Thoughts on on-topic-ness? puzzling.stackexchange.com/q/109237/69582 Personally I feel like it should be closed, though I can't articulate why exactly. Too broad, perhaps, similar to how Lit.SE closes "are there any books with this trope"
@bobble To me, it sounds like a listing question - the question is basically "What are some ways that I can use this mechanism in a puzzle?" - which I know in some communities isn't allowed
True, the wording of the question makes it seem like it's asking whether something like that's been done before in a puzzle
Which the answer is obviously "yes"
We'd have to seek clarification on what the OP means then - if they're just wondering if it can be done, or if they want specific examples of how it can be used
Clarification: are you asking whether it is possible for a puzzle to use this mechanism (in which case, the answer is, of course, "yes") or how this mechanism can be used in a puzzle? — HTM1 min ago
Also, unless there was some pretty clear cluing that exclamation marks were important, then I'd consider this mechanism completely unfair and downvotes a puzzle that relied on it. "Guess what I'm thinking' and all. Not really related to that question though
they might not realize that "puzzle creation" means questions about hypothetical puzzles yet to be created, rather than questions about puzzles that have been created before
or they just may not have been aware of the appropriate tags, so they found the closest one they could think of
We'll just have to see what the OP says. Personally, I think they're simply looking for examples of past puzzles with this mechanism, so the puzzle-history tag would definitely be more appropriate
Sorry, I'm just familiar with other SEs where "are there any examples of X" is considered an open-ended list question because even after the first good answer saying "yes" people inevitably come along to add their cool special example. Puzzling can be different if it wants
I don't think the intent of the OP is to gather every single puzzle that uses connecting punctuation marks as a mechanism, they just want to know if it can be done at all
Anyway, I'm just gonna wait for a reply from the OP before doing anything
considering we don't really get flooded with the same type of question, though, i think it's not necessary to rule out. and imo there's value in having that type of question here
i don't think it's necessary to edit it out, because i believe it's meant to give context to the question (guessing that something similar happens in the movie)
but it would be nice if someone who was familiar with the movie could edit it so that it actually does give that context
It is 5 characters.
Remove one, my meaning does not change.
Remove two, I am a cat.
Remove all of them, I am a empty spot.
Remove all but one, I am a number.
Steal my infix, I am a type of python.
Here are 8 dodecadudes. (Drawn from the very numerous dodecadrafters, made from 12 half equilateral triangles, dodecadudes are a subset of 770 pieces with sharp points and narrow necks excluded). Arrange them into a symmetric dodecagon with sides (1 triangle edge)(2 triangle altitudes) alternati...
BTW Deus, you still need to update your answer to my red herring puzzle - the comments have almost all the missing information (not pinging out of courtesy)
A connect wall is a 4 x 4 grid, Each has 16 words inside it. They are broken into 4 groups of four words, Each has a relationship. The four words defining the relations are themselves related, And the relations are defined by a single word as well. More information on Stiv's excellent post.
Here ...
As usual, a connect wall is a $4\times4$ grid, which has 16 words inside it. They are broken into 4 groups of 4 words,and each group has a relationship. The four words defining the relations are themselves related, and the relations are defined by a single word as well. You can find more informat...
While sorting through things after a move, I came across my first ever crossword made without use of a computer. It was just me, sitting at my family table with a piece of paper and a dictionary. After I found it, I spent the rest of the day (rather than unpacking more boxes as I should've been)...
13, 20, 7, 5033, 22, 20, 2, 0, 23, 115, 17, ?
This sequence seems impossible to solve because it might even contain two or more parallel sequences. I would appreciate any help.
batman's fists say "pow" in the tv series (and i assume in the comics?) but i doubt HTM would use pow-er without a question mark at the end
if the clue refers to baton twirling the only notable pair i've found so far are the Nash sisters who won a bunch of competitions at some point... alas, ANASHES doesn't seem to be a word meaning "power" or anything else for that matter
i don't really watch a lot of sports so don't know how "common knowledge" baton twirlers are... i would presume not very
Remember the old puzzle?
Can you take just one letter out of an odd number and make it even?
Note the clever wording. It just says make it even; not "make it an even number"
So here is my version.
Find the smallest odd integers and remove "n" letters. The
remaining letters must be an even number...
This is my first time making a Fillomino. Hope you enjoy!
Fillomino (taken from Nikoli):
Fill in all empty cells with numbers under the following rules.
Divide all of the board into blocks.
Fill each block with the same number horizontally or vertically.
Each block contains as many cells as the...
I wonder if the C4 is PATRICK as an &lit. There's an opera singer Patrick Power, so that's the definition half (Power for a twirling pair of dancers). I'm getting stuck on the wordplay half. If "for" can clue concatenation or AT (which could be, maybe) then we just need "a twirling pair" to clue ATRICK or RICK. Which I don't see. So I'm probably wrong.
BTW for any future clues I pose here, whenever I put a question mark at the end it will almost always mean that something tricky is going on in some part of the clue
And vice versa, although in this case I was debating whether I should include one or not
@msh210 Oh man, that's really clever, but it's not the intended solution - if I had intended the clue to be an &lit, I would've marked it as such with an exclamation point
Patrick Maurice Power (born 6 June 1947) is a New Zealand tenor. He has sung nearly all the lyric tenor repertoire in most of the major opera companies and festivals in Europe and North America. He was educated at St. Patrick's College, Silverstream, University of Otago, University of Auckland, Auckland Teachers' College, L'Università per Stranieri, Perugia, and the University of Waikato. He is currently lecturing in voice, languages for singers and vocal pedagogy at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide.
In the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours, Power was appointed an Officer...
And if they do, there's no particular reason why it would be specifically a pair of dancers.
And if they did and it were, there's no particular reason why one tenor soloist should be singing for them (I'd expect them to be accompanied by the orchestra).
I like combinitions of puzzles, so I decided to combine a sudoku and a slitherlink.
Below is a 6 by 6 grid. This is filled in with numbers based on the usual rules of sudoku. All of the numbers from 1 to 6 must appear in every row, column, and block. (Blocks are 3 wide and 2 tall.)
The shaded squ...
@Sphinx I'm so close on this, just stuck on a logical path for the end
(though I've been stuck in this spot for ~20 minutes now; there are 7 more Sudoku numbers to place and only a few disconnected line segments for the Slitherlink up)