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Topic: Important Message: Incoming Disruption |
xyphic
Replies: 31
Views: 81865
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Forum: Site Discussion Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 12:27 pm Subject: Important Message: Incoming Disruption |
Hi all,
We've had a request to remove all the puzzles from one particular author. In order to do this, we're going to have to delete some contests and take others offline while we determine how bes ... |
Topic: Important Announcement |
xyphic
Replies: 4
Views: 16386
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Forum: New Puzzletome Contests Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 12:59 pm Subject: Important Announcement |
Exclusive interview with an elf!
By Chip Xy, Science Correspondent
The PT Times can exclusively reveal that "there is absolutely, positively, definitely nothing wrong with Christmas". ... |
Topic: Important Announcement |
xyphic
Replies: 4
Views: 16386
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Forum: New Puzzletome Contests Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:58 am Subject: Important Announcement |
Rumours are reaching us here at Puzzletome HQ that there may be a problem with Christmas! Details are sketchy but there are reports of elves being sighted in cities around the world. They appear to be ... |
Topic: Contact Link |
xyphic
Replies: 1
Views: 11110
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Forum: Site Discussion Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:32 pm Subject: Re: Contact Link |
any email you subsequently send to it will vanish in a puff of ether smoke.
By which he means it'll get dumped in the 'catch-all' email inbox that contains messages sent to Puzzletome email addresses ... |
Topic: Guess limit |
xyphic
Replies: 31
Views: 88111
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Forum: Site Discussion Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 4:19 pm Subject: Guess limit |
One of the applications of a guess limit that I find fairly nice (okay, amusing) is that the limit could be graded throughout the contest. For early, easy puzzles, there may not even be a limit. This ... |
Topic: Guess limit |
xyphic
Replies: 31
Views: 88111
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Forum: Site Discussion Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 10:13 pm Subject: Guess limit |
Maybe we should create a contest for the people who like to guess or brute force the answers.
We could have a set of 'puzzles', consisting of nothing but a blank screen with a submit box. A guesser ... |
Topic: Guess limit |
xyphic
Replies: 31
Views: 88111
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Forum: Site Discussion Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 9:20 pm Subject: Guess limit |
Hi all,
One of the features we found intriguing on ThePuzzleFiles was the guess limit. We've been umming and aahing about doing something similar for a while now, but can never gain a concensus!
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Topic: Today's site downtime |
xyphic
Replies: 0
Views: 10236
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Forum: Site Discussion Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 2:56 pm Subject: Today's site downtime |
Hi all,
Many apologies for the downtime that the site has suffered today. Our hosts have upgraded their servers to use PHP5 (rather than 4, which they were using). Unfortunately that led to a confl ... |
Topic: Forum maintenance, 23rd July 2007 |
xyphic
Replies: 1
Views: 13890
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Forum: Forum Discussion Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:04 pm Subject: Forum maintenance, 23rd July 2007 |
Well, that seemed to be fairly painless. As above, please post here if anything seems to not be working. |
Topic: Forum maintenance, 23rd July 2007 |
xyphic
Replies: 1
Views: 13890
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Forum: Forum Discussion Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:45 pm Subject: Forum maintenance, 23rd July 2007 |
Yes, it's that time again... need to perform a minor forum update. I will take the forum down for about 5 or 10 minutes at 10pm BST, so about 15 minutes from now.
As always, when the forum is back ... |
Topic: Site issues -- 7th June 2007 |
xyphic
Replies: 3
Views: 16455
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Forum: Site Discussion Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:09 pm Subject: Site issues -- 7th June 2007 |
Hi all,
Our hosts upgraded the server that our site is hosted on today. I've already heard of report of progress that has been lost. I'd appreciate it if anyone who has noticed anything strange wit ... |
Topic: 2007 |
xyphic
Replies: 2
Views: 14247
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Forum: General chat Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 3:28 am Subject: 2007 |
Haaaappy new yearsh everyonesh... *hic*
8) |
Topic: BrainBreakers II |
xyphic
Replies: 3
Views: 16490
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Forum: New Puzzletome Contests Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:00 pm Subject: BrainBreakers II |
Aaaaand it's go! go! go!
Prepare your brain to be broken |
Topic: The 4 4s Puzzle |
xyphic
Replies: 56
Views: 160459
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Forum: General chat Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:11 pm Subject: The 4 4s Puzzle |
42 = (4! * sqrt(4)) - 4 - sqrt(4)
43 = (4! * sqrt(4)) - (sqrt(4) / .4)
44 = ((4 * 4) / .4) + 4
45 = ((4 * 4) + sqrt(4)) / .4
46 = (4! * sqrt(4)) - (4 / sqrt(4)) |
Topic: The 4 4s Puzzle |
xyphic
Replies: 56
Views: 160459
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Forum: General chat Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:32 pm Subject: The 4 4s Puzzle |
30 = 4! + 4 + 4 - sqrt(4)
31 = ((4! / .4) + sqrt(4)) / sqrt(4)
32 = 4! + sqrt(4) + sqrt(4) + 4
33 = 4! + 4 + (sqrt(4) / .4)
34 = 4! + (4! / sqrt(4)) - sqrt(4)
35 = ((4 * 4) - sqrt(4)) / .4
36 = ... |
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