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Rubio
Rubio
12:09 AM
You got that in search results I take it. I'd guess it tried to intelligently deal with Mathjax formatting and got things badly wrong.
@boboquack multi line text doesn't parse markdown. I'd guess that's what happened here.
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
@boboquack where pls link ty?
 
Rubio
Rubio
@ffao my level 0 hints are perfectly useful and helpful. It just takes other hints before you realize why. Usually. :)
 
Apep
Apep
@ASCII-only this one
 
Alconja
Alconja
@boboquack I've seen stuff from the leaping sets (before your hint, which I think is what you're hinting at), but didn't post anything because I don't see how it links to the meta puzzle, which makes me think I'm missing something...
I'll update my answer and see if it triggers anyone else... (after I double check my maths to make sure I'm not missing something stupid/obvious)
 
boboquack
boboquack
Yeah, the extraction isn't necessarily obvious
@Alconja You can update the answer and have me check the maths
 
Alconja
Alconja
12:29 AM
Minor issue: I'm just re-looking at it now, and I've forgotten what I had done to get what I got (tried so many random things, and have a txt file full of seemingly random numbers)... :) I'm sure it'll come back to me.
 
boboquack
boboquack
@Alconja ooh, may I have a look?
Oh, and puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/40656/jets-vs-bills even has a profile picture
 
stacksfiller
stacksfiller
why...?
why does that happen
 
Rubio
Rubio
12:45 AM
@stacksfiller ?
 
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ASCII-only
11/19/27
12/23/34
11/17/23
22/25/28
I might be onto something :P (probably not)
 
Rubio
Rubio
@boboquack ahh, so this turns out to be due to the vagaries of parsing when it's got just snippets of the MathJax code. It was trying to highlight a "0" that happens to be in part of the formatting code, because you searched for "level 0" and that zero is something it thought you'd care about. The surrounding text happens to follow the 0 with a } and a newline, and then: 
  \begin{array}{cc}\Pad\T&\NT\\\end{array}}}}\atop\def\V
which is just enough to make the page parser to try to format that as MathJax, but at that point it doesn't have the macros defined, so the text there get displayed as array components - but as unexpanded red macro tags because they're unknown.
 
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ASCII-only
1:11 AM
 5 11 19 27  29  37  65  81       6  8  8  2  8 28 16
12 21 23 34  76  89  90  98       9  2 11 42 13  1  8
 2  8 10 11  16  17  23  47 63    6  2  1  5  1  6 24 16
 2  6  8 11  22  23  25  26 28    4  2  3 11  1  2  1  2
 2  7 18 19  35  48  52  66 90    5 11  1 16 13  4 14 24
12 21 24 27  39  72  78  87 93    9  3  3 12 33  6  9  6
15 25 35 40  75  95 100 120      10 10  5 35 20  5 20
12 18 21 41  61  91 100 162       6  2 20 20 30  9 62
21 28 35 91 119 126 140           7  7 56 28  7 14

KLKVRUOUU
Okay that's either ciphered, or I extracted wrong
49 mins ago, by boboquack
Yeah, the extraction isn't necessarily obvious
 
Apep
Apep
There is the somewhat hint that they are (un)ordered.
 
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ASCII-only
The differences give HKFCQCJTG
@Apep Yes, in my solution order doesn't matter but it helps
 
Alconja
Alconja
@boboquack Sorry, already scrubbed most of it... and what I do have left I've double checked and doesn't actually work for all sets :(
 
boboquack
boboquack
@ASCII-only you extracted wrong
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
Yes :P
 
boboquack
boboquack
1:20 AM
@ASCII-only you extracted wrong again
:P
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
I know :P
Hmm, does it involve wrapping? i.e. 27 would be A?
 
boboquack
boboquack
@ASCII-only no, that would be mean
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
@boboquack just making sure you didn't intentionally make it mean :P
 
boboquack
boboquack
(also, try to find the antipattern)
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
Time to look for the most obscure extraction method then I guess
 
stacksfiller
stacksfiller
1:26 AM
@Rubio sorry I should specifiy
Talking about all the sports related acounts
why are there so many always being made
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
@boboquack Wait, all of the Not ones have a different pattern (not just a lack of pattern?)
 
stacksfiller
stacksfiller
can something be done about that besides just individually finding each one
is it like a random spam attack or something
 
boboquack
boboquack
 
stacksfiller
stacksfiller
yea whats up with that
 
boboquack
boboquack
puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/40691/jaim2017 looks suspicious, many of the sporty profile names match \w*(20)?17
@stacksfiller we could probably train an offspring of Charcoal
@ASCII-only yes (other people have found that already)
Yay, nice views
 
ffao
ffao
1:35 AM
CAESAREAN
 
boboquack
boboquack
@ffao correct!
 
ffao
ffao
take the letter that you'd get from an extra leap
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
Oh :|
 
ffao
ffao
The property looks much simpler than it is to spot in a set of a bunch of mostly random numbers
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
@ffao Pls explain in english ty
 
ffao
ffao
1:39 AM
it seems to be really easy to notice the property when you know what the property is, which I guess is why bobo thought no one was trying
in reality it's actually difficult
 
boboquack
boboquack
@ffao no, I knew that one would be quite tricky. I just expected people to discuss it more.
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
Right :P yeah I had to use hint 1 to get it
I mean I knew leaping = differences, but seeing that Mea Culpa Nay's answer was close but not correct gave me enough information to narrow it down :P
 
ffao
ffao
all this talking of leaping and bunny hopping reminds me of A Letter to the Past
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
so just square numbers left I guess
 
boboquack
boboquack
@ASCII-only and not leaping sets and not square numbers
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
1:42 AM
@boboquack But you said other people have found Not Square Numbers :/
Oh wait.
There's two words per puzzle
 
stacksfiller
stacksfiller
whats the answer to squares?
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
@stacksfiller Nobody's done it yet
 
stacksfiller
stacksfiller
oh whoops misread
 
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ASCII-only
Yes:
 5 11 19 27  29  37  65  81       6  8  8  2  8 28 16
12 21 23 34  76  89  90  98       9  2 11 42 13  1  8
 2  8 10 11  16  17  23  47 63    6  2  1  5  1  6 24 16
 2  6  8 11  22  23  25  26 28    4  2  3 11  1  2  1  2
 2  7 18 19  35  48  52  66 90    5 11  1 16 13  4 14 24
12 21 24 27  39  72  78  87 93    9  3  3 12 33  6  9  6
15 25 35 40  75  95 100 120      10 10  5 35 20  5 20
12 18 21 41  61  91 100 162       6  2 20 20 30  9 62
21 28 35 91 119 126 140           7  7 56 28  7 14
Yay wall of text
I think I'm doing Not Leaping Sets™ wrong :( oh well
 
ffao
ffao
I thought it might be that the differences would be x and 2x instead of x and x, but this given more than one possible triplet in the first non leaping sets
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
1:52 AM
Ooh, another part was found?
 
ffao
ffao
what were you trying? I don't get the table
yes Deus, Leaping Sets have three elements for which the middle one is the average of the other two
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
@ffao Which table :P
 
ffao
ffao
your jumble of numbers above :P
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
the table is successive differences. not-leaping sets have a pattern A B A on the third successive difference, which probably has a nicer interpretation
 
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ASCII-only
@Deusovi Doesn't seem to be, one set has none of those and three have two
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
1:55 AM
I don't understand why you just stopped with one set
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
Hmm?
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
unless I'm misunderstanding the table, that is
Each sequence in a row is the successive differences of the previous one, right?
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
Nope
The second table only
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
wait, no. I just assumed it was
oh, I think I get it then
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
Second differences for either one would be include negatives so I didn't do those
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
1:56 AM
they're successive differences skipping n-2 elements? (except the first sequence in each row obviously, which is the original)
anyway, @ASCII-only, why didn't you continue with one row?
 
Rubio
Rubio
2:12 AM
@boboquack is fine. others nuked.
I'm glad these spammers let me keep abreast of upcoming events of high popular interest.
 
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ASCII-only
@Deusovi Nope, they're me trying to find a pattern
 
stacksfiller
stacksfiller
seems like CCCC should be P(ER(C)E)PTION or P(ER(C)E)IVING but i don't know how to get the outside
ERE being "earlier" and C being "primarily certain" and def being "feeling"
i am sketched out by the note he added though maybe also overanalyzing it
 
ffao
ffao
you lot should really stop overanalyzing notes that aren't meant to be hints :P
 
stacksfiller
stacksfiller
thats our type though
overanalytical
sometimes not even very ytical
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
pff
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
2:44 AM
Has anyone found the property of Not Double Jump Words™ yet?
nvm, found it 
[db][np][om][rt][su][sq][tv][bd][us][hj][np][mo]
IDK how to extract though
 
stacksfiller
stacksfiller
take the middle letter
it was already found tho
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
Oh
@stacksfiller Right, just couldn't find the existing one >_>
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
3:05 AM
Not Leaping Sets™ should be pretty obvious since Leaping Sets™ are known now
Apparently someone has already found it too but I can't find that
@stacksfiller Oh :| how could I miss that
 
boboquack
boboquack
@ASCII-only I haven't seen that yet
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
2 hours ago, by ASCII-only
@boboquack Wait, all of the Not ones have a different pattern (not just a lack of pattern?)
Oh you meant the other Not puzzles/the fact that they exist
:D Carmeister found it
So the probable info we have on Square numbers:
numbers involved in it are relatively small so a number related to them can be used to index into the alphabet
square is most likely n**2

They probably have nothing to do with:
Digital sum
Squares of substrings
about the CCCC: unworldly enthusiasm seems so much like (NUSISM)* -R (IDK what the -R would do though)
 
ffao
ffao
gah, I swear I tried geometric progressions but the fractional ratio threw me off
I'm failing so bad at that puzzle u.u
 
boboquack
boboquack
@ffao haha I put that in because I knew someone would trip up at that
 
ffao
ffao
but... that's mean
I thought you were nice
 
boboquack
boboquack
3:18 AM
Nice? Me?
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
2 hours ago, by boboquack
@ASCII-only no, that would be mean
 
boboquack
boboquack
@ASCII-only but that's counterintuitive. There's a difference.
The alphabet has 26 letters. But r in a geometric sequence isn't defined to be integral.
 
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ASCII-only
@boboquack :P i know
@ASCII-only Also nothing to do with the shape, or factors
 
boboquack
boboquack
With 80% of the subpuzzles, you should be able to start working on the metapuzzle
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
yeah, that's what I was just doing
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
3:28 AM
I want to finish the subpuzzles first :P
 
Alconja
Alconja
@boboquack Yeah, the Not Square Numbers will give *TI*TI*
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
but we could backsolve some of the subpuzzles
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
Reverse engineering Backsolving the final 20% is just cheating
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
@Alconja ah, REPETITION
 
Alconja
Alconja
Not so sure about the Square Numbers, given that AIRCRAFT breaks the obvious rule
 
boboquack
boboquack
3:29 AM
@Alconja which is?
 
Alconja
Alconja
*XY*YX*
cAEsarEAn, anTIquITy, poYTonaliTY
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
nope, it's fine
RCR
CREATIVITY
 
Alconja
Alconja
Ahh. overlap. duh
 
boboquack
boboquack
yay!
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
O_o that was fast
 
Alconja
Alconja
3:31 AM
Pity numbers suck so much :P
 
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ASCII-only
Anyone want to edit that in?
@Alconja Yeah well there's that extra layer of extraction especially
And the fact that you need arithmetic :P
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
yes, we got that
@boboquack - calling in VINDICTIVE for Square Numbers?
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
oh how could I not see that
 
Alconja
Alconja
Or divisively
 
boboquack
boboquack
@Deusovi yep
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
3:33 AM
woo! backsolving is fun
 
boboquack
boboquack
do you know why?
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
not a clue!
VINDICTIVE and DIVISIVELY were the only two reasonable words that worked, and the former seemed more likely
like I said, backsolving is fun :P
for the *AB*BA* ones, is there any indication which to take?
 
boboquack
boboquack
@Deusovi unfortunately no, I was going to put a star or something on some puzzles but forgot to when I posted it
It would have been fairly obvious when you tried it anyway
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
yeah, it wasn't difficult
the word obviously didn't start or end with RC or YT
 
boboquack
boboquack
@somebody not quite
 
stacksfiller
stacksfiller
3:39 AM
wow that's super nice
CREA[TI]V[IT]Y and REPE[TI][TI]ON
 
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ASCII-only
@boboquack .-. fixed but I think I explained it terribly
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
yeah, it is
I'm working on editing the post with an explanation.
(and REPETITION has the added bonus of being thematically linked to the extraction method)
(not a hard meta, but props for how well the theme worked)
 
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ASCII-only
@Deusovi which I (kinda?) mentioned
Also.
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
also?
 
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ASCII-only
We can now conclude that TI is in every puzzle :P
 
boboquack
boboquack
3:42 AM
@ASCII-only huh?
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
See stacksfiller's message :P
 
boboquack
boboquack
oh, yes. I liked how well it came out
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
Actually IVI would be valid too for CREATIVITY
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
that just means it's doubly-creative
 
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VINDICTIVE -> 22  9 14  4  9  3 20  9 22  5
If that helps at all
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
3:46 AM
I'm doing a major rewrite of the CW answer - condensing each set of spoilers into one, for instance
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
That's a good idea :P there are way too many spoilers right now
too bad SE has no inline spoilers
 
boboquack
boboquack
@ASCII-only MathJax coloured white
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
@boboquack :/ I guess that kinda works but then it's way harder to reveal isn't it
Like you actually have to select the text :P
 
boboquack
boboquack
@ASCII-only Actually, I'll link you to an exemplary example of inline spoilers
62
Q: The Puzzling Times

Rubio$$\bbox[orange]{\begin{array}{rcl}\\\hline\huge\ \ \star\ \ \star\ \ The&\huge{Puzzling}&\huge{Times\ \ \star\ \ \star\ \ }\\\hline\\\end{array}}$$   Vol. 4, No. 1 $\raise 2pt \tt{\large{\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ MONDAY,\ JANUARY\ 9^{th},\ 2017\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ }}$ Price: On...

riddle cipher enigmatic-puzzle visual cryptic-clues
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
CW answer edited.
The missing answer is probably one of the following:
activating activation activities antiaditis antibiotic antiseptic antistatic antithetic appetition appetitive artistical astigmatic dentitions dermatitis dietitians docetistic donatistic entitative estimating estimation estimative estivating estivation etiolating etiolation extinction extinctive factitious
fictitious futilities identities inartistic initiating initiation initiative intimating intimation intinction justintime latitation litigating litigation mitigating mitigation mitigative motivating motivation mutilating mutilation nativistic nativities nepotistic optimistic partitions par…
...It's going to be slightly harder to backsolve that one.
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
3:51 AM
I'd say it's a pretty common word so 90% of them aren't possibilities
 
boboquack
boboquack
@Deusovi you can probably eliminate one option off the bat
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
Plus it's way easier forward normal-solving from Square Numbers™ :P
 
boboquack
boboquack
Did you use Qat? I did
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
Yeah.
@boboquack And yeah, I can eliminate TICKETING.
 
boboquack
boboquack
@Deusovi actually, two options then
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
3:53 AM
Oh. And REPETITION, of course.
 
Apep
Apep
URTICATION as well
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
(And REPETITIVE too, probably.)
 
Alconja
Alconja
@Deusovi How do you get Qat to limit to a specific length?
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
@ASCII-only That still leaves a lot of options, unfortunately. Too many to call in over and over.
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
@Deusovi Yeah, so don't backsolve that one :P
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
3:54 AM
10: *ti*ti* &! *ing
 
boboquack
boboquack
@Apep how do you know I haven't got serious allergies?
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
(removed "ing" because I don't think Bobo would use two words ending in TING)
 
Alconja
Alconja
Oh, didn't realise you could do the 10: bit :\
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
yup! you can also do 10-:, -10: or 7-10: if you want ranges of lengths
 
Alconja
Alconja
Can you use it with the partial word stuff... eg 10:AB;A;B; doesn't work for me...
 
Rubio
Rubio
3:58 AM
you can do that with |AB|=10 ; AB ; A ; B
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
AB;A;B;|AB|=10
yeah, that
 
Rubio
Rubio
howdy folks
I see some, er, interesting puzzling conversation has been happening. :)
 
Alconja
Alconja
Yeah, got that far, but how about when I want AxB;A;B; etc, for some x
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
AxB;A;B;|AB|=9
 
Alconja
Alconja
and when x is non-deterministic length?
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
4:00 AM
not sure if you can do that, unfortunately
 
Rubio
Rubio
ACB ; A ; B ; |ACB|=10
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
oh, you don't care what x is at all
then yeah, Rubio's thing works
 
Alconja
Alconja
Can I then define C = a*b, or whatever though?
 
Rubio
Rubio
that will require A, B, and ACB to be words, but C needn't be one itself
 
Alconja
Alconja
But how do I give rules to C
 
Rubio
Rubio
4:01 AM
yes, you can C=a*b
there are limits to how you can express a rule for C though
 
Alconja
Alconja
Huh... thought I'd tried that, will try again
Unless I hit one of the limits
 
Apep
Apep
Ah, these are for the missing not- meta. In that case, all of them containing ITI should be excluded, perhaps. Otherwise, they would qualify for the other meta.
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
Or IT.
activation antibiotic antiseptic antistatic artistical astigmatic docetistic donatistic estimation estimative estivation etiolation extinction extinctive inartistic intimation intinction justintime motivation mutilation nativistic nepotistic optimistic patination pentimenti quietistic statistics stigmatics stigmatise stigmatism stigmatist stigmatize stiltiness stintingly subtilties tidivation tightishly timocratic unartistic urtication
(again, I've removed the -ing ones)
that's a more reasonable number, but still not enough to backsolve without angering bobo
 
Rubio
Rubio
this rule: A; B; ACB ; |ACB|=10 ; C=e*t
gives this as one of its possibilities, for example: tins own tins·elt·own elt
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
had it been an automatic answer checker, this would be the point where it'd be worth it to try all of them
 
boboquack
boboquack
4:04 AM
Why is hoooo a word in qat's dictionary?
 
Rubio
Rubio
because it's a word
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
 
boboquack
boboquack
I'm pretty sure it's not a word
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
Japanese phoenix, more commonly romanized as houou
it is a word
 
boboquack
boboquack
oh
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
4:05 AM
 
Rubio
Rubio
someone suggested it as an answer to the highest-proportion-of-a-single-letter-in-a-word puzzle, in fact
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
...yes, and it's also where "Ho-Oh", the pokémon name, comes from
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
@Deusovi Which is why I linked it :P
 
boboquack
boboquack
Is this one of those words which comes up in crosswords a lot just because it's good for filling gaps?
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
nah, I haven't seen it in crosswords yet
 
Rubio
Rubio
4:07 AM
I would be surprised if it was actually useful for filling gaps
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
typically "crosswordese" words are 3 or 4 letters, not 5
 
boboquack
boboquack
@Rubio if you've got a lot of o's in a row
 
Rubio
Rubio
.... then you've made a very odd crossword. ;)
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
if so, you've likely placed some 3 or 4 letter words before a 5-letter word, and those are easier to change typically
@Rubio um, excuse you, crosswords with a lot of one letter in some entries are perfectly legitimate
 
Rubio
Rubio
Well, sure, but - not two. ;)
 
boboquack
boboquack
4:10 AM
(now I can just see Deus going to make a Christmas themed crossword with entries such as hoooo, ooh and hohoho)
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
@boboquack *with o as the only vowel
 
boboquack
boboquack
@ASCII-only and h the only consonant
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
nah, that crossword was a one-time thing
I am tempted now that you mention it, but clue writing would be even harder
 
Rubio
Rubio
I was going to toss down the challenge gauntlet but then realized how awful it'd be to come up with more than a small handful of interesting clues, and decided to skip it
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
A Reckless Disregard was hard enough
there are some clues where you can clearly tell I ran out of ideas
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
4:15 AM
@Rubio It could be like a cryptic showcase :P
 
Rubio
Rubio
a 9x9 might be practical, but not much larger
@ASCII-only oh dear god no.
 
Sp3000
Sp3000
OH would need to be a mini or it'd be too hard
 
Rubio
Rubio
Making cryptics around that would be a nightmare
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
"winning tic-tac-toe combination"
"expression of surprise from a stereotypical British gentleman"
"water's chemical structure"
that's all I've got for semi-entertaining clues
besides the already mentioned OOH, HO-OH, HOOOO, and HOHOHO
 
Sp3000
Sp3000
"Yoo-___"
 
Rubio
Rubio
4:20 AM
Water, maybe? HOH
oh you have that nvm
so yeah it'd be a grind beyond that first handful
 
Sp3000
Sp3000
Probably easier if you allow some two-letters
 
Rubio
Rubio
"Ding Dong alternative" heh
ok I'm stopping now
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
@Rubio even worse than A Reckless Disregard, since there's probably no easy questionably-reliable Wikipedia list
 
boboquack
boboquack
"Sound in a haunted house"
 
Sp3000
Sp3000
Going a step further than a few aforementioned: "Stereotypical ojou-sama laugh"
 
Rubio
Rubio
4:27 AM
I know half of those words
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
I know 3/4 of those words
 
Rubio
Rubio
well ok I do too but half is funnier
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
I know two thirds of those words
 
Sp3000
Sp3000
(apparently if you Google image search OHOHOHO you get exactly what I envisioned)
 
Rubio
Rubio
my wordlist thinks these are all valid: H Hoo O h ho hoh hoho hoo o oh oho oo ooh oooo
 
boboquack
boboquack
4:29 AM
not hoooo or hohoho?
 
Rubio
Rubio
it's not the greatest list. :)
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
Qat allows these:
h o hh ho oh oo hoh hoo oho ooh hoho oooo hoooo
 
Rubio
Rubio
'ooo' as out-of-office (or -order) would work too
 
Sp3000
Sp3000
I think if you allow yourself a few extra letters to spell a message that might work
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
it might, but it'd be annoying
 
Sp3000
Sp3000
4:32 AM
"Australian emergency number, sounded out"
 
Rubio
Rubio
relevant (?!): hooooooooo.com (probably don't want to click that at work because that would be really, really, annoying) --edited for better accuracy
 
Sp3000
Sp3000
What's that, "Intro to Doctor Who's theme song"?
 
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ASCII-only
@Rubio It's one of the websites included here
 
Rubio
Rubio
@Sp3000 no, that would be here
 
Sp3000
Sp3000
On the lines of water, I guess you can do hydrogen peroxide too
 
Rubio
Rubio
4:35 AM
@ASCII-only lol. that's entirely fitting.
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
@ASCII-only I just got endless.horse. I have no idea why I find that site so funny
 
Rubio
Rubio
or a hydroxyl group, or alternatively as an alcohol clue ...
 
boboquack
boboquack
"View of a nebula"
 
Rubio
Rubio
hah. endless horse is brilliant in its idiocy. I love it
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
@Rubio I'd say that would be better as a Pokemon clue
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
4:37 AM
@Rubio from the source:
 
Sp3000
Sp3000
"2017 Sukhbir song" (probably plenty like this, but all annoyingly obscure though)
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
" endless.horse
Colleen Josephson and Kyle Miller, 2015
Created during the West Coast Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon"
 
Rubio
Rubio
hah!
 
boboquack
boboquack
One of humn's puzzles had oooOOOOooOOOooooO or something like that
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
the things there are hilarious
"Outcognito Mode is a Chrome extension that publicly tweets every website you visit and everything you type."
 
Rubio
Rubio
4:39 AM
oh my.
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
"Fireplace: A virtual reality experience of looking at a fireplace on TV"
"Shakie: Camera app that only takes pictures when the phone is vigorously shaken."
 
Sp3000
Sp3000
I remember the one that randomly orders you an Uber and lunch somewhere random, that looked fun (?)
 
Rubio
Rubio
uselessweb took me to weirdorconfusing.com which in turn took me to amazon.com/CTA-Digital-Pedestal-Stand-Holder/dp/B00AQT653G/… which ... I'm still shaking my head over
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
"Holdr by Sam Tarakajian is an iPhone app that tells you if you are currently holding your phone."
 
Rubio
Rubio
^ welp that seems helpful
 
Sp3000
Sp3000
4:40 AM
"Adventure Time land"
"Queen-side castling notation"
Probably enough of the answer though, much easier than the others
 
Rubio
Rubio
 
boboquack
boboquack
5:03 AM
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
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Q: A set of lockers

MinusReputationThere is a series of 100 lockers in a school. All of them start closed. Students number 1 to 100 flip an even, two sided coin. If the coin lands on heads, they go through each locker corresponding to their number's multiple and opens it. If it is already open, the student closes the locker. If...

mathematics probability no-computers
It is.
 
Rubio
Rubio
iloveyoulikeafatladylovesapples.com is bizarre on a number of levels.
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
Ugh, and they had to pick that team.
 
boboquack
boboquack
@Deusovi that question is more interesting and has more conditions
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
5:06 AM
Oh, whoops. Wrong one, hold on.
 
Rubio
Rubio
there's been a whole crap-ton of spam users created in the last two days. it's getting ridiculous.
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
9
Q: Nerds, Jocks, and Lockers

KeithSHere's an oldie but goodie from The Daily WTF; I paraphrase to avoid copyright issues: A middle school math teacher, who also happened to be the P.E. coach, made the following deal with the non-athletic "nerds" in each new math class he taught on their first day: Outside the classroom ...

mathematics combinatorics
That one.
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
@Rubio I have no idea why they even chose Puzzling of all sites.
 
Rubio
Rubio
it is quite puzzling.
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
pff
 
Rubio
Rubio
5:08 AM
(someone had to...)
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
"What Is a Spammer-Targeted Site™?"
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
-3
Q: Variation of 100 coins puzzle with turning coin every tim

Narayan GvrThere was a table in a room and there were 100 coins(coin 1 to 100) in a row on the table. All the coins were heads up initially. You entered the room and turned all the coins, the second time you entered the room and turned every 2nd coin(coin 2, coin 4,...), the 3rd time you entered the room a...

mathematics pattern number-sequence number-theory
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
Ask Different, Graphic Design, and Astronomy get a lot more actual spam posts (but I suspect that it would be less if they preemptively nuked users).
 
Rubio
Rubio
I love the "type 1 for .... type 2 for ...."
talk about utter failure to even try to tailor a puzzle for where you're asking it
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
yeah, I know
it's hilarious
it's blatantly obvious that it's copied from somewhere, probably homework
 
boboquack
boboquack
5:13 AM
it took me a minute to understand what the types were
 
ASCII-only
ASCII-only
 
 
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Wen1now
Wen1now
7:04 AM
member - does anybody else think it might be a PSE member?
 
boboquack
boboquack
7:29 AM
Huh?
 
Wen1now
Wen1now
Oops, I meant for the c4
 
Sid
Sid
7:55 AM
@Wen1now yep. Didn't have too much success though
@boboquack Nice puzzle. That extraction was cute.
 
ffao
ffao
agree on the niceness, still not done though
we need those square numbers
I'd give a 24h hint for the 4c when I wake up, but I don't know what to say :P
 
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