A fugitive is surrounded by N police officers, with the nearest one at distance 1 away. The fugitive and the officers move alternatively.
In a fugitive move, the fugitive can travel no more than a distance of d.
In a officer move, the sum of distances travelled by all officers can be no more tha...
I have been working on the theory that the C4 contains I = "current" and SO = significant other = "beau," with the def then being "Haggard" or "Haggard queen." Don't really know of any queens that are or were exhausted though, and Qat hasn't given me anything useful to work off of
A powerful sorcerer has hired Rickey Rat as an intern. The wizard gives Rick the task of carrying water from a well to the garden. The path from the well to the garden is up a staircase with 1000 steps. The wizard gives Rickey a one-litre bucket and tells him that the bucket was an old one he exp...
@Stiv I've finally gotten the next step in your Easter egg puzzle, and I think I know what to do next with what I have. Can't access PSE right now, so I won't be able to update my answer until tomorrow, but I wanted to let you know that I've made pretty significant progress
woman + is + er could be beau... let's see the arguments for and against
against: the definition isn't all that great, queen -> woman would need a def-by-example indicator, uncertain -> er is pretty iffy, "about current" is unused, as is "haggard", and also that is 9 letters and not 8
A powerful sorcerer has hired Rickey Rat as an intern. The wizard gives Rick the task of carrying water from a well to the garden. The path from the well to the garden is up a staircase with 1000 steps. The wizard gives Rickey a one-litre bucket and tells him that the bucket was an old one he exp...
^ Anyone know what's going on with the triplicate 'Rickey Rat' puzzle? Is this the same user posting the same question 3 times for no apparent reason, or is there a contest we should be aware of?
For any Sporclers out there, the site just dropped a new puzzle hunt yesterday, which may be of interest... They announced it purely by releasing a new badge. The quiz which must be completed first has attracted SO MANY confused comments from people who haven't worked out the first step or don't really appreciate what's going on!
Thomas bought a train set with 25 toy engines that run at different speeds. The train set has five parallel tracks that can be built to race the engines. After each round, Thomas notes down the relative speeds of the engines instead of their actual lap times. What is the least number of races he ...
^ One of the contest questions has just been deleted, and the same user has just posted another question...
I have commented to check on the source...
(I realise our role is not to police every puzzle that is posted to the site, but I get a bee in my bonnet when people treat us as a resource for cheating...)
You are trying to recognize a theme for your portfolio, but luckily your friend has some themes! ...but encrypted in a cipher.
So here are the encrypted lines of text:
pi pi pi pi pi pi pi pi pi pi pika pipi pi pipi pi pi pi pipi pi pi pi pi pi pi pi pipi pi pi pi pi pi pi pi pi pi pi pichu pich...
On an infinite chessboard there's a single white king and N black kings. The nearest black king must be K moves away from the white king. Given N, white dictates the value of (finite) K, then black places their kings.
Question: Can white always force a draw without capturing any black kings? (by ...
@HTM Good to see! You're at the finish line! Just need a little burst of energy now... (BTW All those shows are Emmy Award-winning - that's how restrictive I made it for myself to find anagrams...!)
The eight vertices of a cube are marked with numbers from 1 to 8 such that
the sum of any three numbers on any face is not less than 10.
What is the minimum sum of the four numbers on a face?