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Sphinx
Sphinx
3:20 AM
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Q: Fill the jar 3L & 5L

rudraYou have infinite amount of water.Your have given two jars one is of 3 liters and second is of 5 liters. Task :- you have to calculate 4 liters of water in jar;

mathematics logical-deduction
 
 
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humn
humn
4:26 AM
[Once again, this can happen an idle chat room . . .]
Hello again! Half back from technical difficulties, no relation:
Musical background (re)presented:
Yes, the stereo (and electricity) is on again. Anyone who wants, or dares, musical review please annoy my neighbrs with another link.
Another link:
While at it, anyone know whence this? Someone sent it right up my alley:
... for amusing diversion:
To quote, "please annoy my neighbrs with another [loud] link."
Such as:
No takers yet? Don't make me reach . . .
No such luck? Nature abhors a vacuum . . .
^ can you believe that's just two earthlings? Motivated by many others, of course.
... while looking up something else ...
(whaoh!, the neighbrs were just about to call the cops when "net neutrality" got clipped! No mas musica?!?!?!?!?)
(Really, the youtube connection just dropped. Hopefully that's local.)
Ping?
... all better ... see what happens next time . . . . . . . . .
(I'd rather have another visit by authorities than warm up under a nationwide blanket.)
Did I ever mention when I got to DJ a radio station for 6 hours because my friend passed out? You don't want to hear about it.
Then again, if you're annoying your neighbrs, they're hearing about it again and now.
I was on the air for 1/4 of a day and nobody called to ask me for help with homework.
Which I would have given at half volume.
Actually, one listener did call and got more than exactly what they asked for.
[as soon as anyone else says something topical here I'll stifle]
(To me, every aspect of life is puzzling. Even the feral cat treads on the latest crossword puzzle when I'm making the thinker pose on the can.)
(It can happen.)
Just move ahead to 2:16 if you want to hear a wondrous upside-down bell-ringer. Best part begins at 3:01:
 
humn
humn
5:54 AM
(Again, from a repentant puzzle book thief (last one almost half a century ago), all I ever wanted was loud music:)
By the way, if you don't already know, playing jazz is so much like a puzzle. The rules are laid out at the top left corner.
After that there are a few places where everyone has to agree.
Between those places, nothing but surprises.
And it all works out.
 
Alconja
Alconja
Only passing, but I see you're in a musical mood @humn, so I'll at least drop a contribution on my way through...
 
humn
humn
!
 
Alconja
Alconja
 
humn
humn
6:20 AM
Thank you @Alconja. Others have told me to check out Porcupine Tree without such an appropriate link. I hear you.
 
Alconja
Alconja
The others were right :)
 
humn
humn
*
(that's not an anus!!!!! that's a blush. Listening again (and again))
 
Alconja
Alconja
To shift gears...
 
humn
humn
^ too good to be true
The floor is shaking.
 
Alconja
Alconja
Then my work here is complete. Have a good weekend. :)
 
humn
humn
6:27 AM
Grace!
Grates!
^ that means more than one thank-you, regardless of what it looks like
Wow, can't believe that didn't burn my speakers. Maybe with a little more twist.
Every piece of music, like every interpersonal gift, is a puzzle to be recognized even before solving, be so lucky.
The puzzle before the puzzle is to have a glimmer of the puzzle presented.
^ that was for you, @Rubio
^ in honor of who does. No need to reply, sorry about the @
By the way, the only reason instrumentalists like to play with me is because I'll play with every instrument . . . when everyone's ready . . . and that's ambiguous ever so intentionally . . . let's play!
(And, yeh, I play almost every instrument, and it ain't easy but the trick is to make it look easy, because the result is worth it.)
(Actually, the trick is to channel others who make it look easy.)
Please disregard the clothings of the time:
(I still live for the time when that message is obsolete. But it really produced some sweet melodies.)
Think this is going in circles:
^ great song, though thankfully I don't have anyone in the crystal grip at the moment
(my vices go toward the tranquil but I understand all too well why others go toward the amplified)
(that's why I always say "drive safely")
(Perhaps a little more candid than necessary, but suitably veiled. I assume that everyone here wakes up in a world that wasn't brochured. Almost every day I do and embrace what's here. While knowing how to mask it myriad, without alterants. Word to the wise.)
^ pLease delete. Thank you.
^and that and this
^ @Alconja, the first part reflects half of what you shared. The second part might take you to a desert thirsty for what the you-know-what-the-
 
humn
humn
7:46 AM
Guess that's it for now. See you the next time all the stars and planets align.
^ That seemed to truncate... try again:
^always worth another try
 
BmyGuest
BmyGuest
Hi @Humn, not much traffic here today. Everybody online shopping or queing at shops ;c)
I'm browisng in shortly only myself. Having an online meeting soon.
 
humn
humn
Hello @BmyGuest!
No need to reply, but thank you for doing so already.
 
BmyGuest
BmyGuest
I haven't been in and out of Puzzling for a few months now (just once or twice), did I miss any major highlights? (Community-wise)
(Or puzzles. Kind of sad the "best-of" didn't give me a quick go about ;c))
 
humn
humn
Same here.
 
BmyGuest
BmyGuest
8:01 AM
Ah. Also, I think my last puzzle was drowned by the ThanksGiving time :c( :c( Not much feedback whatsoever.
 
humn
humn
Missed it! FFFFFFFFFFF!
(looking up)
 
BmyGuest
BmyGuest
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Q: These alien safes have no end

BmyGuest Well, I could solve the last safe, but what did it buy me? Just another instant-teleport and boom... here I am again! In a single room with very few things around me, most notably a safe, and no door out. Just great. Somehow I can't fight the feeling that I'm tested in a more and more chall...

enigmatic-puzzle visual three-dimensional
 
humn
humn
Mmmmmm!
 
BmyGuest
BmyGuest
Took me ages to get the images together. As usual when I want to do it in 3D.
 
humn
humn
Oyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoy.
oyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyy!
You create a mysterious feel that draws everyone in.
 
BmyGuest
BmyGuest
8:05 AM
The puzzle itself isn't that hard/complicated in terms of complexity, but I do think it requires a fair amount of brain-power and isn't a 5-min sover neither.
 
humn
humn
(You create much more than that too)
 
BmyGuest
BmyGuest
Thanks for the roses.
Liked your last rebus. Really nice find.
Ah, my computer has finished compling code. Need to go and prepare the meeting now. Will check in later again, if I find the time.
 
humn
humn
Nice drop!
Or was it . . .
(the misspellings make the well-turned recording all the more worthwhile)
 
Sid
Sid
@BmyGuest you might like this one. puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/56877/…
 
humn
humn
^ Sid, you don't miss a beat!
 
BmyGuest
BmyGuest
8:16 AM
@Sid Right you are!
 
humn
humn
(My career is careening. That's another compliment!)
 
Sid
Sid
(I probably need to work on a puzzle soon. I have one on the back burner for ages.)
 
humn
humn
Any hint? It must be sizzling.
(Same here. Too hot to touch at the moment.)
 
Sid
Sid
@humn the weather is cold. I don't like it
And @wen probably a hInt for your C4?
 
humn
humn
It was below freezing here too.
 
Sid
Sid
8:25 AM
Well, it's not that cold. Might be below 15 though (in centigrade for all you Americans. :P)
 
humn
humn
@Sid , I don't want you to meet my intendeds!
You are always a step ahead. Enjoy the ride.
^that had nothing to do with puzzling. Back to the regular program.
I told my father (who never learned English but does crosswords every day) that the feral cat lays over the puzzle of the day whenever I stoop to you-know,
So the ding (my father) said that the dang (that feral cat) was just trying to help me with "backyard howler."
I'll never be the same.
Someone please (!) put up a video that would embarrass you as much as the above. Now the neighbrs are calling to evince the silence.
"Evince" was for you, @Gareth.
Gareth understands my every move before the fact.
Just makes it more fun.
Someone asked me about "intuition" and it took a few questions to know what that meant.
Turned out that it meant: "how do you know what to do when you don't know what to do?"
(I answered many other ways, because "intuition" is a loaded word.)
This is why my favorite tag is real
And that brings up the topic of aconcrete tags. Is that why god created hashtags?
By now, perhaps a decade or two late, it seems that so-called hashtags are approbrium to whatever should be recognized.
So now everyone who hashes is an archivist.
Let's go. Let it go. It's about time!
Sedeleriously, the thumbprints are apparent.
Hello, present (what used to be the future).
One challenge is to winnow all this grain from the chaff.
(Another apology for naughty language. I hope for the best.)
(And do believe that puzzle-solvers among us can: first, figure out the solution; second, get it through our thick skulls)
 
humn
humn
9:18 AM
Darlings, I recycled almost half of my books. Would you believe it, many of them were stolen, some duplicate, from various public libraries, so long ago. Now they're online and we should put up their links. Hurray!
The best is titled Posers and it had a backup, but my lame internet connection itsn't backing that up with details right now.
But the youtubes keep toting. What and for how long?
To rerererererererererepeat:
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
0
Q: It protects you

KrimiYou can touch it. You can feel it. You can smell it. It protects you

riddle
 
humn
humn
^ Yah, you cool.
That brings up another topic. How to respond to what we've seen again over and yet don't understand?
Sometimes I pretend to understand, knowing that I will eventually,
Sometimes I understand that it's not understandable, and search for words to convey as much.
Get it? It all depends on who shared their conundrum with us.
And how they shared it.
^That makes no sense!
^But here I am to type before the next dropout. It's just not fair.
Darlings! We could make music. Or some kind of trellis for it. As daunting as it sounds (!) it's nonetheless a combination of movement and harmony.
It's a puzzle that reaches our souls, as does any puzzle. See what I mean?
One challenge is to get dinger-doers to lift up their heels. That's an easy one -- they want to!
Another challnge is to click a rhyme on time. Not so easy, but it's been solved again and again and again.
It's kinda like a recipe.
Put in some ingredients and stir it up!
(Just for the record, I've stirred it up so many times before that the present is, well, ever present.)
Nobody else ready to bare their puzzled souls now and forever forgotten?
My loudspeakers are heating the room.
My loudmouth is asking for more.
My openears are begging.
My resignation is okay without.
Random musing: I don't have earbugs/earplugs, though I've made love to one with them. She said to not worry. I said the same. The love was intense, and tomorrow it might be again, but the difference was immaterial.
^that's a real poem
It can happen.
^ that's what bubbles up when nother else does ^
The person who loves me most (outside immediate family) keeps getting random messages saying "I don't want to talk with you" or to that effect.
She knows exactly what that doesn't mean.
She's so tough.
This is what happens in a vacucucucucuhat.
And she beats me at every card game we've played.
(And I make sure it works out that way fhe few times it mightn't.)
What delight! Nobody is stepping on this puzzled web! My turn.
But I wish you would.
Don't make me go starlight.
That's longer than anyone should endure, and more beautiful than anyone deserves.
 
humn
humn
10:58 AM
"How many mysteries do we achieve each day" . . . signed, an incorrigible puzzleer
@Mithrandir, I thought you'd strike an inspirational chord.
Again, though, no need to be on call! See you next time.
(ahhhhhh, duplicate deleted)
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
I would, but I'm kind of busy right now. Sorry.
 
humn
humn
Thanks for that much. More power to you. @Mithrandir
Many edits missed. More power to you, @Mithrandir, you are a true protagonist!
Come to think of it, what is the name for someone who creates agony without being for or against?
Like a scratch without purpose.
That's me.
But without harm too, just someone on the surface.
An apparation?
Certainly chimeric. Might not be back. Here now, though.
Think I'll change mynym to "no reply necessary"
Because, well, the nym would say it all
 
humn
humn
11:36 AM
Whoever you are, do yourself a favor and start at 10:00whatever:
Many critics were turned off to that because their ears were already full. It was the 70s.
My ears then, as now, say the more the merrier!
... now I'm listening to my ears? Next I'll be smelling my nose. Life can be wonderful.
 
humn
humn
11:56 AM
Please share anything likewise:
I almost slept there while a storm brewed upstream. Life ain't fair.
By that I mean that it was beautiful. While, simultaneously, another more-than-beloved gasped her last.
Life can be so beautiful and so unfair.
Figure that out, fellow puzzlers!
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
0
Q: Who killed the frog🐸?

rudraThere was one frog, mistakenly fallen into a pan full of boiling water. No animals were harmed in the making of this question Biologically, frog has tendency to change the temperature of his/her skin according to the external temperature. So, the frog adjusted it's body temperature accordi...

riddle logical-deduction puzzle-creation
 
humn
humn
12:12 PM
^great puzzle, bad timing on my part.
 
 
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Gareth McCaughan
Gareth McCaughan
2:00 PM
How is it a "great puzzle"? It looks to me like an unusually bad puzzle; what am I missing?
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
2:21 PM
0
Q: A better criteria for a strong weapon

prog_SAHILThis is not necessarily a puzzle. I just finished watching Death Note. For people who don't know what it is. Here is a brief idea. It is an anime revolving around a book called the 'Death Note'. The owner has to write the name of the person he wants to kill [He can also specify method ...

logical-deduction enigmatic-puzzle lateral-thinking
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Q: Packing (cooking equipment) for Mars

SneftelHeading to Mars tomorrow, and I want to make sure I can still make my famous bean soup. Ordinarily I just cook it in a pot, but I remembered that beans are hard to cook at high altitudes, and Mars is like really high up, so I guess I need a pressure cooker. I'm at a department store now, and all ...

lateral-thinking knowledge physics
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
2:50 PM
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Q: Split into two equal quantities

ibrahim mahrirYou have a container of a capacity of 12L filled with water. Your task is to split that quantity (12L) of water into two equal quantities (6L) using only two additional containers: one of a capacity of 7L and another of a capacity of 4L. How would you acheive that?

mathematics
 
 
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thecoder16
thecoder16
5:00 PM
@GarethMcCaughan I would say the concept behind the puzzle is interesting, it's just asked in a way that makes it way too broad.
 
 
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Sphinx
Sphinx
6:04 PM
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Q: what will be the answer for 888=?. See the rules in description

user6433464I found this puzzle on another website and I wanted to share it here. I will post the source link after a week to avoid spoilers. Here are some rules: 111 = 09 444 = 12 777 = 15

pattern
 
humn
humn
6:46 PM
More radio silence? What could be more than less?
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
7:02 PM
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Q: Ugh, I decant even

SneftelYou know those decanting-problems, where you have two jugs of different sizes, and a water fountain, and you need to get a specific amount of water into one of the jugs using the smallest number of pours? I came up with a decanting problem like that, but then it turned out that there were two sol...

mathematics metapuzzles decanting-problems
 
humn
humn
Is this out of tune on purpose?:
Whether or not, it works.
Speaking of puzzles, ever been to Paradox Valley? I never left, so to speak.
(Oops, already plopped that pic, see what I mean? Once you go there it stays with you even if you don't stay there.)
The battle scenes are too much, but the rest isn't enough:
 
humn
humn
7:46 PM
Another group who is just as good live as on record:
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
1
Q: The beautifull Misfit Mountains of Argentina

DotanIn Germany, everyone drinks an Angry Mojito If you go to France, you should get an Elastic Mohawk In the UK, chewing a Tame Mint is quite common Don't go to USA without your Damp Tissue for emergencies Denmark is famous for it's Long, Lumpy Rollerblades as means of transportation When you're...

riddle enigmatic-puzzle lateral-thinking
 
humn
humn
Too much is never enough . . .
Once again, to soothe . . .
"Once a month we go down to the bar,
for 45 minutes we're rock and roll stars.
Hang around the parking lots,
And go home alone."
I'll never be cool:
"I've met the people that you've read about in books. Here come a riddle, here come a clue."
"I believe in mystery. Love is as simple as one two three. The answer is obvious, love has come to town!"
The first poem I wrote was to the smartest girl in town. It said that she didn't even know what that meant. She did better than I.
The catch line was "today my car ran better than I."
And then she kissed me.
That was months ago.
A few hundred or so.
Okay, welcome to my time capsule:
(As if anyone asked, the group is Big Brother And The Holding Company, not Janis Joplin.)
(They know how to guitar one against another!)
Arranging music is where I come to life. Someone recently asked why they hadn't seen this or that. I said, because you didn't play it.
So many jewels are present only to those for whose eyes they're meant.
That's it! Listen again and over and again. Your move.
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
9:06 PM
0
Q: The missing change connundrum

DotanThree glorps walk into a bar (this is NOT a joke) They have a meal that costs 10 shmekels each. They pay the waiter cash. The waiter goes to the register, and the manager tells him, "glorps don't usually come here, let's give them a 5 shmekel discount so they'll come back". The waiter takes 5 s...

riddle
 
humn
humn
9:24 PM
Steve Howe is the greatest guitarist. Yes I've heard others. While looking for proof, enjoy this:
Listen closely beginning at ~1:03.0000. I broke into many concerts and out of some jails before being treated to all these notes live.
I also broke into tears.
Really, nobody else on these airwaves right now? Don't make me break out Eno.
^ that was for you, @Alconja, wherever you are.
 
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
9:48 PM
@humn isn't it better to just pay for a ticket?
 
humn
humn
I tried that too, @John Dvorak. Worked out better, now that you mention it.
Having all these clips available online makes me feel like I jumped another fence.
(oyoyoy, looking back I realize that most of the fun was solving the barricade. Only occasionally was it sprinkled with outstanding music.)
". . . Tell me that I've done something wrong . . ."
Personal tale. Someone took me into the woods and said we would climb a tower and make a scene.
So I did.
Everyone else was so scared by how that looked that they didn't even try.
Here to tell. Don't try this at home.
(But now that you know, goad me into the next misadventure.)
Making a nuisance here is the closest I've daredeviled in a couple of years.
There were two weeks, once upon a time, when I was scared of the outcome. After that I pulled branch after branch to ground for safety.
^ that one was for you, @Rand
(Rand Al'apostrophe understands my attempts at poet'y.)
 
Rubio
Rubio
10:24 PM
I may eventually get caught back up here after a week of insufficient spare time. hehe
 
ffao
ffao
I may eventually get caught back up here after a week of excessive spare time :P
right now I have to sort out all issues at work because everyone else is in skychicken coma
 
Rubio
Rubio
Here's hoping everyone's Thanksgiving was full of food, festivity, and thankfulness for the good things in life. Whether your Thanksgiving was yesterday, a month ago, or just a feeling in your heart.
2
I'm definitely still in coma mode.
 
humn
humn
^ The stars came out to shine!
It's summer here, in the middle of winter
Shine on, global warming!
(I brag to my locale of the stellaria that keep me awake seomtimes.)
(Then I apologize for trying to provoke jealousy.)
This is the mileu where my lifelong attempt to understand whatever anyone says is amplified. Thank you and you and you, and you.
Given that, wonder of wonders, back to earshatttering music.
 
humn
humn
10:54 PM
So it's light out for now, in the meanwhiL:
 

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