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Post by alfromni on Jun 2, 2019 16:31:47 GMT
divtal --- Try these...yet to be solved. I do have the answers. What am I? #1. Dare trespass my threshold? Don’t dream you shall flee; The strongest, the swiftest, cannot evade me. I’ll seize you and crush you and wrench you apart, Though no one may gaze on my singular heart. What am I? #2. Dipping, glinting, gliding by, Rainbow-fretted, wrought of breath. I live only while I fly – Earth’s rough kiss my sudden death.
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Post by divtal on Jun 2, 2019 20:05:44 GMT
I'm on the case/s, Chief!
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Post by divtal on Jun 2, 2019 23:16:10 GMT
#1 Avarice?
At first I thought Love. The "strongest, swiftest," cannot evade that. And, the greatest loves end in crushing loss, even if it's a death, after many years of togetherness. But, the "singular heart," lead me to avarice being the more reasonable answer. (I gave special consideration to Jealousy.)
Punctuation played a part in this guess. "Dare trespass my threshold? " To me that would suggest something that doesn't effect everyone. Love/Jealousy work their way into everyone's life ... at some point.
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Post by alfromni on Jun 2, 2019 23:32:49 GMT
divtal - Re #1 - Sorry buddy, you're not even close.
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Post by divtal on Jun 2, 2019 23:41:41 GMT
You're tough!
Carrying on....
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Post by alfromni on Jun 2, 2019 23:45:04 GMT
Want a clue?
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Post by divtal on Jun 3, 2019 1:20:26 GMT
Not yet. The Shopping Mall? Here, I only applied everyday logic.
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Post by alfromni on Jun 3, 2019 2:10:56 GMT
divtal - #1 The Shopping Mall? Nope! Try beyond Earthly matters.
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Post by alfromni on Jun 3, 2019 2:33:53 GMT
Btw - I must credit divtal with solving the Seoul riddle. Without her Kai discovery, I'd never have reached Hyundai. Well done!!
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Post by divtal on Jun 3, 2019 14:41:57 GMT
divtal - #1 The Shopping Mall? Nope! Try beyond Earthly matters. Actually, that was just a quick shot at humor. You must not spend much time in malls.
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Post by alfromni on Jun 3, 2019 16:21:27 GMT
divtal - What's a Shopping mall?
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Post by divtal on Jun 3, 2019 16:50:34 GMT
You have much to learn, my son. To the topic at hand, I would say A meteor
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Post by alfromni on Jun 3, 2019 17:28:09 GMT
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 4, 2020 15:59:40 GMT
From a lateral-puzzle message board:
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Post by Catman on Jun 4, 2020 16:01:19 GMT
From a lateral-puzzle message board: Get married?
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 4, 2020 16:06:23 GMT
From a lateral-puzzle message board: Get married?
No… Marco’s action, by the way, is truly remarkable.
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Post by alfromni on Jun 4, 2020 16:55:28 GMT
Re Marco & Ron: I doubt if this is right but... Ron risks his life many times, and is criticised for his stupidity. Marco risks his life once and is killed, but then is praised for his bravery.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 4, 2020 16:58:10 GMT
Re Marco & Ron: I doubt if this is right Catman but... Ron risks his life many times, and is criticised for his stupidity. Marco risks his life once and is killed, but then is praised for his bravery. Another good possibility, but not that either… Marco and Ron are doing Y at the same time. They could be doing it together but, in this particular case, are not.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 28, 2020 15:34:45 GMT
Hoping the gang here will enjoy this. SPOILERS for Isaac Asimov’s “The Obvious Factor,” one of his Black Widowers riddle-stories. It’s not an especially good story, but if you want to read it first it’s available for free here. It’s pretty short. In the series, the Black Widowers are a men’s only social club whose members are all super-rationalist puzzle-solvers. One’s a mathematician, another’s a literature professor, one’s a physicist, etc. In each story, a member brings a guest who tells of a bizarre incident or unsolved puzzle, and the Widowers try to solve it, but the person who always ends up deducing the correct answer (in Miss Marple-esque fashion) is their waiter, Henry. OK. In “The Obvious Factor,” the guest is parapsychologist Dr. Voss Eldridge, who professionally debunks apparent psychic phenomena but who’s stymied by his latest case. The case, he tells the Black Widowers, centers on “Mary,” a shop clerk who “never completed grade school” and “is not attractive.” Apparently, Mary has psychic abilities: she isn’t “in any way shrewd or keen-eyed” but “just knows a shoplifter when he or she enters the store, even if she has never seen the person before, and even if she doesn't actually see the person come in.” Eventually, Mary’s employer persuaded her to check into Dr. Eldridge’s clinic in New York—where, one day, she “began to squirm and pant and mumble under her breath” and then started screaming, “Oh, Lord! It's burning! Help! Eldridge! Eldridge!” Eventually, Eldridge and his coworkers jotted down the whole story she was gasping out, of “an old apartment house somewhere in San Francisco, possibly within eyeshot of the Bridge, that had gone up in fire.” In the story she spit out during her psychic episode, 23 people were in the building when it went on fire, and “five did not escape. The five deaths included that of a child.” Soon afterwards, Eldridge et al. hear a report of “ a fire in San Francicso and that five people had died, including a child”—also named Eldridge. So, Dr. Eldridge wants to know how Mary could “see a fire in full detail, get all the facts correct—and believe me, we checked it out—at three thousand miles.” Even more extraordinarily, “the fire broke out at just about the minute that Mary's fit died down”—even allowing for the time difference between NY and San Francisco (in response to one Black Widower theory about a confederate coaching her)—and was caused by a bolt of lightning (in response to another theory that a confederate might have set the fire). Quite a puzzle, to which Henry has the solution. The problem is, Henry’s/Asimov’s solution is one of the greatest disappointments ever: Dr. Eldridge was lying. Yup. The whole case was made up, and nothing in it actually happened. It’s supposed to be Asimov’s “take that!” to anyone who isn’t as skeptical of the paranormal as he was—but instead feels like Asimov couldn’t come up with a solution to his own puzzle. I have a feeling that John Dickson Carr, or someone like him, could have… So I thought I’d ask here. Is there a good solution to Asimov’s puzzle, if we stipulate Eldridge isn’t lying? Can there be?
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Post by Nalkarj on Aug 9, 2021 19:02:59 GMT
What’s the missing number in this sequence?
11, 12, 20, _, 80, 90
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