My start is teasing someone,
My infix is a time unit, which means a lot of years ago, but without the y.
My end is Peter Senerchia.
My whole means dazzle.
BTW for any future clues I pose here, whenever I put a question mark at the end it will almost always mean that something tricky is going on in some part of the clue
This post is not a puzzle. There is nothing puzzly hidden inside it or the self-answer, posted at the same time.
What exactly is a cryptic crossword clue, and how do I write one?
> Also, cryptic clues are almost always given with their enumeration: a string of numbers and punctuation inside parentheses giving away the lengths of the words in the answer, as well as how they're punctuated. The enumeration for the answer "JACK-O'-LANTERN" would be (4-1'-7), for instance.
@Anonymus25-ReinstateMonica I think they're talking about when the solution word/phrase has a punctuation mark in it, like DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA
there are minor variations in ways to enumerate things
@Anonymus25-ReinstateMonica That's perfectly fair. That's not something that needs an indicator - indicators are for wordplay transformations, and that's not a transformation.
but yeah no problem with leaving apostrophes unmarked in enumerations, just be consistent. same deal for enumerating acronyms - is "FBI" (3) or "(1,1,1)"? up to you
you'd think the rules are complicated as is without throwing new exceptions in the mix
there's a suburb of gold coast named Surfers Paradise, you'd expect to have an apostrophe there on either side of the final S but you never see it, the official name is without apostrophes
so there must be a reason they specifically wanted it that way
Historical note (skip if you like):
In this interesting puzzle @TSLF asks for the "maximum number of black and white pieces that are involved in a checkmate position".
Originally, they left much open to interpretation, and interpret me and a handful of others did!
My interpretation did not exactl...
This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Jeeves Word™.
Use the following examples to find the rule:
Jeeves Words™
Not Jeeves Words™
SIR
MADAM
RANG
CALLE...
Inspired by Avi's Vowelburger™ Riddle
Last week, after English class at school, a few friends and I went to the local Vowelburger™ to get some lunch. Feeling hungry, we decided to order 13 burgers among the 4 of us. However, when our burgers were delivered to the table, John decided to make a bur...
math puzzle: Can you find a natural number n such that you can perfectly simulate the outcome of tossing two distinguishable independent fair coins using the outcome of tossing n indistinguishable independent fair coins? To put it a different way, can you find an n so that you can partition the n+1 binomial coefficients \binom{n}{i} into four subsets with equal sums?
Unrelated to the CCCC, but I've seen compounds used in selection indicators, eg. "horntail" meaning "tail of horn = N". Can this be done with other indicators, eg. "beforehand" meaning "before the word 'hand'"?
@Sciborg Ooh I like that - I had a similar idea with M from Death Note, thinking the answer could be "Near", but I couldn't get the wordplay ("close" in the clue couldn't be a definition - not at an end; Near also went by "N", making "a character close to M" apply twice, almost going into &lit territory, but not quite)
speaking of keyboard layouts, my new laptop's keyboard has one key fewer than required for the finnish layout so now i have no | > < keys when typing finnish
My start is teasing someone,
My infix is a time unit, which means a lot of years ago, but without the y.
My end is Peter Senerchia.
My whole means dazzle.
This post is not a puzzle. There is nothing puzzly hidden inside it or the self-answer, posted at the same time.
What exactly is a cryptic crossword clue, and how do I write one?
This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Jeeves Word™.
Use the following examples to find the rule:
Jeeves Words™
Not Jeeves Words™
SIR
MADAM
RANG
CALLE...
