Roughly, the puzzle here arises as indexicals are thought to be directly referential, i. e., they do not refer by means of a Fregean Sinn.

The red herring only works because there is another puzzle that does use these letters ( even though that puzzle has no good answer ).

Common in logic puzzle magazines are derivatives of the logic grid puzzle called " table puzzles " that are deduced in the same manner as grid puzzles, but lack the grid either because a grid would be too large, or because some other visual aid is provided.

" He uses The Red House Mystery to illustrate the problems he saw in many mystery stories of this type, particularly the central puzzle ( which was intricate and clever but implausible in many ways ) and the fact that the amateur detective's chance to shine comes only because the police are incompetent and surprisingly willing to put up with a " brash amateur " romping through their territory.

" The game's graphics and sound contributed strongly to the positive reactions from critics ; Smith continues that " The visuals, sound, and original puzzle design come together to make something that is almost, if not quite, completely unlike anything else on the market, and feels wonderful because of it.

The green hue was a puzzle for astronomers in the early part of the 20th century because none of the known spectral lines at that time could explain it.

According to one hypothesis, Ugaritic texts might solve the biblical puzzle of the anachronism of Ezekiel mentioning Daniel at ; it is because in both Ugaritic and the Ancient Hebrew texts, it is correctly Danel.

This is because " 0 " is a digit, and in this puzzle only the digit " 4 " can be used.

On November 23, Roberts added that some " very accomplished, high-priced players and arrangers have volunteered to play on it for free, just because they think it is extremely unique " and the record is " falling into place like a finished crossword puzzle ".

The key to the puzzle is the fact that neither of the 13 × 5 " triangles " is truly a triangle, because what would be the hypotenuse is bent.

Action games may sometimes involve puzzle solving, but they are usually quite simple because the player is under immense time pressure.

This puzzle is not solvable because it would require a change of the invariant.

I was just a tiny kid .” His mother, a costume designer, once told him after The Deer Hunter that she knew he was famous because his name was in the New York Times crossword puzzle.

Poets test their skills at rhyme, meter and metaphor through the tanaga, not only because is it rhymed and measured, but also it exacts skillful use of words to create a puzzle that demands some kind of an answer.

These patients were a puzzle because although they still lived alone, successfully, in the city, they really should not have been able to do so.

Both parties now have a common key ; Alice, because she solved a puzzle, and Bob, because he set the puzzle.

Their existence is a puzzle because basic orbital dynamics imply that they should spread out into a uniform ring over a matter of years.

The isometric view was scrapped because it was thought to be too awkward to see where puzzle pieces near the back of the board were.

By this time the puzzle seems to have mutated to a form in which the missing word is an adjective that describes the state of the world.

The final verse may be intended as a math puzzle, or it may be a humorous indication that the woman is considerably older than the protestation of her youth in the refrain seems to indicate.

However, since swaps may be between visually indistinct edges, one may find that having solved almost the entire puzzle, one is left with a pair of swapped ( distinct ) edges that seems to defy all attempts to exchange them.

Uppdal seems to have decided to link the stories together in hindsight, as he outlined the plan in the last volume, Herdsla, and thus revised and republish the three volumes first published so they'd fit the puzzle.

In Book VII " The Dark Tower " it is also hinted that they have a culture of their own ( a name-change ritual is mentioned ) and that their religious beliefs ( if any ) are quite different ( praying seems to puzzle Finli O ' Tego ).

:" But it still seems like Roterberg is the creator of today ’ s standard version, because soon after the publication of “ Latter Day Tricks ”, he published a small manuscript ( together with the props ) titled: “ Excelsior Ball Trick ”, and here all the pieces in the puzzle is in place.

The " puzzle " approach was carried even further into ingenious and seemingly impossible plots by John Dickson Carr — also writing as Carter Dickson — who is regarded as the master of the " locked room mystery ", and Cecil Street, who also wrote as John Rhode, whose detective, Dr. Priestley, specialised in elaborate technical devices, while in the US the whodunnit was adopted and extended by Rex Stout and Ellery Queen, among others.

The answer to the strict puzzle posed above is no ; It is impossible to connect the three cottages with the three different utilities without at least one of the connections crossing another.

* Mechanical puzzles such as the Rubik's Cube, Soma cube, Tower of Hanoi, Burr puzzle and impossible bottles.

In 1990, Gordon Burns told contestants that over the years, some of the tests had taken 15 or 20 minutes to complete, but that in one programme in the 1980 series, when the competitors ' tables had been placed too close together for this round, two competitors accidentally picked up pieces from each other's table, making it impossible to complete the puzzle, and nearly an hour went by as they vainly attempted to finish, before the problem was realised.

Often in each level, apart from the introductory ones that introduce the game gradually to the player, each level either contains a puzzle, race or many hazards ( which tax the player's problem solving / logical skills, dexterity, patience and speed ; these factors determine the overall difficulty of the level ) which the player must solve, win or avoid or risk making the level impossible to solve ( in which the player must restart it ) or risk having the marble sink, fall down an abyss, destroyed or crushed.

An intriguing derivation of the impossible bottle mechanical puzzle takes advantage of the fact that pine cones open and close based on their level of dryness.

An impossible bottle is a type of mechanical puzzle.

The hidden word ( s ) may be presented backwards more frequently than in the traditional word search puzzle as it is impossible to arrange them diagonally or vertically.

Anyone who left at the wrong bell was clearly not a true Logician but an evil infiltrator and would be thrown out of the Convention post haste ; but the Master reassures the group by stating that the puzzle would not be impossible for anybody present.

This is because the Master stated that it would not be impossible for any Logician to solve the puzzle.

When his peculiar sense of is added to the mix, the incubus often comes across as a puzzle that is nearly impossible to figure out.

Strange things happen at the Damons ': a ghost like figure threatens ; Matthew Damon gets murdered under impossible circumstances and it take the brilliance of Jonathan Whicher to solve the tangled puzzle.

Only afterwards did an act like that become meaningless, so that he would puzzle over it for days, whereas at the time it had seemed quite real.

Although modern scholars have expressed surprise that `` the simple magic square of three '', a mere `` mathematical puzzle '', was able to exert a considerable influence on the minds and imaginations of the cultured Chinese for so many centuries, they could have found most of the answers right within the square itself.

* another name for Nintendo tumbler puzzle

, also known as Bust-a-Move, is a 1994 tile-matching arcade puzzle video game for one or two players created by Taito Corporation.

Many of the most popular books of the Golden Age were written by Agatha Christie, who produced a long series of books featuring her detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, amongst others, and usually including a complex puzzle for the reader to try to unravel.

Independently, these two trends show the form becoming highly artificial — more like a puzzle to solve than a medium for personal poetic expression.

This letter is a puzzle to readers for several reasons.

The eight queens puzzle is an example of the more general n-queens problem of placing n queens on an n × n chessboard, where solutions exist for all natural numbers n with the exception of 2 and 3.

Generating the permutations that are solutions of the eight rooks puzzle and then checking for diagonal attacks further reduces the possibilities to just 40, 320 ( that is, 8 !).

Advancements for this and other toy problems are the development and application of heuristics ( rules of thumb ) that yield solutions to the n queens puzzle at a small fraction of the computational requirements.

N is 8 for eight queens puzzle.

Moore is also remembered for drawing attention to the peculiar inconsistency involved in uttering a sentence such as " It is raining but I do not believe it is raining "-- a puzzle which is now commonly called " Moore's paradox.

The Gry Puzzle is a popular puzzle that asks for the third English word, other than " angry " and " hungry ," that ends with the letters "- gry.

By typing " HINT " twice the player would open up a screen of possible topics where they could then reveal one hint at a time for each puzzle, just like the books.

* Archer Maclean's Mercury, a puzzle game for the PlayStation Portable

Programmers may deliberately obfuscate code to conceal its purpose ( security through obscurity ) or its logic, in order to prevent tampering, deter reverse engineering, or as a puzzle or recreational challenge for someone reading the source code.

In the New York Times crossword puzzle for June 27, 2012, the clue for an 11-letter word at 37 across was " Complete set of 12 shapes formed by this puzzle's black squares.

Released in late 1983, the game was marketed via the announcement of a cash prize for the first person to solve the puzzle.

* Quagmire, a 1993 shareware puzzle platformer for Mac designed by Tony Small

Originally called the " Magic Cube ", the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Ideal Toy Corp. in 1980 via German businessman Tibor Laczi and Seven Towns founder Tom Kremer, and won the German Game of the Year special award for Best Puzzle that year.

Loyd claimed from 1891 until his death in 1911 that he invented the fifteen puzzle, for example writing in the Cyclopedia of Puzzles ( published 1914 ), p. 235:

Loyd first claimed in 1891 that he invented the puzzle, and he continued until his death a 20 year campaign to falsely take credit for the puzzle.