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06:00
Sp?
ANTICLIMAX?
ANTI
Sp, yours still standing?
Mine still holds, albeit terrible
Pep pill
06:01
Antiquated
Antidoping
-1
Not antiquated, but close
Sid
Sid
O has it
Antique
Yeah that
06:01
Explain?
Now, why?
I just did the only anti words I know with Q
It was a rough instruction for "5th letter Q, get 7 letter word" - pretty terrible :P
boooo
Another section of transcript broken off at the hour
06:03
Maybe contact for Sid but tbh I'm not sure
Say it, I'm not getting anywhere
ANTIBODY?
Sid
Sid
Yep
Plural
Really good.
You deserve a star!
ANTIC
Valve
06:05
@Rubio, yours still standing?
We've already had anticlimax Deus :P [/joke]
Anticonglomerate
nope. mine's busted. ANTIDEPRESSANT. (and my much earlier one was ANXIOUS for (Nervous) Nellie)
nope
Ah pep pill, nice
06:06
Hamlet's disposition?
Anticlimax!
for me? -1
(in another tab for a bit - @ me if you have a guess or give up)
Expect
(I'm assuming that's the actual answer)
contact for sp
Sid
Sid
06:07
Okay, I am out... Bye
bye sid
contact sp also
... (Boboquack is thinking)
Thought I smelled smoke
I want to say contact for Deus, but it's almost definitely not right (amusing fit though)
Hmm Vol's is hard :P
Hmm...
I give up on Expect
I don't think it's right though
06:15
Vol, Rubio?
@Vol, @Rub, sp's contact?
antiipate
anticipate
Yeah :)
i can type, yup
(sorry, was afk for a bit)
06:16
ANTICL
mine's pretty much impossible if you haven't read Hamlet :P
it was ANTIC
Yeah I haven't :P
in favor of sixth day law
(there's a quote about him having an antic disposition)
Is @Deus' still in play?
06:17
Nope
(my random guess for that would have been ANTICHAMBER, which would have been really wrong)
Valve Anti-Cheat, abbreviated as VAC, is an anti-cheat software developed by Valve Corporation as a component of the Steam platform, first released with Counter-Strike in 2002. During one week of November 2006, the system detected over 10,000 cheating attempts. As of July 2014, it is estimated that over 2.2 million Steam accounts have been banned by the system. When the software detects a cheat on a player's system, it will ban them in the future, possibly days or weeks after the original detection. It may kick players from the game if it detects errors in their system's memory or hardware. No...
ahh wow
(I was thinking of going for ANTICHAMBER!)
isn't it antEchamber?
06:17
There's a video game called Antichamber
Anticladestine
I dunno
oh
i'm going to change mine
Anti(insert religion)
If I could turn back time
06:18
Contact
!?
Oh right
Contact
I think you've got it
same :)
But, formalities.
Deus?
Sp?
Anticlockwise
06:19
yahhh
^ That
hah, nice
Ding ding ding!
ok
A
If I could turn back time :D
06:19
hehee.
Really? No contacts?
(my other guess was from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_6th_Day ANTICLONING)
Contact for Vol
obvious contact
06:20
Contact for Vol
affirmative
@Deusovi For whom?
Boboquack
anticlockwise for boboquack, I guess
06:21
+1
nah, that can't be it :P
affirm?
Doing something again without deja-vu?
agree
06:22
-1
(or agreement)
oh, for vol's
(for vol)
I think that was for Vol
-1... it may have been too broad
06:23
Can I change mine?
ok well. passing on Vol's
+2 without peer review
Does it still count if Rubio knocked out my initial guess but I still have a guess remaining for Vol?
Whyever not?
Yeah I'd say go for it
06:24
No-one here's a psychic, I think...
AYE?
dehhh
Oh, my two things rhyme
A L
06:24
Mine were amnesia and accept
I would have contacted ACCEPT, but never gotten AMNESIA
i got accept just before you said it
Multiply everything and add one
and yah, would have never gotten amnesia
algorithm
+1
(for getting a list of coprime numbers)
Hover text
06:26
alt
not sure that's a word, but ok :)
Is anyone else going to say something?
I was going for alternative
06:27
apparently they don't like AL
alien
Sodium et al
Maybe contact for bobo, but doesn't quite feel right
alkallis?
or alkali metals, or alkali
+1 (misspelt though)
06:28
or alkaline
lol
oh heh. that was a typo
Zulu
hm
How to be immortal
alphabet / ical
Nope
06:30
@boboquack alone?
But close enough anyway (alpha/alfa)
yah i figured it was nato
wasn't sure exactly what you wanted
-1 I mean
06:31
Yeah, hence why I just accepted :P
danke. :)
Contact for bobo
alive hehe?
hm. nope dunno
passing
06:34
ALCHEMY?
@Sp3?
+1!
nice.
A L B
albatross
despite
06:34
albeit
Collection
collection
lol
album ?
+1
@Volatility Ninja'd!
Ostinato
(quite obscure)
Can't make up my mind :D
buahaha
06:38
#2: Pale
Contact for #2
(You can refer to Ostinato as #1)
albino
Egg
06:40
Yes, it is albumin
ah nice
Huh?!
Ostinato: Alberti bass
(In hope of musicians)
Actually mine was going to be ALBUMEN
But close enough :P
@Sp3, yours!
same word, whatever :)
06:41
Apparently not quite :P
Do we have enough people to keep playing? (I count 4 in total)
yah Pretty sure we lost Deus to homework
Is P the first letter? :P
It's R, actually
square root
Meet up
06:43
Radical for Rubio
+1
And I get the feeling Vol just got it
wow
lol, really?
Rondezvous?
Rendezvous
06:43
... yeah (rendezvous)
oh, right
that's hilarious :)
Wow!
Shortest round: 27 seconds (to the nearest minute+27seconds)
Beat that, future players
06:44
I don't believe that
@Vol...
I should really have hashed it a thousand times and stuck it somewhere so I could prove I didn't make that up :P
Archaic animal
dinosaur
06:45
+1
like some logic
Fox-like animal
rigmarole for rubio?
wait, it's D isn't it
-100 :)
I find that slightly amusing, because I contemplated rigmarole for a previous round :P
Well contact for bobo
06:46
oh, dingo
+1
And I have to go. Bye!
dirty for rubio
-1
cya bobo
bye bobo
06:47
cya
Can be golden
dusk/dawn?
Nope
Might be a bit obscure (and there's probably an awful lot of possibilities now that I think about it)
Not sure about Rubio's though
contact maybe
but it feels reeeeeaally broad
you can go
Yeah, it probably is
06:51
dragon?
Hmm nope, it was DUCK
Defs too broad
huh. yeah wouldn't have got that
Yeah, cricket :/
well, not duck
ok i'm going to change mine since otherwise we're in a rut. a kind of Duo
06:55
I'm trying to think of a good clue over here :P sorry
Maaaaaybe contact, but probably wrong
no idea, go ahead
DYNAMIC?
}1
+1
oh right
Almost guessed DIABLOICAL
06:56
D E
Diabolical
;)
devilish?
... contact maybe
-1
devious?
06:58
That was going to be my contact guess
@Rubio?
?
said -1
For devious
oh. it ate that. huh!
It actually removed it.
07:00
I'm guessing Rubio tried to post -1 but it didn't actually send
I saw my second -1 appear in chat. And then it went poof.
Good with hands
dextrous
Yup
No idea for Rubio's now hmm
ok, changing it. Abandoned
07:03
Contact
derelict?
+1
Oh well nvm, I would have said deserted :P
violate
heh lol
that never crossed my mind
07:04
I can think of a word that fits, but I don't know whether this is an appropriate place for it
then it's not that. :)
i can't even think of what you're thinking of.
hey @Emrakul
I think I shall leave my thoughts unspoken then :P
Oh. I think I got it.
(@sp)
Kid hoarding profits (2, 7) -> ????
oh, I think so too
07:10
No idea for Rubio's, a bit too many possibilities maybe
Or rather I can't seem to get a word that feels right
no idea on yours either, really
oh. wait. Contact maybe, but seems like there's two likely options.
I have a favorite though.
go ahead
Decode?
It's probably more unfair and complicated than it needs to be, but I can't think of anything good atm :/
Nope, defy
heh. Yeah I was nowhere near that then
ok swapping mine out again again
07:13
It's a bit mean, but the (2,7) is GOA(GAINS)T
oh, no def?
(not actually my clue originally, stole wordplay from newspaper - of course the original clue had Defy first for the def)
Yeah no def because I feel like giving a cryptic with a def is too guess a letter unless the def is well hidden (which is hard on the spot)
Am definitely trying though
Heh.yeah I wasn't able to solve it without the missing word. So I abstracted to '-> ????" = decode
go off course
deviate?
Contact, cos I was just trying to clue the same word I think :P
07:15
+1
... ok once again I was wrong, I had DETOUR :P
Shrug off
(lol. I was trying to clue that too)
I gave up, they were all being too ambiguous
wait, that doesn't mean what I want it to, ignore that
Make go off course
Is this a new one?
no, but the old clue I think was broken, so it might as well be
well, I have to go for a bit, do you want to know the word or should I leave it til later?
07:19
Ah right
Or did you mean new from deviate? If so then yes, it's not that again
Meh, whatever you like. I'm probably going to sleep soon anyway so maybe just recycle it later.
k then
Yeah maybe we should call it quits? Sorry it's kinda halfway
Feels like everyone else has left, and three people is pretty slow :P
I'm back
Yah
07:21
oh, alright!
Hey Deus :P
goodness me.
Welp.
switched computers. Found that. :)
We should definitely make another room for this!
07:30
This game is unexpectedly fun, I must say.
Ya

 Contact

For playing the game Contact, where one person tries to "defend"...
 
2 hours later…
09:27
alert ☆ TSL = Three Secret Letters ? ☆ detected in 7 posts during the last month ☆
Please imagine being one of 100s (1000s over time) of non-TSL-izens who read these posts: puzzling.stackexchange.com/search?q=tsl
A link to TSL's info page would be a fair clue to readers.
09:57
@humn ??
I'm just whining that "TSL" is being mentioned in posts but it essentially means "Three Secret Letters" to almost everyone who visits Puzzling.
10:14
0
Q: 1, 2, 3, soleil?

Lilian DelaveauWhat happened to me ? Don't you know what happened to me ? Everybody knows ! Maybe this epic poetry will refresh your memories... I’m looking over the riddle It’s no puzzle to me For I am Guiding this story Qhu mbmfc ron’li udxvxl Wgdoiga Zayxnxli’k ersmyv...

 
2 hours later…
12:37
2
Q: First post. Have an interesting Total Masyu puzzle I made

edderioferIn a Total Masyu puzzle, one must draw a single loop through the centres of some cells according to the following rules: The loop may only travel horizontally or vertically, never diagonally; all turns are right-angled turns. The loop may only turn at the centers of grid cells. The loop may not...

Looks like everyone had lots of fun after I went to bed.
@boboquack Oh, we have a new room for this now?
12:50
0
Q: Find 7 solutions

TheGreatEscaperYou have three flat pieces, as shown: Arrange them, without overlap, such that the shape formed by the black parts is congruent to the shape formed by the white parts. Rotation and reflection are allowed. Find at least 7 solutions.

13:48
@TheGreatEscaper Yeah I thought so, can't be bothered actually "solving" though
14:04
@Sp3000, do you have discord or some other means of PM?
Since you've opted out of the solving, I think you might appreciate having a look at the solutions :P
Nah I think I'm good, I have a rough idea of how it'll turn out (I have one in mind already anyway). Will just wake up in the morning and see what's been posted.
If you need me on Discord, you could probably go via Deus if you really need me
Hehe. All good :)
I think you will still be surprised when you see the solutions... but only time will tell
I too will check in the morning to see what's been posted
14:58
After a full day of lurking after signup, I finally get to chat here! So, I've been reviewing a lot of old puzzles and their eventual solutions and I have to ask, @Deusovi @Will @Alconja etc., is your immense skill the reason you're here, a symptom of being here so long, or somewhere in the middle? Aha.
That is in no way a complete list by the way, so don't hate me if I didn't drop your name.
 
2 hours later…
16:44
Is there someone here with superping powers?
@Kaitoh both! Being here vastly improves everyone's Puzzling skills, and some people have a better idea of what to do at the beginning, but everyone can be awesome! :D

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