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groza528
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 Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 3:06 pm Post subject: 1 |
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No, not that one.
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referee
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| Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 4:49 pm Post subject: 2 |
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Jack_Ian
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 5:12 pm Post subject: 3 |
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I thought that "snakes on a plane" might refer to shapes on a 2-D plane, so I replaced the numbers with something with a higher contrast. I couldn't see any discernible patterns or shapes though.
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.. .. oo OO OO OO OO OO HH HH ii HH HH
.. .. oo oo OO HH HH HH HH HH ii ii -- HH ||
.. oo oo OO OO ii ii ii ii ii ii [] -- HH ||
.. oo OO OO ii ii xx xx xx xx xx [] -- HH ||
.. oo OO xx ii xx xx [] [] [] [] [] -- HH ||
.. oo OO xx ii xx [] [] -- -- -- -- -- HH ||
.. oo OO xx ii xx [] -- -- <> <> ss ## HH ||
.. oo OO xx xx xx [] -- <> <> ss ss ## ## ||
.. oo OO zz zz [] [] -- <> ee ss || || || ||
.. oo OO OO zz -- -- -- <> ee ss || •• •• ••
.. oo oo OO zz -- <> <> <> ee ee || || || ••
.. .. oo oo zz -- -- -- -- -- ee zz zz •• ••
.. .. oo zz zz zz zz zz zz zz zz •• ••
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I thought then that the "snakes" might be replaced by words, but I'm not having much luck with this yet. |
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AcidFast
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 6:06 pm Post subject: 4 |
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Yeah, me neither - and I tried different colors and then just black lines outlining the 'snakes' along the squares. Nothing.
Then I tried counting the squares in each chain, and the turns, also. Didn't see any patterns - the numbers don't go past 23, so I tried an alphabet substitution on the length (in squares counted) and turn count - but nothing that makes sense.
I think that Jack may be right - maybe we need to somehow put letters into the squares.... |
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ralphmerridew
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 6:30 pm Post subject: 5 |
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| If I counted the letters in the note correctly, there are 122 of them. If I miscounted, then there are 121, which would make a nice 11x11 square. |
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Sentran*
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 10:25 pm Post subject: 6 |
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Well, I seemed to do well with the last one, so I thought I'd take a crack at this one too.
I have a few ideas which could be on the right track, or out in left field.
I'm not sure which, yet.
I remember a game called snakes (it has many other names), where you had to eat the numbers in successive order while not biting your own tail. Even though this is not on a square grid, I think the mechanics would be the same. The snakes can only make 90 degree turns.
Furthermore, if you consider 2 snakes (since there are numbers 1-15 repeated) eating simultaneously while not biting each other, you would get a pattern. I haven't worked the pattern out yet.
I'm guessing that whatever squares are left "uneaten" after the snakes are finished will provide a clue as to the answer to the riddle.
Thoughts?
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LordKinbote
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 11:42 pm Post subject: 7 |
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I got the answer:
After solving the Numberlink puzzle, you count the length of each snake and then change into a letter alphanumerically. Reading the letters in order from 1-15 gives the answer NEUROTOXIC VENOM. |
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Sentran*
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 11:46 pm Post subject: 8 |
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Yeah, I was way off...
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Well, I seemed to do well with the last one, so I thought I'd take a crack at this one too.
I have a few ideas which could be on the right track, or out in left field.
I'm not sure which, yet. |
I've already identified a fault to my earlier reasoning. Back to the drawing board. 
Sentran, puzzle enthusiast |
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AcidFast
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 5:22 am Post subject: 9 |
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| AH! I was counting wrong - I was counting the number of squares to move from one to the other, not including both numbers in each pair.... |
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david*
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| Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 10:58 pm Post subject: 10 |
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| it contains two of the same number connect each of the same number without crossing lines...will this work? like long snakes! |
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PuzzleScot
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RADWULF (Carl)*
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 9:23 pm Post subject: 12 |
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I thought I would unleash my "NEUROTOXIC VENOM" on all you puzzle enthusiasts who haven't solved this. It took me less than an hour to solve it. It took me longer than that to create the grid and color it.
Jack was right to connect the numbers in the grid to find the snakes. Associating the lengths with letters gives the solution!
AcidFast's idea about coloring the snakes presents a new challenge. It was routine to color them with only four colors, but can one use only three, without touching a snake of the same color?
SNAKES ON A PLANE SOLUTION
SNAKE # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
LENGTH 14 5 21 18 15 20 15 24 9 3 22 5 15 15 13
LETTER N E U R O T O X I C V E N O M |
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Guest*
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:21 pm Post subject: 13 |
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| SPOILER! Drag over for the answer.NEUROTOXIC VENOM |
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Guest*
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| Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 1:41 pm Post subject: 14 |
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| Are we ever gonna have a new puzzle? |
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Sentran
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| Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:17 pm Post subject: 15 |
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Eventually, or at least I hope so.
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referee
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| Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 4:15 pm Post subject: 16 |
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Sometimes they come slow, but there's always a new one at some point
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Jan 21st, 2008: The pillaging continues.
Mar 4th, 2008: Rest in Peace, Gary Gygax. May your dice always roll a natural 20 wherever you are.
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Sentran
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| Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 6:18 pm Post subject: 17 |
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| referee wrote: |
| Sometimes they come slow, but there's always a new one at some point |
We're currently at the second longest break (244 days) between new puzzles since the first was posted in 1996. The longest was 500 days, between the April 2008 and August 2009 puzzles.
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MNOWAX
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| Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 6:36 pm Post subject: 18 |
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IIRC Groza was the last known minotaur (or M-I-T?)
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MatthewV
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| Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 8:51 pm Post subject: 19 |
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| If someone is interested in providing puzzle for the main page, please let me know. |
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groza528
No Place Like Home
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| Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 9:50 pm Post subject: 20 |
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| Sorry, I'm still around. I think we have some puzzles ready to go; I'll get one up. |
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groza528
No Place Like Home
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| Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 10:30 pm Post subject: 21 |
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D'oh-- looks like there will be a slightly longer delay as I must not be remembering my password correctly to edit the front page. I will ask MattV to
In other news, just because we do have a few puzzles in the eaves, that does not mean we couldn't use more! Definitely consider submitting puzzles for the front page! |
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