Partly inspired by Lucas, I decided to finally conquer my arachnophobia this year. I never was too fond of any of my phobias but my arachnophobia is something I worked on before - it had gotten somewhat better in that I stopped my daily spider hunt, but it had gotten worse when a daddy-longlegs spid...

I'll PM that since you're not supposed to publically share answers

I have finally solved that question - and it's utterly brilliant. Wow. I'm in a mix of awe and in a hallelujah mood.

Happy new year everybody!

It's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane!

Yeah I have that issue every time I play it - sometimes there are 3 or 4 possible moves for something and it can take more than a few moves before you noticed. In move 7 I move the bishop to F5, that's the piece that goes to g6 later. Because it's a poor game and because it can't be found online it'...

How about question 21 then? IIRC you play chess... Question 21a is "fill in the letters B, N, R, Q, K at the question marks". The last move is Qd4++ Question 21b is "who plays black in this party?" At the start I decided to skip question a, since this was such an unusual game I thought I'd be able t...

There are 4 mini puzzles in question 19: Top left: sudoku Top right: a jigoku or greater than sudoku - the greater than symbols indicate the number in one square is higher than the other Bottom left - kakuro, the numbers on the sides indicate the sum of the numbers in that row or column. Each digit ...

Darker than Christmas - but your post reminded me of "difficult puzzles" - FBI Claims the Zodiac killer's code was recently deciphered fully. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/us/zodiac-killer-code-broken.html But back to a lighter note, where's this NBV Christmas thing? https://www.aivd.nl/actuee...

I'm pummeling everybody I know to take a look at the nefarous NVB Christmas Puzzle.

NBV is the encrypting branch of the AIVD, the Dutch CIA. Their Christmas puzzle is little short of torture - famously hard.

There's a wagon section that has a tight timer but if you have a lot of savegames you'll pull through...

The annual GLOW light-art festival couldn't take place this year due to Corona, but to "give the town something", sponsors had hired two architects for two art projects. One involved lots of huge blue lamps so that the nocturnal sky was a bluish purple. The other involved 1500 weather balloons with ...

G** the b**** gave me a heart attack.

Or that she tried to save / went with Max. She still loves him after he wiped out the town. Classic case of woman with a bad taste in men.