For Mikalye's Second Tricksy Riddle - This is seven
Note: Each solution is separately hidden, so you can see only the ones you want while leaving the rest obscured.
Q1: 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49,64, 81 (Perfect Squares)
Q2: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta (Greek alphabet)
Q3: B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P (Consonants in the English language)
Q4: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio (Signs of the Western zodiac)
Q5: 145, 230, 315, 400, 445, 530, 615, 700 (Times in 45 minute intervals)
Q6: Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn (The planets in size order)
Q7: 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6, 5, 3 (The digits of pi after the decimal point)
Q8: Mexico City, Munich, Montreal, Moscow, Los Angeles, Seoul, Barcelona (Host Cities of the Summer Olympic Games)
Q9: R, O, Y, G, B, I, V (Colours of the Rainbow)
Q10: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina (US States in the order that they joined the union)
Q1: Das, Dan, Pra, Vix, Com, Cup, Don, Bli (From the poem "The Night Before Christmas" "Come Dasher, come Dancer, come Prancer and Vixen. On Comet, on Cupid, on Donder and Blitzen" (which are Santa's reindeer)
Q2: Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil (The coastline of South America)
Q3: 50, 33, 25, 20, 16, 14, 12, 11, 10 (First two digits after the decimal point when each number is written as a fraction (actually the multiplicative inverse), Hence 2 becomes ½ or .50, 3 becomes 1/3 or .33 and so on)
Q4: A, T, G, C, L, V, L, S (Signs of the Zodiac. This is the same question as Part 1, Q4, and I was wondering if anyone would notice)
Q5: H, H, L, B, B, C, N, O, F, N (First letters of the chemical elements)
Q6: 1, 15, 1510, 151050, 151050100, 151050100500, 1510501005001000 (numbers for which there are discrete Roman letter numerals, concatenated)
Q7: Z, O, T, T, F, F, S, S, E, N, T, E (Zero, One, Two, Three, etc.)
Q8: 52, 63, 94, 46, 18, 001 (The perfect squares with their digits reversed (see Part 1, Q1))
Q9: Y2, G3, B4, B5, P6, B7 (The colours and values of the balls in snooker)
Q10: Sudan, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe (The path south along 30degrees longitude)
Q1: 8, 12, 14, 18, 20, 24, 30, 32, 38, 42, 44 (integers that immediately follow prime numbers)
Q2: A, H, I, M, O, T, U, V, W (Letters with vertical symmetry when written in upper case)
Q3: F1, B16, JP2, JP1, P6, J23, P12, P11, B15, SP10, L13, P9, G16, P8 (The popes in reverse chronological order; with letters standing in for names, so JP2 is John Paul II)
Q4: 3, 3, 5, 4, 4, 3, 5, 5, 4, 3, 6, 6, 8, 8 (The number of letters in the English words for the counting numbers, starting with ONE (3), TWO (3), THREE (5), etc.)
Q5: W, A, J, M, M, A, J, J, V, H, T, P, T (First letters of the surnames of the American presidents)
Q6: A, E, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, U (The letters in the Hawaiian alphabet)
Q7: F, S, T, F, F, S, S, E (“First, Second, Third, Fourth,etc.”)
Q8: E, T, I, A, N, M, S, U ,R, W, D, K, G, O, H, V (letters sorted by their international Morse code representations)
Q9: 2, 10, 18, 36, 54, 86 (The atomic numbers of the noble gasses in chemistry)
Q10: 16, 8, 11, 14, 9, 12, 5, 20, 1, 18 (The numbers around a standard dartboard moving counterclockwise)
Q1: Cabbage (From Solving Part 1)
Q2: Violet (From Solving Part 2)
Q3: Wingnut (From Solving Part 3)
Q4: h, b, t, y, h, b, t, y, h, b, d (First letters of the words in "Happy Birthday to you")
Q5: Men, Millionaire, Locker, Speech, Artist, Argo, Slave (The last word in the title of consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners)
Q6: J, J, A, S, O, N, D (First letters of the months of the year)
Q7: 101, 112, 131, 415, 161, 718, 192, 021 (The commas break this up oddly, but its 10, 11, 12, 13, etc.)
Q8: Alanine, Cysteine, Aspartic Acic, Glutamic Acid, Phenylalanine, Glycine, Histidine, Isoleucine, Lysine (Yes, simple alphabetical order of the codons Ala/A, (There is no B), Cys/C, Asp/D, Glu/E, Phe/F, Gly/G, His/H, Ile/I, (There is no J), Lys/K)
Q9: Connery, Lazenby, Connery, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan, Craig (Actors who have portrayed James Bond)
Q10: Rooster, Dog, Pig, Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake (Animals of the Chinese Zodiac)
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This is my eighteenth (or possibly nineteenth) puzzle of 2016 after:
17th Seeing Things from Every Angler
16th Shaggy Dogs
15th Just Follow Directions
14th A Short Excerpt from a Longer Work
13th Listen Up
12th Analogy Chains
11th Phoney Numbers
10th Mommy, Where do I come from?
9th Let me make myself perfectly clear
8th Simple addition
7th A list of words
6th As Easy as ABC
5th Movie Stargazing
4th Queens Play
3rd Keep Your Distance
2nd Hunting Lie and Hoe
1st Mixed Bag - [Not linked and now closed as I will reuse part of this in a later puzzle]
0th History of Computer Role-Playing Games
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"Word from Completing Part 2"
Is this missing or have I overlooked something?
Also, for Part 4, Q8 "Alanine, Cysteine, Aspartic Acic, Gluramic Acid, Glycine"
Should it be [something else - removed to avoid confusion]?
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Just a question on the example of Part 1. You do realize different cultures form different letters differently, right? So for me, the order of the example: "M, N, B, D, P, T" doesn't quite work. I use the the lips to form B and P, so they would both be furthest out. And then we have missing letters, such as V and Z that are both quite far out, and could easily be place within the order mentioned.
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I'm confused on P2Q10. It's the only one I have left to solve. Duh!
I love these! Some of them had me chuckling :-) Thanks for this!
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Stuck on P3Q3 and P3Q8 on my first run..
Will come back later after clearing my head.. >.>
Anyway yet another interesting puzzle from you.. :D
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I solved everything except P3Q3, and I understand at least one other person is having trouble with that question, too. May we have a hint please?
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Bump for fully solved and thanks for another week of fun! I am now officially a master sequencer and will patitiently wait for my certificate to arrive in the mail. :)
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“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.”
― John W. Gardner, American Educator
Greetings all,
I was working really hard to try to get together a really ambitious puzzle together for this week. Riddles, logic puzzles, a very little bit of wordplay, and as intricate a nested group of puzzles as I have ever written. However, despite my best efforts, its not quite done. I figure that there is nothing for it, but to put it off for a week. But it would be wrong to go a week without a puzzle. So here is this week's World Series.
The prizes this week are:
Pandemonium (http://store.steampowered.com/app/243020/)
Terrorhedron (http://store.steampowered.com/app/299720/)
Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition (http://store.steampowered.com/app/242700/) and
Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse (http://store.steampowered.com/app/262940/)
This week's emergency fill-in puzzle is called World Series
First Part
Second Part
Third Part
Fourth and Final Part
Enjoy.
Mikalye
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