Wednesday, June 19, 2019

enigmatic puzzle - The green searcher



Sir, I have a great advantage in puzzle codes.
The green searcher submitted invalid endeavors.
Was it the solution?
Time eluded so easily many.
The day fanatics get to grandly celebrate: March ?????




What am I?



Answer



The answer will



either be a word with 0 letters (the empty word)
or perhaps a word with 10 letters.



The explanation:




314159265: Sir, I have a great advantage in puzzle codes.
358979: The green searcher submitted invalid endeavors.
3238: Was it the solution?
46264: Time eluded so easily many.
338327950: The day fanatics get to grandly celebrate: March ?????



These numbers



count the number of letters in the words of the "poem",
and they coincide with the first few digits of $\pi\approx3.14159265358979323846264338327950$

Since today is March 14 (the famous "Pi Day"),

the intended answer should be the ten-letter word fourteenth.



Final comment:



I have just read an article about Pi-Day, that mentioned the following classic pi-memorization sentence (which might be the root of the riddle):

Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling
In mystic force and magic spelling,
Celestial sprites elucidate
All my own striving can't relate.
Or locate they who can cogitate
And so finally terminate. Finis.




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