#puzzlement

[sluggoonthestreet]

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

[cql-screenshots]

[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 #323

There was only 1 response to Puzzlement #322, it was the correct answer, submitted by Greg McGuire was: Gary is 23, George is 19, Grace is 18, Gail is 16, Greg is 13 and Mom is 43.

On to the puzzle:

Morph MENSA to NAMES by changing one letter at a time.

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

[ukdamo]

No poem today.

Instead, this fascinating vignette of Trogir and its cathedral.

[thatsbelievable]

[lux-et-astra]

out of interest why does everyone seem to think that dinah lance is a therapist?? i've read a good deal of birds of prey and as far as i know she's either a florist or a singer - there must be a reason people think she's a therapist cause it's so unavoidable in fic but i haven't found it in the comics so far

[fortunaestalta]

[straightlightyagami]

this is going to make me sound childishly naive but bro it’s kind of insane to me that republicans are winning by so much. like you have two parties that suck and there are people who vote for the more ridiculously evil one ..?

[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

[swan2swan]

.....I mean...how would you want her to do that, exactly...?

[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

[gpm-maam]

Puzzlement #322

There were 3 responses to Puzzlement #321, all had the correct answer, but the first one, submitted by Andrew Poulos was: Congratulations code breaker. Greg McGuire was second and Mark Mach was third.

On to the puzzle:

I was talking to a friend Grace, the middle child of five. She has a younger sister Gail, and three brothers Gary (oldest child), George and Greg (youngest child). I asked her how old she was, but she hardly ever gives a straight answer. The following is the conversation we had.

"How old are you Grace?"

"I am three times as old as George was when Greg was born. Actually, it's funny, but George's, Gail's, Gary's and my ages were all factors of Mom's age when Greg was born. The only other year where the ages of more than two of us were factors of Mom's age was when Gail was half as old as I am now."

"How old is your Mom now?"

"There's another funny thing. When Mom turns 50, Greg will be the same age Mom was when she gave birth to Gary."

Assuming Grace was talking in terms of whole years, and with my mathematical and reasoning abilities I was able to quickly deduce not just Grace's age, but all of their ages. So how old are Gary, George, Grace, Gail, Greg and Mom now?

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