Does anyone mind telling me if clicking the "Liftoff!" button on my latest project (link incoming) autoplays the embedded YT video that comes up? WARNING: Turn your volume down some if needed, it's music. After about 27 seconds of play time there should be lyrics updating on the screen.
An enigmatic puzzle is a puzzle where the genre or solving strategy is not explicitly stated. These types of puzzles make the puzzler deduce what type of puzzle it is, before going on to solve it.
thats part 1 of the tag wiki
any other suggestions?
@MOehm hi! I've been doing some tag wiki editing, after this post. What do you think of it?
Now, after some editing, it comes out like this (for the tag wiki)
What is an enigmatic puzzle?
An enigmatic puzzle is a puzzle where the genre or solving strategy is not explicitly stated. The puzzler's first task in the puzzle, which is a non-trivial puzzle in itself, is to work out what sort of thing they have to do to start. Everything you solve leads to another thing, and another leads to another, and gradually the whole truth emerges.
Any other suggestions? @MOehm (sorry but you are the only one here)
I don't think that "enigmatic puzzle" means that the puzzle has "stages", where the answer of one or more stages leads to something else until one arrives at the final answer. Such puzzles are usually calles metapuzzles and ther's already a tag for that. An enigmatic puzzle is simply one that hides its nature.
An enigmatic puzzle is a puzzle where the genre or solving strategy is not explicitly stated. The puzzler's first task in the puzzle, which is a non-trivial puzzle in itself, is to work out what sort of thing they have to do to start.
I generally don't participate in the "gardening" tasks such as tag maintenance here at PSE. I'm usually fine with what the people who do that decide and try not to get in their way. I wrote my longer musings on the enigmatic puzzle tag two or three days ago, because I thought that some people here misunderstood what the enigmatic-puzzle tag was about. I still think it doesn't need re-wikiing and that most people here use it correctly.
So to cut a long story short: I'm not really interested in that (non-)issue. I come here only for the cryptic clues :)
I've been trying to decode this sentence for a while and haven't had much luck, so I hoped some smarter minds might have some ideas. Unfortunately it's a pretty short string of words so there's not a whole lot to work with, it's supposed to solve down to the password to open a Zip Folder but that...
In the last year or so a puzzle has been appearing in 'The Guardian' (a UK newspaper). It looks like this:
and the instructions are as follows:
Lay tracks to enable the train to travel from village A to village B. The numbers indicate how many sections of rail go in each row and column. There a...
Suppose I'm forced to enter the game of nim with two players who are perfectly logical people. The rules is simple:
We play a set number of rounds.
In every round, a random number of marbles (between 25-40) are put inside the box, but the container of the box will always be visible during the du...
@Jafe I have a sinking feeling I have the def but not the word play (for the records, I have never a C4 from guessing the def and working backwards to get the wordplay, so it's not looking good)
I seem to have forgotten the name of this puzzle. The only thing I do remember is that every answer is different. Can you find out what it's called? Why do you think that name is appropriate?
Across
7. Expedition is coming back, having toured region in the east of Africa (6)
12. Like a president...
> Some scholars point out that the name "Scotland" is ultimately derived from Scotia, a Latin term first used for Ireland (also called Hibernia by the Romans) and later for Scotland, the Scoti peoples having originated in Ireland and resettled in Scotland.[note 2] Another, post-conquest, Roman name for the island of Great Britain was Albion, which is cognate with the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland: Alba.
Can you cut a pizza (circle) into 12 identical pieces, such that half of them have crust (circle boundary), while the other half do not? The pieces must have the same shape and area.
So I'm trying to write a program (in C or C++ if possible) for one mathematical trick question.
When you enter a number, the program gives you a combination of mathematical operators applied to numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 such that the result is the entered number.
For example, if you enter 0, the code re...
Being a native of the country mentioned in 26A still didn't give me an advantage (I worked out the bottom half first, and that clue was the remaining unsolved one) :P
Some of jafe's clues this time around were sheer genius. Not that they're not normally great, but some of the creativity in the definition parts of clues (e.g., 26A) is a whole new level.
There are lots of other praises that can be given for the crossword, but one I'll give is that I loved the definition for 39D - it's a very 19D definition, if you will :P
Not really. But it could be A (supply (depot (in Scotland))) and end in IN, I think, where the last part is a shortened participle of a word meaning "to sink slowly". Or msh210 is pulling an evil trick and it is (sink) in (slowly).
You can almost make ANTIPODEAN with A + DEPOTIN* (anagrind being 'in a supple manner', i.e. supply) + AN (though no indication I can spot for this from 'Scotland', other than the wonderful Ben A'an). Unfortunately, this is in no way that I can see defined by 'sinkin' slowly', so it's all for nothing! :)
My thoughts are all revolving around Scottish localities that end in 'INE' or 'IN', like DUNFERMLINE (11 letters, so not what we seek), which can sound like a word meaning "sinking slowly" that usually ends in a G but is skipped because of the whole sinkin' thing...
I'm a pair of two words, and the kind of mistake
One singing a hymn might frequently make
One is a place; one, a kind of battalion
Our Lord died on a cross, and not on a stallion
(what/who am I?)
@AncientSwordRage Makes me imagine an old grandpa yelling "Hey! Stay off my lawn!" but actually they're afraid of the kids discovering their secret depot of pot and de-potting the pot...
In the last year or so a puzzle has been appearing in 'The Guardian' (a UK newspaper). It looks like this:
and the instructions are as follows:
Lay tracks to enable the train to travel from village A to village B. The numbers indicate how many sections of rail go in each row and column. There a...
I have three fingers,
Middle finger has a triangle,
Left finger has a circle and,
Right finger has a square,
What is this?
Can you cut a pizza (circle) into 12 identical pieces, such that half of them have crust (circle boundary), while the other half do not? The pieces must have the same shape and area.
I'm a pair of two words, and the kind of mistake
One singing a hymn might frequently make
One is a place; one, a kind of battalion
Our Lord died on a cross, and not on a stallion
(what/who am I?)
My suffix is done to stew
My prefix a distilled brew
My infix is within
My outfix makes 10 out of 10
What am I?
