What does this image show? A clue is provided in the title to this article, but honestly, I never would have figured it out. It’s not the typical view we expect of this subject.
So, to uncover the true identity of this image, click here.
Can you identify what this photograph shows? Click on the pic to find out.
Political Sudoku: Romney Spends More Money To Cut Waste
August 30th, 2011 | Posted by in Election 2012 | Puzzles | Republicans - (0 Comments)Today, Mitt Romney unveiled his plan to confront the gigantic problem of military waste: Spend more on military programs.
How can throwing more money at a system that’s rife with corruption make that system less corrupt? Mitt Romney didn’t explain that detail. He’s just asking us to trust us that it will all work out in the end.
The puzzle you see below is inspired by Romney’s stunning defiance of logic in defense of wasteful Pentagon spending. It’s a political sudoku, just like other sudoku puzzles, only instead of numbers, a political sudoku has letters in each square. The goal is to fill in the grid, following the rule that each letter from the phrase SPEND MORE can only appear once in each straight row and only once in each of the larger boxes (3×3 on the grid).
There’s one exception to that basic rule in this particular political sudoku: The letter E appears twice in each row and each box, because the letter E appears twice in the phrase that the letters in the puzzle spell out: SPEND MORE, the mantra Mitt Romney has devised to evade implementing solutions to Pentagon waste.
What do the following have in common?
Pimp
Dik
Bumfit
Figgot
Clue: Unscramble “ILL CHORE INNS” for a setting
Now I show a sample structure pi script. Write out words, matching according numeric sequences. You go now!
Can you identify the subject of the following photograph, taken through a microscope?
Hint: In the USA, it’s fundamentally political.
Here’s the first in a series of microscope mysteries.
Who can identify the common object that’s shown in the photograph below?
Oil Spill Roaming Free Cryptogram
July 11th, 2010 | Posted by in Environment | Puzzles - (1 Comments)Tens of thousands, and maybe hundreds of thousands, of barrels of oil are now gushing without restraint into the Gulf of Mexico from a broken pipe at the site where BP proudly declared it was using the best offshore drilling technology available. BP says that the removal of all restraints on the drilling rupture is part of a plan to make sure that there’s less petroleum flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, but somewhere in the back of my brain, there’s a voice that’s whispering to me, "Pssst. They're just pumping more oil into the Gulf of Mexico so that people get desensitized to the idea of the Gulf being a stinking toxic dump."
It’s moving on to 90 days now since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill began, but still, Congress hasn’t acted to restrain offshore drilling one bit. In fact, some members of Congress are complaining that new regulations of offshore drilling will cost jobs. What kind of crazy alternative reality are these people living in? It’s the oil spill that’s costing people jobs! It’s offshore drilling that’s destroyed the Gulf economy.
Do we have to talk in code to get through to these politicians? Well, okay then, let’s try that. The following is a cryptogram, an encoded message, of the warning from a man who worked on the Exxon Valdez clean up crew.
As clues you get to help you solve the puzzle, I’m giving you all the letters contained in the names of the two companies involved in the biggest oil spills in American history:
G = B / H = P / B = E / I = X / R = O / Y = N
See if you can decode the rest:
“GH xrqnp vxb sklnp. GH up qbvvuyj vxbe jbv pusm… U’e jruyj gquyn… puqbyvqo hruprybn. Vxkv’p zxkv’p xkhhbyuyj vr vxb hbrhqb uy vxb Jaqw.”
