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12:58 AM
Does anyone have any good tips for solving those "What is a XXX Word™?" puzzles? I've had a look at several of them in the past but never really got a handle on how to attack them, and my attempt to create one that wouldn't get solved within 5 minutes has failed.
 
 
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2:06 AM
@Randal'Thor Hm, not sure if there are any tips that would work in general.
I always try to figure out if the name could mean anything in terms of: letter distribution, letter shape, and sounds.
If I notice that all the words of a certain type have similar letters, I'll check to see if there are any letters that only / never appear in Name Word™s.
 
 
2 hours later…
4:19 AM
@LukasRotter And puzzling.SE doesn't even have a chess feature. Even though the code's there (chess.SE has it). And we have a tag.
 
 
4 hours later…
7:59 AM
@LukasRotter Hello!
 
@IAmInPLS Hey! Not much traffic in this room during UTC night, I see :P I assume that means that most of the users here are european. (?)
 
I think we have some British in here, and yes, europeans (I'm French myself)
@LukasRotter What about you?
 
@IAmInPLS I'm from Austria.
 
Oh, nice. I'd love to visit Austria, I hear only good things from people who already went there
 
8:14 AM
@IAmInPLS Yep, I think the best places to visit would be Vienna, Salzburg and, of course, Hallstadt. I also remember a travel.SE post about visiting these locations in a 7 day time limit, but I can't find it right now.
 
Morning, Europeans! I'm in Britain.
 
@RosieF Hi! Apparently we do in fact have many brits here! Atleast from the people I know the country from, it's 66% right now :P
 
@RosieF Morning! Well, you're still European, 'continentally' speaking :p
 
I certainly am European.
 
8:33 AM
@Areeb I'm just drawing it in Scratch.
@LukasRotter I'm in Israel. Does that change your stats? :P
 
@Mithrandir Now 50% are from britain :P I guess one could say that my stats are flawed, because there were way too little people asked. But I say they have no clue about my concept :P
 
9:15 AM
And I am from Bulgaria :) A little late answer, but better late than never.
 
9:31 AM
UK
 
9:52 AM
@GarethMcCaughan Welsh?
 
No, despite my first name. Irish ancestry, born in the US, living in England since age 4.
No biological Welshness at all; my parents just liked the name.
 
@GarethMcCaughan I have to agree, this name sounds nice.
 
Thanks!
 
 
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11:38 AM
Murica!
 
Good moooooorning, Murica!
 
😂😂(do emoji work on here?) I'd say at least a third of working adults(in Murica) are awake by now
@Mithrandir thats kool! I haven't used Scratch in forever
 
11:55 AM
@Areeb Hello!
 
@IAmInPLS Hi there
 
How's it goin'?
 
@Deusovi Perhaps I should go through all the previous Word™ puzzles and see what kinds of word properties have been used so far. Might make an interesting study.
 
Good, how about you?
 
@RosieF Damn right we are! Methinks I can guess which way you voted on the 23rd of June ;-)
 
12:10 PM
@Randal'Thor there was one that was focused on video game characters
 
And one was focused on noble gases I think
 
> Lord Helium walks into a bar.
> "Sorry, we don't serve noble gases here," says the bartender.
> He doesn't react.
 
@Randal'Thor Unfortunately, far more voters in this part of the country voted the other way. I don't have a lot of luck with elections or with referendums -- always going the way I didn't vote.
 
@Randal'Thor Nuuuu that's too cheesy
 
@Randal'Thor Did you hear oxygen went on a date with potassium?
@Randal'Thor It went OK.
 
12:22 PM
@RosieF you should've voted to leave then, that would definitely work
 
I once experienced absolute zero.
It was 0K.
 
@RosieF I stayed up all night to watch the results come in. God, it was depressing.
@IAmInPLS Ha! :-D
 
The "funny" thing is that the older people voted to leave, and the younger ones voted to remain.
 
Because the older people can screw the country and then leave us younger folk to worry about the future maybe they think the EU is some new-fangled nonsense and they were fine without it back in the old days?
 
Well, UK joined EU in 1973 - a lot of years passed since then - over 40.
 
1:23 PM
For those that like the Word™ series, I just added another
 
@dcfyj Is it significant that the words aren't all-caps this time?
 
ok, I have an idea for it, but it is still not complete :) and I am sure someone will solve it faster
 
No, I'm a programmer, so I tend to camel case stuff.
 
Something to do with "green" ...
It can't be "containing letters from the word GREEN", since some of the Not Viridescent words do too.
 
@rand - they contain something that is green
but I can't figure them all out yet
 
A J
1:27 PM
It wonders me why don't they leave comment just only downvoting.
 
Because they're lazy?
Or they just don't like it and don't want to tell you other than a downvote
 
Because they don't want to get into an argument over whether or not the downvote was really warranted?
 
That too
 
A J
Possibly
 
When people do leave comments with their downvotes, that often leads to an argument in the comments section.
 
A J
1:28 PM
My answer is still better than others.
http://puzzling.stackexchange.com/a/42228/19658
 
Some people just want to avoid that.
 
I'm pretty sure the times people have DV'ed and commented on my posted I assumed they were right and moved on with my life.
 
@AJ Why did you post two separate answers rather than editing the first one?
The question is on hold now anyway.
 
A J
Both are fit to the riddle mostly.
 
Hopefully the OP will edit to narrow the scope so that it can be reopened (and then maybe some of the invalidated answers can be deleted).
 
1:30 PM
Not to mention that riddle is vary vague.
 
A J
@dcfyj Yes it is
 
@AJ I suggest you delete this comment.
It's the third comment you've left asking people to explain their downvotes. If they don't want to, you won't make them by calling them names.
 
A J
done
 
Plus, name-calling isn't Nice.
I don't understand why cpullen's answer is the highest-voted despite not even fitting the 1st line of the riddle as stated.
 
"Sei Nett"
 
1:34 PM
?
 
Plus, they might downvote and never come back to see the comments anyway :) So it could be pointless leaving comments for whoever they are
 
A J
@Randal'Thor Well, I got angry for two downvotes without any reason, so.
@Randal'Thor Agreed
 
@AJ They're only downvotes, it's not the end of the world, and certainly not something to get angry about.
 
A J
@MariaDeleva Well, I know one user who downvoted mine, but wouldn't be telling name and take revenge, after all be nice.
 
@AJ well, it is a good thing to be nice.
 
1:38 PM
I figured I named my words too obviously, oh well. I didn't make it too hard at least :P
 
A J
Thank you guys. You were very helpful and I am calmed now. ;)
 
Oh look, there's an accepted answer now.
Meh.
 
Sid
Yeah.. That was a bit anticlimactic
 
A J
It is incomplete answer.
 
Sid
Check out this, It's a pretty good riddle... puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/42192/…
 
1:48 PM
@MariaDeleva You didn't have to make that post a CW ... the basic idea was yours, so it's OK to have the post in your name and credit those who helped you in the comments.
 
Well, I wouldn't have figured out all these greenie things alone :)
 
@Sid Yep, seen it. Haven't managed to make any sense out of it yet (though it did inspire me to write another riddle myself).
 
it didn't feel right to take all the credit
 
A J
@Randal'Thor CW?
 
@AJ Community wiki.
 
Sid
1:50 PM
@Randal'Thor Yeah.. I thought that was a river and then couldn't make it fit with the last line... And Maybe a meta post must be present on when to make a community wiki??
 
@Sid I looked for one on main meta, but couldn't find anything very clear. There is this meta post I wrote on SFF:
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A: What are the guidelines for marking an answer as community wiki?

Rand al'ThorAn answer should be made community wiki only when it's such a collaborative effort that no single person wants to take full credit for it. If many different people have contributed comparable amounts of input to an answer, making it community wiki is a way to ensure that the collaborative effort...

 
@Randal'Thor, I think this answer is a result of collaborative effort - that is why I made it CW. :) And it is OK for me, I am not here for the rep points anyway. :)
 
Sure :-)
 
@MariaDeleva you're missing a couple words :P
 
I think all of them are there now :)
 
2:01 PM
I was talking about the extra viridescent words. You're missing some stuff there.
 
That URL is already present in the question ...
And it makes clear who the answerer is: the owner of the site where the OP found the puzzle, rather than just some random guy.
 
But all in all you solved the idea super fast
 
I think it should be ok now :)
 
Lol, you even found one I didn't know was there.
 
well, I tried being thorough :)
 
2:07 PM
I see that the same thing has happened to AJ and me: posted two different answers as different answers and been asked "why post a 2nd answer rather than edit your 1st?". Perhaps guidance in meta on when to post a 2nd answer and when to edit your 1st?
 
Did you think that was too easy or...?
 
A J
@RosieF I can give more examples, one is Brent Hackers .
 
@dcfyj - it was difficult to figure out some of the words, but the main idea I got quickly
But I believe some of the non-v words could actually be v-words
like disappear
 
I had thought of using longer words, ie. Using words that contained them but added more than just one letter.
how would disappear be one?
oh pear? I didn't see that anywhere
 
Ah, but it doesn't contain only the word plus one letter - I see. I was referring to "Sap"
but it is too short. :)
 
2:12 PM
My rule was actually that it contained the scrambled word, the amount of extra letters was irrelevant. I made it only 1 extra to make the puzzle a little easier because I felt that if I were to use longer words it would've made the puzzle much harder
I also didn't use any shades that have the word green in them (save for green of course)
 
ah, ok. :)
 
What clued you in to the idea btw?
 
First, the word - meaning something that turned green, then I noticed green in enrage and lime in email.
 
Bah, I tried to pick words that made it less obvious haha, that was a failure.
 
I liked the idea btw. :)
 
2:18 PM
@Will Damn, I tried to pick words which wouldn't make it too obvious, avoiding things like 'CAB' and 'STUPID' and 'DEFINITE'. Apparently I failed :-( — rand al'thor 14 hours ago
 
I thought of it a while ago, i just never implemented it. Although I first thought of it because of the Ruddy words and I thought they might contain anagrams of the word red in different languages.
 
Same boat :-)
 
haha
yup
 
3:05 PM
@RosieF My opinion (not that it's necessarily site policy or anything) is that you should always post a separate answer unless you're only slightly modifying your original answer. If you're going from "wildcat" to "jaguar", it's probably fine to just edit the existing answer, but if you're going from "wildcat" to "skateboard", then definitely post it as a new answer.
If you don't think your original answer applies, you can always delete it, but significant edits to existing answers just confuse people.
 
3:15 PM
I find it interesting that this puzzle has 4 close votes because "it is a mathematics problem, not a puzzle." It seems very puzzle-y to me.
 
No kidding, how is that not a puzzle?
 
@GentlePurpleRain Agreed. In fact I was surprised there haven't been more questions here already and I had to create the tag.
 
Is it technically tangram? I thought that referred specifically to the set of 7 triangles and squares and parallelograms you commonly see.
 
I agree it's definitely a puzzle. Perhaps all the specific numbers in the question made it look more like something out of a mathematics textbook.
 
I think you mean all the vague numbers, they're far from specific
 
3:18 PM
Yes, "tangram" specifically means the specific thing it does, but I think it's a reasonable tag for this sort of thing. What else could we use? dissection-puzzle or something, perhaps?
yeah, sorry, vague specific numbers.
incidentally, strongly agree with GPR about editing an existing answer versus making a new one.
 
I don't have a problem with using for this puzzle. Just my inner pedant peeking out there for a minute...
 
... though, hmm, suppose you have an answer of the rather discursive sort I keep perpetrating where you show your thinking, and suppose you realise that at some point fairly late on you took a wrong turning. I think you should then edit the existing answer even if the final answer ends up being quite different, because most of what you've written still applies.
 
@GentlePurpleRain Did you remember to add 'pedant' to that list of words on your profile? ;-)
 
@GentlePurpleRain How about a Dissection Puzzle
 
Well, this night, while I was battling some food poisoning, I was thinking of making something similar, although a bit different for a puzzle - when I finish it, I will post it :)
 
3:21 PM
@GarethMcCaughan Pretty sure I've been told off in the past for double-answering riddles. (Not 'told off' in an official modly sense, just by other users who accused me of grubbing for rep or something.)
 
Give that food poisoning a left hook, it'll never expect it.
 
@Randal'Thor Done.
I think either or would work. Maybe a tag synonym?
 
@dcfyj,actually I gave it carbo activatus :)
 
Woohoo! Activated Carbon!
Certainly better than what I do, I just ride it out.
 
@GentlePurpleRain We already have a tag, but that seems to be about a different kind of puzzle: cutting up a given shape into pieces, rather than trying to assemble given pieces into a shape.
 
3:24 PM
From the link I posted: "A dissection puzzle, also called a transformation puzzle or Richter Puzzle,[1] is a tiling puzzle where a set of pieces can be assembled in different ways to produce two or more distinct geometric shapes. "
 
So transformation puzzle or richter or tiling would work just as well.
 
@GentlePurpleRain I thought similarly. So would you agree that it was OK for my two guesses as to the Shakespeare play here to be different answers, and likewise AJ's answers to this riddle?
 
If we already have a dissection tag then I think that should do fine for tangram-type puzzles.
 
I am glad I didn't post a second answer to the riddle earlier - hehe
 
3:26 PM
@dcfyj But that's not the way the tag has been used on this site so far, AFAICT.
 
Yeah, some people will tell you off for double-answering riddles. But people may tell you off for almost anything. Why, just the other day I got one of my answers proposed for deletion just because it was very partial and consisted mostly of statistics that might help other answerers! :-)
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I was just posting that for other possible names
@GarethMcCaughan I saw that one, still no idea what to answer that puzzle with though.
 
Well, once I answered a question tagged cipher, that was actually an anagram and said what the anagram could be and it was downvoted. So I deleted it. :)
 
I had a thought of it being a strange viginere or beaufort cipher but without the key there's no real way of knowing.
 
@Randal'Thor If the puzzle specifies the shape the pieces must make, then how is that not a ?
 
3:29 PM
Dissection: "A geometric puzzle where a given figure has to be cut into a number of pieces subject to a number of constraints."
The way the tag is phrased it's the opposite of what we want
 
@RosieF I'm just talking about the way that tag has been used on the site so far. You and others may be right that it should be used differently.
 
what about reassemble
or something of the sort?
 
We could make a more generic tag called [Tiling-puzzle] and have tangram and dissection be a subset of it.
 
@dcfyj The ciphertext of a Vigenere or Beaufort cipher would be letters. (Just saying. :-)
 
@RosieF I think you've hinted towards it being a simple substitution cipher?
 
3:33 PM
I found a program that used their concept and added characters and numbers :P
 
I wonder - why do I get badges from CW answers?
 
Because the site likes you?
 
hahahha :)
 
@MariaDeleva There are some senses in which it's still 'your' answer. You can get badges from it, bounties on it, and notifications from comments on it. Just not rep.
 
Don't bounties count as rep?
or are they excluded from that qualification because they don't count for cap?
 
3:38 PM
@MariaDeleva I searched on meta and found this
 
@Randal'Thor that's strange - the answer should either be mine or not mine. Something in the middle sounds ridiculous. :)
 
Apparently my puzzle made M Oehm happy?
 
Sid
@Randal'Thor Perhaps you should accept the answer to this... puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/42158/…
 
57 upvotes in less than two days - poor Will did not get all the deserved rep...
 
@Sid Apparently today is the day for people to nag me to accept answers.
I had someone earlier explaining to me how to accept an answer as if I was new to SE :-/
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3:41 PM
I saw the other one, I guess people feel you should move faster? idk
 
You should see how slow I am at accepting answers over on SFF!
 
3 to 5 business days?
 
More like a few weeks.
 
So more like a passport
 
There's a bit of OCD in there, because I like to keep my rep on a multiple of 5 and +2's for acceptances spoil that.
 
3:42 PM
>.<
 
So I tend to accept an answer every time I get downvoted, unless I repcap that day.
So I'll probably accept one on SFF today.
 
Someone please help @rand by DV'ing him :P
 
@Randal'Thor I always thought you accept so lately because you wanted the question to attract more views, so people think they still have a chance on answering correctly :P
 
@Ankoganit I was just about to say, please don't take this as an excuse to downvote me!
 
That was my thought as well. But views tend to work on their own - my last puzzle got 1500 views after a quickly accepted answer.
 
3:45 PM
And if I repcap today, it won't matter anyway.
 
@dcfyj: I hope you don't mind that comment. When I saw the solution I thought the base material was a bit wasted in a "What is a word" type puzzle, because it doesn't make use of the removed letter.
 
@Randal'Thor It's hint time!
 
@MOehm Make use of it?
 
@MOehm there was a very similar puzzle earlier: puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/41720/…
it didn't use the extra letters either.
 
Well, looks like that Labryca puzzle got solved.
I put a lot of effort into it and didn't really get all that far. Oh well.
 
3:54 PM
I saw how long it was and didn't want to deal with it
 
@dcfyj, @MariaDeleva: Yes, there is of course no need to use these letters, but here there is exactly one letter left. It reminded me of this puzzle. So my comment isn't just a list of new viridiscent words.
 
I noticed, i started deciphering it just now
 
Wow. Did not know there was a chat room.
 
Or, of course, the Letter Police puzzle.
 
By all means, please keep solving Labryca. I don't like accepting puzzles because it makes them look like they're over and done with, but it's what I'm expected to do for good answers...
 
3:56 PM
@A.Mirabeau: Yes. It can be quite a time sink once you have found it. :)
 
Pretty much
@Randal'Thor Sorry, my above comment was directed to you. Didn't know you could tag people. Or that there was a chat room. By all means, please keep solving.
 
@A.Mirabeau Welcome! :-)
 
Not knowing what Alperin's plate was pretty much ruined my chances of solving it before I had my planning meeting
but I plan to look through the older ones and be ready for round 5
 
@MOehm Oh nice, I couldn't find one for chartreuse
 
@Randal'Thor You probably need a sockpuppet for downvoting your own questions now :P
 
4:00 PM
@A.Mirabeau I just edited my answer to show exactly how far I got, and left you a comment. I solved all the rooms except 35, and put some but not all of them together in the right order, and made a guess about the correspondence between yes/no answers and rooms, but there's no doubt Reibello did better than me.
 
I'm not seeing where the colors in adverse and headers are though (pretty sure it's the same color.)
@MOehm Have An avocado, lol
 
@dcfyj: It's both the same, reseda, and it was on the wiki page.
 
no wonder I couldn't find it, I've never heard of that one.
Are you going to post a Viridescent™ stenography puzzle now?
 
@dcfyj: I seem to remember it being a popular (?) colour for cars. Maybe just VWs.
 
No idea, I don't particularly care what color my car is usually.
 
4:05 PM
Neither do I, second-hand car buyers can't be choosers. But its funny which names the carmakers invent for their colours.
@dcfyj: Well, I've got the tools now. :) My Question slate is blank too, so I really should come out of the solviing and criticising woodwork and create a puzzle.
 
Welcome to the Sphinx's Lair, A. Mirabeau!
 
Also, wow, that's an old question to be still unanswered!
 
@Randal'Thor: Of course. It should never be "Earn money", always SEND + MORE = MONEY.
 
Just flagged him on both since I can't vtd.
 
4:11 PM
@dcfyj Don't even bother engaging spammers in comments. Just flag their stuff until it goes away.
6 spam flags is enough to delete a post.
(be sure to flag it as spam, not NaA or anything)
 
OK, just figiured I'd let him know we don't care for that stuff. I only commented because I dv'ed
 
There we go, both gone. Good job :-)
 
Oops haha, flagged them as NaA. Never flagged answers before, just questions.
 
@RosieF Thanks Rosie!
 
@A.Mirabeau When is the next Labryca puzzle likely to be? :-)
 
4:18 PM
@Randal'Thor Thanks for the edit! Reibello may have got the password, but you were the first to give it a shot and obviously put a ton of effort in.
 
I want another Enigmatic Sudoku to solve, that was interesting ^^
 
@Randal'Thor I've got some free time. I'm going to write it this weekend, and then do the images probably early next week. I wanted to actually make the DIVA quiz an interactive thing where you could click the yes/no buttons and have it go to the next question automatically, but I don't know how to make clickable image maps.
 
@A.Mirabeau This question and this question may help you in that aspect.
 
@A.Mirabeau Sounds good! It was an enjoyable puzzle to attack, because there were lots of parts to it with varying levels of difficulty: some were easy to get right away, others took a bit more work, some were really hard, and some I didn't get at all. If everything had been too easy, the whole thing wouldn't have been as interesting; but if everything had been too hard, it would've been harder to get a handle on it in the first place. It's nice to have a scale like that.
 
@dcfyj And this one ;)
 
4:23 PM
@dcfyj Thanks!!
 
Didn't know about that one :P
 
@Randal'Thor Thanks, balance seems to be the toughest thing for me to find when I'm creating puzzles of any kind. The first floor of Labryca was solved within about 10 minutes, for example.
 
@Mithrandir How's Clue Thirteen coming along? :-)
 
@Randal'Thor I'm finishing the diamond sequel first.
 
How dare you! :P
 
4:27 PM
If you want them up sooner, tell Sci to hurry up and betatest the part that I need him to :P
 
@Scimonster Hurry up and betatest Mithrandir's cipher! ;-)
 
It's not a cipher, but whatever :P
 
@RosieF I'm not sure about your answers there; the second answer (now deleted) was not a complete answer. Since 95% of the figuring out was the same there, I would probably think that it could be one answer, with two guesses as to the final result, if you weren't sure which was correct. Once the OP confirmed, you could edit out the incorrect guess.
 
@Mithrandir Btw, if you're interested in the 'cat' meme ...
 
I think AJ's answers should definitely have been 2 separate ones.
 
4:35 PM
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Q: You will have to pray!

AvigrailThis riddle is so easy that I already have created another one. Just in case. Anyway, please avoid wild guesses. For sure I am queer and out of place Are you still here? Go start the chase But always remember in the first place stacks are amazing but not a maze I'm in the beginning as well as ...

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Q: riddle - pray you can find the word!

rand al'thorTo answer this riddle, solve each of the four lines independently and put all the clues together to get a one-word final answer. Nonsensical abstraction high up in the army; The woman with the wheel fires the cannon. She's very fast but only in reverse gear. Certainly a terrorist, but only ju...

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Q: Riddle... pray that this is the last one

d'alar'copStop worshipping me! Away! you flea! I'll stomp you with my boots, You know I'll accept any substitutes, At first, I change you, Then I begin to arrange you, And finally I end your precious heartbeat! Who is yelling at you? As usual, please explain all steps in deriving an answer :)

 
@Randal'Thor I'll take a look.
 
Oh, hey, that's why I thought I did the Matchbox question last week: fivethirtyeight.com/features/…
 
@Randal'Thor Also, that reminds me, I have more pretzels waiting to be posted as well.
 
ooh, pretzels?
 
@Sconibulus Pretzels.
 
4:43 PM
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Q: We interrupt your scheduled series for a pretzel rebus

MithrandirWhat does this rebus, drawn with pretzels, say? (This is what happens when I get bored with pretzels on the table... ;P) Note: The 'scheduled series' mentioned is this. It still needs to be solved! Overall picture: Individual pictures: Note: That black dot in the second one is not imp...

 
@Mithrandir "The 'scheduled series' mentioned is this. It still needs to be solved!" - flagged as obsolete.
 
@Randal'Thor I'll fix it soon.
 
Zeuski elk
 
@Sconibulus ???
 
that was my first thought looking at the pretzels, before looking at the answer, so I googled it to see if it was a thing that existed
then I realized it was a funny word, so posted it anyway
 
4:49 PM
i have just imagined Zeus skiing with an elk
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although looking back, I have no idea why I thought elk...
probably just because it sounded good with zeuski
 
5:31 PM
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Q: Two spies plan a secret meeting

jmb.mageTwo spies meet in the city on 9/16/16. One delivers a message to the other. It says: Nones 5 4 7.3 9 10 11 12 1 9 4 11 9.4 1.1 11 11 4 They nod at each other in approval and then meet somewhere to continue their conversation over breakfast. Where do they meet and when?

 
5:43 PM
I'm confused... my profile just said that I gained 3 Rep since I last looked at it, but the only rep I've gotten is upvotes on the question I posted today. (no downvotes on it either).
 
@dcfyj Maybe some answers you downvoted got deleted?
 
@dcfyj +1, -1
 
Or did you hit repcap?
@BeastlyGerbil No downvotes though.
 
Oh yeah.
 
I've only gotten 75 today.
 
5:46 PM
I've got 9 :P
 
Did you downvote three answers that have since been deleted?
 
Perhaps the spam ones and one more?
 
I downvoted one of the spam, but it was deleted.
Do answer votes show up in the profile votes cast?
 
when you downvote an answer, it costs -1. When the answer is deleted, the rep point is returned - i.e. +1.
 
Would be nice if they had that in the rep history
 
5:51 PM
@dcfyj Apparently not once the answer is deleted. (I just checked in my own voting history.)
 
AFAIR, I only downvoted 1 thing today.
 
Maybe SE just doesn't like you :P
 
well, it is not necessarily from today (the downvote) - it could have been just deleted today
@BeastlyGerbil it would have been nice if everyone who doesn't like you, gives you +3. :)
 
@dcfyj You accepted an answer = +2 rep. Your downvote on the deleted answer was returned to you = +1 rep.
 
There we go we can stop speculating now :P
The mods know all, see all have done it all...
 
5:59 PM
Then why doesn't my rep history have "accepted answer" on it? lol
Also, why is someone editing a 2 year old answer?
 
probably for the revival badge
 
I almost got the necromancer badge once
 
@dcfyj Perhaps the Q just happened to come up in a string-search or tag-search.
 
True, that's a possibility
 
@dcfyj Or it was Related to a Q the user had read. That happens to me a lot -- I click on a Related link and it turns out to be a year or two old.
 
6:04 PM
@BeastlyGerbil You're thinking of the excavator badge.
 
That one would be the right one
 
Revival is when you answer a 30+ day old and get +2 on it :P
 
I got a Necromancer badge once...
On Meta.
 
I just need +3 on my revival answer and I'll get necro ^^
I doubt I'll get it though
 
What answer?
 
6:07 PM
now is your chance :)
 
lol
 
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A: What should the subjects of our fortnightly topic challenges be?

MithrandirI would like to suggest rebus. This happens to be a recent favorite of mine, so... why not? :)

^Necromancer badge :P
 
Base64 = ^<O}uw<9q
...Probably nothing.
 
AFAICT, the answer I posted is it, but there's no way anyone would've guessed that.
 
6:09 PM
Whee Necromacer badge for you ;)
 
lol, I wasn't fishing for a reviver of the dead, but apparently I pulled one out of the water.
Thanks for the 30 rep ye kindly miscellaneous peoples.
 
Your welcome.
 
@dcfyj I just need one more upvote on this to get Necromancer.
 
By the way, just in case anyone isn't sure how to pronounce "Labryca", picture a Toto cover whose chorus goes "I lost my brains down in Labryca".
And "Labrycean" rhymes with "Lando Calrissian".
 
There you go, Randy ;)
 
6:13 PM
@Randal'Thor an old answer for an old question?
 
@A.Mirabeau I haven't seen Star Wars, and Toto to me is just a dog in The Wizard of Oz. So I'm still lost :-)
 
@Randal'Thor Hey, me too ;)
 
@Mithrandir Thank you kindly :-D
 
Lab-Rick-Ka
 
@dcfyj The answer might be old now; it wasn't then.
 
6:14 PM
of course not :P
 
I'm closing chat now, so that I can work on one of the three puzzles that I'm due - Pretzels 2, Diamond 2, and Clue 13.
 
That kind of behavior is not allowed
 
@dcfyj Thanks.
 
2 2 13 - I like it - my favourite numbers
 
@Mithrandir good luck!
 
6:15 PM
catch you later @Mithrandir
 
@Mithrandir See you!
Phlarx has posted some ideas for my cipher.
 
I'm stuck working on the pretty pictures
 
@RosieF I was just looking at that ... still not getting any inspiration though.
 
6:35 PM
@Randal'Thor I said I didn't watch Star Wars? Well, I actually broke my oath and watched A New Hope.
It was awful, in my opinion. How did it get to be the most famous movie of all time?
 
@Mithrandir Because crap sells?
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I mean, Harry Potter isn't great either, IMHO. It's certainly not awful - there's a nice story there, and one or two bits of it are really good - but it doesn't deserve all the hype it gets, as if it's one of the best books ever written.
 
Well, HP took off because it was a good book at the point when suddenly there were a lot of people who knew how to read, way more than any other point in history.
Okay. Finished one part of diamond2. Sci is betatesting another. Now I need to create math problems :/
 
Anyone want to start a bounty on this, to help the OP who wants an answer so much they just tried to repost the same question? (I would, but it's not my kind of puzzle, and I can't even tell whether it's good or not.)
@Gareth maybe; he might even make back the rep lost in the bounty just in upvotes on his answer there.
 
I want that 47 rep that the cap swallowed last week :/
 
I added a bounty
@Mithrandir - now simply solve it, and you will get at least 50 :P
 
6:48 PM
@MariaDeleva I'll try :P
 
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Q: Binary Coordinates Puzzle

Juan VazquezI was told instead of re-asking a question to rather edit my old post to bring the question back into subject. So I'm going to try to reformat it entirely. The following puzzle is a geocache puzzle that should give coordinates when solved. Puzzle: Line 1: ZzZZzzzzzzzzzZzzZzzzzZZZzz Line 2: ZZ...

 
Didn't he check an answer on the other one?
 
Unfortunately I still haven't been able to solve it. But I do really appreciate your random thoughts! I was given a hint that "one line helps you figure out how to parse the other line" and "The coordinates are all in the first line. The second line will help identify where they are." But even with that I'm still pretty lost. — Juan Vazquez 30 mins ago
 
He seems confused on how this site works.
 
Yes.
But I helped him out a bit with a comment on his reposted question.
 
6:54 PM
yup, I saw
 
@Randal'Thor Make your TM puzzle have that yellow background on the top :P
 
I made mine slightly orange so that it wouldn't bother the colorblind folk ^^
 
@Mithrandir Don't know how.
I copied the table formatting from someone else's question.
Making a whole image file with yellow colour in it seemed like too much effort.
 
I put mine in Excel and took a screenshot of it.
 
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