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Q: Build words starting with one letter

Deepak MahulikarStart with a one letter word. Then add one letter (anywhere) at a time to create another word. (So the second word will be 2 letters, third word woulld be 3 letters and so on). Get to at least 7 letters. My final word is something I don't want to happen to me. Two restrictions: Only one proper n...

 
 
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2:19 AM
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Q: Seating Arrangement

Learning user Eight sportsmen P, S, Q, R, U, B, J and C are sitting in a field,in a circle at equal distances. Three sportsmen on the circle are facing opposite side and other five are sitting facing the centre of the circle. S is sitting to the third right of B. R is not near to C. Q is sitting to ...

 
 
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4:06 AM
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Q: A breathtaking way of making every possible positive integer

GamowThis is a follow-up question to my older puzzle "A truly amazing way of making the number 2016" and to my other older puzzle "A truly amazing way of making every possible positive integer". My favorite solution to the first puzzle observed that $~~~~2016 ~=~ (1+2+3+4+5+6+7)*8*9$. Note that ...

 
4:27 AM
@humn Nah, you can add it to your post but I can't really take credit for it.
 
 
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12:16 PM
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Q: UFC 210 Live Stream

UFC 210 LiveUFC Fight Night 107 takes place Saturday – then the promotion has a two-week break – but the organization comes back strong on April 8 with Cormiervs Johnson 2 Live Visit here >>> https://ufc210livestream.com/

 
^needs closed
 
Gamen and done!
 
Gamen
 
12:41 PM
Is that most recent CCCC from Gareth still up to be solved?
 
Yup
 
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Q: 12 Birds in the petshop

OrayYou decided to buy 2 birds from a pet shop and went to a pet shop for it. There are 12 budgerigars at the pet shop and you want a male and a female for your home. You cannot distinguish the gender of birds by just looking at them. So you ask for 2 birds with different genders to the shopkeeper an...

 
1:15 PM
Anyone here?
 
Yup
 
Oh never mind.
 
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Q: Timeless truths encrypted with creativity

Paul LetzelterSimpli: (to Salvia) Hey Salvia, I found this piece of two paper lying on the street. A guy there said me that a lunatic idiot was writing this. I am dead sure it filled up with gibber, maybe you find something interesting ? Salvia: (to Simpli) You should not be so sure. After all, you should ca...

 
Ouch
 
Ouch?
 
1:20 PM
It looked like you were dissing techi
Anyone here, he said yes, and you said oh never mind lol
 
@n_palum No, I posted something else and then removed it and said never mind.
 
Ooo
 
2:15 PM
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Q: Message from Birds

TechidiotThis story was narrated by Marshal Terryan, a friend of mine, and is into paper industry. Last weekend, while he visited the local forest for checking out how things are going, he was amazed by a view. A view which moved him. A number of birds mostly, The Orchards, The Zebra Finch and The Tawny...

 
greetings fellow Homo Sapiens...
 
3:06 PM
Homo sapiens? Ain't nobody here but us chickens.
 
Gareth your clue is hard
 
Sorry about that. It wasn't particularly meant to be :-).
I will say that getting to the answer involves one quite obscure word (in the clue, as the answer itself, or as a step along the way).
 
I just don't get what gentle mercy is supposed to mean ;_;
 
I feel its A bun + dance
 
bkaw
 
3:15 PM
No buns are involved in my clue.
 
not even a dancing one
 
more's the pity
 
(hmm, maybe ABcDexter should have said "fellow Hominibus sapientibus". Not sure whether Latin binomials should be declined. Probably not :-).)
 
@GarethMcCaughan Any luck with the second block? Should I add a hint?
 
 
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4:54 PM
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Q: Hardware Store - Logic grid, zebra puzzle style

JamieYou can play it online here: https://www.brainzilla.com/logic/zebra/hardware-store/ | | Man #1 | Man #2 | Man #3 | Man #4 | Man #5 | |------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------| | shirt | | | | | | | name | | |...

 
5:25 PM
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Q: simple digital direction indicator

StanmoonieI am trying to design a circle with three sensors that indication 8 different directions, North, NorthEast, East, SouthEast , South, SouthWest,West, and NorthWest. I need to use binary zero's and one's to indicate out. I know using 3 sensors that are named x,y and z. My problem is I can not fi...

 
6:19 PM
@GarethMcCaughan Does your clue have something to do with rot13(nssyhrapr)
 
@n_palum Neither that word nor any variant of it enters into my clue or its solution, so far as I have noticed.
 
@GarethMcCaughan ;_;
 
6:46 PM
Started next FTC
 
What's that?
 
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Q: Fortnightly Topic Challenge #29: Retrograde Analysis

Beastly GerbilThis is the twenty-ninth instalment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted on here. This fortnight's topic is retrograde-analysis (suggested by user24580), and will span from the the 21th of March to the 4th of April. During this period, we will compile...

 
Welp
 
Wow, our suggestions for FTCs are getting low.
 
see here and then here @n_palum
@Deusovi yes, and less people are voting. This only had a total of 10 votes, with 12 people having voted on it...
I hope it doesn't fizzle out, it's been fun!
 
7:06 PM
Oh, I was holding out on submitting my suggestion because I misread and thought they all got deleted.
 
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Q: Transforming Colors

n_palumInspired by the increase of word ladders lately I found a fun one. Transform the color BLUE into PINK. No pronouns.

 
@paramesis They only get deleted when they happen (or if they're at a low score for a long time)
 
7:26 PM
Is it technically a metapuzzle if backsolving/back-referencing is required? (i.e. the puzzles don't have a unique solution without the metapuzzle)
 
@paramesis Just get every single person who suggests a puzzle to keep building off each other
 
@n_palum ?
@paramesis I'm not sure.
 
Isn't meta puzzles, puzzles that build off previous ones?
 
Not quite, no.
 
Oh that's not as fun ;)
 
7:32 PM
A metapuzzle uses the answers to another set of puzzles to give you a new answer. Typically, they're from puzzle hunt style puzzles, where the answers are English words or phrases.
 
Ohhhh
 
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Q: Why is word ladder not used?

n_palumThere is the tag for word ladders, the connecting of two words e.g LEAD into GOLD. However, it is rarely used (6 questions are tagged as such although there have been many puzzles that are actually word ladders). Such as the one I linked. They are usually tagged with wordplay, letters or someth...

 
For instance, during this year's MIT Mystery Hunt, one set of answers was:
DIAMOND / CONDOR / HORSEBACK RIDE / PEACH / LIGHTHOUSE / RACECAR / CENTENNIAL / SCHOONER
We had to realize that each of those was something found on an American state quarter. Reading off those states' abbreviations gives AR / CA / DE / GA / ME / IN / CO / ME, or ARCADE GAME INCOME, which was our answer.
Another round had answers like MIDDLE KINGDOM, FANTASMAGORIE, FIGHTING IRISH, CRANIOGRAPHER, TONIGHT AT NOON...
 
That's pretty cool
 
Adding a letter to each of those let us interpret them as winning Mahjongg hands - those extra letters spelled out FIND A FOURTH (the backstory was about a heartbroken king living in a palace with fancy tiles who needed "one more thing" to be happy)
 
7:38 PM
Hmm
 
Mystery hunts are so daunting to me
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I was getting ready to put together a grid deduction "metapuzzle" where parts of grids cross reference each other.
but I'm not sure if that would be the right tag
 
Yeah, that's not quite a metapuzzle
 
What would you call what I described?
Nikoli does them in every issue of Puzzle Communication
 
Self-referential logic puzzle, probably. (I'd treat the whole thing as one puzzle.)
 
8:07 PM
I noticed grid deduction puzzles tend to be devoured within minutes, so I'm looking for ways to extend their life a little bit without making them inaccessibly difficult.
 
8:22 PM
@paramesis I tried hiding them in a sudoku, with imgur links, but people didn't get that quite as quickly as I would have hoped.
In other matters - our spate of logic grid puzzles - is it getting out of hand?
 
I made a couple grid deduction puzzles that were QR codes
that was pretty fun
well, one puzzle that had two QR code subpuzzles in it
 
I looked at the recent logic grid tag, many of them are mislabeled
Whenever I make them I always try to include some other kind of twist or mechanic.
deducing that Jared doesn't like milk gets old
 
@Deus Can you change the for the FTCs or are you currently busy?
 
8:42 PM
I think I have the solution to Gareth's cryptic. If it is correct, I should set the next clue, right?
 
yeah, that's right
 
Well, in that case I'm not really prepared to answer; I haven't got anything useful to offer. I'm going to bed now, perhaps I can dream something up.
 
@boboquack ...I already did?
 
8:59 PM
I implore you to reconsider
 
9:16 PM
@Deusovi My computer is displaying RA as unfeatured and Liars as featured (even when I go into the actual question). I'm not sure why, if you've already done so. Sorry!
 
 
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10:29 PM
@MOehm Even if you are sure you can't come up with another clue, you should post your answer and invite someone else to step in. I expect there's at least one regular participant who will be happy to oblige.
 
11:29 PM
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Q: Making 4 with 4 ones (with a twist!)

noneuclideanismsThis puzzle is all about making 4 with 4 ones, but with certain constraints. Allowed operations: $-$ Subtraction $-a$ Negation $\times$ Multiplication $\div$ Division $\sqrt{a}$ Square Root $\sqrt[b]{a}$ Arbitrary Roots $!$ Factorial $.\!a$ Decimal $.\!\overline{a}$ Recurring decimal Easy: G...

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Q: Guess what am I, I am a group

user_194421 What am I? I am a group. You can't blame anyone for I being in me. But it might not be the case anyway. It depends on how you see the third. But I wasn't invoking Godwin's Law! You will never be in me She will never, either. But the second is. But not th...

 

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