The Sphinx's Lair

12:02 AM

what

Seven Bridges of Königsberg is not a dupe?

(at least I can't find one)

back again... so if we're assuming a given column of numbers marries up with a given row of numbers, perhaps the three sets are hollow circles, filled circles and connecting lines (sans circles). With the black squares filling the gaps and thus not identified.

Which would explain why one row/column in each set has higher numbers... you'd expect more lines than circles

12:17 AM

@ffao Not exactly a dupe, but this one presupposes the answer.

yes, but then a question that actually has the answer explained is still valuable

The older question has links to pages that explain the answer, and at least one of its answers also explains.

a link is not good enough to be a standalone answer for all the known reasons

and as one of the answers on that questions says, "The real puzzle is figuring out why there has to be zero or two nodes with an odd number of entry/exits"

which no answer actually explains

including the answer given to the question above

Apep

This answer provides an explanation.

yeah, that one does

boboquack

12:35 AM

@ffao/@GarethMcCaughan Is this similar enough: puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/12599/…

I'm inclined to think so. The only difference is that the particular graph shown is a different one, but the principle is exactly the same.

I wasn't too keen on the other one, but this one looks good enough

Rubio

@feelinferrety glad to provide that entirely necessary aside. :)

Sp3000

1:16 AM

(weekly Contact is on, not sure whether it was mentioned here)

1:37 AM

wow

a whole bunch of people upvoted this recently

now i hit the milestone

Because of a nomination in meta

@stacksfiller Congrats. A worthy milestone. :)

so now i guess i'll never get another upvvote :p

no one would want to disturb that balance

I do admit, part of me genuinely hopes so

Same here...

1:44 AM

I'm happy enough now

out of curiosity, roughly how many hours went into the construction?

I thought it'd never hit 140 even possibly when i posted it

i do not have any idea

which roughly translates as lots :)

i'm bad at estimating time enough when it's a solid block, but making puzzles is so scattered for me and a bunch of bits and pieces

I have the title and answer and theme for my next puzzle, but not the entirety of the middle bit -- i.e. most of it

yeah, totally understand. I wouldn't be any better. I've been working on my current one for nearly a calendar year, but who knows how much actual time has gone into it.

Sounds like one I have in my notes that I'm keen to do. An awesome presentation idea (i've even done so PoC work), but no actual puzzle to present.

1:50 AM

I'm surprised by how many people read meta

it was almost 20 short of 140

Destructible Lemon

i got too many votes on one of my ppcg challenges once

ASCII-only

@DestructibleLemon too many?

Destructible Lemon

the covfefe one

ok so I'm gonna get this cool art program thing and use it to make a sromg thing now

if i can install go

the page it linked is not working

excuse me how do i install go

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4:14 AM

I'm feeling lucky

Destructible Lemon

4:46 AM

should I add another hint to my puzzle?

4:56 AM

If you don't feel people are getting anywhere

5:08 AM

Anyone else around for codenames? one more would be useful....

6:01 AM

^For codenames click the above link

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8:18 AM

Q: A divided country

The TRIM GAL exited a FORD CAR. She wore a LONG LEI and on her WAY DOWN to the beach bar ordered LIME WATER in a glass with a LOW RIM. An ANT hopped from a RICK up a candle's WICK and all was DONE. Choosing sixteen words from above, find ten nouns with a common property. No anagramming is...

Q: Filling 0s and 1s into a board

9:08 AM

You are given a $9$x$9$ grid board. You have 40 of "$1$"s and 41 of"$0$"s. You can put these numbers wherever you want on the board. After that, you will take the sum of the numbers in each row and column and as a result there will be $18$ of them. Is it possible to have 9 even sum and 9 od...

strategy grid-deduction board-games

9:33 AM

For anyone not paying attention to the newest stuff

lomeep.com is what peoples are working on

boboquack

10:06 AM

And here:

Outwords discussion

Talk about Outwords (lomeep.com)

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11:08 AM

Outwords is really fun

I recommend not reading the chat if you want to do it yourself since we're quite far already

Mithrandir

11:26 AM

I’m not volunteering for a ball twistoff — sousben 14 hours ago

...is that delete worthy?

I don't see why it would be.

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2:03 PM

Q: What/who is missing?

What or who is missing in this puzzle? HINT:

word word-search

Q: Cells, sleeping with friends

2:16 PM

Your friend—a real scratcher, someone who irritates you like hell—writes a letter. Then they and you sleep and become one. Any full-sized passenger carrying van has this label. It's my crow.

enigmatic-puzzle

Q: My colleague gave me a number puzzle

2:30 PM

My colleague probably has left work now, he is no longer responding. He gave me this puzzle and asked me to fill in the '?': 4 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 7 6 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 6 8 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 8 1 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 7 9 | 4 | 6 | 8 | ? I tried seeing patterns from different angles. After a while ...

mathematics formation-of-numbers

wordplay lateral-thinking

2:59 PM

Q: Find a counter sign

Answer is a legitimate word, phrase, or number. We've a list of contacts for a number of enemy missions. Can you figure out the appropriate countersigns to trick them into trusting you? Operation Northern Groove: Sign: I'm too hot Countersign: (1) Operation Greetings: Sign: There's such a d...

three-dimensional geomatry

3:26 PM

Q: A hungry ant on a matchbox

A hungry ant is standing on the top of an empty matchbox cover (without its drawer) and has detected the smell of a drop of honey on the floor of the cover as shown in the figure below. What is the shortest distance for this little creature to crawl and reach the drop and drink it?

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Sid

4:35 PM

DOes this make sense to anyone?

Q: What is Trinity Hall Prime number?

aside from the scribbling, yes

It is a prime number with 1350 many digits. I did not get much information about this number on the internet. Question : What is Trinity Hall Prime number? I watched this video but did not get the number.

reference-request prime-numbers

Sid

Ah ha! Interesting

I think the scribbling (or whatever) may be irrelevant -- that was just the nearest thing he had to hand with the Trinity Hall shield on it, perhaps.

Apep

4:58 PM

That almost looks like a まin the bottom right.

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