Tag: Puzzles

Holy software update. Page 25 decided that it didn’t want to change from the previous page, and is an identical spread of 9/21. That’s a bit unsettling on its own, until you realize that there are also no duplicates as well to add to the stress. There was also a very strange pattern h...

Holy software update. Page 25 decided that it didn’t want to change from the previous page, and is an identical spread of 9/21. That’s a bit unsettling on its own, until you realize that there are also no duplicates as well to add to the stress. There was also a very strange pattern h...

“We are not leaving any stone unturned,” Officer Kransnik said. “We’ll find who did this and prosecute them to the fullest.” I took little comfort in his statement. I didn’t see any dead bodies under stones, nor any skulking criminals. I did see a heightened...

It was only a little over 30 years ago, in the early 1990s, that humanity detected our first planets in orbit around stars other than the Sun: the exoplanets. The earliest ones discovered were a bit of a surprise: they were all massive, in tight orbits around their parent stars, and extremely hot: a...

The first successful methods for finding exoplanets involved measuring the light from a parent star very exquisitely. If there are planets orbiting the star in question, the star isn’t only going to gravitationally pull on that planet, but the planet will gravitationally pull on the star, caus...

In the vast, ever-expanding universe of video games, where heroes wield swords and sorcery, there exists a gentleman whose weapon of choice is the power of intellect and the grace of manners. He is Professor Hershel Layton, a beacon of refined gentlemanly conduct in the often tumultuous world of gam...