What am I?
For my prefix I received ri. Now I'm insecure.
For my infix I received ul. Now I'm gloomy.
For my suffix I received pe. Now I don't converse in person.
Perhaps the gifts aren't to blame... even without them,
my mood changes like the weather.
Example: If my word is hop, the riddle ma...
And, just remembered that 7 layer burritos are no longer sold at Taco Bell. Super depressing, since that's basically the only thing I bought from them.
Someone edited the "is my bad English hurting my puzzles" meta-post to... clean up the bad English. I'm feeling like rolling it back - thoughts?
also, this comment:
Oh yeah, one more thing. Grammarly Free is not really the best shot, but Grammarly Premium is basically having an English Professor next to you. I mean I am in 6th grade and don't know any professor, but it is sort of an exaggeration . — TroyDNov 17 at 11:09
Sorry about the last puzzle guys, I am sure this puzzle has only one solution this time. Also the solver of this puzzle can put up a Yin Yang puzzle if he wants to start a series.
Rules of Yin-Yang:
Fill each empty cell with either a black circle or a white circle.
All white circles should be or...
@bobble hmmm... where i live there are some people who are 13 years old by the time they graduate from elementary. and more than that, i checked the guy's profile once and turns out he lives in the same country as me
so i am not surprised (but of course we still need to check)
@oAlt "I won three polo matches"* - LOOT + _A_ = we are the champions
Assuming that's the intended solution: I don't have one prepared and probably won't have time to prepare one until >30 hours from now. If y'all wanna wait for me, by all means; but if someone else wants to take it, that's fine too.
An alien planet called EMJ-26 has an alphabet that has letters switched around. Their language is identical to english but they use different letters.
Here are the names of some countries on earth written in their language:
QAREZSTZQWVTZQCQOQZUEFTWINCOMIKSTPQSQAMISLJQZQDEZEGKEXQSKZTLTQYHARHGLSQZ...
Today, we had the great privilege to see @Paul Panzer's answer being ticked at @thesilican's absorbing puzzle.
I here propose a variant of his puzzle where it's not mandatory to use a legal chess game.
Provide a checkerboard with as many chess pieces you want where:
It is Black's turn to move
Bl...
@Sphinx This is from Melon's Puzzles - would recognise it anywhere. It's also one of the first slitherlink images that comes up just by typing 'slitherlink' into Google.
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #43: Variety Crossword Grids
blue:
Am I (3<) a singer in a temple (3,5v) or in a a sun-starved (5^) metric conflict area (3,5>)?
red:
A disfiguring motherly animal(2,3,4v) with a not discrete behind (4,6<) has a flirty drink(3,5>) with an all-right animal ...
I've voted to reopen it because it no longer is unattributed. I've also downvoted due to low effort. I'm quite annoyed with the chattiness and un-usefulness of this user's comments.
bobble sighs heavily
(though I'm not sure if the comments are flaggable quite yet)
That one you posted for being "rude" and another one for straight-up being "harassment, bigotry, or abuse". Idk, calling out another person/puzzle doesn't sit well with me
@bobble I was that user that actually read through the entire Tour and Help Center to make sure I was asking acceptable questions
Seriously, from around kindergarten to the end of 9th grade I was burning through about 1 book a day, sometimes two if I had the time, sometimes less if the book was long.
I don't really keep up with memes, so I don't get memes until like 6 months later. I just sometimes scroll through reddit because the stuff on there are funny. But not often
I read a lot too, but I read at a B+ speed, so it takes usually around 2~3 days to finish a decently long novel
But maybe that's also because I read in the evening/night when I'm done with my stuff
I read while walking, while in the bathtub, while using the bathroom, in the car, at the breakfast table (there was a no-books-during-dinner rule), during school & home lunches, once I finished my homework until dinner, during recess, during any sort of waiting, in class when I wasn't supposed to....
If I didn't have a book handy I would wander around to find signs/posters that I could read over and over and over
It provides "indirect clues about an unnamed object or concept to be identified" - here specifically wordplay clues - so yes, by our definition it is a riddle
@bobble sigh Yeah. Here I'm spending hours developing a puzzle (of which is my favorite yet), and it'll probably net around 15 upvotes, maybe. Sometimes I feel like this site rewards quantity over quality, but what can you do
Because of the relatively high activity of this site, you post anything and you'll probably get at least one, two, or three upvotes, regardless of quality
My FTC word square is currently my highest-voted puzzle at +21. It took me around two hours of actual work time to pull together. My double-marching bands, which took literal months, is at +10
@bobble I disagree. There is no need to downgrade a good post to display one's grammar.
Besides, it's clear to the readers that they can look at the revision history of the 2 posts links in that meta post if they want to see what they meant.
@bobble Okay it's almost ready to send. You understand that because I am explaining to you basically the entire puzzle, this forfeits your right to solve the puzzle once posted, right? Just have to make sure to get the disclaimer out there :P
@entioneveryone the context shouldn't be behind a few clicks - the slightly-off grammar really should be clear on first view. Also, that post was a question by the person with off English, and you editing it fundamentally hurts the point of it and makes it no longer "true" to its purpose. Or something like that. I'm not great at explaining myself under time pressure.
@entioneveryone Got to be honest - I love that the person writing the post about having bad English wrote it in their natural 'bad English'! It instantly gets their point across, whilst also demonstrating the truth of the supportive answers which explain that even with this 'bad English' it's still possible to understand their gist. For once, personally I would suggest leaving it as it was first written, almost like a museum exhibit - it has more value to the community in its rough-and-ready form!
@PrinceNorthLæraðr Hey :) Just passing through tonight, I'm afraid! Working late before the weekend...
In general, how you definitely share more than 2% of your DNA with Neanderthals, since every living thing shares a bunch of DNA in order to have necessary functions. So it's a bit misleading. The exact sequences may have changed a bit over time, but the general function and structure of important genes is fairly constant.
Also, my dad is doing required anti-terrorism trainings, and for the question "what to do in this dangerous situation" he got points off for saying "help other people". Because apparently you're supposed to save yourself.
A little bit of background first: Over on Puzzling.SE, we've been nuking users that look very spammy, before they've had a chance to post anything. It began with posts like this, which advertised watching things online and stuff.
So then we (I'm not a mod there, I just pinged them with links) st...