The Sphinx's Lair

I think this is actual mathematics homework: puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/43796/… but unfortunately it's probably too late to get rid of it before the questioner (who I bet will never reappear) passes off the Puzzling community's work as his own.

M Oehm

9:50 AM

Yes. In addition to the "conjecture", the real question, "How to solve this", feels tacked on. The problem itself isn't particularly interestng, but the answers so far arent't so super, either.

IAmInPLS

This is closed now.

user189275

@GarethMcCaughan: You can turn your 80% surity to 95%, when you see OP joined today, and this is the first question.

Ankoganit

10:18 AM

@ArbitraryKangaroo The flag puzzle appears to be solved! :-D

user189275

@Ankoganit: I got a similar probably working picture, but it was a lot uglier. Anyway, atleast I didn't make my fifth mistake on the assumption of GP progress - it worked !

Lukas Rotter

I don't get why the edit on this question got approved; It's a simple monoalphabetic substitution cipher. Apparently I always misinterpreted what the cipher tag means?

Alconja

10:44 AM

I put it back. Definitely a cipher.

user189275

@LukasRotter: Why you're telling it's not a cipher ?

Alconja

No. Look at the revision history, he tagged it cipher, then it got removed again.

Lukas Rotter

@ArbitraryKangaroo Sorry, I was talking about this edit, not Alconja's.

user189275

@LukasRotter: Okay, I didn't read it carefully.

user189275

Just randomly saying, Avigrail gave three major time savers of his puzzle in the chat: i. All the boxes, which is like his previous puzzle, are exactly same, so no need to check the binary of everyone to see if something else spells. ii. This time no(t much?) URL changing.

Rosie F

11:01 AM

@LukasRotter Sorry. (I approved the proposed edit.) So even a simple monoalphabetic substitution cipher deserves cipher? OK.

Puzzling — BOUNTY!

11:37 AM

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Q: A weird website

So I recently stumbled upon a very strange website: There doesn't seem to be anything except a normal navigation-bar (which isn't working) and a cipher. Can you decrypt it? Maybe the plaintext will tell us how to log in (i.e. username, password)! I have this odd feeling that all other necess...

ABcDexter

11:59 AM

@IAmInPLS thanks :)

dcfyj

@IAmInPLS Not in the US sadly, since we put our date format month, day, year rather than day, month, year

IAmInPLS

@dcfyj Ikr, the metric system, the dates... At least you drive on the right side of the road :p

dcfyj

haha yup. Although, come to think of it, our palindromic day was June 10th this year.

user189275

3:41 PM

Well, how does @Deusovi 's picture shows up in the chat room all the time ? He's from different time zone from me, so is it a mod privilege ?

dcfyj

He just never leaves the room

I'm always in here too.

user189275

No, well as he is from different time zone, he must sleep, so I think he keeps it on mobile or something like that, or it's a mod priev.

dcfyj

I'm pretty sure that as long as you don't leave the room (click the leave room button) you stay in the room.

Sconibulus

some people just don't turn off their pcs

user189275

4:10 PM

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Q: The People Of Trutham-And-Ly

Here's an interesting variation on the classical liar puzzles: Trutham-and-Ly is a small town in the north of Logistan. It is divided into two districts, Trutham and Ly, separated by a small stream. Truthamers always tell only the truth, and Lyers only tell lies. While walking over a bridge cros...

logical-deduction liars

user189275

I am very curious to see how the "answer" comes "logical" and "unique".

user189275

"@ArbitraryKangaroo Yes, the question has a unique and completely logical answer."

user189275

-OP

Sconibulus

there was a pretty good one about all the Lyers being genocided

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