Just want to point out that it doesn't have to be an ellipse, it CAN be a circle with A as not-the-center.
Here is an example, and I showed where the center is, too.
I could still assume it's a quarter of a circle/elipse if A were in the first quadrant (Top - left part of the center). It's not, so, in this case AD can't be related to a Radius of an imaginary circle, so, I can't solve this problem if I don't know the lenght of either AB or AC (Nope, either knowing AF or AE will help us in that case, because we'll still missing AB and AC).
What's about, the only place in the world if you go 1 mile to the south, 1 mile to the east, and 1 mile to the north and come back to the exactly same point?
Chile, after an earthquake moves you back 1 mile to the west.
This is a thread to discuss some of your other favorite puzzles, riddles, brain teasers, armchair treasure hunts, etc.
Well, it's actually it's own game, but Deadly Rooms Of Death is basically a long string of more or less brain-wrenching puzzles that combined make up the (mostly user-designed) level sets (called holds) for the game.
Puzzle + hack'n'slash galore = WIN, at least for me...
(And there's the online high scores - solving a room in less moves than anybody else is often another puzzle in it's own right... )
Try it, the demo is free, and you can play any of the user-made levels with it - the only difference is that the demo has only one set of level graphics instead of 6 and IIRC less music...
that's not really a puzzle. its more of an ambiguous fanboy reference that a limited number of people can solve. a puzzle has to have something to do with lateral thinking, etc.
Okay, then here is mine, what's the name of the guy I was in love with in 2003?
Good luck
That's not the same as this is your personal knowledge. Knowledge about games which everyone can buy is a different thing and you should be clever enough knowing that already. :O)
Hmmm, let me think of my school time, maybe this is more after your taste:
ADVENTURES RETURNED HURRAY = BEWFOUVSFT EFOSVUFS GZTBQS
That's not the same as this is your personal knowledge. Knowledge about games which everyone can buy is a different thing and you should be clever enough knowing that already. :O)
I don't know, seems to me to be more a quiz than a puzzle. The way I see it, for a puzzle you're given all the tools. Just asking someone to guess which movie/game/country/language has this or that in it isn't really the same, because either they already know or they don't and won't figure it out.
Well, for a line from a walkthrough you can google it easily, but many would consider that cheating.
@Avistew
It definately fits better into the quiz section but still i find there is a puzzle part as well, without the certain knowledge you'll also fail to solve a lot of riddles, so...
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I could still assume it's a quarter of a circle/elipse if A were in the first quadrant (Top - left part of the center). It's not, so, in this case AD can't be related to a Radius of an imaginary circle, so, I can't solve this problem if I don't know the lenght of either AB or AC (Nope, either knowing AF or AE will help us in that case, because we'll still missing AB and AC).
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/riddles/intro.shtml
- and some puzzles called sangaku. For example:
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/riddles/medium.shtml#sangaku1
Find the side length of the internal square and the radii of the internal circles, in terms of a.
(I haven't figured it out, yet. Maybe I'm getting too mathematical here, anyway.)
The berkeley site has a bunch of other puzzles and riddles, though.
I like this. I'm 1/3 of the way done
Awesome, so, from top to bottom
The radius of the upper circle is
The edge of the square is
Chile, after an earthquake moves you back 1 mile to the west.
Oh, God, look what I've created...
Puzzle + hack'n'slash galore = WIN, at least for me...
(And there's the online high scores - solving a room in less moves than anybody else is often another puzzle in it's own right...
Try it, the demo is free, and you can play any of the user-made levels with it - the only difference is that the demo has only one set of level graphics instead of 6 and IIRC less music...
np: Jamie Lidell - Compass (Compass)
Here is another one, let's name it: One line tells it all.
Which adventure is this line of a walkthrough refering to?
"Pick up a jawbone and tusk from the grave."
But it's the Dig you're talking about, right?
Okay, then here is mine, what's the name of the guy I was in love with in 2003?
Good luck
Is it Mr. Avistew?
A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as it could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
It's not my husband, and even if it was his name isn't Mr Avistew
Hmmm, let me think of my school time, maybe this is more after your taste:
ADVENTURES RETURNED HURRAY = BEWFOUVSFT EFOSVUFS GZTBQS
MBVHIJOH FMQSVQ DTKUDOOBG = ?
too tired
Mr.... Stewart?
I don't know, seems to me to be more a quiz than a puzzle. The way I see it, for a puzzle you're given all the tools. Just asking someone to guess which movie/game/country/language has this or that in it isn't really the same, because either they already know or they don't and won't figure it out.
Well, for a line from a walkthrough you can google it easily, but many would consider that cheating.
*A-hem* Yes... And that is... Bad? Yes, very bad. Bad cheaters!
No
@Avistew
It definately fits better into the quiz section but still i find there is a puzzle part as well, without the certain knowledge you'll also fail to solve a lot of riddles, so...
Oh and of course using google is meh. :O)
What can you see clearly anywhere, but only if someone else speaks it?
What has no way of speaking, writing or typing, yet communicates to millions of people every day?
Wie heißt ein am Metall hängendes Raubtier?
Too hard. Too tired.
What has many eyes yet cannot see, can form an ear yet cannot hear, and although it may summon a mouth, it cannot cry in fear?
(Hint: Try figuring out the letters)
A book? The book doesn't write, it is already written...
...
Lots of animals?
What?
Just remember I'm the one would made up that riddle (kid or not) and the answer should become fairly obvious.
C'mon, people! This is my best one!
When you said that "you" made it up i immediately thought it was going to be messed up, so:
A guy. Because, going down, you have:
- 2 nipples;
- 1 belly button
- and 3 er... legs.
How does a potato go 2, 1, 3?