双人舞 2
Pair Dance 2
题目详情
这是字母配对与重排谜题。每条线索的答案包含成对出现的字母，括号数字表示成对字母间距；需要按规则读出字母并重新排序，得到最终英文短语。
英文原题
disgust (3,1,1)
mollifies (4,1,3,2)
calling in (3,1,3,4,2)
it’s pickled (4,4,4,4)
staple that’s approx 1 to 2 mm (4,4,4,4)
one who will take a leaner, maybe (6,6,7,2,4)
a 90’s spoof (if you insert a space) (4,4,4,4)
guts (6,6,3,5,5)
like most sets (2,2,3,4,2)
swinging makes one less impressive (5,3,1)
show up again (7,4,4,1)
the player at bat after you, say (6,6,3,1)
[in the chance that this happens to make sense, please send us the answer, which is a tuple of positive integers representing an English word]
解析
每条线索答案都由若干成对出现的字母组成，括号中的数字表示相同字母两次出现之间的距离，并按左侧成员顺序读取。解出所有线索后，粗斜体数字对应字母 PANCCHHENPEA。因为答案按字母序给出，需要重新排序这些字母，可重排为 HAPPENCHANCE；其字母距离模式为 ，这就是最终要求的答案。
英文解析
This puzzle was rather empty of direction, giving a short set of clues each with a tuple of numbers. The title of the puzzle hinted at pairs, it turned out all the clues had answers consisting of a set of letters appearing exactly twice. Further, the tuples of numbers referred to the distances between the like pairs, in the order of the leftmost pair member. The answers (clued alphabetically to help with confirmation) were:
disgust (3,1,1) - APPALL
mollifies (4,1,3,2) - APPEASES
calling in (3,1,3,4,2) - ARRAIGNING
it’s pickled (4,4,4,4) - CHOWCHOW
staple that’s approx 1 to 2 mm (4,4,4,4) - COUSCOUS
one who will take a leaner, maybe (6,6,7,2,4) - HORSESHOER
a 90’s spoof (if you insert a space) (4,4,4,4) - HOTSHOTS
guts (6,6,3,5,5) - INTESTINES
like most sets (2,2,3,4,2) - NONORDERED
swinging makes one less impressive (5,3,1) - PULLUP
show up again (7,4,4,1) - REAPPEAR
the player at bat after you, say (6,6,3,1) - TEAMMATE
The bold and italic numbers corresponded to the letters PANCCHHENPEA. While each letter here appears exactly twice, the alphabetical nature of the answers hinted that we might need to find a new ordering of these letters… in fact they can be anagrammed to the word HAPPENCHANCE, whose letters are arranged according to the tuple (7,7,1,7,4,4), the answer requested by the cheeky final hint at the bottom of the puzzle.
Congrats to this month’s solvers!