@Khale_Kitha My favorite part of that post was "Pay and we will know its you. [...] Bitcoin is anonymous, nobody will ever know you cooperated." Not only because it's patently ridiculous, but because both statements can be true! XD
Although apparently not in real life, since they use the same bitcoin addresses in all their threats, according to CloudFlare blog.cloudflare.com/…
a couple of times, when I've been making fun of bad vague riddles, I've paraphrased them as "I'm good, but some people think I'm bad. I can do X, but also I can't do anything"
etc.
"I'm [thing], but also [opposite of thing]. I [do some particular action], but also [don't do that particular action]. Some people like me, others do not. What am I?"
thinking out loud here: I think "spaced out and obfuscated" work better, on the whole, than oppograms, since you'll know pretty quickly if you get the wrong words for the former, whereas the latter can be more of a guessing game.
it's a lot harder to "work backward" from a partial solution with an oppogram than a SO&O
but re: that person's comment - you know, "math problems" aren't necessarily bad - I think it's entirely possible to have what looks like a really complicated math problem but actually has a very elegant, simple solution that someone with only like, high school math could do
I would even consider the math stuff more limiting than the cryptography stuff, because as much as I think that "plug the numbers into the magic box" puzzles are not very fun, at least anybody can do them.
LSB, while not common to stenography is one of the simpler ones to actually accomplish (and expect that someone else will be able to decode)
I looked through a few, before doing that, on a recent puzzle of mine, because the others would have just been impossible for others to figure out without a ton of extra info.
it's entirely possible that I just showed up at a time when people were giving their puzzles completely inconsequential titles, but I feel like making your puzzle's title meaningful only caught on recently
And yeah, cr0 - I use it as a huge learning experience.
I've learned a great deal, both from solving/looking at puzzles, and from research on ideas for my own, since starting on this site a couple months ago.
I enjoy the mystery of riddles and some of the puzzles on here, and I'm seeing now there can be a lot to learn now too about cryptography, computer science, lateral thinking and, well, puzzling!
I wish someone would do that, now. I loaded up the site, the other day, and there were LITERALLY 6 puzzles in a row called "..., a riddle", or "....a word riddle" - and they had the same tags.
A friend of mine is a professor at a nearby university. Last week, he gave three of his students a simple assignment: conduct an experiment, and record the development of a single value over time. And indeed, a few days later, all of them handed him a diagram, as seen below (here edited into a si...
I mean, technically they're right (I checked), but I'm betting that most people are going to see what I see when I look at that (which is a discontinuity in the blue graph)
I am the winter, the summer, the spring.
I am everywhere, yet you cannot see me.
I am the one who knocks at your door.
I am the one who falls below.
I am the who the one you never wish existed.
I am death, the final unknown.
I am all of these in one, what am i?
i ---> {}--{}
I QQQQQQ <--> QQQQQQ
I AAAAAA <--> AAAAAA
I CCCCCC <--> CCCCCC
Figure out the sentence using the block of text above.
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He will call in
because
I am the winter, the summer, the spring.
I am everywhere, yet you cannot see me.
I am the one who knocks at your door.
I am the one who falls below.
I am the who the one you never wish existed.
I am death, the final unknown.
I am all of these in one, what am i?
