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What am I?
Frequently I appear,
Not just here,
Applesauce I make,
Did that hold you up?
Vulnerable I am,
Annoying I can be,
But required I am,
To hide what could ruin,
A soul's own zeal,
For what is frequently here.
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The puzzle is as follows:
Four sisters went to the movie theater. While leaving the venue each
one of them took by mistake the purse of another sister and the coat
of another different sister. Maria took the coat that belongs to the
sister whose purse Jenny took, while Jenny's coat was taken by ...
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An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #46: "Tales From the Cryptic"
We begin with the most abnormal, rosiest fables of twisted form, driven into the heart of endless deed. It is a dark fate, to condemn those least messed up
Nearing a brief coma, a being with no boy is going east out of a recur...
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The Doors of Perception is a book by Aldous Huxley. Published in 1954, it elaborates on his psychedelic experience under the influence of mescaline in May 1953. Huxley recalls the insights he experienced, ranging from the "purely aesthetic" to "sacramental vision", and reflects on their philosophical and psychological implications. In 1956, he published Heaven and Hell, another essay which elaborates these reflections further. The two works have since often been published together as one book; the title of both comes from William Blake's 1793 book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.The Doors o...
You are playing with the black pieces and you know you have about a second before you run out of time and lose the game.
There is no time added to the clock and white has plenty of time left. What move do you play?
What is in the blank box? Why? Pick from one of the five options.
My prefix is the ruler of all our lives.
My suffix hints us thrashing knives.
My infix before the fire was a cane.
My whole pretends that it's insane.
I display to you a set of 5 equations that cannot be solved.
I want you to find the solution:
$B + C = 1$
$B + C + F + G = 4$
$A + B + C = 7$
$A + B + C + D + G = 3$
$A + B + E + D + G = 2$
Times ticking, don't wait around!
What is the solution to the above equations?
I am unable to produce images for colors. How? This is the closest I have:
maGenta
Green
yelloW
darKgreen
orAnge
purEred(#ff0000)
blaCk
crimsOn
whitE
Hint?
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This puzzle is a Nurikabe that is designed to be a gentle introduction to the genre, with a learning curve of progressively harder deductions. It is encouraged for first-time solvers and those who want to try learning the deductions necessary to solve these kinds of puzzles. It's also my first gr...
Every point in the plane is colored either red or blue. Does a square in the plane exist
such that all four of its vertices are the same color?
