Sciborg and @bobble . I will come back to rant in about 12 hours time if it doesn't work, hehe.
I will give you some clues to figure out what I want.
Quick facts:
The updated SI unit of $10^3$ kilogrammes is a ton.
A wrist is made up of eight total bones.
A literature "On The Of Species" by Charles Darwin is on evolutionary biology
The law $F_s=kx$ is found by someone.
Learnt Vocabulary T...
Oh, and one more thing, @Mithical -- I didn't like that the last puzzle used nothing new, just repeated techniques from the other puzzles. But all in all, it was enjoyable.
A redditor named u/stanley_tweed posted this request to identify a certain song. I happen to know the song, so I decided it would be nice to make a Riley Riddle out of it.
According to his post:
the song is an action-y upbeat orchestral instrumental from a musical (I'd say this statement is r/t...
This puzzle is the idea of Dmitry Kamenetsky in a comment of my puzzle Devouring Nobility.
Find, with the minimum number of moves, a legal game where all pieces are captured except the two kings.
I am a word you see every day,
I rhyme with conspicuous,
I am an adjective,
I actually sound a bit like the word biscuit,
Just a bit.
I love eating pizza,
Or you can call someone who does that,
Me.
Here is a cryptogram:
Note: this is not, very very hard. But still, it is not very very easy, I would want to say with a few clues it's more easy than hard:
Clues:
It can be simple substitution.
It is not enciphered only 1 time.
It can be made into a mechanical device, with rotors and rings.
Thi...
This is the third Chain Puzzle in the Tabletop Games series, in which all puzzles are themed around board games, card games, tile games, and the like. The answer to this puzzle is a thematic word or phrase. The solver whose answer is awarded the green checkmark has first refusal on the opportunit...
What I should be doing: putting the finishing touches on a college app due in less than a week. What I am doing: obsessively re-solving my statue park to check for uniqueness & unintended solution paths.
Basically, the fire seems to be trapped as of now bc it looks like it's happening in like a valley or something. The winds here are vicious though, and also super dry, so it can easily spread
Thanks. I'm still around tomorrow ;) Basic training they said to be prepared for 3-5 weeks without going home. Throughout basic training you only have phone access for 45 minutes a day, but those 45 minutes also include e.g. your shower time. Service itself is 2.5 years, but no idea where I'll be stationed or how busy I'll be.