If I'd made an error in a puzzle, I could see someone easily making such a comment, and I wouldn't take any offense or read any ill intent from it at all.
I'm going to wait until @Mith gets back to decide which to check TGE. Your answer is valid, but I don't want to break up his series, when he references them, later.
Yeah - inferring the CI made it just a question of finding something suitable. I knew it was an abbreviation. I wasn't sure if you were using it as a common one I just didn't know, or if "abbreviated' covered it. Didn't make much diff tho
In the far-off country of Politica, there are three main parties: the Left, the Right, and the Centre. In the last election, there were 19 million Left voters, 21 million Right voters, and 23 million Centre voters.
Every time two people who support different parties get into a debate, they each ...
I provided 4 links, including from the Tournament site, demonstrating that your citation is more accurate than the one provided in the contesting comments.
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@Khale_Kitha The way I see it, a CC is basically a micro-riddle.
A riddle usually describes a single word, with clues which could be either cryptic definitions or wordplay.
A CC does the same, but crunches it all down into a single line of text.
And has more stringent restrictions on how those clues can work, but that's a necessity when you're compressing so much information into so little space.
2½ hours remaining to get somewhere on The Puzzling Times before the next hint makes the cipher pretty obvious, I think. Act now and beat the rush ... or else, be first to read the next clue and leap ahead!
I do not know the answer and it has been killing me for ages as they won't tell me the answer but i was given two clues:
Two blondes,
Confectioners sugar.
The other hints narrow the possibilities. The scratch-off hint cuts the list down quite well. The numbered ones indirectly suggest which one. The final hint, after a bit of thought (especially after scanning through the list) should be a dead giveaway
I've tried decrypting them myself to little avail, I think it starts with "I'm here" but after that I get lost. Are these the original codes used in "The Adventure of the Dancing Men"?
I was thinking Hint 5 means there's been another recent puzzle on the site using the same cipher ... but given what @Rubio said in here, maybe it's actually a sort of mini-riddle.
> Many of you have seen this encoding within the last week or two, but weren't paying it any attention. People who were paying attention, probably didn't see it.
(Btw, does my answer here seem convincing? It does seem to fit, but I have a feeling there should be something more than that to a Hugh Meyers puzzle.)
There's gotta be more to it than that. The location of the ? in the middle and below is intentional, given the mathjax that put it there.
And the title is suggestive.
Suggestive of what, I have no idea. ;)
I love when people add completely redundant answers to a question, and leave it unspoilered to boot.
It's even better when it's someone with over 4k rep at PSE. smh.
@Randal'Thor Anyway. Yeah, mini-riddle. Hopefully pretty straightforward actually, especially taken in tandem with the other stuff you're already looking at.