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A Sea O' Letters
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1 Printer type
5 Stepping sound on muddy ground
12 Lord's labourer
16 ___-I-Am from "Green Eggs and Ham"
19 Naked
20 Holy radiance in art
21 Plant used in skin care
22 Greek cross?
23 Italian currency before the Euro
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So how did the date go?
It's Monday morning. Fernando just sat down at his desk for another hard day at work - programming stuff and answering telephone calls - "have you tried turning it off and on again?"
As he is about to login onto his machine he notices a tiny bit of…
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Rendering the number 10,958 with the string 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Brazilian mathematician Inder Taneja has found a way of expressing every number between 1 and 11,111, except 10,958, by inserting mathematical operators in between the numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 and evaluating the expression. He did so using the four…
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A quick, easy mistyped question
Waht is the appareytln ewird solution to this mestyrious arndom question?
Note: Everything you need to solve the question is above, and when you get the solution it should be quite obvious that you're correct. There is nothing in this note that is…
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A blue, white and red maze
First, let's give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar: this maze comes from the mind of Dave Phillips, a brilliant maze designer 1.
So, for the maze. It is a fairly easy one:
Your goal is to exit by the blue tile on top left, after having…
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A Boyfriend's Mysterious Message
Imogen was dog-tired, but excited! After 3 gruelling weeks of 16-hour work days imposed by an iron-willed boss, she was finally finished all her projects. She'd been processing (figurative) wheelbarrow-loads of tax returns, and tax season had…
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Who committed the crime?
A crime has been carried out by one person, there are 5 suspects. Each suspect is asked under polygraph who they think committed the crime.
Their answers are as follows:
Terry : It wasn't Carl, It was Steve
Steve : It wasn't Matt, It wasn't…
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Debugging with printf()
Bob, a C programmer and a believer of printf-debugging, gets hired by a failing software company. The company is not doing well because they adopt an archaic source code management system which does not allow any modification to any lines of code…
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A Puzzle That Dims a Tornado
I visited a mysterious old man at the place where he lived and worked. He told me a story then he shook my hand. I felt very strange.
I went outside of his house to clear my head. I saw a creature eating grass. It tried to butt me but when we made…
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if you have one, you have none
If you have three, you have three. If you have two, you have two. If you have one, you have none. What is it?
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A powerful drink
I'm addicted to this stuff.
I had my first double when I was 16. There were five of us that night on the town. I didn't think much of it then, but two years later I had another double, and then another the following year.
That was when I first…
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Strategy to beat the Casino
Two players, $A$ and $B$, and the Casino play a game. It involves showing zeros or ones: each player picks $0/1$ and also the Casino picks $0/1$.
If the Casino and both players $A$ and $B$ show the same number ($000$ or $111$), then the two…
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Computations of an old woman
Recently I met a Polish woman who showed me something very interesting. Apparently her mother kept notebooks which she filled with strange calculations, never telling anyone what they were for. From the way she described them to me as notebooks…
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Ten girls around a table
Ten girls are sitting around a table.
Each of them picks a real number and whispers it to the two neighbors immediately to the left and to the right. (Hence: each girl communicates one number, and receives two numbers.)
Each girl then loudly…
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How many chess pieces does it take to "cover" all spaces on a chessboard?
Given an 8x8 chessboard, your goal is to "cover" each space on the board with the fewest possible number of pieces. A space is "covered" if there is a piece on it, or if a piece on the board can be moved to that space in one move.
A trivially easy…
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