There are some kinda "eh" ones there, but here are some I enjoyed:
#491 Your language consists of all rotationally symmetric IPA strings. For example, [θrɒzɑɹθ], [nbaɐqu], [ʃɴʃ], [ɛʎyɜ], [xχx], and [ʌːcɪɔːv] are valid words.
#462 Include in your conlang a Benfordian number, used in conjunction with numerals where the most significant digit is 1.
#448 Conjugate cause and effect verbs based on moral judgments: “If you poke that mama bear, she will attack(-and-you-will-deserve-it) you.” “If the storm gets worse, it will trigger(-a-fact-of-physics-moral-judgement-is-irrelevant) a landslide that will destroy(-and-they-won’t-deserve-it) the town.” “If you don’t look where you’re going, you will trip(-and-you-will-kind-of-deserve-it) on the sidewalk.”
#444 Decline nouns by how many of them you can take on in a fight. “My daughter-2.in.a.fight, did you remember to feed a goat-3.in.a.fight to the allosaurus-0.2.in.a.fight? She looks a bit hungry.”
"#501 Your conculture has a specific dialect for each season, but they don’t have established boundaries on when each season starts on their calendar."
this one is interesting to me because it's kind of like how we handle times of day
Inspired by this puzzle :
Note that the weights and balloons are in equilibrium on the smaller figure. Move them to the larger figure and obtain equilibrium.
I created my own version:
Put numbers -5 to 6, without 0 to the blue dots.
There are 2 solutions.
It's weird because if the def had been "[filled] with confidence", "[filled] with little confidence" now means basically the opposite, so that begs the question of which parsing is right... (e.g. short word for "confidence"?)
Apparently I meant "order" not "genus" (dunno, never did biology). But basically I meant if the answer was "Crocodylia", say, that's technically referring to more than one crocodile type
Not saying that the answer's necessarily the scientific names for anything, but just throwing it out there
Glad to hear you guys saying this, because I agonised (albeit very briefly) over one of the words in my current CC. It's not strictly necessary, but helps the surface, and in at least one technical interpretation can be forced to be part of the word play.
We'd kinda discussed that - I think the "are" here falls rather squarely on the side of not participating in the wordplay at all, unless someone can help me see how it might
the wordplay is, literally, though (AS) devouring nothing A(NADA)S filled with [little] confidence A(NA(CON)DA)S
Well what I mean is that it's "filled with" vs "are filled with", a la "backed" vs "backed up" - you can drop the "are", but it also makes sense with it
CCCC: This vehicle has a loan with introductory annual rate and regular payments (except first and last), from start of January to end of December. (8, 4)
Move three of me west, and you get something that can hold text on a computer, or something that turns.
Move one of me west, and one of me south-east, and you get something that can hold text on paper, or something that prevents turning, at least if you are picky.
Move one of me west, and you ge...
The two instances of this least unlikely to be familiar are (1) sometimes you hear people talking about "the enemy within" and "the enemy without", and (2) a hymn that talks about "a green hill far away / without a city wall".
But it's not a common usage outside cryptic clues.
A farmer has a rectangular ground of 100 m by 50 m, he wants to plant olive trees, in sufficiently spaced ways (to avoid exhaustion by the roots) at least 10 meters from each other.
How much can one hope to put at the most, effectively?
can someone explain this riddle to me? In the present, a mad buffoon prances past. He is the spirit seeking experience; From the past comes to me the iron fist of power, command, and order; But the future is grim. Chaos, ruin; they blaze across my eyes like wildfire; The reason behind the inquiry appears to ride on honor, conquest, and victory; Lastly, there is great potential, but first there is a pressing need to withdraw from isolation and share what you have learned with the world.
Inspired by this puzzle :
Note that the weights and balloons are in equilibrium on the smaller figure. Move them to the larger figure and obtain equilibrium.
I created my own version:
Put numbers -5 to 6, without 0 to the blue dots.
There are 2 solutions.
A farmer has a rectangular ground of 100 m by 50 m, he wants to plant olive trees, in sufficiently spaced ways (to avoid exhaustion by the roots) at least 10 meters from each other.
How much can one hope to put at the most, effectively?
