Daily puzzles/problems.

[MarkBastable]

Yep.

One Two Three Four Five Six.....

Your turn.

[misterreplicant]

Yep.

One Two Three Four Five Six.....

Your turn.

Thanks...

I never was, am always to be,
None ever saw me, nor ever will,
And yet I am the confidence of all
Who live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.
Who do you think I am?

[prendrelemick]

My thoughts so far.

The first two lines could be "The future" but I can't resolve it with "the confidence of all".

[misterreplicant]

"The future"

Close enough, but "tomorrow" would have been good too.

Your turn.

[prendrelemick]

How is everybody on cyphers? The key is 6


Kmyyski, bmmo dgmv.

[prendrelemick]

Here's a clue. or Gsys'd a kxns.

[billl]

Correct, good show.



(Using your hint, and guessing at the gaps. Couldn't get the 6 to help...)

[prendrelemick]

Well done Billl

The cypher was something made up in 5 mins (though probably not original)

Write out the alphabet in a grid pattern, starting a new line after every 6 letters.

abcdef
ghijkl
mnopqr
stuvwx
yx

Then rewrite the alphabet vertically over the original letters to get the subtitutes.
So, a=a b=g c=m. and so on.

[billl]

Ah, thanks!

Mark mentioned Sgt. Pepper's earlier. I have a trivia question about another of their albums (a two-record set):

How many grooves are on the original pressing of The Beatles' "White Album"?

[prendrelemick]

Without any research at all, say 20 tracks, averageing 4 minutes each, thats 80 minutes, plus start and finishing grooves and 30 seconds between tracks, say another 10 minutes, equals 90 minutes. The record turns at 33 1/3 revs per minute, so 90x33.33 would be my nongoogled guess . Now where's my calculator?

[MarkBastable]

I'd say four - one on each side.

However, I have a faint memory of a mischievous little trick the Beatles played at some point in their career, where they pressed a record with two grooves on one side of an album, sort of intermeshed, so that what you heard depended on where you happened to put down the needle.

Then again, that might have been The Residents.

[billl]

I hope it was the Residents, because the answer I was looking for was four.

[prendrelemick]

This one comes from a school fundraiser quiz night, many years ago.

The idea is to guess what the initials stand for, every example has a number in it.

So, 3 CITF, would be, Three coins in the fountain.

10 DS
221a BS
50 WTLYL
20000 LUTS
T 4 T
P 6-5000
15 MOF
F 451
TJ5
HMTHA 3 TS


That last one is from that Quiz night. (Someone on our team actually got it.)

[jajdude]

10 DS Downing Street
221a BS --Baker Street
50 WTLYL - Ways to Leave your lover
20000 LUTS leagues under the sea
T 4 T the four tops ?
P 6-5000
15 MOF --minutes of fame
F 451 Fahrenheit
TJ5 the jackson
HMTHA 3 TS

Will think. Did these things in class before. Students liked it.

[MarkBastable]

This one comes from a school fundraiser quiz night, many years ago.

The idea is to guess what the initials stand for, every example has a number in it.

So, 3 CITF, would be, Three coins in the fountain.

10 DS
221a BS
50 WTLYL
20000 LUTS
T 4 T
P 6-5000
15 MOF
F 451
TJ5
HMTHA 3 TS


That last one is from that Quiz night. (Someone on our team actually got it.)

Tea for Two
Pennsylvania 6-5000

All I can up with for the last one is

How many toes has a three-toed sloth?

which, if it isn't right, ought to be.