Daily Puzzles (15/23 Solved+1Q) [+5M]
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"The interesting hyperbolic structures on a pair of pants are easily classified" -Wikipedia, Pair of pants
Slightly boosted rewards of older puzzles. Added 2 more.
Edit ; Uber boosted the rewards /Nayo you can choose between +2 SubQs & 475,000, +2 amulets & 475,000, 1 900k map piece + 425,000 or 1M + 2 CSC for your bonus. And the trade lot #.
Congrats! Send me a trade lot #.
That was my bad, I inserted another name into the puzzle accidentally, mixing it up with another puzzle. The corrected image should be up now.
Make a lot for your prize.
Since it was my own fault for not posting the puzzle correctly, I'll reward Math 25% of the pool since he took the risk of giving a partial solution, without having the full benefit of being online to look at the corrected problem to give the full solution.
Please make a trade lot you two.
1 Mage Amulet + 1 Subeautique Invitation + 1,000,000 SP to Treasure Map Piece 8 + 4,000,000 SP to
/Akito Congrats! You solved it, using the principle of symmetry, perhaps? :D (n+1) + (n-1) = 2n Make a trade lot.
/Akito I can't say, but theres more than one rule in Puzzle 9; these aren't hard rules by any means (hard as in extremely complex or super duper logical, not "exceptions" to this line of reasoning)
Solved. Make a trade lot.
I think I've finished puzzle 20. Pretty tired, so math may be off though...
yay! If I could get the subq reward I'd appreciate it! Thank you and I'll keep working on puzzles~
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Problem 18
So there's 6 people Emily, Bob, John, Tom, Emily, Jackson. Ignoring that, it seems impossible (and I verified afterwards that it is).
Mark the sentences A through E
Consider the cases for John He cannot get 1000, since then both parts of the first statement are true, since Emily would also not have 1000 then. So he gets either 0, 250 or 500. If he gets 0, the first parts of A and B imply that Bob gets 500, and Emily gets 1000. Then, by D, since Emily got prize money, Tom did too (the first part is true so the second must be false). Thus, Tom got 250. But by C, Sarah would also need to get some, so this can't happen.
If he gets 250, then Emily gets 1000 by A, and Bob doesn't get 500 by B. Then since Emily has some, Tom must also by D. So Tom got 500. But then Bob and Jackson would have to both not get any prize money, which can't be the case due to E.
So John got 500, but then Bob got 500 by B, which also can't happen.
So it seems to be impossible.
"The interesting hyperbolic structures on a pair of pants are easily classified" -Wikipedia, Pair of pants
I don't think I've seen Puzzle 19 solved yet? This was fun, thanks for posting it! :D
Puzzle 19
(i don't know how to link to images omg I'm sorry)
Seed Case - pod
Stoop - bend
A Preserve - jam
Bovine Mammal - ox
Fear & Trembling - fright
Invigorating Excitement - zest
Expeditiously - quickly
Undulating - wavy
Guess the item
I believe 
is [item2=dark matter sai].
I believe the 
is the
(lilac radio-controlled car)
everyday deeds of ordinary folk,
that keeps the darkness at bay.
Simple acts of kindness and love"
The Hobbit (film)
Gonna agree with here. I feel like there's something off with puzzle 18. Aside from what already showed, it's also confusing that there are allegedly only five participants but six names?
I don't understand Tom got some prize money, but Sarah did not. Emily got some prize money, but Tom did not. Is one of those meant to be John?
Yay, now it's solvable!
Emily won 1K, Bob won 500, and Tom won 250.
Explanation
I started with the two statements about Tom b/c they essentially dictate whether he won or did not win money. The possibilities for his statements are:
Tom won money and so did Bob | Emily won money and so did Tom OR Tom did not win money and neither did Bob | Emily did not win money and neither did Tom
In the second scenario, three people did not win anything which is not possible (with five people, you need 3 winners and 2 losers).
Working from there to the other statements, that means John and Jackson did not win any money. So the version of statement 1 that is true must be Emily won 1K and John did not win 500. Likewise, for statement 2, John did not win 250 so Bob must have won 500. Tom, who is leftover then, won 250.
Puzzle 6
HERE's the link to the spreadsheet I used to fill out the magic square.
I started off with the classic method for filling the square before beginning to swap. The darker highlighted squares are the ones that were set, with the yellow highlights being the ones that I could move- at least, I highlighted along the way until I saw the solution and stopped highlighting. I actually made a misstep on my first try- put the 55 where the 14 was because of a misread, and spent two hours miserably trying to figure it out before realizing I'd done it wrong x'D.
[edit] Yes!! Though honestly it was a lot of hit and miss, especially at the beginning- I've only done 4x4 and 3x3 magic squares before, and I had to go back on youtube and look up permutations of a square. It's been a long time since I've done any magic squares at all. This was... really fun. Honestly surprised at how much fun I had ahhhh. I might try my hand at some of the other puzzles and see if I can figure them out or wrack my brain hard enough I start remembering high school maths club x'D! I gotta say thank you for running this, this is the most?? amazin' puzzle contest I've seen on subeta.
[edit] on puzzle 9, is the order of the sequence part of the puzzle? Is it fine to ask if the sequence goes... sequentially (left to right and top to bottom), or is that part of the puzzle to be solved x'D ahah
3rd edit in the span of like minutes i tHINK I AM ONTO SOMETHING IM YELLin this is so exciting difmdskafjdaskljf
For the quick puzzle, I think these are the listed items in order left to right top to bottom: Yellow food pack Vanilla Latte Get Mugged Pint Antique Mild Chaise Lounge Wizard Miniature Omnipotent Pylonic Metal tongs Black Fuzzy Half-Cape Kiwi Summer Drink Blue Plasmite Rod
Lot Thank you
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