#puzzlement

[sluggoonthestreet]

Eugene's morning commute is disrupted once again by an unexpected game of mouse and cat.

[yoshit-he-dinosaur]

i’ve been seeing a hell of a lot of sonic content on my dash today and while i am not a fan myself i do want to bring attention to the intersection of that piece of media with percy jackson, voltron, mha, mlp, and haikyuu because i love those pieces of media dearly. i fear the sonic brain rot but at this point i welcome anything socially referred to as cringe bc i am and always will be waving my freak flag high enough for god himself to see.

[counter-culture-christian]

They follow the sayings more of saints, bishops, elders etc. than of the people of God in the Bible and that's how they end up puzzled in their doctrines. How their views become filled with fallacy of things. While whatever was said by the saints, elders etc. of their denominations or churches might have degrees of truth, following all those voices and interpretations will lead to the inability to discern, to distinguish between man's frame of reference on things related to Christian life, principles, and church etc. and that of God's Word. There's a fine line, a dangerous gamble when one does that.

[kindnessisstillhere]

Puzzlement

A scene I can’t imagine,

But will doubtless write;

That’s a puzzlement.

A complicated situation,

Confounding every description;

That’s a puzzlement.

Perhaps I haven’t looked it up,

Nor checked precisely what it means,

But surely I can be forgiven,

It’s a puzzlement that’s clean.

[gpm-maam]

Puzzlement #218

There were 7 responses to Puzzlement #217, only 2 had the correct answer, but the first one, submitted by Karen Schelenberger was: “Does Joe lie?” Stephen Stuart was second with the equivalent “Is Joe truthful?” [you don’t know which is Knight or Knave and you can only ask one of them the question]

On to the puzzle:

What is the next number in the following sequence?

 1, 5, 32, 288, 3413, ?

To submit an answer email it to editor@phoenixmensa.org

[ukdamo]

No poem today.

Instead, this fascinating vignette of Trogir and its cathedral.

[thatsbelievable]

[fortunaestalta]

[merrymorningofmay]

the ace experience of going "wait, you guys actually ________ i thought it was an artistic exaggeration" fifty times a week forever

[bess3714]

The fabled first meeting between Steph and Tim, ft. the greatest of all the Batfam's weapons, a brick!

I love hitting my blorbos with bricks

What is wrong with the Bats that they immediately fall in love with anyone who is willing and able to beat their ass?

Alfred is clearly very used to this phenomenon

[nonbinary-octopus]

listening to an audiobook of a book I'd loved as a kid, and... it's way more racist than I remembered. In a couple different ways... stuff I hadn't noticed before, the way the author (who is the reader) does the voices, and... it's a different edition, which I first noticed by the fact that a few measurements were in centimeters rather than inches, and a character’s name is different. But as I continued, there's a bunch of sentences scattered through the book which just weren't there in the version I've read before. (and one line which I was used to that this edition lacks.) And a lot of these additional sentences... make the book more racist.

I have to wonder, was this the work of a localizer? In addition to changing the measurements to be more easily understood by an american reader, did they purposely trim off or modify racist lines?

I'm not sure I'm going to finish listening, honestly

[piraticaltwit]

d.i chandler + sly driscoll's apartment / 3.02 ↳ there's no fridge. / i guess he lives on fresh air.

[photozoi]

Elongation.

One of these is not like the others. Ms Bean is presented with a conumdrum.

[wingingthenight]

points @ jonathan ur telling me a ginger bred that man??

"making holiday cookies was meant to be nice, jerome." jonathan sighs. but he can't quite stop the tiny smile that quirks at the corners of his lips. it's not fair that jerome is as funny as he is, no matter how vulgar. "if the man would help me finish this house, he might even get to do it again." he adds after a moment, grin spreading.

[gpm-maam]

Puzzlement #216

There were 7 responses to Puzzlement #215, only 3 had the correct answer, but the first one, submitted by Ron Draney was: 667. [667 = 23×29.  Terms given are the products of two consecutive primes: 77 = 7×11, 143 = 11×13, 221 = 13×17, 323 = 17×19, 437 = 19×23.] Diana McClure was second and Greg Propper was third.

On to the puzzle:

Using a balance scale, it can be shown that in order to measure all possible unknown weights up to 40 grams you could use 6 weights: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32 grams. Smarty said she could do it with only 4 weights. What are the 4 weights she used?

To submit an answer, send it to editor@phoenixmensa.org 

[placetneplacet]

Next week my poor Baby Giant is getting his heart hurt for the first time. He doesn’t want to be introduced as Tien’s friend. He wants his soulmate to call him his soulmate.

What if the poor baby witnesses the Patts introduction!?!?

I continue to be unprepared for the level angst in this show…