... and one smaller pentagon. The 5 larger triangles, for example, would not count. So, player 1 would get 6 points, player 2 would get 0 points.
I suggest, especially if there are a large number of po...
...le 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 the cont...
What is the most likely straight-line distance between two randomly selected points on a sphere?
...s puzzle Cipher puzzle Sequence puzzle
and one miscellaneous puzzle.
4) Each question will be worth 5 points. The winner is the person with the highest score at the end of the four rounds. There i...
...-n grid drawn on paper. (I suggest an n of at least 10.)
Players take turns drawing dots at the lattice points of the grid, one dot per each player's move.
Whenever a player makes a dot which is c...
...in the empty square between. For with someone else's symbol in the separating square, you would have 2*4 =points for the 2 islands. But with the separating square filled with your symbol, you get 2+1+...
...1) It was all done by e-mail. 2) It featured 4 rounds (one round per week) with 5 puzzles per round and 5 points per correct answer. 3) Each puzzle featured 1 maths problem, one logic problem, one lat...
...eople should be answering 'cyan'. http://www.danielsmith.com/inksmith-complements-page-three.html - minor points: - a billion has 12 zeros in british english - odd calling Verne a great _fantasy_ writ...
...s in the news today, here's the stan-dard quiz. Which of the following -stan's are countries today? Bonus points for locating the present day country of the other -stans. The first one is easy!
1. a...
...al is to choose the most common answer or a unique answer. If you submit a repeated answer you will get X points. If you submit a unique answer then you get 2N points.
3. Choose a letter in the rang...
Mark off the points on the circumgerence of a circle clockwise from 0 to 1. For example, the top is 0; “east” is .25, the bottom is .5, and so forth.
You generate two random numbers between 0 an
...finding the heart's tip on the tangent line. Constructing lines from the heart's tip to the other tangent points on each circle would complete the shape of the heart (see the diagram below). The dista...
...inal score will be equal to the sum of the scores (ranks) for each answer, and the aim is to score as few points as possible. The final two questions, as hinted above, add a minor complication to this...
...l score would not be possible, but there were no 'impossible' football scores in which the combined total points was higher than that.
What was the final score of the game?
(There is no trick invo...
...ldest online reference to any usenet or Internet postings that you have written, that you can find? Bonus points for anyone who can find a rec.puzzles post still online that is older than mine (1992)....
...'s flood) 2. blue (Elvis Presley's suede shoes) 3. chamois ('shamois') 4. left (French word gauche) 5. 2 (points for a safety) 6. 10 (12 is '11' points too many) 7. parallel ('parralel') 8. 12 (2-cent...
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