Vort Posted January 21 Report Posted January 21 https://downloads.newyorker.com/projects/2024/cartoons-and-puzzles-2024/brume-the-supper-soiree.pdf mordorbund, zil2 and SilentOne 2 1 Quote
zil2 Posted January 21 Report Posted January 21 Ooo, that looks like fun. Thanks! Am I right that the text under the grid is the answer? I avoided reading it and covered it with a box in Acrobat before printing. Quote
Vort Posted January 22 Author Report Posted January 22 4 hours ago, zil2 said: Ooo, that looks like fun. Thanks! Am I right that the text under the grid is the answer? I avoided reading it and covered it with a box in Acrobat before printing. No. The text under the grid gives a "hint" without which I think I would not have solved the puzzle. Quote
zil2 Posted January 22 Report Posted January 22 1 hour ago, Vort said: No. The text under the grid gives a "hint" without which I think I would not have solved the puzzle. OK, good to know. I didn't have time to start it today, but I'll try it tomorrow. Vort 1 Quote
zil2 Posted January 23 Report Posted January 23 I should not be allowed to start puzzles near the end of my day! I caved and looked at the clue, which promptly made me feel like an idiot. From there the puzzle solved itself like cascading dominoes. It was still good fun and most unique. Thanks, @Vort! Vort 1 Quote
Vort Posted January 23 Author Report Posted January 23 1 hour ago, zil2 said: I should not be allowed to start puzzles near the end of my day! I caved and looked at the clue, which promptly made me feel like an idiot. From there the puzzle solved itself like cascading dominoes. It was still good fun and most unique. Thanks, @Vort! I appear not to be as bright as you, because I read the hint before solving the puzzle, and without the hint I doubt I would have solved it. The hint seemed to be a necessary clue. Maybe not. Quote
zil2 Posted January 23 Report Posted January 23 8 hours ago, Vort said: I appear not to be as bright as you, because I read the hint before solving the puzzle, and without the hint I doubt I would have solved it. The hint seemed to be a necessary clue. Maybe not. SPOILER - anyone who wants to do the puzzle without additional help, STOP READING!! So, I had already figured out that the first three clues identified each of the two people on each of the three sides of the table. I had also figured out that Kara was in seat B. What I had not yet attempted was looking for which of the six people she did / did not match. The clue smacked me upside the head and said to check her against each of the six people, and it turned out there was only one possible match... As to bright - I do 2 or 3 logic puzzles every day. My brain is well trained to think in "logic puzzle". Most of the puzzles I do are far too easy, but I find they clear my head and after completing them, I can move on to some other task. This one was unusual, and I like that aspect of it. It also included something I'm not that good at - a geometric element. My imagination can make up scenes of fictional events (e.g. when reading or writing fiction), but I struggle with puzzles that require spacial relationships or turning a 2D drawing into a 3D shape. (My brother is exceptional at this, designing 3D objects in his head and porting them in a CAD program, but my brain just does not want to do this kind of thing.) Your posts make it clear that you are "bright" in ways that surpass me - e.g. physics - I'm clueless there and struggle with what little I'm exposed to. In other words - we all have our talents and one of my useless ones is completing logic grid puzzles. Quote
Vort Posted January 23 Author Report Posted January 23 Oh. Duh. "One side", "the second side", "the third side". Yeah, that would be everybody. Honestly, and I'm not kidding, I get stupider every day. I've been watching it happen for years now. Mildly distressing, but mostly irritating. zil2 1 Quote
zil2 Posted January 23 Report Posted January 23 42 minutes ago, Vort said: Oh. Duh. "One side", "the second side", "the third side". Yeah, that would be everybody. Honestly, and I'm not kidding, I get stupider every day. I've been watching it happen for years now. Mildly distressing, but mostly irritating. It's one of the reasons I resumed doing puzzles - I thought maybe they'd be good for my brain. (Though I confess, it's mostly so I have things to do with my pens. ) I got myself a puzzle board and several jigsaw puzzles on Black Friday (they had ridiculously good prices, otherwise it would not be worth it), because those are supposed to be good for the right brain, too... I used to see getting stupider as a good thing - the more you learn, the more aware you are of how much you don't know. But yeah, age seems to slow the brain a bit, too. Must work to exercise it. I'm tempted to bring the Nintendo Switch out of storage (apparently video games on these are also good for aging brains, keeping them more malleable), but I tend to get obsessive and play far too long - binge is an understatement. Quote
mordorbund Posted January 24 Report Posted January 24 I've traditionally used the grid to solve logic puzzles, but I find myself more and more using block notes like on the first page -- particularly for spatial ones (and especially modulo puzzles). Quote
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