Complete the sequence B - D - H - P _:
a. F
b. M
c. V
d. Z
e. None of the above is correct.
Source
I tried to build a sequence based on the distance between the letters, but I didn't get anything relevant.
B - D - H - P _
1, 3, 6, ...
Sixteen people named A, B, ..., P are standing in line. They "dance", or swap places, according to some predefined instructions. There are two kinds of instructions called Exchange and Partner:
Exchange(m,n): The two people standing at m-th and n-th positions swap places.
Partner(x,y): The two p...
That "angry" is the definition is a *big* assumption, because: - You don't have the wordplay. - There are many other possible definitions. - That's not how cryptic clues work - definitions *must* be at the beginning or end of the clue.
I think it's great you are so enthusiastic about cryptics! It might help to read through the usual rules (say, Deus' guide) first, makes the process a lot of easier.
@msh210 Please confirm: The solution is OUTSTRECHED, "angry, moody" points to Out, as in OUT! Because mostly parents are angry when wild animals get in to the house and are like OUT! Streched is how the "angry moody" part is streched longer, and the clue itself is definitely OUTSTRECHED. A ddef!
You seem to recognize that cryptic clues have two parts to them, but the rest of that is entirely off-track. None of it follows the rules of cryptic clues.
I would imagine most of us knew that word. Cryptic clues are not easy, even when you know all the words involved. By design, they mislead the solver into misinterpreting them (even though the 'correct' interpretation makes perfect sense, and doesn't require any stretching of the meanings of the words).
Etiquette question Deusovi: it's about my bedtime. I'm pretty sure my C4 answer is correct, but I usually try to wait for confirmation before posting the next. Any issue with posting now?
Paint some white circles to black such that the Masyu will be uniquely solvable and:
Exactly 2 of 11 white circles on the left forming '2' should be painted black.
Exactly 0 of 12 white circles on the middle-left forming '0' should be painted black.
Exactly 2 of 11 white circles on the middle-r...
@JeremyDover _S TR(I KING)OUT. Very nice use of secondary meanings for everything (K, fanning). Woulda been perhaps even better without the baseball theme, as then I'd not have thought (or not so soon) of this meaning of "fanning".
I found that the book "Amusements In Chess," by Henry Ernest Dudney, has been put onto the web in the form of a website. In the section "Various Chess Puzzles, I came across this particular puzzle that intrigues me.
The author gives this legal position and asks for a way to reach it. The White ki...
@Anonymus25-ReinstateMonica (a) No need to ping me even if it is my turn, as I just solved it a few hours ago. (b) Someone just told you that. (c) It's not my turn, as we don't have confirmation that my solution is the intended one.
@msh210 That is of course it. Probably too easy with if you're familiar with baseball, but I wasn't sure how broad that familiarity would be, especially among the younger set here, so I wanted to give an extra nudge. And you were correct with my use of "seeing"...effectively neutral in wordplay, but needed for surface.
Grandpa seemed to be in one of those crazy question asking mood again.
“So here is this guy.” Said Grandpa. He was reading a book.
“He is in the Tesla near Edison going to visit the boss. On his way he
might pass Langley and even see Einstein.” Continued Grandpa.
“So son, please tell me: What i...
While solving with CFOP, I have the following situation. The bottom side is solved. On the front face, I have the left-center and right-center pieces swapped. How can I swap these pieces? I know that this will affect the top face.
I realize by swapping them, they can face either direction, si...
@msh210 I think the solution to your CCCC is MIMSY: M(-iam)I M(-arlin)S (-pla)Y. Though I'm not a huge fan of "the last out" to mean "last letter of the foregoing" -- it seems like it ought to mean "removing the last letter of the foregoing" -- and for that reason I'm not quite sure. This is the pre-Carroll meaning of "mimsy", of course :-).
actually, the Carroll meaning works just as well
maybe better
Carroll: "weak and miserable". Pre-Carroll: Prim; careful; affected; feeble, weak, lightweight. (Saith the OED.) And, er, actually the OED's earliest citation for the non-Carroll meaning is later than Carroll's first use, so I don't know what really came before what.
I think it's a portmanteau of "miserable" and "flimsy", at least in Carroll's usage.
I once got a letter from my younger sister. It reads :-
Hello brother,
How are you? I am fine. I have seen you have given me a lot of gifts, thank you for that. Here's a
present from my side. Since I like puzzles, I am giving you 3 notes with the letter as well. Do check
it if you want. Happy Pu...
@GarethMcCaughan i.e. "pathetic" and "weak" :-) . Yes, your solution was what I had intended. "The last out" as in "the last letter to have come out of my keyboard/mouth/whatever", but I agree it's weak.
There is a logic game called "Bagels".
From this PDF file:
How to Play
The the game begins with one person secretly choosing a number with no repeated digits.
We will start with a three digit number. Then others attempt to guess the number, and
the one who chose the number responds to each guess...
econ was: motorcycle laws, excise tax on cigarettes, pumping gas, why bass players have no talent
the longest bit was on jazz
jazz is a "terrible", "boring" music genre ("it's basically random note playing", "untalented hacks", "everyone who listens to jazz is always on heroin", "one of my favorite things ever is making jazz players upset", "much of jazz is cruel and unusual punishment")
This puzzle was intended to be formatted as a PDF; the puzzle PDF is available on Dropbox, and a screenshot of said PDF is hosted on Imgur. If you'd like to solve digitally, there is also a template Google sheet.
The referenced puzzle is available here; no knowledge of it is necessary to solve t...
... because the clue starts NO and ends ELL? (If you mean you've solved it and the solution has led you to a Christmas carol then I confess I'm confused.)
In a game of English eight-ball pool, a set of 15 balls are arranged or 'racked' in the shape of an equilateral triangle. In order for the balls to be racked fairly, they must be arranged like so:
......R.....
.....YR.....
.....RBY....
....YRYR....
....RYYRY...
R = Red
Y = Yellow
B = Black
Cha...
It has been pretty clear on other sites that eye-catching pixels, like emojis and arbitrary fonts, shouldn't be placed in a post title, and if they were encountered in the title of a post, they should be edited out. However, I'm not sure how strictly that rule applies to Puzzling Stack Exchange, ...
so we were doing peer feedback for our "research paper" (not real research papers) write-ups and my partner basically said "you have a lot of background for your specific topic; you should replace some of that with vague less-specific information"