@Avi Without the additional hint, there was absolutely no way to know to turn numbers around: it was a "guess what I'm thinking" puzzle and there was no reason one of the answers (I'm thinking specifically of mine) was worse than the one you intended.
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1. Nice ladies kiss without men? (11)
6. Ask about a music style (3)
7. Messy ski campsite, without a doubt (10)
10. Performance of Cats troubled after loss of leading star (3)
11. Be familiar with singer Beyoncé, not guitarist Paul (4)
12. Middle-Earth city adores bei...
I am new here and came across this question, I felt it fall on the category of "too broad" of otehr sites. Am I right to this conclusion or it's allowed here?
just realized i used "resistance" in the c4 here, the c4 in OK's room, and in this friday's crossword... need to come up with some new material (head shake)
I haven't looked at your (alledgedly too broad!) crossword yet abd I don't know what you posted in OK's room, but here "Resistance" fits the surface better than Romeo would ...
Sometimes moderators will delete users when there is sockpuppet abuse (or other abuse, but that's the sort that most often leads to deletions) going on. I will, for obvious reasons, not comment on whether we have done that in this case or why.
@ThomasMarkov There are some interesting SE meta posts about sockpuppetry (e.g. here and here) - worth a read, although nobody will post about how it is detected, since that would enable people to beat the system and thus defeat the whole point of the detection mechanisms :)
@ThomasMarkov Nothing wrong with having two accounts, as long as they don't both vote on the same thing (or similar duplicative activities) or for one another.
yeah, you occasionally come up with posts on other SE sites where it's perfectly reasonable to post with an alternate account
like if you'r asking "how to tell my employer that X" it kind of defeats the purpose if your employer knows your SE account and can find out X from your post
harder to come up with a legitimate example on puzzling though
Whaddaya think of "X Y jumped" to mean X with Y removed, in a CC?
Like: Rap by "Sets Muddled": "The cow jumped over the moon" (4)
(Personally I don't think it's good but I'm willing to be convinced. :-) )
@jafe People might have all sorts of reasons that might seem weird or insufficient to you and me. But as long as they're not doing anything wrong with the accounts, no problem. Oh, I shoulda mentioned, another big no-no for a duplicate account (besides what I said, voting vel sim.) is ban evasion: using another account while one is suspended, question-banned, or the like.
There are 10 floors and there are 8 elevators.
What it is the probability that all the elevators will arrive at the same time in floor number 4.
Assume all the elevators are randomly moving and they can move up or down and they take equal time between floors.
"Bedspread" sounds good. I don't buy "no two ways about it".
(Not because it isn't a standard phrase -- it certainly is -- but because I don't see how you get from three things pronounced like "way" to that. Just because 2 and 3 are different numbers? Seems very weak.)
If you are alert, you might clearly see an object in your imagination when you read the sentence:
"It lasted only from CTScan to Face Palm."
What is the object?
I deleted the other such (non)answer and told them to go to our Meta or bug the CMs if they want to take issue with how moderation has affected them or their post(s).
Also, after a while of posting puzzles that seem probably-bad everyone is liable to go "oh no not again" and downvote rather than giving the benefit of the doubt. Not so much for a new account whose questions might turn out to be good.
I suspect some had a reasonable intended answer but that is unfortunately a very different thing from having a reasonable intended solution path. These feel way too much like “guess what I’m thinking”, and “oh here’s some hints that, if you know the answer, are clearly valid” - but none of that helps a solver find a path toward that solution, so you either happen upon an answer and a realization that it works, or you don’t. I dislike things solved by recognition, not by solving clues.
Yes, I saw that. I have given it maybe 10 minutes of thought and not yet figured out exactly what's going on, though it certainly seems like there ought to be enough information now :-).
I think it was entirely deliberate that balazs.com didn't give useful hints. There is (was? haven't checked) some blurb on their profile page saying something like "people here are too used to things that are exercises rather than real puzzles, so I'm posting puzzles that don't make it clear from the outset what you have to do to solve them".
The trouble is that "guess what random things were in my head when I wrote this" doesn't tend to make a good puzzle, and it's not clear that any of their puzzles were anything better than that.
"There is a drawback posting these puzzles on a forum where the majority of users actually prefer doing exercises. That means they know what the exact method of solving is, or they feel they have at least a framework of a plan at the beginning. Regarding my problems however, they will find themselves in a situation that is unusual and uncomfortable to them."
the only unusual and uncomfortable situation was him spamming
I think you can say both, but the former has the possible meaning of "many funds, more of them than are required" as opposed to "lots of money, more than is required" and I don't think the latter does.
(It could with carefully constructed context, but normally it wouldn't.)
A cubical box is required to contain a set of wooden blocks (right parallelepiped solids) that have different edges and colors. No two blocks has the same dimensional measurement. All blocks have unique dimensions (integer units),thus no square faces. What is the smallest box's inside dimensions?
After secretly assassinating a wealthy doctor in the countryside, I found myself with surplus funds. Naturally, the best possible investment is investing in oneself, so I boarded a plane and went out to do research for a new job. The problem is, I was boating down a river when I ran into some pir...
You have 50 marbles which look all the same. However, 25 marbles have weight l and the other 25 marbles weight h with l < h.
A person creates two piles and claims he has sorted all 50 marbles by weight and pile L has all marbles with weight l and pile H has all marbles with weight h.
You are give...
! This is my question, so either give me access to it or close it. Sending the same message "don't create sockpuppet accounts" doesn't achieve anything.
After secretly assassinating a wealthy doctor in the countryside, I found myself with surplus funds. Naturally, the best possible investment is investing in oneself, so I boarded a plane and went out to do research for a new job. The problem is, I was boating down a river when I ran into some pir...
making an actual puzzle like that would be (a) not future-proof, since the messages are likely to be deleted, (b) rude, and (c) too much more effort than it's worth
@Avi Well, I've solved your nonogram, but I think my pronunciation must be different from yours somehow because nothing is sounding useful yet. Maybe I should try smashing up my lip and see what happens...
@Avi Ah, yeah, examples have to be clued as such. drink is not acceptable for ale, really... so it would be have to be "puzzle, for example" or "puzzle, for one" etc.
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1. Nice ladies kiss without men? (11)
6. Ask about a music style (3)
7. Messy ski campsite, without a doubt (10)
10. Performance of Cats troubled after loss of leading star (3)
11. Be familiar with singer Beyoncé, not guitarist Paul (4)
12. Middle-Earth city adores bei...
I am new here and came across this question, I felt it fall on the category of "too broad" of otehr sites. Am I right to this conclusion or it's allowed here?
There are 10 floors and there are 8 elevators.
What it is the probability that all the elevators will arrive at the same time in floor number 4.
Assume all the elevators are randomly moving and they can move up or down and they take equal time between floors.
If you are alert, you might clearly see an object in your imagination when you read the sentence:
"It lasted only from CTScan to Face Palm."
What is the object?
A cubical box is required to contain a set of wooden blocks (right parallelepiped solids) that have different edges and colors. No two blocks has the same dimensional measurement. All blocks have unique dimensions (integer units),thus no square faces. What is the smallest box's inside dimensions?
! This is my question, so either give me access to it or close it. Sending the same message "don't create sockpuppet accounts" doesn't achieve anything.
