Letters from Gladys are geography-themed standalone crosswords. Each puzzle has five thematic answers, which are places, sights or landmarks in or around a certain location (in this case, an island). Each thematic answer is notable enough to have its own article in the English Wikipedia, althoug...
My uncle likes some things but not others.
He likes toast but not cereal.
He likes bicycles but not motorbikes.
He likes ice but not water.
He likes lamps but not lava lamps.
He likes claw hammers but not spirit levels.
What does he like?
Getting rid of me would be paradoxical, but if you did it, you would be enlightened.
If you called a doctor, I would become inactive.
If you are lost, just try to think of me.
If you want to know what I am, you first need to solve me.
What am I?
Start by placing prime numbers 2, 3 and 5 anywhere on an infinite square grid. Now you can place a prime number $p$ subject to the following rules:
It must be greater than all the previous numbers placed.
The sum of its 8 neighbours must be equal to $p$.
What is the largest prime that you can p...
(Author Note) A while ago I made some puzzles for a now defunct puzzle hunt project, here's one of them. The answer to this (and most other puzzles of said hunt) is a single word. The puzzle itself is fully contained within the image above. Author notes don't matter.
Additional note: For the seq...