The Sphinx's Lair

user230888

12:40 AM

@A.Mirabeau I guess it's night at Pacific - isn't it ?

12:54 AM

It's 2am here in the UK. Pacific time is 8 hours different (except it may sometimes be 1h out because of differences in summer-time transition) so ~6pm.

A. Mirabeau

4:13 AM

Working as fast as I can, and using MSPaint as my only image generation tool. It may need to wait until tomorrow (that's a promise, though). All letter strings and puzzles are devised.

user189275

@Alconja Can you explain how interpreting like "numerical indicator" works ?

user230888

@A.Mirabeau As there is but difficulty communicating in time because of different zones, how much time more (in hours ?)

Alconja

4:51 AM

@ArkaKarmakar as in each "key" gives something that has a fundamental numerical quality to it... Octopus -> eight legs -> eight. Square -> four sides -> four. Marriage -> two people -> two.

user230888

@Alconja The middle one may contain a red herring. You can pronounce "alternate third". Also, as Arka mentioned

user230888

previously, tile face is pyramid stone on edit history.

user230888

Whatever, it

user230888

is very probable the "of" is a part of the riddle, and the carbon is not.

user189275

5:10 AM

I am not on a computer, but someone should try 4 * 4 possibilities of blocking every third word starting from 1/2/3/no block and then reading 4 coupon downward

user189275

Coupon - column

user230888

" Sister attacking of fantasy " one found.

user230888

But what the heck is that ? Adding hotel is also fruitless. Fantasy where protagonists' sister is an attacker ? In a hotel ?

A. Mirabeau

5:29 AM

@tpk Should be 12 or fewer.

morbidCode

7:09 AM

Hi guys. I am new here. Thought this is a good place to ask about puzzle here. Can I ask about the 8 queens puzzle here?

Maria Deleva

What do you mean to ask? Perhaps some of these questions can be useful? puzzling.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bchess%5D+queens

Ankoganit

7:57 AM

@morbidCode the 8 queens puzzle was already posted :

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Q: How many queens can be on a chessboard without attacking each other?

What is the maximum number of queens that can be placed on a standard 8x8 chessboard such that no one of them is capable of attacking any of the others in a single move?

However, if you have a query on 8 queens puzzle which is not answered in the above question (or anywhere else) then it should be fine to ask here I think, provided that it is not too broad or bad for some other reason.

Am I right @Deusovi ?

morbidCode

8:43 AM

Thing is: I have read a solution to the 8 queens puzzle in an online book. And I don't understand how the solution given in the book works. I am hopping someone could explain the solution.

Thing is: I have read a solution to the 8 queens puzzle in an online book. And I don't understand how the solution given in the book works. I am hopping
someone could explain the solution.

Gareth McCaughan

10:03 AM

@morbidCode What don't you understand about it? E.g., is it a computer program that generates solutions, and do you have trouble understanding the code? Or a description of an algorithm, and you have trouble understanding the description? Or a single configuration of queens, and you don't see why it works? Or what?

@morbidCode If it's a program and you don't understand it, Stack Overflow might be a better fit; asking here in chat might get you an answer -- quite a lot of people here are programmers, professionally or just for fun -- but SO would probably get you an answer faster and it would be kinda off-topic here. If it's an algorithm or an explicit solution or something of the kind, making it a question on puzzling.stackexchange.com might work or, if it's brief enough, you could ask here in chat.

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