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...) is a logic puzzle based on the Battleship guessing game. It and its many variants often appear in puzzle contests, such as the WPC, and puzzle magazines, such as Games magazine.
The puzzle is play...
Over the past few months the Toronto Transit Commission has run two or three contests where puzzles were posted on advertising panels and solvers could send their names in for a prize draw.
I don't
This puzzle is more of a contest. Try and come up with the most famous and recognizable film tag line. My pitch is from the Ridley Scott / Sigourney Weaver movie Alien:
IN SPACE, NO-ONE CAN HEAR YOU
Hi,
November's results for the BrainBashers monthly contests are now ready:
How Low Dare You Go? was won with 46:
www.brainbashers.com/howlow
And summary of Common Answers appears below:
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It's been suggested that my wording of one question in contest MSB43 was confusing. I didn't think so, but I will magnanimously provide a more explicit version anyway.
2. Name a city that is a capit
...wing that the other had written it down.
(I was about to say, 'It was Final Jeopardy, and one of the two contestants who got it wrong did not phrase it in the form of a question.' I remember somebod...
... a lutz and a salko? 8 Name either of Cherie Blair's two advisers that caused controversy this week? 9 The contestant from which country finally won this year's restaged Miss World competition? 10 Wha...
The circle challange
You and two other persons have survived many rounds in a contest. You have earned the most points until now, but with the points to win in this last round, both players can win
Is a contestant allowed to bet $0 on a Daily Double, as he is in Final Jeopardy?
Bill Smythe
Personally, if I had scored this question (well, I wouldn't never have asked it in the first place), I would probably have accepted Roumania. In many languages, the reflexive pronoun in first and seco
I considered this question very carefully, and by the answers given it looks like most entrants came to exactly the same conclusions as I did:
1. If you pick '1' as the answer and most others don't,
The object of this monthly contest is to pick a whole number, an integer, which is as low as you dare go - but the winning number is the lowest number (above zero) which no-one else has also picked! S
'I'm having kipper for tea' sounds like perfectly good English to my ears. I don't know if it's a regional thing, though.
Given the precision of the answer, it is still correct. the extra twelve millimeters rounds down to zero additional inches. If the answer had been 42.194988 km you wouuld have had a point, but there's
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
...sheet. This game is exciting to everyone. Please enjoy yourself competing the records. The Paper Challeran Contest is an event of the people who record their achievements and competing with each other...
I don't really get this part. Explain?
...d not at all technical. As usual, remember when posting any follow-up discussion that this is an informal 'contest.'...
Here are the results of the Rare Entries JFW05 contest.
I apologize to everyone for the results being late by about a week!!!
There were 14 entries.
!!! The winner is Ben Zimmer with a score of
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
In the spirit of rare entries, I'd like to point out that its still summer so this contest is invalid and doesn't count. Its invalid since it fails to meet your own critera for GdV02 :).
As always a
This is me showing off:
590,4594,5810,17906 1544,8456,15880,41720 2360,18376,23240,71624 4190,10210,39074,83426 3488,9508,39776,84128
101362,1770062,3247538,4183538 1014642,1780942,2512242,4
...lf competing the records with your class,family,friends or local communities. The Internet Paper Challeran Contest is an event of the people who record their achievements and competing with each other...
Well, the deadline is now over for the National Post 'Inheritance' contest. ( http://www.nationalpost.com/features/inheritance/ )
At first, I had fun with the contest. Then, I got annoyed. Still, I
Good luck with the judging!
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
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,
So, post what group you see this in, and the solution to the riddle in my singature. I put my money on rec.puzzles - lets see.
Two hours from my posting is good. Next day is OK.Anything else is crap
...t newsgroup to post this. This puzzle is kind of mathematical in nature. It had appeared in a Russian math contest.
On a black board are written ten 1's,twenty 2's and twenty five 3's. A student com...
This is my second numbers contest, NUM2
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 everyone to enter my other contes
Hi, I tried to understand , but failed!! I have seen the results to MOJO2 by Monwhea Jeng, still couldn't understand what the participant is supposed to do and how the scores are given. Could any of y
On The Price is Right, if one was spinning first, what is the minimum on the first spin that the contestant should stand without spinning again?
These are the results to the Adjacency Contest, MOJO.ADJ1. See the original contest posting for the rules.
There were 19 entrants. The winner was Steven Howard. Second and third place went to Tom Ru
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
... you decide to definitely press 'D', and think that everyone else must be doing the same thing.
But this contest is more complicated, because you aren't trying to say what you would do IRL, but only...
This is Letters Contest ASK1, which is a hybrid of several other contests that appear on this list.
Do NOT post answers to any newsgroup. Entries must reach here by Thursday July 5th, 11:59 P.M. (ES
Much to my embarrassment I e-mailed the contestants in my competition this puzzle and included the answer by mistake. I haven't made the same mistake this time. The puzzle is reprinted in its entirity
So what in the question determines which is *the* Triple Crown? The pacing and trotting events are certainly American and certainly horse racing, and it seems flimsy to carry the weight of the questio
...can be expressed as the sum of 5 integers cubed.
(This problem was part of a national undergraduate math contest when I was an undergraduate.)
Instead, let p/q be any rational number, and express ...
For those who missed the beginning, this contest was run by a Canadian newspaper, and the rules and 'questions' can currently still be found under .
Here are all the answers and some comments based
The deadline has passed. There were 38 entries. It may be a few days before I can score this one.
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