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The city had a new transmogrifier. I was willing to go in, but it would be boring, I was told. Meanwhile, people were bragging about how they would come out the transmogrifier.
One said, "My little buddy should jump down, but there will be a new one. "
Jumpy said, "Why why, if I go in it 4 times I come back!"
... |
The city had a new transmogrifier. I was willing to go in, but it would be boring, I was told. Meanwhile, people were bragging about how they would come out the transmogrifier.
One said, "My little buddy should jump down, but there will be a new one."
Jumpy said, "Why why, if I go in it 4 times I come back!"
H... |
1)Part of me is surrounded by water.
2)Part of me, when away, is missed a lot.
3)Part of me is used in a western European language as a first name.
4)Part of me can make you move and tremble.
What am I? |
Can you catch me? |
I see the green checkmark next to the other answer, but this fits *way* too well to ignore:
>! The transmogrifier is the "multiply by yourself" operation.
One said, "My little buddy should jump down, but there will be a new one."
>! Taking the name literally, "One" is 1, and his little buddy is -1. Were -1 to ... |
My answer:
>! Earthquake
1) Part of me is surrounded by water.
>! Earth is surrounded by water
2) Part of me, when away, is missed a lot.
>! This could be art, or qu - the abbreviation for queen.
3) Part of me is used in a western European language as a first name.
>! [Åke is a masculine Swedish ... |
I promise, I had the [idea](https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/14524?m=56550034#56550034) for a 5x5 cryptic before [Graylocke](https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/q/106029/69582)!
[![5x5 crossword grid, with three evenly-spaced out 5-letter words going across and three going down][1]][1]
**Clues:**
1A Re... |
**Extremely partial answer**
Well, after about a day I have
>! done about 3/4 of what is presumably the easy bit (identifying flags) and about 0/4 of the rest (making sense of everything else). I bet we're looking for a city in Arizona.
That's not much but I've had enough for now :-). Maybe someone else will s... |
Is the answer
>! Sudoku?
My early part is very clean,
Use it to obtain a sheen.
>! ?
My middle part is just a verb,
Very common, needs no blurb.
>! Yes, do is a very common verb
My final part is. Too right, is!
You think that's cryptic, well it is.
>! ?
My whole all over PSE arises,
In all differen... |
I am pretty sure we are on our way to
>! Flagstaff, Arizona.
The flags
>! along the top say FROM WHERE in a Royal Navy flag signalling code (https://www.royal-signals.org.uk/Datasheets/SignallingFlags.php).
The flags
>! along the bottom say IN ARIZONA in a German flag signalling code (https://www.crwflag... |
**... two targets ... the 3 A's of war ... dressed in ... your mission is
... we must prevent ...**
<br>
If the first message wasn't cryptic enough, the rest wasn't much clearer. What we *do* know is that the keywords we need are the answers to 10 cryptic clues. Unfortunately, the messaging was jumbled e... |
Is the answer
>! Sudoku?
My early part is very clean,
Use it to obtain a sheen.
>! @Smartest1here mentioned that suds is a kind of soap
My middle part is just a verb,
Very common, needs no blurb.
>! Yes, do is a very common verb
My final part is. Too right, is!
You think that's cryptic, well it is.
>! ... |
The solution is
>!Sudoku
My early part is very clean, Use it to obtain a sheen.
>! As mentioned before, "sud" is a kind of soap and thus can be used to "obtain a sheen" or in other words clean things.
My middle part is just a verb, Very common, needs no blurb.
>! "do" is a very common verb. One could sa... |
The solution is
>!Sudoku
My early part is very clean, Use it to obtain a sheen.
>! As mentioned before, "sud" or soap sud is a kind of lye or dissolved base chemical (something to do with metal hydroxide? can't be arsed to go deeper into chemistry though) thus can be used to create soap and "obtain a sheen" o... |
The solution is
>!Sudoku
My early part is very clean, Use it to obtain a sheen.
>! As mentioned before, "sud" or soap sud is a kind of lye or dissolved base chemical (something to do with metal hydroxide? can't be arsed to go deeper into chemistry though). From what I understand this is the base chemical used... |
<sub>Okay, I think it's about time this puzzle got solved. Here's some really decent progress - pretty sure I'm just missing one part of the puzzle...</sub>
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First:
>! As per Hints 3 and 4, there are numbers encoded in the diagram in **[balanced ternary](https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~matuszek/cit590-2015/Pages... |
Here is my answer to this nice and entertaining puzzle:
>!<pre>
>! Name Purchase Price Shirt Days Age Position
>!
>! Barbara Table 900 Blue 15 50 1/Left
>! Dana Cupboard 800 Green 25 40 3/Center
>! Gina Desk 1000 Orange 5 55 5/Right
>! Lori Dresser 1200 Red 10 ... |
Here is my answer to this nice and entertaining puzzle:
>!<pre>
>! Name Purchase Price Shirt Days Age Position
>!
>! Barbara Table 900 Blue 15 50 1/Left
>! Dana Cupboard 800 Green 25 40 3/Center
>! Gina Desk 1000 Orange 5 55 5/Right
>! Lori Dresser 1200 Red 10 ... |
Yesterday I went to a magic show and I was part of a clever trick. First of all, the magician arranged 36 cards in a 4 x 9 grid as follows:
[![cards grid][1]][1]
Then they called me on the stage. I felt a little bit uncomfortable, after all I didn't want to be sawn into two pieces! As the magician explained what ... |
You are:
>! [Leonardo DiCaprio][1]
1. Part of me is surrounded by water.
>! [**CAPRI**][2] is an island
2. Part of me, when away, is missed a lot.
>! [Lady **DI**][3] is missed a lot since her death in 1997
3. Part of me is used in a western European language as a first name.
>! [**LEONARDO**][4] o... |
I saw a man seemingly lost
Me: Hi. Are you looking for something?
Him: ____ .
Me: Go to the Federal Triangle ____ street.
Him: Do you know the address?
Me: I think it is ____ street.
Him: O yeah. The Federal building with the IRS office.
Me: Yes. It also houses a HUD office, an FBI office... |
The same word (I think) over and over? |
I saw a man seemingly lost
Me: Hi. Are you looking for something?
Him: ____ .
Me: Go to the Federal Triangle ____ street.
Him: Do you know the address?
Me: I think it is ____ street.
Him: O yeah. The Federal building with the IRS office.
Me: Yes. It also houses a HUD office, an FBI office... |
What should replace the question mark on this list?
> JBNRS, HF, GM, JPD, VL, AELMP, MS, WB, CB, GS, EC, SV, PD, PEJP, ?, …
Hint, added later:
>! There's a hint alluded to via wordplay in the post title.
Hint, added even later:
>! Although I list JBNRS first, there was, some five or six years earlier, PHCS. ... |
Recently, I found this question: https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/66998/girls-are-mean?rq=1 which I wanted to strike back at with twice the amount of swords... And here's the story.
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Hello, I am Dr. Bonn and I am willing to find out if boys can be mean, too. So, I walked around the street looking f... |
Can boys be mean too? YES! |
Recently, I found this question: https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/66998/girls-are-mean?rq=1 which I wanted to strike back at with twice the amount of swords... And here's the story.
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Hello, I am Dr. Bonn and I am willing to find out if boys can be mean, too. So, I walked around the street looking f... |
Recently, I found this question: https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/66998/girls-are-mean which I wanted to strike back at with twice the amount of swords... And here's the story.
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Hello, I am Dr. Bonn and I am willing to find out if boys can be mean, too. So, I walked around the street looking for a ... |
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a **Fair Word**. If it does not conform to this rule, I call it an **Unfair Word**.
Here is a list (not exhaustive) of some Fair Words and Unfair Words:
| Fair Words | Unfair Words |
| ---------- | ------------ |
| BEDSPREAD | DUVET |
| PRONUNCIATION| SPELL... |
Recently, I found this question: https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/66998/girls-are-mean which I wanted to strike back at with twice the amount of swords... And here's the story.
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Hello, I am Dr. Bonn and I am willing to find out if boys can be mean, too. So, I walked around the street looking for a ... |
1)Part of me is surrounded by water.
2)Part of me, when away, is missed a lot.
3)Part of me is used in a western European language as a first name.
4)Part of me can make you move and tremble.
What am I?
HINT: I am a nine letter word. |
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Monday morning baby Alex awoke in his mother's loving embrace. His mother changed him, fed him, and snuggled him, which he of course loved. But when she went to get her coat and suitcase baby Alex got upset as he realized she was getting ready to leave him for work. Not wanting her to go he cried and cried begging h... |
The original text doesn't seem to have been taken word-for-word from anything on the internet, and it seems like some gaps can be filled in multiple equally-plausible ways, so I can't guarantee I've reconstructed it _exactly_, but this is clearly about
>! dinosaurs.
Dictionary:
>! "Flat earthers" means "dinosa... |
Recently, I found this question: https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/66998/girls-are-mean which I wanted to strike back at with twice the amount of swords... And here's the story.
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Hello, I am Dr. Bonn and I am willing to find out if boys can be mean, too. So, I walked around the street looking for a ... |
The question mark should be replaced with
>! CHP
This is the list of
>! the [presidents of the European Parliament][1], given by their initials:
>!
>! 1958-1960 JBNRS = Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman
>! 1960-1962 HF = Hans Furler
>! 1962-1964 GM = Gaetano Martino
>! 1964-1965 JPD = Jean Pier... |
In one sense, I might describe a room,
Or part of a play, originally French.
In another, I'm used for comparison,
Perhaps to improve by a factor.
Almost, I'm a tag on this site,
If you've got me down to a tee.
What am I? Identify me. |
The question mark should be replaced with
>! CHP
This is the list of
>! the [presidents of the European Parliament][1], given by their initials:
>!
>! 1958-1960 JBNRS = Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman
>! 1960-1962 HF = Hans Furler
>! 1962-1964 GM = Gaetano Martino
>! 1964-1965 JPD = Jean Pier... |
This is a supplemental to Kendall's answer that proves its correctness:
Because there are four bolts, each with two possible positions, there are 2<sup>4</sup>=16 states. You might think we'd want to categorize the states by the number of bolts that are currently blocking one of the doors, but that won't really help... |
<sub>Okay, I think it's about time this puzzle got solved. Here's some really decent progress - pretty sure I'm just missing one part of the puzzle...</sub>
---
First:
>! As per Hints 3 and 4, there are numbers encoded in the diagram in **[balanced ternary](https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~matuszek/cit590-2015/Pages... |
What am I? Identify me.
>! log
In one sense, I might describe a room,
>! Middle English loge, via Old French loge meaning arbor or hut
Or part of a play, originally French.
>! the green room/dressing room - les loges
In another, I'm used for comparison,
>! we use logarithms to compare, eg earthquakes w... |
What am I? Identify me.
>! log
In one sense, I might describe a room,
>! Middle English `loge`, via Old French loge meaning `arbor` or `hut`
Or part of a play, originally French.
>! In French theatre, the green room/dressing room is called `les loges`
In another, I'm used for comparison,
>! we use loga... |
What am I? Identify me.
>! log
In one sense, I might describe a room,
>! Middle English `loge`, via Old French loge meaning `arbor` or `hut`
Or part of a play, originally French.
>! In French theatre, the green room/dressing room is called `les loges`
In another, I'm used for comparison,
>! we use loga... |
In one sense, I might describe a room,
Or part of a play, originally French.
In another, I'm used for comparison,
Perhaps to improve by a factor.
Almost, I'm a tag on this site,
If you've got me down to a tee.
What am I? Identify me.
<hr>
Hint:
>! Each of the three stanzas of the riddle refer... |
This puzzle is the second part of story [Ohh, NSA again?](https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/105998/ohh-nsa-again). Hope like this story. Here it is:
<hr>
John got the **target**, it was *Stack*. Problem is, it can be *Stack Overflow* or *Stack Exchange*.
Another problem is that it doesn't concern NSA.... |
Have you this knowledge? |
*Not mathematical yet I represent a half of sorts,*
*With furrowed brows and a holey sign I am formed,*
*My colouring a little 'boorish' you could say,*
*My opposite North-eastern?!*
What am I?
>! It is a symbol.
>! Think about what Boor sounds like? And what colour is often associated with that?
|
What two words am I looking for in the puzzle below? (The title too is a clue).
*35437*
*When a Deity sees its reflection,*
*Clip the best of rediscoveries approximately.*
*Blow has been blown when it is done below the belt,*
*Being confused with the quartet's sound,*
*Making a faux faith, inside... |
I think the answer might be
>! ♀
Not mathematical yet I represent a half of sorts,
>! The ♀ symbol represents the female sex, members of which make up roughly half of the global human population.
With furrowed brows and a holey sign I am formed,
>! I think the "furrowed brows" are used to describe the circle (... |
Lines 1 and 4 make me think of
>! ♀️ (half of the population is female, opposite is ♂️).
I have no idea, what the boorish colour would be (
>!pink maybe?
) and I really don't see the furrowed brows though. |
# Wrap-up: The Making Of _“I claim this corner of the world for Britain!” - What game are Alex and Brooke playing?_
_This is not a solution to the puzzle, but provides notes from its poser. This type of answer has been [approved by the community](https://puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5420/)._
_**Caut... |
I think the answer might be
>! ♀
Not mathematical yet I represent a half of sorts,
>! The ♀ symbol represents the female sex, members of which make up roughly half of the global human population.
With furrowed brows and a holey sign I am formed,
>! **From the OP:** "furrowed brows" indicates "cross" and "holey... |
1)Part of me is surrounded by water.
2)Part of me, when away, is missed a lot.
3)Part of me is used in a western European language as a first name.
4)Part of me can make you move and tremble.
What am I?
HINT: I am a nine letter word.
2nd HINT: I am a rarity since COVID-19. |
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<br/>
If you... |
This may be a bit weird, but I remember a type of riddle but I can't remember any of those riddles nor their name.
The riddle gives you 2 things and you need to find descriptions for both that are word reversal of each other.
I'll give some examples and a list of those riddles I wrote.
If anybody recognize the... |
In the below position, how many moves will it take for Black to be stalemated? Black moves first, and both sides are working together. Black's pawns are moving down. Have fun solving!
**Zdravko Maslar, Problem 1958, Special Prize**
[![enter image description here][1]][1]
[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/gEcH... |
So Graylocke Inc. (the previously hidden competitor to Retudin's Mazes Inc. mentioned [here](https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/104507/chain-puzzle-tabletop-games-7-maze/104529?noredirect=1#comment295394_104529)) has produced a new product *just* in time for the holiday season. We present to you **Graylocke'... |
### What am I?
> Frequently I appear,
>
> Not just here,
>
> Applesauce I make,
>
> Did that hold you up?
>
> Vulnerable I am,
>
> Annoying I can be,
>
> But required I am,
>
> To hide what could ruin,
>
> A soul's own zeal,
>
> For what is frequently here.
|
The puzzle is as follows:
> Four sisters went to the movie theater. While leaving the venue each
> one of them took by mistake the purse of another sister and the coat
> of another different sister. Maria took the coat that belongs to the
> sister whose purse Jenny took, while Jenny's coat was taken by the
> sis... |
Who had taken Gwen's purse and jacket? |
The puzzle is as follows:
> Four sisters went to the movie theater. While leaving the venue each
> one of them took by mistake the purse of another sister and the coat
> of another different sister. Maria took the coat that belongs to the
> sister whose purse Jenny took, while Jenny's coat was taken by the
> sis... |
Who took Gwen's purse and jacket? |
This can be solved with a classic logic grid, with these three categories:
>! - Sister: Maria, Jenny, Gwen & Sophia
>! - Coat: Maria's, Jenny's, Gwen's & Sophia's
>! - Purse: Maria's, Jenny's, Gwen's & Sophia's
Here is the [starting (empty) grid][1].
Step #1: [let's fill it][2] with the first information... |
This can be solved with a classic logic grid, with these three categories:
>! - **Sister**: Maria, Jenny, Gwen & Sophia
>! - **Coat**: Maria's, Jenny's, Gwen's & Sophia's
>! - **Purse**: Maria's, Jenny's, Gwen's & Sophia's
Here is the [starting (empty) grid][1].
>! [![Initial grid][2]][2]
Step #1: [le... |
<sup>An entry in [Fortnightly Topic Challenge #46: "Tales From the Cryptic"](https://puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7128/fortnightly-topic-challenge-46-tales-from-the-cryptic)</sup>
>We begin with the most *abnormal, rosiest fables* **of** *twisted form, driven into the heart of endless deed.* It is a dar... |
The first step:
>! Each italicised phrase is a cryptic clue.
>! The solutions to those cryptic clues are:
>! [![enter image description here][1]][1]
>! Text version:
>! `¶1: STORIES*; DE(FORM)ED; SLATE*`
>! `¶2: COM(-a) + (-b,-e)ING; ???; FERVOR inits; B(EF<)ORE; MILLENIUM inits [sic]`
>! `¶3: _ART... |
In the below position, how many moves will it take for Black to be stalemated? Black moves first, and both sides are working together. Black's pawns are moving down. Have fun solving!
EDIT: I input the wrong position: it is now corrected. The below answer is not affected by it.
**Zdravko Maslar, Problem 1958, Spe... |
In the below position, how many moves will it take for Black to be stalemated? Black moves first, and both sides are working together. Black's pawns are moving down. Have fun solving!
**Zdravko Maslar, Problem 1958, Special Prize**
[![enter image description here][1]][1]
[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/KeB6... |
Yesterday I went to a magic show and I was part of a clever trick. First of all, the magician arranged 36 cards in a 4 x 9 grid as follows:
[![cards grid][1]][1]
Then they called me on the stage. I felt a little bit uncomfortable, after all I didn't want to be sawn into two pieces! As the magician explained what ... |
You are playing with the black pieces and you know you have about a second before you run out of time and lose the game.
There is no time added to the clock and white has plenty of time. What move do you play?
[![enter image description here][1]][1]
[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/KiF2e.png |
You are playing with the black pieces and you know you have about a second before you run out of time and lose the game.
There is no time added to the clock and white has plenty of time left. What move do you play?
[![enter image description here][1]][1]
[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/KiF2e.png |
I saw a man seemingly lost
Me: Hi. Are you looking for something?
Him: ____ .
Me: Go to the Federal Triangle ____ street.
Him: Do you know the address?
Me: I think it is ____ street.
Him: O yeah. The Federal building with the IRS office.
Me: Yes. It also houses a HUD office, an FBI office... |
What is in the blank box? Why? Pick from one of the five options.
[![enter image description here][1]][1]
[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/N2kX6.jpg |
Could be
>! **ONE**
I saw a man seemingly lost<br><br>
Me: Hi. Are you looking for something?<br><br>
Him: <br>
>! **ONE** .
Me: Go to the Federal Triangle
>! **ON E** street.
Him: Do you know the address? <br><br>
Me: I think it is
>! **ON E** street.
Him: O yeah. The Federal building with th... |
I present to you a set of 5 equations that cannot be solved.
I want you to find the solution:
>$B + C = 1$
$B + C + F + G = 4$
$A + B + C = 7$
$A + B + C + D + G = 3$
$A + B + E + D + G = 2$
Times ticking, don't wait around!
What is the solution to the above equations?
|
Me: Hi. Are you looking for something?
>! Him: ATM.
>! Me: Go to the Federal Triangle at M street.
Him: Do you know the address?
>! Me: I think it is 80 M street.
Him: O yeah. The Federal building with the IRS office.
>! Me: Yes. It also houses a HUD office, an FBI office and a TM office, you know, wh... |
I display to you a set of 5 equations that cannot be solved.
I want you to find the solution:
>$B + C = 1$
$B + C + F + G = 4$
$A + B + C = 7$
$A + B + C + D + G = 3$
$A + B + E + D + G = 2$
Times ticking, don't wait around!
What is the solution to the above equations?
|
Here's a series of text messages between me and my friend.
Me: Couldn't use ebg13, so used ______ to hide my messages.
Him: What? How is this possible???
Me: A big prime ______, what else did you expect?
Him: Hmm.
Me:(Note: this is multiline. Also, this is not part of the text. See below.)
```
˄
... |
What is in the blank box? Why? Pick from one of the five options.
[![enter image description here][1]][1]
[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/N2kX6.jpg
For folks who dont see colors well
Colors are
>
>
> Y R O
>
> Y B G
>
> B Purp
>
> R B ... |
The city had a new transmogrifier. I was willing to go in, but it would be boring, I was told. Meanwhile, some people were bragging about how they would come out the transmogrifier.
One said, "My little buddy should jump down, but there will be a new one."
Jumpy said, "Why why, if I go in it 4 times I come back!"... |
I display to you a set of 5 equations that cannot be solved.
I want you to find the solution:
> B + C = 1
B + C + F + G = 4
A + B + C = 7
A + B + C + D + G = 3
A + B + E + D + G = 2
Times ticking, don't wait around!
What is the solution to the above equations?
|
What is in the blank box? Why? Pick from one of the five options.
[![enter image description here][1]][1]
[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/N2kX6.jpg
For folks who don't see colors well
Y = yellow, R = red, O = orange, B = blue, G = green, P = purple
>
>
> Y R O
>
> Y B ... |
<h1>The original puzzle contained a mistake, this has now been fixed. I'm really sorry about that!</h1>
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<br/>
If you... |
In a 3x3 grid, I'd have to put numbers from 1 to 9 in a manner so that respective row, column and diagonal add up to 15.
I have only been able to come up with one solution:
| | | |
|-|-|-|
|6|1|8|
|7|5|3|
|2|9|4|
Through some calculations and trial and error method.
Is there any strategy or way of appro... |
This puzzle is a [Nurikabe][1] that is designed to be a gentle introduction to the genre, with a learning curve of progressively harder deductions. It is encouraged for first-time solvers and those who want to try learning the deductions necessary to solve these kinds of puzzles. It's also my first grid-deduction puzzl... |
Every point in the plane is colored either red or blue. Does a square in the plane exist
such that all four of its vertices are the same color? |
<sup>*Think I've pretty much got it now - just one specific word remaining to be found!*</sup>
---
Note first that this puzzle is tagged as [tag:wordsearch]. This means that somehow or other we need to extract a grid of letters from this image. How? Well notice that if you look closely:
>! There are lines of sma... |
What is in the blank box? Why? Pick from one of the five options.
[![enter image description here][1]][1]
[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/N2kX6.jpg
For folks who don't see colors well
Y = yellow, R = red, O = orange, B = blue, G = green, P = purple
> Grid:
>
> | | | |
> |-|-|-|
> |Y|R|O|
> |Y|B|G|
... |
**Solved!** Note first that this puzzle is tagged as [tag:wordsearch]. This means that somehow or other we need to extract a grid of letters from this image. How? Well notice that if you look closely:
>! There are lines of small shapes hidden in faint colours throughout the image:
>! [![Original image with symbol... |
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I display to you a set of 5 equations that cannot be solved.
I want you to find the solution:
- - -
> B + C = 1
B + C + F + G = 4
A + B + C = 7
A + B + C + D + G = 3
A + B + E + D + G = 2
- - -
Times ticking, don't wait around!
**What is the solution to the above equations?**
|
**Extremely partial answer**
The
>! name of the code is "fini", suggesting looking at _ends_ of things.
If we
>! look at the last letters of sentences (all of them, not e.g. just those uttered by the policeman) we get: FOLLOWTHECAPITALSMDEEYTEYNS. I can't make anything of the last bit, but the first part su... |
Every point in the plane is colored either red or blue. Is it necessarily the case (i.e., is it true for all such colorings) that there exists some _square_ in the plane, all of whose vertices are the same color? |
# Partial Answer #
Building on Deusovi's answer.
## Middle-Left Puzzle ##
A word used when introducing oneself
>! "Nice TO meet you"
Half Greek, half French, half breed
>! I don't really know, but maybe the author is half French, half Greek? So I?
A salad base without you and me
>! LETTUCE without "us"... |
Furious, the chief officer of London's police force stood in the foyer of the late Majesty's mansion, trying to compose himself. Sitting before him were the three suspects, Toby and Ned (whom he'd interviewed on Sunday), and Chad (whom he'd interviewed on Tuesday)... Ned was glaring at the other two.
"One of you," h... |
Furious, the chief officer of London's police force stood in the foyer of the late Majesty's mansion, trying to compose himself. Sitting before him were the three suspects, Toby and Ned (whom he'd interviewed on Sunday), and Chad (whom he'd interviewed on Tuesday)... Ned was glaring at the other two.
"One of you," h... |
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