By Cowpattybill
Things have been quiet on the ClueChaser front lines. I’ve been taking a break and enjoying my family and celebrating the holidays. Now that we have entered the new year I am shifting my focus back to ClueChaser. Back to creating the remaining puzzles needed to launch the final game in the Mr. E. Series. Yes, Game 3: Chasing Shadows is part 3 of 3. After the game is over I will likely switch gears and move into a larger, one game a year, type thing. Maybe have teams or something like that. I don’t know. I have to get through this next game first and see where we are. I promised my kids I would create a kids version of ClueChaser so I have to do that next.
I wish all of you a great new year. May it be better than last year. Get your thinking caps on because Game 3 looks like it will be the toughest of all. I’m currently looking at a mid to late February release date.
See you then.
By Cowpattybill
Two legs sat on Three-legs by Four-legs.
One leg knocked Two-legs off Three-legs;
Two-legs hit Four-legs with Three-legs.
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An example of a widespread “leg riddle”. An old man sat down on a three-legged stool to milk his cow. When the cow kicked him, he hit her with the stool.
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By Cowpattybill
So the site looks a little different. I decided it was time for a change. I wanted a new look and new colors. So far the feedback has been positive. I guess people were tired of the blue and gray. I don’t know how long I will stick with the current look. I am continuing my search but for now, this is the one that stays. In the meantime, please be patient while I move things around. The layout is different and some of the links are missing (like the Clue Club). I’ll have them back shortly.
One the puzzling front, game 3 development is continuing to progress but at a very slow pace. My personal life has gotten very hectic. Hopefully soon it will slow down and allow me more time for puzzle creating.
I dropped a major sub puzzle (by that I mean something like in game one where each correct answer gave you a number that was part of a set of coordinates) which was really bogging my mind down trying to figure out how to do it. With it out of the picture it has freed me up to think bigger and as it turns out, the game will be better without it. Double bonus!
Still looking at a December release. A new teaser video should be out in a couple weeks.
By Cowpattybill
Assume there are 6 billion people on Earth. What would you estimate to be the result, if you multiply together the number of fingers on every person’s left hand? (For the purposes of this excercise, thumbs count as fingers, for a total of 5 fingers per hand.) If you cannot estimate the number, then try to guess how long the number would be.
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Statistically speaking, with that many people on the planet there is bound to be people who have no fingers on their left hand. Any number multiplied by zero is zero.
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By Cowpattybill
A man buys coconuts at $5 a dozen and sells them for $3 a dozen. As a result of this, he becomes a millionaire. How come?
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The man is a philanthropist who bought great quantities of coconuts to sell to poor people at prices they could afford. He started out as a billionaire, but lost so much money in his good works that he became a millionaire!
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By Cowpattybill
Empty Earl’s car runs out of gasoline. His car tank holds exactly 13 gallons. He has three empty unmarked containers, which can hold 3 gallons, 6 gallons, and 11 gallons. Using only these containers at the gas station, how can Earl bring back exactly 13 gallons of gasoline? He is not allowed to buy more than 13 gallons or waste any of the fuel.
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Earl uses the gauge at the gas pump to measure out exactly 13 gallons. He puts 11 gallons in the large container and 2 gallons into one of the others.
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By Cowpattybill
A normal submarine was on the surface of the sea with its hatches open. It sailed due east for two miles. Then it stopped and went down 30 feet. It then sailed another half mile before going down a further 30 feet. All this time it kept its hatches fully open. The crew survived and were not alarmed in any way. What was going on?
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The ship was passing through the Panama Canal which is a series of locks that lower a ship (or submarine) down to the level of the other ocean
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By Cowpattybill
A ship sank in perfect weather conditions. If the weather had been worse, the ship would probably not have sunk. What happened?
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The ship was the Titanic, which hit an iceberg on a fine night when the sea was very flat. If the weather had been worse, then the lookouts would have seen waves hitting the iceberg or heard the iceberg. (Icebergs make groaning noises when they move.) Unfortunately the iceberg wasn’t seen and the rest is history.
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By Cowpattybill
During a fuel shortage, Running-On-Empty Randy drove to a gas station and waited in line behind many other motorists. A man in the familiar gas-station uniform walked over and explained to him, “We have a ten dollar limit. To speed things along we’re taking cash only, in advance.” Randy gave the man a ten dollar bill. When he reached the front of the line and pulled up to a pump, he asked for his ten dollars worth of gas. “The limit is five dollars,” replied the attendant. What happened?
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The person who collected the money was not a gas station employee. He was a con artist dressed up in the station’s uniform.
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By Cowpattybill
Always-Late Larry woke up, you guessed it, late. It was raining outside and although he drove as fast as he safely could he was still late for work. He hurriedly drove into the parking lot, parked, turned off the windshield wipers, jumped out of his car, slammed the door, and ran for the main entrance.
After work, he could not get the car started. The battery was dead. He checked and everything- the lights, wipers, radio, etc - was turned off and the door had been fully closed. Puzzled, he got a jump start from a co-worker, drove home and used his battery recharger to put a good charge on the battery. But despite careful testing, he never found out why the battery went dead. Can you?
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He had the lights on while driving to work. He got out without turning off the lights. The parking attendant noticed the lights on so opened the uplocked door and turned them off but the battery was already drained.
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A woman was shown into a large room that contained over a thousand flowers of all different types and colors. She was told that all but one of the flowers were fake. She was asked to identify the real flower but she couldn’t examine the flowers closely nor smell them. She was alone in the room. What did she do to identify the single real flower.
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She opened the window, a bee fiew in and settled on the real flower.
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A man was sitting in his hotel room watching TV when there was a knock at the door. He opened the door to see a woman whom he had never seen before. She said, “Oh, I’m sorry. I have made a mistake. I thought this was my room.” She then walked down the corridor to the elevator. The man went back into his room and phoned the front desk and told them to apprehand the woman, who he was sure was a thief. What made him so sure?
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You wouldn’t knock on the door to your own room.
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