Daily puzzles/problems.

[prendrelemick]

Let's see: A smurf falls and hurts himself, but bandages the wound badly, and it becomes infected. Fearful of doctors, he paints the injury blue to hide it, but gangrene sets in, necessitating amputation.

word perfect if you ask me.

I was thinking of using an AA map to plan a journey, from Moterway to A road to B road back to Moterway on to a Major Route then on to an A road again.

[MarkBastable]

Until October 1998 it was green-red-yellow-blue-green-red.

From November 1998 to July 1999, it was blue-red-yellow-blue-green-red-blue, but it must have been decided that the final blue added nothing - not even a sense of urgency or surprise.

This, incidentally, is not the first clue I've given.

[prendrelemick]

Thought of-
Colours of UK tax discs?
Colours of those fasteners on loaves of bread that tell you when they were baked?

But realising what the clue was - The Google colours?

[MarkBastable]

[prendrelemick]

Now I thought this was really good, but it turns out everyone I tell it to has heard it before. Nevertheless, here goes, a bit of lateral thinking needed.


A man is driving through a winter storm in his nice warm car. Up ahead at a bus stop, he sees his best friend, the girl of his dreams, and an old lady suffering from hyperthermia. He can't give them all a lift because his car is only a two seater. What does he do? What would you do? Give explanations.

[Jack of Hearts]

Have his mate drive the old lady to the hospital while he gets out and uses the old 'body heat' bit on the girl of his dreams? Classic!







J

[jajdude]

Have heard that one before. Guess the storm can't be too bad if people are out in it, and that a bus will be along soon. A good day for the driver, he gets to help the old lady, with help from his friend, and meet the girl of his dreams. If the storm is bad now though and no bus shows up, guess he can wait for his friend to return...

[Jack of Hearts]

Wait, is that the real answer? This reader was just making up something goofy. These open ended riddles are like the SAT essay prompts.







J

[billl]

It's too late now, but I would've probably just driven the old woman to the hospital, in reality. In Riddle World, I probably would've popped the hood and stood around the engine block with my friend, leaving the women inside until the bus came, knowing full well that our freezing feet would be marring the solution.

However, if it really were a good friend (and if I knew he would be a good driver in that sort of weather, using my car), and if "girl of my dreams" meant I really had to impress her but would most likely be rewarded for it (as opposed to her being some married Hollywood celebrity, etc.), I think there's a chance I would've come up with Jack's plan as well, if the situation were there before me, fully real. Too late though, sort of cheap to say that, I know.

[prendrelemick]

Yes, the aptly named Jack of Hearts leapt straight to the best solution. He gets the girl and the next question

[Jack of Hearts]

Didn't mean to win and don't have anything. Consider it open floor unless you want another fruity, awkwardly designed puzzle, which will come only in the presence of deafening silence.







J

[jajdude]

A man commits a crime and is sent before the king. The king says, "Make a statement. If it is true I will feed you to the lions. If it is false you will be trampled by wild buffalo." How does he save his life?

[MarkBastable]

This is going to be a self-referential one, isn't it?

"I will be trampled by wild buffalo."

[jajdude]

Fire away...

[MarkBastable]

Dead easy, this one, but fun...

There’s no such thing as a universally successful novel. Any work of fiction, however highly regarded, however solemnly revered, will evoke a negative response in some quarters. We all have a right to our opinions, of course, and Amazon gives a platform to the legions of the appalled, the disappointed and the indignant.

So – the idea here is to identify the well-known bestseller under review. The text of the critiques, though trimmed a little, is presented largely unedited and unprocessed, in order to preserve the full spluttering outrage of the contributors.

(The fourth one is just about my favourite critique of any book, ever.)


Qu’est-ce que c’est? Fa-fa-fa-fa….

I cannot believe how bad this book is, and I am only on page 94! It is a pointless, rambling piece of garbage. The movie moved along at a good pace and…was funny, depraved, interesting and horrorfic. The book just rambles along. If you want something that gives ou information on name-brand clothes, restaurants, perfumes, colognes and hair gels and interesting places to visit, this is the book for you. Go see the movie.

Oh my America, my….

After listening through half of the first audiocassette of this atrocious assemblage of adjectives, I hastened to the Amazon.com site to read what others had to say. I was so glad to see that there are others who agree with me that this book is so poorly written as to be unintelligible. After having to rewind the tape and listen over and over to seven or eight passages in the first twenty minutes, I just gave up. I still have no idea what she was trying to say. Believe me, Goethe she's not. And by the way, I get it. He has a weird chin. Get over it.


Not all moloko and cookies

The biggest problem that I felt it had was that if the same content would have been written by another author, it would have been called pornogrophy but because it was by <this author> it is called classic literature. Beating helpless people, raping women, and drinking some kind of spiked milk should not be something that is glamorized, but it should be something hidden with the rest of the works such as this trash.

The Classic American Breakfast

The "hero" of this tale spends the entirety of the book trying to force <something> upon a nameless skeptic. The "villain" turns down the offer several times, but the hero refuses to respect the man's right to say no, and badgers him incessantly until he caves under the pressure.

What disgusts me most about the end of the story is that once the man gives in, he is simply another addition to a pool of addicts. The author's tragic allegory for the rising drug use among young people that plagued his time period is brilliant, but certainly not appropriate for young children. <The main character> is too easily twisted to become a hero, opening the antagonist's mind to new things, rather than a metaphor for Satan as I believe was originally intended.

Gin a body meet a body

I never heard of this book before our daughter said she had to read it for high school English. As soon as the teacher started reading it in class our daughter said it was dumb, she wanted out of English class ,I want to quit school, and why do I have to listen to my teacher read all this foul language including the F word repeatedly. We said you don't and pulled her from the class. Christian or not if you have any moral compass at all <this> is a book to avoid. It talks about and seems to condone all sorts of sin,including prostitution. drunkeness, lying,blasphemy, and fornication. The Bible says whatsoever things are honest, true, just , pure, lovely, and of good report, if there be any virtue, think on these things . You can't think on these things reading "goddamn "245 times in a 200+ page book. Beware Parents. This book is filth ,pure and simple

...and where it’s going, no one knows.

I have to say, with all due respects to the author, this is the WORST book I have ever read in my life. It is disjointed and hops all over the place. There's no continuity at all. The prose is terrible. The back cover says it is funny without laughing, splendid art, a book without tears. Wrong! I am actually crying: that I paid so much money for this. I gritted my teeth to finish reading this book.

I guess I am not cerebral enough (or maybe too cerebral) because I--do--not--get--this--novel. I am always admirous of writers and wish to praise them for their efforts when I like the book, but I couldn't here. I gave it what I think it deserved. (And why does he keep saying 'so it goes' all the time. Geez, that phrase is just annoying me now. That phrase would be okay if it was used once or sparsely. But over and over again!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Save your money and buy something else!

Squeak, piggy, squeak

My daughter brought this home because her teacher forced this book on the class. I read it figuring it must be good. What a wrong impression!

Some English boys get trapped on an island where they become increasingly uncivilized and mentally sick. Some of the boys are murdered in group rituals and eaten. The unnessary violence in this book is a disgrace. Many people live without modern conveniences and do not exhibit this behavior. This book is not about the dark side of human nature - it is about one English teacher's sick mind.

The writing is overdone. The author must've made it his goal to use as many words as he could as symbolically as possible to portray his sick and violent fantasies. This is the worst writing I've ever laid my eyes on.


The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism

I truly believe that <the author’s> sole purpose for writing this novel was to encourage anarchy, and to convince his readers to be subordinate to authority. Though society and government are not perfect, they are not as evil and as oppressive as <he> made them out to be. He creates a negative Utopia in hopes to make people hate their leaders and to disagree with any form of government. It is because of people like <him> that our nation, as well as other nations, are so dramatically torn by the opinions of citizens towards their leaders, and their leader's decisions. Also, at the end of this novel, <the author> leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness, by allowing his main character to be manipulated, tortured, and brainwashed into following what <he> inderectly refers to as government. Let's try to be a little more optomistic, and work on a happier ending, shall we?

‘Clueless’ is about right

Best I can figure this…woman stoll the plot of Clueless and rote a book. Too many coincidences to make me believe anything else. Why Alecia Sivlerstone doesn't sue <the author> is beyond me!

Like The Omen with sprinkles

This book paints a very negative picture of children. With the exception of the main character, all of the children are bad and are punished in cruel ways for their faults. Are most children fundementally bad and deserving terrible punishment, at the moment they least expect it? This book suggests it (especially to a child who might be reading it and cannot understand what "social commentary" is yet). This book fits right in with the Omen and Rosemary's Baby. It is a child-exploitation story. I recommend this book to adults who do not like children.

Scooby Doo it’s not

I cannot expreess how Malignant this book is. The amount of dogs that die in this book is two numerous to place in this review.Spme dogs are ripped apart and eaten by other dogs.Another dogs has both his legs broken and the dogs eat him as well. One dog is worked too hard and when he is too tired to go on his owner cuts of his head with a knife.....Must I go on further?Many other dogs die in this book. This is just the tip of the iceberg.My family is vegiterian we dont eat meat because we think it is wrong to kill animals, so in a "GREAT" book that all eighth graders have to read we should find this much gore? This book is more graphic than horror movies or very graphic video games. Many people die in this book.This book was composed on values of murder and animal creulty.It should have never been published.Some of this book seems as if it was written by a seven year old or a small child who is obseesed with gore and nothing else.



Compulsive carnivorous activity

I read this book and i became sick. This is for children????... What could a child possibly learn from a book like this? With the last sentence being, "shes dead of course"!... This should be taken off the market and the auther penalized. He should get another career. This, clearly, is not his calling.