I am a cube
Made up of cubes
Twenty six cubes
Colorful cubes
Spinning cubes
Sliding cubes
But always a cube
A large, cubed cube
Not a ruby cube
And not a phoenix cube
But a bright cube
With-lot's-of-colors cube
What kind of cube am I?
Pretty much all of that poster's riddles are ... distinctly too straightforward to be good puzzles, in my view. (Maybe literally all; I haven't checked all of them.)
Oh, you weren't talking about the Sphinx posting. Apologies for the misunderstanding.
There are $72$ criminals in a jail in $8$ cells as shown in the picture above. There are $9$ criminals in each cell. There are $4$ guards. Each of them watch over the $4$ corridors. As there is a door between every two adjacent cells, the criminals of a cell can go to another cells. So, a guar...
By the way, @Stiv I still see Amoz's pinned chat on the starboard about your Easter Egg puzzle, do you have the power to unpin it, now that the puzzle is solved?
Wait, it's not solved yet
I'll fix that
Bounty added, still need to think about the connect-wall though
@Stiv is correct :D I decided that even if I did not have the energy to create a longer clue, I was not going to let go of a shorter one without sliding in a trick.
However, it's not the first time someone has used that trick (as evidenced below):
Here is a puzzle that I recently encountered:
You have a four digit lock with the following clues.
When you enter 1378, one digit is correct and well-placed.
When you enter 2834, nothing is correct.
When you enter 7512, two numbers are correct. Both are wrongly placed.
When you enter 1693, on...
Despite being well-decorated, stylish, and sturdy
I'm often dark inside, and
When put into use, I am dark all around
I am destined to carry Something (that will soon turn foul)
To keep what is inside safe from what is without;
Not more than One in my lifespan
As It is often Something once precio...
(Disclaimer: I remember a puzzle like this I did a long time ago, but this isn't a direct copy of the puzzle, only it's formatting. If this is appears to be a copy of another riddle, I will simply say that this mimics only the format, while not the actual puzzle. Please enjoy.)
Jim and John are b...
I've seen for CCs that substitutions are usually done with 1-2 character portions that are standard abbreviations (source); would it be unfair to use a substitution with portions that are (a) longer than 2 characters, (b) different lengths, and (c) clued by synonyms, not abbreviations?
I've got a clue with a nice surface, and the alternate clue I've come up with that doesn't use a substitution is a lot less neat, but I feel like the sub as is has too much going on that might make it unfair
For regional spelling differences (eg. colour vs color), is it valid to indicate which spelling is being used in the clue (eg. American influence = color), or would this be seen as unnecessary padding?
valid, though I'd lean more towards "unnecessary padding" if the spelling is the same one that you expect people to use in general
like, in a US cryptic, I'd be happier with "British influence" than "American influence", and vice versa for a UK cryptic. and if there's not an obvious 'default', picking either's fine as long as you're consistent
In my case, I had to look up what the correct spelling was (turned out to be regional difference) and what I ended up using wasn't how I'd normally spell it (as a Canadian), so I'm thinking I'll include it
There are $72$ criminals in a jail in $8$ cells as shown in the picture above. There are $9$ criminals in each cell. There are $4$ guards. Each of them watch over the $4$ corridors. As there is a door between every two adjacent cells, the criminals of a cell can go to another cells. So, a guar...
If $O^3=DAD$ and $(IM)^2=MOM$, then what is $MAID$?
Here is a puzzle that I recently encountered:
You have a four digit lock with the following clues.
When you enter 1378, one digit is correct and well-placed.
When you enter 2834, nothing is correct.
When you enter 7512, two numbers are correct. Both are wrongly placed.
When you enter 1693, on...
