Could also be alluding to a previous version of "she". Wiktionary says that Middle English had it in the form sche, scho, hyo, or heo, of which the first two are the most promising
A wooden beam (which is a rectangular parallelepiped) with edges of 8, 8, and 27 inches is to be sawed into 4 parts out of which a cube can be made. Naturally, one should draw first and saw later.
How should the beam be cut?
Clarification: Assume that the sawing does not reduce the overall volu...
About "Guide to Codes and Ciphers" - I actually understand how Enigma Cipher works, so l probably could write up an answer about mechanical ciphers lol.
Maybe it is, although I honestly am not sure. First CC that I've had at least some sort of train of thought for, although I can't really remember the process.
@PolygonPotpourri Yes, it is :) And I think I've seen 'caught' used before in the lair as a homophone indicator (but may be mistaken - I shall defer to oAlt on all things archive-y...), I've certainly seen it used elsewhere (and I reckon the F and V sounds are close enough, personally, though others are free to disagree...!).
@CrSb0001 thanks for the assist by the way. For some reason I (and probably others) just never thought of that even though it's one of the basic characteristics of a rabbit
On the island of Knights and Knaves, knights can only say true sentences and knaves can only say false sentences. This makes day-to-day life awful, since nobody can truly lie. Mafia games end in five seconds.
So knights and knaves instead speak with gadgets. Instead of saying statement $P$ direct...
may as well post this so others can make progress on it: some words that polygonpotpourri has posted make up phrases that can represent the number 14: DAYS IN A FORTNIGHT, GREEN STRIPED BALL, 'ALTERNATIVE' SCRABBLE POINT VALUE
the scrabble point value one could feasibly be replaced by other words to make different scores if need be
i figure it might be because it looks like we'll be making numbers that aren't 14 since 14 is neither PRIME nor ODD, and BLACKJACK normally refers to 21
but i can't figure much else out beyond this point since i don't know what the other numbers are and both DAYS IN A FORTNIGHT and GREEN STRIPED BALL can really only be 14
Nice spots. Some alternative options include ALTERNATIVE BLACKJACK NAME = 21 and WASHINGTON AMOUNT IN $ = 1, so you might not be looking for all 14's but other numbers in combo too.
(Or just WASHINGTON $ AMOUNT to keep the 'IN' elsewhere and preserve the three-word clue pattern)
So an almost complete three-word-clue partition might look something like:
ALTERNATIVE BLACKJACK NAME = 21 POINT AFTER LOVE = 15 BLANK SCRABBLE VALUE = 0 WASHINGTON $ AMOUNT = 1 DAYS IN FORTNIGHT = 14 STRIPED GREEN BALL = 14 FIRST ODD PRIME = 3 CLEAR-SIGHTED WHEN DOUBLED = 20
Spares at present: E / POUNDS / A / KEY / SCORES / MATE
(No guarantees all tripled-up correctly here though)
As for the numbers we're generating, a few of them appear to be the first digits of pi (3 14 15) but I'm not spotting a full significance yet. If we had a '24' we might have been able to combine that with '20' to make this year and a possible datestamp of some kind.
I'm warming to the final 3 in your suggestion above actually...
ALTERNATIVE BLACKJACK NAME = 21 CLEAR-SIGHTED WHEN DOUBLED = 20 POINT AFTER LOVE = 15 WASHINGTON $ AMOUNT = 1 STRIPED GREEN BALL = 14 FIRST ODD PRIME = 3 POUNDS KEY VALUE = 3 DAYS A FORTNIGHT = 14 SCRABBLE E SCORES = 1 MATE IN BLANK = 1
Well, I think we must be pretty much there. Unfortunately I absolutely have to go and get some sleep now as I'm still recovering from a rough health ride this autumn... I hope I wake to it all having fallen completely into place in the morning! Great spot to set this rolling - hope you can work out that final missing piece (and that it's merely a miscalculation on our part, not the setter's!)...
A wooden beam (which is a rectangular parallelepiped) with edges of 8, 8, and 27 inches is to be sawed into 4 parts out of which a cube can be made. Naturally, one should draw first and saw later.
How should the beam be cut?
Clarification: Assume that the sawing does not reduce the overall volu...
