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Q: Peaceable Bishops on an 8x8 grid

Dmitry KamenetskyPlace an equal number of red, white and black bishops on a 8x8 chess grid, such that no two bishops of different colours attack each other. What is the largest number of bishops you can place? Here is a similar question with queens: Discrete Peaceful Encampments: Player 3 has entered the game!

 
1:40 AM
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Q: I need help solving these logic questions

Sabuhi RahimliI need help solving these logic questions. In this question, if 9 @ 6 = 42 5 @ 5 = 10 3 @ 2 = 13 4 @ 1 = ? What will be "?" In this question, if 16 # 16 =16 23 # 33 = 20 25 # 15 = 5 18 # 21 = ? What will be "?"

 
 
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2:43 AM
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Q: What is a name of ABB*A=BBBB puzzle?

NickSolve ABB*A=BBBB, where different letters denote different numbers and A and B are not zero. Question. What is a name such puzzles?

 
 
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7:56 AM
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Q: Puzzling is a Forte of Mine

PiIsNot3 (Click image for larger size) Answer is a two-word phrase.

 
 
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9:19 AM
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Q: Peaceable Bishops on an 10x10 grid

Dmitry KamenetskyCan you place 22 red, 22 white and 22 black bishops on a 10x10 grid, such that no two bishops of different colours attack each other? Here is a similar question for 8x8 grid: Peaceable Bishops on an 8x8 grid

 
 
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11:13 AM
@Rubio Another, please?
If you see fit, natch.
 
11:24 AM
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Q: Blood Type Puzzle 1: Am I Pure Blood?

MantoIf my parents (biological) and I all have blood type B, how likely am I a pure blood? (expressed as a percentage) Follow up question: If my dad is blood type AB instead of blood type B, and everything else is the same as above, will this change increase or decrease my chance of being a pure bloo...

 
 
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5:03 PM
CCCC hint 2: the 4th letter is E
 
5:44 PM
Thanks.
 
6:08 PM
Solution to the CCCC is POVERTY, obtained by taking PRY (= forcibly remove) and turning R (right) into OVERT (clear).
 
ah nice
 
I literally got as far as typing it into Qat's input field, and thought "no, before I do that I should make a serious attempt at figuring it out by hand" :-). (I did do it by hand.)
("it" = "...e.t.")
 
6:21 PM
Correct
 
CCCC: Effin' woman who broke up the Beatles with a string of dirty tricks is unimportant (2, 2, 11)
 
Nov 21 at 0:01, by jafe
my theory is OVERTLY (forcibly), remove L (right), after (right to) P (clear) = POVERTY (need)
 
Won’t jafe be annoyed now ;)
 
(I don't think I ever saw that)
I expect the new one to be quite a lot easier than its predecessor.
 
6:25 PM
heheheh
 
Sorry jafe. (Not sorry.)
 
nice surface
 
thanks! I like it too :-).
 
O(F)NO + consequences?
 
If you think that's the answer then you can't count.
 
6:28 PM
Er consequence
 
:P
 
O(F)NO + CON SEQUENCE
 
@Rubio holy moly
 
Con+sequence
 
6:28 PM
Thought it'd go quickly.
 
ah, con sequence
 
Yeah I’m on mobile lol
 
alright, you want this one then?
 
(But I liked the surface and I thought we needed a nice easy palate-cleanser after Rubio's.)
Yup, looks like it's Rubio again.
See you all in another week :-).
 
Lol
I’ll post something in a bit
 
6:30 PM
(of course both "effin'" and "woman who broke up the Beatles" are slightly dubious)
 
(I have a clue ready if you'd prefer not to write one on mobile)
 
Speaking of which, there's a town here in Israel called Kiryat Ono ≈ "Ono Town", which I told my kid was established by John Lennon. (I've no idea what the true story is.)
 
hehe
a couple of generations in the future people will refer to that as a historical fact
 
:-)
Does "pry" really mean "forcibly remove"? You can pry information out of someone, but the word "out" has to be in that phrase: "pry" doesn't suffice to mean "out of". You can pry a window open, and it certainly doesn't mean "forcibly remove" there. I'm trying to think where it does mean "remove" and nothing comes to mind.
 
@msh210 Kind of a boring town
 
6:38 PM
pry off, too
 
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe "pry information of someone" is a phrase?
@JohnDvorak unfamiliar with that
@user58 never been
 
@msh210 It sort of is. Someone prying.
 
Hm. Maybe so. No matter, the neat wordplay overpowers any objection I have.
 
Pry specifically has “remove by force” as a definition
 
@Rubio And that's what I get for not checking the dictionary before raising my concern. :-)
 
6:44 PM
While we're waiting for Rubio's next, here's a quickie to pass the time:
CCC½: I denounce a religion (5)
 
CCCC: Quiet expression of pain; regular tears; downpour. (6)
Oops
Lol
 
I came up with this earlier and quite liked it.
Oh, bad timing :-D
 
I+SLAM
 
Yep.
Good, now everyone can focus on Rubio's :-P
 
SH+OW+_E_R_
 
6:46 PM
Is "regular" a standard wordplay indicator?
 
... and that’s why mine was delayed
Yes, regular is
 
@Deusovi Goddamn. I'd got OW + ER but was thinking "quiet" would be the def.
So close ...
 
If anyone wants in, we have a codenames game going
 
i was trying to fit P+OUCHES somehow
 
@ThePuzzlingPlatypus It's been so long, I've forgotten how to play it :-P
 
6:48 PM
how come the codenames room never shows up in the list
 
CCCC: UK? (4)
 

 Codenames

For playing the game Codenames. New players, see puzzling.meta...
here you go @jafe
 
thanks
 
no problem
 
also, holy moly
 
6:49 PM
Oi.
 
This is going to be another one for the Deusovi Hall of Fame
 
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Q: What do question marks mean in crossword clues?

Young GuiloIn a crossword, some clues have a question mark at the end. Is there any way to tell what these question marks mean based on the puzzle? I.E. rhetorical, compound word, etc.?

Hadn't seen this before actually.
 
It’s obviously (I’m Ok — [U]’re) Ok = ‘k? for OKAY
 
UK = "you 'kay?"
 
6:54 PM
"nope"
 
You’re ok -> you ARE okay so “u” is OKAY. and ‘K? is shorthand for OKAY?
 
now trying to figure out if this is serious or BadC4Solution
 
(it's not correct, in any case)
 
THOU, double def
 
correct!
 
7:05 PM
@Randal'Thor it was the latter. If I say “obviously” it’s not ;)
@jafe nice
 
@Deusovi nice
 
Not getting it.
"U", OK, but "K?"?
 
kilo
 
"thou" is an informal way of saying "thousand"
 
which is 1000
 
7:13 PM
@Deusovi It is? I've never heard that.
 
It is.
Maybe a US thing?
 
Maybe.
I guess that's þou instead of ðou?
 
Yes, that
 
7:32 PM
CCCC: He desperately tries to impress with florid prose (5)
 
POSER (anag.)
 
Nice surface!
 
thanks!
correct, of course
 
@Randal'Thor yeah
 
7:47 PM
the accompanying sentiment of course is "there are just too few anagram indicators"
 
8:24 PM
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Q: An original non-recursive sequence

Archipelago16, ?, 19, ?, ?, 15, 16, 9, ?, ?, 14, ?, ?, ?, ?, 1 According to my measure, this sequence is more original than that of Fibonacci. Replace the question marks with the missing numbers.

 
8:41 PM
@jafe "Rid anagram action!" becomes jafe's complaint (7, 9) :P
 
8:52 PM
@Quintec "anagram indicators?"*
 
Just “indicator”
 
I miscounted
also, I tend to have good hunches on parts of cryptic clues
like I knew that in @OmegaKrypton's room, the CCCC would involve the word "hun" and a homophone
Deusovi got it, but I got the parsts
*parts
 
9:26 PM
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Q: Uk math challenge puzzle

JaquesHi I was trying this math challenge puzzle and I am wondering whether anyone here can work it out.! It is from a past paper a Uk Maths challenge

 

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