Enigmarch, Day 14: SPIRIT
Mar. 19th, 2024 03:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tahnanMost of my work teams have had someone who runs the daily check-in meeting, where you all go around and say what you're working on. Once upon a time we stood in person in a circle, so you went when the person before you was done, but when we all moved online, the person running it would pick an order and call on people in turn.
Except my current team, where at my first standup we...kind of all just sat there, until someone said, "So what I'm working on is...". And when he finished, there was another long silence until someone else said, "My plan for the day...". I started referring to this as "Quaker standup": apparently you sit quietly until the spirit moves you to give your update. (I hope this isn't offensive to Quakers, but then, what're they going to do, beat me up? Right?)
Anyway. All of that is to say that other than "Spirit in the Sky" and "school spirit" and several dozen other things, "when the spirit moves you" was totally my first association with the word.
I don't usually do this kind of logic puzzle. See? Stretching myself!
Ghost Ships
The grid below represents a Ghost Ships puzzle. Ghost Ships is a lot like Battleship: one battleship of length 4, two cruisers of length 3, three destroyers of length 2. Rather than submarines, though, there are four 1x1 rocks. They follow the same rules as any other ship, though: rocks can't be adjacent to a ship or another rock, even diagonally.
The difference comes when you've filled in the grid, because in a Battleship puzzle, you'd be done, but these are ghost ships, which means that the spirits move them. Each ship, in turn by length (i.e., first the battleship, then the cruisers, then the destroyers), moves as far as it can in a straight line, which is to say it stops when it would be moving into a space that violates the usual constraints (it can't move adjacent to another ship or a rock, even diagonally). All movement is in the direction the ship is oriented; no sideways movement.
Only when they're done moving can you find out what two-word phrase might describe the action.
(Bonus dad joke: what does the crew eat on board a ship that moves when the spirit moves it? Quaker b-oats! Yeah, OK, just solve the puzzle.)
(Click to enlarge.)
Sail on over to the answer checker here.
Except my current team, where at my first standup we...kind of all just sat there, until someone said, "So what I'm working on is...". And when he finished, there was another long silence until someone else said, "My plan for the day...". I started referring to this as "Quaker standup": apparently you sit quietly until the spirit moves you to give your update. (I hope this isn't offensive to Quakers, but then, what're they going to do, beat me up? Right?)
Anyway. All of that is to say that other than "Spirit in the Sky" and "school spirit" and several dozen other things, "when the spirit moves you" was totally my first association with the word.
I don't usually do this kind of logic puzzle. See? Stretching myself!
Ghost Ships
The grid below represents a Ghost Ships puzzle. Ghost Ships is a lot like Battleship: one battleship of length 4, two cruisers of length 3, three destroyers of length 2. Rather than submarines, though, there are four 1x1 rocks. They follow the same rules as any other ship, though: rocks can't be adjacent to a ship or another rock, even diagonally.
The difference comes when you've filled in the grid, because in a Battleship puzzle, you'd be done, but these are ghost ships, which means that the spirits move them. Each ship, in turn by length (i.e., first the battleship, then the cruisers, then the destroyers), moves as far as it can in a straight line, which is to say it stops when it would be moving into a space that violates the usual constraints (it can't move adjacent to another ship or a rock, even diagonally). All movement is in the direction the ship is oriented; no sideways movement.
Only when they're done moving can you find out what two-word phrase might describe the action.
(Bonus dad joke: what does the crew eat on board a ship that moves when the spirit moves it? Quaker b-oats! Yeah, OK, just solve the puzzle.)
(Click to enlarge.)
Sail on over to the answer checker here.