I met a strange lady yesterday. She started talking to me and said the weirdest thing:
"I have been boiling cats to get cows. Six cats for a cow, you know?
But nothing happened."
I was wondering what she expected at all, but remained silent. She continued with the non-sense:
"Then...
@MariaDeleva Your chat profile is still parented to SO, where you still have the old username. But you can change your chat parent user to Puzzling very easily if you want to, and then you'll be M D here too.
He is being rather rude. Personally I would probably be annoyed, but would probably do nothing much more than that, but I can see how that can be quite hurtful.
My carefully designed puzzle What is a Xilly word? with a tons of clues, historical as well as contemporary references, (and of course, red herrings) was removed at the moderator's discretion (what I am no way challenging at all: they are here to make these kind of decisions).
The comment was:
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@Randal'Thor yeah, that defends that it is a puzzle, which means it isn't off-topic... but off-topic is a reason to close more than delete. It's still really rude, which is a reason to delete, but not close.
"...carrying essentially the same message..." sounds to me like he really wants to say something and is using a puzzle as the means. And a little earlier he says "...it was a humurous twist...not intended as a joke..." I don't think this is/was done in jest.
Although I give him the benefit of the doubt that he wasn't trying to be rude, his choice of words make me feel like he's being sarcastic: "My carefully designed puzzle What is a Xilly word? with a tons of clues, historical as well as contemporary references, (and of course, red herrings)" I will judge as soon as the intended solution is posted.
I met a strange lady yesterday. She started talking to me and said the weirdest thing:
"I have been boiling cats to get cows. Six cats for a cow, you know?
But nothing happened."
I was wondering what she expected at all, but remained silent. She continued with the non-sense:
"Then...
The clue looks as if (1) "swirls" should indicate an anagram and (2) "echoless", if it isn't just a source of letters for wordplay, might indicate e.g. that some repeated letters or sounds are to be removed. But I have so far failed to make it actually work.
None the less I suspect that it will in fact be easier to figure out what the connection is and then work back from that to guess what we're trying to do with the snails.
Hmm, okay I've run into a problem regarding my casino puzzle. One of my gif is 19MB, I can condense it at max down to 5MB and it's max 2MB on puzzling. I can't lose any frames in the gif. How can I fix this?
or post the frames as individual images? (in which case they could be PNG or, depending, even JPEG, which would get you more compression as well as splitting things up)
@dcfyj it happens sometimes - to have different gravatars at different places. It happened to me too. My bigger gravatar changed and because I liked this one, I took it and now it is a bit blurry
One time I had a dream a horde of gerbils ambushed/surrounded and ate my pet hamster (I don't even have a pet hamster - but I want one) and woke up crying and gerbils have made me uncomfortable ever since.
I haven't done anything to make my gravatar behave in funny ways, and for me it's always a rather nasty yellow/green/brown colour, whatever size it is.
At some point I will probably make a new image but it's not exactly at the top of my list of priorities.
talking of dreams, I had a really strange one tonight. :) I dreamt that I was about to cut the hair of a lady (colored something between bright red and magenta) and she said: "I probably shouldn't cut my hair" I asked why and she answered "Pasta".
@BeastlyGerbil True. But remember that the rep which "came from" sockpuppets includes not only votes directly from the sockpuppets (if any) but also any rep from puzzles which the sock posted and he answered or the other way round.
Just looking for opinions, should I do a part 2 to 'This is it, This is the one, find your wife?' maybe 'This is it, This is the one, Save your wife?' I suppose we know where she is so the part 2 could be saving her
@BeastlyGerbil Pretty much ruins the fun of it. I like the challenge of making a solveable but difficult puzzle with which I can stump people with, although I haven't succeeded all that well on the stump part yet.
If it's posted with a solution elsewhere, and you've changed it enough to render it unsearchable, I can kinda understand only partially crediting it until it gets answered
@Sconibulus Re "changed it enough to render it unsearchable", see this meta post. On the other issue ... well, I'm going to post another meta post about that soon.
all the puzzles I have posted, were my own creation. And, of course, some turned out to be bad and not very well thought - like my tribond. Although, I did find the answers interesting and revealing
[Old man voice]I've been around here for 8 months, why back in my early months, puzzling was so much better. There were no such thing as sandboxes and we had completely different mods. Sorry I think I've got to go off now to have my nap.
Have to say I can't actually remember my first ever puzzles
Just had an answer of mine that was posted Feb 4 accepted... I wonder if the OP really looked at the answers just now or he'd just forgotten to accept it.
Well, I actually created it several months before I posted it here - intended it for some place else (at the time I didn't even know of PSE), and now I don't remember where.
It's been quiet for a while now, and you have been enjoying your well-earned holiday after multiple exhausting murder cases. Sightseeing, hiking and a few days just doing nothing at the beach is a great preparation for more weeks of crime-solving and criminal-hunting, which you'll undoubtedly be ...
@BeastlyGerbil Yeah, well-known phrase. But I wouldn't have solved your riddle from your "bold" clue. Too much of a leap to make the connection from bold to brass and then from brass to the answer just from that clue.
There are probably more than one ways to look at that. For one, the eagle could be the odd one out - for two reasons (starts with a vowel, and the only one that can fly)
I don't get why people upvote answers on area51 with >= 10 upvotes... Is it bad etiquette to not vote on answer with >= 10 and you should actually upvote the ones that in your opinion would be the best fit or do these people don't know about the system?
If anyone upvotes one of the score-10 questions that I've already voted for, I will undo my vote and go and upvote one of the lower-scored ones instead.
List of all questions published as part of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #15:
The princess arrived safely at the castle by M D
The Sorns are Demanding Ransom: Can You Help? by RedstoneGeek
Vizzini has captured Buttercup! by Sconibulus
Megan & the numeric cipher (693264475 etc) by Rosie F
Labr...
This is the sixteenth installment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted on here. This fortnight's topic is reverse-puzzling (suggested by GentlePurpleRain), and will span from the 19th of September to the 2nd of October. During this period, we will com...
I'd love to see a
wordplay
fortnightly challenge. We'd get some very clever puzzles for that.
For instance this recent puzzle from @GentlePurpleRain, and this other recent puzzle from @Ankoganit
I've taken care of the "featured" retag and deletion of the answer to the topic challenge thread.
As for when it starts, it's really just "roughly two weeks after the previous one, whenever someone feels like starting it".
@MariaDeleva I'm sorry, I really shouldn't have undeleted it. The meta thread had several people supporting its undeletion, but it's mean-spirited enough to deserve deletion.
This is the sixteenth installment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted on here. This fortnight's topic is reverse-puzzling (suggested by hexomino), and will span from the 19th of September to the 2nd of October. During this period, we will compile the...
@Deusovi Can you please explain why you assume it is mean-spirited? Based on Matsmath's statement it was a "humorous twist [...] Was it intended to be a joke? No."
The original suggestion focuses on using a single tag as the "subject" of each fortnightly challenge, but I thought it might be interesting to try something a little different. So, I propose:
Unconventional Tag Fusion
By that I mean, the challenge would be to take two tags that are not usually ...
@dcfyj If it was actually made to make fun of something, then I don't think it was meant to make fun of the person, but the puzzle itself. I know that probably sounds like a weak excuse, but he never actively made fun of the OP. I don't see why it would be delete-worthy, no inappropriate language was used.
@LukasRotter However, in this site's case, making fun of a puzzle (whether its in good jest or not doesn't matter) is making of of the OP, Each poster takes time to think the creation through.
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In some way, making fun of the creation is making fun of the creator.
@dcfyj Well, I guess I disagree with the site's policy then... Can you site the source of this rule? I can't find anything in the Be nice section. Does it fall under the category of "Harassment and bullying"? I don't see how, but ok.
@LukasRotter That's not a rule of the site, and @dcfyj never said it was. But in this case, it's clear that the post was made to make fun of a specific user's puzzle (which they say they have put a lot of effort into, and I'm very inclined to believe that).
@LukasRotter It's common sense - if you make fun of something that someone spent a lot of time and effort into making, and they think that they did a good job, then you're making fun of them.