@msh210 I re-read this and it's stuff I've pretty much learned by reading over the main crosswordunclued blogs and/or attempting some my self out of newspapers with work colleagues (this was sometime ago)
But then you hear about "gegs! (9, 4)" and I start to wonder else might be clued by a setter who has their own (perhaps unknown) nuances and tricks
@Stiv No need to apologize! I'm just too slow for the cruel, competitive domain that is PSE. (I kid, I kid. It took me too long to see that if the card game was Uno, that would open up a lot of un- words. I still wasted some time on "unanchored", because I wanted to get an H in after a C.)
@MOehm I was trying to both explain the wordplay of UNOBJECTED (BJ... blackjack? But that's a second game...) and justify the very loose match to free...
At least unanchored would fit with on meaning of free
This is a double connect wall puzzle. The objective is to rearrange the sixteen people below in the 4x4 grid such that each row of 4 will be related by a common theme and each column of 4 will also be related a common theme. In total, there will be 8 different themes/categories.
After discoveri...
@AncientSwordRage maybe so but I doubt I'd ever use an indirect anagram. (But I've surprised myself before.)
Okay... after Jafe's helpful but (for me) unfortunate translations, I'm going to reword the CCCC immediately: An expensive trip by truck (and in Paris!) (6)
Ah I was thinking it might have been Triple def of expensive trip (i.e. expensive -> smart->metro? This one is very loose) by truck (literally) In Paris
In the usage guidance; I believe it might be worth mentioning that puzzles which are custom made using this tag, should also include logical-deduction.
For example this puzzle should probably include the logical-deduction tag since solvers needed to deduce the required path to solving (e.g. there isn't a well known and defined algorithm available so it must be determined along the way).
KATIKI is a cheese and "about Arizonan, cheese" is thus KAZATIKI, which is almost KAZATSKI, a hip hop song (or at least a dance, to music, in which you hop your hips. I'm not sure whether it also means a song used for the dance, but it may). But it doesn't quite work, alas.
@Tacoタコス please don't copy significant amounts of wording directly from Wikipedia, and especially don't do it without citation. See meta.stackexchange.com/q/79000/1017231
Anyways, the purpose of Wikipedia is different than the purpose of a tag wiki. Wikipedia is for a general description of a topic, tag wikis are for a specific description of a topic as it applies to a community.
So it would be more useful to e.g. present common examples of ways that twisty-puzzles could be incorporated into puzzles, or add warnings about common problems, etc.
I'm also creating a meta post to make rubiks-cube a synonym of twisty-puzzles or the other way around, not sure how that works entirely yet.
@bobble I don't have enough experience with them to elaborate on that, I wanted to present more information about what twisty puzzles are and give common examples to make the tag more useful
The normal way to remove a tag is to edit it out of every question that has it. The tag will disappear from the list after a little while (there's an automatic cleanup job that runs daily).
If a tag is present on a lot of questions, then Stack Exchange staff can burninate it, i.e. make it so tha...
> I don't think twisty-puzzles is a duplicate of rubiks-cube, it's a generalization.
mechanical-puzzles has 7 questions. Its wiki says:
Puzzles that are physically made and have some sort of mechanism for turning or moving them, such as Rubik's Cubes or trick boxes.
twisty-puzzles has 4 questions. Its wiki says:
The twisty-puzzles tag is for all questions related to so...
@Tacoタコス, toilet paper math? has nothing to do with math or formation of numbers, and I'm not sure if the few intro sentences (hints) count as a story or not. Do I just remove those tags or are they supposed to be there?
@Amoz If you disagree with a tag edit because it clashes with your intended puzzle mechanism you are at perfect liberty to roll back to the past version
If it clashes, I'd remove it. I would especially remove it if the new tags will mislead potential solvers as to how they should be thinking to solve your puzzle. It can always be re-added later if necessary.
I reckon that's an individual taste thing. I probably wouldn't bother unless it was a much longer piece of prose, but others might for anything that involves some form of creative writing. Gow ith your gut :)
onceA number of couples, each one of them happening to be composed of a mathematician and an athlete (hence 'mathletic'), wanted, in order to diversify communication, to sit down at opposite sides of a (rectangular) dinner table randomly, in such a way that mathematicians face athletes. A certain...
@Amoz the secondary question appeared to have formation of numbers involved and based on categorizing (not solving per se), I put it on there. Feel free to remove it; I was just trying to help :)
I think the numbers are probably arbitrary identifying codes rather than numbers, though so far I haven't been successful in finding exactly what identifying codes. There doesn't appear to be a standard one for what I think the puzzle is about. But I may be wrong in many different ways.
@Tacoタコス I think Gareth's talking about Amoz's non-mathematics toilet paper puzzle... I've been thinking along similar lines and am equally having no luck reaching a solution.
@Tacoタコス Can I suggest doing the retags in smaller batches? The front page is now pretty much entirely rubiks-cube/twisty-puzzles from many months/years ago. Anything active and interesting is buried!
It's called "definition by example", so if you use an example (subset) to define a category, you need "perhaps" or something similar. The other way round, if you use a category to define an example, is fine.
You should ping Jafe about your answer. He's a geography buff, so using Mesan would be right up his alley.
Also, @Tacoタコス if you want to do a major necro-tagging campaign, maybe don't do it all on one day? I usually aim for 3 a day at most. Less if there isn't much activity.
@Deusovi it was actually abomination but I didn't feel like being over specific - bombination captures the general idea well enough although abomination was the original intent
honestly both would work, though abomination fits with the title much better
not to say that excessive humming isn't annoying
but I didn't think of the word "bombination" when setting, so it became ambiguous :<
For some users, reviewing is not possible at the moment; the queues show up blank. Both active queues and completed review items are not visible, probably because of a JavaScript error:
I'm using the latest macOS and can reproduce it in Firefox, Safari and Chrome. For me it seems to work fine in...
Your fifth is in cookies but never in cream.
Your fourth is in stormclouds and also in steam.
Your last's in your meaning but not in your word.
Your second's in fourth, first, three-hundredth, and third.
Your first's in a puddle but not in a pail.
Your third and your sixth, when abroad, are in j...
Hi everyone, Ill just be in the chatroom for a bit because I dont know how else should I contact.. ><
@Tacoタコス while I appreciate your enthusiasm, I'm sorry I'm actually feeling annoyed lately especially today as my front page is now full of old rubik cube's questions.
I scrolled up a bit of the chat, Stiv and bobble also pointed out about limiting the number of edits (and yes, 3 a day is fine at most for me).
I posted this question on the Cross Validated stack exchange just now, but wanted to cross-post to here as well, because it is somewhat open-ended.
A solution may be provided by myself or another person, perhaps tomorrow or the next day.
Some questions (and answers) are more worth it to be edited, by checking ones in review queues. Micro-tagging "twisty-puzzle" for "rubik-cube" isn't one imho. Tags are used to filter some focuses and I think "rubik-cube" tag is helpful enough for the puzzlers, and it's also applicable for other tags as well.
Remember that tags aren't used for the puzzle to be appear/advertised anywhere in many places. They are used to filter people's interests (while also avoiding which ones that are not their cup of tea).
I said much about tags, but the idea should also be generalized to other things like spoilering things (iirc note that old answers dont utilize spoilers yet, so if we do want to apply it, there will be also so many edits to be done).
That's my two cents >< thanks so much for your understanding and cheers! ^^
I need to delete my answer on Mathoverflow, but the system does not let me. I also cannot add a comment, delete or flag an answer on any other SE forum. What is happening?
I have this question from a friend. We have no idea where to start. What is the correct answer and reasoning?
Source: "Ghid de pregătire pentru concursul de directori/ directori adjuncți din învățământul preuniversitar", Gabriel Vrânceanu, Gabriela Bărbulescu,... Editura Scrib, București, 2016
^ with respect to this question I'm not sure that the book they list has anything to do with IQ questions
they may just be relying on the fact that nobody wants to double check to pass some IQ question into the mix
at least, it appears like a book containing bibliographies of management/managers?
or a guide to pass a certain exam
Then again, the picture they gave does look like it came from a physical book (you can faintly see the lettering behind the page), so it may be real or from a different book than the one they mentioned