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12:34 AM
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Q: What's that puzzle that goes like, Person A Never lies Person B Always lies ..etc

GovernmentsConfusesMeWhat's the full puzzle that goes like Person A Never lies Person B Always lies Person C I don't remember.. Then they all say what they have and it continues like Person A says that person B is lying Person B says that person C is wrong

 
 
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Is this somehow an &lit for Fabius? I don't have any idea what to do with this
Fab Fours -> Fabivs -> Fabius (Roman name). There was a martyred Fabius (taking the final test)
That contradict the first hint anyway.
 
2:14 AM
I thought this CCCC would be solved by the end of the mystery hunt...
 
@micsthepick Any ideas?
 
no good ones.
take the fourth letter of some words?
 
@micsthepick the fact that people are doing a mystery hunt (and therefore not looking at the CC) could be the reason why it hasn't been solved...
 
true dat
 
@Alconja I've been looking at it, and barely hunting mysteries at all.
 
2:19 AM
I just got back last night! it was good
 
IKR?
 
excellent. did you win?
 
nope
 
no, sadly not
 
also, I haven't looked at the CCCC in much detail. we had to solve a Listener cryptic and that was rough
 
2:20 AM
...and you dare show your face around here?
(/s btw)
 
@micsthepick happily not. if we won we'd have to write next year's
 
what's a listener cryptic?
 
but I did get a correct submission to a puzzle
 
the Listener is a cryptic in the London Times
it is very difficult
@micsthepick ooh, which one?
 
it was twitch plays
so definitely a satisfying first puzzle hunt
 
2:23 AM
glad you liked it! told you it'd be fun
there's a reason why I bug people in here about it all the time
 
@EricTressler think you can join next year, even if remote?
 
@micsthepick Possibly? It sounds fun, but I wouldn't be able to say much until 2-3 months beforehand
 
(the Listener cryptic is so called because it was originally published in a now-defunct magazine called The Listener)
 
 
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3:47 AM
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Q: Rubiks cube unknown twisted corner

SomeoneForYouSo i was messing around with my newest rubiks cube, and i apparently twisted a corner when solving it, and now i dont know what corner it was. If there is someone out there that knows how to figure this out, that would be a great help! THanks in advance.

 
after that Listener I would expect you guys to get C4s in 10 seconds
I couldn't even define 80% of the words in that
but... there's no punctuation in that C4
 
4:07 AM
@ffao There's an apostrophe
 
I'll defer to the wise man to comment on that
Sep 13 '17 at 10:21, by Gareth McCaughan
FWIW I don't think of apostrophes as punctuation at all. They're more like spelling.
 
There are no other candidates, unless the hint is meant to imply that some punctuation should be inserted.
 
yes, that hint makes me think Four's is something like SSSS
 
Alconja didn't say for certain that the answer isn't Fabius (which is fair, since I can't connect that to "naked")
 
or four + S
 
4:13 AM
Well
 
your explanation for fabius failed to account for the initial "Naked"
 
I also thought it could be "assess". Naked fab = a, then ssss
oh
that works
 
yes, that works
I guess your thinking paid off, Eric :P
 
ASSESS = A (Naked "FAB") + SSSS (Four S) taking THE final (including the final letter of "THE") = test
 
Nice work. :)
 
4:15 AM
@ffao No, I thought of "assess" just looking at synonyms for "test", I didn't connect it to "four's" until you said something.
@ffao how was the mystery hunt for you? Are you back at home?
 
yes, I had to leave before it ended because unfortunately MLK day is not a holiday in Canada :(
it was awesome
some points were a bit frustrating because we were stuck on a few puzzles, but overall very fun
 
Cool. I'm glad everyone had a good time
 
do consider participating if you have a free weekend - we need help in our quest to finish the hunt next year
 
I will seriously consider it; it'll mostly just depend on what's going on with work at the time, I expect. I don't usually have much planned during the colder months.
 
5:06 AM
We should do The Listener more! [/sarcasm]
(I swear for all the long entries I just punched what we had so far into onelook and sifted because we had no chance of getting them going forwards)
 
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Q: I am small but very precious

Jamal Senjaya I am small but very precious. If you cut my head, I will live in UK. If you cut my tail, I will be a fruit. And if you cut my head and my tail, I will be part of your body. What am I?

 
true Sp, if I get a C4 slot I'll take a clue from the Listener so you can get more of that fun! :D
 
If you do that, I'll make the next clue a 100 letter long anagram.
 
@Sp3000 yup, same
 
6:09 AM
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Q: How many 5+ letter words can you find?

Beechwood ReviewNYT does a word hive in every Sunday edition, and I quite enjoy it, so I decided to make my own, using the same rules. Check it out: If you're unfamiliar, here are the rules. You may only use the letters in the hive to create your words, and you must use the center letter "S" in each qualifyi...

 
6:27 AM
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Q: I am part of your body

Jamal Senjaya I am part of your body. Without my head, I can live in the forest. Without my tail, I will be something a ball can do. And without my head and my tail, You must remember me. What am I?

 
6:55 AM
And there's A-guy: אמיר
He taught me trumpet when we were 9.
His mother tried to convert me with matzoh soup.
I said, "No use. My teeth were cut on Näkkileipä."
We got along fine after that.
Näkkileipä on alun perin pohjoismaalainen kova leipätyyppi, joka leivotaan yleensä täysjyvärukiista veteen. Ruisnäkkileipää paistetaan korkeassa lämpötilassa (250 °C) muutama minuutti. Näkkileipä on tyypillinen länsisuomalainen leipä. Hapan- tai hiivaleipätaikinasta valmistetut, hyvin ohuet leivät koristeltiin pistelemällä tai ns. leipäkammalla. Leivissä oli aikoinaan keskellä tai toisessa laidassa pieni reikä, josta ne ripustettiin vartaaseen kuivumaan. Gluteeniton näkkileipä valmistetaan käyttämällä perunaa, riisiä, maissia tai vehnätärkkelystä. Myös spelttiä käytetään näkkileivän raaka-aineena...
Raw bread makes my mouth water.
(The soup was delicious. It almost worked.)
Actually A-guy is نـ‬-guy. First names optional.
 
7:12 AM
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Q: Use four 8's to make the number 2016

Weijun ZhouPrevious question: Use two 2's, two 1's, and two 8's to make the number 2018 Background: I was trying to add some new elements (hopefully creative and interesting) to this traditional type of number-making riddles, but was clearly beaten by some smart brains which solved the riddle beautifully w...

 
This place could use more languages. Challenge us. We can figure it out.
There's always online translate.
Try to get it to translate from English to English.
And remember to press the speaker icon.
"WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW" comes out sounding like "you devil, you" until the final double-U.
Guess i learn things by teasing.
Teasing the hell out of online translator at the moment.
I'm a translator too, so it's okay.
 
7:28 AM
(List of MIT2018 videos uploaded by the organising team. If you're looking for something amusing to watch, let's just say that there was a Pokemon Island where puzzles had an "evolved" version. One of the puzzles was called "Twitch Plays Mystery Hunt". Its evolution was called "Under Control", and it required sending a team member with "both arms and legs mobile" to a room on-site...)
 
(watching)
 
(1.5x speed is recommended for the "Under Control" vids, and it may take a few minutes before something interesting starts to happen)
 
(I don't have the option. And am surprisingly patient.)
(Everything goes by in slow motion as it is.)
(enjoying)
They're mentioning "core memory"!
I wonder if anyone even knows what that is.
Magnetic-core memory was the predominant form of random-access computer memory for 20 years between about 1955 and 1975. Such memory is often just called core memory, or, informally, core. Core uses tiny magnetic toroids (rings), the cores, through which wires are threaded to write and read information. Each core represents one bit of information. The cores can be magnetized in two different ways (clockwise or counterclockwise) and the bit stored in a core is zero or one depending on that core's magnetization direction. The wires are arranged to allow for an individual core to be set to either...
^ That was after my time.
In my and others' wake.
We had it rough. And apparently the place has been razed by now.
We threw beds off the roof.
Almost hurt someone.
They were too quick.
Thank you for reminding me, @Sp3000.
Makes me want to throw more beds from rooftops.
Just for fun.
Think i'll dogsled instead. Back if things work out.
 
8:21 AM
. . . and now the puppies are content . . .
So nice to wander aimlessly in a globally warmed winter.
But so many neighbrs are too paranoid. Burglar lights double.
Makes me want to find out what's inside.
Good thing i don't do that anymore.
Truly, warning lights just invite danger. Get a clue, neighbrs.
I only turn on my flashers when being pulled over by officials.
Get a clue.
Learn life from someone who defies (and edits) medicine.
While at it, loosen up.
You can tighten up whenever necessary.
From my progenitor. She sang this (earlier version) whenever i worried:
But . . . another repeat . . . think i've exhausted the vault . . .
"Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends."
 
8:43 AM
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Q: 14 crosses in a 6 by 6 grid

MankkaCan you put 14 crosses in a 6 by 6 grid so that there are an even number of crosses on each row and column? An elementary school teacher asked me for help with this. Below is a photo of the book they are using. The text is in Swedish and it says "Draw 14 crosses in the grid so that there is an e...

 
"Right before your eyes we pull laughter from the skies."
(Then we edit until you cry.)
Am i the only here who speaks English? At the moment?
English is so wretched it's easy.
Can't go wrong.
English is so bastardiszed that anything goes.
I do love old English too. Back when it was phonetic.
The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. In 1386, Chaucer became Controller of Customs and Justice of Peace and, in 1389, Clerk of the King's work. It was during these years that Chaucer began working on his most famous text, The Canterbury Tales. The tales (mostly written in verse, although some are in prose) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from London to Canterbury to visit...
^ that was for you, @Rand, gratuitous though so.
But i trip on modern English.
"Trip" in the positive sense.
Traipse!
Oh whoops, internet lookup doesn't show the meaning i meant for "traipse."
By "traipse" i meant "jig."
The jig (Irish: port) is a form of lively folk dance in compound metre, as well as the accompanying dance tune. It developed in 16th-century England, and was quickly adopted on mainland Europe where it eventually became the final movement of the mature Baroque dance suite (the French gigue; Italian and Spanish giga). Today it is most associated with Irish dance music, Scottish country dance and the Métis people in Canada. Jigs were originally in duple compound metre, (e.g., 128 time), but have been adapted to a variety of time signatures, by which they are often classified into groups, including...
(I also meant "traipse." What a scamp.)
Learn English in the worst way, from the worst. It'll confound your neighbrs and save you on the streets.
Also learn it from betters while at it.
But i'm here to demonstrate.
Catch it live before the pond sours.
(Yes, you've seen it sour a few times lately. Sorry for those displays. I'm a sweetie at heart.)
(Those displays were necessary.)
^ Nothing but repeats from now on, until interrupted.
. . . another relentless monologue . . . c'mon dancers! Join the fun. I know you're watching. You'll learn the steps. Took me forever.
Much nicer on the fun side.
Stumble a few steps and then get your footing!
@Jamal, you really here? We speak a common undescribed language, but i'd like to see your native.
(I understand that internet burps make it look like we show up.)
(Not this time? Next time.)
Honey from a comb:
Poliphon!
I already mentioned Couereine.
She just didn't love me quite enough. Perhaps as much as she could.
She came back for a fourth helping. More than any other. Bless her.
She's the only other i know who wakes up without stimulants.
A fifth time might be in order.
 
10:10 AM
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Q: A mysterious permutation

user_194421 "We're a team of six." "I'm a large open field," "many plots make me home." "I like signs, I collect them," "and I like my books, I've written a lot in them." "You might need my kind to be a champ." "And this we are, so who are we?" Confused? "If you're stuck, read the top ...

 
I'm tired of spending days writing solutions. Perhaps i'll rearrange one of these days.
^ Those are masters who found their feet and fingers, and graphics, after some time. Enjoy!
^ @Alconja, kaleidoscope. You lope with the best.
(Others, you do, too. Just not as proven yet. You will.)
Keep trying, I do. Has worked wonders. Still will.
(I know you're watching. Join the bright side.)
(The bright side doesn't pay but it's so much warmer.)
()
(Thought i was done talking down. Always a new summit.)
"Lava's the lover who licks your boots away."
^ again, nothing but repeats.
I need to eat pavement, as if it weren't obvious.
"Let the dance (dunce?) begin."
And the trolls are happy again.
With their winter socks those doggies need mushing.
 
11:10 AM
Puppies! You're all that keep me afoot. And i unfortunately by now know many who are straddled.
Life ain't fair.
"Unfortunately" = "fortunately" up there. I'm so fortunate to know them.
"Unfortunately" up there = unfortunately for them.
Human treasures are literally fortunate.
But many of mine are becoming, and have become, lost fortunes.
So here is one place i sparkle to share the lost wealth!
Words and music are worth more than gold and silver.
 
Thump!
(Word of advice, @manshu, too late for me, take it easy.)
 
:)
You know what's easy?
My life, today.
 
Do tell!
 
Same old routine. But my mind is better than the few previous days.
 
From my teacher: "Keep doing it until you get it right."
Sounds like you got an extra try!
 
11:32 AM
Extra try and BINGO!!! Humans are still alive.
We Martians are still waiting for humans to destroys themselves.
 
Then you'll take over Earth.
 
Yes...BWAHAHAHAHA
 
You've already led the way. Namaste.
 
If you want to be in the stay alive list, then GRAB THE TICKETS NOW!!!
 
Tickets to the only show on Mars?
Or on earth? I was granted those without permission.
 
11:38 AM
On Mars, you'll be kept in the changing room.
where you'll change to Martians
 
You've seen me change. Wanna see it again?
 
Please take your time with this decision...I have...some things to do.
 
You made me change!
Do them.
 
oi...I hope that the change was positive.
ttyl
 
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^ That's dropsy duet. Enjoy the show, onlookers.
What a find:
Purely by luck.
They're my dreaded sisters!
I love smell even more than language.
 
12:04 PM
And their names are mine. Zowie!
Makes me hungry.
That is the most ingenious video.
!
Those chicks aren't chicks, they're genius.
When someone reaches beyond their pigeonhole, it's high praise .
(While stuck in that hole, plenty of praise as well.)
The "chick" on the right is (as well as) me.
The "chick" on the left is (as well as) who taught me to love.
I learned from the best while learning my worst.
And now i teach the best while doing my worst.
 
12:36 PM
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Q: Let's keep this civilized

Brent HackersThe images below are connected by a single word: What is the word, and what are the connections?

 
A hero (Peter Gabriel, who even edited the master drummer.):
And the feral feline trusts sleep at my feet.
When i kitchy-koo, he bares a claw.
That little bundle could eat me alive but doesn't bother.
I, also, could skin him, but don't bother.
Instead i put out food and water, and visit the grocery store.
Perhaps i'm just not tasty enough to bring inside.
(He brings all kinds of other trophies inside. The Butterhead is a beast.)
(I do fear stomping that fearless soul. Makes we watch my step while around the house.)
Liner note: Peter Gabriel learned English the easy way, in situ, but portays it in difficult ways. So wonderful. He hasn't half the vocabulary but has twice the expression.
(Perhaps he has twice the vocabulary as well but tones it down.)
The guy is afraid of his own face.
I know how that goes but don't paint it up.
But that guy is an artist. Enjoy!
Musicians (in training?) intend the above videoi. I learned a new trick or two.
I thought it was just a good song.
To see musicians' hands in progress is worth more than language.
(Yes, i have musician's hands. They continue to learn.)
Not much difference between music and language.
Tone of voice carries most of the message.
That's how i translate between strangers at the market.
I live in an extremely multilingual market.
Just right for someone like me.
I don't have to know either of their languages but if i strike the right tone, they understand each other.
Magic!
 
1:52 PM
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Q: There is no solution online for these puzzles...try it out!

milchgausshttp://nishiohirokazu.blogspot.de/2010/02/a-quiz-like-iq-test.html I found a blog with a few questions that have no solutions online. Does anybody want to give it a try?

 
!
 
Sweet!
(General advice: Let lover make the rules.)
(More general than to you, @Mithrandir. I'm not worried about you.)
When lover makes the rules you're free to follow or break them.
 
And you're feeding finger candy!
Along with bass music.
Makes me want to hug (one of) my music teachers's cello.
You are one of my music teachers, @Mithrandir.
It's an elite faculty. Thank you for joining.
 
2:33 PM
Truly is amazing how much Hebrew sounds like Suomi.
They have completely different syntax.
But the same syllables.
And bagels!
(Not all the same syllables. Well understood.)
But they have the same bagels.
And by now i'm not speaking language. I'm speaking origin.
Apologia.
We have no choice from whence we originate.
 
 
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4:09 PM
@Sp3000 yes, I very much recommend watching Under Control:
there's a playlist
 
 
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5:22 PM
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Q: Find the value of $\bigstar$

NODO55This puzzle replaces all numbers with other symbols. Your job, as the title suggests, is to find what number fits in the place of $\bigstar$. All symbols abide to the following rules: Each symbol represents integers and only integers. This means fractions and irrational numbers like $\sqrt2$ ...

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Q: Pain Brings Joy

phflackWhen I search for pain, it brings such joy What is it that I seek? Hint:

 
CCCC: For fourth edition, typoes ruined original batch (10)
 
5:58 PM
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Q: when was the battle?

UntitpoiRecently, an old grave were discovered in Italy. On the grave was written a mysterious inscription (originally in italian but translated in english there). "Here lies an italian soldier who died in battle" "12016485 is the multiplication of his day and month of death" "his age when he die...

 
6:13 PM
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Q: Find the value of $\bigstar$: Puzzle 2

NODO55This puzzle replaces all numbers with other symbols. Your job, as the title suggests, is to find what number fits in the place of $\bigstar$. All symbols abide to the following rules: Each symbol represents integers and only integers. This means fractions and irrational numbers like $\sqrt2$ ...

 
6:54 PM
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Q: Who killed the indiscriminate warden?

AProughYou are in jail, along with all other Puzzling Exchange users, for crimes against each other with your obtuse riddling and mathematical references. One day, there is a large brouhaha at the prison, and the guards bring everyone to the cafeteria for an important announcement. A small man in a s...

 
@EricTressler PRO + T + OTYPES*?
 
damn.
I didn't get "pro", I had the rest
 
I initially thought it was fortotypes, but turns out that isn't actually a word. :P
cute surface, by the way
 
7:12 PM
Ok puzzlers and editors - call to arms, if you'll indulge me.
Cross Number Math Square with Primes has solutions (including an accepted one) that don't actually fit the apparent problem statement - which only offers "+" and "-" as operations other than the pre-filled 2's and "X"s - in that they use multiplication liberally, and don't respect the pre-filled 2's.
Is Ron a mathematical prodigy? asks how someone came up with a particular bit of information about the solution to a problem, when in fact no such solution exists.
Anyone feel like helping make these questions actually work?
 
changing the second question to "Did Ron deduce this, or was he making stuff up?" or some better written variation thereof seems like it would work
 
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Q: Find the value of $\bigstar$: Puzzle 3

NODO55This puzzle replaces all numbers with other symbols. Your job, as the title suggests, is to find what number fits in the place of $\bigstar$. All symbols abide to the following rules: Each symbol represents integers and only integers. This means fractions and irrational numbers like $\sqrt2$ ...

 
7:29 PM
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Q: A Tau Snug John?

carLook to space to see planets eight, You'd probably waste where's I'd just wait. Multiply Fifty and Three One Hundred Million times, Tis when evolution made me, Living in pound scum, What a great time whoopee. Seventeen 73 was important to me, Twas when a month discovered me, Please take note fo...

 
8:10 PM
@ffao That's right, good job
 
8:36 PM
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Q: Find the value of $\bigstar$: Puzzle 4

NODO55This puzzle replaces all numbers with other symbols. Your job, as the title suggests, is to find what number fits in the place of $\bigstar$. All symbols abide to the following rules: Each symbol represents integers and only integers. This means fractions and irrational numbers like $\sqrt2$ ...

 
10:02 PM
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Q: thouse chant is non sum

Karsten Köpnick I am manifold but called always the same. With the following told Do you know my name? I have a horny filiation I come in rather short notation You know a pond where tranquil I float I jab you when you shrink or bloat You feel me when I draw the line You smell me when I h...

 
 
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11:33 PM
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Q: Unsolved Ring Puzzle

Display nameI have not been able to solve this puzzle. I believe that the objective is to remove the larger circular ring, not the 2 smaller ones. https://imgur.com/a/KOCd4 I messed up and somehow got the puzzle in the position shown in the 1st picture, and have been unable to untangle it back to the posit...

 

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