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12:42 AM
I spent 12 hours in a train over the past couple of days, and I took some Guardian cryptic crosswords with me. I spent at least 3 hours looking at them, and I solved a grand total of 2 clues
 
1:31 AM
ouch
their cryptics are insane though. and about half of them are UK-centric enough that getting them is tricky even if they weren't cryptic
 
1:43 AM
In any case, it did help to pass the time
 
2:16 AM
but so does sleep
 
@JohnDvorak but I snore and I am considerate of my fellow passengers
 
good argument
 
 
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3:53 AM
uh quick question
can i put a exclamation point just if i feel the clue needs some emphasis
or does that 100 mean &lit
 
4:25 AM
You can have a non-&lit with an exclamation point, and a &lit without one
 
4:47 AM
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Q: Who wears a crown

TwiffyWho has a crown but is no king Proclaimed his vows but has no ring Tends a garden; rarely eats Often sings but seldom speaks

 
 
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6:18 AM
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Q: Dominoes where NO two connected tiles have a number in common

Jamal SenjayaTake the following set of ten dominoes: 0-1, 0-2, 0-3, 0-4, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 2-3, 2-4, 3-4 Arrange the dominoes With Rules : NO two connected tiles have a number in common. 2 dominoes have been placed there as guide. There are 2 different solution. Solve This.

 
 
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10:03 AM
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Q: Which important Linux tool quotes a popular song if ran after midnight?

J. Doe(This is also called an Easter egg, hope it's not offtopic here)

 
10:17 AM
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Q: Fit the most chess pieces on a board with these rules

TweakimpFit the most pieces on a chess board. You are only allowed to place Rooks, Knights and Bishops. The number of each piece may not be more than one higher than the numbers of pieces of the other two. Every piece has to be attacked by exactly one other piece. I don't know what the answer to this...

 
11:01 AM
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Q: My first shot at a puzzle, a murder mystery I’ll host at a bar

Tony De JesusI’m hosting game night at my regular bar, and I’m gong to stage a murder mystery. Each of the suspect will make 4 statements, one of which is known to be a lie. I tried to construct it as soundly as I could, using a grid to check each person’s lies and truths. I based it roughly on this other pu...

 
 
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12:48 PM
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Q: Legal advise for a family dilemma

Mea Culpa Nay"A client of mine," said a lawyer, "was on the point of death when his wife was about to present him with a child. I drew up his will, in which he settled two-thirds of his estate upon his son (if it should happen to be a boy) and one-third on the mother. But if the child should be a girl, then t...

 
 
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5:13 PM
I don't understand all of the confusion surrounding puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/57324/…
 
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Q: What is the name?

ibrahim mahrir 0,4 ; 2,4 ; 2,0 ; 0,0 ; 0,1 3,0 ; 3,4 ; 5,4 ; 5,0 ; 3,0 8,0 ; 6,0 ; 6,4 ; 8,4 6,2 ; 8,2 9,4 ; 9,2 ; 11,2 ; 11,0 ; 9,0 11,4 ; 11,2 The above is the first name of a famous tv character. What is it (the first name)? Hints will be provided later.

 
 
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6:35 PM
@EricTressler "I mean if you have 3 copies of two pieces, you can have 2, 3, or 4 of the other piece. Maybe you can help me phrase that a bit better. The difference between number of rooks and number of bishops may only be 0 or 1." (from the comments) does not match what the text of the puzzle says
 
How does that not match?
 
(specifically, the number of rooks, knights and bishops must all be either k or (k+1) for some k).
According to the comment, I could have 2 bishops, 3 rooks, and 4 knights
according to the puzzle, I can't. because what would k be?
 
The given sets in the comment are: (3, 3, 2), (3, 3, 3), a& (3, 3, 4)
 
@Rubio No, you can't, because then the bishops and knights wouldn't satisfy that property.
 
@Rubio I think my edit really clarifies things, if read literally
 
6:38 PM
@Deusovi I know that, but the comment by the OP suggests 2,3,4 is a valid set.
oh. wait nevermind
 
Does it? I don't think so.
 
I can't actually read.
 
I think it's clear what the OP meant, but apparently some of the commenters didn't. I only edited the question because the comments were getting on my nerves and I felt bad for the OP
 
That's fair, I can't read either.
 
Could the CCCC be "URGENTLY" (INS(URGENT)) + LY?
It's missing "capture and seize", but I've started down this road and now I'm stuck
or EMERGENT
 
6:50 PM
reviewers / trusted users: this should probably be VTD'd.
those C4 answers don't seem likely
 
No, I suppose not
 
 
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8:02 PM
 
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Q: Sequence/Series - Find $a_n$ with only $n$

Yuval TubyIs it possible to find a formula of $a_n$ with only $n$ for this sequence/series? $1 , 24 , 69 , 136 , 225 , 1236 , 2449 , 3864 , 5481 , 7300 , 9321 , 11544 , 13969 , 16596 , 19425 , 22456 ...$ I have another way to show each number how it's made, so if it is impossible I can show what every n...

 
 
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9:27 PM
0
Q: Tolkien-inspired: who am I?

Don_SFirst timer, hope it won't be too easy. I can walk on the floor, I can walk on the wall Under trees, on top of hills slowly I do crawl Back and forth, back and forth, I stalk the streets at night If I fall I make no sound, but sometimes quite a fright Who am I?

 
@EricTressler Nice!
 
@GarethMcCaughan I looked at your thesis, and I had to share that. I only wrote it to learn how to draw things more efficiently in JS, but still
@micsthepick I don't understand. Why should I have something at /Triangle?
 
the sierpinski triangle
 
Though that is a great way to crash your browser if you're not careful
 
9:40 PM
good thing I am using chrome, so only the tab crashes
never seen this before:
 
Did you turn up the iterations / turn on a lot of branches?
 
note: Firefox wanting to open PDFs in their default application + Firefox being the default application for PDFs = lots of tabs
 
It's probably spending most of its time in some three.js library code, but I don't know. That's an experimental program, it's not even linked from my website
 
yes
 
I'm not touching webgl directly, but it's probably not a bug so much as a lack of resources or your browser detecting that something is taking too long
 
9:50 PM
A new low: the system tells me to log in, all the while knowing whom I'm not.
I'll never be the same.
(In other words, this place has been my balm for the last couple of difficult years. And now one sweetheart told me that another would like a call. When it rains it pours.)
To repeat:
(Sorry, usually I look before leaping. This time I'm just bursting with flavr.)
 
10:09 PM
one of capture and seize is an indicator and the other is just a word (or so I think...), but which is which?
 
Touche'!
When caught between a whither and a whence I choose to beg.
^There you are, @Volatility, I still owe you a complete answer.
 
hi @humn! what answer is this? i've completely forgotten haha
 
This is my curse, not yours.
The only things i never forget are those unforgotten.
And it adds up to a load and a half after all this time.
(If only this lame search device would work I'd link it.)
It's a doubly visual puzzle that my web history has lost.
 
That's the one!
 
10:21 PM
ohh right
 
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Q: A "Letter" Slope puzzle?

VolatilityYour brother has been forcing you to some read some of his frankly ridiculous poetry, so, knowing that he was never a numbers man, you decide to vex him with a Number Slope puzzle. In fact, you are so confident that he won't be able to solve it that you bet all your PSE rep on it. The next day, ...

 
The edited detail seems to be the lack of a space between grids 2 and 5 (numbering them as 1-2-5-3-4).
 
Mysteriosi, please explain
 
i think you're on to something deus :P
 
Well, Volatility claimed that the image was edited to provide a hint. I compared the two images, and the only difference was that decreased space:
 
10:27 PM
Agog.
 
As for what that could mean - specifically, how it gives us the ordering ILSOT / TOSLI (or just ILSO / OSLI?) I'm not sure.
 
I love it when geniuses blither.
 
yeah tbh looking at it now it's not a spectacular feature of the puzzle
takes a bit of an arbitrary connection
 
I've been looking at shapes of the grids. That first one looks like a capital I if you turn it sideways. But it doesn't seem to pan out for the rest.
 
@Deusovi, I would like to stride you on the playing field. As if that makes any sense.
That's what I've done. Taken giants alongstride.
 
10:34 PM
You flatter me so much more than is deserved. (I do appreciate it though!)
 
Take the baton.
And fly with it.
(and now the phone call I've been waiting for my whole life)
 
I tried frequency analysis of the note - no luck. It's suspiciously close to a 3-4-5-6-7 sequence of the letters, but they're in the wrong order.
 
I can say that the note is purely flavourtext, only the image matters
 
I can't see any possible way that space could be relevant.
 
it's supposed to be related to the question of why T is the fifth letter if it doesn't have 5 slopes
or at least, it's supposed to somehow excuse that inconsistency
 
10:47 PM
The group with 2 slopes (L,T) has two items in it (the second being an exception to the normal rule), just like the second "group" of grids has two items in it, where the second is an exception because it's of size 5?
 
oh actually, looking back at the comments, the connection's less arbitrary than i remembered
yeah that's the essence of it
 
That seems pretty arbitrary...
 
there's a detail linking the 4x4 grids to a letter which suggests that the grids are in order of number of slopes
 
Oh, the quarter dots also spell out ILSO. So we have I L/? S O, and the "?" is an exception.
 
yeah, that's it
 
10:52 PM
@humn, want to add that to your answer to finally close off the puzzle?
 
(half back)
@Deusovi , I'd be honored if you were to perform that.
 
I'd be happy to (but once again, you flatter me way too much!).
 
(I'm adither.)
(Folks, this is how it looks sometimes when a colleague loses one stitch after another.)
(Please welcome the new me when I get there.)
In the meanwhile, please put up a youtube,,,, or else.
 
(also, there's also this puzzle that's been collecting dust)
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Q: Mysterious First Contact

PSE ContactFebruary 14, 2017, at UTC 11:28 am. Welp. Forget about the Wow! signal. We've really been contacted by aliens this time – ones who have learnt English, too. Broken English, though, and even past the grammatical level – broken all the way to the graphemic level! Despite that, I think our team man...

 
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@Deusovi (after an interlude) You were the first to make me feel welcome here.
Now it'll take experts to exterminate me.
 
11:10 PM
Well, we don't plan to call in those experts anytime soon. c:
 
Infest!
(skip the imagery and ads, that's a feast for your ears)
I hope you take this in the spirit served, Deusovi, many layers of meaning:
"The clean up woman really cleans up."
"The reason I know so much about her is because . . ."
Think I'll change mynym to cleanuphumn.
 
@Volatility I've posted a partial answer that I suspect is about 70% of a correct answer, but may instead be pure barking-up-the-wrong-tree.
 
@Gareth nice! you're at the right tree, and the first three words are right
 
Splendid.
I suspect the #unintentional thing may be in reference to some memey thing I know nothing about...
(I'm not fishing for clues, btw. Just letting you know the state of my brain.)
 
11:57 PM
Before I lose every feather, enjoy this too:
(much better, zoom in)
 

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