Daily puzzles/problems.

[prendrelemick]

I thought that would take longer. Have we used that code before?

No, It's a beaut though.

[prendrelemick]

He goes to bed before the sun goes down.

That's correct too. Have you a puzzle to post Delta? If so, please go ahead.

[MarkBastable]

No, It's a beaut though.

Yeah, I was quite pleased with it, which is why I was a bit miffed you got it so quickly.I thought maybe it was less original than I imagined.

[Delta40]

How can you throw a ball as hard as you can and have it come back to you, even if it doesn't bounce off anything? There is nothing attached to it, and no one else catches or throws it back to you.

[MarkBastable]

How can you throw a ball as hard as you can and have it come back to you, even if it doesn't bounce off anything? There is nothing attached to it, and no one else catches or throws it back to you.

Do it in such a way that it's, practically, in orbit. So, for instance, from quite high up on Earth. Or on a small planet with enough gravitational pull to stop the ball flying off into space, but not quite enough to bring it to the ground.

[billl]

Or throw it straight up, but (and this is crucial) *not* hard enough to attain orbit.

[prendrelemick]

Or hurl it close enough to a small planet for a gravitational slingshot effect to bring it back.

or throw a beach all into a stiff easterly wind on Skegness Beach. ( it works I've done it too often.)

[billl]

Or toss it into the water upstream as hard as you wish, while standing, immersed, in one of those amusement park flume rides.

[prendrelemick]

Or in a Tom and Jerry moment, it enters a hole in a tree, dissappears for a bit, then comes out of a lower hole, (preceeded by an angry squirrel) rolls along a branch, into some roof guttering, along the roof guttering, down a down spout, across the lawn and comes to rest at your feet.

It could happen you know.

[MarkBastable]

I like the one with the squirrel.

[prendrelemick]

I think we may consider the ball question thoroughly answered.


53-32-81 74-53-43-71 81-42-32 31-63-41-74 63-33 _ _ _.

[prendrelemick]

clue.

A few days ago mark posted a puzzle where he'd substituted each letter with its co-ordinates on a qwerty keyboard.

This is an unashamed rip-off of that idea.

[billl]

I'm getting to it! Patience!

[prendrelemick]

Sorry billl, and don't call me Patience!

[billl]

Seriously, I am intrigued but haven't had much time, nor had I made any headway (beyond constructing some incorrect number ciphers)--I definitely needed that clue. Prendrelmick!