I want to keep the Neopian Navigator (seen below) but cannot think of a way to incorporate it into a Lenny theme:
any Ideas please neomail me

in a nut-shell, the base of a number tells the multiplier of each succesively larger digit, (compaired to the multiplier of the previous digit)

in all bases, the first digit has a multiplier of one... in base ten the second digit(from the right) is ten times that, or TEN, then hundred(10x10) and thousand.... but base five they are one, five, twenty-five, one-hundred twenty-five, etc

here is a table of the bases and positional value

	significant digit
BASE of	4th	3rd	2nd	1st
eight	512	64	8	1
seven	343	49	7	1
five	125	25	5	1

Go to top Previous Answers explained Answer #229 I searched all over Neopia and couldn't find a hint as to what word to use. The boards suggested I stare at the haikus until I figured it out. I stared until I went cross-eyed All I came up with was my own haiku Where was Buzz, the Buzz, (Skiing with a Babaa) found? round Iraq Quarter! If anybody can find a single syllable Neopian place that fits the haiku, I will use it in place of Iraq, change " ' round " to "Around" and credit the Submitter but don't go cross-eyed, while looking... You'll start to see double, and double of nothing is double of nothing is still a whole bunch of NOTHING!! NOTHING!! See what I said... you ' re already seeing dooble. [O] :) The double letters (in words of poem) anagram to writers species (qazwiz is the only qazwiz in the world) Answer #228 The useless clues gave you a list of all the four-unique-digit four digit numbers with each numbers digits sorted. only one would return to the same four digits when the reverse of itself was subtracted from itself (7641 - 1467 = 6174). Since TNT said it was the reverse the Lenny paid for submitting 4716 Answer #227 POEPLE,,, SUMBIT..... WOW! Where did that dyslexic Meepit come from??? As I write this I forget why but there was something about transposing two digits/letters that gave answer... I will change this when I remember why I gave the above clue... oops, still busy, neomail me if you need the how Answer #226 I romed all over Neopia until the Uni kicked me in my kiester. Don't NeoMail me about my Spellchecker but if you have a good syntax checker I'm all ears the key to my clue was the word romed, a spellchecker would claim it should be roameed but as spelled is how it should be.... a syntax checker would see that it should be spelled Romed since it is based on Rome, for Roman Numerals... the uni stomps once for each letter in the roman numerals, so thirty-three is "XXXIII" for the answer Six (or 6) Answer #225 the following was based on the size being perfect for a dot matrix 5x7 with a single column seperating each of the three letters I have narrowed it down to four neopets but still don't know which is correct. Just need the key so I figured out the key and it made letters no higher than five and that is wrong of course.... it is NOT Koi, Kau, Ixi or Uni. it is smaller than that. I consider this puzzle "Borderline Nothingness" since the entire outside frame was empty Oh, you darken the prime numbers and the word "buzz" appears Answer #224 (and Hazel Karr of Des Moine Iowa as well) this was because she aksed for it back in 1953, see TNT's peanut butter clue below You just need to find where the numbers appear the hint I liked the most... (not my original idea but...) is... Lights, Camera.... ACTION!!!because they appear on the avtion page of games will help if you you like peanuts then you will like TNT's peanut butter TNT's peanut butter is "SKIPPY" alluding to the skipped the apple jacks game so you needed to skip the other sponsored game too ignoring sponsored games is a good thing most of the time since they can be added or subtracted at anytime, as the sponsors contract and desires dictate. advert attack is game #204, so skipping sponsored games, the next two game numbers on type ACTION, are 799 and 131 alphabetically Answer #223 2x9x18 Answer #222 Eyrie Kiko Koi Kyrii those are the only ones that can be made SHORTCUT: Kyrii and Eyrie both have five letters with a doubled letter (I and E respectively) so you only need to enumerate for one and the other will be the same count 10x6=60 ykrii yrkii kyrii kryii rykii rkyii iykri iyrki ikyri ikryi iryki irkyi yikri yirki kiyri kiryi riyki rikyi ykiri yriki kyiri kriyi ryiki rkiyi iiykr iiyrk iikyr iikry iiryk iirky iyikr iyirk ikiyr ikiry iriyk iriky iykir iyrik ikyir ikriy iryik irkiy yiikr yiirk kiiyr kiiry riiyk riiky yikir yirik kiyir kiriy riyik rikiy ykiir yriik kyiir kriiy ryiik rkiiy TNT trick, KIKO was not needed, every kiko had a Koi in it so if you added the 260 Kiko's in you count you would be off and submit 5 instead of 6 216108+144+180=43254+72+90=21696+120+150=366216+432+212+366=1226 iko66 iok66 kio66 koi66 oik66 oki66 6x6x6=216 3iko6 3iok6 3kio6 3koi6 3oik6 3oki6 6x3x6=108 i4ko6 i4ok6 k4io6 k4oi6 o4ik6 o4ki6 6x4x6=144 ik5o6 io5k6 ki5o6 ko5i6 oi5k6 ok5i6 6x5x6=180 33iko 33iok 33kio 33koi 33oik 33oki 6x3x3=54 3i4ko 3i4ok 3k4io 3k4oi 3o4ik 3o4ki 6x3x4=72 3ik5o 3io5k 3ki5o 3ko5i 3oi5k 3ok5i 6x3x5=90 i44ko i44ok k44io k44oi o44ik o44ki 6x4x4=96 i4k5o i4o5k k4i5o k4o5i o4i5k o4k5i 6x4x5=120 ik55o io55k ki55o ko55i oi55k ok55i 6x5x5=150 1226+60+60=1346 7776/1346=5.7771173848439821693907875185736 round up to 6 Answer #221 the image is a rough of a calculus proof, the tangent line always the same length always gives the same answer for the ring area because it is the same as for a circle (the red) as for the ring or donut or anulet or washer (shown in blue) ] there must be a dozen ways to verify the final answer to double check, the unrounded answer is ###.9512568745 Now, you didn't expect me to give you the whole number did you? ?????????????????? I will be adding new formulas here throughout the week... don't get me wrong, TNT gave enough info due to a quirk of "washer geometry but I will be reminding you of the equasions that are important. first one: AreaOfCircle=Pi*r*r us it twice: AREAofWASHER=AREAofWHOLE-AREAofHOLE . . . (or GOLD = WHOLECOIN - SILVER) I will call coin radius "r" and silver radius "d" and I will call the tangent line "c . . . First one to Neomail Qazwiz why I chose "c" (what is "c" the abbreviation of?) will sell a Headless Von Roo plushie for 1001 NP so AREAofGOLD=Pi*r*r - Pi*d*d where c=23 Check out Dr. Math (link listed below) for more equasions Answer #220 here it is in a nutshell I TOLD YOU YOU HAD TO LOOK FOR THE CODE!!!!! there is always a trick(self explanitory) the trick will tell you if you should submit a plural or singular(what was left over?) as you circle or strikeout the words, speak them out loud(to orate is to SAY) What was that tagline Tom Kennedy uttered for twelve years? A: "It's not what you SAY that counts... It's what you don't say!!! square square or prime? mathamitacally 16 is the square of a square and 17 is prime this alludes to whether you find 16 words or 17 words... I really drove this one into the ground with the following: Pretend you're a busy little spelling Buzz Mama Buzz gives you a plate of letters to spell What does she say? I want you to use all the letters on your plate There are illiterate kids in Africa who would love to have those letters You are going to sit there until you have spelled with all your letters, young Buzz You're such a picky speller, but you have to spell You go straight to the hive without your spelling ALL THE ABOVE now for the punchline of the preceding list submitting before you have all the words can affect your score DRASTICALLY specifically, if you didn't get the 17th word from the unused letters, you had a better than even chance to submit the plural "codestones" instead of "codestone"... the final (17th) word don't worry, you're not the only one to submit the plural :( Answer #219 the useless clues given this week were: Kunta Kinte was too well rounded a well divided list will get the answer Has anyone seen Jeeves? and their explanation follows: KK=fromROOTS and TOOrounded=should be square if you divide first number into fifth you get the square root of two If you divide second number into the sixth you get the square root of three If you divide the third into the seventh you get two (latteral thinking will see two equals square root of four) so the fourth divided into the missing eighth number will equal the square root of five (elsewhere, I also asked "has anybody seen my butler?") In hind sight I should have said... "Ask my butler for help then the "anyone seen Jeeves" would tie in to "Ask Jeeves", original name of Ask.com if you google the numbers you get a lot of hits on an answer site... there are a bunch of wrong answers, and one person went through and called each questioner a cheater from neopets.... but the answer was there and backed up by the explanation after this list Set them out like this : 408, 571, 332, 377, 577, 989, 664, . . . It's the 332 / 664 which is the giveaway. Watch this :- 408 * sqrt(2) = 576.9991 . . . 571 * sqrt(3) = 989.0010 . . . 332 * sqrt(4) = 664 exactly 377 * sqrt(5) = YOU DO THE MATH NOTE: since TNT rounded without comment YOU needed to round before submitting Answer #218 Answer #217 the angles: CLICK HERE TNT decided to explain this one CLICK HERE Answer #216 the trick of this puzzle was "remove eight letters" the eight letters wasn't 8 letters, (like A+B+C+D+E+F+G+H for instance) but rather the literal letters given (E+I+G+H+T+L+E+T+T+E+R+S) rearrange the other ten for POLARCHUCK able to be found in my list of petpets that I finally included (last line "so I lied" is because I said elsewhere that I couldn't add a list needed for that weeks puzzle, I actually can, but I won't if it attracts too much attention to the answer being included... since I had been saying I was going to add a petpet list for the last eight months, it's appearance was announced well before the Lenny... Answer #215 useless clues were: Lenny is "released" on Thursday so call today Thursday. How much does she catch today (add it to the empty memory) How much does she catch Friday (add it to the memory) How much does she catch Saturday (add it to the memory) How much does she catch Sunday (add it to the memory) How much does she catch Monday (add it to the memory) How much does she catch Tuesday (add it to the memory) How much does she catch Wednesday (add it to the memory) after a week, you should have five digits that total 20 (if Lenny wanted the answer after one week) if you are correct after a week, then you just need to do it for 7298 more days (remember, five leap days in 20 years) when ever I'm hungry I always go back for thirds... today I was so hungry I had five of them Did I forget something? ... Oh yea, Neopets ALWAYS puts a trick into the Lenny (at least one!) After you submit, meet me on Mystery Island so we all can Limbo! I submitted less than five minutes after I saw the puzzle! Would I lie to you? It really is easy math. Does anyone think that thirteen is a lucky number? 8-) jetaketa said: "I didn't calculate past 20 days, then I took a number (that seemed like it would be the middle range of after about 10 years), then I multiplied it by the days remaining..and that only bumped my answer up by 1. Hope that wasn't too much of a hint.." Unfortunately he got the wrong answer that way.... :( walk through walk through walk through walk through walk through walk through walk through walk through walk through since the trick was the 20 years I did the above walk through... the following were clues, mostly to refer to the shortcut I saw and lieutenant_archer mentioned on the boards... in his own words: alright. i recognized the problem for the infinite geometric series that it was. I recalled the equation a/(1-r) where a = the first term of the series, i.e. the initial haul of fish, and r = the rate at which the weight decreases daily. *insert Bill Nye here* ~~~NOW YOU KNOW~~~ unquote (emphasis is mine) Thanks, lieutenant_archer that progression goes so low it goes to nothing and when you hear about a limbo competition... they usually hook you by saying something like: How Lllooowww, can you Gggoooooooo! drawing out the words "low" and "go" like they had five syllables! this refers to the daily catch going lower every day! emphasize thirds... emphasize five of them see clue 17 below Did I forget something? NO! Oh yea, I'll say it again Neopets ALWAYS puts a trick into the Lenny (at least one!) After you submit (and know why the title is let's limbo), meet me on Mystery Island so we all can Limbo!(to reemphasize the clue) truthfully telling them I submitted correctly and very fast so I didn't do the walk through for 20 years Does anyone think that thirteen is a lucky number? check out the answer for day thirteen 8-) jetaketa said: etc. if he lied here he should be frozen but: Unfortunately he got the wrong answer that way.... :( the progression goes to a limit described by that formula and that limit can be described as a fraction... lets all take out our calculators.... and compute: first day catch (31416) times 5/3 Answer #214 to get this answer you needed to explore what they alluded to without stating it outright. the Lenny stated that they regularly met somewhere in Faerieland ("...their favorite place in...") this should have set bells off... because they didn't say where! just that it is somewhere in Faerieland. Also they didn't say what species walked in the door the sixth and eighth times... DING, DING, DING!!!! well, you need to find that place that they meet... and if you don't know anything about Faerieland you need to know the two places that aren't labeled on the maps(actually three but the portal to Altador is more obvious than the Hidden Tower and the abandoned Grundo plushie... well, the Tower is a wash... but when you click on that poor abandoned plushie, you are told the name of the location is: The Discarded Magical Blue Grundo Plushie of Prosperity and the Lenny lists the arriver's at that location as: a Techo, a Draik, a Meerca, a Blumaroo, a Gelert. The sixth Pteri had gained a level, ??????? And the eighth Pteri had gotten stronger. look at the initial letters of each... the first five are TDMBG, but you say "Level and Strength don't start with P... (the sixth and eighth initials)"... and you are right... but since the lab ray only changes one attribute at a time, their species is still (P)etri thus the seventh turned into a species that starts with the letter "O" and the winner is... *drum roll* Ogrin (the only species that starts with the letter "O"... remember this from a few puzzles ago? well you should sear "Ogrin" into your brain because "O" is one of the few letters with just one Pet name... (DFHINQRWXYZ are the others with none for the letter "V")... these species will be likely answer for initial puzzles the useless clues explained People who insist on using the "I" word always lose out..... .... shouldn't they think of Others instead! For a further hint... Why not ask someone(?) who was there. The boards speculated that "what happened to the seventh" was because it disappeared... thus (i)nvisible is the "I" word later on the boards shamboo5 said: "guess they awarded invisible points to those of us who answered invisible Initial letter of (O)thers (note it was capitalized when it shouldn't have been) it the direction they should be thinking about someone(?) who was there = the abandoned plushie ask" because if you click on the plushie he says something (and what he says DOES change) Answer #213 this was a physics question that used a complicated formula that even I didn't understand... so don't feel bad if you didn't get it! Answer #212 this is just a hunt for the words that rhyme. which makes this competition just like that parlor game "MAD GAB" garbled words that you need to sound out and you find them in the Neopedia Answer #211 DR. Math had a great way to answer the addition problem mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/60417.html thanks to shamboo5 for pointing out that TNT just gave wrong numbers to: SEND + MORE = MONEY With Lenny 211 I included a competition that no one entered. so I continued the competition. No one sent me the answer, but someone DID give the answer on the Boards... AND someone DID send me a link to that board. RESULT: So I determined a shared win... kagato23 for giving the answer on the board in an eloquent description on how to solve the Lenny and urniecebay also wins for sending me the link to that board. both will find an item in their shop being sold for 50,000 NP despite it being near worthless (I suggest a Headless von Roo Plushie, but any thing you have in your shop priced at exactly 50,000 NP will be acceptable and therefore purchased by qazwiz) qazwiz'S first Lenny Info Contest Er..Um.. Competition!!! the competition as published Given that we already know what represents the digits zero, one, and nine... so the answer of the multiplication (I will call it ABC x LM) is 90LM Just explain how to figure our what digit is C in my example here (and of course it will thus prove what digit is represented by 8 in the Lenny) without trying any of the combinations, we now know it has to be six, just explain why we knew so while only knowing what digits were really one, zero, and nine competition closed the answer is: the key is to first look at the addition. You have four digits added to four digits getting a five digit answer... That first digit of the five digit answer MUST be one! nothing else it could be. Now look at the multiplication problem. the competition was to explain what the last digit of the top number was.... and why it had to be that. The key here is the fact that two digits are multiplied by that three digit number and the last two digits of the answer are the same as the two digits. This means that one less than the three digit number and the answer would have been a four digit number ending with a double zero (a multiple of one hundred)(if we had further worked the addition to discover the first two digits of the answer were 90 then we know this "one less" multiplication would come to 9000) The only way this could happen is if "one less than the three digit number" were to end in a zero or a five. (further the "one less than the three digit number" is evenly divisible into 9000) well, we already know that one is not the last digit of the three digit number so "one less than the three digit number" cannot be zero, thus it must be five making the last digit of the three digit number a six. the full walk through will be put up later, I will mention it in the comment section at the top of the page for a couple of weeks when it is up Answer #209 I heard there was a very good poem on the boards that I wish I had seen there so I could quote it and give credit... someone told me later the jist of it, pretty much it said to explore and give more attention to the last than the first... what it meant was to look at the explore page, below the flash map, and to click on the blurbs there, last one first... then look at the last word (just before the flash/or/html picture of the area) this would be the first word in the Lenny's list... last word of the next to last one clicked, was the second, etc.... this took us to that tropical Mystery Island who's description ends with natives missing 196-208... I'm back for now Answer #208 coming... (but no promises) Answer #207 coming... (but no promises) Answer #206 coming... (but no promises) Answer #205 coming... (but no promises) Answer #204 coming... (but no promises) Answer #203 coming... (but no promises) Answer #202 coming... (but no promises) Answer #201 coming... (but no promises) Answer #200 coming... (but no promises) Answer #199 coming... (but no promises) Answer #198 coming... (but no promises) Answer #197 coming... (but no promises) Answer #196 coming... (but no promises) Answer #195 the letters rearrange to say How many turdles are racing in turdle racing I got some help finding just where the turdle racing was located, I don't frequent gambling establishments, thus the following credit: (Thank you jugular_freeman) BTW: it is just an inch or so below, and slightly to the left, of Turmy Answer #193 the following was hidden in petpet list (with extras that were obvious but needed to check.... I WILL NOT JUST GIVE YOU THE ANSWER send me any you7 think are missing 1/3 Chocberry Pizza 2/3 Chocberry Pizza 5/6 Chocberry Pizza Altadorian Cobb Salad Blue Cobrall Chocoball Decoration Chocoball Machine Chocberry Pizza (whole pizza) Chocberry Pizza Slice Cobblestone Bridge Cobrall Cobrall Coffee Cobrall Cookie Cobrall Dagger Cobrall Dagger (TCG) Cobrall In A Can Cobrall Pen Cobrall Root Cobrall Wand Cocobolas Cocobolas (TCG) Corn On The Cob Desert Cobrall Plushie Enchanted Cobweb Fire Cobrall Golden Cobrall Glove Golden Cobrall Shield Golden Cobrall Spear Green Cobrall Headband Green Cobrall Sponge Green Cobrall Toothbrush Green Cobrall Usuki Set Half Chocberry Pizza Jub Zambra and the Cobrall Charmers Fez Jub Zambra and the Cobrall Charmers Keychain Jub Zambra and the Cobrall Charmers Mug Jub Zambra and the Cobrall Charmers Poster Jub Zambra and the Cobrall Charmers T-Shirt Jub Zambra and the Cobrall Charmers Ticket Maraquan Cobrall Mighty Cobrall Mace Mutant Cobrall Pink Cobrall Pink Cobrall Mirror Qasalan Cobrall Staff Robot Cobrall Scent of a Cobrall Sketch Cobrall Snow Cobrall Spotted Cobrall Springy Cobrall In A Box White Cobrall Yellow Cobrall Robocrush Grape Blobcicle BCO=none CBO=none Answer #190 OMG! nettles thrive AND aaAgmnr were two anagrams to tell you that it was an anagram Answer #189 coming... (but no promises) Answer #188 coming... (but no promises) Answer #187 coming... (but no promises) Answer #186 This animation answer proof will explain how to do it without using trig functions (just simple algebra).. but it doesn't seem to work in this division. i46.photobucket.com/albums/f117/qazwiz/theLenny/plotlenny.gif is where you can get the animation. the animation is copyright 2006 by qazwiz and if you use it for others to see you need to atribute it as such (qazwiz is all lowercase).... if you change it, you can give dual copyright... (c)2006 by qazwiz, edited by (YOUR NAME HERE) if you just alter what I have there OR if you add content use (c)2006 by qazwiz and (YOUR NAME HERE) you can use the GIMP to edit animations, see the help box above about free programs to find where you can get the GIMP for free Answer #185 Oh boy, please don't sent the goon squad after me! I titled the puzzle The Grarrl stands alone (even the Tuskaninny refused to go with him) called it's type: logical and math but the math has already been done for you and then I really got obscure : If I told you more I'd have to K*ll you and leave your body lying in the grass general knowledge would claim I would then eat an apple but scholars agree that I would be eating a long since lost species of fruit. I am forbiddenfrom naming it! At this point I should probably tell you that your correct answer is the Hissi which will be explained later... but of course a Hissi is just a Neopian snake so these references are to the phrase "Snake in the grass" and the time that Eve was tempted to eat the forbidden fruit LOL which was NOT an apple but is unknow as to name since it doesn't exist anymore (Eden has long since been destroyed) and is just refered to as the "Forbidden fruit" further , in the useless clues I gave these clues If you're in the wild, then Larry can help While knowledge of a subject forbidden to talk about on NeoPets would help you figure out the clues I've incorporated into this page this week. You don't need any of the info I've typed this week to figure out the answer to this weeks puzzle look to the past for answers to the future the Larry clue would be aparent to anyone who does the reveal image game for the movie "the Wild"... Larry is the name of the idiot snake the subject forbidden refers to the three subjects that you are not allowed to talk about, I will call them: the S-WORD (a three letter word ending in "ex"); the Po-WORD (we in the USA have elections for them); and the R-WORD R-WORD includes a Book that starts with the letter "B" (ends with "ible") and is our higher power's words to us. this Tells of the time a snake lied to Eve and thus all the R-WORD references so how did you get the answer? The title and the puzzle type and even the last useless clue, all pointed to the fact that the way to get the answer was in the past answers. this is puzzle 185, so "a couple of weeks ago" was puzzle 183. that was the week I had a list of all pets and a number value for each (use the parentheses number since that is the correct one if two are there) You will note that the mentioned pets all went with all the other pets that had the same number as they did... the Grarrl is a lone number as is the Tuskaninny so even Tuskaninny would rather go alone than go with the Grarrl! and though it had a math element to it, the math had been done two weeks earlier! and had been posted to this site ever since! Answer #184 Useless clue list was too easy. you will have to go with what you got already because the intro clue was There are four reasons not to give you a clue but you will only get this one the answer was based on 444444, the NP spent nothing like a good ol' play on words Answer #183 my list of pet totals was supplimented by multiple pleas to check you answer, austensibly to correct any error on my part, but actually so you wouldn't submit a wrong answer. my list had three wrong totals purposly... they were the three answers I submitted and if anyone sent me their true totals then they should have had a correct answer since they sent me the answer that I won on. here is the list as posted but with the three correct totals in parentheses Acara 17 Blumaroo -5 Bori -2 Buzz 35 Aisha 15 Bruce -1 Chia 4 Chomby 39 Cybunny 65 Draik 27 Elephante 49 Eyrie 19 Flotsam 60 Gelert 54 Gnorbu 12 Grarrl 72 (79) Grundo 14 Hissi 36 Ixi -3 Jetsam 66 JubJub -8 Kacheek 33 Kau 0 Kiko 9 Koi -2 Korbat 46 Kougra 10 Krawk 73 Kyrii 47 Lenny 72 Lupe 14 Lutari 31 Meerca 36 Moehog 6 Mynci 59 Nimmo 30 Ogrin 0 Peophin 41 Poogle 16 Pteri 56 Quiggle 25 Ruki 17 Scorchio 31 Shoyru 53 Skeith 63 Techo 31 Tonu 70 (18) Tuskaninny 86 (106) Uni -37 Usul -32 Wocky 70 Xweetok 77 Yurble 56 Zafara 73 Answer#182 Answer #181 coming... (but no promises) Answer #180 coming... (but no promises) Answer#179 The puzzle was an easy read from bottom left corner to top right corner reading the dexter lines going left to right restarting each dexter line at the bottom right. so easy that it is hard to give a clue that wouldn't give away the answer. the only problem that some people had never heard of the perfectly flat rock quary... (shame on you for not helping to save altador) but this is help with the lenny page not the altador instruction page so I did give some help with this picture seen after I said no clues today: and the following were listed under useless clues: No clues here See above until you get it! I've got to hand it to you There is one clue on this page Keep looking for it until something clicks If you do not understand the Lenny my clue will confuse you But if you do not understand the question then my clue will give you the answer and if you do not understand the last two statements you are not ready for my clue so do not bother looking Confused? Then NeoMail or gMail me these are their explainations the clue was the SORRY photo above tells you to look higher on page most browsers change cursor when it is over a hot link look for it.... as stated clicks".... i.e. your finger on the mouse button it just goes to a page in altador the question, in the lenny that is! probable reason... you haven't been to altador and certianly hadn't done even the first puzzle in the plot (needed to replace a book with something else... a perfectly flat rock did the trick) again, they didn't know what the original puzzle said I am always willing to help someone who wants to try to answer a lenny puzzle... but this week I gave an extra puzzle to find the perfectly flat rock quary instead of just giving it to you again my intention was not to tell you how to read the puzzle but to help those who didn't understand because they had the question but not the quary so go ahead and click on it... it still is a hot link Answer#178 this one was a bear because you needed to get the side length from a computable area. this required using square root calculations in algebra... not very pretty! I will put the calculations here later Answer#177 the letters were just like the crypto-quotes you see in the newspaper, each letter represented a different letter but same for all occurrences. the most common word in the English language is the word "THE" and that happened to be the sixth and ninth words... the only repeated word in the puzzle. with that you could guess the first word was How, one of the question words and the only one that I know of that starts with an "H" (you had that from "tHe") there was also a three letter word ending with "E" as the fourth word. since "ARE" is another common three letter word I put it in there and that gave "HOW -A?- " followed by " -TAR- ARE O? THE" with the question marks as the same letter. OF OH ON OR are the common two letter words starting with "O" and HOW usually is followed by an indefinite quantity word such as often, much, soon, MANY !!!! I also saw that HOW MANY "?TAR?" ARE ON THE - A - - - ?HO- sounded like "stars" when I read it and that made the ?HO- either SHOW or SHOP and the top hat allowed me to pull out a rabbit at the MAGIC SHOP since I was pretty sure the last two words were NEOPIA CENTRAL from there it all fell into place. Too bad I only counted the whole stars... I sent 8 but Lenny paid for ten. the list of "USLESS CLUES" that I gave were as follows (though I had to remove four that hinted at eight being the answer)The first one refers to the list of query words given above (in the GOT A LIST? box) This is not a clue but this is not the first clue This is a magical puzzle. This is the third clue in this list All Starry-eyed Lenny enthusiasts will have no trouble with this puzzle. These clues are designed to only be useful if you are already on the right track. The question mark at the end of the puzzle should bring to mind a list of words to look for because at least one of them WILL be in the answer and most likely the first word. my list has eleven words in it (and growing) and six of them have three letters. (pointing to the word HOW) In the English language, the language use by The Lenny, the most popular word the spoken language uses is the noun predecessor that the Australians and the British throw away when they put the kids in the ambulance to the Hospital. (could I have been more obvious that the word THE occurs eleven times and referring to the English's propensity of saying "Go to Hospital" ) if there were a clue in the freebies, it would be the first.(tells you first clue is after freebies, it's in the "got a list?" box) Hiding a tree in a forest is a great way to confuse people so ignore all these hints until you know the answer then come back and get a chuckle reading the clues. (there wer4e hints but hard to spot when there are so many obscure references) littlejdb3 has a good question: How long did it take for 250 starry eyed Lenny fans to win their magic hats? Thanks again to littlejdb3 for suggesting the general idea for that last one! :) I had four more but had to remove them when I figured out eight was wrong :( Answer#176 Did anyone recognize the hint I left? raelra runoel elra it is sets of letter pairs. the first two pairs are the second and third letters of the pets to cross the desert and the third pair, if there, are the second and third letters of the pet to take the umbrella back. to clarify I will use the minutes to cross to identify each. first 4 and 8 cross... it doesn't matter which returns then 20 and 16 cross... and the other returns the umbrella so 4 and 8 again cross the desert crossing times are 8 + 20 + 8 and return times are 4 + 8 8+20+8+4+8=48 Answer#175 The 170: tied into the "a few weeks ago" comment... look at puzzle #170. the other numbers are x-y pairs separated by plus signs. check each x-y coordinate for their pixel position... each is in the exact middle of a circles letter. In order, they spell (with an added space) GIANT OMELETTE (thanks crushduckie for sharp eye) Answer #174 half of 15.811388300841896659994467722164 was 7.90569415042094832999723386108 (x10 to convert to mm) which squared is 6250 times pi is 19634.954084936207740391521145497... round to 19635 the entire area of circle in mm. just subtract the four tan squares (4*50*50=10000) for 9635 Answer #173 this should answer your questions: the diameter is 15.811388300841896659994467722164 and that made the answer radius=7.91 (see picture) Answer#172 This one's a pet peeve of mine: When the puzzle was put up it asked, among other questions, the number of bat wings in HAUNTED fairgrounds. then they changed this over the weekend to read DESERTED fairgrounds. This changed the answer you get. Since there is no haunted fairgrounds in Neopia, the answer to that question is zero. And since you multiply, the full answer would be zero. after the change you need the other numbers too. also the puzzle asked for the number of boats, and there are six rowboats, but they included the sailing ships in their ten answer. show me a ship captain who allows you to call his vessel a boat and I'll show you a rummy who is dead drunk. (otherwise he'd bite your head off for the slur to his love)"She be a ship ye landlubber!" Answer#151 urniecebay emailed me saying that large number was triple smaller number plus one (a pattern that requires it to be 757) ATTENTION PUZZLERS I have a mailing group in my gmail account called puzzlers. This is a very low volume list only sent out as new puzzles are found. If you wish to be included in the emailings, then please email me at: qazwiz AT gmail DOT com Some puzzles do allow under 18 to play so I will accept all requests, but please, due to COPPA rules, please get your parents permission. and if under 13, please have your parents email me instead of you. (so far, none of the prize puzzles were targeting the pre-teen crowd so you will likely not miss anything if you wait until your 13th birthday. For your protection COPPA does not allow retention of your information without written permission from your parents and we support COPPA. But we can get around the paperwork if I email your parents instead of emailing you. There should be no problem with this if you have your parents permission and if they say no, PLEASE comply. A parent's job is NOT to make their child's life unbearable but to protect them and train them to take care of themselves when their parents can no longer protect them. Why not let Mom and Dad do their job without any more hassles than they already have?)