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4:02 AM
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Q: A Nice Simple Cipher

ThePuzzlerI assure you the following text is not gibberish, it is a real translation using a very simple cipher. Truffle Blue Umbrella Jump Turtle Granular Bird Dump Used Jammed Plates Orangatan. Enjoy!

 
4:49 AM
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Q: Two friends sitting face to face in restaurant

user34625Two friends sitting face to face in restaurant: one of them ordered drink. Drink was served on the table one of then asked other orally what is before you?

 
5:06 AM
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Q: A Different Kind of Treasure Hunt

RubioAn entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #27: Treasure-Hunt...         There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.                                             — Walt Disney Put on your hiking boots, we're going on a treasure hunt—for words! You'll be exp...

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Q: Maths Make It True

LisaChange one of the + signs to an equals sign so that you create an addition problem with a true answer 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14+15+16+17+18+19+2-

 
5:42 AM
trying to start a Contact round, if anyone wants in
 
Sure
 
For those unfamiliar, contact takes place in a separate chat room.
 
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Q: how to prepare for ibps po exam ? Can i Prepare at Home?

tom zingStudents who are applying for PO, clerk and officer posts, they definitely wants to clear CWE (common written exam) regulated by IBPS. So, here we are providing few main tips to preparation for ibps po exam. It may be helpful for you, to prepare well for the exam.

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Q: There is a room full of balances which is in perfect balance

ULTIMATEGAMER07The 12 weights look identical and weigh 1kg,2kg,3kg......12kg.Each mark on the rod is 1m apart. Identify which weight is where and sum of marked weights

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Q: Move one digit to make the equation $62-63=1$ true

suomynonAThis mathematical statement is obviously false. Move one digit to make it true. $$62-63=1$$

 
6:00 AM
I have to say, I really enjoy the HNQs here. They're a lot of fun :)
One recent one reminded me of some stuff that I'll just drop here for your enjoyment :)
Reminds me of this John Finnemore puzzle :) ...on a more serious note, this TED Ed riddle is pretty similar to yours, and is trending on YouTube now. — Shokhet 3 mins ago
 
Funnily enough, a lot of the time we get annoyed by HNQs
 
Yours or others?
 
Any HNQs, since they often aren't representative of the typical level of quality
lots of quick riddles get HNQed since so many people answer them
 
Okay. I can see that
People on Mi Yodeya (and the general network) get somewhat annoyed at the Purim Torah, which also HNQs easily
 
Ah, yeah. I can understand that
 
6:05 AM
...PT season is actually starting next week, so don't be surprised if you see a bunch of Judaism questions on your sidebar. (Also don't take every title at face value)
 
Oh cool, thanks for the reminder!
 
The other problem with your HNQs is that since they are already hot by the time I see them, whatever answer I might have posted has already been :/
 
And trust me, we know not to take any title at face value - we and Gaming are probably the top misleading title generators on the network
 
:)
 
 
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8:32 AM
@stacksfiller sorry mate!
 
@Rubio You any good at riddles?
I want the riddle part of this post to be solved
 
Sometimes?
 
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Q: Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a comet!

boboquackUmmm... this is a little embarrassing, but I need a bit of help with my homework... I got a riddle from English class, which I have no clue where to start deciphering: Air I miss, comet I be, Round, with a tail at the back. Or is there? No, you may hear... Up I would still be missed, u...

 
Oh. That one. I've looked at it a few times.
 
Yes. That one. I've looked at it a few (hundred) times too.
 
8:37 AM
The map in the middle alone makes my hair stand on end. :)
 
The map...it was just to level out the playing field for those not yet acquainted with the lair
 
?
What was that sorry about?
 
You should be able to get it, if only because of the clues. It's here too!
 
Oh. lol sorry - I pinged the wrong stack-dude
 
@Rubio stack reader's not on the lair
That's what I mean
 
8:41 AM
Yeah so I see.
 
about levelling out the field
Shouldn't the avatar have given it away?
 
I was just looking at a comment, not an avatar, and my fingers were on autopilot
 
Touch-typing - the bane of clear expression
 
9:25 AM
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Q: Coloring a 4 by 4 grid

Alexandros 9I made this simple puzzle a couple of years ago. There are three colors which appear in every row and every column. Moreover, every color appears 5 or 6 times in total. Find the color of the square with the question mark.

 
10:22 AM
you live only once - 13n+,7a>,19m<,10x=
whatever happens take resposibility - 14c>,2m<,16v=,OP+
ultimately love does everything - 19N=,4c>,10x<,15P+
Thoughts rule the world - 12V+,4N>,2J=,0N<
please anyone guide me how the sentance decoded as numbers
what is the logic behind this
Hi@Emrakul
 
user61230
Heyo, @Learninguser!
 
can you suggest me
the answer
 
@Learninguser Where did you got it from?
 
My friend posted question to me
to find the logic
through social networking
 
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Q: Haisu: MathGrant

TheGreatEscaperHAISU is a portmanteau of three Japanese words - 'hairu', to enter, 'su', number, and 'hausu', an English borrow word meaning house, of course. Together, we get a meaning of 'enter number house', which I have roughly translated to English as 'Room Count'. The rules are simple - draw a path from ...

 
10:28 AM
please anyone guide me
I am not able to find the answer for single loop also
@Emrakul hi
any logic is there?
 
10:52 AM
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Q: words are coded as Numbers

Learning userI have english alphabets that is decoded as Numbers you live only once - 13n+,7a>,19m<,10x= whatever happens take resposibility - 14c>,2m<,16v=,OP+ ultimately love does everything - 19N=,4c>,10x<,15P+ Thoughts rule the world - 12V+,4N>,2J=,0N< I am not able to find the loophole behind the logi...

 
@Learninguser You may want to way for someone to understand and solve that for you. You have already posted it on PSE and hopefully will be solved. All the best
 
ok Thankyou@Techidiot please upvote my question,I am new here,I want to utilise in proper manner,i want reputation,help me
 
 
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1:57 PM
Gamen, all
so I'm about to post a puzzle with a sudoku puzzle in it - does anyone care if I leave it in monospace font, or should I find an image for it?
 
If it doesn't look pretty I'll probably edit it :P
Also, I have Excel, so I can make it look good ^^
 
haha, I can take a hint
 
Go ahead and post it lol
 
it's up, image and all :P
 
And you were worried about the way it looks
 
2:06 PM
I made the image after I asked
 
"I have no laid out the crossword grid" complete with typoes :P
 
ah, poop. thanks
 
Missing a breakline "(3) Gas in the hangar! Go now! (5) (5) Epic cephalopod lacks technical direction? (4)"
 
-___-
I'm awake, I swear
 
lol
 
2:12 PM
why the curly braces?
 
I went ahead and modified the way the criptics were written to make a clearer distinction between start and enumeration
 
fair
 
If you don't like them, feel free to remove
 
nah, it's fine
I spent so much time making sure the sudoku was solvable and that everything worked, I didn't put much into making everything clear
 
It was clear, I just figured making it look different would help solidify the distinction
 
2:14 PM
np.
I had the parentheses there to make sure the numbering wasn't taken over as 1, 2, 3, etc.
 
Understandable
I was going to use [] but it thought [1] was an image link >.<
 
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Q: Cryptic Sucrosswordoku

MattMaybe I'm a little bit evil. I've combined a couple of puzzle types in a novel way (to me, at least). I'll lay down some rules. The solution to the sudoku works exactly the way a normal 9x9 sudoku does, with every cell getting a number. With me so far? Good - here comes the evil part. There is a ...

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Q: What is his profession?

LevieuxOnce when I was travelling through the Himalaya, I came to a small cottage. It was getting dark and I was looking for a place to spend the night, so I knocked on the door. After a while an old man with long hair and a curly grey beard opened the door and in impeccable English asked me what he cou...

 
yeah I was thinking that too haha
 
is the sudoku part unique? I think I'm stuck but I'm not very good at sudokus
 
I've no intention of solving this, let me toss it into a solver and see what it says.
It's not unique, but it only has 2 solutions
 
2:18 PM
It seems plausible based on where I'm at that it isn't unique without the other clues
 
heheh
 
yeah, that's as far as I got
 
with the crossword, it's unique
it's by design
 
Ah ok, nice
Not too many differences between the 2 solutions :P
 
nope
 
2:21 PM
yeah, one clue from the crossword should fill the last six holes I have
 
2:39 PM
Does ancient mean GREEK or ROMAN? Any ideas?
 
do you have more context?
 
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A: What is his profession?

TechidiotVery very partial

 
@Techidiot Most likely roman, I don't recall any "Greek numbers"
 
2:57 PM
@Techidiot You're missing #2 in your list (you skipped it)
I went ahead and added it
 
3:45 PM
@Techidiot, @dcfyj - I'm not sure that taking the first letters is the right idea
removing Roman numerals gives
1. TWBAAHATWT
2. AHOTSF
3. KGOATYWHSTPWAH
4. EFTSUATUTHTT
5. OFWOTAHASTOAOSR
6. NJEEPHBTBAB
7. NSHWPPTWPBBS 62
8. YKYEBYWWYRFTQ
9. FATGPW
10. SAAAPY
11. RWHTAFWAWPHHWA
12. SEHASTSOT
13. TBABNPFTGG
which... doesn't look promising
 
Yeah I know, I was just going along with what he had lol.
plus it says all words will be 13+ letters
on the first one alone removing roman numerals brings it below 13
Perhaps "South American country (+7,+12) implies Atypical" is saying add 19 letters? (seems a bit excessive) or something like that?
Or maybe add VII (7) and XII (12)?
What are your thoughts @Deusovi?
 
4:08 PM
Yes, my partial is terrible. :D Let me delete it
But the 13 sentences in note 2 look confusing to me and may not be clues to find words. Though I am not sure
 
I noticed something else, and I'm playing with it now. If I get anywhere I'll post something
 
4:25 PM
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Q: So long, and thanks for all the fish?

David Starkey Date: 5/25/6913 Recap for new recruits: As you know, the dolphins left Earth for reasons unknown to us. Their last message to us included the phrase "So long, and thanks for all the fish" and something about a "treasure" floating around, but we are unclear on what. The eggheads back on Earth ...

 
hmm, not making any real head way...
(nothing new though) :P
@Techidiot @Deusovi you might find this useful (if you didn't find it already). The last letters in note 1 say "sort by 2nd word"
 
Oh..
 
I guess you hadn't found it lol
 
Nope :)
What happens if we sort the sentences by second word
Tried it?
 
F or a
T o become
R ecklessness coincided
L ouis did
S taggeringly exact
E very few
K eep going
A hidden
T he imperium
N ow jack's
Y ou know
I t's like
O n my
Like I said, not making any real headway
even tried doing a caesar shift on it
 
4:34 PM
Cool, so it has A..M in order
 
(the first letters that is)
yup
 
What if we remove romans now? Tried that as well?
 
from the words or the letters? I removed them from the words but that didn't really give much
 
Hmm
 
Letters doesn't make it any prettier
 
4:37 PM
Yeah
Are you posting this find? Or should I add it in my (now deleted) partial post .. or should be hold for a while?
 
Feel free to add it to yours, it's really not enough information to be posting a partial in my opinion
 
Yeah. But, in many cases, OP has made a little error which he finds out due to partials. So, lets put it up there
I am sure Note 1 is all about stegano and nothing else
 
Probably, I'm thinking #2 is for anagrams
with +# -# being either shifts or added letters, i.e. +7 = +VII
Or something like that
 
Like the first gives South American Country -> Add 2 letters to it according to the newly sorted list. And do the anagram to give a synonym for Atypical?
 
2 letters? why 2?
SA countries has a +7 +12 next to it
 
4:47 PM
+7,+12
+7th letter +12th letter?
 
So you're thinking take a south american country, add g and l to it to get atypical?
 
Synonym of Atypical may be
 
Well, yes
 
Like SINGULAR?
 
All words are 13+ letters though
 
4:50 PM
Hmm..Yeah
 
Well, actually 14+, says they're all "longer than 13 letters"
 
Hmm like Amy Farrah Fowler -> THE BIG BANG THEORY?
 
huh?
 
It's a TV Series right?
 
Well, she's in there, but she's also a scientist, a woman, and I'm sure a bunch of other things
 
4:53 PM
I was thinking more than 13 letters
 
It specifically says "13 words" though
 
Yeah
 
So the title of the show wouldn't do
since it's 4 words and none of them are over 13 letters
 
That's rough. Even finding 13+ letter words for a known thing is hard. This is brutality! :D
 
She is however, a Neurobiologist (14)
 
4:55 PM
Nice.
Or neuroscientist if we don't consider G to be in there.
 
So if we can get a word for quiz from that...
What's wrong with g?
neuroscientist isn't the same as neurobiologist
 
Also it says Neurobiologist
So, any one of that
 
the character has a PhD in neurobiology (the actress has a PhD in neuroscience)
 
Oh okay
 
Similar fields though
 
5:00 PM
But, how can we be sure how many letter's we need for quiz synonym to be? Length - 2? i.e. 13-2=12? Because the numbers are 2 negatives for quiz
 
5:30 PM
I don't know, and I know lol
 
Hmm..
For CCCC I am thinking it to be TRACTOR but not sure how to deduce CTOR part
 
Sid
Hm, Rubio's Puzzle seems to have something to do with thousand.
 
@Rubio All I know about KMorG is that, it has something to do with 1000. I tried finding a pattern in length but no luck
Lol ninj'd
 
:)
I think hint 6 made that rather abundantly clear to most people
 
Metric prefixes, probably
 
5:39 PM
I'm not sure I can go beyond hint 7 without just giving away one part or the other of the puzzle
 
Sid
Right, no one has still got my puzzle.
Maybe, I made it too ambiguous.
 
but for metric prefixes, k doesn't get capitalized
 
true
well, sometimes it does - not by the standards, but on things like resistor labels it does
 
Also the word value wouldnt have been in picture
 
(eg a resistor labelled "1K" is 1000 ohms)
 
5:42 PM
Hint 6 gives all three letters in a context where they would mean 1000, and be capitalized.
 
Yup
 
Those contexts may not be formally correct but they are correct in usage :)
 
oh, I'm sorry - I put an indirect anagram in my sudoku crossword :( completely slipped in there
 
D:
 
I know! I got so excited at the concept :/
 
5:47 PM
Indirect anagrams aren't always banned - they're just hard to do fairly, and several places do ban them
 
I see in this case, though, that it didn't discourage the solution
number {5} is my favorite of these
 
CTO is a bit obscure
 
the question mark is a glorious magic wand
 
Sid
How does CHALLENGE work?
 
it covers all kinds of stretches like that :P
turn a corner = ELL -> LLE in CHANGE
 
5:50 PM
that's not a stretch at all
I really like that one
 
Sid
Ell=Corner?
 
"Ell" is another word for the shape of an L
 
I was referring to CTO as the stretch
 
ah
yeah, that's not a stretch - just obscure
 
Sid
Also, Sets=Range?
 
5:52 PM
sets = ranges
 
Sid
Huh? Range!= Sets. At least in Maths.
 
the clue was originally for ORANGE, but I changed it to ORANGES to fit with OPUS. I updated the clue but not the enumeration
but a range can literally define a set
 
Sid
Maybe, I should quit maths and go through English a bit.
 
I never got into sets and such with math(s)
but the way I saw it, a range could be "between 1 and 50" while the set would be [1, 2, 3, ... 50]
 
intervals are sets
but not all sets are intervals
{1,2,numbers between 6 and 7} is a set
 
5:59 PM
... I should stay away from all this definition and wordplay shenanigans
time to write some printer's devilry
 
heh
I should try to write Printer's Devilry sometime.
 
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Q: king asked a learned man

makA king asks a learned man to visit his palace. The man says I will come any day next month. But give me gold in gms equal to the date on which I come. The king asks the jeweler to make rings of 1 to 31 gms. The jeweler was smart and makes only 5 rings. What are the weights of those rings?.

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Q: Create a 1 inch measurement

Deepak MahulikarThis is a follow up of the "Create a 3 inch measurement" puzzle which got a lot of innovative solutions. Using the standard 8.5 x 11 inch paper can you create a 1 inch measurement only by folding? Again no marking allowed. No ruler either. One more thing. I realize that folding 8.5 inch side thr...

 
Sid
6:30 PM
@Rubio If Gareth is right, you are really evil.
 
yeah, I was about to come here and post "hey @Rubio I solved your KMorG thing, you bastard".
 
Sid
@GarethMcCaughan How does canoes fit? Isn't imgur links supposed to be 5 letters?
 
Oh man, that's evil, @Rubio.
I love it.
 
@Sid:
I feel very stupid for not having made the connection between "1000" and "word" much earlier.
The level-7 hint was an order of magnitude more helpful than the earlier ones. But I expect @Rubio was fed up of the puzzle sitting unsolved :-).
 
Don't you mean three orders of magnitude? :P
 
6:41 PM
That thought did occur to me. But no, one order of magnitude is about right :-).
 
@Deusovi did you come up with anything for that pattern puzzle?
 
Nope. Haven't taken too much of a look at it though.
 
Ok, I found that the last letters of each sentence said to order by the second word, although I didn't get beyond that.
 
Second half seems worth thinking about too. The only thoughts I have are (1) the pairs of numbers would fit (among many other possibilities) with a mechanism someone used in another puzzle here, with two kinds of rotation (alphabetical and spatial); (2) Amy Farrah Fowler is a NEUROBIOLOGIST and that's a word with >13 letters.
 
6:57 PM
@GarethMcCaughan I thought we'd already well established I'm evil. :) nice job
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Lol, and someone downvoted.
 
Wasn't me.
 
Not me either.
 
On the other puzzle: perhaps Trevor Barker should for this purpose be described as a PERCUSSIONIST, also >13 letters.
"Movies" might be CINEMATOGRAPHY. Several of the other right-hand-sides seem like they probably have multiple >-13-letter near-synonyms.
 
Oh and I just asked for your help on searching an imgur @Rubio
 
Sid
Baker street, Violin=SHERLOCK HOLMES?
 
7:04 PM
You should credit the little code of yours :D @Rubio
 
(on "red herring" - the convention throughout was to emphasize the K/M/G, and to do so without doing so only in the title, as I wanted there to be at least a little misdirection away from their purpose in the name. Having said that, the words I had to use ended up reinforcing the pattern anyway - you'd be surprised [or maybe not] at how few usable words actually form an imgur tag. That puzzle was weeks in the making.)
Level 8, had I gotten that far, would have been along the lines of "A kilogram is worth 1000 grams. Now see hint 5." which would have given the game away.
 
@Sid It's not clear to me whether the sentences in that first group of 13 are meant to be clues as well as having significant first and last letters. There are suggestions here and there that they might be; e.g., the first one seems like it's making reference in multiple ways to Japanese kamikaze tactics (kamikaze = divine wind).
 
Missing no-computers tag applies to puzzle creation more :)
 
@Techidiot So what am I searching for now?
 
Umm. Not sure. What?
 
7:18 PM
imgur search?
Or did you mean a day or two back when you'd asked for help? I was giggling about it at the time. (I mean, er, you know - a real manly giggle. Yup.)
 
Hah. Yeah.
It would have been hilarious if those words formed a riddle :p Can't imagine
Like each line starts with an imgur word and next part talks about whats in the imgur
@GarethMcCaughan This is a complicated one now
 
You should see how eclectic those images are
Some of them I don't even know what they're of :)
 
Yeah. I double checked each. Some of them are classy :D
7646484381 can anyone see if this number forms coordinates somewhere in Ireland?
 
7:43 PM
o_O @Gareth and @Tech looked the same on the side...
 
Sid
@Mithrandir Congrats on being a mod.
 
Thanks :)
 
Nice, grats @Mithrandir!
 
Thank you :D
 
Sid
Well, no one is letting emrakul forget the sandbox.
 
7:51 PM
@Beastly Poor Emrak - you're never going to let them forget that, are you? ;-) — Rand al'Thor 20 hours ago
 
8:31 PM
@Mithrandir Not all that similar. Techidiot's symbol is (almost) much more symmetrical than mine.
 
Mhm. They're similar enough to make me do a double take.
 
 
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9:57 PM
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Q: A Plethora of Plurals

noneuclideanismsPlease find words that have the following properties: A word that becomes pluralized when the letter "s" at the end is dropped. A word that becomes pluralized when the first two letters are swapped. Three words that become pluralized when letters are added to the beginning. A word that has no l...

 
10:16 PM
Anyone up for a game of Contact? We're planning on starting one now, in the Contact room.
 

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