Sacosphilz

@Trahern: The first two solutions you just posted are among the few that most people managed to solve last. Interesting. Good luck with the other 7, they should be easier.

@my maths puzzle: I don't know if anyone's still working on it , but here's a hint: All possible solutions to the solvable settings have a few things in common. If you can solve one or more of them, you can use a similar method to solve the rest. My friends at the other forum manage to solve it already. One of them summed up the nature of the solutions quite nicely. Exact quote: Hmm.... what? What do you mean, you can't read it?

@What am I? You got both right. That paragraph is unusual because

Let's just say there's a reason you're joining team A and I'm joining team B.

No, it's not what I have in mind, but it's very similar. Try something a bit more " ".

? I'm not sure which riddle you're referring to, but that answer doesn't fit any one of them. If you're referring to the first riddle that is not crossed out.... again, no, because Oh, and if you haven't figured out the crossed out "What am I?" riddle yet, shame on you. It's something very, very close to you at this very moment.

A crude way out: If he suspects the mysterious double to be a shade in disguise, then dragging it into water or rolling the boat over would confirm things. I don't think it is that easy, but again, why give the 'shades can't go into water' hint? A more subtle way out: If the whole encounter is metaphorical like MB suggested, and that other simplyzero is really his split personality, then I don't think killing himself or his double would do him any good, that is assuming that he does want to rest now. If the original simplyzero now indeed desires peace and the double represents the urge for more aggression, then resorting to force would never end well for him - either he kills himself and the savage identity survives, or he kills the other half and confirms his violent tendency in the process. (In most fictions, killing half of yourself is never a good idea. In most cases, you either: 1. Die along with it; 2. That half really dies and you lose a sane chunk of your mind; 3. That half doesn't really die and you somehow embrace its values by 'killing' it.) I'd go with Faraday's suggestion and look for a way to accept the other half and find a compromise. @Lulu: Is that supposed to be japanese in the thread topic? It really looks like japanese, but I can't make any sense out of it.

Now that the super regen period has lasted this long, I hope it will last exactly 24 hours for fairness. It's painful to see those 1,000 hours worth of VE wasted away while I'm working. EDIT: Oh, it changed back already. Nevermind then.

@Big Ben: Either phlegmtheorem's answer or (probably not ) Assuming you're already at the broken pattern gazebo and at the navigation screen, what is the minimum number of clicks required to solve the broken pattern gazebo puzzle? ... just kidding. DON'T answer it since it might be considered spoiler. I have a lot of MP3 players but only one song. What am I? ... sorry, that's just for laughs, please read along. A few slightly-modified-but-not-so-original riddles: I am a distraction and a bringer of doom. I might be behind you and lurking in your room. Ignore me and my deeds, and you risk painful death. Impede my and my works, and your blood will be spilled. What am I? This is an unusual paragraph. It is so unusual, but you might not find anything wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it, but it is still curiously unusual. Can you pinpoint what is so unusual about this paragraph?

Oh well, you know, not all weddings are .

The groom's father?

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I think it's time I put this clunky self-made riddle to rest: The answer (which I intended) is: Note that I play around with a few different definitions of the word. I'll try to be more thorough with the clues next time I compose another riddle. On the other hand, I don't plan to spoil my other two unsolved puzzles (the 10 sets of numbers, and the 40 coins & scale) because there is no ambiguity in them. Feel free to send me PMs about those puzzles if you need help or want to declare your progress but I'm not going to publish the solutions, at least not yet

Yes, it's more complicated and not the same. Further more, both methods require the use of fixed-interval pauses, but while phlegmtheorem's method requires either "0 or 1" pause between the answers, mine requires "0 to N" pauses between the calls which may not practically work. So unless someone can find another method without the need for waits, I'm convinced that phlegm's method is the best one, and my method is just a clever way to be stupid.

@Trahern: Yes, I thought of the same assumption we were making too, but decided to keep it because if that assumption didn't hold true, we'd just have , and there would be no point in solving it...... or is there? Example: @Metal Bunny: Just when I thought we have a few good, new riddles, two of them had been solved so quickly. By the way, just asking in advance, can I borrow some of your bunnies for some future riddles? Some riddles might be in need of some psychotic, almighty entities, and I think your bunny subjects could fit perfectly roleplay properly. @canivorous bunny riddle: Cheating method #1: But they're sooo eaten by the bunny. Cheating method #2: But they're sooooo eaten by the bunny. Real attempt: EDIT: That was a very good puzzle. It took me hours and I just couldn't sleep until I got it. It's 4 a.m. and I'm still typing.

Thank you. I get it all now after reading a bit through the links you've given. Basically, I didn't know the definition of "exterior angle", specifically the definition you were using. (That math article in the links also states that the "sum of exterior angles" could mean more than one thing.) I've never learned about that concept in school, and I didn't take my math classes in English either, so there's lots of room for misunderstanding. By the way, in my last post, I just mistakenly presumed that the definition for "exterior angle" is the absolute angular span between a pair of intersecting line segments outside the enclosed area of a polygon which those line segments belong to. Math is one of my few ways of relaxing. No harm intended.

You lost me at these two lines: Umm.... how? Am I misunderstanding something? Using a similar explanation, as I see it:

That puzzle is one of my favorite as well. How nostalgic. I agree that there's no point in spoiling the answer or the method. What's important is if you can solve it and how long it takes you. As for the method, I think you can also use paper and it won't be any harder.

As a new MP4 player, my best course of action now would be: - Ditch the hope for fight balance. - Farm as many losses as I can. If I'm willing to lose all my creatures' vitality and all my VE, then it is very easy to keep attacking with the same damageless ritual and gaining losses from whoever is available to attacks without disturbing them, as often as the game will allow me. - After I'm satisfied with my losses-wins difference, maybe a few hundred or a few thousands, start trying to win fights. If everyone does the same thing, then the following will happen: - Forget about fight balance. It won't be possible after MP3 anymore. Even if you try to raise your win counts, the 20% VE loss condition makes it so that your creatures won't last many battles until you run out of gas, but if you try to lose you can keep losing forever. - Loss farming will be different from before in that it will rarely give unwanted wins to other players, but it will still disturb the game's balance as a whole. - Players who manage to farm more losses will benefit more in the long run. They get attacked less and they can choose who to attack without having to worry about honor. Ironically, stronger players will have more losses since they've bean around longer than weaker players. I haven't resort to that method on a full scale yet because it doesn't feel right, but I'm ready to do it if it will prove a point, whatever that point is. EDIT: I'm not calling the new system good or bad, and I definitely can't compare it to the old system because I don't know enough of the old one, I'm just speculating what would happen.

, I understood it...just like the coin problem and the geometrical solution to the stars, although that one was easier My mind is kind of not geared for mathematics yet, I have that exam on next week wednesday and I was going to start studying on thursday. So I haven't done anything math-like in 5 weeks... Lol :lol: let me give it a try. Here's how it works: I hope that reads like a human language.

In-game player name: Sacosphilz Preferably group B, but either group is fine. Just a new and weak MP4.

@Metal Bunny: Looking at the rate we're solving them, I do hope someone will spam more riddles in here before we run out of challenges, unless those riddles are more train bogeys from hell. @Trahern: You solution for scale & 13 coins is correct, although it might be a bit hard to read for those who don't already know the answer. Judging by a certain part of your method (there is more than one solution), you might learn something more by solving the 12-coin version, and it might help you solve the 40-coin version, if you're up to the challenge. Your method for the coin dividing problem is also right, but please do me a favor and explain to MB why it works.

Thanks, MB. I agree with having some more structure in general, but I don't think there is a need to restrict the number of "active" riddles. The riddles/puzzles are of different natures and are not of equal difficulty to begin with. Limiting the number would just make us end up with a bunch of nigh-unsolvable puzzles that cannot please all of us. For instance, I know my math puzzle is hard as hell, I didn't expect anyone to be able to solve it in a short time, and it's not exactly friendly for everyone either, so I won't mind if the puzzle doesn't get a lot of attention. (Just a little sad inside ) I think it's healthier for this thread if we just post as many riddles as they come up, with some organization, that is. As for the structure, here are a few things that could be done. These are separate suggestions and not all are necessary. 1. Number the riddles. Just simple running numbers would do, but some related ones might be tied together by their numbers. (Such as #13.1, #13.2, #13.3 for the coins&scales puzzle) This is what my friends are doing in another forum, and it helps in referencing the riddles, whether you're attempting an answer, giving hints, discussing or whatnot. The posts would then look like this: With some good system for reference, you'd know where to look up the riddle itself. 2. Put a summary into the first post of this thread. It may include links to all posted riddles and our current progress. 3. Put a summary on each page or every few pages. A new page is coming in 4 posts after this one.

A thread similar to this one was started in another forum I frequent. I'll be translating and exchanging puzzles between these threads as long as both are active. This is one of them: 100 identical coins are randomly scattered on a table without overlapping one another. 40 coins are showing up heads and 60 coins are showing up tails. With your eyes closed, divide the coins into two groups so that both groups have the same number of coins that show up heads. Assuming that you cannot memorize the coin faces before closing your eyes, and that you cannot tell heads and tails apart just by touching and "feeling it", how do you do it?

@5-point star problem: (No picture either. Some imagination is required. )