We have a fair amount of Lego, but not sets that make particular things. Contrary to the usual gender stereotypes it's my wife and daughter who do almost all the Lego-making.
Bumping my question from a few days ago: if the theme of the FTC were variety crossword grids, and I made one puzzle about that BUT made it a component of one larger puzzle, is this larger puzzle valid as an entry for FTC, or only the subpuzzle?
(didn't see any answers so forgive me if I overlooked)
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls
"Why on earth are there blank spaces in your connect wall?"
"In my defense, you just asked me to make categories with four words in them; you never said how many categories."
"It's a 4x4 grid! How many categories do you think...
@Bubbler ah, what I meant was something like variety crossword grid, PLUS (for example) a cipher, a language puzzle, and a maze, and all are combined into one puzzle
@bobble in this case though, one was supposed to solve it like a connect wall from the very start (well, after solving the cryptic clues) and doing so led to other types of puzzles
By the way, Deus and I solved the crazy quintuple-chimera Fillomino, which you can see in the chatroom
If there's a whole chain of comments that is No Longer Needed, should they each be flagged, only the last one, only the first one, or flag one with a custom flag?
Another thing I've been wondering - when a comment flag comes up in the queue, do you see just the flag, or the whole chain of comments and the post in question?
This Connect Wall is pretty straightforward (?), but I thought it might be a fun mini-puzzle!
Connect Wall rules: Divide these sixteen words into four groups based on something they have in common. You'll find that the four groups have something in common themselves. The words aren't in any parti...
Inspired by this puzzle: Doubled Knights redux
Let's make the following change to the rules of chess. Every piece can once per game (on its day in the sun) make a double move.
Clarifications:
Things allowed in the double move:
walking in and out of check either by moving the king or by leaving a...
mostly good, except that my sister had one of her "if you agree with me then you're not making choices for yourself, if you disagree then you're just being contrary" moods
We're doing both a family tree and our own trees this year, so i've been slowly setting up mine over the course of today. It's squished up next to my keyboard since my apartment is kinda small :p
Probably my dorm, that was usually where i did homework in college. But sometimes I would hang out in the basement of the library because nobody went down there and it was quiet
Although the Hogwarts library probably wouldn't be quiet, given all the ghosts and stuff
I don't imagine that "conceptual" and "artist" are two different parts of the clue. I don't know how the wordplay would work then... and "conceptual" doesn't have many synonyms, certainly not short ones. So I think we're looking for a conceptual artist (or a synonym of "conceptual artist").
Yeah, for "American" I think we need either a state demonym, like @jafe said, or a country demonym (using "American" broadly to refer to the Americas), or a term describing a Native American nation.
Now I'm wondering if "eaten by" means that "fish" is a container indicator and wraps around "American conceptual artist"? (or just "conceptual artist")
yeah it could be either of those inside some word for fish
or it could be just a name of an artist, with "conceptual" as a separate part... although i don't know any short synonyms for "conceptual" off the top of my head
yeah maybe "conceptual artist" for Ian would be too specific... it's not like you see the name ian and are like "oh yes, the australian artist from the 70s"
Same with "an old saw ends like this" -- it's an example, so you need to say "an old saw perhaps ends like this". I think that latter would be perfectly fine.
(i think i tripped up on my english) i meant that it's not just the problem that cluing "John Major" is insufficient, but that John Major could also clue other things aside from man. for all we know, the answer could be "scientist", "pastor", "artist", "toilet", etc
like other, tighter definitions-by-example for "man" could have been used
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #44: Introduce a new grid deduction genre to the community.
Here is a standard Norinori puzzle.
Rules of Norinori:
Shade exactly two cells in each bordered region.
Each shaded cell must be orthogonally adjacent to exactly one other shaded cell, m...
Usenet & listserv netiquette is to lurk awhile before posting to get a feel for the group. Dunno that that's true for chat in general, for SE chat in particular, or for this lair in more particular.
Question for MODS (and wider community): Do we really need every tag wiki excerpt to contain a warning that general questions are off-topic but can be asked on a different site on the SE network? While this is useful info for the body of a tag wiki this seems excessive for the little stub that gives you info about what the tag actually is about, rather than what it's not...
The prolific tag wiki editing currently going on by a particular user does not seem like it's actually useful, and instead is now cluttering what were intended to be short little informative stubs.
(That's how it seems to me anyway)
(Specifically talking about the tag wiki excerpts here, in case that's not clear...)
I found a free logical reasoning test which consisted of 10 questions. I managed to solve all the other questions correctly except for the last one:
I could not find a pattern of how the squares and circles. I could only find one in the lines which is that the lines would move up as the sequence...
Re my comments above, am also interested in views from other users (not just mods). I've Rejected several of these tag wiki excerpt edits today for 'no improvement whatsoever'... If consensus suggests these are genuinely useful alterations to the excerpts then I will revert to Skipping them (I cannot bring myself to Approve them).
Open the curtains to reveal some words of wisdom:
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I was in my local library looking for the fifth volume in the series Bauxite Production and Processing, when I noticed a stairwell door was slightly ajar. Curious, I slipped through the door and down the stairs, down into the stacks.
Who knew the library had so many fascinating books in their st...
torn between leaking to ots versus letting it stand for a while now that at least one person is interested in solving it (and inevitably finding what is wrong with my clue)
on second thought i might let it stand for a while instead?
There's an integer n>0 such that subtracting n (where A=1, …, and Z=26) from some (more than one) of the letters in word #1 yields word #2.
Replacing the first plosive in word #3 by a fricative and the first vowel by a syllabic approximant yields word #5.
Replacing thunder with war in word #5 yie...
@JeremyDover Your 'Office park' grid puzzle looks fantastic! And (although I've loved seeing the new grid-deduction types so far this fortnight) I'm glad to see someone devising something new as well, as I was debating doing just that myself - it's an encouragement to sit down and do it some time!
I have a great idea that I really hope I have the time to pull off - a puzzle where the only given puzzle text is the rules of the grid-deduction genre, no actual grid to solve, and then you have to extract a puzzle from the rule-text.
Thanks Stiv! Don't know if it's really new or not, but once I started working it out, even this pretty easy example still had some interesting deduction in it.
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #44: Introduce a new grid deduction genre to the community
I had an idea for what I think is a new grid deduction puzzle which has some aspects of Statue Park and some from Skyscrapers, so Office Park seems a good temporary name. It may well have a...
@JeremyDover I must be misunderstanding something in the Office Park rules because it seems obviously impossible. How can you place any V piece if (1) nothing is allowed to overhang but (2) pieces aren't allowed to touch?
@GarethMcCaughan: Maybe I didn't describe the pieces well. The piece descriptions are the number of cubelets in each stack looking down from the top. So a V is an L-triomino of cubes, with a 4th cube on one of the arms.
typical econ class: supply-demand chains, productivity, finance your class, apparently: "every law is enforced by the barrel of a gun..." *drags on weed pipe*
also, my school has decided: 1. cameras always on, else you are absent 2. respond when asked stuff, else you are absent in other words, the entire school is using spanish's attendance system
As an extension to @WhatsUp 's question here, the rules of which are included below, with the following differences:
In one of the squares, there lives an amoeba (marked as a circle in the following pictures).
In some of the squares, there are amoebas (marked as green/yellow in the following pi...