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.
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 ...
to be honest, i didn't want to attack that one until i read Lukas' rot13ed comment -- after that i figured i could analyse it. tried a few different methods of displaying what was going on before landing on that one
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...
arrrgh i just spent hours designing my first-ever grid deduction puzzle, a really nice little Nurikabe with all kinds of neat deductions and i was so proud of it and i was doing some test solves to make sure the solve path worked well... and then i realized it has two solutions (┛ಠ_ಠ)┛彡┻━┻
not sure what you mean by "border numbers" exactly, but if you want to place things on edges or corners of the grid, click the "border" button on the top
The list of twenty-four songs below can be partitioned. Each partition is of four songs. The six rules of partition membership are related to one another: specifically, they can be thought of in such a way as to be disjoint, in the sense that no song (not even one that's not on my list) can be in...
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?
@Anonymus25 FERRET? To Google something is to ferret it out; FRET means to "To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple" which I guess is to flap? and ER is (sort of) medicine
@Anonymus25 Actually, shortened versions work too. I think @xyz will get user xyzzy provided xyz is at least three letters and there are no other users (in the room? recently in the room? ever in the room? I forget) whose names begin that way. So I got one ping from humn's comment and one from yours.
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?
good health to him/her and good tidings to you all
heh something the cryptic-clue lovers will like that I just saw on Facebook:
(But first a bit of background. There's a game called Govende. It originated on Usenet but is now played on Facebook. It goes like this: Someone asks "What's a [whatever]?" and someone else answers with a humorous answer and a followup question of the same ilk. And so on.)
Someone answered "What's a chef?" with "A blind chief."
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?
@msh210 That reminds me of an ancient pair of jokes. "What do you call a deer with no eyes?" "No idea." "What do you call a dead deer with no eyes?" "Still no idea."
I've seen a few times that someone asks a question on PSE and includes a few spoiler-tagged hints. Invariably, a veteran comments saying "why so many hints? Give people a chance first". This irks me, for two reasons: (1) Posting so many hints, and in spoiler tags, is a sign that the person did his homework: he looked around the site, saw that that's how questions look, and followed suit. Such behavior should be [continued]
[continued] lauded, not criticized. (Yes, he didn't click through to the history of the question to see when the hints were added. But I really think that's much too much to ask of anyone, certainly a newbie.) (2) What's wrong with hints at the outset? If you don't want 'em, don't unspoilerize 'em. SE is meant to be a repository of questions for the long run, not just for immediate use. If the hints might be added eventually then there's no reason not to add them immediately.
New users who post a bunch of hints immediately are especially prone to this, because they figure that people can just look at the hints when they get stuck
good point - i know i'm guilty of having done that
i usually try to phrase it as "people don't usually give hints immediately" rather than "you shouldn't give hints immediately", but i'm sure i've slipped up before
I admit that I don't have to best memory of my commenting, but I remember that at least several times my comment was in response to a new user adding hints after ~hour of no activity that they can see
People are solving in the background, but they think "hmm, puzzle should've been solved by now" and start throwing out hints
Agreed that I usually try to phrase it as "this many hints is unusual" when the question was originally posted with a bunch of hints
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...