The Sphinx's Lair

Wen1now

1:13 AM

@TheGreatEscaper In country road should it be AT MOST ONCE or EXACTLY ONCE

Sphinx

3:15 AM

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Q: Good/Best/fast single algorithm for this situation. Half Superflip

How can I flip the edges in this picture in one move if possible?

rubiks-cube

humn

5:16 AM

until so (possible repeat):

The Kinks - I'm In Disgrace

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(again, redact if necessary)

See what happens when the home room fire dies to a cinder?

Whisper To A Scream (Birds Fly) - Icicle Works

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Mike Q

If there is fire, then you are in danger. Quick, run to safety!

Safety Dance - Men Without Hats Official Video

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humn

... from a sibling of fire fighters, great choice!

Black 47 "Funky Céilí"

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^ completely random follow-up, see what happens to a quiescent home room?

What??!!??!?! It stopped in mid phrase. Ah the mystery of life.

Mike Q

5:35 AM

Completely random, eh? I wonder what would have been an incompletely random follow-up.

humn

It would've required deliberation beyond control. (Or shiftiness.)

Mike Q

Such an alternative and spacey answer. A key to enter into the windows leading either home or the end.

humn

Kitten on the keyboard. Out damn spot!

Mike Q

Is it a tabby cat, perhaps? Is it num(b), locked in place?

humn

ALL CAPS!

Mike Q

5:41 AM

The cat inserted a final message before it escaped

humn

By the fur of its ...

Mike Q

Fur? Or five? Five lives, or nine?

humn

My smile just wiped my face.

Take five. Or take fur. What the f.

Mike Q

Now now, keep it clean, especially if you are wiping your face

humn

It's a job.

Wen1now

5:45 AM

Yes, it is

humn

(laughing too hard to tp_

(it's everyone's turn once or another_

Wonderful tribute to more randomness (skip a minute or two and then sit back):

Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade -- Thela Hun Ginjeet

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"This is a dangerous place." (By that, I mean it isn't really.)

"I was walking down the street the other day."

Thinking of friends who can no longer solve that problem.

Someone stop this sap.

Off to Sap SE (beta).

Mike Q

6:10 AM

It's about sap? What kind of sap?

And bacQ!

Having fun guys?

No, just one

and dolls

Teresa Brewer - Music Music Music (Put Another Nickel In) (1950)

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(overdubbed beyond hell)

(but still right for the moment)

"keep that nickelodeon playing"

Am I the only one remembers monochrome films? Is the wrong place to ask?

One of my best friends refuses to watch anything not in colr.

What a snob.

(Missed edits up there.)

(Along with some deliberate trespasses.)

(I should go back to music and writing rooms, with their endless echoes, but this one brings out the crcikets.)

Buddy Holly & His Crickets "That'll Be The Day" on The Ed Sullivan Show

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(oyoyoy I feel mortal but not in the way that song ended. On a good day.)

Ankoganit

6:41 AM

Oops, puzzling made it to r/badmathematics :(

4

These are what ruin our reputation.

Mike Q

I wonder which mod that is.

Mithrandir

Looks like Deus from the writing style, but I could be wrong.

Wen1now

Yes

I agree with Mith

reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/6je99b/puzzle_of_games/dje252n/…

^Pretty much confirms it, right?

ffao

that is deus

he confirmed it here earlier, it's not exactly a secret

Wen1now

Hey, I was just helping everybody speculate

Mike Q

6:56 AM

I dug around the user's less-than-happy comments. Definitely our deus.

ffao

and I'm sad to see that comment get 16 upvotes. We don't like HNQ either :(

Mike Q

Possible meta discussion: What's the deal with old questions being bumped to the front page due to minor edits to the question or its answers? I've been noticing this a lot lately.

Mithrandir

Meh. Just ignore it.

Wen1now

Just don't go to the front page

Use puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions instead

Mithrandir

It doesn't harm anyone, and if it's a good edit, those are always good.

Wen1now

7:01 AM

Has anybody made any progress on LL?

Mike Q

@Wen1now That's a sane idea, except there are often good puzzles that get solved and answered quickly, and I would still like to see those.

Mithrandir

As long as it's not a flood, I don't see the problem with one bumped question.

Wen1now

Look at the newest tab

So, has anybody made any progress on LL?

ffao

you have

Wen1now

I mean anybody that I can confirm my progress with

user61230

7:23 AM

[snigglegort] puzzling.stackexchange.com/help/badges/140/rubiks-cube

Wen1now

Good work!

@ffao I finally found what you were talking about, about the confirmation

Was it this?

May 9 at 6:37, by Deusovi

Nothing wrong with that. (And it is the same person, so no need to worry about plagiarism. I'm actually friends with him.)

ffao

yep

Mithrandir

@Emrakul congrats!

(haven't seen you around much, though)

TheGreatEscaper

7:40 AM

@Wen1now it's at most once, the description is correct

I think country road is more interesting if regions can be missed entirely.

Testsolver has finished the puzzle. Another is almost done.

Wen1now

Can you check what I've sent you so far?

Sid

7:55 AM

hmm, where are the cryptic guys?

Wen1now

Cryptic guys?

Sid

CC guys..

Wen1now

I still don't get it...

Sid

Our CC experts.

Huh, fifteensquared says Evelyn is a gender-neutral name. I thought it was predominantly a female name

Wen1now

Sounds like it is feminine

Sid

8:10 AM

Today's Guardian cryptic was much harder than yesterday's.

I think I got only 2, that too after googling definitions and making wordplay fit

ffao

Wikipedia only lists male Evelyns born from the 1900s back

M Oehm

Yes, the cryptic is very tough. Evely Waugh is the prominent male Evelyn who springs to mind.

Sid

I got only the Wimbledon clue and the lady on top clue. Nothing else..

M Oehm

I've slogged through about 40% and it has taken quite some time. Eventually, I got enough crossers to guess the long one (11, 24). I haven't got the clues you have, though. (But don't spoil, please. I'm going to plod a bit further.)

ffao

M Oehm doesn't have the clues you have :o

Wen1now

8:35 AM

o:

M Oehm

I can't even get them now and I've got two crossers for Wimbledon and three for the lady on top. Maybe I'm just being dense today.

Wen1now

No matter how bad people are, they can't be as bad as me

Mithrandir

I can, rest assured.

Wen1now

Let's have a competition then!

M Oehm

Bad at cryptic crosswords you mean? That shouldn't be a concern. It's not a useful ability per se.

Wen1now

8:39 AM

Whoever gets the least clues wins

TheGreatEscaper

Testsolvers have FINALLY almost reached the end of Ludicrous Loop!

Wen1now

Yeah, bad at cryptics

TheGreatEscaper

One has finished and thankfully pointed out some ambiguity near the end.

Which was an easy fix :D

The other's almost there.

M Oehm

I know about the story where two guys want to find out whose camel is the slowest and they switch camels so no-one can cheat by going slow deliberately. How are you guys going to pull that off in a crossword competition?

TheGreatEscaper

chucks pens into bins

Who wins now

Wen1now

8:42 AM

Ooh, now I know where the 'end' of the puzzle is now

Rubio

man, who does this TheGreatEscaper person think they are

updating a puzzle after - pff - testing

Like that's even a real thing

ffao

usually you want to post the puzzle after testing, but given how much everyone was bugging him to go ahead :P

boboquack

9:05 AM

@Rubio Can you remove stars on '@TheGreatEscaper In country road should it be AT MOST ONCE or EXACTLY ONCE - 7h ago by Wen1now' - I starred it so TGE would see it. Thanks!

Rubio

I dunno, that sounds like a lot of effort

Wen1now

Actually, I think I was the only one bugging him

Rubio

I see my arch-nemesis is here. @Sp3000 I hope this cryptic will keep you at bay a while.

Sp3000

10:26 AM

Yeah I don't think I'm getting this one any time soon, don't worry about that :P

Sid

@MOehm the Wimbledon clue required a bit of.. Er.. Wimbledon knowledge or more clearly tennis knowledge

I didn't like the def though or rather I had never heard the word being used with that def.

Rand al'Thor

10:51 AM

@Deusovi Posted: puzzling.stackexchange.com/q/52910/5373

Sphinx

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Q: Who is Panama Oxridge?

Panama Oxridge is the author of a children's book series about a boy called Justin Thyme. However, the name Panama Oxridge is actually a pseudonym for an unknown author. From the series website: Once a well-known author of picture-puzzle books, “Panama Oxridge” accidentally stumbled across th...

real treasure-hunt

Wen1now

Nice! This puzzle seems cool. Of course, I won't be of any help

Sp3000

Looks fine, time to get solving :P

Wen1now

Plus I'm still working on LL

Sp3000

There's one here: justinthyme.info/page87.html

boboquack

10:56 AM

... I just found the second-last page by accident, typing in a random number

Sid

Now then... This is interesting

Wen1now

Actually, there are tonnes of 8-something pages

Like 85, 88, etc

Rand al'Thor

There are tonnes of pages, full stop.

All those 47 links I found go to something of the form justinthyme.info/page<number>.html

And there's not too broad a range for those numbers.

boboquack

Well, I can tell you who the person is, but... nah

That's for you to discover

Sp3000

Encoded progress: uUWGfrJF

Wen1now

11:11 AM

Encoded?

Ankoganit

How are you getting the order?

Sp3000

It's just in the order I'm finding them :P (pages as char codes)

[/having fun clicking around like the good old days]

Wen1now

What order? What encoding is this?

Ankoganit

Those pages say things like 'visit the theatre' but I dunno where that is

Sp3000

13 pages as ASCII (cos spoilers (?)): FGJMNUWbflqru

Wen1now

11:20 AM

How have you found all thirteen already?

Ankoganit

He tried out all numbers I guess

Sp3000

Just lots of clicking :P (no I didn't skip to any pages)

Ankoganit

wow

Rand al'Thor

Just imagine how much clicking I had to do to find all 47 links for Level One.

Wen1now

Anyway, that website is very intriguing... and the artwork is superb!

TheGreatEscaper

11:25 AM

Nevermind

And never matter

the site is really cool, yeah

Sp3000

Sort of neat and nostalgic yeah

Wen1now

What are the odds that Panama is somebody from PSE?

Sp3000

It's actually Rand self-advertising by pretending to be stuck

Rand al'Thor

gets suspended

:-P

Rubio

@Randal'Thor I feel like I've read this story before.

*posts story-id question somewhere-or-other*

Rand al'Thor

11:40 AM

@Rubio Ah, but the new mods haven't been raring to suspend me for the last several months ;-)

Wen1now

That's because they've got a new target :)

Mithrandir

Now they have to suspend the Rubio. You're still not banned?

Sp3000

Oh god more clicking

Wen1now

Is it possible to turn on sound notifications on chat?

Mithrandir

Yes.

Top right

There's a speaker icon

Wen1now

11:43 AM

Thanks

Rubio

Time to post a Meta. I'll start with an inflammatory subject, and eventually downgrade it to just "Is it time for us to ban Rand for not accepting correct answers for two months?"

Mithrandir

If I wanted a constant dong I'd set it to all rooms. o_o

Rand al'Thor

@Rubio I should post more puzzles, shouldn't I.

Then I'd be able to accept answers quicker and still have a buffer.

Rubio

I'm mostly teasing, but - it would be polite to give the answerers due credit before the heat death of the universe. ;)

Sp3000

12:05 PM

@Randal'Thor The other five are 102 (46C), 74 (30O), 108 (29K), 77 (20C), 78 (28C)

Wen1now

Other five?

Oh cool, I got credited!

Gareth McCaughan

thanks @Rubio, @Randal'Thor just accepted one of my answers from ages ago :-).

Rand al'Thor

@Rubio Even worse than two months, in many cases.

Rubio

I tend to drop things older than 30 days from my tabs unless it's one of my own, so yeah - I didn't really know. :)

Rand al'Thor

You keep PSE tabs open for 30 days? :-o

Rubio

12:13 PM

Btw @Wen1now and @Ankoganit if you're just going to feed Rand's answer in comments, may as well do it here - you're being credited in his answer anyway, and no sense littering the comment section with 'em

Rand al'Thor

I just reopen links as I need them.

@Rubio Nah, I'd prefer people do it in the comments so that there's a record on the answer itself.

Rubio

sure but ... spoilers.

Rand al'Thor

Chat shouldn't be used as a way for a small group of users to collaborate on a puzzle.

Most people don't use chat, so it's kind of unfair.

Sp3000

Comments aren't really meant for long discussions though

Rubio

You're not collaborating. They're posting findings, you're incorporating them. Whether they do that in a comment and you add it to the answer, or they do it here and you add it to the answer, makes no mechanical difference to the solving process and/or to other solvers.

What it does do is clutter the comments with stuff that is quickly obsoleted, and is showing information in the clear that you're bothering to spoiler-tag. Kinda making the latter pointless.

n_palum

12:16 PM

o/

\o

\|/

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@Rubio Ah, but it means anyone else who's trying to solve it will be unaware of the progress made until I edit to incorporate the comments (which I'm not doing too often).

@Rubio The information in the comments only makes sense if one's already read most of my answer and understood what's going on.

In fact, maybe I don't really need to spoilertag them?

Rubio

Someone who's reached that point - who apparently is the demographic you're concerned about keeping apprised of the absolute latest developments - probably should have the choice of looking under the spoilers or not.

Wen1now

12:19 PM

Why are grid-deduction puzzles so popular? Scrolling through the 'newest' questions, they have something like 5x the average of the other puzzles

Rubio

They're the current FTC topic

Wen1now

I meant they have many more upvotes

Mithrandir

TGE dropped in ;)

Rubio

Oh. Yeah, they're attracting the attention because.... well... the current crop are collectively Just That Good.

I'm pretty terrible at grid deduction puzzles, so I'm kind of sad I can't get the full enjoyment out of them - I have to vicariously enjoy them after the fact, when people more clever than I have posted the solutions.

Still, you look at some of them and they're clearly crafted with meticulous attention to detail and packing a lot of puzzle goodness into a small footprint. More or less.

n_palum

^ ^^ ^^^

Rubio

12:23 PM

For some value of "small". *cough 1024 cells cough*

Wen1now

Or a large footprint, in the case of LL

Sp3000

Well if we want to collab (Who is Panama Oxridge?): docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/…

(spoilers if you want to try solo)

Wen1now

Maybe mention what puzzle it is too

Like, before the link ^^^

(I was just confused for a second because I thought it was LL)

Sp3000

Ah right :P I considered collab'ing for that, but I dunno

n_palum

Heh some of the comments from that r/badmathematics link are funny

"Okay, I'll try. Assume the standard models of physics. Assume an arbitrarily large mass is produced within a radius of Earth but gravity is not affected. We vacuously deduce that your friend Jesse is a frog who cannot eat bread and American politics is doing okay."

"A very ill-defined problem has no satisfactory, undebatable answer? Color me surprised."

"I don't mind puzzling.stackexchange, but I avoid the lateral-thinking tag like the plague."

Rand al'Thor

12:30 PM

> ...Really? Why does it have such a bad reputation?

> I'm a mod over there, and I'd like to know. (Honestly, I don't like the lateral thinking stuff either, but that's not the only thing there.)

I can tell that's @Deusovi just from the writing style ;-)

Wen1now

Yep

Mithrandir

6 hours ago, by Mithrandir

Looks like Deus from the writing style, but I could be wrong.

Deusovi

Yup.

Rand al'Thor

@Mithrandir Again: you sock :-P

Oh God, I wonder if I know who that baziwaga is too.

n_palum

"...Really?" - If that's not confused/disappointed Deus then there is something wrong

Ace||Of||Spades is probably a frequent user too

Deusovi

12:35 PM

Um.

Rubio

@n_palum Yeah, that's kind of "Ohai it's Deus" in 10 characters or less.

Mithrandir

@Randal'Thor ...I have a suspicion as well. I hope I'm wrong, though.

Rand al'Thor

@Mithrandir I wonder if your suspicion is the same as my suspicion.

But the guy I'm thinking of would probably be even more rude about PSE.

Even to this day he still thinks all puzzle challenge questions should be banned and the site should just be for questions about puzzling.

Rand al'Thor

Um. I was never that hot on ciphers :-P

Mithrandir

[redacted]

Rand al'Thor

12:39 PM

Yeah.

Mithrandir

So yeah, it was the same suspicion. :/

Rand al'Thor

(PS. don't ask us in TL either)

Mithrandir

The Hobbit - Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold (Extended Cover) - Clamavi De Profundis

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Rand al'Thor

Ahhh, I need to incorporate @Sp3000's extra clues, but now someone else is commenting too!

Sp3000

(ok oops I think I'm done now, so that spreadsheet's now all spoilers)

Rand al'Thor

12:43 PM

And I'm about to go AFK for a bit.

@Sp3000 Want to post that stuff as an answer?

Sp3000

Eh, fine :P

Wen1now

Should I call it a day?

n_palum

Depends if it's a day or not

Wen1now

I am. Good night guys

Mithrandir

o/

TheGreatEscaper

1:31 PM

Ludicrous Loop has been fully checked by two testsolvers

i think it's all good now :)

Deusovi

Any chance of you adding symbols for the sake of the colorblind (and those with only grayscale printers)?

(@TheGreatEscaper)

Sphinx

1:47 PM

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Q: Pop-Up Punk Party

I'm hoping someone can please help me. My friend was able to snag a couple of wrist bands to an underground gig but I don't know where it is or how to get in. He was whispering when he handed me a poster and the band, trying to keep it between us. The downside was that I didn't hear everything h...

cipher enigmatic-puzzle visual

Sid

Wow.... Rand Al'Thor accepted my answer at last. So... a good idea is to threaten to ban him if we want out answers accepted..

Rand al'Thor

It wasn't the threats but the appeal to my sense of justice and sympathy that was effective :-)

2 hours ago, by Rubio

I'm mostly teasing, but - it would be polite to give the answerers due credit before the heat death of the universe. ;)

@Sp3000 Very nice work on the Panama Oxridge puzzle!

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A: Was the clue to who Panama Oxridge really is ever found?

Panama Oxridge is Paul Adshead. I don't know whether any clues were hidden in the Thyme books themselves, but the website for the series contains an elaborate puzzle whose solution is the author's real name. As mentioned by @Shokhet in comments, you can see the start of the trail here: Start...

Sid

Oh, we found out who that pseudonym guy was. Do we get paid? :P

Mithrandir

(HNQ, by the way)

Deusovi

wow, a not-terrible question gets HNQed!

Sp3000

2:00 PM

Too bad it wasn't an original puzzle :P (but it is a very impressive website I have to say)

Deusovi

yeah - there's a lot more potential in a website like that

Sid

I don't see it in HNQ..

Sp3000

As of writing a Google search of "Justin Thyme" with the True Name™ only seems to bring up a few results - I feel like that's going to change a bit thanks to Rand :P

Mithrandir

TheGreatEscaper

@deus I'll get around to that, not tonight though

the only two places where colour is important are:

persistence of rotary and the squares around the grid

eye witless

Sid

2:03 PM

Workplace and Puzzling have too similar flavicons(or whatever it is called). I missed them..

TheGreatEscaper

youll only need eye witless really late on, so here's a description of Rotary so you can get started if ya want

Deusovi

yeah, the witless parts are what I was worried about

TheGreatEscaper

Eye witless is literally the last section where stuff happens!

rotary, all the 1x1 shapes are the same colour

all the 1x2 and 2x1 shapes are the same colour.

Deusovi

Well, I'm solving with pencil and paper

TheGreatEscaper

there are 8 2x2 squares in rotary

groupes in pairs.

Rand al'Thor

2:04 PM

@Deusovi Thanks for that not-ringing endorsement :-P

TheGreatEscaper

each pair is the same colour, for four distinct colours

Rand al'Thor

@Sp3000 Thanks to @Beastly, more like. I'd never have known about it if not for him.

TheGreatEscaper

there are 8 2x2 squares around the giant grid

Deusovi

no, I have the rotary part

the concern is the eye witless

TheGreatEscaper

Oh, alright

ill put up witless with letters instead of eyes

Deusovi

2:05 PM

like I said, I'm solving with pencil and paper

(just add small letters in the corners or something)

TheGreatEscaper

Does that come out in high enough quality?

Deusovi

Works for me. (Also, why did you skip D, F, L, M, and N? :P )

TheGreatEscaper

D cos it looks like O

F cos it looks like E

Deusovi

But... you wouldn't have reached O.

TheGreatEscaper

O cos i wanted to mark it as rotational

and then I realised I didn't need to

but didn't go back on it

(Gotta dash for 15, will be back)

Deusovi

2:13 PM

it'd be cool if you marked rotational ones with rotationally symmetric letters :P

Rand al'Thor

Wow, Sp's answer has already overtaken mine.

TheGreatEscaper

@deus I suppose so but they already have the empty pupils

which I think are still distinguishable, even for the colourblind :P

Deusovi

not necessary, just cool

TheGreatEscaper

2:30 PM

I wonder if I'll be able to complete a project I've wanted to do for months in the space of a single week.

paramesis

@TheGreatEscaper a 64 x 64 grid?

TheGreatEscaper

Nah, not a grid deduction project.

I think surely I've had enough of that

for now

at least

...

paramesis

I'm excited to try the LL after I finish a few projects

Ankoganit

@TheGreatEscaper I'm secretly hoping it's that Room thing :P

Deusovi

Room thing?

TheGreatEscaper

2:44 PM

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ankoganit

Feb 10 at 7:08, by TheGreatEscaper

@Ankoganit I know you're quite keen on seeing that red room puzzle, but the planned scope of that puzzle is definitely a holiday job

Rand al'Thor

10

Q: What's the slowest airplane?

It's easy to find information about the fastest aircraft, but what is the slowest one? Which powered, manned airplane is capable of sustained level flight at lowest velocity?

airspeed fixed-wing speed-record

It seems other sites also have trouble with "just kill the oracle instead" type answers.

Beastly Gerbil

@Randal'Thor and @Sp3000 congratulations! This may or may not be true, but I believe you are the first people to uncover Panama Oxridges identity?

Sp3000

I don't think so since there's a few search hits, not sure

Rand al'Thor

The first people to publish the discovery, maybe.

Deusovi

2:58 PM

palimpsest.org.uk/forum/archive/index.php/t-3034.html

Beastly Gerbil

Still, great achievement - that site had a lot of work put into it

Deusovi

Here there's a reference to Panama being Paul in a comment from 2007.

Sid

they don't seem to have solved the puzzle, though

Beastly Gerbil

All i knew about there identity was they were a children's author and they changed their name so when they wrote a different book the idea that it was also a children's book wasn't carried over

That was from an interview

TheGreatEscaper

Oh hey, I remember one of Paul Adshead's books from my childhood.

like, earlier childhood, if I'm to live under the illusion I still have a year or so left of that

Beastly Gerbil

3:05 PM

Wow! He's only written 11 books so that's a surprise

Well, 13 if we are including the thyme books

TheGreatEscaper

Puzzle Island.

I remember thinking it was awesome.

Beastly Gerbil

Yeah that's his most famous work it seems according to google

Sid

well guys, is inception real?

TheGreatEscaper

If I recall correctly, most of the book is fairly standard image hunting, where a certain animal is disguised several times in a picture, in,say, reeds, or the pattern of bark, etc.

Beastly Gerbil

Considering the puzzles on that site - I think we may have discovered who @Alconja really is ;)

TheGreatEscaper

3:07 PM

but there's this weird meta puzzle that involves anagram type puzzles on the borders, the flavourtext, details in the images etc.

Deusovi

On that site, the art is nice but the puzzles are simple

Sid

which site again?

Sp3000

Given that the URL is easily changeable and the anti-frustration feature that Level Five has, I figured it was for a younger audience perhaps :P

Beastly Gerbil

There's a link in the puzzle here

TheGreatEscaper

@sid it's possible to have a dream in a dream, if that's what you're asking.

Beastly Gerbil

3:09 PM

@Sp3000 yeah they are a children's writer I suppose. Even the thyme books which were supposed to be older I thought were pretty young

Deusovi

@BeastlyGerbil here?

where?

Beastly Gerbil

As in on site @deus

Rands puzzle

Deusovi

oh

didn't quite know what you meant

Beastly Gerbil

Yeahs sorry should have made that clearer

Sid

3:28 PM

@MOehm Did you get the Wimbledon and lady on top clue?

M Oehm

@Sid No. I went on a bit with help from online ressources and after a while went to 15². Didn't get either Wimbledon or the lady on top. I didn't have the knowledge for the first and was too thick to see the second.

I've now done the FT, which I found more accessible, despite the discouraging preamble on 15². I took some time and I won't complete it, but it was a steady solve.

(If you wonder why I have so much time: I've taken this week off.)

n_palum

Vacation?

Rand al'Thor

@n_palum Nice riddle, swiftly solved by a roob and a noob.

n_palum

D: that was fast...

I was proud of a more thematic one for once

M Oehm

As in not at work, yes, but I'm staying at home.

n_palum

3:39 PM

Vacation doesn't have to be somewhere else :P

Rand al'Thor

Let's help the noob, because the roob has enough rep already.

(sez me, of course :-P )

n_palum

Well the roob has more of the answers so far :P

Rand al'Thor

That's why the noob needs help!

n_palum

Well I can't give them answers

See if you can shift around some of Krazy's answers to help the noob

Sphinx

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Q: The sound of me fits in quite a lot

When combined with a number, I form a race. But combined with my position, it sounds like distaste. Knock me over and I'm endless. But to knock me in early would be careless. I'm almost the smallest amount in here. But my value is necessary to your survival out there. Answer...