Thank you @bobble for pushing this forward; the FAQ and the textual revisions look good. This post has been featured (thanks Gareth) for greater visibility and additional community feedback. After a suitable period for further input, I believe we should be in a good place to ask the CMs to make the new texts live. — Rubio ♦Nov 23 at 7:40
Your regular reminder that we're still in said "period for further input"
(1) Yes, the first letter of hunter is H. (2) I hope that "forest" isn't used as an anagram indocator here -- "hunter close to" could be the fodder; it has an H. :)
Fwiw, 13-letter MIT Mystery Hunt contestants this past year were corticolumbus, IgnoreTheBees, jjscienceclub, lilbluesclues, PlatypusFound, redmokbluemok, sisterraucous, stickymittens, and TeamConundrum.
it's fun to watch people solving your puzzles because sometimes you get those "wish i had thought of that" moments
like a while back i posted a puzzle where the task was identifying a place that's home to "gingers" (the trick being that they were actually orangutans, not people)
the person who solved it initially thought it referred to gingers the plants
which still bothers me because it would have been so much more clever
@Jafe I'm feeling sure this is HOLLYWOODISED (possibly with a Z instead of an S) = HOLLY (Hunter) + WOOD (forest) + somehow getting ISED/IZED from 'sign now', but I can't quite suss the last part of the wordplay... Anyone want to take that one?
This puzzle is part of the Puzzling StackExchange Advent Calendar 2021. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.
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TASK: An odd number of related things (greater than 50) have been hidden horizontally, vertically and diagonally...
My next C4 is the last of a sequence. I hereby offer 500 reputation points as bounty to whoever first posts (in this room) an explanation of the sequence. If the full explanation is offered in parts by more than one person, the bounty will be shared. The decision of winner(s) is mine alone and final. The bounty is also subject to my finding a bountyable post by that person on a site that I have enough rep on, which I don't find offensive.
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CCCC: Cuban government official sources cigars (8)
@Stiv Hehe, I can relate, both with being easlily distracted and with needing to get on with my work. Funny how a (1*) always looks more important than a yellow envelope in my office inbox.
Okay, guys, I'll send you all on a paper chase: Notice how msh210 introduced the notation of linking to Gareth's C4 explanation. Do you think that is a coincidence?
Find the rectangle of the minimum area that can be divided into five rectangles such that the lengths of all their sides are different natural numbers.
I found a 11x11 rectangle such that when we divide it, we get five rectangles and the areas are 1x9, 2x8, 3x6, 4x7, 5x10. The question is whether...
The difficulty definitely lies in not knowing what words you're actually looking for. If you can spot patterns in the ones you've found you should be able to make some deductions that help you find others... But to spot patterns in those you might need to work out the theme first...
(I wanted to create what I hoped would be a difficult wordsearch. I hope that it still remains a fun one too though...)
@Stiv Not necessarily. I just decided to offer a bounty and, since I don't really care about my rep, and to encourage participation, made it a big one.
The frustrating thing is... there is a part of me that's now itching to know if there's anything in what you said... itch itch itch itch itch itch itch itch...
Well, hovering over the links in the PSE search results shows that they are all the same, but ... there's an on and off pattern, since some of them don't have links. (But, for what it's worth, I don't think that the answer is hidden there.)
@ParclyTaxel The white stars are pinned to the starboard by a moderator or room owner. The black are starred by anyone. Both expire after a time, but I don't know whether the times are the same. But the white can be pushed off the starboard only by other white ones, whereas the black can be pushed off by white or black ones.
(That's how I got onto the pattern: I saw that Salt-free diet and Salt Lake City were a good match and wanted to make another silly remark -- you'll all have noticed that I'm in a silly mood today. Then I say Olykook.)
I thought of this riddle with my sister. Feedback is appreciated.
My prefix rids sinning.
My suffix is swimming.
My infix is cheeky.
And where I live its weedy.
Who am I?
hm. A negative report or an old letter can be a philippic. And to give such a report can be to philippize. And the duke is Philip. But I still don't see a solution.
What Notable Object is the Following Crossword Cluing?
Across:
1. Clattering or banging, for example
4. Has never been done before
6. Fiery pit
8. Exam answer
10. Very cream of the crop
14. Don't lose this while traveling
15. Fruit or vegetable quality
16. To use as an alternative
18. Imme...
Our friends Alice and Bob must separate their finances. They divide up the first 18 items as follows.
Alice
Bob
Apartment
House
Fee
Owe
Purchase
Sell
Money
Income
Lease
Borrow
Debt
Loan
Tax
Buy
Collateral
Lend
Renter
Boarder
They're left with these 8 items to divide.
...
This is the story of the sister of the princess in this puzzle. I will shamelessly copy-paste some parts of this post. I have no reference to give for this version as I adapted a Computer Science problem I once saw on paper.
In a big castle lives a princess. The princess sleeps in a different be...