The Sphinx's Lair

ffao

12:10 AM

tried for a bit, this is really as hard as it looks

don't know what "improvisation" expression could be (8,4)

and if "accompaniment" is the def then the rest of the clue is really hard to parse as wordplay

Deusovi

yup

n_palum

12:41 AM

Could improvisation be an anagrind? Or is that not possible

stacksfiller

A# could be a lot of things

like HASH or POUND or OCTOTHORPE

Deusovi

I note that INASHARPANEW and INAPOUNDANEW both have 12 letters. No luck getting any sensible anagrams from them, though.

n_palum

A PAW INNUENDO :P

stacksfiller

12:58 AM

A PAW would be found in A POUND

Sphinx

2:03 AM

0

Q: Three points travel along a straight line

Three points, A, B and C travel along a straight line, each having the same origin. Points A and B travel in the same direction at a speed of 5 km/hr and 10 km/hr, respectively. Point C traverses between points A and B at a speed of 15 km/hr. After 1 hour, how far from the origin is C located? ...

mathematics

ffao

^ Wen was fast o_O

Sphinx

2:17 AM

0

Q: Figure out the missing card

Look at the colored cards with numbers on them (image above). Can you figure out the color of and what's on the mystery card? The correct answer may not be what it seems at first... HINT #1: HINT #2:

logical-deduction pattern lateral-thinking number-sequence trick

ffao

"HINT #2: Read the answer"

Sp3000

3:10 AM

On a slightly sillier note: # (hash) could be an anagrind

stacksfiller

oh hm

maybe could use EMDASH/DASH

now that would be odd

Deusovi

I'd also considered that

ASCII-only

@Sphinx Hey it's Geobits' sock

ffao

I'm not dismissing anything as too silly by this point

Wen1now

I'm hopeless at ccs so don't rely on me

stacksfiller

3:24 AM

^(&c.@)* (5)

wait that's wrong

hold on

ffao

Hey stacksfiller, you left twitter already, it's fine to use more characters now

stacksfiller

my intention was (ETCAT)* = CARET but that's a dumb

not actually a correct anagram

-_-

Deusovi

you may enjoy this clue:

Jan 24 at 23:19, by Deusovi

CCCC: 000-ish (5)

stacksfiller

It is really good

okay this is totally unfair but w/e

"Anagram"? (8)

with the answer being "nantenz va dhbgrf" -> "dhrfgvba"

Deusovi

ha!

dunno about totally unfair - it's so short that there's not much else to do with it. but it needs another question mark for the weirdness

stacksfiller

3:41 AM

ok last one

½.¢% (6)

Deusovi

...you mean 7?

stacksfiller

yeah

haha

Deusovi

unys bs CREVBQ, cyhf PRAG

stacksfiller

yea

although it was already confirmed you got it by the correcting enumeration

boboquack

;½: (9) is an obvious one

Deusovi

3:44 AM

Dollar sign, after first removing long rail! (1) [not sure if I came up with this one or found it somewhere. probably the latter, which is why I'm not waiting and submitting it as a C4]

found it, not mine (still a cool clue though)

mit.edu/~puzzle/2010/puzzles/2000/the_capricious_type/…

stacksfiller

woah

I like the clue on that page "SOLO: ONE TO ONE WITH ONE" (3)

That is 1-1 AN = HAN

that's so satisfying

Deusovi

yeah, that crossword's gimmick is that the clues are written in different fonts, and a lot of the wordplay involves graphical manipulation with that font

and that is a nice clue

stacksfiller

Can you explain 10 down to me?

Deusovi

4:02 AM

that one doesn't involve graphical manipulation, apparently

Lied

The lied (/liːd/ or /liːt/, plural lieder /liːdər/; German pronunciation: [liːt], plural [ˈliːdɐ], German for "song") is a setting of a German poem to classical music. The term is used for songs from the late fourteenth or early fifteenth centuries or even to refer to Minnesang from as early as the 12th and 13th centuries. It later came especially to refer to settings of Romantic poetry during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and into the early twentieth century. Examples include settings by Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Hugo Wolf or Richard...

ffao

boo

Sid

I enter to see something related to music. Boo

So, Gareth has done something naughty. Well, when your clue has stuff like # it's obvious that there is something fishy going on

ffao

pretty much ^

Sid

Also, #=Shift 3. Maybe rot 3 something?

ffao

(as an aside, I love how many crazy things this chat has come up with just from hearing the two words "slightly naughty")

Sid

4:18 AM

Since I am getting nowhere hear, lemme just throw this thing out

Is it MNEMONIC PACT? (Accompaniment+a-2a)* with # as anagrind?

I am 90+% sure this is wrong but whatever

Sphinx

4:52 AM

0

Q: Arrange number inside squares

Arrange numbers 1 to 10 to the squares, with rules : The difference between 2 numbers connected by a line is more than 2 Number inside the blue square is an even number. Numbers inside the green squares are prime numbers.

mathematics visual

Puzzling Meta

5:34 AM

0

Q: "How to Format" box has bullet points that look like clickable drop-down arrows

The triangle bullet points in the How to Format box look like clickable drop-down icons (at least to me). Should they be changed to round bullet points to avoid confusion?

feature-request bug

John Dvorak

6:55 AM

Does # normally have a meaning in cryptic notation?

M Oehm

No, none that I know of.

(But the # symbol is somethimes called hash and therefore it might be an anagram indicator.)

John Dvorak

I like the idea that it's an anagrind then

M Oehm

Hmm, but what's to be anagrammed, then? Just IN A? Which is the followed by A N for a new?

My take on this is that it could be an anagram of A SHARP A (or A + plus any of the other common names for the # sign, of which there are surprisingly many) around something that means accompaniment. Not that this idea has gotten me anywhere ...

Sid

I really wanted # to mean shift 3. But, sadly that doesn't lead to anything other than gibberish

M Oehm

Another idea that has fallen flat, too, is that since the # must be spelled, the dash (--) should also be spelled and contribute to (I A SHARP DASH A)*. But if so, what's the accompaniment for?

John Dvorak

7:10 AM

Is -- the en dash?

Sid

(How do you get I?)

M Oehm

@Sid But what do you want to shift, just the A? And Gareth probably has a UK keyboard, which has a pound sign (£) where the US keyboard has the hash mark. The hash mark doesn't need a shift on the UK keyboard and it sits next to the two-storey enter key, where it also is on my keyboard.

Sid

Ah. Didn't know that

M Oehm

@Sid Oh, that was supposed to be IN. But then it's one letter too many. So perhaps, (IN A HASH DASH A)*, which is a dead end, too.

Sid

Gah. This is so frustrating.

I am sure Gareth will be enjoying this

Mithrandir

7:16 AM

@MOehm heh, was that pun intended? I laughed at 'fallen flat' in the context of this clue.

M Oehm

(And now that I've tped DASH so ofte, I've got the eight-letter word "slapdash" sitting in the back of my brain. But slapdash means done shoddily and in a hurry, not improvised.)

Oh, I see. You mean flat as opposed to sharp. No, that wasn't intended. My intended puns are worse than that.

Sid

@MOehm you should then make unintended puns

M Oehm

@Sid I have no intention to do that.

John Dvorak

It could mean "flat" in the CC, though

M Oehm

(Meanwhile, I've learned that there is a Slapdash improv festival in London.)

John Dvorak

7:21 AM

Also, any chance "accompaniment in A#" is an actual musical piece?

M Oehm

The idea that A# really is B♭, and Gareth has said that A# would be an unusual key to use, because of the profusion of sharp symbol in the score.

M Oehm

7:33 AM

@JohnDvorak Whether a dash is an en or an em dash is a matter of typography. In (Anglo-Saxon?) typewriting, --indicates a dash, as opposed to a hyphen. (But in Latex, -- gets you the en dash and --- the em dash, If I remember correctly.)

Gareth McCaughan

7:47 AM

@Sid The answer is not MNEMONIC PACT.

ffao

what happened to the CCCC pin?

Aug 1 at 0:57, by Rubio

CCCC is Cryptic Clue Chat Chains! Latest clue is ⤴ there! Join the fun! See Deusovi's Cryptic Clue Guide and GPR's Archive & Statistics of past clues.

Gareth McCaughan

It still seems to be pinned, and in particular I can't re-pin it. So I don't know why it isn't on the board. I know that this, or something like it, happens every now and then. The usual fix is to post the same thing again and have everyone pin it again.

CCCC is Cryptic Clue Chat Chains! Latest clue is ⤴ there! Join the fun! See Deusovi's Cryptic Clue Guide and GPR's Archive & Statistics of past clues.

4

(There is no way to guarantee that the arrow will always point in the right direction. I suppose we could make it point down, and then edit it to point up when necessary.)

M Oehm

That's okay. "Join the fun" isn't true for all clues, either. :)

boboquack

10:22 AM

Is A# a programming language derived from A as C# is derived from C?! (I know C came from B and I assume that came from A...)

M Oehm

The B programming language was derived from BCPL.

(But Wikipedia tells me that there is an A# programming language. It's a port of Ada to .NET.)

boboquack

ah well

ooh

Gareth McCaughan

Because B came from BCPL, at one point there was some joking about whether C's successor should be called D or P. Of course it ended up being C++. As C++ programmers are aware, the meaning of C++ is: "Add something to C, and then use the old version instead of the new one."

Wen1now

Huh?

Gareth McCaughan

int C = 1;
printf("%d\n", C++);

will display 1, not 2.

Wen1now

10:34 AM

So to change C we would have to do something like C=C++ or whatever?

M Oehm

Uh, oh, no!

Gareth McCaughan

oh, no, after you do C++ C has been changed

so if you then say printf("%d\n", C) then this time it will display 2

boboquack

@Wen1now ++C

Gareth McCaughan

but being more precise about that would spoil the joke :-)

Wen1now

Detendez-vous, I don't program in C++

Gareth McCaughan

10:35 AM

There is a lot to be said in favour of that choice.

M Oehm

^

boboquack

I opened a C++ IDE and IDLE for a programming competition today and ended up writing 6 programs in Python and none in C++

Gareth McCaughan

I cannot think of any reason to use C++ rather than Python for a programming competition unless there are severe running-time constraints and you really need the efficiency.

Wen1now

Python is short and sweet.

Sphinx

0

Q: Which floor of a multi-storeyed apartment?

You are a citizen of a certain island, which is autonomous (we can assume it as an independent country) and is frequently struck by natural disasters. You have a long cherished dream of owing an house in an apartment in that island nation. The island has a strange rule for the properties (like ...

logical-deduction geography situation

Sp3000

10:37 AM

To date I've only ever seen people use C++ for one thing and it's competition programming. But maybe I just have the wrong types of programmer friends.

And yeah usually the efficiency - lets you have more naive algorithms sometimes

boboquack

^ & ^^

GameN all

Wen1now

Naive algorithms would be nice for me. If I'm lazy (most of the time) my code is hideously inefficient

Gareth McCaughan

The company I work for makes hardware that contains embedded software, on a not-incredibly-limited processor. We write that software in C++. This works OK for us. I think C++ is a fairly common choice for somewhat-resource-constrained applications like ours.

ffao

10:52 AM

@GarethMcCaughan Basically almost always then

Sid

Um... I do sometimes code in C++...

but that's because I don't know much of other languages

ffao

I have seen at least two very popular applications written in C++: sql engines and search engines

But usually if you're writing C++ it's something that needs to be fast no matter what

Wen1now

Okay, okay. C++ wins

Wen1now

11:06 AM

Does anybody want to play contact?

ffao

Want yes can no

John Dvorak

o/

could also play one of the other three

Mithrandir

\o

Could go for any of the 4, although Zendo is a little slow for my tastes.

Sid

@BeastlyGerbil I just found your brother. :P

sammy gerbil, Livingston, Scotland, United Kingdom

16.9k 4 19 48

newtonian-mechanics homework-and-exercises forces rotational-dynamics classical-mechanics kinematics thermodynamics

Sphinx

11:24 AM

0

Q: My first and simple riddle

So I have created my first riddle and simpler for many of you. Hope you like it! I can be personal or a commercial but for spreading the information and thoughts. Remove the first character and you will find me on the web server or under the tree. Don't think to remove ...

riddle

Mithrandir

Contact

For playing the game Contact, where one person tries to "defend"...

Wen1now

Okay, nobody's around. I'll be gone off to bed then

Sphinx

1:21 PM

0

Q: A riddle for everyone

So I have created another riddle for all riddle lovers. Might be easy for people out there but I want you guys to give me a correct explanation of each stanza. You find me attached to many things in life, Many of you throw me out after using that thing. Replace a single character with ...

riddle

Sphinx

2:57 PM

0

Q: Counter-intuitive driving

The driver of a vehicle braked all the way while driving up a hill, and then proceeded to accelerate all the way driving down the hill. The driver a vehicle wanted to meet up with someone traveling in the same direction, with the same speed, but far ahead of him. So he started braking to reduce ...

riddle

Mithrandir

@rubio puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/40478 puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/40482/us-open-tennis-2017

puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/40459/mcgregormayweath puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/40455/nflsportnews

puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/40439/usopentennisp puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/40409/us-open-tennis puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/40408/theusopenw

Gareth McCaughan

@Mithrandir All nuked.

Mithrandir

3:16 PM

(thumbs up)

Sid

3:40 PM

How easily nukes are used around these parts...

Mithrandir

Sid

@Gareth now, I guess, 48-hour hint?

I really am stuck and frustrated on this C4

Mike Q

4:32 PM

I'm not familiar with either "accompaniment" or "improvisation" as indicators, so... yeah.

Gareth McCaughan

Is it 48 hours already? OK then. I can give another hint, answer a question about the clue, provide a letter, ... Requests?

Mike Q

I have too many questions to suggest a good one

Your last hint was: "I have done something slightly naughty."?

Dunno if there were any before that

Gareth McCaughan

That was my only hint, other than clarifying that the clue does not depend on arcane musical knowledge.

Mike Q

Can I ask a specific question or do I just say "hint please" and you give something (probably indirect)?

Gareth McCaughan

4:48 PM

You can do either. How I respond, if at all, is of course up to me :-).

Mike Q

Hmm...

Okay, I have a question, unless anyone else objects

No objections, then.

M Oehm

TSL isn't exactly busy at the moment, so there won't be many around to object. (I don't. I have no idea or maybe too many friutless ideas to think of a good question.)

Mike Q

Is the answer a 1. proper noun, 2. common phrase, 3. pun, or 4. something else?

Gareth McCaughan

Any objections to my answering that question?

M Oehm

Not from me.

Mike Q

4:53 PM

...Unless it's worded poorly

and Gareth answers "Yes"

Mithrandir

I don't take part in CCCCs (with one exception), so I don't have a stake in this.

Mike Q

Okay, rephrasing that

Which of the following is true about the two words?
1. they are a proper noun
2. they are a common or recognizable phrase
3. they form a pun
4. they have nothing to do with each other

Gareth McCaughan

Is the idea that exactly one of these should be the case? Making no comment on the actual answer, it seems to me like more than one of these could be true at once.

Deusovi

...5. the first letter is A
6. the first letter is B
...
30. the first letter is Z
31. the second letter is A
32. ...

:P

Gareth McCaughan

I'm quite happy to provide a letter :-).

Mike Q

4:57 PM

Fine. Provide a letter.

Deusovi

(that was a joke, intended to be equivalent to you revealing the whole answer)

Mike Q

Excuuuuse me, princess @Deusovi

2

Gareth McCaughan

@MikeQ Would you actually prefer a letter or some semantic information along the lines of the question you asked earlier?

Mike Q

Semantic thingy please

Gareth McCaughan

OK. The answer to my C4 is a noun phrase.

(So, all hints so far: 1. Doesn't require arcane musical knowledge. 2. There is at least one slightly naughty thing. 3. Answer is a noun phrase.)

Mike Q

5:15 PM

-- is M in morse

M Oehm

I think -- is just how Gareth types his dashes.

Deusovi

Yes, it's how em dashes are typed.

Mithrandir

In posts you can use —

Does it work in chat — let's test.

Mike Q

In that case, A# is probably atomic? Because # -- doesn't mean anything?

Deusovi

Chat doesn't have HTML formatting.

I highly doubt that # doesn't mean anything. He could've used "A", after all.

Mike Q

5:20 PM

Not the #. The group "# --".

M Oehm

You can always start an answer with — and then copy the dash from the preview over to your chat message if you really wanted proper em-dashes.

Mike Q

And "naughty" can mean anything from "suggestive innuendo" to "stretching the cryptic clue rules" to "nothing"

M Oehm

And given that the most probable defs are accompaniment and improvisation, it is not surprising that the answer is a noun phrase. We've squandered our three wishes!

Mike Q

5:47 PM

I did ask if there were any objections...

M Oehm

I haven't said: you have squandered ...

I wouldn't have had anything better to ask.

ffao

6:05 PM

There had to be something better to ask :/

Or we could have gone with the "Gareth can say what he wants" option

Sid

Why does Gareth always give such hard clues?

M Oehm

In hindsight, revealing a letter might have been more useful. But who knows, perhaps Gareth would just have said: The answer has an A in it.

Mike Q

6:24 PM

The answer contains letters from the English alphabet

Okay, accompaniment and improvisation are both 13 letters, but anagramming those letters minus a wasn't it

And I think the discussion earlier was saying that "--" wasn't a decrement

ffao

We know that anagram wasn't it

Mike Q

I'm just compiling what we already know

I am a compiler

ffao

(()

Mike Q

You monster!

Gareth said the clue doesn't require arcane musical knowledge, but it may require some if A# -> B flat, although I don't see how that translates into some recognizable form of wordplay

M Oehm

6:53 PM

I think the A# == Bb equivalence was already ruled out.

ffao

no one got it to work, but no one got anything else to work either

M Oehm

I can imagine that music is just the surface and that accompaniment refers to wine, perhaps.

Also, accompaniment seems to be the best opportunity to introduce the purported naughtiness.

(Or the naughtiness is really a noughtiness and the # represents noughts and crosses: OOXX.)

Puzzling Meta

2

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Which poem is this? was recently asked, and the poster's friend gave him a binary file to help solve the puzzle. StackExchange already has great support for images, but where should people put other resources needed to ask (or answer) a question? A place like Pastebin for files would be great tha...

discussion

Sphinx

7:09 PM

1

Q: Consecutive Towers of Hanoi

Consider the following variant of the Towers of Hanoi puzzle. There are six pegs. One of the pegs has a stack of $n$ differently sized disks, sorted by size so the smallest disk is at the top. All other pegs are empty. The goal is to move this stack to a different peg. You may only move one dis...

mathematics combinatorics algorithm reachability mechanical-puzzles

Sid

What if the naughtiness is not for hash?

ffao

maybe we can ask where the naughtiness is tomorrow :P

Sid

Lol. Yeah

Sconibulus

7:40 PM

such a long day today has dayed

Gareth McCaughan

@Sid My previous one was solved in minutes. My clues aren't always hard, but they sometimes are, and I guess those ones are more memorable.

Mike Q

@Sconibulus Has it been a long 24 hours?

Deusovi

Yeah. I don't think anyone here gives consistently hard clues. We just remember the hard ones.

Sid

Dayed? Is that a verb?

Sconibulus

anything is a verb if you try hard enough

Deusovi

7:46 PM

it wasn't a verb, but you can verb any word you want

ffao

I see what you did there

Sconibulus

> verbing weirds language

ffao

I can't understand most of Gareth's clues without a Google search, so at least to me they are consistently hard

Deusovi

there was that clue of Gareth's that involved an obscure British children's cartoon character. that one was... interesting

ffao

The one about Ermintrude with no hesitation?

It would be a simple clue... if anyone actually knew the character

Sid

8:00 PM

@ffao same here. I always have had to extensively Google search Gareth's clues

Deusovi

Yeah, that one.

M Oehm

What's happening? Are we all googling for an impropvisation? Or for an accompaniment?

Mike Q

@MOehm Yes but I gave up

M Oehm

That's what I do now, too. Good night.

Sid

@MOehm let's split up. Half of us should Google for improvisation and half of us should Google for accompaniment. :P

Deusovi

8:21 PM

I've been staring at lists of (8, 4) phrases.

No luck there either.

Sid

What is a noun phrase, again?

Deusovi

A phrase that can be used as a noun. That's pretty much it.

Sid

That...doesn't help.

Example?

Deusovi

I mean, a phrase of the form (adjective, noun) is a noun phrase.

Sconibulus

clearly it's Aspiring Harp :)

Deusovi

8:24 PM

"National debt", "absolute zero", "chemical bond"...

Sconibulus

pairing in A Sharp - A

Deusovi

sounds semi-plausible, but it's not a Thing

Sconibulus

it's just new :)

Deusovi

(I mentioned HARP potentially being the second word a while ago)

Sconibulus

I improvised

(I do not think this is actually the answer)

Deusovi

8:26 PM

(yeah, I didn't think you did)

Sconibulus

Hmm, some bad maths actually puts Gareth CCCCs among the most difficult

Sid

Obviously Aspiring Harp is correct. :P

@Sconibulus bad maths?

Sconibulus

well, ugly maths

Mike Q

What could "new" mean (as wordplay) in the CCCC?

Sconibulus

I borrower a column way to the right of the Archive and Statistics to do a calculation

anew could be an anagrind

the calculation is very rough and probably meaningless

Sid

8:32 PM

To show: Gareth's C4 are the most difficult.

It doesn't matter how you reach the conclusion as long as you reach the conclusion

Sconibulus

well, not the most difficult

G as in Gnome comes in at a .8 vs Gareth's .77, and there are a couple other people above 1

(I have a .75, which brings me shame)

Sid

What is this ratio?

Sconibulus

it's average number of days unsolved

for the wildly unscientific definition of day we use

stacksfiller seems to be easiest at .07

(barring some 0's)

Sid

My clues are not the easiest?

I am surprised

stacksfiller

huh

Sconibulus

8:37 PM

you were at like .09

oh, wait, there's some funkiness near the bottom

Mike Q

Some CCCCs are solved within minutes

Sid

One of the easiest then.

Sconibulus

looks like having fixed that, Sid's at .1, and stackfiller at ~ .11

Deusovi

whose are the hardest?

Sconibulus

ooh, and I'm down to .625

Gareth's still at .77ish

stacksfiller

8:41 PM

whoo

I'm not completely the easiest

Sconibulus

Rand's at .8

stacksfiller

I do see why mine are sometimes super easy though. Sometimes I'm just interested in the idea of the clue that the actual execution comes out trivial

Sconibulus

I wish I knew how to just make a table of the person and their point though

Deusovi

yeah, me too, Stacks

Sconibulus

rather than having to search for clues they made

Mike Q

8:43 PM

How do I calculate this ratio

stacksfiller

just like with people though, easy doesn't necessarily mean bad ;)

Sconibulus

You can look at the calculation in the Statistics

Deusovi

pff

Sconibulus

it's over at S, has the math I used

feelinferrety is 1, which is the biggest I've seen so far, but I think I got 6 on a Max

Sid

@Sconibulus That is good. Now, time to think of harder clues. :P

stacksfiller

8:45 PM

"Someone crazy lacks filters" (12)

Sconibulus

Silenus is now bottom at .09 (among nonzero)

stacksfiller

(I'd save it for a cccc but who knows how long that might last)

Sid

@stacksfiller 2 seconds. STACKSFILLER

stacksfiller

yea

I like that surface

Deusovi

yeah, that surface is pretty nice

stacksfiller

8:47 PM

very applicable

Sconibulus

Some portion of the scores is probably explained by timezones too

stacksfiller

I could turn it into a &lit if it were a noun phrase instead of an adjective phrase without "Someone"

ffao

@Sconibulus 6 is boboquack

Mike Q

Okay I have a 0.7272727273. Is that good? Bad?

Sconibulus

that means you're among the most difficult according to this arbitrary measure

Average is around .4

Mike Q

8:50 PM

Yay?

Sconibulus

whatever floats your boat :)

I did the calculation to fact-check Sid's claim that Gareth ~~is mean~~ makes hard clues :)

Sid

So, my claim is based on some (unknown to me- hatred) towards Gareth? Or does it have even some semblance of truth in it?

Sconibulus

I think he's the one who scores highest on this measure that has made 5 or more clues, but I'm not positive

Sphinx

9:24 PM

0

Q: Mazes For Two or More

I am interested in mazes that can be adapted to require two or more people to cooperate to solve. Some examples include Robert Abbott's Meteor Storm, Oscar van Deventer's Counter-Step Maze and his three dimensional mazes broken into three planes. Do you have any other ideas?

mazes

feelinferrety

9:43 PM

Anyone around?

Up for a game?

@Deusovi done with class for the day?

Rubio

@feelinferrety (Some of?) your comments on the guess-my-word→hangman→riddle puzzle are obsolete, and should probably be deleted now

feelinferrety

Is that the prescribed method of doing things? I mean the revs are still there...

Rubio

@Sphinx This feels off-topic to me as a request for a list, but it may be narrow enough that it's ok. Anyone know of examples of what they're looking for, who could advise on if this is confined enough to be reasonably answerable?

feelinferrety

I think it's a good question. It's sort of like a "searching for this kind of puzzle but don't know what it is" type post. I tried to add tags, but couldn't think of an appropriate name to search, or else it doesn't exist.

Rubio

@feelinferrety sure - when a concern in a comment has been addressed, the comment no longer serves a purpose, and that's exactly what the "no longer needed" comment flag signals. I prefer asking people to tidy up after themselves when possible, though.

ffao

9:49 PM

because I'm bad at riddles, I just solved it by mentally going through o(pion??)*s

feelinferrety

@Rubio Okay, I'm typically one who likes to see the history of things, so I don't like removing stuff, but if that's the way it goes here, then so be it

ffao

"going through" might be a bit of an overstatement, that evokes the answer almost immediately

Deusovi

@feelinferrety Yeah, why?

feelinferrety

Gaaaaames?

Mike Q

@feelinferrety I will be available for games later, maybe in an hour or so.

Sid

9:53 PM

People are so addicted to these games...

Mainly contact

thecoder16

i really want to try zendo but i'm always on at the wrong time

Deusovi

Eh, not right now.

Wen1now

I've been tracking it for a few days now

Contact is roughly ~~800 messages behind atm

I can't subtract, I mean ~700

feelinferrety

@thecoder16 My feeling was that it's not great without a strict play method and/or a bot

thecoder16

hmm idk

boboquack

10:07 PM

it's good when it works

if it doesn't work it can be terrible

ffao

pretty much this

Sphinx

10:26 PM

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Q: Ropes and Clothes

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