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12:22 AM
@Sp3000 Contact game
 
Hah, thanks for the alert, coming :)
 
12:50 AM
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Q: Difference Triangle

Jamal SenjayaThe numbers 1 through 6 are arranged so that any number resting between and below two other numbers is the difference between those two numbers. A square between 2 adjacent circles means the difference is 1. Using numbers 1 through 15, fill in the circle's below to create a "difference triangl...

 
 
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3:29 AM
Well done! @Sconibulus @n_palum @BeastlyGerbil :-) And whoever added there inputs.
@Deusovi I didn't use stegano at first thinking that it will be solved without that. But people started going in an incorrect direction with the countries name and hence decided to do that. It was the same old method of hiding text. :-) Thanks for the solve guys!
 
That's still not steganography though...
 
Yup. Had no other way to push them in that direction of thinking so used it.
Pattern suits better?
 
 
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4:49 AM
Well, indirect steganography, maybe.
 
@MOehm Used the same here puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/50254/… :) Anyway, will keep the tag as it is for now. Thanks
 
As a bit of mild criticism, I think that the visual part was a bit out of proportion: A whole screenshot just to get the ISO icon, which was rendered at a very small size. And ISO is a collection of standards for many things, not just country codes. Anyway, it's solved now. Yay!
 
5:09 AM
If only we could say the same for your CCCC. :)
 
Yes, Either it's too hard or people have lost interest.
 
@MOehm Yes. I didn't had any better way to clue ISO. And thought to go with that. ISO type was easily identified in comments before but the user didnt took it ahead. And yes, I should have taken small part of the whole image but just thought it was fitting the theme. Anyway, thanks for the tip :-)
 
@Techidiot: Well, just saying. These are just minor points. And maybe I'm just miffed because I didn't get it although I could see the ISO connection. ;)
Regarding my CCCC: Yesterday I said that there have already been good observations about it, such as this one.
 
Out of morbid curiosity, is this a case of needing to know the name of some festival?
 
I'll be away for a few days, so I don't wait for confirmation to answers from me. You'll probably know that you have it when you see the answer.
 
5:18 AM
(ah - you might consider leaving an A1Z26 score for your answer then, so we've got a way to verify a likely looking answer)
 
No, you don't need to know the name of any particular festival. (At least no obscure festival such as the Red Herring Bay Festival of Independent Puzzle Solving Culture.)
 
Oooh, is that festival coming up again this year? It was a lot of fun last year
 
I wanted to go, too, but I got lost and ended up at Wrong Track Mountain. That was a bit annoying and really a waste of time.
About the last answer to your visual puzzle: Integration points are a thing; they are the discrete points at which values for an approximate quadrature are taken. I use them (indirectly) every day at work.
 
I'm sure they are, but there's a more specific answer
 
Yes, it seems you were going for the particular expression shown in the image.
@Rubio That's a good idea. The A1Z26 sum is 124.
(Deusovi should have used the A1Z26 sum instead of the enumeration in his April crossword to make thing more interesting. Or less, of course.)
 
5:36 AM
hah :)
 
Anyway, I'm off. My train leaves in an hour or so. See you all next week.
 
have fun (I hope). :)
 
@Techidiot Yeah, it's still not steganography. :/
 
@Deusovi 3rd time's the charm?
 
5:59 AM
Hehe ;)
I think the answer for CCCC is F + I + REWORKS
 
Yeah, that's definitely it
Loud = F, speaker = I, improves = REWORKS
nice one!
I love the "loudspeaker" trick. It's really clever.
 
6:20 AM
(Deusovious, you light!)
. . . Just typing by with a video for @Jonathan Allan . . .
(. . . and always appreciating the lighthearted leitmotives herefound . . .)
 
6:31 AM
CCCC: One who conspires back to back, a carbon less caret after initally promising laundering(7)
 
heh. speaker→I ... I like that. would have never thought of that
 
reverserepeatereaterurperesrever
 
@humn Is that reverse repeat rupture reversed repeated and ruptured?
 
6:48 AM
served as veered, and re-served as deserved
@boboquack , who could ask for no mo?
 
@Deus in a cryptic clue, is it OK to have both addition and subtraction, like (not going to bother writing a clue) LEEK+G-KG=LEE?
 
why wouldn't it be?
 
some ask ^
others answer, why?
(please include your reasoning)
 
A tree begins growing, then loses 1000 grams of infused liquid (3). Sketchy, but hey why not.
 
signed - humn moot
 
6:57 AM
i'm too lazy to fix the "of" :)
 
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TRE = tre(e)LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLIS - LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLgs?
stop me before its too ...
 
Sid
How is loud=F? (Don't tell me it is music)
 
@Sid Forte
 
-1
Q: Missing number plz telll me guyzzz give me perfect answer

Mishra solve that question tell me guyzzz perfect answer

 
It's music
^^pretty bad post, needs heaps of changes
 
Sid
7:10 AM
Gah. Someday, I probably need to learn at least some basic stuff about music..
 
Music? Never heard.
@boboquack lovvvvves music, but at least that's legal
 
Sid
All I know about music is that some guy sings and some other dudes play some instruments at the back.
 
@humn Yeah guyzzz, muzzzic is perfect thing to telll
 
one good thing about muzzic?
 
@humn Zzze clazzzicalll muzzzic izzz zzze perfect zzzort ovvvvv muzzzic
 
7:14 AM
^ sez bobomarlequack
Some sezz... boboquack luvzzz clazz
Q: so how about clazz reggazz?
 
Why? This sentence is some reasoning or false. (others answer)
 
Syntax = ex hibito (e in hibito)
(latine = ad libitum)
liberte egalite edite!
 
*
 
**
***
 
7:25 AM
. . .
 
*****
:P
 
🖉🖉🖉🖉
* blush *
but seriously . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . ............... .. . . . . .
@boboquack, you once said that you're mostly into classical music
seriously? you must've heard other
 
but seriously -................................-!
 
@humn heard other what?
 
not too seriously ...................
other music....?
i've heard of music that doesn't even sound musical
 
7:31 AM
@humn Yeah, I like jazz too
But not much else
 
Jazz covers almost everything other than clazz
 
Pop music these days is all same old, constant volume (loud), verses+choruses+bridge=magic formula, mostly singing about the same topics, synthetic noises everywhere
 
Ay yi yi, that's a formula for a puzzzz!
 
Some contemporary classical-based music is good.
@humn I prefer some types of jazz more than other types. I mean, 12-bar blues do get boring after lots of listening
 
'ave you 'ard?:
(please reply in kind)
 
7:35 AM
No, and I can't at the moment (not exactly good to listen to music in a library without headphones :P)
I'll try to get around to it
 
ok, some other time
 
https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/49264/sum-self-enumerated-digits
https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/25812/day-and-night-of-the-two-timers
Either of these have an Acceptable answer yet @humn ?
 
1^ technical difficulties
2 ^ mebbe i should recheck
 
I have to take your word for it, I can't even read the solution for #1 and for #2 if there's a better answer I'd never find it :)
Ok done my good deed for the day, heading to bed. Gamen, PSEers
 
@humn I've slipped a muzzzical reference into my latest puzzle! (not published yet, obviously)
 
7:42 AM
@Rubio , you dog! (but at least that gives me a bit to really see why you mentioned these) sleep well, @Rubio!
@boboquack , you dog! I'm still in an enigmatic intaglio (malaprop, but sounds good) over [Mi, So, Re, Do?](htttps://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/49303/mi-so-re-do)
puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/49303/mi-so-re-do
 
@humn Non-https alert!
@humn hstutterps alert!
 
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ya know . . . . . (edit timeout)
 
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Q: A new puzzle game:Cubicks

MarceloI made a new puzzle game and I hope you want to test it and tell me what you think of it. The puzzle is called Cubicks and the free version is called Cubicks Free. It is for tablets or smartphones. If you are not sure you are interested you can go to http://www.cubicks.com/ first or see this Y...

^advertising
Unfortunately I put in the wrong close vote reason, retracted and now can't VTC.
 
Sommmmmme folks (maby jest one) around here think that every dose reason is wrong . .. . . ...........
 
@Techidiot ({TO} <- + {CARET - A C}<-) after P[romising] L[aundering] = PLOTTER
 
7:51 AM
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
arrrgh! Just clicked on the wrong close vote again for the quezzzzzztion!
Hi @The!
 
こんにちは!
 
-2
Q: A new puzzle game:Cubicks

MarceloI made a new puzzle game and I hope you want to test it and tell me what you think of it. The puzzle is called Cubicks and the free version is called Cubicks Free. It is for tablets or smartphones. If you are not sure you are interested you can go to http://www.cubicks.com/ first or see this Y...

 
こんばんは
 
その ゲーム は とても つまらない と 思います…
 
7:57 AM
どれどれ… キュビックスのこと?
 
はい、キュビックス。
 
Sid
@Sp3000 What does the first "back" mean?Or is it part of the definition?
 
Back To
Becomes OT
 
@TheGreatEscaper , samaa sinulle
 
The first reverses TO, the second reverses [ca]RET
 
Sid
7:59 AM
Oh, understood. Thanks
 
@humn その 外国語 を 話すこと が できません
Doing Japanese work and when I first came into the chat I was still on a romaji keyboard, and couldn't be bothered changing it for my first few messages.
 
I can't read Japanese :( Ask Stack Reader
Luckily, Google Translate has a convenient tool!
 
@TheGreatEscaper , Ei minää (me neither, though I do)
 
Sid
@Sp3000 New clue?
 
@TheGreatEscaper Those 漢語 borrow words really stand out。
 
8:07 AM
Katakana? Yeah.
 
(I don't know if 漢 is a borrow word, from your message I assume 語 is and means language like it does in Mandarin, either way 漢語 means Mandarin)
 
CCCC: Housing is hot - warm initially, becoming hot (10)
Sorry, was tweaking
 
@Sp3000 Why don't you make it our first bilingual clue?
 
Could but I'm trying to cut back on clues which are too knowledge based
 
Oops bobo we're talking about different things. Didn't read your message closely enough.
 
8:12 AM
I guess you could keep it simple and do something like "Cause Japanese loss (4)" but still it's... a bit weird and requires knowledge you can't expect most people to have
 
the Chinese characters are Kanji
 
@TheGreatEscaper Seems strange that Japan borrowed from China when they've long been enemies
 
Infatuation is a many splendoured thing.
^ (lame cultural reference, sorry, not creepy, too late to delete)
 
Ech. That double ing suggests That housing is the def, and becoming hot is part of charades for the end.
but I could be on the wrong track entirely.
 
I'm not sure how to tag this puzzle:
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Q: Soapbox on a street corner

boboquackWhen I was walking today, I came across a man standing on a soapbox. He was broadcasting his view to the world, and though he was speaking in English, I couldn't understand what he was going on about. It sounded like he was reading out a random list of words Most people weren't paying him a shred...

Any suggestions for something I've missed?
BTW today's xkcd seems extremely on point to me (for current affairs)
 
8:31 AM
0
Q: Soapbox on a street corner

boboquackWhen I was walking today, I came across a man standing on a soapbox. He was broadcasting his view to the world, and though he was speaking in English, I couldn't understand what he was going on about. It sounded like he was reading out a random list of words Most people weren't paying him a shred...

 
Ahh, there you are Sphinx
 
@boboquack , as in point of attack ... ooooooooooooooooooooooooo
^ Someone please move a finite number of matchsticks to create world peace!
 
Sid
@boboquack Heh. XKCD rocks...
 
@humn Thanks for all those kind words and the bounty! (I would've said this long ago; but I spent a long time trying to cook up something at least half as poetic as you, before finally giving up.)
 
Hmm, I wonder if I'll manage to finish my metapuzzle on time.
when does this fortnightly roll over?
 
8:39 AM
25th April
 
Sid
There, @Anko +1 for that solution. I hadn't seen that before...
 
Thanks!
I was wondering if it's possible to make a difference triangle of any size...anyone has any idea?
 
Try to solve it like an Olympiad problem?
 
That's what I'd been trying
No non-trivial progress so far
 
Perhaps there's some weird induction solution that derives a n+k sized difference triangle from n sized difference triangle?
 
8:46 AM
@Sp3000 Yep. That's it. Was it a fine clue?
 
maybe @TGE
 
I mean, large numbers naturally have to be near the top.
 
yeah
But there's no obvious pattern
 
Surface was a tad weird and the clue was a little bitsy, but wordplay-wise it seems fine
 
Thanks. Will try to get a better surface next time.
 
8:52 AM
Added to collaborative draft, perhaps? (8)
Im not sure if this clue works.
I like the wordplay here but the definition seems really dodgy to me
but I don't think I can fix the def without ruining the surface reading
 
Not actually sure what the answer is there :P
@Techidiot No worries - I'm guessing you really wanted to use "back to back", but unfortunately RET isn't exactly great to work with... :P
 
Haha.. Bingo!
 
Harqvgrq (nqq rq gb havgrq)
 
I felt that would sound tricky. I tried searching for good words containing ot
But, found nothing better I guess
 
Sid
I don't understand how that works, @TGE
 
8:57 AM
May be didn't tried harder
 
Oh so you need to split that
 
Hmm the wordplay seems fine, but yeah the def hmm
 
I'm not sure Deus would be okay with that
 
A draft, perhaps, is unedited... but unedited is not a draft, perhaps. Lol
 
Deus in general doesn't seem to like elision much ("loudspeaker" being a rare exception, but I can hear Deus saying "that's because the split is at a logical place"), but personally in this case it'd be a clue I'd accept but wouldn't do much myself
 
9:00 AM
@Ankoganit Ooh - ANZAC day!
 
Hello, @Ankoganit, your well-deserved bounty will take a week to fully arrive and, yeah, I spent a long time, too, looking for the right-enough words; in real life I sound like a gutter rat.
 
I have more beef with the def here though, since while a draft can be unedited, it's an adjective describing the noun and not really giving the definition...
(or, if you're arguing "draft" is an adjective, it's still not quite the same thing)
 
Yup. That's what I was worried about.
 
This post - added not divided (assuming you get it right first time) is a cheeky one
 
@boboquack learnt something new today
 
9:04 AM
I'm a bit disappointed though, there weren't any glaring mistakes in the posts to laugh at when I read it.
 
Sid
Okay, I need to go for lunch. Have a nice day, all.
 
@TheGreatEscaper Your username breaks the system!
When you hover in the blank space, it shows your system rep anyway. (It's supposed to be hovering over the text)
 
Cya @Sid
 
9:28 AM
@TheGreatEscaper Interesting progress: a brute force shows there are only 8 triangles for n=3 and 4 each (counting reflections), 2 for n=5, and none for n=6 !
 
@Ankoganit None for n=6?! Sounds like a double Latin square...
 
@boboquack Euler grid?
 
Sorry, forgot the name, put a placeholder
 
oh huh
doesn't seem too much related to this thing though
but you never know
 
(Thinks about elliptic curves)
 
9:34 AM
hehe
 
By the way, @bobo quack, your puzzlyglot meant something extra to me. To implement some efficient and readable text editor code, once upon a time, required making polygot source files readable as both high and assembly level languages.
 
I'd try the n=7 case, but it takes too much time alreday
 
@humn That's why you have comments!
@humn I wonder how many of the upvotes were from the PPCG population...
Maybe I should drop into the 19th byte and drop a comment...
 
For some reasons, I think, in bobo's new puzzle, first word of each line seems to make a meaningful message
 
@Techidiot Maybe then you're on the right track...
 
9:49 AM
@boboquack , why not?
 
The nervous system in beetles contains all the types found in insects varying between different species from free thaw-a-sick and 7000000 or 8 abominable G-angular which can be distinguish to that in which the thaw-a-sick and abominable g-angular are few's 2000000 form a composed rupture...
That's a quote from Wikipedia about Beetle
:-)
 
@Techidiot You got it, almost...
 
^ sometimes, in the best of times!
@boboquack , let them envy us. 🖉
 
@boboquack So, we just need to fill in the blanks for ? I guess
That will lead to final answer may be
I got it @boboquack I will draft the answer
Anamib was confusing :-)
 
@Techidiot Oh good!
Congratulations!
 
10:08 AM
Namib desert beetle has inspired self-filling water bottle
I am struggling to find the exact lines...Hmm
 
(#?)
 
I guess its a BBC new article.. But the words are little different there..
@humn Bobo's puzzle
 
@Techidiot All the lines are from the same wikipedia article
 
Oh yes.
My text search was unfortunately covering the later part of page
 
Ah
Coincidentally or not, the source of Wiki's knowledge is the BBC article
 
10:13 AM
Yeah :p
 
@humn Are you following our conversation?
 
There are some typos @boboquack Intentional?
 
@Techidiot Yes, I 'tried my best' to transcribe what the man was saying.
 
@boboquack , and loving it. But not seeing a new post yet. Anticipatience.
 
@humn Every time you edit your post after messaging me, it pings again. It's quite comical because I switch tab, only to see an (*) pop up, so I switch back, but it's only a small edit, so I switch tab...
 
10:20 AM
@boboquack , good to know, but I never everr edit my messages. 🖉🖉🖉🖉🖉🖉🖉
^ as in, sorry about that!
 
@humn That's alright, I don't mind that much
(Tee hee)
Alright, I'll stop now
 
("A censor is someone who knows more than they think you ought to.")
 
^^^^ This message has been edited 10 times - history
@Tech How's the write-up going?
 
Let me post it now
Let me know if I am missing something important
 
10:35 AM
@Techidiot By the way, some of the words in the question have been 'inadvertently' concatenated. That will result in the proper text for each sentence, when you fix it. But anyway, you haven't got the full answer. Check your transcriptions again.
 
@boboquack Should ? be a part of text then?
 
For example, 'A-materials' is actually 'a' and 'materials' as separate words
@Techidiot No
 
Yeah.
 
Some other words can be split up as well, not all are obvious
Try and find the line where you take the second word of each line, in the article
 
A 2015 study...?
 
10:43 AM
@Techidiot Yep, and there's only one hit for that
Found it?
 
Okay, so you just want me to fix the transcripts right?
 
(nodding off, had to happen sooner or later, as in 3:45.67890am, rah!)
 
Actually, initially I copied them from wiki page, but then thought to construct it from the puzzle text
 
Yep, but do make sure that you keep to what you can actually find from the question
@humn That was weird, your avatar simultaneously dropped off and reappeared
@Techidiot Ping me if you make any edits, I'll be on and off
 
@boboquack beetle and bee + tool
Seperate words needs to be combined? Or left as it is?
 
10:53 AM
@Techidiot Sometimes they will need to be combined.
 
:p
Okay
 
It should be quite obvious, once you have the sentences just cross-reference them with the text to find where things have been changed. Speaking of which, did you find the sentences for the first two? (I'm not quite sure)
 
11:14 AM
@Tech? Still there?
 
Cruciverbalists may appreciate this impressive bit of misdirection in yesterday's Guardian cryptic: American saw evidence of deterioration after doing exercises, pathetic (2,3,2,5)
VA TBQ JR GEHFG: EHFG nsgre (QBVAT + JRG), lvryqvat na *Nzrevpna fnj. (fnj = genqvgvbany znkvz)
 
Yeah
I was away
Completing it now @boboquack excel!
 
11:34 AM
@boboquack Fixed. Hope that's better. Not sure for now what's going to happen with that though..
 
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Q: One a puzzle, two a puzzle, Hot Cross Clocks

rand al'thorIt's Good Friday! I want to make perfect hot cross buns by superimposing two 12-hour clock faces on top of each other. Is this possible, and if so, how many ways are there of doing so? In other words, how many pairs of times are there which, when displayed together using the hands of two 12-hou...

 
11:53 AM
@Techidiot Scon did all the end work, but we eventually got it - Credit for uncovering countries goes to Oehm though
 
@Techidiot What's interesting about the 'quotes'?
 
Oehm's CC was good.. nice job Tech
 
@Sphinx Happy Good Friday everyone!
 
I've got to go now @Techidiot, I'll see if you've made progress in the morning
 
Happy Good Friday! (Sadly I am at work though...)
 
12:32 PM
0
Q: Standing in a field. What is my name?

ImproveI was standing in a field reading a map and doing something characteristic of me I felt the urge to take a power nap but first I needed to go for a pee

 
1:18 PM
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Q: You're in-between a circle and a line in a certain envelope of mine. Who are you?

ImproveYou're in-between a circle and a line, in a certain envelope of mine. Added to laughter you'll be glad, but too many of you will silence add. Who are you?

 
1:55 PM
Happy Good Friday to all!
 
Happy Easter Saturday!
 
Easter Saturday? Is that a thing
 
its 9 hours till saturday here, but thanks :P
yes
 
Oh Holy Saturday I guess
 
@Sp3000 Is there a good alternative to ± in ASCII?
 
1:58 PM
Names ~^.^~
Also which CCCC is the one to do?
 
Sp's I think
 
@Ankoganit Define ASCII - there's a plus-minus in extended ASCII (I'm assuming the same as the one you have there)
And yeah mine, Tech's is solved
 
um okay
I wanted plain ASCII
But I don't really need it
I could do with other characters
 
If you mean code points 32 to 126, then I guess +/- is what I normally use
 
ok
 
2:00 PM
(i.e. standard US keyboard chars)
 
actually it's for a code-golf challenge I sandboxed today
(so you might be interested :P)
 
Oh, I see. Yeah allowing people to specify which char they use for ± is fine
 
ok thanks
 

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