No eigenvalues or matrices needed for this one :)
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same seven letters, can be used to complete the sentence below?
The actor was the _______ man ever seen on this stage. He looked as if his head had been sand _______.
--Rakhal
The actor was the baldest man ever seen on this stage. He looked as if his head had been sand blasted.
The "sand" part pretty much gave it away. After getting "blasted", take out an "est" and rearrange the "bla_d" until you get something reasonable.
Ooouu, good one. =p
KLSymph is right! One cookie awarded
Puzzle for the 12th:
Unscramble the letters below, find the missing letter and complete the word
SSHT?IRYO
SOPHISTRY
Congrats! Sorry about the slow reply, can't post at weekends.
3 puzzles for today :)
1: The following puzzle consists of one word that can be split into two words.
One Word: Something to learn
Two Words: wearing fewer articles of clothing.
2. The number 150 can be divided into two numbers, the smaller of which is 20 less than the larger. What are the two numbers?
3.What one three-letter syllable can be placed in the blanks below to make four different words?
BR___
CL___
SPR___
WR___
cookies: Edward: 1
KLSymph: 1
--Rakhal
Oooh, I know! I know! ^_^
Number 3 is "ing" ^_^
85 and 65 for number 2? I'm not sure if that's quite what you're getting at with the question, though.
Number 1 is "lesson" (something to learn) and "less on" (wearing fewer clothes).
Kwok, Dune and Halbarad each get cookies. Current totals are:
Dune: 1
Edward: 1
Halbarad: 1
KLSymph: 1
Kwok: 1
Next puzzle tomorrow. Bet you just can't wait :)
--Rakhal
"less on"? Dammit, I SO should've gotten that one =D
Unscramble the letters in the 4 anagrams below. Each is missing one letter, the same letter for all 4. What are the words, and the missing letter?
IBETYR?
RYAO?
COCAONISA?
PEACIS?
Yay! Got it! ^_^
The missing letter is the letter L. With that added in, the four words are "liberty", "royal", "occasional" and "special" ^_^
A well earned cookie there :)
Kwok: 2
Dune: 1
Edward: 1
Halbarad: 1
KLSymph: 1
A simple substitution code has been used to conceal a "quote." Work out the code to decipher the original words.
Dorothy Lamour:
12-21 24-12-6-9-8-22, 18 19-26-5-22 15-12-7-8 12-21 5-22-15-24-9-12, 8-26-21-22-7-2 11-18-13-8 26-13-23 25-6-7-7-12-13-8 18-13-8-18-23-22 14-2 8-26-9-12-13-20.
Of course, i have lots of velcro, safety pines and buttons inside my sarong.
Another winner!
Halbarad: 2
Kwok: 2
Dune: 1
Edward: 1
Getzeye: 1
KLSymph: 1
( we seem to have lost a couple of posts from this thread...)
--Rakhal
Yeah, sorry 'bout that Rak. We think we know what happened but can't really fix it.
Dracos
No big deal. I didn't lose the score :)
And an easy one for today:
Two gardeners can plant 8 rosebushes in 2 hours. How many gardeners will it take to plant 64 bushes in 4 hours?
--Rakhal
4 groups of 2.
Edit: Don't want to brag but this one was easier then the ones from before (not posted here) I was watching S.W.A.T., asked Rak for the puzzple, he linked me and it just popped in my head. Maybe i should watch S.W.A.T. more often. >.>
Cookie awarded :)
Getzeye: 2
Halbarad: 2
Kwok: 2
Dune: 1
Edward: 1
KLSymph: 1
Monday morning and 3 puzzles for the price of one!
1>
A familiar tonguetwister is coiled in the grid below. To spell it out, start with one letter and move to an adjacent letter in any direction. Three nulls.
S C D O O C H C H C
D H L D W K U D W U
D U U C A C O O O M
D C O H F H W A O W
O K C U I U L D D O
O W K C K C U O C H
2>
What letter would logically replace the question mark in the sequence below...
A ? D W G Z J
3>
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same seven letters can be used to complete the sentence below
The _______ of your graceful size 8 dress will change rapidly if you eat every _______ in your Caesar salad
First one.
How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood.
Second one. Answer is 'T'. >_>
The pattern, I believe, is first to jump forward 19 letters from the first letter, then the next letter is the one three letters onward from the original.
This new letter is the next one used for the basis of the puzzle. >_>
Both answers correct, 2 cookies awarded. There's still one up for grabs :)
Getzeye: 3
Halbarad: 2
Kwok: 2
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Edward: 1
KLSymph: 1
The CONTOUR of your graceful size 8 dress will change rapidly if you eat every CROUTON in your Caesar salad.
And the 3rd cookie is awarded. Congrats!
Getzeye: 3
Halbarad: 3
Kwok: 2
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Edward: 1
KLSymph: 1
Unscramble the 16 letters below to make a four-word phrase that describes what a remarkable animal does in a poem.
E E H J M M N O O O P R S T U V
It's a cow that "jumps over the moon."
A 4th cookie for Halbarad!
Halbarad: 4
Getzeye: 3
Kwok: 2
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Edward: 1
KLSymph: 1
The names of three trees are hidden in the sentences below. Can you find them? (Hint: The letters are in consecutive order.)
In the office, dark lighting is not good. The dark walls soak up light. A novel manner of solving this would be better artificial light.
Cedar, Oak, something. >_>;;
Cedar, Oak, Elm. ^^;
Bah! Can't believe I missed it. @_@
The first one was screwing me up. Took me a while longer then the other two.
A closely fought cookie, but Getz wins it :)
Halbarad: 4
Getzeye: 4
Kwok: 2
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Edward: 1
KLSymph: 1
Guest puzzlemaker Carthrat strikes!
Assume you have two pieces of string, of equal length, and an infinite number of matches. Both pieces of string, you have been told, will burn for exactly an hour. However, they will not burn at a constant rate; at some points, they will burn quickly, and at other points, they will burn slowly. They also do not burn at the same rate as each other.
You must discern a method to measure fifteen minutes using the pieces of string and the matches.
Tie a bunch of matches to the end of one string and suspend it to form a pendulum. Start it swinging. Light the other string. Count the oscillations of the pendulum until the string burns out. This gives you the number of oscillations in an hour. Divide by 4 to get the number in 15 minutes.
--Rakhal
Won't the pendulum slow down?
A property of pendulums is that the oscillation period is determined by the length of the string (and I think gravity). The size of the oscillation is not a factor. So no, it won't slow down, though you may need to boost the swings every now and then.
Otherwise pendulum clocks wouldn't work very well
--Rakhal
Ahh..ok...>.>;;
Cookie for Rak. That's not the way I expected to see, but it's superior to the alternate method by far. ^^
And another bonus puzzle. Fairly old, but fun
In one ancient Elgrothian town the laws of marriage were very strict. A
man was only allowed one wife, but that wife must be faithful to him. If
you discovered that your wife was unfaithful, you had to take her out to
the town square at dawn and chop off her head! However the men in that town
loved their wives and wouldn't do that unless they had definite proof.
The women were of two sorts. They either lived by the law, or if they
broke it they broke it good! They had sex with EVERY other man in the town.
Naturally though no man would tell an unfaithful wifes husband of her
infidelity, although they do know that women who are unfaithful are unfaithful
with everyone.
One day the King came to stay the night. The next morning a notice was
posted in town square saying 'There is infidelity in this town!'
The men brooded, talked to no-one, drank, and thought. 40 days later, forty
men dragged their wives out to the town square at dawn and chopped their heads
off. How did they know?
--Rakhal
(updated to add a little more info and formatting)
The only guess I have is that the men whose wives were gone while they fooled around with everyone ELSE'S wives realized just what their own wives must have been up to at the same time. Doesn't really seem to fit quite right, but it's the best guess I can make.
Nope. Circumstantial evidence, they could have been out playing cards and they wont execute their wives unless they know :)
--Rakhal
If there was only one unfaithful wife the husband would be the only man in town who did not know it. Therefore, when the King revealed there was infidelity in the town, that husband would know his wife was the unfaithful one and behead her the next morning.
But no one did, so there must be at least two unfaithful wives. If there were only two, both husbands would realize this on the second day, because they knew of one unfaithful wife, yet she was not executed on that first day. Both husbands would execute their wives on the second day.
In the same way, if a husband knew of two unfaithful wives, but they weren't executed on the second day, he would know that his wife was also unfaithful and three wives would die on the third day.
This pattern would continue. Each man whose wife was faithful knows there are 40 unfaithful women. The men whose wives are unfaithful only know of 39 unfaithful women and would expect them to be executed on the 39th day. When no women were executed, each cuckolded husband knows his wife is unfaithful, and on the 40th day, 40 men execute their wives.
Very good! Have a muffin for that. Had you seen the puzzle before?
--Rakhal
Fastest finger first! This will take all of 10 seconds :)
Sally is now three-fifths Susan's Age. A year ago she was half Susan's age.
How old are they now?
Three and five this year.
Another contestent wins her first cookie!
Halbarad: 4
Getzeye: 4
Edward: 1 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 2
Asrana: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
KLSymph: 1
Quote from: "Rakhal"Had you seen the puzzle before?l
Never seen it before, though I have dealt with logic puzzles before.
Thanks for the muffin.
Choose the correct letter from each clue in the rhyme below. When put in order, the four letters will spell the answer to the riddle
My first is in art, but not in hold.
My second in under, but not in cold.
My third in tell but not in self.
My last in off but not in elf.
My whole is basic to our lives-
We use it both for work and drives.
--Rakhal
AUTO! XD
Indeed it is!
Getzeye: 5
Halbarad: 4
Edward: 1 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 2
Asrana: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
KLSymph: 1
Getzeye you be so smart! ^^
That last one was easy. I'm really good with word puzzles when I can see them. =p
Quote from: "StormDragon"Getzeye you be so smart! ^^
*pinch*
Suck up XD
*pinch*
I'm at uni..and i'm bored...Stormy-chan! Check your e-mail! -.-;;
And 3 puzzles for a wet Monday Morning!
1>
Some good advice for any interviewee is coiled in the grid below. To spell
it out, start with one letter and move to an adjacent letter in any direction. Two nulls.
H E R S I L E M I S
T E I N I T N E U Q
A V G M A R O B O T
H U H E R Y U Y E D
Y O T T O O M A Y Y
2>
How many common English words can you make from the letters below,
using all four letters only once in each word?
A E M N
3>
What two words , formed from different arrangements of the same seven letters, can be used to complete the sentence below?
The extremely talented _______ could make any situation seem real,
but she lost her composure when the _______ on her chair loosened
and she slid across the stage.
3)
"actress" and then "casters"
1) You have the right to remain silent, or you may be misquoted.
2) For COMMON English words? Just four. Mane, name, amen, and mean (using all four letters).
5 words :/
mean
name
amen
enam
mane
2 cookies awarded to Halbarad, one to Getz. And the race continues :)
Getzeye: 6
Halbarad: 6
Edward: 1 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 2
Asrana: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
KLSymph: 1
I need to start getting up earlier - I never manage to catch these before they're snapped up.
*Grumbles*
Quote from: "dunefar"I need to start getting up earlier - I never manage to catch these before they're snapped up.
*Grumbles*
Halbarad's lucky he gets them. He gets up just after Rak posts them so a few others, myself included, have first shot...Halbarad usually answers them before i do so him still being asleep when they get posted doesn't count that much.
*pats dunefar*
EDIT:
Well if you miss them again, just come to the chat and ask Rak for a few older ones that haven't been posted here or in the chat. >.> Don't know if you'll get a cookie for them ^.^
Figure out the pattern in the first three examples and use it to figure out the last.
1,2,3 (s)
4,5,6 (f)
7,7,1 (f)
3,9,7 (?)
Is there a time of day that people would prefer for me to post these btw?
--Rakhal
@.@
123 (s)
456(f)
771(f)
379(n)
Cookie awarded.
Getzeye: 7
Halbarad: 6
Edward: 1 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 2
Asrana: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
KLSymph: 1
Should i say how i solved it? >.> the others seem to do it >.>
EDIT: Bah! I'll do it.
1 2 3 (s)ix
4 5 6 (f)ifteen
7 7 1 (f)ifteen
3 7 9 (n)ineteen
1 + 2 + 3 = 6
4 + 5 + 6 = 15
7 + 7 + 1 = 15
3 + 7 + 9 = 19
Two puzzles today since I missed yesterday.
1>
Unscramble the 14 letters below to make a common four-word phrase that means 'getting worse all the time'
D E G G G H I N O O O S T T
2>The following descriptions are those of real newspaper or magazine titles with only one letter changed (example: Stories of sadness = Newsweep)
1)How to be a gorgeous rodent
2)Vacationing in a quarry
3)Big-city small change
1st one:
"GOING TO THE DOGS"
One cookie awarded! One still up for grabs
Getzeye: 7
Halbarad: 6
Edward: 1 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 2
Asrana: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
KLSymph: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Argh! Too slow! Sunhawk beat me to it!
2) 1. Mouse Beautiful
2. Gravel and Leisure
3. New York Dimes
And the second cookie is awarded! Well done!
Getzeye: 7
Halbarad: 7
Edward: 1 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 2
Asrana: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
KLSymph: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Gah! XD
Add on:
Rakhal-sama : 1 cookie ^.^
Billy has one more sister than he has brothers. If Billy had one less brother he would have three times as many sisters as brothers. How many boys and girls in the family.
--Rakhal
EDIT:
6 girls and 4 boys including Billy himself. >.>
No cookie awarded yet....
3 boys and 3 girls.
Cookie awarded! Congrats!
Getzeye: 7
Halbarad: 7
Edward: 1 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 2
Asrana: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
KLSymph: 1
Prince Herb: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Three puzzles today.
1>
What one three-letter syllable can be placed in the blanks below to make four different words?
LION____
WINTER____
DOWNS____
OXID____
2>
Unscramble the following four anagrams then find the missing letter that
completes each word. The missing letter is the same letter for each word.
AWRIE
ISCEEER
SSLENA
ATCNGIE
3>
A bottle of coins sat on the table. When it was opened there was a total of $8.10. There was an equal number of dimes, quarters and silver dollars, but no other denominations of coins. How many of each were there?
--Rakhal
(editted to fix goof in puzzle 1)
1> -ize is the only one I can think of; do you mean "downs" instead of "down"?
3> 6 of each
2 cookies awarded to Ragnar, and yes, it should have been DOWNS, not DOWN,very sorry.
Getzeye: 7
Halbarad: 7
Edward: 1 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 2
Ragnar: 2
Asrana: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
KLSymph: 1
Prince Herb: 1
Sunhawk: 1
One cookie up for grabs still
Quote from: "Rakhal"One cookie up for grabs still
Are you sure you have all the letters correct for 2?
All letters were correct for puzzle #2. I get to keep a cookie :)
The Answer for the four anagrams were
AWRIE -> WAXIER
ISCEEER -> EXERCISE
SSLENA -> LAXNESS
ATCNGIE -> EXACTING
And the missing letter was of course X
And now for todays puzzle
The following puzzle consists of one word that can be split into two words.
One word: Comprehend
Two words: located beneath a bleacher
--Rakhal
This seems to obvious to be correct, but I'll give it a shot.
One word: Understand
Two words: Under stand
You're quite correct. Cookie awarded!
Getzeye: 7
Halbarad: 7
Edward: 1 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 2
Ragnar: 2
Asrana: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
KLSymph: 1
Prince Herb: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Unclaimed: 1
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same six letters, can be used to complete the sentence below?
The principal ______ the teachers lack of dscipline for the ______ that went on in his classroom.
--Rakhal
Never mind, spotted an error. >_>
The principal BLAMED the teachers lack of dscipline for the BEDLAM that went on in his classroom.
-Itarien
And another cookie awarded!
Getzeye: 7
Halbarad: 7
Edward: 1 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 2
Ragnar: 2
Asrana: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
KLSymph: 1
Prince Herb: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Unclaimed: 1
There was a in a local toy store to guess the nuber of toy cars in a big glass jar. Jim guessed 32, Joe guessed 29, Mary guessed 35, Alice guessed 28 and Jill guessed 31. One was off by one, one was off by 2, one was off by 3, one was off by 4 and one was correct.
How many toy cars were in the jar?
31.
EDIT: Just to show how. You had 5 guesses:
Jim guessed 32(+1), Joe guessed 29(-2), Mary guessed 35(+4), Alice guessed 28(-3) and Jill guessed 31(on the nose).
Very good. Cookie awarded.
Easter holiday coming up, so no puzzle now for 5 days. But when I get back (next Tuesday), you'll get 5 at once :)
Halbarad: 8
Getzeye: 7
Edward: 1 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 2
Ragnar: 2
Asrana: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
KLSymph: 1
Prince Herb: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Unclaimed: 1
Nooo!!!...i missed it ;.;
What was the puzzle that resulted in an unclaimed cookie?
It was the one about anagrams with a missing letter.
Quote2>
Unscramble the following four anagrams then find the missing letter that
completes each word. The missing letter is the same letter for each word.
AWRIE
ISCEEER
SSLENA
ATCNGIE
I doubt you'd want it; that cookie's probably getting stale by now.
1> The following puzzle consists of one word that can be split into two words.
One Word: sold to the general public
Two Words (with hyphen): to attach the dislodged part of a toy buny.
2>A simple substitution code has been used to conceal an indisputable fact. Work out the code to decipher the original words.
4 15-12-9-8-23-12-16-8 10-24-4-21-4-17-23-8-8 7-18-8-22
17-18-23 16-8-4-17 2-18-24-21 15-12-9-8-23-12-16-8 13-24-22-23
24-17-23-12-15 23-11-8 6-18-16-19-4-17-2 10-18-8-22
5-4-17-14-21-24-19-23
3> If 7 decorated Easter eggs and 5 stuffed rabbits cost $110, and 5 Easter eggs and 7 stuffed rabbits cost £67, how much will 30 stuffed rabbits cost.
£1=$1.8
4> Find the word that best completes the following sequence.
Radish, Steer, Lift, Sagged, _____
a> Vanish b> Aches c> Potato d> Collapse e> Winter
5> Decipher the following anagram: BEEOSSSS
Hope you had a nice easter :)
--Rakhal
OBSESSES? >_>;
446.36$ for the bunnies i think <_<
One cookie awarded (for Obsesses)
Halbarad: 8
Getzeye: 7
Edward: 1 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 2
Ragnar: 2
Asrana: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
KLSymph: 1
Onigiri: 1
Prince Herb: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The answer is $367.74 for 30 bunny-chans ^_^
And another cookie goes (I'll ignore the cent, due to rouding :))
Halbarad: 8
Getzeye: 7
Kwok: 3
Edward: 1 + 1 muffin
Ragnar: 2
Asrana: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
KLSymph: 1
Onigiri: 1
Prince Herb: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Here's how I got it:
x is easter eggs, y is bunny-chans. The rest is just simple substitution. I probably did it really stupidly though ^_^
7x+5y=110
5x+7y=120.6
12x+12y=230.6
x+y=19.2167
5x+5y=96.083
2x=13.917
x=6.9585
7x=48.7095
5y=61.2905
30y=367.743
A LIFETIME GAURANTEE DOES NOT MEAN YOUR LIFETIME JUST UNTIL THE COMPANY GOES BANKRUPT
A L I F E T I M E G U A R A N T E E D O E S
N O T M E A N Y O U R L I F E T I M E J U S T
U N T I L T H E C O M P A N Y G O E S
B A N K R U P T
GAH you already got it...-.-
Onigiri snatches cookie 3 from Getz's jaws :)
Halbarad: 8
Getzeye: 7
Kwok: 3
Edward: 1 + 1 muffin
Onigiri: 2
Ragnar: 2
Asrana: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
KLSymph: 1
Prince Herb: 1
Sunhawk: 1
echo "D OLIHWLPH JDXUDQWHH GRHV QRW PHDQ BRXU OLIHWLPH MXVW XQWLO WKH FRPSDQB JRHV EDQNUXSW" | tr D-ZA-B A-Z
=D
4) b
Its a guess XD
EDIT:
Radish - an edible root. So i thought farm.
Steer - Steering around the tractor.
Lift - the cartons of radish off the tractor
Sagged - "to droop" in posture
Aches - is what you feel at the end of the day. ^^;;
Another EDIT
Although i suppose you can also figure it out like how Rak said...
raDish, stEer, liFt, saGged and acHes. >.>
A correct guess as it happens.
Getzeye: 8
Halbarad: 8
Getzeye: 7
Kwok: 3
Edward: 1 + 1 muffin
Onigiri: 2
Ragnar: 2
Asrana: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
KLSymph: 1
Prince Herb: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Didn't see this one answered, so...
1) RETAIL / RE-TAIL
And the final cookie is awarded. Good spread :)
Halbarad: 9
Getzeye: 8
Kwok: 3
Edward: 1 + 1 muffin
Onigiri: 2
Ragnar: 2
Asrana: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
KLSymph: 1
Prince Herb: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Bonus puzzle, just cos it's the 13th of April...
If 1+1 = 30, 2+2=40, 8+9=19 and 3+7=39, what is 4+5?
There is a muffin up for grabs here...
Quote from: "Rakhal"If 1+1 = 30, 2+2=40, 8+9=19 and 3+7=39, what is 4+5?
Then 4+5 equals 12.
It's based on the first letter each word's place in the alphabet.
The first letter of 'one' is 'o', which is the 15th letter of the alphabet. Thus 15+15=30.
The first letter of 'two' is 't', which is the 20th letter of the alphabet. Thus 20+20=40.
The first letter of 'eight' is 'e', which is the 5th letter of the alphabet. The first letter of 'nine' is 'n', which is the 14th letter of the alphabet. Thus 5+14=19.
The first letter of 'three' is 't', which is the 20th letter of the alphabet. The first letter of 'seven' is 's', which is the 19th letter of the alphabet. Thus 20+19=39.
The first letter of 'four' is 'f', which is the 6th letter of the alphabet. The first letter of 'five' is also 'f', the 6th letter of the alphabet. Thus 6+6=12.
And another muffin is earned by Edward. Congrats!
A muffin is defined to be worth 1 1/2 cookies...
Halbarad: 9
Getzeye: 8
Edward: 1 + 2 muffins
Kwok: 3
Onigiri: 2
Ragnar: 2
Asrana: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
KLSymph: 1
Prince Herb: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Find a word that means 'Edge' then change one letter to find a word for the quick opening and shutting of the eye
Find a word that means "to put a border around" then change one letter to find a word for fire.
'Brink' --> 'Blink'
'Frame' --> 'Flame'
Quote from: "Rakhal"Find a word that means 'Edge' then change one letter to find a word for the quick opening and shutting of the eye
brink - blink
EDIT:
BLAH! Stupid pages errors.....
And another cookie for Halbarad :)
Halbarad: 10
Getzeye: 8
Edward: 1 + 2 muffins
Kwok: 3
Onigiri: 2
Ragnar: 2
Asrana: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
KLSymph: 1
Prince Herb: 1
Sunhawk: 1
A statement is coiled in the grid below. To spell it out, start with one letter and move to an adjacent letter in any direction. One null.
A Y S U N T E E
W L J S I H N X
S E A T U O T T
I A R E T Y A X
Y I Y N U P R L
H S A O H O E V
W A P U G T E L
Why is a raise always just enough to put you in the next tax bracket
close... but I can't really award it for that....
Ack!
I typed bracket when I meant level
Gomen...
And more...
Why is a pay raise always just enough to put you in the next tax level
I'll give you that, you missed 'pay' out as well, but :)
Halbarad: 10
Getzeye: 8
Edward: 1 + 2 muffins
Kwok: 3
Onigiri: 2
Ragnar: 2
Asrana: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
KLSymph: 1
Prince Herb: 2
Sunhawk: 1
The following puzzle consists of one word that can be split into two words
One Word: to ratify or approve
Two words: a cheating business
Its a wild guess...
Confirm
con firm.
Bah!
Good enough for a cookie!
Halbarad: 10
Getzeye: 9
Edward: 1 + 2 muffins
Kwok: 3
Onigiri: 2
Prince Herb: 2
Ragnar: 2
Asrana: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
KLSymph: 1
Sunhawk: 1
A simple code has been used to encrypt the message below. What does this message say when decrypted?
AGIOOUBF UA DYB YBRUK RGW XEWSUR VUKK XINWA
--Rakhal
Guess the last puzzle was too hard, sorry. The code in question was one key over on the keyboard. So W becomes Q, S becomes A, X becomes Z e.t.c
And the message was:
SHOPPING IS FUN UNTIL THE CREDIT BILL COMES
And now three puzzles for today
1>
What two words formed from different arrangements of the same six letters, can be used to complete the sentence below/
The young man telling the story of his brother's wedding said, "So the groom finally ______ in, half an hour late, and the ______ join him at the alter.
2>
A comment on time is coiled in the grid below. To spell it out start with one letter and move to an adjacent letter in any direction.
R U O Y F W A N A
L H O F U L W S I
I T N E E P A Y A
F S E V N S Y N D
E E N O D O T O M
3>
Find the number in the bottom row that best completes the sequence in the top row.
3,618 248 4,520
a>246 b>131 c>6,636 d>249
Wild guess that doesn't make TOO much sense, but it fit.
1>
The young man telling the story of his brother's wedding said, "So the groom finally Drives in, half an hour late, and the Divers join him at the alter.
Creative, but not what I'm looking for I'm afraid :)
--Rakhal
3>
c>6,636
As far as I can see, the pattern is
3x6=18, 2x4=8, 4x5=20, and thus 6x6=36
Cookie awarded! 2 to go.
Halbarad: 10
Getzeye: 9
Edward: 1 + 2 muffins
Kwok: 3
Asrana: 2
Onigiri: 2
Prince Herb: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
KLSymph: 1
Sunhawk: 1
#1 >
The young man telling the story of his brother's wedding said, "So the groom finally rushes in, half an hour late, and the ushers join him at the alter.
2> Monday is an awful way to spend one seventh of your life.
One cookie for KLSymph and one for Edward. Congrats!
Halbarad: 10
Getzeye: 9
Edward: 2 + 2 muffins
Kwok: 3
Asrana: 2
KLSymph: 2
Onigiri: 2
Prince Herb: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Which of the words below is least like the others? The difference has nothing to do with vowels, consonants or syllables
STAKE TRICK SCOUT SMART
I'll ponder a guess and say
SMART
:shock:
I'll say trick because it doesn't start with an s. >_>
Going by word types, I'd say 'smart'. It's the only word of the set that cannot double as both a noun and a verb. It's also the only non-transitive verb in the list.
Scout - with all the other words, removing the first letter still leaves a word.
Smart -> Mart
Trick -> Rick
Stake -> Take
Edward gets the cookie, but Halbarad and Panda ccan regard themseles as having a moral cookie :)
Halbarad: 10
Getzeye: 9
Edward: 3 + 2 muffins
Kwok: 3
Asrana: 2
KLSymph: 2
Onigiri: 2
Prince Herb: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
What one three-letter word can be placed in the blanks below to make four different words?
DESIGN___
CONGREG___
ALTERN___
CONSIDER___
"ate" ^_^
Cookie awarded
Halbarad: 10
Getzeye: 9
Edward: 3 + 2 muffins
Kwok: 4
Asrana: 2
KLSymph: 2
Onigiri: 2
Prince Herb: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Unscramble the 14 letters below to find a two-word description of a kitchen appliance
C E E E K O O P R R R S S U
Pressure Cooker
And another cookie is disbursed!
Getzeye: 10
Halbarad: 10
Edward: 3 + 2 muffins
Kwok: 4
Asrana: 2
KLSymph: 2
Onigiri: 2
Prince Herb: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Which one of the words below is least like the others? The difference has nothing to do with vowels, consonants or syllables.
TOMATO GRAPE APPLE POTATO
Potato
The others are fruits, yes?
Quite correct. Have a cookie.
Getzeye: 10
Halbarad: 10
Edward: 3 + 2 muffins
Kwok: 4
Asrana: 2
KLSymph: 2
Onigiri: 2
Prince Herb: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
--Rakhal
Dang..missed it XD
GO PANDA!
Another one enters the race.
W00T! :shock:
All it took was 24 hours without sleep to be the first one to post!
* Thepanda will crash shortly.
1>A simple substitution code has been used to conceal a "quote." Work out the code to decipher the original words.
Cinderella:
J DBO'U XBJU VOUJM BMM UIFTF GJSFQMBDFT BSF FMFDUSJGJFE.
2>Dan is now two-fifths Donna's age. Six years ago, he was one-seventh her age. In two years, he will be five-elevenths her age.
How old are they now?
3>Each letter in the grid below has been altered with the inverse of the subsitution code used in question 1. Decode the grid, then find the statement is coiled in the grid below. To spell it out, start with one letter and move to an adjacent letter in any direction.
M B S N N
S Z R Z L
B N J M X
N J N N B
1> I can't wait until all these fireplaces are electrified.
3> Too many cooks can't cook.
Two cookies for Halbarad! One to go.
Halbarad: 12
Getzeye: 10
Edward: 3 + 2 muffins
Kwok: 4
Asrana: 2
KLSymph: 2
Onigiri: 2
Prince Herb: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
2>
Dan is 8 years old and Donna is 20 years old right now.
And the final cookie is awarded. Congrats!
Halbarad: 12
Getzeye: 10
Edward: 3 + 2 muffins
Kwok: 4
Asrana: 3
KLSymph: 2
Onigiri: 2
Prince Herb: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
In the song lines below, the vowels have been removed and the breaks between words have been changed. Put back the vowels and find the lines.
MLTTL TPTSH RTNDS TTTPM VRPR MT
MLTTL TPTSH RTNDS TTTPM VRPR MT
I'm a little tea pot short and stout. Tip me over. Pour me out.
I think. ^^()
Here's a cookie to go with your tea :)
Halbarad: 12
Getzeye: 11
Edward: 3 + 2 muffins
Kwok: 4
Asrana: 3
KLSymph: 2
Onigiri: 2
Prince Herb: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
COOKIE! XD :P
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same eight letters, can be used to complete the sentences below?
The pioneers found their supplies were getting ________. When the wife looked into the supply ________, it was almost empty.
Well no-one got the previous puzzle, so it will remain avaliable for one more day. But now it's worth a muffin!
Now for todays puzzle...
Unscramble the 15 letters below to make a common four-word phrase for necessary equipment
A D E E F H L O O O R S T T T
Quote from: "Rakhal"Well no-one got the previous puzzle, so it will remain avaliable for one more day. But now it's worth a muffin!
Now for todays puzzle...
Unscramble the 15 letters below to make a common four-word phrase for necessary equipment
A D E E F H L O O O R S T T T
Hot Feed Art Tools?
Perhaps not, but I'm claiming victoly from at least making words from 'em at 1 in the morning. :)
Tools of the trade.
Halbarad gets the cookie. Congrats!
Halbarad: 13
Getzeye: 11
Edward: 3 + 2 muffins
Kwok: 4
Asrana: 3
KLSymph: 2
Onigiri: 2
Prince Herb: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
The following puzzle consists of one word that can be split into two words.
One Word: deep and serious.
Two words: specialist located.
This is a wild guess
Injury.
In Jury.
EDIT:
Guess that was a wrong wild guess ^_^
Profound.
Pro Found.
And the cookie goes to Edward!
Incidentally the answer to that problem from two days ago is...
The pioneers found their supplies were getting SCANTIER. When the wife looked into the supply CANISTER, it was almost empty.
Halbarad: 13
Getzeye: 11
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Kwok: 4
Asrana: 3
KLSymph: 2
Onigiri: 2
Prince Herb: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
SCANTIER?
@_@
I got canister for the second one but i couldn't think of how to re-arrange it to fit the first one...
*waves pom-poms*
Go Getz! Woo!
...
*me crawls back into her hole again*
Bank holiday weekend over, time for 4 puzzles...
1> You're trying to stick to your budget for your big buffet. You look at some fruit and find that six pounds of apples and seven pounds of pears will cost $20, whereas seven pounds of apples and six pounds of pears will cost only $19.
How much are apples per pound?
2>
Find a word that means "to scour," then change one letter to find a word for a bush.
Find a word that means "dark despair," then change one letter to find a word for a new husband
3>
Solve this 8 letter anagram: GGILNOSS
4>
A famous childhood rhyme has been put into very fancy language below. Can you put it back into everyday english?
A young girl with a very common name possessed a rather uncommon pet with a distinctly unpigmented skin covering. This pet followed her on all occasions.
Stuck my head in while checking the board randomly . . .
For the first, a = 1, p = 2.
EDIT: D'oh, apply it to real terms: Price of apples is $1, price of pears is $2.
For the fourth,
Mary had a little lamb, it's fleece was white as snow, and everywhere that Mary went that lamb was sure to go.
For the second:
(A) Scrub -> shrub. That actually threw me because scrub itself can be used for bush. >_>
(B) Gloom -> groom.
For the third: 'glossing'. And that's the lot. ;P
Wow, 4 cookies for Rez. Don't eat them all at once :)
Halbarad: 13
Getzeye: 11
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Kwok: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
KLSymph: 2
Onigiri: 2
Prince Herb: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Quote from: "StormDragon"*waves pom-poms*
Go Getz! Woo!
...
*me crawls back into her hole again*
Stormy-chan!
;_;
*gives a huggle* ^^
Replace the first letters of thje words in each row to make two new words. both starting with the same letter. Place that letter in the blank between the two words. When you're finished, you'll have a new word reading down
CAP __ PRAYS
CRATE __ ONSIDE
HAMPER __ GRAB
PAGER __ INSURE
T
I
C
E
Tice. >.>
EDIT:
Tide?
Tide is what I was looking for :) Have a cookie.
Halbarad: 13
Getzeye: 12
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Kwok: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
KLSymph: 2
Onigiri: 2
Prince Herb: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Quote from: "StormDragon"*gives a huggle* ^^
Where have you been?
;_;
My internet has been cut off. Three weeks and counting, I am so bored >.< And I got crawled on by A HUGE ROACH!!
*shudders and swats at her shoulder*
Quote from: "StormDragon"My internet has been cut off. Three weeks and counting, I am so bored >.< And I got crawled on by A HUGE ROACH!!
*shudders and swats at her shoulder*
Awww....
What did you do to get it cut?
Did the parents freak out because i sent you the plushie?...how is the rabbit by the way?
Start with the number of legs on an arachnid, divide by the number of legs on a biped and multiply by the number of legs on a tripod.
What number do you get.
Six! No, twelve!
Have a cookie! And a free years supply of spider legs :)
Halbarad: 13
Getzeye: 12
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Kwok: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Prince Herb: 3
KLSymph: 2
Onigiri: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Technically arachnids have 12 legs, don't they? I don't remember much biology but that's something that vaguely comes to mind. My bio teacher could have been drunk that day though, it wasn't uncommon.
So, that'd be 18, just in case :p
Arachnids have four pairs of legs. They also possess two more pairs of appendages (the chelicerae and the pedipalps), which are usually invovled to be used in manipulating food/prey (so, for example, the pedialps of the scorpion are the pincers). In a couple species, the pedipalps end up looking like legs (the infamous camel spiders, for exampe), but they are not legs by the entomological definition.
So your biology teacher was sort of correct -- they have twelve appendages, but only eight legs.
This has been a Pedant Moment.
Quote from: "Getzeye"Awww....
What did you do to get it cut?
Did the parents freak out because i sent you the plushie?...how is the rabbit by the way?
My parents were a little hmph at the beginning but they're okay with it. The bunny is sitting happily on my bed. He's so wonderful to cuddle. Teh fluff! My friend loves it. She wants you to send her another one; she even will send you the money to buy one O.o But she's weird like that.
I have no idea what I did. But this is getting rather tedious. I have to write a paper on bushido....
Quote from: "StormDragon"
My parents were a little hmph at the beginning but they're okay with it. The bunny is sitting happily on my bed. He's so wonderful to cuddle. Teh fluff! My friend loves it. She wants you to send her another one; she even will send you the money to buy one O.o But she's weird like that.
I have no idea what I did. But this is getting rather tedious. I have to write a paper on bushido....
Bushido! ^_^
Hehe...lucky bunny...he gets cuddles ;.;
I don't know. I haven't been back to the chocolate factory to check if they have anymore. The duck plushie, however, isn't there anymore, they only made 200 of them...
Here's a trick, i made my little cousin giggle her head off when i did it,
Hold the rabbit so its looking at you, then twist the head gently to the side so it looks like its going "???". And then turn the other way. Repeat several times.
The following puzzle consists of one word that can be split into two words.
One word: hit violently
Two words: doctor for Aries
*groans*
One word: rammed
two words: ram med
Even for awful puzzles like this you get a cookie. Congrats!
Halbarad: 13
Getzeye: 12
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Kwok: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Prince Herb: 3
KLSymph: 2
Onigiri: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Caliban: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Quote from: "StormDragon"I have no idea what I did. But this is getting rather tedious. I have to write a paper on bushido....
Just change the "u" to an "i"! ^_^
Quote from: "Kwokinator"
Just change the "u" to an "i"! ^_^
XDDDD
1>
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same seven letters can be used to complete the sentence below?
The young lady got a better job and decided to _______ her muslin sheets with _______
2>
First unscramble the letters in each word below then unscramble the word order to create a Tom Swifty sentence. Tom always speaks adverbially, an example would be 'I turned the light out said Tom darkly'
LYHCRAIMGN HTIS RFO I THGBOU YM MMO THOMRES YAD A
RBCAETEL HWIT GLNADES DIAS MOT RYAE.
3>
Make your way from HOPS to BEER in only seven steps, changng one letter at a time to make a good English word at each step.
HOPS
____
____
____
____
____
____
BEER
"This year for mothers day i bought my mom a bracelet with dangles said Tom charmingly"
My guess ^^
One cookie awarded, congrats! 2 to go.
Halbarad: 13
Getzeye: 13
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Kwok: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Prince Herb: 3
KLSymph: 2
Onigiri: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Caliban: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
HOPS
HODS
PODS
PEGS
PEAS
PEAR
BEAR
BEER
Sorry, no cookie. Pods->Pegs changes 2 letters...
HOPS
POPS
PAPS
PEPS
PEAS
PEAR
PEER
BEER
HOPS
HAPS
PAPS
PEPS
PEES
SEES
SEER
BEER
Quote from: "Rakhal"1>
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same seven letters can be used to complete the sentence below?
The young lady got a better job and decided to _______ her muslin sheets with _______
Replace;percale
And Onigiri gets the 2nd cookie. One to go!
Getzeye: 13
Halbarad: 13
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Kwok: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Onigiri: 3
Prince Herb: 3
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Caliban: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Final cookie goes to kpjam. Congrats!
Getzeye: 13
Halbarad: 13
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Kwok: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Onigiri: 3
Prince Herb: 3
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Caliban: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Kpjam: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Find the set of numbers in the bottom row that best completes the sequence in the top row
100 1 99 2 97 4 94 7 89 12
a> 84 15 b> 81 20 c> 79 18 d> 78 23
As a guess, I'll take D.
It looks like you're adding and subtracting primes, but if that was the case the next answer would be 82 19, which isn't there. Not sure what the pattern is.
The pattern is that every pair of numbers both involves a prime number, and totals 101.
100+1, 99+2, 97+4, 94+7, 89+12.
Thus, d> 78 23.
Had me tricked with b> for a bit before I saw the primes. ^_^;
Except that 82 19 would also fit that pattern - 19 is prime, and the two together total 101. That's what threw ME off.
Didn't see your reply when I was posting, so... *Shrugs* ^_^;;
No cookies awarded yet.. :)
B. It's the Fibonacci series of numbers. I didn't see it until I wrote them down.
First number 1, second 2. Third is n(1) + n(2) = 3. Fourth is n(2) + n(3) = 5. Fifth is n(3)+n(4) = 8. Add and subtract to get 81 20.
Well done. Cookie awarded!
Halbarad: 14
Getzeye: 13
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Kwok: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Onigiri: 3
Prince Herb: 3
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Caliban: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Kpjam: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
A simple substitution code has been used to conceal a 'quote' Work out the code to decipher the original words.
Little Boy Blue:
10 4-2-15-'-21 9-6-13-17 26-16-22 21-16-5-2-26 10-'-23-6
8-16-21 13-2-19-26-15-8-10-21-10-20.
i can't help you today i've got laryngitis
And a quick cookie awarded.
Halbarad: 14
Getzeye: 13
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Prince Herb: 3
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Caliban: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Kpjam: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
A tonguetwister that was once part of a famous stage comedienne's act is coiled in the grid below. To spell it out, start with one letter and move to an adjacent letter in any direction. One null.
A D E D A M S Y
Z O L K S A I N
E N B D I R P K
D O U N N E N A
Note. If you can name the comedienne as well you'll get a muffin instead of a cookie :)
A double dozen double damask dinner napkins
Cicely Courtneidge's best-remembered contribution to world comedy...
Although here, it only appears to be a dozen double damask dinner napkins...
And a muffin for the Musk Emperor!
Halbarad: 14
Getzeye: 13
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 4 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Caliban: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Kpjam: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
No fair! That's one of my favorite comedy routines! :p
Besides, I used it as my quit message on IRC last week.
Ann went to visit her mother's only sister's husbands daughter Sue.
What relation was Sue to Ann?
First cousins?
Have a cookie :)
Getzeye: 14
Halbarad: 14
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 4 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Caliban: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Kpjam: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
1>
Choose the correct letter from each clue in the rhyme below. When put in order, the six letters will spell the answer to the riddle
My first is in fat but not in like
My second in love but not in spike
My third in old but not in new
My fourth in win but not in hue
My fifth in glee you'll always find
My last in rose and also rind.
My whole a lovely thing to see--
A choice for gifts for you and me.
2>
Find the six-digit number in which the first digit is one less than the second digit and one-half the third, the fourth digit is one more than the third and is also the sumof the first and second, and the fifth and sixth digits make a number that is the sum of the first four digits. The sum of all the digits is 19.
3>
Which place name below is least like the others? The difference has nothing to do with vowels, consonants or syllables
ROME PARIS LONDON NEW YORK
3. New York. Because its not a capital city. o.O
1. Flower.
2 cookies awarded. One to go!
Getzeye: 16
Halbarad: 14
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 4 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Caliban: 1
Carthrat: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Kpjam: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
234514
And a cookie for Carthrat! Congrats.
Getzeye: 16
Halbarad: 14
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 4 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 2
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Caliban: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Kpjam: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same six letters, can be used to complete the sentences below?
When the explorers crossed the mountains, their hopes were ______. Only a desert appeared ahead, with no ______ refuge from the heat.
Quote from: "Rakhal"
When the explorers crossed the mountains, their hopes were dashed. Only a desert appeared ahead, with no shaded refuge from the heat.
How's that?
Looks fine to me! Have a cookie.
Getzeye: 16
Halbarad: 14
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 4 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 2
KLSymph: 2
Kpjam: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Caliban: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Each of the following 4 anagrams is missing a letter. It's the same letter for each anagram. Solve the anagrams and find the letter.
DENOT
AEPP
CCEENST
ACDIN
(R)ODENT
PAPE(R)
C(R)ESCENT
(R)ANCID
The letter 'R'
Well done. Another cookie for you!
Getzeye: 17
Halbarad: 14
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 4 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 2
KLSymph: 2
Kpjam: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Caliban: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Fill in the blanks to complete the word
_ N S _ _ N _ A _ _ O _ _ L _
INSTANTANEOUSLY
._.
How can i change my 'bum on the street' rank? ._.
By posting lots, dolt.
Quite correct.You're hoarding the cookies :)
As regards the Bum on the Street, on thistype of board it's generally related to the number of posts you've made. Somewhere along the line I became a 'Light Warrior Wannabee', but I didn't notice exactly how many posts I'd made when that happened.
Getzeye: 18
Halbarad: 14
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 4 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 2
KLSymph: 2
Kpjam: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Caliban: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Ahh..okies...o.O
And considering this is the only place where i post its gonna take a while....
And i'm not hoarding the cookies....
*hides them*
Sam is now half as old as his sister Samantha. Four years ago,he was three tenths her age.
How old are them now?
Currently, Sam is 7 and his sister is 14.
4 years ago, it was 3 and 10.
Quite correct!
Getzeye: 18
Halbarad: 14
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 4 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Kpjam: 3
Carthrat: 2
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Caliban: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
1>
How many common English words can you make from the letters below, using all five letters only once in each work. Cookie awarded for at least 6
A E L P S
2>
What one three-letter word can be placed in the blanks below to make four different words?
AT___
SH___
PR___
THR___
3>
An interesting line of dialog is coiled in the grid below. To spell it out, start with one letter and move to an adjacent letter in any direction. One null
I L I N K L I
B L W A S G N
E W T I D T H
T I A T S A E
H Y N R O N O
O U I X R E M
2>
AT(one)
SH(one)
PR(one)
THR(one)
^^
First cookie awarded!
Getzeye: 18
Halbarad: 14
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 4 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 4
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 2
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Caliban: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
1>
peals
leaps
pales
speal
spale
pleas
._.
Hmm, some of those aren't exactly common, but what the heck :)
Getzeye: 19
Halbarad: 14
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 4 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 4
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 2
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Caliban: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
w00t! Go Getz! *does victory dance*
One puzzle left unsolved from yesterday. Worth a muffin today :)
Ten ice-cream bars and 6 ice-cream cones cost $13. But if you buy 6 ice-cream bars and 10 ice-cream cones, the bill will be $11
How much does an ice-cream bar cost?
Ice cream bar is $1.
A cone is 50 cents.
Quite correct!
Getzeye: 19
Halbarad: 14
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 4 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 2
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Caliban: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Quote from: "StormDragon"w00t! Go Getz! *does victory dance*
Stormy-chan! XD
I'll be with you in a twinkling said the astronomer
Ok, there's no apostrophe, but my inner programmer's syntax parser refuses to let me leave it like that :P
And a muffin for Caliban!
Getzeye: 19
Halbarad: 14
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 4 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Caliban: 1 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 2
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
The following puzzle consists of one word that can be split into two words
One word: army business
Two words: food for combatants
Warfare
War fare
Sounds good to me! Cookie awarded
Getzeye: 19
Halbarad: 15
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 4 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Caliban: 1 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 2
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
A simple substitution code has been used to conceal a comment on today's language usage. Work out the code to deciper the original words
18 26-14 26-21-9-26-18-23 7-12 20-12 18-13-7-12 26 8-7-12-9-22
7-19-26-7 26-23-5-22-9-7-18-8-22-8 26 14-12-13-8-7-22-9 8-26-15-22.
18 23-12-13'-7 13-22-22-23 26 14-12-13-8-7-22-9.
I AM AFRAID TO GO INTO A STORE THAT ADVERTISES A MONSTER SALE.
I DON'T NEED A MONSTER.
._.
But monsters are cute and cuddly! Especially cookie monsters. As it is, you'll have to eat this cookie by yourself! :)
Getzeye: 20
Halbarad: 15
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 4 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Caliban: 1 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 2
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Unscramble the 16 letters below to make a four-word statement made by workers who wantto keep a crowd orderly.
A A E E E I I L L N N P S S T Y
Please stay in line
Quite correct! Todays cookie now the property of the Musk Empire!
Getzeye: 20
Halbarad: 15
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 5 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Caliban: 1 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 2
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
1>
In the song line below, the vowels have been removed and the breaks between words have been changed. Put back the vowels and find the line.
LNDNB RDGSF LLNGD WNFFL NGDWN FLLNG DWNLN DNBRD
GSFLL NGDWN MYFRL DY
2>
Figure out the pattern in the first three examples and use it to figure out the last.
6,3,7 (4)
2,3,4 (3)
1,1,2 (2)
9,9,7 (?)
3>
Which of the words below is least like the others? The difference has nothing to do with vowels, consonants or syllables.
READ DESERT POLISH ANNOY
4>
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same nine letters, can be used to complete the sentence below?
The _________ parents had their video camera at the ready as their baby took his first _________ steps.
1) London Bridge is falling down, fallling down, falling down, London Bridge is falling down, my fair lady
2) 5
3) Annoy - can only be pronounced one way for one meaning
4) attentive tentative
Impressive. 4 cookies awarded (extra chewy chocolate chip..)
Getzeye: 20
Halbarad: 15
Prince Herb: 9 + 1 muffin
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Caliban: 1 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 2
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Solve this anagram.
AGLORSSY
Glossary
And another cookie awarded!
Getzeye: 20
Halbarad: 15
Prince Herb: 10 + 1 muffin
Edward: 4 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Caliban: 1 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 2
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
The first names of six people are hiddenin the sentence below. Can you find them? The letters are in consecutive order.
Was the man an artist of a patron?
Ana
Pat
Ron
'he-man'!
Hum, that's all I see at the moment. Oh well.
Dracos
QuoteAna
Pat
Ron
I would like to add
Art
Nana (Or possibly just 'Nan')
Eman (Google says it's Arabic)
Heman - an ancient Jewish name
Mana - a Japanese name, one of the characters in the Mermaid series.
Ana
Nan
Nana
Art
Pat
Ron
Assuming the names are in sequence, with no repeats, I can find five (or six, depending on how lenient we are):
Ash
Em (short for Emily)
Ann (or Ana)
Art
Pat
Ron
I don't think Em really counts, though, so I'm still short the sixth.
Well, I reckon Edward did the best there, so he gets the cookie :)
Getzeye: 20
Halbarad: 15
Prince Herb: 10 + 1 muffin
Edward: 5 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Caliban: 1 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 2
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
The antique dealer bought two glass lampsfor $50 each. She sold one for 20% more than she paid, but was forced to sell the other for 20% less than she paid.
Did she make money or lose money?
How ambiguous :P. If both lamps were sold at +-20% of the price of each lamp, then she neither made nor lost money. If both lamps were *each* sold for +-20% of the *entire* sum, then she made money.
She paid $50 for each lamp.
One was sold for 20% more. That's $60.
One was sold for 20% less. That's $40.
She broke even.
Quite right. An easy cookie:)
Getzeye: 20
Halbarad: 15
Prince Herb: 10 + 1 muffin
Edward: 6 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Caliban: 1 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 2
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Whole bunch of questions
1>
The following descriptions arethose of real magazine titles with only one letter changed.
1) Cooktops for people on the go
2) Entertainmentin your mobile home
3) Receipt for repairing a garden pot
2>
Fine a word for a holy place, then take away one letter to find a word that means "to glow brightly."
Find a word that means "to cut off hair," then change one letter to find a word that means "disgrace."
3>
Unscramble the 18 letters below to make a five-word statement made by a waiter to a restaurant patron.
E E F F H I M N O O R R S S T T U Y
4>
The following puzzle consists of one word that can be split into two words.
One word: plant often associated with a certain country.
Two words: To warm up the lady.
5>
Jane went to several stores for her birthday party. She spent half of what she had plus $10 for food. Then she spent half of what was left plus $5 for soda. She then spent half of what was left plus $10 for party favours, and had nothing left. How much did she start with?
4) HEATHER -> HEAT HER
5) $120
2 cookies awarded, 3 to go!
Getzeye: 20
Halbarad: 17
Prince Herb: 10 + 1 muffin
Edward: 6 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Caliban: 1 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 2
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Quote from: "Rakhal"
2>
Fine a word for a holy place, then take away one letter to find a word that means "to glow brightly."
Shrine. Shine.
QuoteFind a word that means "to cut off hair," then change one letter to find a word that means "disgrace."
Shave. Shame.
3 cookies down, 2 to go!
Getzeye: 20
Halbarad: 17
Prince Herb: 10 + 1 muffin
Edward: 7 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Caliban: 1 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 2
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
3] Sorry, it's off the menu
And the 4th cookie goes. One left. Except it has been promoted to a muffin :)
Getzeye: 20
Halbarad: 17
Prince Herb: 11 + 1 muffin
Edward: 7 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Caliban: 1 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 2
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Can you figure out another word that can be made by using all the letters in the word COAGULATED ?
Catalogued!
Well done! Still one muffin up for grabs
Getzeye: 20
Halbarad: 17
Prince Herb: 12 + 1 muffin
Edward: 7 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Caliban: 1 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 2
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
The muffin went unclaimed. Oh well. The answer was:
1) Cooktops for people on the go ==> Rolling Stove
2) Entertainment in your mobile home ==> RV Guide
3) Receipt for repairing a garden pot ==> Claybill
What one three-letter word can be placed in the blanks below to make four different words?
___LESS
___URE
___ING
___EAR
endLESS
endURE
endING
endEAR
Quite correct. Delayed cookie awarded :)
Getzeye: 20
Halbarad: 17
Prince Herb: 12 + 1 muffin
Edward: 7 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Caliban: 1 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 2
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Jon: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
1>
An interesting line of dialogue is coiled in the grid below. To spell it out, start with one letter and move to an adjacent letter in any direction. One null.
P A O H F A L I
H R T P L N L B
E G O E A I W E
R D T H S U I T
D I A S H O Y H
2>
The following puzzle consists of one word that can be split into two words.
One word: Floor covering
Two Words: Dangler from the visor or rear-view mirror
3>
A patriotic definition has been put into very fancy language below. Can you put it back into everyday English?
the territory of those who are not bound by undue restrictions and the habitat of the the stouthearted
2>
Carpet
Car pet
Furrily done! Have a double chocolate chip cookie...
Getzeye: 21
Halbarad: 17
Prince Herb: 12 + 1 muffin
Edward: 7 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Caliban: 1 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 2
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Jon: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
3_ The land of the free and the home of the brave.
Another cookie falls!
Getzeye: 21
Halbarad: 18
Prince Herb: 12 + 1 muffin
Edward: 7 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Caliban: 1 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 2
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Jon: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
meh, I usually just look at these, but what the hell, I'll go for the cookie at least once, I guess.
1: "I'll be with you in a flash," said the photographer.
Null: Bottom left corner "D"
Quite right!
Getzeye: 21
Halbarad: 18
Prince Herb: 12 + 1 muffin
Edward: 7 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Caliban: 1 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 2
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Jon: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
If 6 painters can paint 12 rooms in 2 days, how many painters will it take to paint 18 rooms in one day?
18.
An easy cookie today :)
Getzeye: 21
Halbarad: 18
Prince Herb: 12 + 1 muffin
Edward: 7 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Caliban: 1 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Jon: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
1>
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same eight letters, can be used to complete the sentence below?
The homeowner ________ quite normally until he fell in love with roses and, becoming quite ________, planted hundreds of rose bushes in his tiny garden plot.
2>
First, unscramble the letters in each word below, then unscramble the word order to create a Tom Swifty sentence.
DSAI MOT ARIDATNYL CEAHB A YREV NUSNY AVCANTIO EFATVIRO POST YM SI.
2> A very sunny beach is my favorite vacation spot, said Tom radiantly.
Gah, American spelling got me for a while :)
Another well earned cookie!
Getzeye: 21
Halbarad: 18
Prince Herb: 12 + 1 muffin
Edward: 7 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Caliban: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Jon: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
One puzzle not solved from yesterday, now worth a muffin!
The Great Detectivewas called in to solve a mystery. A valuable painting has disappeared from a small exhibit. A reproduction was in its place. The puzzle was that there was only a five-minute span and no-one saw anyone leaving with a large roll or package. Upon examining the substitute, the Great Detective saw that it didn't fit inside the frame properly. He knew where the real painting was. Where?
1] Gardened / Deranged
Muffin awarded! Well done.
Getzeye: 21
Halbarad: 18
Prince Herb: 12 + 2 muffins
Edward: 7 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Caliban: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Jon: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Quote from: "Rakhal"The Great Detectivewas called in to solve a mystery. A valuable painting has disappeared from a small exhibit. A reproduction was in its place. The puzzle was that there was only a five-minute span and no-one saw anyone leaving with a large roll or package. Upon examining the substitute, the Great Detective saw that it didn't fit inside the frame properly. He knew where the real painting was. Where?
I'm going out on a limb here >.>
I'm assuming that the picture didn't fit inside the frame meaning that the picture was too large to fit inside the frame. >.> reproduction was covering the original, the painting was one canvas thickness too large, on all sides, so the frame wouldn't fit it anymore.
Smite me if i'm wrong. >.<
Mum told me that the painting would be too large to fit the frame because.... and then i figured it out so cookie really goes to her >.>
Nope, you're quite correct. The painting was indeed still in the frame with the fake on top. Cookie awarded.
Getzeye: 22
Halbarad: 18
Prince Herb: 12 + 2 muffins
Edward: 7 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Caliban: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Jon: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
1>
A simple subsitution code has been used to conceal a 'quote.' Workout the code to deciper the original words.
G.I Joe
ぬくおせ とくお ぬあつ けて そにおつ せそいそえの ぬけすす
おにおつ おあと てたあす あきあけせ
2>
Find the number that best completes the sequence below.
100 ? 101 98 102 99 103
3>Solve the following anagram: CCDEOURR
2> 97
3> occurred
Two cookies awarded, one to go!
Getzeye: 24
Halbarad: 18
Prince Herb: 12 + 2 muffins
Edward: 7 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Caliban: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Jon: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
The unclaimed puzzle from yesterday is now worth a muffin.
The following puzzle consists of one word that can be split into two words.
One word: to put in a different order
Two words: back stove
rearrange / rear range
Quite correct! Raisins in the cookie today
Getzeye: 24
Halbarad: 18
Prince Herb: 13 + 2 muffins
Edward: 7 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Caliban: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Jon: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
The answer to the puzzle from 2 days ago is
When the war is over, nobody will ever eat SPAM again.
Code: a=first hiragana letter, b=2nd hiragana letter e.t.c
Todays puzzle:
Find a word for a source of light, then change one letter to find a word that means 'to manage.'
Find a word that means 'to close,' then change one letter to find a word that means 'to avoid.'
Candle to handle and shut to shun is my guess.
That'll do fine!
Getzeye: 24
Halbarad: 18
Prince Herb: 14 + 2 muffins
Edward: 7 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Caliban: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Jon: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Quote from: "Rakhal"The answer to the puzzle from 2 days ago is
When the war is over, nobody will ever eat SPAM again.
Code: a=first hiragana letter, b=2nd hiragana letter e.t.c
I'm reasonably sure that not everyone's browser is set for all international character sets. All I ever saw was a row of question marks.
I saw them, but when I tried to cut and paste them to notepad, I got a row of question marks myself.
Oh well, I got a muffin for myself anyway :)
Unscramble the letters in the four anagrams below. Each one is missing a letter and that letter is the same for all of them. Solve the four anagrams and find the missing letter.
1:JCBAE
2: RSCMIIA
3: IEFUDLO
4: ORIKCHAE
Quote from: "Prince Herb"I saw them, but when I tried to cut and paste them to notepad, I got a row of question marks myself.
On a random technical note, notepad can't handle international character sets.
Wordpad you may have more success with. Moot point now, though.
Depends on your notepad I guess. Mine certainly can. I use notepad as a scratchpad when constructing Japanese test-data to work with.
1] Abject
2] Scimitar
3] Outfield
4] Artichoke
Missing letter is T
Well done!
Getzeye: 24
Halbarad: 18
Prince Herb: 15 + 2 muffins
Edward: 7 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Caliban: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Jon: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Rachel has six more brothers than she has sisters, her brother Ryan has three times as many brothers as he has sisters. How many boys and girls in the family?
Two girls. Seven boys.
Yes indeed. 9 sprogs in total :)
Getzeye: 24
Halbarad: 18
Prince Herb: 15 + 2 muffins
Edward: 8 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Caliban: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
KLSymph: 2
Ragnar: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Jon: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
1>
Which of the words below is least like the others? The difference has nothing to do with vowels, consonants or syllables
TOMATO APPLE PEAR LETTUCE
2>
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same five letters can be used to complete the sentence below?
Bon had such bad luck fishing alone that he hired a special _____ to go with him to help him learn how to catch _____
3>
Solve the following anagram: ACEEINRS
1> Lettuce. It ain't a fruit.
2> Trout - Tutor
3) Increase
2 cookies for Ragnar and one for Herb. Congrats.
Getzeye: 24
Prince Herb: 16 + 2 muffins
Halbarad: 18
Edward: 8 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Caliban: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Jon: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Joe met his mother-in-law's only husband's only son Bill
What relation was Bill to Joe
Brother-in-law
Quite correct. Another cookie is ripped from my tremulous grasp...
Getzeye: 24
Prince Herb: 16 + 2 muffins
Halbarad: 18
Edward: 8 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Caliban: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Jon: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
What one three-letter word can be placed in the blanks below to make two different words?
___AS
___NA
Are
Quite correct. Sort of tricky that one :)
Getzeye: 24
Prince Herb: 17 + 2 muffins
Halbarad: 18
Edward: 8 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Caliban: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Jon: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
The logic professor left a notice on the door of his class on Monday. It said "Class is canceled for an emergency. We will meet three days before six days after yesterday."
What day will that be?
Wednesday o.O
Quite correct!
Getzeye: 25
Prince Herb: 17 + 2 muffins
Halbarad: 18
Edward: 8 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Caliban: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Jon: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Job lot of puzzles today! Been a bit busy recently
1>
Which of these words is least like the others
KNIGHT DAME KNAVE SCION
2>
A simple substitution code has been used to conceal a 'quote.' Work out the code to deciper the original words
Annie Oakley:
R GSRMP TFMH ZIV HL EVIB UVNRMRMV
3>
Jimmy went shopping for a Sixth of July picnic. In the first store, he spent half of what he had plus $10 on kittens for the barbecue. In the second, he spent half of what was left plus $2 for meths. In the third he spent half of what was left, plus $2 for paper plates. In the fourth he spent four-sevenths of what was left for candied fingernails. He had $3 left. How much did he start with?
4>
Unscramble the 19 letters below to make a common six-word statement often considered to be the beginning of a problem.
A C C E E E H H H I I I K L M N S T T
5>
What letters are missing in the following sequence?
A D G _ M P _ V
6>
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same seven letters, can be used to complete the sentence below?
The lawyer said, "I _______ that this case is serious enough that it may eventually wind up in the State _______ Court.
1] Dame [no silent letters]
5] J & S
6] Presume & Supreme
3 cookies for the Lord of the Musk. 3 still up for grabs.
Getzeye: 25
Prince Herb: 20 + 2 muffins
Halbarad: 18
Edward: 8 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Caliban: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Jon: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
2] I think guns are so very feminine
Z becomes A, Y becomes B, X becomes C and so on through the alphabet; a simple code, right enough
3> $124
Another cookie for Herb, but $124 is the wrong answer for #3, sorry :(
2 cookies outstanding from yesterday. Now worth muffins
Getzeye: 25
Prince Herb: 21 + 2 muffins
Halbarad: 18
Edward: 8 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Caliban: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Jon: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
A culinary descriptionof people who are not quite up to par is coiled in the grid below. To spell it out, start with one letter and move to an adjacent letter in any direction.
E T O F A C O N
N O R O T O I T
R E T O R M T R
Y E I H S B A A
T H L L A I N Y
Trying for the muffin.
Jimmy had $100 to start
Spent $60 on kittens
Had $40
Spent $22 on meths
Had $18
Spent $11 on plates
Had $7
Spent $4 on candied fingernails
Had $3
Muffin awarded!
Getzeye: 25
Prince Herb: 21 + 2 muffins
Halbarad: 18
Edward: 8 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Caliban: 2 + 1 muffin
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
They're one tortilla short of a combination tray
Tie at the top!
Getzeye: 25
Prince Herb: 22 + 2 muffins
Halbarad: 18
Edward: 8 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Caliban: 2 + 1 muffin
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Quote from: "Prince Herb"1] Dame [no silent letters]
But the word Dame does have a silent letter, the last one.
I contend that it's not silent because it modifies the sound of the a and is thus a split diphthong...
Its not completely silent. If you get rid of it it'll change how the word is pronounced.
The actual answer was no silent consonant (the correct answer was Dame), however whether that E can be counted as silent is somewhat dodgy.
Try pronouncing DAME, then DAM. At least in the UK those two are quite different.
Now try pronouncing KNIGHT and NIGHT, also KNAVE and NAVE and SCION and SION. Again at least in the UK each word within the pairs are pronounced the same as the other word in the pair. Given that I can't conclude that E is silent. It may not be an explicit E sound at the end of the word but it DOES affect the pronounciation.
Answer for the puzzle that seems to have foxed everyone is:
The Check is in the Mail
And now for todays
One Word: wild animal
Two words: to put the lady in slacks
PANTHER
PANT HER
Very good. Cookie awarded!
Getzeye: 25
Prince Herb: 22 + 2 muffins
Halbarad: 19
Edward: 8 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Caliban: 2 + 1 muffin
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
1>
Decode the final words below to complete the rhyme
There's light at the end of the tunnel; that's what they always say.
I just hope it isn't 1 36-324-25-81-49-64-400 400-324-1-81-196
400-64-1-400 81-361 361-256-25-25-16-81-196-49 169-625
529-1-625
2>
Unscramble the 20 letters below to make a common four-word phrase that describes what actions do.
A A D D E E H K L N O O P R R S S T U W
3>
The names of three cities are hidden in the sentences below. Can you find them?
Look up! Is a rock really on schedule to carom each foot of the way?
Quote from: "Rakhal"
2>
Unscramble the 20 letters below to make a common four-word phrase that describes what actions do.
A A D D E E H K L N O O P R R S S T U W
Speak louder than words.
Quote from: "Rakhal"3>The names of three cities are hidden in the sentences below. Can you find them?
Look up! Is a rock really on schedule to carom each foot of the way?
Pisa Lyons Rome
2 cookies for Edward. One up for grabs!
Getzeye: 25
Prince Herb: 22 + 2 muffins
Halbarad: 19
Edward: 10 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Caliban: 2 + 1 muffin
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Quote from: "Rakhal"There's light at the end of the tunnel; that's what they always say.
I just hope it isn't 1 36-324-25-81-49-64-400 400-324-1-81-196
400-64-1-400 81-361 361-256-25-25-16-81-196-49 169-625
529-1-625
I just hope it isn't
A Freight train that is speeding my wayTake the square root of the numbers & use the result to look up the letters.
Quite correct. Cookie awarded!
Getzeye: 25
Prince Herb: 22 + 2 muffins
Halbarad: 19
Edward: 10 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Caliban: 3 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Find the number that best completes the sequence below.
1 2 3 5 8 13 ?
1 2 3 5 8 13 [21]
Another fine, soft, double chocolate chip cookie awarded!
Getzeye: 26
Prince Herb: 22 + 2 muffins
Halbarad: 19
Edward: 10 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Caliban: 3 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Which of the scrambled words below is least like the others? The difference has nothing to do with vowels, consonants or syllables.
TRAES ALCHR CBRIH DOOODGW
Well the first word can be any of these:
aster, rates, stare, tares, tears
The next is Larch
then Birch
then Dogwood
the 2nd, 3rd and 4th are all types of trees. o.O the first isn't....its a flower..o.O if its of the genus Aster that is....
Chicken and Jalapeno today. Congrats!
Getzeye: 27
Prince Herb: 22 + 2 muffins
Halbarad: 19
Edward: 10 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 5
Caliban: 3 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
What one three-letter word can be placed in the blanks below to make four different words?
S___
T___
DET___
DER___
"ail"
SAIL
TAIL
DERAIL
DETAIL
Indeed it is.
Getzeye: 27
Prince Herb: 22 + 2 muffins
Halbarad: 19
Edward: 10 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 4 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
The following anagram is missing one letter. Find the letter and solve the anagram
?EESSSSS
Assesses ? missing A.
That was awkward, you sod :P
Congratulations on getting it! A well earned cookie.
Getzeye: 27
Prince Herb: 22 + 2 muffins
Halbarad: 19
Edward: 10 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 5 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
1>
How many common English words can you make from the letters below, using all six letters only once in each word?
E I N S T L
2>
Bob is now half Betty's age. Six years ago he was one third her age. How old are they now?
3>
Which of the scrambled words below is least like the others? The difference has nothing to do with vowels, consonants or syllables.
NGLDNAE EMRO CRNAEF LATYI
> Bob is now half Betty's age. Six years ago he was one third her age. How old are they now?
He's 12, she's 24
One cookie awarded, 2 to go!
Getzeye: 27
Prince Herb: 22 + 2 muffins
Halbarad: 19
Edward: 10 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 6 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Quote from: "Rakhal"3>
Which of the scrambled words below is least like the others? The difference has nothing to do with vowels, consonants or syllables.
NGLDNAE EMRO CRNAEF LATYI
Unscrambled:
ENGLAND ROME FRANCE ITALY
The answer is ROME as it's the only city.
Quite right. Another cookie awarded, one to go!
Getzeye: 27
Prince Herb: 22 + 2 muffins
Halbarad: 19
Edward: 11 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 6 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
1>
How many common English words can you make from the letters below, using all six letters only once in each word?
E I N S T L
5 words:
enlist
inlets
listen
silent
tinsel
Congrats! Final cookie awarded.
Getzeye: 28
Prince Herb: 22 + 2 muffins
Halbarad: 19
Edward: 11 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 6 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same six letters, can be used to complete the sentence below?
Magazines very ______ show ______ who wear plus sizes.
seldom
models
Quite correct! Your first cookie!
Getzeye: 28
Prince Herb: 22 + 2 muffins
Halbarad: 19
Edward: 11 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 6 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Anastasia: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Dune: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
My second one.
-Dune.
Cookie consolidation in progress :)
The following 4 anagrams are each missing a letter. That letter is the same letter for each. What are the four words, and what is the missing letter?
COTLUN
TRIUEYC
UEULF
RGYUA
S is the missing letter
Consult
Security
Useful
Sugary
The Anagram master strikes again and makes off with a cookie!
Getzeye: 28
Prince Herb: 23 + 2 muffins
Halbarad: 19
Edward: 11 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 6 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Anastasia: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Make your way from HAIR to COMB in only seven steps, changingone letter at a time to make a good English word at each step
HAIR
____
____
____
____
____
____
COMB
HAIR
HAIL
HALL
HALE
HOLE
HOME
COME
COMB
Fine work. Cookie awarded!
Getzeye: 28
Prince Herb: 24 + 2 muffins
Halbarad: 19
Edward: 11 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 6 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Anastasia: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
A simple substitution code has been used to conceal a comment on today's language usage. Work out the code to decipher the original words.
BOPUIFS DMBTTJGJFE BE TBJE EPO'U SVJO ZPVS BMPUIFT
CZ ESZ-DMFBOJOH UIFN ZPVSTFMG-MFU VT EP JU
another classified ad said don't ruin your alothes [sic]
by drycleaning them yourself - let us do it
Quite right, sorry about the typo!
Getzeye: 28
Prince Herb: 25 + 2 muffins
Halbarad: 19
Edward: 11 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 6 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Anastasia: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
1>
What is the number that's one-tenth of one-half of one-quarter of one-half of 8000
2>
The following anagram is missing a letter. Find the missing letter and solve the anagram
AEINOTT?
3>
The following descriptions are those of real book or magazine titles with only one letter changed.
a) Nobleman in charge of fat
b) An oblique sense of style
c) Big-city pig
1> 50
One cookie awarded, 2 to go!
Getzeye: 28
Prince Herb: 25 + 2 muffins
Halbarad: 20
Edward: 11 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 6 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Anastasia: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
2]With a D, I can get antidote ; I can get intonate with an N.
Both are fine. Cookie awarded! One to go
Prince Herb: 26 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 28
Halbarad: 20
Edward: 11 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 6 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Anastasia: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
One puzzle outstanding from yesterday, now worth a muffin
Replace the first letters of the words in each row to make two new words, both starting with the same letter. Place that letter in the blank between the two words. When you're finished, you'll have a new word reading down.
Remand ___ Swell
Scorn ___ Grid
Decent ___ Haven
Single ___ Meal
DART is the word.
Indeed it is. Another cookie for you
Prince Herb: 26 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 28
Halbarad: 21
Edward: 11 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 6 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Anastasia: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
No one got the magazines. The answers were:
Nobleman in charge of fat => The Count of Monte Crisco
An oblique sense of style => Vague
Big-city pig => The New Porker
And now for todays puzzle.
First unscramble the letters in each word below, then unscramble the word order to create a Tom Swifty sentence
FO MOT DSIA DROA HTTA OT IEPSEC LLFU SWA TUB FO LSSGA
INSAL NDA TI KETA ESSLYRTIEL DAH I.
"That road was full of nails and pieces of glass," Tom said, "I had to take it tirelessly."
"But that road I had to take - it was full of nails and pieces of glass," Tom said tirelessly
Cookie awarded!
(the answer I had was '"That road was full of pieces of glass and nails, but I had to take it", said Tom tirelessly' What you had works as well though :)
Prince Herb: 27 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 28
Halbarad: 21
Edward: 11 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 6 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Anastasia: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
If six chicks and two hens cost $38, and six hens and two chicks cost $50, how much does one chick cost?
$4. A hen is $7.
Indeed they are. Cheap at half the price!
Prince Herb: 27 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 28
Halbarad: 22
Edward: 11 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 6 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Anastasia: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Unscramble the 14 letters below to make a common four-word expression that is very popular in the army and in airports.
A A D H I N P R R T U U W Y
Hurry up and wait
Correct!
Prince Herb: 27 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 28
Halbarad: 22
Edward: 11 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Anastasia: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Monday morning, and another triplet of puzzles...
1>
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same seven letters, can be used to complete the sentence below?
As a _______ rule, the more you _______ a photograph, the fuzzier it gets
2>
A culinary description of a man who is not quite up to par is coiled in the grid below. To spell it out, start with one letter and move to an adjacent letter in any direction.
H I G E S H U E
E S R R R O C E
O E U B T O R B
N H A M F A B A
3>
Rachel likes pie plates, but not baking sheets, she likes tires, but not runners, she likes the sun, but not snowflakes. Following the same rule, will she like a saucer or a fork?
Quote from: "Rakhal"
1>
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same seven letters, can be used to complete the sentence below?
As a _______ rule, the more you _______ a photograph, the fuzzier it gets
GENERAL ENLARGE
Quote from: "Rakhal"3>
Rachel likes pie plates, but not baking sheets, she likes tires, but not runners, she likes the sun, but not snowflakes. Following the same rule, will she like a saucer or a fork?
A fork, because it contains less letters.
2 cookies awarded, one still to go!
The second one is not the answer I had, but it's valid anyway :) (the answer I had was the saucer, because she likes round things)
Prince Herb: 27 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 28
Halbarad: 22
Edward: 13 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Anastasia: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
2> He is one hamburger short of a barbequeue
Quite right (ignoring the typo :))
Prince Herb: 27 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 28
Halbarad: 22
Edward: 13 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 8 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Anastasia: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
If A+B+C+D = 18
and A+D+D+D = 23
and B+B+B+C = 15
and B+C+C+C = 13
what is A+C+C+D?
17.
A=5
B=4
C=3
D=6
Mathematically perfect. Have another cookie.
Prince Herb: 27 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 28
Halbarad: 23
Edward: 13 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Anastasia: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
What one three-letter word can be placed in the blanks below to make four different words?
BEF___
SC___
AD___
GAL___
ORE.
Indeed it is.
Prince Herb: 27 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 28
Halbarad: 24
Edward: 13 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Anastasia: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Unscramble the 15 letters below to make a common three-word phrase for public activities often enjoyed on a date.
A D D G G I I I I N N N N N W
Wining and dining.
Another cookie awarded.
Prince Herb: 27 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 28
Halbarad: 25
Edward: 13 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Anastasia: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
The following puzzle consists of one word that can be split into two words.
One Word: forbidding
Two words: a mark left by a beer glass
Barring
Bar ring
A belated cookie is yours!
Prince Herb: 27 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 28
Halbarad: 25
Edward: 14 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Anastasia: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
It has been far too long since there was a puzzle here, so immediately here are 3 for your delectation!
1>
Solve the following anagram. One letter is missing (represented by ?)
OIER?NHTV
2>
Start with the number of original colonies that later became part of the Unisted States, add the number of senators in the U.S Senate and subtract the number of stripes in the American flag.
What number do you get?
3>
The following puzzle consists of one word that can be split into two words.
One word: farm vehicle
Two words: to keep switching one's tail
(Rakhal breaks out a new box of cookies...)
[1] Overnight
Whee! More puzzles!
And a fresh new cookie has been awarded. Congrats! 2 puzzles still open
Prince Herb: 28 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 28
Halbarad: 25
Edward: 14 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Anastasia: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Bean Bandit: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Puzzle #2
100?
13 colonies and the 13 stripes cancel each other out.
Quite correct. 2nd cookie awarded.
Prince Herb: 28 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 28
Halbarad: 25
Edward: 14 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Anastasia: 2
Bean Bandit: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
#3 Wagon
Wag on
And the final cookie goes. More tomorrow!
Prince Herb: 28 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 28
Halbarad: 25
Edward: 15 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Anastasia: 2
Bean Bandit: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
3 more puzzles
1>
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same five letters, can be used to complete the sentence below?
Although the bicyclist _____ to complete the charity rise, he found himself too _____ to continue.
2>
Unscramble the 16 letters below to make a common four-word phrase that describes rush hour.
A A C D F F G I N O O P R S T T
3>
Which of the scrambled words below is least like the others? The difference has nothing to do with vowels, consonants or syllables
RGTIE EENATLPH MLACE EAGGLNPT
1. Tried and Tired.
One cookie awarded, 2 outstanding. Those are now worth muffins...
Prince Herb: 28 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 28
Halbarad: 25
Edward: 15 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
And another 3!
1>
Choose the correct letter from each clue in the rhyme below.
When put in order, the five letters will spell the answer to the riddle
My first is in hope and also in hate
My second is in eat and also ate
My third is in hope, you'll also find
My fourth is in pink, but not in mind
My last is in youn, you'll also find.
My whole a pleasant state of mind
2>
Find the six-digit number in which the first digit is two more than the second, the second digit is two more than the third, the third digit is two more than the fourth and the fifth and sixth digits make a number that is the sum of the first four digits. The sum of all digits is 30.
3>
First unscramble the letters in each word below, then unscramble the word order to create a Tom Swifty sentence
YBBHO MY SI DIAS MOT HGTLYIL COCGNITELL MPSAL FFANTIY
From the three:
2> STOP AND GO TRAFFIC
3> TIGER ELEPHANT CAMEL EGGPLANT
Eggplant doesn't fit, obviously.
2 muffins awarded!
Prince Herb: 28 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 28
Halbarad: 25 + 2 muffins
Edward: 15 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
And from the second three:
1> HAPPY
3> "My hobby is collecting lamps," said Tom lightly.
Still working on #2.
2 more cookies, one to go :)
Prince Herb: 28 + 2 muffins
Halbarad: 27 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 28
Edward: 15 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
2> 975324
And the final cookie. A clean sweep!
Halbarad: 28 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 28 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 28
Edward: 15 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Todays puzzles..
1>
Solve the following anagram: ACCIMNOS
2>
Jessie and Sam met at the swimming pool. Jessie's mother's only sister's only husband's only daughter was married to Sam.
What relation was Sam to Jessie?
3>
What one three-letter word can be placed in the blanks below to make four different words?
BECA___
ACC___
CONF___
OVER___
1> MOCCASIN
3> USE
Quote from: "Rakhal"2>
Jessie and Sam met at the swimming pool. Jessie's mother's only sister's only husband's only daughter was married to Sam.
What relation was Sam to Jessie?
Probably first cousins by marriage.
That's assuming the 'only husband's only daughter' is also the daughter of the 'mother's only sister'. She could be the 'the only husband's' daughter by a previous marriage.
None of this excludes other possible blood relationships between Jessie and Sam. Sam and his wife could concievably be first cousins, like Queen Victoria and her husband were, which would mean Sam and Jessie are brother and sister.
2 cookies for Halbarad and one for Edward!
Halbarad: 30 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 28 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 28
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
1>
Solve the following four anagrams. There is one missing letter in each, representedby a ? The missing letter is the same for all four anagrams
1: INDS?
2: OHLE?
3: IGNR?
4: DAN?
2>
Which of the scrambled words below is least like the others? The difference has nothing to do with vowles, consonants or syllables
TISU KAJCTE LBUOES RDMU
3>
Susan is now one-third Rachel's age. In five years she will be half Rachels age. In 10 years she will be as old as Rachel is now.
How old are they?
1> The missing letter is W.
WINDS
WHOLE
WRING
WAND
2>SUIT JACKET BLOUSE DRUM
Drum, clearly.
3> Susan is 5, Rachel is 15.
Am i allowed to suggest a puzzel (i don't care about score i just wanna see if someone gets this)
if i can:
What is going on:
4 becomes 22 beconmes 211
12 becomes 2223
6 becomes 23
15 becomes 35 becomes 57 becomes 319
10 becomes 25 becomes 55 becomes 511
100 becomes 255 becomes 3517
hint: some of the series may go on, but i am not good enough to figure them out
And another 3 cookies for Halbarad. Streaking along!
Halbarad: 33 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 28 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 28
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Ragnar: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
My answer to Prophecy's puzzle.
Each new term in the series is made by factorising the previous number into its prime components it looks like. Those factors are written down in ascending order to make the new term. So 4 is 2x2, hence 22, which is 2x 11 hence 211
However this doesn't fit quite for 12 or 100 (12 should become 223, not 2223, which would be 24, 100 should become 2255, not 255, which would be 50)
so 15->35->57->319->2911->4171->4397 (4397 is prime so series just infinitely repeats 4397->4397->4397 from that point on)
And now 3 more from me!
1>
Find the word that best completes the following sequence
Chain Instead Adore ______
a) Ignore b) Reject c) Inside d) Over
2>
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same eight letters, can be used to complete the sentences below?
"You are ________ foolishly," the politician said to his inebriated aide. "I am afraid you will soon be ________ political secrets."
3>
A question, which is probably frivolous, is coiled in the grid below. To spell it out, start with one letter and move to an adjacent letter in any direction.
W O U T S E
A D L O N T
W I T C G N
S H C L L I
U E E E P S
C C D I N A
Hmm. May as well try my hand at the third one.
"Would a witch sue edina?"
Shuten
1. (b) Reject
3> Would a witch succeed in a spelling contest?
One cookie for Ragnar, one for Halbarad and one still up for grabs! That one is now worth a muffin
Halbarad: 34 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 28 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 28
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Ragnar: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
KLSymph: 2
Alviss: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Quote from: "Rakhal"2>
"You are ________ foolishly," the politician said to his inebriated aide. "I am afraid you will soon be ________ political secrets."
I think "babbling" and "blabbing", respectively, would fit.
Muffin awarded! Congrats
Halbarad: 34 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 28 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 28
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Ragnar: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Alviss: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
1>
The first names of five different people are hidden in the sentence below. Can you find them. The letters are consecutive.
Across the shallow water marched the boys, who halted at once
2>
A simple substitution code has been used to conceal a quote. Work out the code to decipher the original words.
Barbie:
J XPOEFS JG J'MM FWFS OFFE B GBDF-MJGU. EPFT QMBTUJD TBH?
3>
Figure out the pattern in the first three examples and use it to figure out the last.
1,3,4 (16)
2,6,1 (18)
5,2,7 (28)
3,4,5 (?)
3> 24 (sum the digits and double it).
Barbie says:
I wonder if I'll ever need a facelift. Does plastic sag?
Across the shallow water marched the boys, who halted at once
Goonigoogoo.
Hehehe ^.^
*bump*
Whee, this took a long time to replay!. Cookies awarded to Bjorn, Herb and Halbarad!
Halbarad: 35 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 29 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 28
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Ragnar: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
How many common English words can you make from the letters below, using all five letters only once in each word?
A E F R S
3
SAFER
FEARS
FARES
Cookie awarded!
Halbarad: 35 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 29 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 29
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Ragnar: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
What one three-letter word can be placed in the blanks below to make four different words?
COMP___
DECL___
BEW___
AW___
ARE will do nicely.
Indeed it will. Have a home baked cookie!
Halbarad: 35 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 30 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 29
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Ragnar: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
First unscramble the letters in each word below, then unscramble the word order to create a Tom Swifty sentence
YCNLAIN YM EATST HTIS HTE STRIF FTHAER FTRUI TBIUL CPROESNSIG LPANT NI MOT DSAI
"Taste this - my father built the first fruit processing plant." Tom said cannily.
Close, but not quite.... you didn't use all the words...
"First taste the fruit in this processing plant my father built," Tom said cannily.
Cookie awarded. Not the same solution I had, but it's perfectly valid :)
Halbarad: 35 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 31 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 29
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 5
Ragnar: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
Incidentally, the solution I had was 'My father built the first fruit processing plant in this state, said Tom cannily'
The following puzzle consists of one word that can be split into two words.
One word: joy, pleasure
Two words (with a hyphen): to darken
Quote from: "Rakhal"The following puzzle consists of one word that can be split into two words.
One word: joy, pleasure
Two words (with a hyphen): to darken
de-light
Entirely correct!
Halbarad: 35 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 31 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 29
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 6
Ragnar: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The Panda: 1
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same seven letters, can be used to complete the sentences below?
"I _______," said the judge to the young lawyer, "that you think being _______ improves your position. It doesn't! To the point is better."
"I OBSERVE," said the judge to the young lawyer, "that you think being VERBOSE improves your position. It doesn't! To the point is better."
Most accurate! Cookie awarded
Halbarad: 35 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 31 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 29
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 6
Ragnar: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
The Panda: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Susan is younger than Sam, but older than Tom, Tom is younger than Susan and Sam, Alice is younger than Tom but older than Bill. List everyone from oldest to youngest
Quote from: "Rakhal"Susan is younger than Sam, but older than Tom, Tom is younger than Susan and Sam, Alice is younger than Tom but older than Bill. List everyone from oldest to youngest
Sam
Susan
Tom
Alice
Bill
Quite right! Cookie awarded
Halbarad: 35 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 31 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 30
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 6
Ragnar: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
The Panda: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The following puzzle consists of one word that can be split into two words.
One word: wound
Two words: where a trial winds up
Injury
In Jury
Beyond a shadow of a doubt. Cookie awarded
Halbarad: 35 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 31 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 30
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 6
Ragnar: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Replace the first letters of the words in each row to make two new words, both starting with the same letter. Place that letter in the blank between the two words. When you're finished, you'll have a new word reading down.
Handle _ Those
Lisle _ Sward
Monger _ Reaping
Bother _ Fountain
CALM
Handle _ Those CANDLE / CHOSE
Lisle _ Sward AISLE / AWARD
Monger _ Reaping LONGER / LEAPING
Bother _ Fountain MOTHER / MOUNTAIN
The word is Calm.
Handle C Those
Lisle A Sward
Monger L Reaping
Bother M Fountain
CALM
A positively un-calm frenzy of posts results in a cookie for Herb!
Halbarad: 35 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 32 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 30
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 6
Ragnar: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Decipher the following anagram
AAELLLPR
PARALLEL
Quite correct. Yet another cookie for the Musk Empire
Halbarad: 35 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 33 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 30
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 6
Ragnar: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
To name their towns, locals used a special system based on the towns' distances from this crossroads. Using the same system, can you determine the distance to Salisbury?
London: 8 miles
Salem: 7 miles
York: 5 miles
Salisbury: ? miles
Quote from: "Rakhal"To name their towns, locals used a special system based on the towns' distances from this crossroads. Using the same system, can you determine the distance to Salisbury?
London: 8 miles
Salem: 7 miles
York: 5 miles
Salisbury: ? miles
13.
very unsure, but number of letters plus the number of syllables.
Hmm, that works so I shall award a cookie. Well done!
The solution I had was 12 (vowels are worth 2 consonants are worth 1)
Halbarad: 35 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 33 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 30
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 7
Ragnar: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
A simple substitution codehas been used to conceal a comment on today's language usage. Work out the code to decipher the original words.
7-19-22-9-22 4-26-8 26 24-15-26-8-8-18-21-18-22-23 26-23 18-13
12-6-9 15-12-24-26-15 11-26-11-22-9 21-9-12-14 8-12-14-22-12-13-22
4-9-12 4-26-13-7-22-23 7-12 8-22-15-15 26 24-19-22-8-7-22-9
23-9-26-4-22-9-8
"There was a classified ad in our local paper from someone
who wanted to sell a chester drawers"
is what i came up with.
edit: Typo!
Quite correct. Cookie awarded!
Halbarad: 35 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 33 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 31
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 7
Ragnar: 5
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Jon: 2 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
If 3 artists can paint 18 paintings in 6 hours, how many artists will it take to paint 36 paintings in 4 hours
Quote from: "Rakhal"If 3 artists can paint 18 paintings in 6 hours, how many artists will it take to paint 36 paintings in 4 hours
9
One chocolate chip cookie in picasso style awarded!
Halbarad: 35 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 33 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 31
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 7
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Find the word that best completes the following sequence
Carpet Doghouse Carport _____
a>Dinner b>Household c>Kitchen d>Cherish
household
Indeed it is. PEAnut butter cookies today...
Halbarad: 35 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 33 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 32
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 7
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same seven letters, can be used to complete the sentences below?
The merchant was quickly forced to be a _______. An item that _______ for 2x dollars could not cost him more than 1x dollars
Realist. Retails.
I think.
Indubitably correct. Cookie awarded
Halbarad: 35 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 33 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 32
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 7
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Brian: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Unscramble the 25 letters below to make a five-word sentence found in fairy tales
A A D E E E E E F H H I I L L P P R R T T V V Y Y
They lived happily ever after.
Another well earned cookie!
Halbarad: 35 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 33 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 32
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 7
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
How many common English words can you make from the letters below, using all five letters only once in each word?
O O L S P
I'm going to take a wild guess here and say three.
POOLS
LOOPS
SPOOL
I'm pretty sure I'm wrong but I figured there's no harm in guessing. ^^;
Sincerely,
Shuten
Not enough I'm afraid, but a good start...
Heh. Well if nothing else hopefully it will aid whoever manages to successfully answer the question. ^^;
Anyways good luck to all! ^^ \/
Sincerely,
Shuten
sloop
pools
spool
loops
polos(not really common, but multiple articles of clothing from the designer label)
Cookie awarded! (last one could be multiple mints as well :))
Halbarad: 35 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 33 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 32
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 8
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Two simple codes have been used in conjunction to conceal a 'quote'. Work out the codes to decipher the original words
Caesar Ritz:
ROZGQDO DV CKTNGR KKZB RHGS RTNDFQNF VDM KDSNG DGS QZRDZB
No solvers for yesterdays puzzle. Now worth a muffin!
And for today...
Jane has twice as many sisters as she has brothers. Her brother James has five more sisters than he has brothers. How many boys and girls are there in the family?
7 girls and 3 boys.
I hope.
Quite right!. Cookie awarded. Muffin still up for grabs :)
Halbarad: 35 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 33 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 32
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 8
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Baka-ken: 1
Brian: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Perhaps we should call this gorgeous new hotel the Caesar
A well earned muffin!
Halbarad: 35 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 33 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 32
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 8
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Baka-ken: 1
Brian: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Solve the following anagram
CEINNNOT
Innocent
High speed cookie!
Halbarad: 35 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 33 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 33
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 8
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Baka-ken: 1
Brian: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Which of the scrambled words below is least like the others? The difference has nothing to do with vowels, consonants, or syllables
NPTUIAE EETXSNI GHTIE YTHTRI
PETUNIA SIXTEEN EIGHT THIRTY
Obviously, petunia.
Entirely correct!
Halbarad: 36 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 33 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 33
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kpjam: 8
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Baka-ken: 1
Brian: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same seven letters, can be used to complete the sentences below?
"That woman _______ her son," said the teacher after the boy misbehaved. "I would have _______ him"
Quote from: "Rakhal"What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same seven letters, can be used to complete the sentences below?
"That woman _______ her son," said the teacher after the boy misbehaved. "I would have _______ him"
Coddles
Scolded
<Rakhal stops coddling a cookie and gives it to kpjam>
Halbarad: 36 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 33 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 33
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Baka-ken: 1
Brian: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Unscramble the 15 letters below to make a common four-word phrase that describes a sparse way of living
A D F H H M M N O O O R T T U
from hand to mouth
Indeed so.
Halbarad: 36 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 34 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 33
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Baka-ken: 1
Brian: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
In the famous rhyme below, the vowels have been removed and the word breaks changed. Put back the vowels and find the rhyme
LTTLB YBLCM BLWYR HRNTH SHPSN THMDW THCWS NTHCR N
Quote from: "Rakhal"In the famous rhyme below, the vowels have been removed and the word breaks changed. Put back the vowels and find the rhyme
LTTLB YBLCM BLWYR HRNTH SHPSN THMDW THCWS NTHCR N
LiTTLe BoY BLue CoMe BLoW YouR HoRN THe SHeeP'S iN THe MeaDoW, THe CoWS iN THe CoRN.
Indubitably so.
Halbarad: 36 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 34 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 34
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Baka-ken: 1
Brian: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Find the number that best completes the sequence below.
1 1 2 4 3 ? 4 16 5 25
Quote from: "Rakhal"Find the number that best completes the sequence below.
1 1 2 4 3 ? 4 16 5 25
9
Another cookie for the cabbit!
Halbarad: 36 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 34 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 35
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Baka-ken: 1
Brian: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Find a word for a facial expression, then remove the first letter to find a word for a measure of distance.
Find a word that means "to dive," then remove the first letter to find a word for a forward rush.
Smile and plunge ^_^
Smile and plunge look like the answers to me.
And Kwok wins the race! Cookie awarded
Halbarad: 36 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 34 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 35
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 5
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Baka-ken: 1
Brian: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
An interesting observation is coiled in the grid below. To spell it out, start with one letter and move to an adjacent letter in any direction.
I M W I T L O S I T S
T E E D H E V T W H P
E W V A Z H A A L P A
H E V S I E W S S T R
T H A E P P E R I C W
Hmm, it seems that a fixed-width font isn't possible any more. It should be possible to work out what the puzzle should have looked like. Sorry.
--Rakhal
Most have foxed everyone, that last puzzle. Now worth a muffin.
And for todays puzzle...
What word can be read forward, meaning 'spoken badly about' and backward as 'bring to a place'?
Reviled backwards is deliver, so I hear.
Cookie awarded! Muffin still up for grabs :)
Halbarad: 36 + 2 muffins
Prince Herb: 34 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 35
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 5
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Baka-ken: 2
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The time we have saved with zippers we have lost with plastic wraps.
Profound.
Muffin awarded. The musk have quite a collection now!
Prince Herb: 34 + 4 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 35
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 5
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Baka-ken: 2
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same six letters, can be used to complete the sentence below?
In their frequent ______ of Paris to locate the best place to eat, the two critics found a little ______ that was just perfect.
Orbits
Bistro
Cookie awarded! And a first cookie too
Prince Herb: 34 + 4 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 35
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 5
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Baka-ken: 2
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Fallacies: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The students in a maths class took an exam. They all got different grades ranging from A to F. Rachel received neither an A nor an F, Pat got a lower score than Rachel, Bill was beaten by Sue, Chizimbu just edged out Pat, Andy beat Rachel, but not Bill.
Who got the A?
Sue ^_^
One perverted cookie awarded!
Prince Herb: 34 + 4 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 35
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 6
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Baka-ken: 2
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Fallacies: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
What is the next term in this series?
2 4 7 13 16 ?
11?
dracos
Goes weird.
18
No cookies awarded yet... :)
20!
19?
No correct answers yet. I think that an explanation of the series would be good as well :)
The next number is 13.
2, 4, 7, 13, 16, 13
_
2*2=4
0+4=4
_
4*4=16
1+6=7
_
7*7=49
4+9=13
_
13*13=169
1+6+9=16
_
16*16=256
2+5+6=13
Well done! Discretionary muffin awarded :)
Prince Herb: 34 + 4 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 35
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 6
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Baka-ken: 2
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Fallacies: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Jerry is one-sixth as old as his Uncle James. In four years, he will be one-fourth his uncles age. How old are they now?
Jerry is six and his uncle is thirty-six ^_^
Quite correct. One jalapeno cookie awarded!
Prince Herb: 34 + 4 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 35
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Baka-ken: 2
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Fallacies: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Whuch of the scrambled words below is least like the others? The difference has nothing to do with vowels, consonants or syllables.
COACHGI
LCDNVLEAE
RZCIUH
NGDANLE
The last one, England, is a country. The others are cities.
Quite correct!. A pizza-flavoured cookie has been awarded
Prince Herb: 35 + 4 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 35
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Baka-ken: 2
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Fallacies: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
A simple substitution code has been used to conceal a "quote." Work out the code to deciper the original words.
Winnie the Pooh:
R'EV YVVM XLNKOVGVOB FMHFXXVHHUFO RM ULOOLDRMT Z WRVG.
I've been completely unsuccessful in following a diet.
Indeed. His rumbly tumbly got the better of him. The cookie doesn't help either...
Prince Herb: 35 + 4 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 35
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Baka-ken: 3
Carthrat: 3
The Panda: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Fallacies: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Solve the following anagram
RITBPICUIRIYOTLN
INCORRUPTIBILITY
Perfect!
Prince Herb: 35 + 4 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 35
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
The Panda: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Baka-ken: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Fallacies: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Find the next 'Word' in this sequence
HHELI BEBCN OFNEN AMGAL SIPSC
Which of the scrambled words below is least like the others? THe difference ha nothing to do with vowels, consonants or syllables
STNTUEHC
AAAAIMMCD
GNLAIOAM
NWAUTL
The previous puzzle is now worth a muffin!
Quote from: "Rakhal"Which of the scrambled words below is least like the others? THe difference ha nothing to do with vowels, consonants or syllables
STNTUEHC
AAAAIMMCD
GNLAIOAM
NWAUTL
The previous puzzle is now worth a muffin!
Chestnut
Macadamia
Magnolia <-- Not a nut
Walnut
Cookie awarded! Still a muffin up for grabs though.
Prince Herb: 35 + 4 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 36
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
The Panda: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Baka-ken: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Fallacies: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Looks like that puzzle is really foxing people. One more day, and now it's worth a cheesecake!
And now for todays puzzle
What three words, formed from different arrangements of the same five letters, can be used to complete the sentence below?
When my wallet, containing my credit cards and my last _____, slipped from my hand and fell down the _____, I felt I was at the _____ of my trip.
Dinar
Drain
Nadir
Quite right! That cheesecake is still looking for an owner though :)
Prince Herb: 35 + 4 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 36
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
The Panda: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Baka-ken: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Fallacies: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
CLARK
The mild-mannered clerk from Kent.
Well done! The first cheesecake has been awarded :)
For those that are wondering, it's the periodic table :)
H He Li Be B C N ....
Prince Herb: 35 + 4 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 36
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Fallacies: 2 + 1 cheesecake
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
The Panda: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Baka-ken: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
What is the number that is one tenth of one half of one third of 999
Quote from: "Rakhal"What is the number that is one tenth of one half of one third of 999
16.65
Quite right. An easy cookie for today :)
rince Herb: 35 + 4 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 37
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Fallacies: 2 + 1 cheesecake
Ragnar: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
The Panda: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Baka-ken: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Unscramble the letters in each anagram below, then find the missing letter that completes each word. The missing letter is the same one for each word.
PLALO
TAEF
AOVICNER
PALLAEL
PALLOR
AFTER
CARNIVORE
PARALLEL
"R"
^_^
Quite right, cookie awarded
Prince Herb: 35 + 4 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 37
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Fallacies: 2 + 1 cheesecake
Ragnar: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Baka-ken: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The following puzzle consists of one word that can be split into two words.
One word: form of shelter
Two words: the taxi is at home
Cabin.
Indubitably correct. Cookie awarded
Prince Herb: 35 + 4 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 37
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Fallacies: 2 + 1 cheesecake
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Baka-ken: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Find a word that means "to frighten," then remove the first letter to find a word that means "to be concerned."
Find a word that means "extra," then remove the first letter to find a word that means "to cut the skin of."
Scare -> Care
Spare -> Pare
Totally correct. Have one cross-dressing cookie
Prince Herb: 35 + 4 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 37
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Fallacies: 2 + 1 cheesecake
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Baka-ken: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
A timely observation is coiled in the grid below. To spell it out, start with one letter and move to an adjacent letter in any direction.
I T I L N D P D M A S
I S A F A S E E L I S
S N M O S K C F R L S
A I L R C H E O B I L
(note that if this appears in a proportional font, copy it and view it in a fixed-pitch font)
No answer to the previous puzzle, so now worth a muffin (did anyone even see it? :))
Todays puzzle.
Fill in the blanks to complete the word below
F _ _ B _ E _ _ I _ I _ _ E T
Flibbertigibbet, I think
Cookie awarded! Muffin still up for grabs
Prince Herb: 36 + 4 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 37
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Fallacies: 2 + 1 cheesecake
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Baka-ken: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
it is snail mail for checks and speed mail for bills
A clean sweep for the Musk, with a fine home-made chocolate-chip muffin awarded.
Prince Herb: 36 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 37
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Fallacies: 2 + 1 cheesecake
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Baka-ken: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Unscramble each of the words below and match each word from the first list with the word it is normally associated with from the second
tzoireneltr
etqrfuroo
nagsari
smsehbdagnarna
gihasg
ltodsnca
nipsa
irusata
enrfac
ledagnn
A guess ...
smsehbgagnarna nipsa
Gangs San Hambre Spain
gihasg ltodsnca
Haggis Scotland
etqrfuroo enrfac
Roquefort France
nagsari ledagnn
Gas Iran England
kzedrlneairl irusata
Dr. Keller Nazi Austria
A valiant attempt, but I'm afraid the cookie is still up for grabs
linzertorte => Austria
haggis => Scotland
bangers and mash => England
sangria => Spain
roquefort => France
Congratulations! A well-earned cookie there.
Prince Herb: 37 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 37
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Fallacies: 2 + 1 cheesecake
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Baka-ken: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
If
A + B + C + D = 10
A + B + C + C = 11
B + A + A + D = 12
and C + D + D + C = 6
what are the values of A, B, C and D?
A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1
Quote from: "Rakhal"If
A + B + C + D = 10
A + B + C + C = 11
B + A + A + D = 12
and C + D + D + C = 6
what are the values of A, B, C and D?
A = 4
B = 3
C = 2
D = 1
Exactly corrent. Cookie awarded
Prince Herb: 37 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 2 muffins
Getzeye: 37
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
Fallacies: 2 + 1 cheesecake
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Find the next number in this series
151405
202315
2008180505
6152118
?
Looks like the previous puzzle is foxing people. Now worth a muffin.
And for today..
What two words,formed from different arrangements of the same six letters, can be used to complete the sentences below?
When the housewife heard about the ______ on television, she went down to her ______ and found the appliance
caller, cellar is my guess.
The answer for yesterday is:
6092205
A cookie for the Musk and a muffin for Halbarad. Congrats!
Prince Herb: 38 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 37
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
Fallacies: 2 + 1 cheesecake
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Carthrat: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Unscramble the 14 letters below to make a common four-word phrase that means 'very depressed'
D D E H I M N N O P S T U W
Down in the dumps.
High speed cookie awarded!
Prince Herb: 38 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 37
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
Fallacies: 2 + 1 cheesecake
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
When the following anagram is unscrambled it will become an encrypted word. Unencrypt the word by shifting the first letter back 1 (H becomes G, G becomes F e.t.c), the second back 2, the third back 3 and so on to find the answer.
T F H K T E
GIBBON from HKEFTT, I suggest
Quite right. Well done!
Prince Herb: 39 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 37
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
Fallacies: 2 + 1 cheesecake
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Jim was his fathers only son. Jim's father was his parents' only son. Jim's father's mother-in-law was Alice. What relation was Alice to Jim?
Alice is Jim's grandmother.
Spoken with the wisdom of ages. Cookie awarded. A first cookie too, congrats!
Prince Herb: 39 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 37
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
Fallacies: 2 + 1 cheesecake
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Here's another one of these encrypted anagrams. Same rules as before...
V D F R W Y
QUARTZ from RWDVYF
Another one for the Musk!
Prince Herb: 40 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 37
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
Fallacies: 2 + 1 cheesecake
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Start with the number of stars in the Big Dipper, multiply by the number of Fates in Greek mythology and subtract the number of the winds. What number do you get?
In which mythos do you want the "number of winds" from?
84
... assuming 4 winds.
Fraid not. I'd guess Chinese (aka Mahjongg)
Oops!
18.
(3 fates * 7 stars) - 3 winds.
(misread the question >_<)
17
Actually, it's Kenshiro passing gas at Belldandy ...
Cookie awarded! (there are 4 winds)
Prince Herb: 40 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 37
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Fallacies: 3 + 1 cheesecake
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Below are 3 systematically arranged groups of letters.
Group 1: B D F H J K L N O P
Group 2: C F I K M O Q R T V
Group 3: D H K N P R U W Y Z
In sequence, name the letters in group 4.
Looks like Fallacies puzzle is foxing people. A muffin now on offer for that!
And for todays puzzle...
The following decriptions are those of real magazine titles with only one letter changed.
1) A guide for narcissistic couples
2) Countryside yelling
3) Summaries of success
Quote from: "Fallacies"Below are 3 systematically arranged groups of letters.
Group 1: B D F H J K L N O P
Group 2: C F I K M O Q R T V
Group 3: D H K N P R U W Y Z
In sequence, name the letters in group 4.
Starting at zero.
Group 1:
0 + 2 = B, +2 = D, +2 = F, +2=h, +2 = J, +1 = K, + 1 = L, +2 = N, +1 = O, +1 = O.
Patterns:
5 +2s in a row, 2 +1s in a row, a +2 and then 2 +1s. Odd.
Multiplicatively: 5*2,2*1,1*2,2*1
Total sum: 16
Group 2:
0+ 3 = C, + 3 = F, + 3 = I, + 2 = K, +2 = M, +2 = O, +2=Q, +1=R, +2=T, +2 = V
Patterns:
3 +3s in a row, 4 +2s in a row, a +1 and 2 +2s.
Multiplicatively: 3*3, 4*2, 1*1, 2*2
Total sum: 22. Both even final amounts
Group 3:
0+4 = D, +4 = H, +3 = K, +3= N, +2 = P, +2 = R, +3 = U, +2 =W, +2=Y, +1=Z
2,3,5? Fibbonochi. Previous must've been 1, at distance five. Then dropping off there. Hum.
Pattern:
2 4s, 2 3s, 2 2s, 1 3, 2 2s, 1 1.
multiplicatively: 2*4, 2*3, 2*2,1*3,2*2, 1*1
Total sum: 26
Always an increase midwaythrough.
Intergroup patterns:
Going down
2 4 6 8 10 11 12 14 15 16
3 6 9 11 13 15 17 18 20 22
4 8 11 14 16 18 21 23 25 26
Try 1: 5 10 13 16 19 21 24 _ _ 2
Try 2: 5 9 13 17 20
Group 4:
E J _ _ _ _ _ _ _ B
Will do more later, work work.
Bah, distracted again. Stupid classes. =p
Dracos
The puzzles are building up. Falacies puzzle is now worth a cheesecake, and Thursdays puzzle is now worth a muffin
For today..
Decode the final words to complete the rhyme
When you are right, no-one hears.
When you are HSPXO IUF T'SPEMX MBM BFTS
When you are wrong, the world's all ears
Well done. cookie for the Musk
Prince Herb: 41 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 37
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Fallacies: 3 + 1 cheesecake
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Looks like Fallacies puzzle stumped everyone :)
Solution: The groups represent the multiplication table. Group 1 is the 2x table. group 2 the 3x, group 3 the 4x and so-on. Numbers are replaced with letters, so B=2, D=4.. However only those numbers that are actually required for the multiplication table (up to 10x10) are assigned letters in ascending order. Since the 1x row is part of the table, 1-10 are A-J, thereafter all numbers that are either prime or cannot be factorised into 2 nmubers <10 are omitted, so 12 is K, 14-L, 15 is M, 16 is N, 18 is O, 20 is P, 21 is Q, 24=R, 25=S, 27=T, 28=U, 30=V, 32=W, 35=X, 36=Y and 40=Z.
11,13,17,19,23,29,31 and 37 are primes > 10 so no numbers are assigned
22 (11x2), 26 (13x2), 33 (11x3), 34 (17x2), 38 (19x2) and 39 (13x3) all have one factor >10, so they are not required in a multiplication table to 10x10
Hence Group 4 (the 5x table) is
E J M P S V X Z
(the last 2 entries are omitted due to running out of letters)
The magazine puzzle is now worth a cheesecake, and for today we have...
Solve this anagram: AAMIDECC
ACADEMIC
Ligntning speed cookie acquisition!
Prince Herb: 42 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 37
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Fallacies: 3 + 1 cheesecake
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Darn, missed it ...
And another cheesecake flots off into oblivion. The answer to the Magazine puzzle is...
1) A guide for narcissistic couples: Vanity Pair
2) Countryside yelling: Field & Scream
3) Summaries of success: Leader's Digest
Cheesecake for me tonight! :)
And for todays puzzle
The following puzzle consists of one word that can be split into two words.
One word: type of road covering.
Two words: a stop sign for certain snakes.
Asp halt or asphalt
Indeed it is! Another cookie awarded
Prince Herb: 43 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 37
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Fallacies: 3 + 1 cheesecake
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sunhawk: 1
asphalt
Pat is one-third the age of her sister jane. In four years, Pat will be one-half her sister's age. Two years ago, she was one-fifth her sister's age. How old are they now?
Four and twelve
Quite right. An onion and raisin cookie awarded
Prince Herb: 43 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 37
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Fallacies: 3 + 1 cheesecake
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Quote from: "Rakhal"Looks like Fallacies puzzle stumped everyone :)
Solution: The groups represent the multiplication table. Group 1 is the 2x table. group 2 the 3x, group 3 the 4x and so-on. Numbers are replaced with letters, so B=2, D=4.. However only those numbers that are actually required for the multiplication table (up to 10x10) are assigned letters in ascending order. Since the 1x row is part of the table, 1-10 are A-J, thereafter all numbers that are either prime or cannot be factorised into 2 nmubers <10 are omitted, so 12 is K, 14-L, 15 is M, 16 is N, 18 is O, 20 is P, 21 is Q, 24=R, 25=S, 27=T, 28=U, 30=V, 32=W, 35=X, 36=Y and 40=Z.
11,13,17,19,23,29,31 and 37 are primes > 10 so no numbers are assigned
22 (11x2), 26 (13x2), 33 (11x3), 34 (17x2), 38 (19x2) and 39 (13x3) all have one factor >10, so they are not required in a multiplication table to 10x10
Hence Group 4 (the 5x table) is
E J M P S V X Z
(the last 2 entries are omitted due to running out of letters)
The magazine puzzle is now worth a cheesecake, and for today we have...
Solve this anagram: AAMIDECC
Ah, I knew it was a math puzzle, but at the same time, I didn't assume omission of numbers partway through but not the whole way through. Would've gotten it wrong for values past a point due to that.
Dracos
Find the word that best completes the following sequence.
Cattle, Legal, Allowed, Educate, ?
a) Hammer
b) Belong,
c) Tender
d) Think
e) Catgirl
HAMMER
hammer?
I'm thinking belong or think >.>
I'll take a stab at it and choose catgirl. Of course I'm more than likely wrong. Oh well. ^^;
Sincerely,
Shuten
Tender is the one. Each word starts with the last two letters of the previous one.
Herb has it. Another cookie awarded!
Prince Herb: 44 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 37
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Fallacies: 3 + 1 cheesecake
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
KLSymph: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sunhawk: 1
And another anagrammatical teaser for you. The following word has been encoded with a simple cipher such that the first letter has 1 added to it (A becomes B, B ecomes C...), the second letter has 2 added to it (A becomes C...), the third 3 and so on. It has then been scrambled. Find the word
A Q K M T N R
AQKMTNR, rearranged to NKQMRAT, then shifting M-1=N, K-2=I, Q-3=N, etc...
M I N I M U M.
Quite right. Cookie awarded!
Prince Herb: 44 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 37
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Fallacies: 3 + 1 cheesecake
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sunhawk: 1
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same seven letters, can be used to complete the sentence below?
The cartographers listened to the _______ authority and _______ the map to the boundaries of the new country.
No solvers yet for the last puzzle, so it's now worth a muffin
And for today...
Unscramble the 15 letters below to make a common three-word phrase that some people use to describe getting married
A E E G G H I K L N N P T T U
Quote from: "Rakhal"Unscramble the 15 letters below to make a common three-word phrase that some people use to describe getting married
A E E G G H I K L N N P T T U
Is it 'Taking The Plunge'?
Sincerely,
Shuten
Well done, cookie awarded!
Prince Herb: 44 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 37
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Fallacies: 3 + 1 cheesecake
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Shuten: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Tuesday's puzzle is now worth a cheesecake! Will anyone get it?
And for today..
Samantha went to a birthday party. Jim was Samantha's only mother-in-law's only husband's only daughter's only son.
What relation was Jim to Samantha?
nephew on her husband's side (dunno if there's some kind of term like second nephew, nephew-in-law, or what not for it)
My guess: Jim is Samantha's son.
Merc gets it. Cookie awarded!
Prince Herb: 44 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 37
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Fallacies: 3 + 1 cheesecake
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Alviss: 1
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Merc: 1
Pahan: 1
Shuten: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Cookie merging exercise..
Prince Herb: 44 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 37
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Fallacies: 3 + 1 cheesecake
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Merc: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Shuten: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The cartographers listened to the leading authority and aligned the map to the boundaries of the new country.
Well, that's the closest I could get anyway. An hour's worth of mental letter permutation is just about all I can take.
Cheesecake awarded. Congrats!
Prince Herb: 44 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 37
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 3 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kwok: 7
Fallacies: 3 + 1 cheesecake
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Merc: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Shuten: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Find the six-digit number in which the second digit is one more than the first, and one less than the third, the fourth digit is one more than the third and three more than the first, and the fifth and sixth digits make a number that is the sum of the first four digits. The sum of all the digits is 26.
456722
Quite right. Cookie awarded.
Prince Herb: 44 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 37
Edward: 16 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 3 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Fallacies: 4 + 1 cheesecake
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Merc: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Shuten: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Fill in the blanks in the following sequence:
fair of
full of
____
far to
loving and
for a
____
good and
fair of
full of
full of
far to
loving and
for a
the Sabbath
good and
It's the 2nd & 3rd from the last words of each line of the children's poem. Monday's Child.
Cookie awarded. Congrats!
Prince Herb: 44 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 37
Edward: 17 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 3 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Fallacies: 4 + 1 cheesecake
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Merc: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Shuten: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Make your way from HEAT to COLD in only four steps, changing one letter at a time to make a good English word at each step.
HEAT
____
____
____
COLD
Quote from: "Rakhal"Make your way from HEAT to COLD in only four steps, changing one letter at a time to make a good English word at each step.
HEAT
____
____
____
COLD
HEAT
HEAD
HELD
HOLD
COLD
o_O
Quite thermodynamically correct! Cookie awarded
Prince Herb: 44 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 38
Edward: 17 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 3 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Fallacies: 4 + 1 cheesecake
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Merc: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Shuten: 1
Sunhawk: 1
What one three-letter word can be placed in the blanks below to make three different words.
COMM___
DEM___
STR___
The answer is 'AND'.
COMMAND
DEMAND
STRAND
Sincerely,
Shuten
Cookie awarded!
Prince Herb: 44 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 38
Edward: 17 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 3 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Fallacies: 4 + 1 cheesecake
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Merc: 2
Shuten: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sunhawk: 1
A truism is coiled in the grid below. To spell it out, start with one letter and move to an adjacent letter in any direction
I T N S I T
Y Y E A G H
T T W L I S
N W T W N D
E S Y A I H
(view in a fixed pitch font)
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty
Cookie awarded!
Prince Herb: 45 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 38
Edward: 17 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 3 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Fallacies: 4 + 1 cheesecake
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Merc: 2
Shuten: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sunhawk: 1
What links Dunand's culinary masterpiece, the unlucky capital of Frederick VI, a tribe of Texan indians, and the great downhill run on the Hahnenkamm?
They all start with the letter 'C'
Nope, though two of them do
I did jump the gun the previous post. ^_^
How about they are all battles?
Nope - try working out the parts first
My guess would be that they're all things that you can put into your mouth? (Dunand's is obvious, Copenhagen is also a name of a brand of chewing tobacco (Bleh), the Hahnenkamm is run near Salzburg (Salzburg-Chocolate Mocha Salzburg from... some damn cracker company, and the Indian tribe is ... uh... Well, I guess "Chickapoo" can be changed into Chicken.)
Yeah, probably wrong, but it was worth a shot.
Yep, 100% wrong!
Herbs puzzle is now worth a cheesecake!
And for today...
The first names of five people are hidden in the sentences below. Can you find them? The letters are in consecutive order.
I wanted to see how ill the absent student was. He would often call with a phony excuse.
I'm guessing ...
Ted
Will
Stu
Ash
Cal
That'll do find. There's also Ant and Ed (and probably some others). Cookie awarded.
Prince Herb: 45 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 38
Edward: 17 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Fallacies: 5 + 1 cheesecake
KLSymph: 3 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Merc: 2
Shuten: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sunhawk: 1
For Herb's puzzle, are they all cities?
Streif is the confusing one...
No, not all cities.
Are they all brands of snuff? ^_^
...
No.
Are they all made-up? >_>
Definitley not ; all historically verifiable.
Looks like Herb's puzzle foxed everyone :)
The answer to the four parts were
Marengo (Chicken Marengo)
Copenhagen
Comanche
and Streif
And what links them together is that they are all famous horses!
Marengo was Napoleons horse
Copenhagen was the Duke of Wellington's horse
Comanche was Captain Miles W. Keogh's horse (the only survivor of Custers Last Stand)
and Streif was Gustav Adolphus's horse
More cheesecake for me :)
And for todays puzzle...
First unscramble the letters in each word below, then unscramble the word order to create a Tom Swifty sentence.
DRAEIYL MOT SDIA HWNE TNWHSOPI HTE RYEV PHYAP LBTUI A
LBIRARY PLBUCI SWA I
"I was very happy when the township built the public library", Tom said readily.
Quote from: "Rakhal"And for todays puzzle...
First unscramble the letters in each word below, then unscramble the word order to create a Tom Swifty sentence.
DRAEIYL MOT SDIA HWNE TNWHSOPI HTE RYEV PHYAP LBTUI A
LBIRARY PLBUCI SWA I
"The township was very happy when i built a public library," readily said Tom.
My guess >.>
Cookie awarded ti Getz, though R007's was closer to the intent I had. However Getz's works whereas R007's swaps 'A' for 'THE'
Prince Herb: 45 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 39
Edward: 17 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Fallacies: 5 + 1 cheesecake
KLSymph: 3 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Merc: 2
Shuten: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The malleable variant of the fourth most abundant element in the Earth's crust.
A type of film made of an early commercial plastic.
A class of seacraft which has been the subject of several films about the Cold War.
The black you step on when you cross the street.
A modern invention thought by a female character in a certain popular anime series to be a major triumph of science, and commonly thought representative of the western world.
A type of quality cosmetic powder with assorted medicinal uses, including employment as an absorbant, and in baby care or foot care.
What do these have in common?
They all came into use in 1902.
Close, but no cigar. You're thinking along the right path, but along the wrong lines.
Quote from: "Fallacies"A modern invention thought by a female character in a certain popular anime series to be a major triumph of science, and commonly thought representative of the western world.
I'm not trying to be overly nit-picky, but ... erm ... this one's kinda vague. I'd have taken several stabs at guessing, but honestly, I asked a friend for help, and he told me, "You could replace every single noun in that sentence with the word "thing" and it would not get significantly more ambiguous."
I don't entirely agree, but I'm drawing a complete blank, and there's an awful lot of anime out there I may/may not have watched. An intrepid puzzle-solver will realize that google may have answers for many of these questions ... but not that one.
:/
Quote from: "Brian"Quote from: "Fallacies"A modern invention thought by a female character in a certain popular anime series to be a major triumph of science, and commonly thought representative of the western world.
"You could replace every single noun in that sentence with the word "thing" and it would not get significantly more ambiguous."
"A modern thing thought by a female thing in a certain popular thing to be a major thing of thing, and commonly thought thing of the western thing."?
Quote from: "Fallacies"What do these have in common?
They were invented by Americans.
A key phrase from the original sentence can be Googled along with another word to produce the invention I'm looking for -- as a first search result, even. The solutions of the individual lines have a far more specific relationship than the fact that they were invented by Americans.
Well, more than one were invented in New Jersey, but they weren't all invented there.
Rakhal can do the honors for point awarding ... or not. The solution is below:
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QuoteThe malleable variant of the fourth most abundant element in the Earth's crust.
Malleable iron, created by Seth Boyden.
QuoteA type of film made of an early commercial plastic.
Celluloid film, created by John W. Hyatt.
QuoteA class of seacraft which has been the subject of several films about the Cold War.
The modern combat submarine, created by John Holland.
QuoteThe black you step on when you cross the street.
Asphalt pavement (at least, the American variety).
QuoteA modern invention thought by a female character in a certain popular anime series to be a major triumph of science, and commonly thought representative of the western world.
The keyphrase was "triumph of science," and the other query word was "anime." Using these as search terms produces a quote by Misato, from Evangelion. The invention is the air conditioner, created by Willis H. Carrier. The phrase "representative of the western world" is from Wikipedia.
QuoteA type of quality cosmetic powder with assorted medicinal uses, including employment as an absorbant, and in baby care or foot care.
Talcum powder in a container, created by Gerhard Mennen.
QuoteWhat do these have in common?
All of the above are inventions or innovations developed and introduced to the United States within the vicinity of Newark, New Jersey.
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http://www.thirteen.org/newark/history2.html
Newark's industrial boom attracted enterprising inventors like Thomas Edison, who created the ticker tape machine while in Newark. Seth Boyden invented the process for making patent leather and malleable iron, in addition to developing a hat-forming machine and an inexpensive process for manufacturing sheet iron. John W. Hyatt developed celluloid (for camera film), which he went into the business of selling with his brothers in 1872. D. Edward Weston's Weston Electrical Instrument Company created the Weston standard cell, the first accurate portable voltmeters and ammeters, the first portable lightmeter, and many other electrical developments. Such developments helped the city enter early into the manufacture of plastics, electrical goods, and chemicals.
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http://www.nynjbaykeeper.org/sitefiles/PRFS_CulturalHist.pdf
[The Passaic River in Newark, NJ] baptized the Holland submarine (first operational modern combat submarine) and its factories built the Curtiss-Wright engine for Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Lewis, allowing America to dominate the seven seas and the air.
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http://www.hotmix.org/history.php
In 1870, a Belgian chemist named Edmund J. DeSmedt laid the first true asphalt pavement in this country, a sand mix in front of the City Hall in Newark, New .Jersey. DeSmedt's design was patterned after a natural asphalt pavement placed on a French highway in 1852.
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http://www.time.com/time/time100/profile/carrier.html
"Would you like to write about Willis H. Carrier?"
"And who the hell might he be?"
"Man who invented air conditioning."
1922 - First centrifugal refrigerating machine unveiled in Newark, N.J.
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http://www.bottlebooks.com/questions/August2000/august_2000_questions_ask_digger.htm
The Gerard Mennen Chemical Company of Newark, NJ (now a part of Colgate-Palmolive) first gained prominence with its Borated Talcum Toilet Powder. They were in business at least as early as the 1890s and are still in business today. They found their niche in child care and baby products and expanded into other toiletries.
***
This puzzle is not as obscure as it seems. A Google for [asphalt "talcum powder" celluloid "air conditioner"] gives only one search result:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=asphalt+%22talcum+powder%22+celluloid+%22air+conditioner%22&btnG=Search
This page includes the following lines:
Quote# The first celluloid was developed in Newark, in 1870, by John Wesley Hyatt.
# The first use of asphalt for street paving was in Newark, in 1870.
# The first air conditioner was developed in Newark in 1922 by Willis Haviland Carrier.
# The first talcum powder was developed in Newark by Gerhard Mennen.
After reading all that, I can come to only one conclusion.
You are thoroughly insane and in desperate need of a hobby.
I agree.
Looks like a cookie for Edward. Congrats!
Prince Herb: 45 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 39
Edward: 18 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Fallacies: 5 + 1 cheesecake
KLSymph: 3 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Merc: 2
Shuten: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sunhawk: 1
And for todays puzzle...
What three words, formed from different arrangements of the same seven letters, can be used to complete the sentences below?
The couple planned a _______ dinner for their wedding. The ingenious person in charge _______ such an interesting menu and table decorations that the guests _______ with great pleasure.
catered, created and reacted
Another fine cookie has been disbursed!
Prince Herb: 46 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 39
Edward: 18 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Fallacies: 5 + 1 cheesecake
KLSymph: 3 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Merc: 2
Shuten: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Three sets of twins can eat 12 candy bars in 30 minutes. At the same rate, how long would it take two sets of triplets to eat 24 candy bars?
60 minutes.
Quite right. A quick cookie awarded. A first cookie at that!
Prince Herb: 46 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 39
Edward: 18 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Fallacies: 5 + 1 cheesecake
KLSymph: 3 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Merc: 2
Shuten: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sunhawk: 1
The formula X^2 + Y^2 = z^2 describes a circle
What formula havimg the same general form describes a square?
X^** + Y^** = Z^**, where ** is Skysaber's shorthand for infinity.
One can observe this by plotting x^n+y^n = r^n, starting with n=2, and increasing n by the even numbers.
I remember this puzzle from a Piers Anthony book, a long long time ago. One of the Blue Adept books, I think it was.
Congrats! Cookie awarded.
Prince Herb: 46 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 39
Edward: 18 + 2 muffins
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 4 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Fallacies: 5 + 1 cheesecake
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Merc: 2
Shuten: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sunhawk: 1
How many common English words can you make from the letters below, using all five letters only once in each word?
S T E I D
Five.
I should have been clearer. List the words as well :)
DEIST
SITED
TIDES
DIETS
EDITS
That'll do. Cookie awarded.
Prince Herb: 46 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 39
Edward: 18 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 6 + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 4 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Brian: 2
Merc: 2
Shuten: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Choose the correct letter from each clue in the rhyme below. When put in order, the five letters will spell the answer to the riddle.
My first is in part, but not in air
My second in see but not in hair
My third in can, but not in date
My fourth in wine, but not in hate
My fifth in you, but not in news
My whole a coin we daily use
P-E-N-N-Y
Entirely correct. Cookie awarded!
Prince Herb: 46 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 39
Edward: 18 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 6 + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 4 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Brian: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
Shuten: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Figure out the pattern in the first three examples and use it to figure out the last.
a,c,d (Z)
d,e,f (Y)
a,a,f (L)
f,a,b (?)
The last puzzle is now worth a muffin. And for todays puzzle...
Unscramble the letters below, find the missing letter and complete the word.
EOIN?SPOL
Quote from: "Rakhal"The last puzzle is now worth a muffin. And for todays puzzle...
Unscramble the letters below, find the missing letter and complete the word.
EOIN?SPOL
Missing letter: a
polonaise?
letter x
Explosion >.>
Cookie awarded! (was looking for explosion)
Muffin still up for grabs
Prince Herb: 46 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 40
Edward: 18 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 6 + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 4 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Brian: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
Shuten: 2
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Going to take a wild guess on the 'muffin' one and say "K". Probably wrong though. ^^;
Sincerely,
Shuten
Well done! You are indeed right when you guessed that you were wrong :)
No, not K, sorry.
Quote from: "Rakhal"Well done! You are indeed right when you guessed that you were wrong :)
No, not K, sorry.
WAI! ^^
Now come on ya losers! There are only 26 letters in the alphabet afterall and at least one has already been eliminated. One of us will get it eventually! ^^
Onward fellow Soulriders! To Muffin glory I urge you forward. I may have failed but I
know one of you will succeed. @_@
Sincerely,
Shuten
a,c,d (Z)
d,e,f (Y)
a,a,f (L)
f,a,b (O)
var hyp1 = "acd";
var hyp2 = "def";
var hyp3 = "aaf";
var test = "fab";
function check(arr)
{
var a = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz';
var b = Math.pow(a.indexOf(arr.charAt(0))+1,2);
b += Math.pow(a.indexOf(arr.charAt(1))+1,2);
b += Math.pow(a.indexOf(arr.charAt(2))+1,2);
b = (b % 26) - 1;
if (b < 0) b += 26;
return a.charAt(b);
}
alert(check(hyp1));
alert(check(hyp2));
alert(check(hyp3));
alert(check(test));
Muffin awarded. Well done. Of course me being an old-skool C sort of guy I'd have done something like..
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
printf("%c,%c,%c (%c)",a,b,c,((abs(((*argv[1]-0x60)*(*argv[1]-0x60))+((*argv[2]-0x60)*(*argv[2]-0x60))+((*argv[3]-0x60)*(*argv[3]-0x60)))) % 26)+0x41);
}
:)
Prince Herb: 46 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 40
Edward: 18 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 6 + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 4 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Brian: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
Shuten: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Which of the scrambled words below is least like the others? The difference has nothing to do with vowels, consonants or syllables.
EGTHI NYWETT SITROUFYX LEENVE XNNIEYTIS
EIGHT TWENTY SIXTYFOUR ELEVEN SIXTYNINE
The first one is below ten. The rest are higher.
Sincerely,
Shuten
I guess that will do as well as Eleven (the only odd number in the list, if you read the last one as NineySix that is:))
Cookie awarded
Prince Herb: 46 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 40
Edward: 18 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 6 + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 4 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Brian: 3
Shuten: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sunhawk: 1
YATTA!![/b] ^^
Sincerely,
Shuten
What is the number that is one-fifth of one-half of one-third of one fourth of one-half of 1200
Five.
Quick and easy coolkie :)
Prince Herb: 46 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 40
Edward: 18 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 7 + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 4 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Brian: 3
Shuten: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Achievement
Independence
Death
Justice
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Identification
Projection
Order
Security
Materialism
Identify the organizing theme of the ordered list above and find the missing word. A few of the supplied terms have been replaced with close synonyms.
Looks like this puzzle has got everyone stumped. I can't post a solution to it, since I don't know it, so I'll leave that up to Fallacy.
For the next one:-
Unscramble the letters in each anagram below, then find the missing letter that completes each word. (The missing letter, indicated by the question mark, is the same for each word
WLIERM?
CPA?
ECOTD?
DUSEC?
Okay, I can't find any anagrams for the first one -
WLIERM?
For the other 3
CPA?
ECOTD?
DUSEC?
It's either K - PACK, DOCKET, SUCKED
or S - CAPS, COSTED, CUSSED
Got quiet?
Dracos
Hmm, can't really award a cookie for that. Need one answer only. And it doesn't look like anyone else is going for it.
The answer is K (Pack, Sucked, Docket, Wrinkle)
And just to see if anyone still looks at this thread :)
Start with the number of thieves in the Ali Baba story, subtract the square root of 100 and divide by the number of fingers on one hand. What number do you get?
'Six' is my guess.
Sincerely,
Shuten
Someone does!! Cookie awarded
Prince Herb: 46 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 40
Edward: 18 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 7 + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 4 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Shuten: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Brian: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Quote from: "Rakhal"Hmm, can't really award a cookie for that. Need one answer only. And it doesn't look like anyone else is going for it.
The answer is K (Pack, Sucked, Docket, Wrinkle)
But you can't get 'wrinkle' from
WLIERM?
I think you meant to have an N, not an M.
You're quite right, I goofed. Therefore I shall award a belated cookie. Congrats!
Prince Herb: 46 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 40
Edward: 19 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 7 + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 4 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Shuten: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Brian: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sunhawk: 1
Thanks.
The following puzzle consists of one word that can be split into two words.
One word: to shorten
Two words: means of crossing a river
"abridge"
Quite right. Cookie awarded
Prince Herb: 46 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 40
Edward: 19 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 7 + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 4 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Shuten: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Brian: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
Sunhawk: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
A simple substitution code has been used to conceal a clasified ad. Work out the code to decipher the original words
Note that this ad does not contain abbreviations.
6-15-18 20-2-13-6: 21-11-2-7 23-8-17 1-12-13-24-9
21-23-14-19-8-10-24-24 25-26-5-18-11 4-12-11-11-16-21-14
15-23-5-22. 14-7-12-14-21-21-14-23-3
13-25-24-14-19-4-19-25-24---8-26-3-25 1-26-15-17
2-1-25-12
6-15-18 F-O-R
20-2-13-6: S-A-L-E
21-11-2-7 S-I-Z-E
23-8-17 T-E-N
1-12-13-24-9 W-H-I-T-E
21-23-14-19-8-10-24-24 P-R-I-N-C-E-S-S
25-26-5-18-11 S-T-Y-L-E
4-12-11-11-16-21-14 W-E-D-D-I-N-G
15-23-5-22. G-O-W-N
14-7-12-14-21-21-14-23-3 E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-T
13-25-24-14-19-4-19-25-24--- C-O-N-D-I-T-I-O-N
8-26-3-25 W-O-R-N
1-26-15-17 O-N-C-E
2-1-25-12 O-N-L-Y
In the first word, the number is the letter's postion in the alphabet. So 6 is the 6th letter - F.
In the second word, subtract 1 from each number, the take the letter in that position in the alphabet. So 2-1=1; A is the 1st letter of the alphabet.
In the third word, subtract 2, and so on. Instead of negative numbers, wrap around based on position in the alphabet. So in the 3rd word 2 - 2 positions = 26, which is Z.
That be not exactly a "simple substitution" (which is <number> = <letter>)
Bah. Should've guessed when I could grab 'for' through direct substitution, 'sale' with some fiddling cryptogram style, and 'princess' by substitution - 5 letters.
A well earned cookie for Edward. Congrats!
Prince Herb: 46 + 5 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 40
Edward: 20 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 7 + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
KLSymph: 4 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Shuten: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Brian: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
Sunhawk: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
An important question is coiled in the grid below. To spell it out, start with one letter and move to an adjacent letter in any direction.
I I A C R W X
S T I N O D N
E L E I E D O
G A O V F I I
L T M L R E T
O Y E L S T A
(Note that if this doesn't appear in a fixed-pith font to you, cut and paste it into a window where you can view it in fixed-pitch)
Well, either the last puzzle is foxing people, or no-one looks at this thread any more :). Anyway it's worth a muffin now.
And for today...
Ann is half the age of her Uncle Henry. In seven years, she will be three fifths his age. Seven years ago, she was one-third his age.
How old are they now
Is it legal to yell move in a crowded fire station x
Ann is fourteen, Henry is twenty-eight.
A muffin for Herb and a cookie for KLSymph!
Prince Herb: 46 + 6 muffins
Halbarad: 36 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 40
Edward: 20 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 7 + 1 cheesecake
KLSymph: 5 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Shuten: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Brian: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
Sunhawk: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
WHich of the scrambled words below is least like the others? The difference has nothing to do with vowels, consonants or syllables
CLBOAT CHEAP PEGAR PPEALENIP
Cobalt is a color, not a fruit.
A rapid cookie indeed for Halbarad!
Prince Herb: 46 + 6 muffins
Halbarad: 37 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 40
Edward: 20 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 7 + 1 cheesecake
KLSymph: 5 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Shuten: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Brian: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
Sunhawk: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Unscramble the 15 letters below to make a common five-word phrase that means "very rarely"
A B C E E I L M N N N O O O U
Quote from: "Rakhal"Unscramble the 15 letters below to make a common five-word phrase that means "very rarely"
A B C E E I L M N N N O O O U
Once in a blue moon.
A special blue cookie for Tabyk!
Prince Herb: 46 + 6 muffins
Halbarad: 37 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 40
Edward: 20 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 7 + 1 cheesecake
KLSymph: 5 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Shuten: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Brian: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
Sunhawk: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Tabyk: 1
Find the number that best completes the sequence below, and explain why.
3,6,11,15,19,?,27,32
Friday;s puzzle is now work a muffin, And for today we have...
Rachel's father has no brothers. Rachel's mother, an only child, met her only sister-in-law's only daughter. What relation was this girl to Rachel
Rachel's maternal grandfather remarried after his wife died giving birth to Rachel's mother. The second wife had a son, who was Rachel's father. Rachel's mother then married her stepbrother, becoming her own sister in law. Rachel's mother's sister-in-law's only daughter is Rachel herself, obviously. :P
Have a buckeye for inventiveness :)
--Rakhal
Cousin.
Rachel's mother married Rachel's father -> Rachel's father's sister = Rachel's mother's only sister-in-law. Daughter of Rachel's father's sister = Rachel's cousin.
Quite right.First Cookie awarded! A muffin still up for grabs
Prince Herb: 46 + 6 muffins
Halbarad: 37 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 40
Edward: 20 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 7 + 1 cheesecake + 1 buckeye
KLSymph: 5 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Shuten: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Brian: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
Sunhawk: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sir Alex: 1
Tabyk: 1
One last round for the muffin puzzle... now worth a cheesecake :)
SOlve the following lightly encrypted anagram
QZBZBSAZ
Answer for the cheesecake puzzle
3,6,11,15,19,?,27,32
This sequence is just the sum of the letters in the numbers spelt out.
ONE =3 characters, so first number is 3
TWO = 3 characters, so second number is 6
THREE is 5 characters, so third number is 11
e.t.c.
Now SIX is three letters, so the ? is 22 (and you can verify by noting that SEVEN is 5 letters, making 27 for the next number.)
No new puzzle today, I'm not at all sure any one is still doing these and there's still one outstanding.
Worth a muffin now.
Quote from: "Rakhal"One last round for the muffin puzzle... now worth a cheesecake :)
SOlve the following lightly encrypted anagram
QZBZBSAZ
"BACCARAT" is my (first) guess, found by incrementing each letter (to RACACTBA).
Muffin awarded. COngrats!
Prince Herb: 46 + 6 muffins
Halbarad: 37 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 40
Edward: 20 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 7 + 1 cheesecake + 1 buckeye
KLSymph: 5 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Shuten: 4
Sunhawk: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Brian: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sir Alex: 1
Tabyk: 1
Has this stalled again?
Rakmeister?
Dracos
Far too long since the last puzzle!. How about this one...
First unscramble the letters in each word below. then unscramble the word order to create a Tom Swifty sentence
IADS MOT VEI TRSAEK TGEAR DAH A KCUL FO TA ECRA HTE NYLWIMSOE KRACT.
'I'VE HAD A STREAK OF GREAT LUCK AT THE RACE TRACK," TOM SAID WINSOMELY.
"I've had a great streak of luck at the race track," said Tom winsomely.
Cookie awarded to Edward. Congrats!
Prince Herb: 46 + 6 muffins
Halbarad: 37 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 40
Edward: 21 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 7 + 1 cheesecake + 1 buckeye
KLSymph: 5 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Baka-ken: 5
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Shuten: 4
Sunhawk: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Brian: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sir Alex: 1
Tabyk: 1
Dolly always bikes to work. She leaves home one hour before her office building opens every workday. If she bikes at 4mph, she arrives half an hour late. If she bikes at 12mph, she arrives half an hour too early and all the doors are locked.
How far away is her office
6 miles away.
Cookie awarded!
Prince Herb: 46 + 6 muffins
Halbarad: 37 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 40
Edward: 21 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 7 + 1 cheesecake + 1 buckeye
KLSymph: 5 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Baka-ken: 6
Ragnar: 6
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Shuten: 4
Sunhawk: 2 + 1 muffin
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Brian: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sir Alex: 1
Tabyk: 1
Solve the following anagram. The two ?s are the same letter, and the answer is one word.
UWSNDR??
uwsndr??, with a couple 'O's at the end, becomes...
Wondrous
A truely wondrous honey and rabbit cookie awarded!
Prince Herb: 46 + 6 muffins
Halbarad: 37 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 40
Edward: 21 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 7 + 1 cheesecake + 1 buckeye
KLSymph: 5 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Kwok: 7
Baka-ken: 6
Ragnar: 6
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Sunhawk: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Shuten: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Brian: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sir Alex: 1
Tabyk: 1
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same seven letters, can be used to complete the sentence below?
When the bell _______, the off-duty firefighter _______ to the east, saw the smoke and ran to the firehouse.
When the bell clanged, the off-duty firefighter glanced to the east, saw the smoke and ran to the firehouse.
One cajun chicken cookie awarded!
Prince Herb: 46 + 6 muffins
Halbarad: 37 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 40
Edward: 21 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 7 + 1 cheesecake + 1 buckeye
KLSymph: 5 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Baka-ken: 7
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Sunhawk: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Shuten: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Brian: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sir Alex: 1
Tabyk: 1
Heya all. Here at my cousins. So i'm sitting here surfing the web and wondering what has happened to this thread ^^ and also where's the java chat thingy?
Assuming each oven can cook 2 turkeys simultaneously, If one cook and 2 ovens can cook 3 turkeys in 4 hours, occupying the cook completely, how many cooks and ovens will it take to cook 15 turkeys in the same amount of time
Well, since the problem doesn't say how long it takes a single turkey, I would guess... 5 cooks, 10 ovens. I'm fairly sure it's not the answer you want, but hey.
EDIT: Oops. I would say then 8 ovens, 5 cooks.
5 cooks and 8 ovens?
Quick and easy cookie awarded!
Prince Herb: 46 + 6 muffins
Halbarad: 37 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 40
Edward: 21 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 7 + 1 cheesecake + 1 buckeye
KLSymph: 5 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Baka-ken: 8
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Sunhawk: 3 + 1 muffin
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Shuten: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Brian: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sir Alex: 1
Tabyk: 1
I thought I'd throw one out. It's old, but maybe new to some of you.
There's a room with only one door(light and sound proof), no windows and only one working light bulb.
Outside the room, there is a panel with three lightswitches, all in the down position.
The challenge is to determine a process to determine which switch turns on the light.
1) You can only open the door once.
2) You can't touch any of the switches when the door is open.
Easy, no?
Flip up switches one and two. Wait ten minutes. Turn off switch two. Go into the room. Is the light on? Switch one. Off? Touch it. Is it hot? Switch two. Cold? Switch three.
Perfect. Out of curiosity, had you heard it before?
Surrogate cookie awarded along with the note that maybe 'incandescent' should have been specified :) (the flourescent lightbulb that lights the upstairs landing in my home remains stone-cold even if on all day)
Prince Herb: 46 + 6 muffins
Halbarad: 37 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 40
Edward: 21 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 7 + 1 cheesecake + 1 buckeye
KLSymph: 5 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Baka-ken: 8
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Sunhawk: 3 + 1 muffin
Brian: 4
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Shuten: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sir Alex: 1
Tabyk: 1
And for today
An interesting question is coiled in the grid below. To spell it out, start with one letter and move to an adjacent letter in any direction. One null.
(note, the puzzle below should be viewed in a fixed-pitch font)
R A L U G S I
G E A R A H C
H P T N A E E
O N E E T P E
B E G E D S E
I L I D W R F
I L O Y H F I
If free speech is guaranteed, why do I get a large phone bill?
One overpriced cookie awarded!
Prince Herb: 46 + 6 muffins
Halbarad: 38 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 40
Edward: 21 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 7 + 1 cheesecake + 1 buckeye
KLSymph: 5 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Baka-ken: 8
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Sunhawk: 3 + 1 muffin
Brian: 4
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Shuten: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sir Alex: 1
Tabyk: 1
Quote from: "kpjam"Perfect. Out of curiosity, had you heard it before?
3DO job training. Extra credit question to gauge our 'Thinking outside of the box' potential. I didn't get it the first time, admittedly, but being told the answer did show me that there are other ways to consider a situation.... I think the question was slightly different. It was ... "three lights, three switches, which switch goes to which light? Hint: Warm."
More or less, anyway.
Fill in the blanks to complete the word
U _ _ U E _ _ I _ _ A B _ _
The answer is unquestionably unquestionable.
One or the other, anyway.
Both are acceptable answers. You have unquestionably earned a cookie!
Prince Herb: 46 + 6 muffins
Halbarad: 39 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 40
Edward: 21 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 7 + 1 cheesecake + 1 buckeye
KLSymph: 5 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Baka-ken: 8
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Sunhawk: 3 + 1 muffin
Brian: 4
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Shuten: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sir Alex: 1
Tabyk: 1
Find a word for a kind of record, then remove the first letter to find a word that means 'central part'
Find a word that means "to begin" then remove the first letter to find a word for a kind of pastry.
Well I have no idea in regards to the first question but I may as well try my luck with the second. *Start* and *Tart* are the answers respectfully. Of that I am certain.
Anyways hopefully someone will answer both questions successfully and claim that wonderful cookie! ^^
Sincerely,
Shuten
The first word is 'score' and 'core'. And Shuten may have the cookie.
I shall split the cookie between you! !/2 a cookie for Halbarad and Shuten :)
Prince Herb: 46 + 6 muffins
Halbarad: 39.5 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 40
Edward: 21 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 7 + 1 cheesecake + 1 buckeye
KLSymph: 5 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Baka-ken: 8
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Shuten: 4.5
Sunhawk: 3 + 1 muffin
Brian: 4
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sir Alex: 1
Tabyk: 1
What is the number that is the number of named Atlantic tropical cyclones in 2005 at 14th October times the threshold windspeed for a category 5 hurricane in miles per hour minus the minimum pressure attained by Hurricane Rita in millibars?
2203 - neglected "named".
One wind-inducing cookie awarded
Prince Herb: 46 + 6 muffins
Halbarad: 39.5 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 40
Edward: 21 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 7 + 1 cheesecake + 1 buckeye
KLSymph: 5 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Baka-ken: 8
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Sunhawk: 4 + 1 muffin
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Shuten: 4.5
Brian: 4
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sir Alex: 1
Tabyk: 1
Solve the following 4 anagrams and find the missing letter in each. The letter is the same for all 4 anagrams.
AAEK?
EHILST?
OSPIHR?
ODUN?
Quote from: "Rakhal"Solve the following 4 anagrams and find the missing letter in each. The letter is the same for all 4 anagrams.
AAEK?
EHILST?
OSPIHR?
ODUN?
aWake
Whistle
Worship
Wound
Quite correct. One carrot-flaovured cookie awarded!
Prince Herb: 46 + 6 muffins
Halbarad: 39.5 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 41
Edward: 21 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 7 + 1 cheesecake + 1 buckeye
KLSymph: 5 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Baka-ken: 8
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Sunhawk: 4 + 1 muffin
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Shuten: 4.5
Brian: 4
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Sir Alex: 1
Tabyk: 1
Which of the scrambled words below is least like the others? The difference has nothing to do with vowels, consonants or syllables.
DDAINMO
LDMEERA
PSAHREIP
PALEP
Diamond
Emerald
Sapphire
Apple
Apple of course being the odd man out.
Hmm, I guess apples set into rings might take a little time to catch on :)
Crunchy cookie awarded. And an inaugural one too! Congrats
Prince Herb: 46 + 6 muffins
Halbarad: 39.5 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 41
Edward: 21 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 7 + 1 cheesecake + 1 buckeye
KLSymph: 5 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Baka-ken: 8
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Sunhawk: 4 + 1 muffin
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Shuten: 4.5
Brian: 4
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Ranma007: 1
Sir Alex: 1
Tabyk: 1
If 7 typists can type 3 pages in 1 hour and 19 minutes, how many minutes will it take 14 typists to type 12 pages.
316 minutes, or about 5 hours 16 minutes.
158 minutes, or 2 hours and 38 minutes.
Cookie for Edward!
Prince Herb: 46 + 6 muffins
Halbarad: 39.5 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 41
Edward: 22 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 7 + 1 cheesecake + 1 buckeye
KLSymph: 5 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Baka-ken: 8
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Sunhawk: 4 + 1 muffin
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Shuten: 4.5
Brian: 4
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
Merc: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Ranma007: 1
Sir Alex: 1
Tabyk: 1
A very simple cipher has been applied to the letters of a word and the resultant word scrambled. Find the word..
BBGOUSHM
Flagrant. Take each letter and go back one letter.
BBGOUSHM > AAFNTRGL > Flagrant
Flagrantly correct! Cookie awarded
Prince Herb: 46 + 6 muffins
Halbarad: 39.5 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 41
Edward: 22 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 7 + 1 cheesecake + 1 buckeye
KLSymph: 5 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Baka-ken: 8
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Sunhawk: 4 + 1 muffin
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Shuten: 4.5
Brian: 4
Carthrat: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Merc: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Ranma007: 1
Sir Alex: 1
Tabyk: 1
"This pair of gloves is exactly what I always wanted," Tom said handily.
EDIT: Bah! Iddy stole the cookie prize so Rak took away the puzzle! Bah! Humbug! >_>
Rakhal re-adds the puzzle and awards a spare cookie to Merc
First unscramble the letters in each word below, then unscramble the word order to create a Tom Swifty sentence.
SLWYAA NDLAHIY DISA MOT HTSI LYXATCE PRIA SI FO LGOESV
NTDEWA I AHWT
And after that!
Prince Herb: 46 + 6 muffins
Halbarad: 39.5 + 3 muffins
Getzeye: 41
Edward: 22 + 2 muffins
Fallacies: 7 + 1 cheesecake + 1 buckeye
KLSymph: 5 + 1 muffin + 1 cheesecake
Kpjam: 9
Caliban: 7 + 1 muffin
Baka-ken: 8
Kwok: 7
Ragnar: 6
Sunhawk: 4 + 1 muffin
The Panda: 5
Jon: 3 + 1 muffin
Shuten: 4.5
Brian: 4
Carthrat: 4
Merc: 4
Onigiri: 4
Rezantis: 4
Anastasia: 3
Asrana: 3
Bean Bandit: 2
ikkonoishi: 1 muffin
Xaldaran: 1 muffin
Bjorn: 1
Calorn: 1
Itarien: 1
Pahan: 1
Ranma007: 1
Sir Alex: 1
Tabyk: 1
whee! =)
Quote from: "Rakhal"First unscramble the letters in each word below, then unscramble the word order to create a Tom Swifty sentence.
SLWYAA NDLAHIY DISA MOT HTSI LYXATCE PRIA SI FO LGOESV
NTDEWA I AHWT
"This pair of gloves is exactly what I always wanted," Tom said handily.