The Sphinx's Lair - 2017-02-10 (page 2 of 6)

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8:00 AM

purple 1 seems to have the letters of numbers from 1 to 10

it's a word search!

Oh, damn. 2 b is SEASON

sort of?

@elias Join us on the sheet!

Should I delete my answer?

8:01 AM

sort of...

TheGreatEscaper

PSA: purple 2 has been edited

It wasn't broken, nor was there an ambiguity, it was just to satisfy a little bit of a purist quirk

that one seems to be phonetic alphabet

Hi @TGE on the spreadsheet

TheGreatEscaper

Hullo!

Any help on copying the purple things?

8:06 AM

yes, please

TheGreatEscaper

Sure

also, 'suit' does not fit into the concept of numbers

I see FIVE.

yeah, i also think words can be bended

even several times

that way i see five, seven, ten

maybe even eight and nine can be found

How do you change an answer in mobile to com wiki?

8:08 AM

ah, there is no 'G'

no eight then

TheGreatEscaper

Try to keep in mind the theme of this puzzle :)

or maybe G is the one marked with ?

no numbers larger than 6 then, i guess:)

thanks, @TheGreatEscaper

how is simple LEMON btw?

Sorry, that was a mistake

I had imagined LEMON= simple. But, it simply means old stuff.

TheGreatEscaper

Ah, someone finally found the word everyone was missing in the first purple puzzle :P

8:11 AM

?

oh, 5

What was that?

TheGreatEscaper

It was missing for a scarily long time

FIVE

So then we probably don't need 7-10

By the senary thing

and the 1 2 3 4 5 6??????

@Deusovi can you make my answer a community wiki?

Sure

8:14 AM

Thanks, I feel bad having posted when everyone is way ahead of me and working together

For the non-translate capable, ein außerirdischer means an extraterrestrial

ok, so any ideas about purple 1-2-3?

Primes extra? what does that mean?

"diet" / "release" is a bit questionable to me

sorry, i mean purple 3/4/5?

8:16 AM

@boboquack extra letters spell out prime numbers

probably irrelevant

TheGreatEscaper

It's not diet

Thanks!

TheGreatEscaper

'probably irrelevant', he says.

Didn't miss anyone out in edit did I?

TheGreatEscaper

Also, just general information: not every puzzle is immediately approachable

The masyu, for example, is obviously unsolvable for now

8:18 AM

...oh, duh. answer to that one is PRIMES

@TheGreatEscaper yep, figured THAT out

TheGreatEscaper

Yeah, I worried about 'PRIMES', which is why I put a question mark at the end

It's one small detail i didn't like so much... but think about what you're entering your answers onto

Maybe copy out the extra letters

I know you can read them easily in the grid

But literally seeing TWOTHREEFIVESEVEN?

Might give you a better idea of the question marks purpose

"Notes ..." is clearly DEE SHARPS. Nailed it.

TheGreatEscaper

Ah right

time to fold and solve the Masyu!

I think

or maybe not? idk

TheGreatEscaper

Anyway, I need to ping @deus ,
Because 'PRIMES' isn't quite what I was asking for
If I put a question mark in, I put it in for a purpose

8:23 AM

ELEVEN

TheGreatEscaper

oops he arrived as I typed

yup

PONG

TheGreatEscaper

Anyway follow the instructions why don't you

man. It's starting to look like a marsupial party in here.

TheGreatEscaper

It looks like you've done the third instruction box

Which means you're looking to move onto instruction box 4

8:25 AM

found the Japanese numerals

Need to work on my japanese.

Is it ichi ni san shi go rouk?

roku

so it's a 3d masyu?

cool

yep

Yellow FU FU O reminds me of MA MA U

TheGreatEscaper

8:28 AM

They're the same rebus-play, but other than that, unrelated

And if MA=SY,...

TheGreatEscaper

?

Oh, MAs 'U' is that what you're getting at?

I'm sleepy

fusyo?

TheGreatEscaper

Where'd the Y come from???

8:29 AM

same place the Y in MASYU came from

TheGreatEscaper

The Y in MASYU just comes from the fact that when you say 'U' you make a y sound anyway

...right, rebuses have homophones

FUs (that doesn't sound good) 'O'

17 hours ago, by Deusovi

Seriously, fuck you.

I think this is the right Masyu

user image

can't find a break-in though

TheGreatEscaper

Wait, how'd you get that?

8:32 AM

1-6 from Japanese numerals

put in the same places as the grid

(left in original is 1, right is 6)

TheGreatEscaper

The masyu pieces are just ordered by number of clues... you'll be fairly confident as to where they go later

...oh

TheGreatEscaper

Follow my instructions! They're there for a reason

HINT ALERT

TheGreatEscaper

no, I mean, the way they are displayed

is arbitrary

If you see the cryptics are just alphabetically ordered too

As is the purple row

Only the black row has order, so you should follow it! And as far as I can see, orange and 1/3 red need to be tackled first

Before the masyu, I mean

8:34 AM

Apparently, your instructions are hard to read

Orange? I see yellow.

^

I'm still colorblind

:P

So Orange-1/3 red or vice-versa is ichi ni san shi go roku...

@Deusovi What type?

TheGreatEscaper

shrugs

Red-green

I think the rebuses anagram to (Japanese number + remaining clue solution)

TheGreatEscaper

8:36 AM

The rebuses seem overcomplicated

@Deusovi Or remaining clue solution = Japanese number + rebus.

Taking the absolute values

TheGreatEscaper

But they have a gimmick that will make them much easier

I'm bad at rebuses

TheGreatEscaper

Think carefully about the 5th rebus, and how you can reduce your answer to a single word

The holy Deus, bad at anything? Impossible!

8:37 AM

(especially at nearly 3am)

TheGreatEscaper

Once you work out the single word answer to rebus 5, you'll see the gimmick (hopefully)

ooh, I'm holy now

TheGreatEscaper

Jeez, deus, get some sleep

but puzzles...

TheGreatEscaper

Class is more important than puzzles :P

8:38 AM

@Deusovi Rubio said so

Don't let him fool you, it's barely 2:30 :)

Sleep is bad.

TheGreatEscaper

(says me, as i work on this puzzle during the past 3 school days)

scold ayes? :P

I missed a puzzle based on something what I said when I was asleep

8:39 AM

@boboquack Did he? All I heard was annoyed grumbling directed in my general direction

Something about you flitting or something

Wow, that grammar

Deus is my PSEidol.

5

:D

Feel free to star the everloving hell out of that ;)

TheGreatEscaper

@Deusovi I feel like rebus 4 could be a break-in for you

8:43 AM

I' LO FAC RAAL...

TheGreatEscaper

Yup

Rot 13 hint which isn't a hint: Lbh jrer dhvpx gb fbyir n erohf bs zvar gung jnf irel fvzvyne...

(Possibly only deus will know what that could refer to, and even then probably not specifically)

ah

26

Q: Grandma's Rebuses

DISCLAIMER: This story is fictional My dear grandmother passed away two years ago, with her husband, Ed, sitting solemnly by the side of her hospital bed. She was always kind, friendly, but also very intelligent and unusual - and Ed has since gifted me something that she gave him on her thirtiet...

wordplay rebus jigsaw-puzzle

NOTATE

that one

TheGreatEscaper

yup

I' seems weird, so maybe just look at the last 3

yeah, I' looked like it was missing something

TheGreatEscaper

where the missing things go should be pretty obvious in RAAL

8:46 AM

NOTION

lotion, faction, rational

TheGreatEscaper

....and the gimmick should present itself

What is the I' ??

...an extra letter and punctuation mark?

TheGreatEscaper

ever seen that punctuation mark used to denote something?

Mathsy?

derivatives, modified objects...

TheGreatEscaper

Setsy?

8:47 AM

Complement

TheGreatEscaper

Yeup

(cmon, the gimmick has almost revealed itself)

NOT ON?

so OFF?

TheGreatEscaper

Not what?

not ion

not I on NOTION

ohhhh

TheGreatEscaper

8:48 AM

Yayyyyyyyy :D

rebus clues are "doubled up"

TheGreatEscaper

We got there

woo, you coaxed my barely awake brain into figuring something out!

TheGreatEscaper

Rebus 6 should be a breeze now

It's standard rebus-play

12 mins ago, by Deusovi

I'm bad at rebuses

oh duh

LINEAR

TheGreatEscaper

8:50 AM

'I'm bad at rebuses', he says

lol

Right, so only the third and possibly second one, remaining

TheGreatEscaper

Wait, so you guys think the first rebus is 'cross out mistakes'?

still not sure about 5

that was from a while ago

TheGreatEscaper

SHEEP

does that ring a bell

8:52 AM

...no

but it might for someone else

TheGreatEscaper

Check on grandma again

I think Rubio

black bearded pirate?

PIR ATE blackbeard, who is a pirate

TheGreatEscaper

Yeup!

I had just got that..

8:53 AM

don't get "in the past" yet...

i'm still not sure i get it

TheGreatEscaper

ATE

ah.

TheGreatEscaper

I just wanted to indicate the tense properly

...duh

8:54 AM

seriously, i still don't get it

which one?

what is the solution for orange5?

PIRATE

isn't that a clue towards the solution?

no

the rebus clues "PIR eating Blackbeard"

but in the past

8:55 AM

that IS the solution

lol, that was way too obvious

so we have PIR ATE PIRATE

i was going through the list of black bearded pirates

for like minutes

blackbeard was a pirate ;)

yeah, i know

his name was thatch

which is six letters

TheGreatEscaper

8:56 AM

But thatch isn't double clued, which is the gimmick of these rebuses

edward, actually

six too

ah, ok

TheGreatEscaper

It's a nice coincidence anyway :) I wasn't aware of it

Oh wow, I just realised that orange 456 are all 6 letters long

3, "too few" maybe instead of fuse

TheGreatEscaper

That's kind of a NASTY coincidence, so i think I should PSA that the answers aren't all 6 letters for ORANGE

ah, that's helpful

8:57 AM

orange 2: Ps lied?

TheGreatEscaper

Ooh! Almost

should there be "in the past" on 1?

TheGreatEscaper

oh... there should

edited?

TheGreatEscaper

I'll put that in now

Sorry!

8:58 AM

oh. struck out lol

TheGreatEscaper

But

It isn't in italics for no reason

hm

bolded

TheGreatEscaper

Actually, I don't think it needs 'in the past'

It works as is

hm...

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