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Sphinx
Sphinx
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Q: How to solve this Coding Decoding problem within 0.6 minute or 36 seconds?

tonkyponkyQuestion: TYPE 6: CODING BY COMPARISON AND CONTRAST Here two columns of letters are presented consisting of a few rows; letters of column I are given in capitals and that of column-II in small letters. Each small letter in Column II stands for some capital letter in Column I of the same row. H...

letters letter-sequence
 
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oAlt
oAlt
06:00
@Stiv laptop = top (better, as a verb, apparently) after lap (overhaul = overtake)
Stiv
Stiv
06:49
@oAlt That's the one!
oAlt
oAlt
CCCC: City in the far south has first automobile with new version – good or bad? (12)
Jafe
Jafe
07:36
i remember the discussion here a while back on how you can tell whether a puzzle is good without seeing the answer
thought about that when i came across a HNQ puzzle that ends with the words "by martin gardner"
Sphinx
Sphinx
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Q: From the Coverable Puzzle - Counterexample of those methods?

RDKFrom the puzzle I had uploaded before, here’s deeper question. (Kind of math) Are there some counterexamples that the coloring/numbering method don’t apply?

mathematics geometry tiling
 
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Jafe
Jafe
09:41
invercargill (city in the far south) = I CAR containing N VER plus G/ILL
oAlt
oAlt
10:05
@Jafe indeed
I think I messed that one up a bit, the "or" was supposed to be "and". Pretend that's what it said all along
 
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Sphinx
Sphinx
11:25
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Q: Expected number of jigsaw puzzle edge pieces remaining when all four corners have been found

VickyThis is a real life puzzle. I would appreciate both an answer to the question but also an explanation as to WHY that is the answer, since I cannot work it out myself. I enjoy doing 1000 piece jigsaw puzzles. These typically are rectangular and 25x40 pieces, so there are 4 corner pieces and 23 + 2...

mathematics combinatorics probability
Jafe
Jafe
11:35
CCCC: "Land of Lincoln" = Satan's middle ground! (4,8)
oAlt
oAlt
11:48
@Jafe East Midlands anagram, where this Lincoln can be found
Daniel S
Daniel S
As an East Midlander by birth, I rather like this one.
Jafe
Jafe
12:10
correct!
oAlt
oAlt
CCCC: Partner, with a book and law, left out islands (3 4 3 8)
Jafe
Jafe
woulda preferred not using "land" which is in the answer but i think it's fine since land of lincoln is a fixed phrase
S(a)O + tome + princip(-l)e
helpful enumeration hehe
oAlt
oAlt
@Jafe Correct! I'm aware of Saotome as well, but that's more obscure so I didn't use that.
And of course one of the "+" is "and"
Jafe
Jafe
oops right
CCCC: Nothing "grand" about their ultimately aged, eroded canyon! (5)
oAlt
oAlt
@Jafe (G 0)< _r _ge_
Jafe
Jafe
12:19
yup!
oAlt
oAlt
That monkey series should have a spinoff about a canyon named Curious Gorge
Jafe
Jafe
heheh
oAlt
oAlt
CCCC: Ace (face down) taken by feller playing Solitaire (8)
oAlt
oAlt
13:10
I wonder what the Under unusual daylight puzzle's solution is
Jafe
Jafe
i know the c4 is _ce inside feller* for freecell, a solitaire
oAlt
oAlt
13:41
@Jafe that's right!
Jafe
Jafe
CCCC: Real feeling of revulsion after Mile High City, readily associated with the word 'dirty'! (8)
switching to single quotes because sheets becomes a grumpy toddler when it sees double quotes
oAlt
oAlt
Almost there but there is something I can't figure out
@Jafe I'll take a stab at it: this is Limerick, from R ick after Mile*, which gives its name to the limerick verse, which can be dirty (i.e. obscene)
Jafe
Jafe
exactly so
oAlt
oAlt
13:58
CCCC: Fall stage left with break in jazz song (6 6)
Stiv
Stiv
14:23
@oAlt AUTUMN LEAVES = AUTUMN (Fall) + LEAVE (break) + S_
oAlt
oAlt
14:46
@Stiv yep that's it
I wanted to do something with fall and drop but drop is leave out, not leave, I think
Stiv
Stiv
Also, leave = drop out...
oAlt
oAlt
Those darn adverbs in phrasal verbs like "out" and "off" messing with my surfaces
Stiv
Stiv
CCCC: Support pet in the pool - "Way to go!" (10)
oAlt
oAlt
Bra for support starts "bravissimo" (way to go), but I think it's impossible to justify why "pet in the pool" clues "vissimo"...
Sphinx
Sphinx
15:08
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Q: Add 2 matches to make a valid expression - 242+02->2420

RDKThis puzzle is from Korean TV-show, called “Problematic Man(Munjaejeok-Namja)”. Add 2 matches to make a valid expression. (Please see those “stick”s or else as a match… I couldn’t find the match-font. ;[ ) Here’s a hint - 1.

mathematics lateral-thinking matches

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