The Sphinx's Lair

Sphinx

00:54

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Across 1. Singer Collins is performing leads for Prince (6) 5. Broken spine leads to aches (5) 10. Say, 33 across and Cuiabá's northern tip, described by excellent lyric poems (9) 11. Predecessor to NATO's uniform is brown next to green light (5) 12. Invalid character in Greek lines (4) 13. Jenn...

cryptic-crosswords

bobble

02:42

How "too broad list-y" is this old question? There's certainly a lot of answers, but while that's a warning sign of an open-ended recommendation question it's not a guarantee that it's a bad one.

Rajorshi Koyal

05:18

Directions (1-3): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
In the ordinariness of courtrooms, there seems to be only the drama of patience. Litigants wait for months or years to be heard. In some courts, nearly 2000 new cases are admitted every day out of
which only one case is disposed of. Even the report by the 245th Law Commission states that there is no scientific data available to analyse the problem meaningfully.

1. Which of the following may be effect (s) of such delay in solving the cases?

For solving such questions..What are the steps that are required..One by one..

It is very diffcult to think about the entore problem in one go..

Graylocke

@RajorshiKoyal Hi! Is this a puzzle? It looks like homework for some kind of legal class. :)

Rajorshi Koyal

@Graylocke It is an exam question..Particularly I am totally new to the topic

I am an unemployed youth preparing for IBPS PO and SBI PO banking exams in India

I am getting stuck up with these.So I am seeking professional help and guidance.

Graylocke

Oh! Good luck with that! :) I am not sure that this chat room is the best place to find advice though. This is a chatroom related to the Puzzling Stack Exchange, which focuses on creating and solving puzzles of various kinds.

You may need a different stack to help you with that topic...

Rajorshi Koyal

ok got you..

Graylocke

:) Good luck!

Rajorshi Koyal

05:26

Five friends A, B, C, D, and E are working in 5 different departments M, N, O, P and Q and they earn different salaries i.e. 10,000, 15,000, 20,000, 25,000 and 30,000 and they all are of different ages i.e. 24, 26, 28, 30 and 32 years. These all informations are not necessarily in the same order.
· B works in department M and earns more than 20,000. Person who is 28 years old works in department Q. 32 years old person earns at least 20,000.

· The person who is 26 years old earns 25,000. A earns 15,000, but does not work in department N or P.

Can you help me with these..type of questions..

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@Graylocke I would be very happy if you would assist me with the problems in the other chat room that I post

Graylocke

These seem like the usual kind of logic question. There are other puzzles in the question list that go through detailed ways of solving these puzzles. The bottom half of the answer to puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/55785/… has a step by step method of solving this kind of question.

Rajorshi Koyal

@Graylocke Thanks a lot Can I post such queries here?

Graylocke

If they are actually puzzles, I would post them as a question, not in chat. However, I would warn you that unattributed puzzles get closed, and "job interview" and "IQ test" questions tend to also be closed. Especially according to this extremely recent meta post: puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7202/…

If you are trying to work out where to post a question - it's the "Ask Question" button on the main Question page: puzzling.stackexchange.com

Rajorshi Koyal

@Graylocke Can I create a persona room so that I can get in touch with you..

If yes I would be exxtremely gratefu to you.

HTM

If the question's not from an ongoing job interview then I think it should be fine

Rajorshi Koyal

05:34

No no it is not

@HTM Can you assist me with the question I posted?

Thanks for the concern.

Graylocke

I am not sure I would be of much help, but if you have a specific question / problem then sure.

Rajorshi Koyal

Ok lets say for this question I am unable to touch pen on paper.

HTM

@RajorshiKoyal You should definitely post it as a question then, there's people on this site that are way better at explaining the solutions to these kinds of problems than me

Rajorshi Koyal

I would but I fear a down vote.

HTM

As long as you cite your sources and provide all the necessary background, you should be good

Rajorshi Koyal

05:36

ok lets see.

HTM

For instance, if you found the question from a website or a PDF, then providing a link would be acceptable for attribution purposes

Rajorshi Koyal

Alright.

Graylocke

(Also - if you are asking about the 5 people in 5 departments question without pen and paper... I think that is a weird thing to ask anyone to do. I don't think I could do that... at least not easily.)

HTM

@RajorshiKoyal Oh yeah, and check to make sure that you're allowed to post the question in the first place, so that you aren't breaking any copyrights or rules

(Probably shoulda mentioned that beforehand, but better late than never)

Rajorshi Koyal

I am positing the question right now.If you find the question that I have posted is not upto the mark then you can immediately tell me that.

HTM

05:42

Cool, thanks for asking! It's pretty rare for new members to be this thorough with the question asking process

Rajorshi Koyal

:P

Already published it..

Please check that once

One request is can I add @HTM and @Graylocke To a room where I intend to discuss puzzling question if both of you are ok with it?

Graylocke

Hah - I am not sure that that counts as a detailed solution. That's just "here is the answer".

Rajorshi Koyal

I have already created the new room

@Graylocke I could not get you..

HTM

@RajorshiKoyal I would love to help you out, but like I said, I'm not that great when it comes to explaining these kinds of problems - in fact, I haven't done such a puzzle for years! So I would definitely wait for an answer to your question, and if that doesn't clarify things, you can ask for more info in the comments

If you absolutely need help right now, then I'll answer whatever questions you have, but barring that I'd definitely chill a little bit

Rajorshi Koyal

Yes that would be better for both of us..Actually the reasoning I am telling you to join my room is it would like an excercise book for me and help me in revising the topics....When required..

Things would be difficult to get back to in a bigger chatroom..

@HTM Thanks for the concern.

HTM

05:54

@RajorshiKoyal No problem, hope you enjoy it here! :)

Rajorshi Koyal

:-)

Sphinx

06:08

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Q: Reasoning puzzle involving five friends and five departments

Five friends A, B, C, D, and E are working in 5 different departments M, N, O, P and Q and they earn different salaries i.e. 10,000, 15,000, 20,000, 25,000 and 30,000 and they all are of different ages i.e. 24, 26, 28, 30 and 32 years. These all informations are not necessarily in the same order....

logical-deduction logic-grid

Graylocke

07:40

Urf - hopefully that helped :)

Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

10:09

Found what might sound like a HNQ CC, but can't find answer: Overwrite a string on a tape (Code Golf)

Quoted rational numbers (Also code golf)

Unable to get a tube replacement to last (Bicycles SE)

Monastic nerd takes a leave from seclusion into the profane world (Scifi SE)

Partial tensor product sign(TEX SE)

Truncate continued fractions (Yet another Code Golf)

If there are any answers to the above, I would love to know

Another wave in a bit, doing homework

Some ideas: QUoted ratonal numbers could be RECOUNT ddef

Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

10:48

More HNQ CCs

Medieval fantasy ship carrier (Worldbuilding)

Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

11:06

Possible periods of input (Code Golf again)

humn

@Bobble , i truly appreciate how you openly voted to close. But it was a mistake. I throw so many clues into my puzzles.

Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

Hi @humn try the above HNQ CCs

humn

Oooo

Spinster.

Twister.

Whirlwind.

And whom are you @Anonymus25-ReinstateMonica? I can find out but. . .Actually don't answer.

You are you.

And i will retreat to Troll because, loud music.

Sphinx

12:34

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Q: Identifying a wooden puzzle box

In a flashback sequence in the film Tomb Raider (2018), Lara is seen trying to solve a wooden puzzle box: It is reminiscent of the Karakuri group's "small box" puzzles, but I was not able to find one in their catalogue of the same design. Can anyone identify this puzzle?

puzzle-identification mechanical-puzzles

Sphinx

13:47

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Q: How to deduce a grid for a three category?

How are they going for the three category setup here. I am unable to understand what two category setup was like.I am completely unable to figure out what the three category setup is like.A slightly detailed answer to this is most welcome.

logical-deduction logic-grid

Jafe

i want the c4 word to be a double def -ERS word that means both a power of some sort and a twirling pair

LEADERS kinda sorta works for "power" maybe, and it has a ton of meanings but none of them mean a twirling pair AFAICT

time to write a fictional wiki article about a dancing couple named Jennifer Lea and Gunther Ders and call it a solve

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Gareth McCaughan

14:02

I want it to be a word that means "twirling", with a P replaced by an A to make something that means "pair". But it probably isn't.

msh210

14:31

@GarethMcCaughan If "a" clued INDIR, we'd have CONNECT (CONN for INDIR, INDIRECT = CONNECT). But it doesn't.

Jafe

twirling means indirect?

msh210

@Jafe kinda… (shrugs)

I'm not saying I'd use it for that purpose.

Stiv

14:58

Well, I want it to mean "power" and begin with PRO ('for') - something like PROTEIN, except I can't make TEIN work with 'twirling pair' in any way...

PROWESS is my other 'close one', if only WESS meant 'a twirling pair' (perhaps like this somehow??!)

Not sure either of those is a close-enough fit for POWER yet though...

Lukas Rotter

18:02

Ongoing competition :P

Sphinx

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Q: Riddle for my 10 year old brother

I want a riddle to stump my 10 year old brother because he has been bragging about how smart he is because they put him in a gifted program.Please try to make it as short and simple as possible. Please don't put any confusing words he is only 10 years old after all.

riddle puzzle-creation

Sphinx

20:37

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Q: A square covering a rectangle

You are given a rectangle with base b and height h with $h>b>0$. What is the minimum side length of a square, which completely covers this rectangle.

mathematics geometry

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