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Jul 29, 2006 23:08

While I'm nowhere near cool enough to be an International Puzzle Party (IPP) invitee, I got a chance to meet up this evening with some WPC/USPC friends who are in Boston for the event. We had a fun evening, albeit with some very puzzling conversation topics, but I did get to try my wiles at some mechanical puzzles for a change. I also got a "gift ( Read more... )

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jdyer July 30 2006, 17:54:47 UTC

Re #3: you're meaning 2^2^2^2?

motris July 30 2006, 18:25:41 UTC

Wouldn't that be 65536?

No, it uses each of the digits 2, 3, and 8 exactly once. To put it in the right context, we were thinking of how concatenation and the decimal point could be useful in forming equations to make our target number. Here, thinking along those lines, converges on this very odd looking equation.

jdyer July 31 2006, 05:28:33 UTC

Er, yes, meant times.

I don't see the answer right away, so I must not be spending enough time of the day thinking about puzzles.

I had #5 happen once with a musical piece, but when I wrote it down it turned out to be junk. Sometimes things look better in the dream-version than in reality.

motris July 31 2006, 12:57:22 UTC

So the "easy way" is 2^3 + 8, but that's not cruel enough. We actually both got to seeing 32^.8 at about the same time which also happens to be 16.

xsg August 2 2006, 23:33:27 UTC

This is completely unrelated to your post. My apologies. I've just created a community called worldpuzzlers for the live journaling folk who love puzzle challenges to share and collaborate. I hope you'll be interested in joining.

I'm also interested in your thoughts regarding my first puzzle, posted in that journal. I'm hoping you'll find it challenging... I know I did, but I also know that your brain works on a different level than mine for these things...

xsg August 3 2006, 00:10:36 UTC

You know, I already see that you're a member of worldpuzzle. Having never participated in the World Puzzle Championships, I never joined the community. It may be that the goal of worldpuzzlers is sufficiently similar to worldpuzzle that having both communities would be redundant.

I'd love your thoughts on this.

motris August 3 2006, 02:05:01 UTC

I think the comments on worldpuzzle (sometimes pretty sparse, admittedly) focuses both on WPC/USPC events and related puzzle types, but also link to sites with handmade logic puzzles, unrelated puzzle hunts, etc. The kind of content you are providing feels like it would be welcome in that community and may make a separate worldpuzzles group a little redundant ( ... )

xsg August 3 2006, 03:42:02 UTC

I'm taking a stab at WorldPuzzle. Thanks for your insight.

I've created a sample puzzle which I hope addresses all of your points (which I agree with). Solutions... how best to communicate solutions... The information you've provided is correct. I would be comfortable in stating tha there is a high likelihood that your solutions are correct.