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12:01 AM
Yeah finding the opposites is the main part
 
maybe include a link to a decent qr decoder
 
The entire hunt is QR-themed
I was tempted to make each puzzle a link to the next one but that doesn't really work with paper :)
 
 
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6:12 AM
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Q: The doomsday will occur at the year where there is a triple blue-moon

Jamal SenjayaA group of man working and counting on a very serious prophecy, which say "The doomsday will occur at the year with triple blue-moon". When will do doomsday occur? Note : A blue moon is a second full moon in a month of the common calendar. Next Year (2018) is a double blue-moon year.

 
 
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9:34 AM
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Q: Another Easy Mate in 1

Sleafar Standard chess rules apply, the board is not rotated (i.e. white pawns move upwards), no lateral thinking is needed. Simply find the one move for white which mates the black king. I will reveal the name of the puzzle creator after it was solved.

 
 
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11:04 AM
@GarethMcCaughan MURPHY ("maker" of a well-known law) = UR (old city) + PH (pub), all inside MY
 
11:22 AM
that doesn't seem kosher
oh. nvm, I see
too lazy to look - why is PH "pub" ?
 
"Public House"
I thought it was rather common in crosswords, although I can't find any suitable online authority to prove it.
 
@MOehm Correct! Well done. Your turn.
("pokes into my X" to mean "X pokes into my" is a slightly evil construction, but this sort of inversion is grammatically possible and found quite often e.g. in poetry. For instance, if in the coming months you happen to sing the carol "Silent night", the line "Strikes for us now the hour of grace" in verse 3 has the same structure.)
 
That line of Silent Night looks like German, but in English. :)
 
11:38 AM
Well, yeah. It's a translation from German, of course.
And the German poetry is ... pretty bad.
 
11:50 AM
That line in particular has an unusual word order, too, probably so that Mund can rhyme with Stund.
 
12:09 PM
Yeah. (The thing that really grates for me about "Stille Nacht" is its cutesiness. It's bad enough in English but the German is worse still.)
 
@GarethMcCaughan I'd say that's probably an unfair overgeneralization
 
@Mithrandir How so? (In case there was a miscommunication, let me make it explicit that I'm saying that the German poetry in Stille Nacht is bad, not that there's anything wrong with German poetry in general.)
 
12:39 PM
I don't care. I'll be singing it anyway.
CCCC: Hatchback crosspiece (8)
(This probably won't pass muster for the Cryptic Police, but I haven't got anything better at the moment. Sorry about that.)
By the way, what happened to the CCCC introductory link in the sidebar? I wanted to check the archive and don't have the link.
 
There it is
 
Ah, thanks. I wasn't sure whether I has posted a certain clue. Apparently not, so I can still use it next time.
 
It's not quite caught up, so if it's the "Groundbreaking start to experiment..." one, you have used it.
 
No, not that one. My memory is getting worse, but it isn't that bad yet. :) I posted that one last week, I think.
 
1:06 PM
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Q: Riddle - who am I - when you

xrossI have two versions of it: When you kill me, I return stronger. When you die, I prevail. Who am I? When you kill me, I return stronger. When you die, I become stronger. Who am I? Would appreciate answers to both of them.

 
1:38 PM
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Q: Cipher riddle - Who am I?

D. MellowDecode this chaotic mix of letters and symbols: XLEMFHIWOVNYRUDQCJPASGBTKZ !AEZF ,FQPVPRHH TMDD RG QVU OUHIVJH FDJMVR R WVKZ RS SEGLBIZHJMFTRXAVKNQPDWYCUO Here is the computing version: XLEMFHIWOVNYRUDQCJPASGBTKZ !AEZF ,FQPVPRHH TMDD RG QVU OUHIVJH FDJMVR R WVKZ RS SEGLBIZHJMFTRXAVKNQPD...

 
2:23 PM
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Q: Mathematically Incorrect

Pascal HurniWe have these rows: 98723645 = 4 09875432 = 4 74748332 = 2 12345678 = 3 01230123 = 2 What is: 67898532 = ?

 
3:12 PM
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Q: Dwarfs in a Mine

Pascal HurniThere are 20 Dwarfs in a Mine. A Dwarf is wearing a red or a blue helmet but they don't know what color they are wearing. At 17:00 the dwarfs are coming out of the Mine and now they have to stay in two groups: The red Dwarfs next to each other and the blue dwarfs next to each others. The Problem...

 
@Sphinx This seems an awful lot Code Puzzles: What (Not) To Do? -ish.
@Sphinx And this almost certainly needs Too Broad close-votes
 
 
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5:39 PM
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Q: Do we have a beginner question tag?

BarkerI recently posted a question targeted at beginners and I stated so in the question. Shortly after it was asked, a high rep user answered the question. It was an honest mistake, they answered before reading the flavor text explaining it was for low rep users, and they removed their answer until ...

 
6:01 PM
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Q: Gap of the Gods

Dr XorileFill in the missing Gods, in the correct order: Hermes Aphrodite ? Ares Zeus ? ? ? Credit to my daughter for the inspiration for this puzzle!

 
 
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8:15 PM
Contact happening now!
 
8:33 PM
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Q: How can I win without knowing how to play?

ParzivalI have been faced with a conundrum. I have been simultaneously challenged by two of the world's best chess players to play chess. The rules are simple. I will earn two points for a win, one point for a draw, and no points if I lose. There is one fairly large problem however... I don't know how to...

 
 
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10:05 PM
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Q: I've been created. What am I?

Jason VI am being sold by somebody that didn't find me. The finder did not create me. The creator did not know I was created. Perspective dictates my value. What am I?

 
10:34 PM
if we have chess puzzles, does that mean I can make puzzles for any such game with perfect information?
I think I might do that
except I'm not such a master at the game I want, to I'll have to make it only one or two moves
 
10:52 PM
is there a more specific tag than board games for ones that are like chess puzzles but not chess? (I mean, there's a difference between figuring out how likely someone is to win in a probabilistic board game that winning in 3 moves a deterministic perfect info game)
 
11:07 PM
Hunters of puzzles may want to take a look at "Pablo's Armchair Treasure Hunt" at pablosath.com. This is an annual puzzle-hunt sort of thing -- lots of interrelated [enigmatic-puzzles], leading to the location of an actual physical Thing to find somewhere in the UK. A good team typically takes a week or two to solve everything, though I can't help wondering whether @Deusovi's gang might embarrass everyone by doing it faster.
It starts in earnest in mid-December but what's there already is a poster which may possibly contain clues.
Teams not physically located in the UK can email the organizers saying exactly where they think the treasure is hidden, and score a "virtual find" that way instead of by actually going there. So it isn't necessary to be in the UK.
 
@GarethMcCaughan not the same...
 
No, indeed, doing it virtually is not the same as doing it physically.
 
anyway, I'm gonna try my hand at making a game puzzle tonight, tomorrow night, or the day after that
 
There's a small time penalty for a "virtual find" so that there isn't an incentive to do it virtually rather than physically.
 
should be fun
although to be fair I don't 100% understand the game rules despite all my game time simply because it wasn't written super clearly
 
11:14 PM
That could be a problem for your puzzle. I guess you can state your rules super-clearly.
 
like whether you can sacrifice a piece without using it's ability, or only using it's ability one or two times instead of the total amount
i need to do some research on that
or whether you can leave the board in the same state you left it
 
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Q: Chaotic Chess Game

DqwertyCYour friends Mark and Joe love playing all sorts of games. Board games, card games, modern games and classics, they played them all. One day when you were visiting them, they pulled out a chess board, and Joe said "We're going to show you something that will always guarantee a win!" He and Mark p...

 
How are comments managed? My answer is getting loads upon loads of comments
 
11:45 PM
> You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page.
dangit help center
 
@boboquack Not sure what managing is needed. You're not obliged to answer them all :-).
 

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