Thanks for the great giveaways and happy icecream day redsweater!
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Failed to go through puzzle, looks too hardcore to me, Maybe because I'm not a native speaker and it's a bit hard to choose right pairs, too many variants(and every variant seems legit).
Happy cake-day!
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I can understand that would be difficult. I'll need to post an alternate puzzle to get to the train. Almost certainly early (my time) tomorrow.
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I can't wait to see the solution, as even though I am a native English speaker, I can't seem to find pairings for ones that a fair number of them.
Thank you for the puzzle, even though it was too tough for my brain! LOL!
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I've added an alternate way to the train, with a little math instead of words. Maybe that's more approachable?
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Thank you for doing that, but I was too late to check it out. I just got back from the hospital. At least I was given some great news, and my thyroid issue is non-cancerous!:)
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Hmm what exactly is the answer format for alternate puzzle?
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Fair question. Six letters, and I'll go make that explicit in the question.
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same with me. Digits - ok(I calculated odds already) but with letters. Just don't know.
Ok, solved. Hint helped me, thanks a lot for train and other puzzle(waiting for solution for first though, just very curious).
Happy Cakeday again!
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Bump for solving the alternate one, and happy cakeday!
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Tomorrow is my first active cakeday. (But I anticipate a busy day tomorrow. So, I'm doing the post today.) Tomorrow, two years ago, I discovered the site and made an account, but after seeing a lot of rough with very few diamonds (and very low odds of winning), I left and forgot about it. Over a year later, I saw it mentioned again, and came to give away some old Steam inventory items and Humble Bundle keys I wasn't interested in. I learned to hide games I don't want, and to use the wishlist feature, and I actually saw games I wanted! So, I stuck around, but the exact cakeday isn't at all special to me.
Also, cake is great. No lies. But I enjoy ice cream more. So much so that I have "invested" in a nice (consumer) ice cream maker, and I make stuff at home for a hobby. I have the Ben and Jerry's and Ciao Bella recipe books. The Ben and Jerry's book has lots of traditional flavors, but I really like the less common flavors from Ciao Bella.
So, instead of cake pictures, please post pictures or recipes of ice cream, gelato, Italian ice/sorbetto, or granitas. Less common flavors are preferred, as long as you can recommend them or would try them yourself. Give me ideas for new flavors and flavor pairings. That's the good stuff.
I'll start off with an ice cream cake, and a couple of my favorite flavors.
Edit:
New puzzle added to get to the reward train. Numbers instead of words, so it should be easier for non-native English speakers. Same rewards, solving either puzzle is sufficient. You have until 1500 GMT (if I did the time conversion correctly) on the 7th, plus two more days for the DLCs in there.
Solutions
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Pairings: For me (in the US), all of the pairings appeared in Google's 10 suggestions when I typed in "item1 and" in the search field. Understandably, this could vary in other regions, and could be challenging for non-native speakers. Once you have the pairings (always one from the left column, and one from the right), place them on the scales. Measure the difference in weight with the tick marks, with the needle tipping away from the heavy side. There are 26 tick marks, so convert the indicated tick to the alphabet.
Odds: I think this is a simpler concept. What are the odds of picking balls of specified colors randomly from the fishbowls? The odds can all be expressed in a fraction of x/26, so convert x to a letter in the alphabet.
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