The Sphinx's Lair

for future reference, ~10 letters is where an anagram starts to become tough to solve by hand. ~13 is where it becomes tough to solve with computer. ~16 is basically impossible unless you have a good idea of what you're looking for

Beastly Gerbil

CLUELESS?

thecoder16

no

also the first words is FFAO'S

Deusovi

oh, of course, it's possessive

Beastly Gerbil

8:25 PM

oh

thecoder16

sorry

Beastly Gerbil

FFAO'S CHEESES PULLED

clearly

thecoder16

lol

no

Deusovi

FFAO'S PULSES LEECHED

n_palum

Of couuuurse

Beastly Gerbil

8:26 PM

I'm thinking HELPLESS?

Deusovi

got it - SLEEP SCHEDULE

which I never would have been able to find without this:

new.wordsmith.org/anagram/…

Beastly Gerbil

damn ninja'd me

thecoder16

yeah...

Beastly Gerbil

Yeah was using an online tool too

n_palum

You can also get SPEECHLESS DUEL :P

Beastly Gerbil

8:27 PM

so FFAO'S SLEEP SCHEDULE

what about it?

that's the answer

yawns

oh.

the "question no one has been able to answer"

n_palum

I'm leaving XD

Deusovi

8:27 PM

the "huge mystery you can have the pleasure of thinking about"

Beastly Gerbil

um.... ok

@Deusovi you answer, you got most of that

And then can someone help me figure out why parts 2 and 4 here = A?

Deusovi

for 2, those seem to be anagram-ish, but they don't come out to regular English words

they're all alphabetized, which is at least a clear hint that anagramming is going on

Beastly Gerbil

moehmm noticed both those points

but yeah weird anagrams

Deusovi

@thecoder16 - you accepted and unaccepted my answer! D:

thecoder16

gonna wait like usual

or should i not this time

Deusovi

8:38 PM

ah - doesn't matter

just didn't realize that's what you were doing

Beastly Gerbil

@deus ankoganit found out the second letter thing

not me. I noticed it later and mentioned it, but he'd said it further up in chat and we all missed it

Deusovi

oh whoops

(if you're curious, my example ADEEHHHOONNRTT anagrammed to "ON THE OTHER HAND")

thecoder16

ah

Deusovi

easy to see once you know it, but really hard to figure out without knowing it

thecoder16

yep i'll make things more obvious

next time

Beastly Gerbil

8:43 PM

Its a good puzzle, just needed a hell of a lot more clues

thecoder16

yes

i think i'll make a part 2 where you actually decode the sleep schedule :P

@BeastlyGerbil by the way, did you ever figure out where the question mark came from?

Beastly Gerbil

nope

I know its from on site

thats it though

thecoder16

it isn't

Beastly Gerbil

oh...

thecoder16

I wrote a ? into my java editor

Beastly Gerbil

8:46 PM

where then?

thecoder16

but it showed up as a syntax error

Beastly Gerbil

ah.

thecoder16

so i put it into a string

which made it orange

i use netbeans

Beastly Gerbil

I recognise the font and stuff from ffao's shiro script. thats where

thecoder16

oh

n_palum

9:21 PM

I understand ffaos sleep schedule though

Gareth McCaughan

9:32 PM

^ Why is Sphinx telling us about these when they have been deleted? (And not even deleted *just now*.)
[EDITED to add:] Oops, ignore that. For some reason I was looking at an ancient version of TSL which hadn't updated itself in the light of new messages. Apologies for the nonsense.

thecoder16

11:20 PM

@n_palum ... reall

really

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