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If you love sudoku as much as I do you might enjoy the wealth of possibilities that the Puzzle Arena offers.
There is a large directory of various puzzles that once you log in you can play for as
...his whole thing's history at some point.)
Anyway, even aside from slang, many words are missused in our common-use language, even to the point of meaning their opposite. ('Ironic' being an appropria...
This is a rebus puzzle. The arrangement of the letters/words pictorially is supposed to suggest a common phrase.
For example,
mind matter
Answer: Mind over matter
This one has me stumped:
Fo
...lue that takes you 'around the corner' to a hint about that person.
Think of an inventor who invented a common household object which usually contained a device with, coincidentally, the same name a...
...resting chess logic puzzles, that I hope you will like. By logic chess puzzles, I mean those that are not commonly known as 'studies', and which need a fairly strong classic chess understanding. These...
...sts are now ready:
How Low Dare You Go? was won with 46:
www.brainbashers.com/howlow
And summary of Common Answers appears below:
www.brainbashers.com/common
With 1,296 valid entries, I mana...
entries.
Chela Prieto 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Ron Mcgrechan 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 Jason A Thompson 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 Isobel Mckinnon 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 1 1 Blair Smith 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 Eddie Wills 1 2 2
entries (which is a crazy task to score!).
Kim Applegate 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Mike Kelly 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Jessie Gould 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Lottie Louise Foitik 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Robert Dmuchowsk
...d be a few pictures used to make up the phrase/word.
Ideally someone will have a link for me, but their common name would be appreciated....
...f centered about US States:
1) Create a list of US State names so that no two names on the list share a common letter. Let 'A' be sum of the lengths of the state names used. What is the maximum valu...
...ake-a-part puzzles. Do any of you provide this service? Or...can you point me in the right direction? The common refferals to retailers such as Cleverwood, Bit & Pieces, etc. are appreciated but not w...
...the official results, I have made the results available for comment.
http://www.brainbashers.net/public/common.asp
Please let me know if you have any queries with anything....
...catch the error because the misspelled word is an actual word in English.
So, what are some examples of common words where, if the wrong adjacent letter is doubled, then we get another valid common ...
November's edition of BrainBashers Common Entries is now ready.
www.brainbashers.com/common
1. Name a chess piece. 2. Name something used to cut things. 3. Name a way to decorate a wall. 4. Name a
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A chain consists of DISTINCT sequences, which are adjacent 'links' if they contain any common integers.
Now, as intended here, I am referring to the finite number of elements whic...
Hi, Someone sent my wife this riddle asking what the following words all had in common :
chaos hiawatha ember beer eerie artichoke elevator whine
any ideas?
Many thanks in advance,
Here are the results of the Common Entries JFW02 contest. There were 22 entries.
!!! The winner is Alan O'Donnell with a score of 53913600 !!!
Second place went to Moshe Jacobson (20966400). Third
... Marilyn vos Savant's column last Sunday, she presented a reader's puzzle:
'What do these words have in common: BIKE BOX CHECKBOOK CHEEK DECKED HEED HIDE.'
The answer is supposed to be that they a...
...s a 'haystack' of ten words. Nine of the words, if paired with one of three mystery words, will produce a common phrase or compound word. The tenth will not; can you find it?
ball brush coffee day d...
...those that have seen both films:
What does the end of 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' have in common with 'Chicken Run'?
For bonus marks, name some other films with the same characterist...
Now that December 3 has passed, those of us who worked on Games magazine's Common Factors contest (October issue) can talk about it. For my part, I got distressingly close to a solution, though of cou
[a sci.math poster requested a mathematical 'function' describing the swastika, an ancient hooked cross common to many cultures and religions]
IANAN, but:
Consider a grid of evenly spaced orthogon
...8 1504512,2297988,2657088,4102912 1178338,2624162,2983262,3776738 ...
What do the above 4tuples have in common?
Hint/Spoiler: http://domino.research.ibm.com/Comm/wwwr_ponder.nsf/challenges/Decemb....
The sets of words below all comprise of 3 items with one common link. You have to find out each link. However, before you do that you have to find out what the words actually are, not such an easy cha
CORA1 Results
These are the results of my Common/Rare Entries Contest, CORA1. See the original contest posting for the rules.
There were 29 entrants. Thanks to everyone for taking the trouble to e
...erent newsgroups. You've just crowded out 250K worth of old text messages with your one single message.
Common etiquette in a situation like yours is to upload the pictures to a web page, or to the ...
...e current standings below.
There were 1,538 entries for August.
http://www.brainbashers.com/overflow1/common/commonentries.htm
The file is aroun 174K
I know people like to check the results af...
This is a Common Entries contest, MOJO2
DO NOT POST ANSWERS TO ANY NEWSGROUP!!! Entries must reach here by Monday, June 25th, 6 P.M. (L.A. time, zone -7). I encourage you to enter my other contest,
September's edition of BrainBashers Common Entries is now ready.
August's results will be available in a few days.
www.brainbashers.com/entry.asp?page=common
1. Name one of the seven dwarfs. 2.
...h here by Monday, June 25th, 6 P.M. (L.A. time, zone -7). I encourage everyone to enter my other contest, Common Entries MOJO2.
Note that four of the questions are virtually identical to questions a...
...sure of a yottabyte.
The highest-density digital tape (which is the highest-density medium currently in common use) made by one of the world's leading manufacturers stores data at a density of 124K ...
Hi,
I have been asked the following...
What common phrase or saying is represented here?
Busines
Thanks.
Dan.
I am not the author of this puzzle, the author's right to copyright is hereby
This is a combined rare and common entries contest, where each question requires two answers, one trying to be a rare answer, the other trying to be a common answer. The rare answer must be judged to
...ificantly, these two effects at the same instant at two distant places in the Universe must have a single common cause, or origin, or generally, some 'trigger' signal.
How else could 'know' the dark...
...easy to find a 'standard-sized' one-quart glass mayonnaise (mason) jar, but I'm not sure if such jars are common in other countries (e.g., they may only have one-liter jars). It also best of the objec...
The idea of resonant defection was described by Douglas Hofstadter in 'Metamagical Themas.' The idea is this. Perhaps your first response to this situation is to think that of course everyone should p
...f entrants who chose an answer.
1. Choose a letter in the range [A-F]. Your goal is to choose the least common answer. You will receive a score equal to (2N)/X.
2. Choose a letter in the range [A-...
...ay in round robin. (right expression? sorry about my poor ) English) ) ) In this game player A and B were common winners. ) ) But the rivals C and D made a curious record. ) ) Player C defeated all pl...
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