The Sphinx's Lair

1:18 AM

hollowknight.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Bosses_(Hollow_Knight) ?

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Sphinx

2:52 AM

Q: Dessert at Vowelburgers™

Inspired by Avi's Vowelburger™ Riddle Vowelburgers™ has just announced a new dessert menu, with 12 different varieties of sandwich cookie. Can you figure out the desserts, and what they have in common? Filling Vowelburger™ eɪ injure i estate aɪ snug oʊ recognized u menageries æ c...

Ooh

ACB

@Jafe what is that question?

Q: Please can "How to get to an island with a tree in the middle if all you have is rope" be undeleted and historically locked?

This question is one of the most important and memorable parts of Puzzling.SE history: How to get to an island with a tree in the middle if all you have is rope? Oh, sorry, maybe you can't view that link, if you don't have the requisite 10,000 reputation. Screenshot here for the curious, or click...

discussion feature-request support specific-question

prolly should have just linked that in the first place

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4:36 AM

SOIXO doesn't seem to be the name of a boss...

More like a Portuguese place name

portugal is never the answer to anything

4:59 AM

Lol

logical-deduction word enigmatic-puzzle visual grid-deduction

5:38 AM

Q: A genius Margonon!

To solve the puzzle below, the standard rules of a fill-a-pix (or mosaic) apply: Paint the squares around each clue black so that the number of painted squares, including the square with the clue, matches the value of the clue. Additional note: every clue that should be a 0, 3, 6 or 9, is given....

Wow... why didn't I notice that rot13(vg vf yvgrenyyl ababtenz onpxjneqf)...

6:18 AM

you weren't the only one

Hahaha

7:20 AM

@Jafe Brazil though …

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Dannyu NDos

10:12 AM

CCCC hint: The last letter is H.

Plot twist

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11:36 AM

The ninth beginning of "others" (modulo the length of "others") is indeed h. I strongly suspect (and hope) that that's irrelevant.

Dannyu NDos

Yeah... that would be unfair.

@GentlePurpleRain I just ran through A–D on that list (then gave up). The only 5-letter ones ending with H (unless I missed some) are Birch, Cloe Walsh, Daath, Crush, Dolph, and Dumah.

12:18 PM

Dolph definitely is a boss... in rambo 4 he wants to Crush the main hero, with heavy support from the Duma(h)

I'm not a Star Wars expert, but Jedi Knights exist, and those titled Darth were surely their enemies, and that ends with an H... But I'm 99% sure this isn't it

12:38 PM

I still think the left side has the definition, but I'm wondering where the H would come from

maybe it ends in -oth (the beginning half of "others")?

yeah, Ixoth is a knight nemesis in NetHack

ah so it was that simple

was not expecting a nethack reference, lol

^ @DannyuNDos

But I was as convinced by Wario as I am by this, so who knows.

Ooh TIL

12:48 PM

yeah, me too

That's a lot of ASCII

NetHack? Just seven characters.

Dannyu NDos

@msh210 Yup, that's right!

CCCC: Slap civil unrest into compliance. Leaders, this is loyal to your country (9)

12:57 PM

@msh210 pat riot i_ c_

pat(riot) argh

@juicifer aye

@Jafe aye :-P

heh

had that wrong anyway, there was no insertion involved

CCCC: Best alternative in heist arrangement (5)

1:01 PM

_st arr_, an alternative for Best

@Jafe that's the one

CCCC: Learn of auditor's subtle suspicion (4,3)

@juicifer nice def

@Jafe find out ("fine doubt")

that's right

@msh210 thanks :)

1:07 PM

@msh210 CCCC: Slap me unendingly?! (4)

don't mind if i do

think this is sla_ + m_ &lit.

@Jafe yep yep

CCCC: For Germans, tense Q&A thread shows some animated humour (8)

1:32 PM

hm, an animated film with eight characters in the title… must be Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

but it's for germans, so it has to be Schneewittchen und die sieben Zwerge

@Jafe oh it's FUTUR + AMA

@Jafe [Futur]– aughhhhh

that's right

1:47 PM

CCCC: Better alternative for stragglers following finance (5)

bobble

... I wake up to the question being reopen and the answers still not being deleted.

@juicifer Is this fin. _e _r

@oAlt it is

I was going to stop the art gallery theme, but a certain someone gave me another idea...

oh no

2:00 PM

CCCC: London museum housing major Rembrandt piece, to its left a Dutch variation, illustrating Asian water-splashing festival (8)

2:17 PM

@juicifer I just realized this one imitates your previous clue lol

oh, so it does

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3:23 PM

ugh I think I know what the word is but I can't get a single foot in the door on the wordplay

NG for the london museum maybe... national gallery

but yeah, same

yeah but then it's not housing anything

could be this but I don't see any deletion indicators

Piece to its left could be song but even so....

hmm

And "a Dutch variation" is likely 'n but even so...

@juicifer ooh interesting

3:34 PM

if it is SOANE for london museum and NGK for dutch variation then all we'd need to do is subtract an E

but I can't see how that happens

Also it's tough to call that a "variation"

it really is

wikipedia's list of museums in london doesn't appear to have any that could be construed as KA

"Oh, I don't celebrate Songkran. I'm narkgnostic."

@juicifer right, nor KRA

Stiv

Be aware that the one you're referring-to-but-not-referring-to also has different 8-letter equivalents in Laos and Myanmar, so possibly more options to consider.

Ah, and now it's no longer being 'not-referred-to' (!)

don't see any helpful museums in london ontario either

3:40 PM

Ah, interesting, Stiv; thanks. To save others the clickthrough, that's THINGYAN and BUNPIMAY

@Stiv yeah, I didn't see any reason to be coy

Ducth

a major rembrandt piece is definitely a THING

ducth [2]

You may have a typo there. Do you need some ducth tape to fix it up?

Lolll

(That was intentional, by the way)

3:59 PM

fwiw none of the dictionaries I use have given me anything useful for words containing "ducth" (or any other anagram of "dutch" or "a dutch", from what I can tell)

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