Clue: Large area left on the map of Canada (7).
ALBERTA.
Why?
I can see that Alberta is "of Canada".
If you could explain, write to me at: Bronson69 AT gmail DOT com
Thanks!
John
@PDT cool. Just for your future reference, I don't think it's widely accepted to clue a word and then anagram it. If you're gonna anagram, then the anagrammed word should be right there in front of the solver. IINM.
CCCC: What Bob Hope did with a forest person for a competition (10)
Recently I posted a question about tiling dominoes in a 3x10 area. The community, including user Quuxplusone, has decided to swoop in and arbitrarily decide my puzzle is off-topic because it's "too mathy". Yet, questions like
Keys and Locks Puzzle
What do 84, 96 and 108 have in common?
Longest s...
If anyone wants to handle answering the question on meta, feel free...
You just chose an arbitrary point on what you consider easy/expected and what you don't. I'm pretty sure the 10 numbers on a blackboard is a straightfoward problem in competition math and programming circles that pretty much everyone knows. Like on a contest it would be one of the "textbook" questions. So now it's off-topic because it's too well-known?? — qwr4 hours ago
They're really doing the rounds right now on posts they have beef with. I don't know how to firefight this without it blowing up in my face.
Correction - 'really doing the rounds' is an exaggeration. There are 3 such comments. This is the third:
So we should look through every single [knowledge] question, as they are "a test of knowledge". And most of the "what word is this" questions too? — qwr4 hours ago
I'm sure this isn't the first time it's happened on Puzzling. Experienced hand possibly required, although it seems the user has a problem with high-rep users so then again maybe not...? Anyway, enough from me for now.
@Stiv lmao, the guy actually dug up an 8-year-old meta proposal with two votes, which was never accepted as the official wording, and is trying to argue against it
PSE version of picking a fight with random passersby on the street
Probably a fair assessment of the situation. I'm not intending to do anything further myself (I tend to steer clear of most of the mathematics questions anyway) but thought I'd post in case anyone else had the stamina to engage on this.
CCCC: In Spain, what line by actor, regularly appearing at the beginning of advertisement in South Africa, got ultimately put in translation? "Ancient deity!" (12)
so it's QUE (in spain, what) L (line) CO (actor regularly) appearing at A (the beginning of advertisement) inside [ ZA (south africa) T (got ultimately) ], inside TL (translation) = QUETZALCOATL, an ancient deity
While I am quite active in moderation and closing, I steer away from using the math problem close reason for anything but the most obvious HW math questions. I don't understand how math puzzles work, either!
Somewhere in an alternate universe...
Dear Puzzling,
This is a word division puzzle which uses cryptic clues. If you're unfamiliar with either or both of those, you can click the associated link.
In order to solve the alphametic, you'll first need to fill in the dividend, divisor, and quotient ...
Thanks @GentlePurpleRain - I actually just had a brief further exchange with them this afternoon and the air has been cleared, so all fine there. Hopefully your response can go some way to helping their situation.
@bobble Yeah, I think I have a very similar personal policy on mathematics questions!
For me it tends to be a gray area: some people like it, some people don't, and to be honest I lean to the latter. (I'm not saying I explored this fully though)
I'm guessing that either the middle or last "cut" is a subtraction indicator, and thus the answer involves taking a synonym of "cut" out of another synonym of "cut", or a synonym of "hay" out of a synonym of "cut"
(Of course, not exactly synonym in general but you get the point)
lets consider the outcomes to get 2 heads followed by 2 tails:
T, probability 1/2, wasted one attempt
HT, probability 1/4, wasted 2 attempts
HHH, probability 1/8, wasted one attempt
HHTH, probability 1/16, 2 attempts
HHTT probabilty 1/16
let x be expected rolls to get HHTT
x = 1/2(x+1) + 1/4(x+2)...
Clue: Large area left on the map of Canada (7).
ALBERTA.
Why?
I can see that Alberta is "of Canada".
If you could explain, write to me at: Bronson69 AT gmail DOT com
Thanks!
John
Right:
1: A direction. (4)
7: Beverages. (4)
Down:
3: Elder sisters. (4)
4: To satisfy. (4)
Up:
2: Greek letters. (4)
5: A stiff structure. (4)
6: For suppressing someone. (4)
Somewhere in an alternate universe...
Dear Puzzling,
This is a word division puzzle which uses cryptic clues. If you're unfamiliar with either or both of those, you can click the associated link.
In order to solve the alphametic, you'll first need to fill in the dividend, divisor, and quotient ...
