lynx's puzzles

[lynx_lupo]

In this puzzle you\'ll have to find as many nouns(English and singular) in a word as possible. You can use each letter only once. And to make it harder, only 4 or more letter words count.

EXAMPLE:
Exam, maple, palm,

The word to break down is PLANESHIFT. doh

If you find 10, it means you\'re not braindead.
If you find 20, not bad.
If you find 30, you\'re good.
If you find 40, you\'re impressive.
If you find 50 or more, you\'re as good as me(or really bored)!

[lynx_lupo]

Here\'s a simple type of a \"Scrambled thought\". You have to combine the letters at the bottom of each collumn to form words in upper spaces. Which in turn, left to right, up to down form the thought.

Every char is usable exactly once.



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A simple riddle(not fact!):
\"The Planeshift drow will be called Dormorians. Why?\" (Dermorians connection isn\'t the right answer)

[Zephyrus]

Originally posted by lynx_lupo
In this puzzle you\'ll have to find as many nouns(English and singular)

Just nouns is so hard... I cant have things like spin or faint  or help or pent....  

Edit: or spent, or even Half... Psch... or Penal... bloody penal colony adjective la de da. But i can have fast, as in the vow of not eating food . Oh wait, half is a noun

[lynx_lupo]

Uhm, spin is a noun. ^-

[Icefalcon]

Hmm, I guess it is a noun, its not an object...you usually think of spin as a verb...

[lynx_lupo]

NPC lines

Some npc couples(each color dot) have lost their pair in a big city. They must reunite - to make it easier, only one of tha pair will move and find the other. To make it harder, no path must be taken more than once and no intersections are allowed(they\'re homofobic).

[basicly you have to connect the same dots and make no intersections or use a street twice]

Here\'s the tloris of the city(grey=house matter, blue=moat):


oh: please don\'t post pics of the solved thing=spoilers

[Skizzik]

WAY too easy.  X(
Solved in less than 5 minutes, probably less than it took you to make this \'puzzle\'. I liked your old ones better.

[lynx_lupo]

hehehe hehe, ph.

Well, i don\'t want to do the same type of puzzles for now. The next one will be a gobelin (not goblin!), which can be very hard to solve.

[Skizzik]

I don\'t even know what a gobelin is. ^_^

[lynx_lupo]

it\'s a technique to do fabric like art(\"paintings\") with wool usually(gobelin being the slovene name). The puzzle type has little in common with that.

looks like pixel art
http://www.arahne.si/tutorial10.html

[Skizzik]

I guess I\'ll just wait till you post your next puzzle (the gobelin).

[Adeli]

these puzzles are really good, I\'m not certain what you mean by a gobelin puzzle.. I looked at the site and got confused, so I\'ll wait and see.

(Does anyone else keep thinking GOBLIN instead of GOBELIN?)

Keep up the good work Lupo

[lynx_lupo]

Thank you Adeli.
The link shows a woven thing, pixel art lookalike. That\'s it. I\'ll try to do it now...

Oh, please call me lynx - lupo was just for uniqness reasons, since lynx was taken...


just noticed - the npc line pic is an optical illusion!!! 8o The roads are all white!

[lynx_lupo]

Ok, here it is(forgot about it). And hard as promised . The following image is the thing. The numbers tell you(i know, had to squish some in) how many groups of black squares there are on the image(empty table). So 3-5-1-1 means there are groups of 3, 5, 1 and 1 of black spots IN THAT ORDER. Between every group there is at least one blank spot, but you don\'t know how much of them and where it all starts.

Example(on a 16px):
- we have the order, 3 5 1 1
- we have the whole width, 16
- and we know there is at least one blank spot inbetween each group
- and by simple math, that there are 6 blanks
so all these combinations could be the solution:
-***-*****-*-*--
***--*****-*--*-
-***---*****-*-*
***-*****-*-*---
etc etc

You figure out where to put a black spot by checking the intersection of all the combinations . The place to start is where there are big numbers, especially if they go over 1/2 of the field(a sum that does that is often enough). So you color a few and repeat until you have a pixelmap - gobelin. There is a text hint and another one: there is only one image, eg all polys are connected(even closed iirc). Oh and drawing the blanks is essential too.

[SaintNuclear]

Some of them are hard to understand, but possible. There\'s just this one that I just can\'t understand because the distance between the chars is exactly the same and they\'re aligned perfectly together:

In square 3, 3rd line: Is it 1, 1, 11, 11, 1 or 1, 1, 11, 1, 11?