Found an old IQ problem that came up in an earlier job search. Still don't know how to solve it. I tried counting the number of edges/ faces and flipping the diagrams, but I can't see the trick.
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Saw this question in the book, "A Moscow Math circle" by Dorichenko.
Eighteen 2x1 dominoes cover a 6x6 board without overlapping each other or the sides of the board.
Prove that, for any such arrangement, it is possible to cut the board into two pieces along a vertical or horizontal line without...
I have here a happy heptet of little riddles, or is it an octet?
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His eyes were plucked out by the tip of a knife,
And his skin was shaved off with the blade.
He was then left over a roaring flame,
In a roiling cauldron to bathe.
When this was done, they whisked him...
I've spent way too much time on the computer today; but, at least you get a puzzle out of it!
Boast all you want, I'll even give you the answers...
I won't remain in the dark without you.
Nothing compares to the light in I do.
Answers are tested.
Relationships vested.
You'll find what you need,...
I guess you are looking at the 'crostic only. (I thought that the overabundance of tags would give some of it away too readily, but apparently not.) :)
I realised that I won't be any good at making cryptics if I don't know how to solve them
I'm doing one now, and I have a hunch ISOPOD would be the answer for "Crustacean is beginning to outgrow shell (6)" with an O already filled in (????O?)
I am not entirely sure how the first O would come in, though - feedback?
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A man entered a store and spent one-half of the money that was in his pocket. When he came out he found that he had just as many cents as he had dollars when he went in and half as many dollars as he had cents when he went in. How much money did he have on him when he entered?
@Tacoタコス feel free to post it there! I'm not 100% what the challenge would be but you definitely have more coding knowledge than me so I'm sure you could make somehow work it out
Nathan's set a benchmark of 2219 chars, so I'm sure that could be beaten
@BeastlyGerbil oh thank you! If you're okay with it, I can update your post with a footnote that includes a link to the challenge once it goes live. I usually leave challenges in the sandbox for a week before posting.
Either that or I can ping you here with the link :)
Whichever you prefer
Or a comment
Wow, I need more caffeine today lol
@BeastlyGerbil Absolutely lol
I'm sure there are languages that solve sudoku in 9 characters or less lmao
Sure go ahead, a footnote would be fine. I've visited the site a few times but don't fully know how it works so I'm more than happy for you to take the reigns with it over there
I swear if someone writes a working solver in brainfuck, then I might have to leave the internet for the good though :P
I don't know how you'd word the challenge but I guess you'd have to make it so the code could solve any version, not just print out the solution to the puzzle right?
@BeastlyGerbil You're absolutely correct. The phrasing starts with "You'll be given two n-dimensional arrays, representing each side of the strip (0 will represent empty squares)".
Your particular puzzle and its answer will be the test case.
@ParclyTaxel depends on how many clues you want to check, if theres lots might be a good idea to create a separate room with someone to go through with you
@ParclyTaxel Congratulations! That was quite a toucgh quiptic in my (and many Guardian commenters') opinion. It is okay to ask for help with cryptic clues here, but if you are looking for help with "a bunch" of them, why not visit fifteensquared.net? They blog detail solution for the daily Guardian, FT Independent puzzles. Pan's Monday quiptic is discussed here.
@MOehm That's one of the reasons I stopped on golf. Too many esolangs that are designed to be written, not read. I'd much rather see some clever C-style or Python that solves the problem efficiently. I'd also like scoring rules to change to accommodate c-style overhead.
@ParclyTaxel I'm pretty sure that the parsing on 15² is the intended one. There's no indication that one whould take only the first letter of rubbish and, if anything, "rubbish back" would be H. Aln in your parsing, the "to" would hang loose - it isn't included in what should be kept.
I've looked only briefly at the puzzle, but to me, "binary" suggests that we are trying to construct some ones and zeros from the limerick, which can be converted to letters via A1Z26 or ASCII. I've tried to make something from the O's and I's, but couldn't find anything. The long lines in the limerick have eight words each and taking words with an even length as 1 and with an odd length as 0 gives "tel" in ASCII, which I'm not very confident about. Then I gave up. :)
You've most likely heard of the eight queens puzzle, right? Where you have to place n chess queens on an n * n board so that no queens attack each other (boy, those must be some very angry monarchs!)? Well...what if, instead of queens, you had to place chess knights on an n * n board?
What's the ...
I'm literally willing to give this one away because it was fun to write and I made a mistake, so I don't want that mistake to distract from the fact that it was a well thought out puzzle
@ParclyTaxel I'm not 100% certain on it. I know several users that aren't fans of "can you beat my answer" types of questions, but you could phrase it in a way that prevents that.
For example, pose the puzzle, give proper attribution, and just have the community solve it.
No, look at the words as "drain_d" and "plann_d" instead. Just empty that index. 0010101.
It wasn't meant to be there in the first place; somehow I missed the fact that they both ended in "ed".
I spent 50 minutes looking for words that not only fit the puzzle, but that didn't match at any index but the intended indices. Somehow missed that "e". 🤦♀️
I was definitely looking way too much into it, because multiple hints pointed in the same direction, I assumed each hint had to indicate something completely unique
After the acrostic I thought "ok so obviously something binary is going on here, what else could these lines mean, because I can't imagine they'd hint the same thing"
In three monographs published in 2006, 2008 and 2014 Gerard 't Hooft considered "Meccano mathematics": how to construct specified distances and regular polygons by a rigid system of ideal Meccano strips, where the distance between adjacent holes on a strip is 1. He showed in the first monograph t...
@Tacoタコス this would have been a completely different question but could you have written "xyz is the answer, what are the 7 hints I've hidden in this post"
@msh210 it comes from the chemo drug paclitaxel. I came up with it in 2012, when I entered the MLP fandom and needed something nicer than the other username I had at the time, Freywa
@ParclyTaxel I've been wondering why your name sounded so familiar - as a cancer researcher, now I finally realise! (sound of penny dropping) Two worlds strangely colliding...
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