Sentences with phrase «first puzzled over»

«The evolutionary changes required to build the giraffe's imposing structure and to equip it with the necessary modifications for its high - speed sprinting and powerful cardiovascular functions have remained a source of scientific mystery since the 1800s, when Charles Darwin first puzzled over the giraffe's evolutionary origins,» said Cavener, a professor of biology and the Verne M. Willaman Dean of the Eberly College of Science at Penn State.

Challenged to meet his mystery would - be murderer a week later on the local beach to be shot in lieu of a now - dead paedophile priest, he at first puzzles over this out - of - he - blue murder date.

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For instance, during the third quarter of fiscal 2014, as we were constructing our first Shack in Chicago, we unveiled six interactive life - size sliding puzzles with illustrated pieces that celebrate Chicago landmarks, while revealing the burgers, hot dogs and frozen custards that Shake Shack guests have enjoyed over the past decade.

It was in Rome that he first began to puzzle over how Christian unity could be achieved «without doctrinal capitulation,» as he would put it two decades later in his 1984 block - buster The Nature of Doctrine: Theology and Religion in a Postliberal Age.

First Signs My Child was «Different» Once I was able to stop worrying about problems like developmental delays and hearing loss, I found myself puzzled and amazed by what my son could do, reading his first word, for example, at just a little over 2 years ofFirst Signs My Child was «Different» Once I was able to stop worrying about problems like developmental delays and hearing loss, I found myself puzzled and amazed by what my son could do, reading his first word, for example, at just a little over 2 years offirst word, for example, at just a little over 2 years of age.

Most relate to climate, environmental, and social science, but the new request appears to reflect a much more ambiguous filter: For the first time, it contains several awards in the physical sciences, including one that has led to patented software to detect whether a computer has been taken over by malicious software and another that explores a long - standing mathematical puzzle.»

Scientists have puzzled over the cicadas» cycles since colonists first reported the insects» strange behaviors in the mid-1600s.

It would also be our first direct evidence for the quantum nature of gravity, the most outstanding puzzle in theoretical physics over the past century.

Since the French neurologist Georges Gilles de la Tourette first described his namesake condition 125 years ago, scientists have puzzled over the cause.

It has been several months since «Oumuamua's discovery, but scientists are still puzzling over our first interstellar visitor.

It's a gameplay first approach that's part dating sim, part puzzle game, with light RPG elements We have over 202 of the best Dating games for you!

Those specs don't really fit the characters, but at least puzzling over writer - director Mike Cahill «s costuming choices distracted me from the ridiculous love story underpinning the first half of the movie.

For the first time in over a decade, RE7 felt like what a Resident Evil game should feel like and focused more on puzzles, survival, and horror rather than fancy gunplay.

When he inexplicably wakes up twenty years earlier and finds himself a student at OU in Norman again on the day she died, he stumbles over people connected to Kim's disappearance and puzzles over clues he missed the first time around.

You didn't initiate your first battle into over an hour into the game, with that first hour being mostly filled with backtracking and puzzles.

- as Captain Olimar is making his way home, an asteroid onslaught forces him to land on a nearby planet - Sparklium is the fuel for Olimar's Dolphin III ship - with the ship's fuel depleted, you have to find items on this planet which can be turned into fuel - collect everything from seeds to large scale treasures - you need 30,000 Sparklium to make your way home - you are eventually required to find a lost ship part at the end of the game - levels are more linear and puzzle based, and include specific goals / goodies to collect - move Captain Olimar with the Circle Pad, while all other interactions use the touchscreen - blow your whistle, throw Pikmin and also touch certain objects - worlds are called Sectors, with six areas altogether - find all the treasure and look for new passageways to complete a sector 100 % - passageways can grant you access to secret spots or additional levels highlighted with the letter X - the first world is called Brilliant Garden, which has lush forest environments - Yellow Pikmin can easily reach the upper screen, where you can sometimes collect goodies and pull down vines - there's a level where you use yellow Pikmin as a source to connect two wires - connecting the wires lets you see enemies and platforms that were hidden in the shadows - Winged Pikmin can be flung at high speeds, and they can pick up Olimar and help him descend down into new areas - in a later level, you need to use red Pikmin to stomp out fire and clear the way for you - Rock Pikmin are the strongest ones of the bunch and can break crystals - blue Pikmin can swim and fight well underwater - the maximum amount of Pikmin you can have in a stage is 20 - blow your whistle to call over the correct Pikmin for a task or puzzle - Ravaged Rustworks offers a unique industrial environment where you climb on pipes - Loney Tower has you climbing to the top of a tower without any help of Pikmin, and instead use pipes and Olimar's jetpack - Valley of the Breeze, found in the Leafswirl Lagoon sector, relies complete on Winged Pikmin - Barriers of Flame is in the Sweltering Parchlands sector - here you «lll be forced to improvise with Yellow and Rock Pikmin to get around fire - every world ends with a boss stage - one boss fight puts you up against a Fiery Blowhog, where you use Red Pikmin to pick up / feed bombs to the boss - beating bosses gives you treasures worth 1,000 Sparklium each - supports amiibo in the Splatoon, Super Mario and Animal Crossing lines - amiibo can be scanned in to grant you access to secret spots - these are one room puzzle challenges where you collect a statue - these bonus rooms will also get you 200 Sparklium every time - you are limited by how many amiibo you can summon to each secret spot - one of the treasures you will find is an NES cartridge for Ice Climbers, which carries the name «Revenge Fantasy».

Splitting the game into multiple mansions allowed for more variety, the clever puzzles always kept you guessing and the core gameplay felt like a major improvement over the first.

Over at Greg Costikyan's Manifesto Games website, he's revealed that the indie portal's first exclusive game will be «Playing With Fire», a»... highly unusual platform puzzle game in which you play a giant ball of fire — and burn things down.»

Tetris was the first true endless puzzle game and without it we likely would not have had Bejeweled, Candy Crush Saga, Threes, or any of the other myriad puzzle games over the years.

The tools required to overcome puzzles are not paced out over the length of the game but delivered to the player in the first few hours, within the Great Plateau that serves as the tutorial area for the game.

Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning

For instance, in order to solve puzzle A, I had to first figure out how to solve puzzles B, C, and D. Puzzle B might require a tiny, over looked item, Puzzle C may have you combine that tiny item with something else in order to fashion a tool to solve Puzzle D which will then give you the key to unlocking the solution of Puzpuzzle A, I had to first figure out how to solve puzzles B, C, and D. Puzzle B might require a tiny, over looked item, Puzzle C may have you combine that tiny item with something else in order to fashion a tool to solve Puzzle D which will then give you the key to unlocking the solution of PuzPuzzle B might require a tiny, over looked item, Puzzle C may have you combine that tiny item with something else in order to fashion a tool to solve Puzzle D which will then give you the key to unlocking the solution of PuzPuzzle C may have you combine that tiny item with something else in order to fashion a tool to solve Puzzle D which will then give you the key to unlocking the solution of PuzPuzzle D which will then give you the key to unlocking the solution of PuzzlePuzzle A.

You're never given clear direction in Rime or any real explanation as to the boy's past or purpose; as you slowly start to explore the island you'll stumble across artefacts that shed some light on the backstory, showing a grieving monarch with an inquisitive and familiar young charge, but an air of ambiguity consistently colours the game and you'll find yourself spending the first few hours puzzling over things like just how exactly is that fox spirit connected to everything, who is the mysterious figure in the red cape who watches silently from afar and is the source of our protagonist's vivid red cape, what tragic fate befell the bipedal robots who lay littered about the place and much more.

The studio first established their success with the release of Train Conductor, followed closely by Train Conductor 2 USA and Puzzle Retreat, with over 7 million players enjoying the Train Conductor franchise worldwide.

The Fall is the first entry in a triology of action / adventure atmospheric puzzle games developed by Over the Moon.

The first idea that came to us was a puzzle game where you look at where you want to go to, to move over there.

It's state - of - the - art cross-platform technology, commitment to quality and a veteran development team with over 20 years» experience has resulted in diverse portfolio of over 80 great video games including puzzle games, action - adventure, first - person shooters, racers, party titles, RPGs, education games and sims across a wide age group from toddlers to adults on a variety of platforms for many happy customers.

Originally launched on Steam in late 2016, Maize is a great game to be brought over for console players to enjoy a confusing, yet not frustrating puzzle game located in a strange cornfield that turns out to have way more going on then is first presented!

When it first launched, The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker wasn't taken seriously for its art direction, but it grew on critics so much over time that some say it's one of the greatest video games ever made because of characters» expressions, finely detailed environments, responsive controls, fluid combat action and puzzles.

At first they can just jump, but you'll unlock more over the course of the game like swinging hammers and working together to jump higher which allow you to reach new areas and solve puzzles.

If you like puzzles, Toxic Games» recently - released Q.U.B.E. 2 has over 80 first - person puzzles for you to solve in the ruins of a lovingly - rendered alien world.

The gem - matching, puzzle game Doctor Who: Legacy announces over 20 hours of new gameplay in its first major update: The Rise of the Master.

As Claire or Barry, things remain closer to the first Revelations experience, albeit with the action focus emphasized over any puzzle solving or survival horror chicanery.

Our first game, Teslagrad, is a 2D puzzle platformer that has sold over 1.6 million copies worldwide.

I have almost completed the first piece in a series and I have been puzzling over whether to show it by itself before the rest is ready or wait and send out the whole batch at once.

I remembered, too, the challenge of friends back then, immersed in some truly puzzling abstract art and poring over the very first issue of October magazine.

For the first time in over a decade, RE7 felt like what a Resident Evil game should feel like and focused more on puzzles, survival, and horror rather than fancy gunplay.

The game is over once a player has solved all the puzzles for the first time, while the sale price of the game will be $ 1.99.