Inspired by Long word using only 4 letters -
Using four distinct letters, what is the longest sentence you can form, with each word in the sentence being unique? (For instance, making an infinite “and” chain is not allowed).
Reasonable proper nouns are allowed; creativity is welcomed!
Let $p$ be a prime. I chose a secret permutation $a_0,a_1,...,a_{p-1}$ of $0,1,...,p-1$ unknown to you. Now, you can ask the following types of questions to me:
Type $1$: Tell me two integers $i,j$ where $0\le i,j\le p-1$. I will then tell you the $k$ such that $a_k\equiv a_i+a_j\pmod p$.
Type $...
@Sphinx additionally, now that it's just to be >= length 13, it seems to invite an endless list of answers hitting that criterion? Or am I missing something?
These "Find the longest/best scoring whatever" questions don't really make for good puzzles. They just boil down to running a quick script against an English dictionary, if they aren't solvable by qat and co already.
In my opinion, they are wrong-headed anyway. The given property might be interesting, but instead of having solvers explore that space, the setter should do that and make an interesting puzzle from it where the solver can have an aha-moment: Oh, these words are all unique and only use A, E, L and S, so the word I'm looking for must be, too.
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Stiv's recent coloured dots puzzle is a good example.
not a concrete historical figure means it could be a Viking in general… for example, the definition could be "Viking's neighbour" and the answer could Saxon Triber (if that were a term)
Y'all have probably considered this possibility before but "one of the tips of nondescript" immediately made me think "N OR T", so that 5 letter word I was saying earlier could be "north", related to the Vikings since they are up north as well. But I don't know where to get the H.
In the heart of darkness
Where shadows play
A figure stands
With a face of gray
It's eyes are black
It's soul is white
It weeps for the living
And mourns the night
It's presence is felt
By the wind & rain
Yet it's invisible
Like a ghostly stain
What is the figure?
I just searched meteorite and Google apparently gives me a meteorite landing effect on the screen when I do that (on mobile at least, but I'm assuming it also works on PC)
A classic puzzle asks us to break a 6x6x6 cube into the smallest number of pieces which can be reassembled into 3 physically separate cubes of sizes 3, 4, & 5.
3³+4³+5³ =27+64+125 =216 =6³
An 8-piece solution is known to be minimal, because each fragment must possess exactly one of the original c...
Well, if a lien is an attack (on your property), then A (small part of alien) + LIEN = new (as in "that's new to me"). But I'm quite sure this isn't the intended answer.
So I have an edge piece that has the same color(white) on both side. I think it's unsolvable now? Should I swap the stickers? Even if so, how would I know which one to exchange it with?
There is a population of people (finite or infinite). Any group of people (finite or infinite) in this population has someone assigned to be in charge of them. So someone is in charge of the whole population, someone is in charge the set of no people, each person has someone in charge of them (...
In the heart of darkness
Where shadows play
A figure stands
With a face of gray
It's eyes are black
It's soul is white
It weeps for the living
And mourns the night
It's presence is felt
By the wind & rain
Yet it's invisible
Like a ghostly stain
What is the figure?
Does someone know which is the missing tile from the six proposed answers at the bottom and can explain why?
Thank you!
So I have an edge piece that has the same color(white) on both side. I think it's unsolvable now? Should I swap the stickers? Even if so, how would I know which one to exchange it with?
There is a population of people (finite or infinite). Any group of people (finite or infinite) in this population has someone assigned to be in charge of them. So someone is in charge of the whole population, someone is in charge the set of no people, each person has someone in charge of them (...
