I think Caddis is a type of fly...

that's the only 6 letter word made from those letters

unless we're supposed to anagram discard and then remove the R

either way

but the answer should be a word, so it amounts to the same thing

^

an anagram of discard (i don't think one exists) would be a word, and -R it would no longer be a word

(probably)

caddis, asdics - these are the only two words i find that are a rearrangement of DISCARD minus an R

"Maybe" .....

Maybe applies to "Sun God 101"

though I don't know how

for Sun God 101 I was toying with R A C I

I'm not sure we're going about this the right way.

Ooh, that's interesting.

but "maybe" wouldn't apply there, and you can't remove 4 letters from DISCARD and get 6 :)

True, but maybe there's some other component we need to add?

DSD + three more letters, possibly anagrammed?

I'm not much familiar with n-adic numbers, but is 101 by any chance some "s-adic" number (if that's even a thing)?

But then "discord arrangement" isn't a valid clueing for that

No, it's not, Ankoganit

I guesses so

*guessed

At least, there's no way it would be a valid clue for s, considering that s would be a variable (more commonly replaced by p)

Hm. Well, that might give you the "maybe"

But I still don't see how it works

No, that definitely would not work. I have never seen the term s-adic number. It's either p-adic number or something more "concrete", like 7-adic.

@JonathanAllan I was thinking 0 and 1, but unfortunately, it is 1 more than what is required....

Maybe we're not on the right track with arranging "discard".

maybe instead you toss letters out of arrangement?

^

Starting with RA and G

argent?

ARNEMENT

Wait, RA and G?

God?

That wouldn't work. Either "sun god" = RA or "god 101" = G. "God" doesn't appear twice.

ra-ology?

if it's even RA

Maybe "discard" is the definition?

Discard arrangement excludes "Sun God 101", maybe (6)

That "maybe" is haunting...

Discard | ARRANGEMENT - "Sun God 101", maybe (6)

Yeah. Thing is, he had just prior asked and confirmed that it must be <wordplay>+<definition>+maybe and not the other way around

True, but that could've been a distraction.

so he knows, and presumably applied the knowledge, that this requires the definition part to be "Sun God 101"

which I can't make heads nor tails of

6-letter sun gods APOLLO HELIOS KHEPRI BALDUR

not seeing anything that acronyms particularly well

Meanwhile, Alconja is giggling at us.

I still suspect that the "maybe" question might've been a distraction.

maybe maybe is the definition?

Possibly! If so, I can't figure out how to parse the first "discard".

wait... Sun God 101 might be something a Sun God obviously needs to learn?

shine?

Disc-iness

orbits

Ooh, "DISCard".

so, what's left? ARD arrangement (maybe)

but that would get us to Discard, not a seven letter answer

*six, rather

but I dunno, I don't think I've ever successfully solved a Cryptic Crossword thing, don't think I'd seen one until I got to this site

mayhap means maybe, don't see how it would fit with the rest though

Maybe "101, maybe" is the definition?

five?

Six letters.

Binary?

Maybe!

Oooh.

CCCC: Discard arrangement excludes "Sun God 101", maybe (6)

BIN + ARY*?

Did I somehow accidentally solve it?

Aha!

BIN + AR(-ra)Y!

ah haha

Discard = BIN; arrangement = ARRAY; take out "Sun God" (RA) to get BINARY!

Very clever, @Alconja!

Nice

Aren't you glad I think in binary sometimes?

:D

excellent: well done Alconja, dcfyj and Deusovi!

Alright, time for me to think up a clue (unless you want to take it over?)

I've never seen those until I got on this site, have at it

(sorry, that sounds a bit schoolteachery; for the avoidance of doubt I entirely meant it and had not solved the clue myself)

@GarethMcCaughan (yeah, no problem, I get it c: )

Alright, give me a few minutes.

Plus, although I got the word itself you explained it

CCCC: Parents extracted western gas from seals (4)

parp

parents-western=par,+petrol=p, and it's a sound seals make

onomotopoetic or something

quickdraw.withgoogle.com

I'm stumped

@Sconibulus It got 4 of my 6 drawings

I call bs:

Somehow it guessed it, wtf

it got all of mine

Didn't even let me finish

4/6 here

but one it got when i had just done basically a box

it knew it was skyscraper

it thought my pliers drawing was a trombone ...

problem is these will WAY misidentify, say, a house as a skyscraper

but if you hit the pic afterwards it shows how it guessed

It thought my lobster was a flashlight :P

which actually seems pretty legit

It asked for a leg

Yeah, it makes lots of guesses

I drew a stick figure with arrows pointing to a leg

"Asparagus"

"Trombone" (again)

...

some of the things it asks for are pretty hard

I got camouflage one time

oh, and Aircraft Carrier... none of the things it was trying to look for were actually boats

i got "spoon". i started drawing its handle and it already had it

@Rubio clearly it needs to play pictionary

it could not get table

it had no idea.

how

@Sconibulus nope - deletion clues never have any 'extra" letters (also that's a weird definition)

it had "bowtie" right there.

Wow.

i call hax.

see, when I tried to draw phone, it came up with telephone and cell phone, and then assumed it was wrong

@Deusovi @Deusovi I know cryptics use specific signal words for things. is the pattern "(thing) extracts (foo) from (bar)" constrained to signal that (foo) is in fact being taken from (bar), or is there latitude to have it mean something other than the straightforward reading?

huh. that didn't do what i thought it would at all.

@Rubio There's always latitude for thigs to be different. I've seen traditional anagram indicators being used for definitions. But typically, cryptic indicators are read as English instructions, so that would be a valid interpretation.

Quick question, on a d8, d10, or d12, how many sides might be legible from a vantage point?

half of them (easily)

I don't have mine handy (they're at home) or I'd tell you for sure

Internet pictures not cutting it?

it's possible to only see 4 of a d12

not well

legibly

d10 looks kinda like 4, d12 looks like it might be 4 or 5

not sure if d8 is 3 or 4, d6 is obviously 3, and d4 is obviously 3 as well

d12 could be as high as 6 if you look squarely at a face

d20 looks like 8?

d10 looks as low as 3

d8 is 4, d10 is 5, d12 is 6 (though legibility goes down for a few of those sides), d20 is at most 10 (once again might have legibility issues)

It all depends on how you're looking at them

how is it that a protected question keeps getting new answers

I think protected only stops low-rep

ok, half I can make work, although I'm worried about displaying them legibly

Protected means you need (i think) 10 rep to post an answer

oh nevermind, yeah i just noticed that

@Sconibulus Are you using a d100?

:P

Nah, probably not even a d20 :)

oh, don't forget a d4, you can see 3 on that one

but that could be as low as 1

I'm trying to throw together a Dice Star under pretty... unusual constraints

I'm going from where the most sides can be seen

And I want the flexibility of different dice sizings

well, a d4 usually has the points labelled rather than the sides, so I don't think you can ever only see 1

although you could probably sometimes see all 4

You can, you just have to be looking at the flat face

@Sconibulus No, one side will always be hidden

but the labels aren't on the faces really, they're on the points

so even only seeing one face, you get three of the labels

@Sconibulus Not always on the points

well... edges is the same thing in this case

Essentially, but what counts is that (at most) only 3 faces can be seen

although edges is clearly the wrong way to do the labelling, it's like reading the result of a d6 by the side most facing you rather than the up side

It technically works, but everyone will look at you funny and question your life choices

For both d4s it's reading the number that is right side up

I prefer the point ones myself

bleah, finding a bug in my design just made this way harder

bug?

not a major bug, there's going to be a non-letter symbol on each die, and I'd been miscounting them as Hidden features

when they need to be Public features

so I get to go back and repick words :)

So just shift what's being shown

Hidden features have to end up spelling a thing

Shift them and see if you can still write something (after moving the dice around)

And it's also a matter of which letter you decide to hide instead of show

Posted another puzzle for everyone to work on

"As the is my last letter to you ..."

"As this" perhaps?

Thanks

"IT NPR TA" (It's in NPR's field office in London, have a nice life)

No not there

Read the sentences carefully

@Sconibulus you just found my unknown red herring :P

tell me my answer is an absurd coincidence

nah, that's got to be right

@Matt you got most of it but missed some, see my comment

so I'm just missing some of the reasoning?

how dare you shortcut the trail and get straight to the last clue ;)

@Matt yeah, you got the answer right. You can add the reasoning and I'll accept

haha okay, will add that truth in the next sentence bit as soon as I figure it out ...

Oh I told you in my comment

Leads to 'The treasure lies'

Think of my last words leads to 'in last letters'

So full phrase is 'The treasure lies in last letters' - St Pauls

fixed

sorry I skipped everything hahah

I was wondering if someone would skip to the answer, well done anyhow, enjoy this 15 rep!

that +15 set me exactly at 200 for the day :)

@Matt grats

thanks!

+5 more and you'll be capped for the day

I thought the cap was 200?

also, I got +230 today. does the +15 for correct answers not count toward the cap?

ah

yeah, any credit for accepted (or accepting) answers does not count toward the 200

anyone want to help with terminal history?

@Sid No integer solutions exist, but infinitely many real and complex ones do.

@JonathanAllan Hm. I never accepted zero bars as a valid solution.

You didn't?

My original answer failed to take advantage of the certainty that the number of bars on each window was strictly even, so cost me an extra day. I fixed it after Joe posted a more complicated strategy that actually amounted to the same thing.

A few other people provided answers that accepted zero bars as a possibility, but I excluded that from the beginning.

I didn't notice. I somehow knew it was four days but didn't manage to show it :(

re-reading...

People started jumping in with complicated graphs showing the deep-knowledge trees and what-not. I expressed it quite simply and with provable correctness using the basic strategy I first used, simplified with your notation. Thanks for that, btw - the shorthand came in useful ;)

(and yet I still made a typo no one noticed in the table)

It took me 4 separate read-throughs of Joe's solution to finally convince myself it was correct, but I promptly pointed to his as the right answer. Once I figured out why it was right, I amended mine to show it only required knowing that the numbers were even, to make it work.

Heh. I noticed, only when I copy-pasted it in for my final version. At that point it wasn't worth calling attention to :)

The best part -

once OP switched the checkmark to Joe's, and he got a couple more votes, I got myself a Populist Badge out of the deal. So it worked out well for me ;)

:)

Gold?

Yah :) first one

Ah yes, gold. Nice