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Clinging on tightly
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Riddles and Puzzles
- Thread starter classic33
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classic33
Leg End Member
Puzzling
Freaking puzzles, nowadays. Oh, they might look nice, but deep
down... they all have fundamentally the same things going on.
produce a cryptic clue at first, of an ungraceful ungulate
order words alphabetically.
keep putting in red herrings to pad out the puzzle even when there
are only about five things you've got to find
endlessly drone on with reams of boring text where it is impossible to
tell what's suppose to be the puzzle and what's supposed to be a
clue and what is in there because someone is utterly determned to
have a big rant about something they dislike and half the time they
haven't spellchecked the blasted thig so you don't know whether the
mistakes are deliberate or not, until they release errata one hour
into the competition by which point some smart alec has solved it
because it's able to be reverse engineered from the metapuzzle
randomly reorder instructions so the puzzle isn't trivial
have a set of words with 'precisely' the same length
initially spell out a clue.
generate a word by joining the dots, relying on a fiXed width font
hide words, using capital letters
convert letters to numbers,
and convert numbers to letters
require you to generate numbers from patterns in number sequences even
though the sample size is too small and it would be totally logical
to work out the next number but for some arbitrary reason you have to
calculate the difference.
demand that you solve all the first stage clues even when one of
them is much harder than the others and the answer is short cuttable
using other parts anyway.
Freaking puzzles, nowadays. Oh, they might look nice, but deep
down... they all have fundamentally the same things going on.
produce a cryptic clue at first, of an ungraceful ungulate
order words alphabetically.
keep putting in red herrings to pad out the puzzle even when there
are only about five things you've got to find
endlessly drone on with reams of boring text where it is impossible to
tell what's suppose to be the puzzle and what's supposed to be a
clue and what is in there because someone is utterly determned to
have a big rant about something they dislike and half the time they
haven't spellchecked the blasted thig so you don't know whether the
mistakes are deliberate or not, until they release errata one hour
into the competition by which point some smart alec has solved it
because it's able to be reverse engineered from the metapuzzle
randomly reorder instructions so the puzzle isn't trivial
have a set of words with 'precisely' the same length
initially spell out a clue.
generate a word by joining the dots, relying on a fiXed width font
hide words, using capital letters
convert letters to numbers,
and convert numbers to letters
require you to generate numbers from patterns in number sequences even
though the sample size is too small and it would be totally logical
to work out the next number but for some arbitrary reason you have to
calculate the difference.
demand that you solve all the first stage clues even when one of
them is much harder than the others and the answer is short cuttable
using other parts anyway.
OP
OP
classic33
Leg End Member
Unsolvable
This riddle cannot be solved, do not even try,
No matter how hard you look, all you will get is dry eye.
Taking the 1st, 2nd...nth letters of the lines will not suffice,
And, for once, there will be no mention of my favorite vice.
Do not attempt to seek hidden meaning in the words I say,
The words and meaning that you see are as plain as day.
Do not search for relations as there are none to be found,
And by the rules of no game, am I hereby bound.
Really, truly, no solution will there be by my end,
For I am one for whom tradition must and will bend.
(5.1,3.1,1.2,9.2,10.2,13.4,18.2,23.5,53.7,49.4,75.1,73.1,82.5,79.4,89.3,93.2,93.4,34.6,110.3,49.1)
Who am I?
Read that which the eyes cannot see.
This riddle cannot be solved, do not even try,
No matter how hard you look, all you will get is dry eye.
Taking the 1st, 2nd...nth letters of the lines will not suffice,
And, for once, there will be no mention of my favorite vice.
Do not attempt to seek hidden meaning in the words I say,
The words and meaning that you see are as plain as day.
Do not search for relations as there are none to be found,
And by the rules of no game, am I hereby bound.
Really, truly, no solution will there be by my end,
For I am one for whom tradition must and will bend.
(5.1,3.1,1.2,9.2,10.2,13.4,18.2,23.5,53.7,49.4,75.1,73.1,82.5,79.4,89.3,93.2,93.4,34.6,110.3,49.1)
Who am I?
Read that which the eyes cannot see.
shouldbeinbed
Rollin' along
- Location
- Manchester way
You are my shadow
shouldbeinbed
Rollin' along
- Location
- Manchester way
Echo?
mr_cellophane
Legendary Member
- Location
- Essex
mr_cellophane
Legendary Member
- Location
- Essex
A riddle
OP
OP
classic33
Leg End Member
Riddle, Yes.
Answer No.
- Location
- Manchester
will have to sleep on that!!
OP
OP
classic33
Leg End Member
Nearly everyone has, you're not alone.sorry I give up!!
There's part two to do yet
