Riddles and Puzzles

[classic33]

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?

Spoiler

Paradox

 

[classic33]

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.

Spoiler

GNU

 

[classic33]

Still without an answer
Going For A Stroll.
On a warm spring day in 1944, a man strolled from his apartments on the 4th floor of the building he was living in and proceeded up the avenue toward the giant archways at the end. The building he left was near the opposite end of the avenue by the rail station. In the middle of his walk he stopped for a seat beneath a large chestnut tree that lined the wide through-fare (indeed he believed it to be the widest in the city) and pondered the following bit of interesting information. The building he was staying at was on a street with more then twenty addresses but certainly fewer then five hundred and all numbered one, two, three, four, etc from start to finish. The sum of all the addresses from one right up to, and including, his were exactly half of the sum of all the addresses from one up to, and including, the last.

What is the man's name?

Spoiler

General von Choltitz at L'Hotel Meurice? If it was fall, I would have said De Gaulle, but the spring before the liberation, the German high command supposedly occupied the buildings on the Place de la Concorde.

Two years and still not answered!

 

[classic33]

Loaded, Maybe!
Associated with smoking barrels, you can also have options with me. Made plural, I'm a type of framework you don't want to be in. What am I?

Spoiler

clues included: the movie title "Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels,"

 

[AndyRM]

Still without an answer
Going For A Stroll.
On a warm spring day in 1944, a man strolled from his apartments on the 4th floor of the building he was living in and proceeded up the avenue toward the giant archways at the end. The building he left was near the opposite end of the avenue by the rail station. In the middle of his walk he stopped for a seat beneath a large chestnut tree that lined the wide through-fare (indeed he believed it to be the widest in the city) and pondered the following bit of interesting information. The building he was staying at was on a street with more then twenty addresses but certainly fewer then five hundred and all numbered one, two, three, four, etc from start to finish. The sum of all the addresses from one right up to, and including, his were exactly half of the sum of all the addresses from one up to, and including, the last.

What is the man's name?

Spoiler

General von Choltitz at L'Hotel Meurice? If it was fall, I would have said De Gaulle, but the spring before the liberation, the German high command supposedly occupied the buildings on the Place de la Concorde.

Two years and still not answered!

I could be wrong, but I think I said I thought I knew the answer to this one but would wait and see if anyone else worked it out. If it's been two years I reckon it's fair to say that I reckon it's

Spoiler

Josef Kieffer

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[classic33]

I could be wrong, but I think I said I thought I knew the answer to this one but would wait and see if anyone else worked it out. If it's been two years I reckon it's fair to say that I reckon it's ..................................

All merged into one thread last year. Posted, as you can see in, June 2012.
Unless Google got it wrong

 

[AndyRM]

All merged into one thread last year. Posted, as you can see in, June 2012.
Unless Google got it wrong

I missed the merge. I'll stick a spoiler round my answer in case anyone else fancies a crack.

 

[classic33]

I missed the merge. I'll stick a spoiler round my answer in case anyone else fancies a crack.

Two & a half years is long enough

 

[AndyRM]

Two & a half years is long enough

Very true.

I'm enjoying #2016 by the way. About halfway there I reckon. Maybe. I keep going in new directions, but I may be overthinking it a bit.

 

[classic33]

A few easier ones thrown in.

 

[benb]

Maths puzzle

0 0 0 = 6
1 1 1 = 6
2 2 2 = 6
3 3 3 = 6
4 4 4 = 6
5 5 5 = 6
6 6 6 = 6
7 7 7 = 6
8 8 8 = 6
9 9 9 = 6

Your task is to make the sums work.
You can add any mathematical symbol to the left of the =, but can’t add any new numbers.
So you can use a + but not a cube root or a squared (as those would add additional numbers)
You can't change anything on the right of the =

EG 2+2+2 = 6. You can have that one for free.

 

[EltonFrog]

I smell the blood of an Englishman.

Write down "Fee Fi Fo Fum" underneath each other four times but mix the words up in any order for example "Fum Fee Fi Fo"

Then cross out the word "Fum" then read it out loud.

What have you got?

 

[AndyRM]

Maths puzzle

0 0 0 = 6
1 1 1 = 6
2 2 2 = 6
3 3 3 = 6
4 4 4 = 6
5 5 5 = 6
6 6 6 = 6
7 7 7 = 6
8 8 8 = 6
9 9 9 = 6

Your task is to make the sums work.
You can add any mathematical symbol to the left of the =, but can’t add any new numbers.
So you can use a + but not a cube root or a squared (as those would add additional numbers)
You can't change anything on the right of the =

EG 2+2+2 = 6. You can have that one for free.

I don't see how this is possible without using cube/square roots.

 

[Markymark]

I don't see how this is possible without using cube/square roots.

I ahve 2,3,5,6,7 & 9. Workign on the rest!

 

[Markymark]

I don't see how this is possible without using cube/square roots.

PS You can use sqrt (no number) but can't use cube roots or square as they involve a 3 and a 2.