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12:05 AM
Greetings!
A hint for C4?
 
I gave one earlier; did you see that one?
 
Must've missed it. I'll find it. Does "An Accidental Death In Hamilton" sound like a catchy title to you?
Found the hint
 
I don't enjoy musicals, so not really
 
I need an eye catcher title... hmmm it seems like anything to do with Deusovi or Rubio always seems to get good views
 
I really don't think that should be your primary concern if you're trying to construct a puzzle
 
12:11 AM
I have an idea for a puzzle that should be challenging and new
It just gets dull when the same users answer
Thats the only reason why Im concerned, thats all
There seems to be a large number of Pokémon fans on this cite :p
 
12:27 AM
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Q: Divisible by 3 checker, with a catch

Andrew D'AddesioMany years ago, I dabbled with various solutions to a programming puzzle asking one to implement a divisibility-by-3 checker in C without using addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, or modulus operations. Toying around with the idea, I found one variation of the puzzle that has a prett...

 
Possibly off topic, Sphinx?
 
12:49 AM
@North i would answer but i am the worst at puzzles haha
 
1:13 AM
Can I suggst a C4?
 
You can pose a cryptic clue. "CCCC" is the game we have where the person to solve each clue posts the next one in the chain, but you can just generally try out the clue outside of the C4 if you want.
 
@EricTressler well, on the other hand Alconja said good titles are important, and I tend to trust Alconja on puzzle construction
 
as usual, i can't tell if this is sarcastic
 
I mean can I post a CC here
For fun
 
yes
i'd like to see one :)
 
1:27 AM
CC: Head of artistic creation exams, also good at what he/she/singular they does. (3)
 
enumeration?
(prefer not to bold, so people don't confuse it with the C4)
 
 
no i mean what's the enumeration?
 
Sorry
 
well then it's probably ACE?
 
1:29 AM
Correct
It wasnt supposed to be hard, as you can tell
 
what was with he/she/singular they?
 
Pronoun
 
they is already generic enough o_O
 
They is plural though
So you specify singular they to make neuter pronoun
 
not necessarily
 
1:31 AM
most people accept it to be singular these days
From google (define they): "2. used to refer to a person of unspecified gender."
 
Wow
Things have changes
 
one of the definitions of the word literally is "not literally"
 
Oh yeah my friend showed me that
 
On things changing: "The word they (with its counterparts them, their, and themselves) as a singular pronoun to refer to a person of unspecified gender has been used since at least the 16th century."
 
Not exactly? Exactly! (9) :P
 
1:33 AM
Wow
@thecoder16 Literally
 
Singular they is old. What is not old is he being exclusively masculine
 
?
 
Until a little while ago, in formal writing you were supposed to use he to be gender-neutral
 
"he" served as a gender-neutral pronoun for a very long time
 
here's an amazing thing "Dance, me near Jesus, my lord! (9, 8)"
 
1:34 AM
Like how "man" referred ti both male and female
 
of course, when "he" became not gender-neutral, people had to look for options, thus the increased usage of singular they, which existed but was not popular
 
....
"The more you know the more you know"
When did "he" start not becoming gender-neutral
 
August 3, 1995
 
Wow thats specific
 
I'm kidding; I just wonder what you expect an answer to your question to look like
 
1:41 AM
Oh okay :P
When I actually believe Monsieur Tessler and I look up August 3, 1995 (necks myself)
No, I'm not French
 
@ffao is it time for another C4 hint?
 
lol why ping ffao?
 
I confess I haven't been able to try it since I've been quite busy these past couple of days, but probably I guess
your first hint was intriguing, but I have no idea what it could possibly mean
 
I have a few ideas of what it could possibly mean, but nothing useful
 
Deusovi I dont know how any of your ideas are anything but useful
Did i word that correctly
 
1:49 AM
^this one's catching on :P @Deusovi
 
I'm trying to skirt the line between being helpful and giving it away, but I also can't tell whether people have been looking at it. There was the other big puzzle yesterday
 
Hey I'm a noob here alright! ;) @thecoder16
 
I was trying to remember why I was busy yesterday: it was because I spent my afternoon transcribing anime alphabets, which made me have to work through the evening :P
 
Ah yes that conscript
You did a nice job though
 
@North are you sure "conscript" is what you mean?
 
1:51 AM
I might have bountied +50 to it if the wrap-up hadn't been posted by Latch
 
yes, "conscript" is "constructed script" in addition to "person forcibly drafted into the military"
 
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Q: 8 8 8 = 6, What expression should be added?

PeggyIn between the number 8, it needs to add any expression, but cannot change the numbers or add any numbers.

 
Thank you Deusovi
 
Conscript (constructed script) accent on first syllable, conscript to draft to the military accent second syllable
Little trivia
 
1:55 AM
On the C4 clue, does "unfair" mean information could be lost if printed (e.g. dodgy unicode chars/font specific things) or just that it uses non-standard cluing in some way (e.g. , = comma)?
 
"print publication" probably matters
there better not be zero-length whitespaces in there :P
 
I'm thinking about how to say this
 
Here, I'll give you a template: "The answer is _____"
 
Yes
I will forever remeber that quote
 
Here, I'll give you a more detailed template: "The answer is _ _ _ _ _ _ _"
 
1:57 AM
Lol
Our favorite British user ihas arrived (sorry if anybody else is British)
 
!
Nice new avatar.
 
you mean, favourite
3
 
@GarethMcCaughan you have some competition
 
@Alconja :P
Thank you @Randal'Thor
 
1:59 AM
 
o.0
 
Now I need to do a lot of flagging and voting to get all round numbers.
 
o.O
 
C4 hint (replacement): Part of the clue might be unfair in a print publication, because of the audience, but I think it's fair here.
 
how do you keep your impact from going up :P
 
2:00 AM
(eh, don't be too impressed by the "impact" - it's the most useless statistic on SE)
 
I have no particular aspiration to be anyone's favourite anything (though I don't mind at all if I am). If Rand's PSE's favourite Brit, that's fine with me.
 
@thecoder16 It'll take a long time to go up by 100,000 and change the displayed stat :-)
 
I'm gonna upvote just to change that
Wait but itll stay at 1 m
 
yeah lol it won't change
 
2:01 AM
Upvotes don't affect impact.
Not that I'll say no to upvotes :-P
 
Oh
 
maybe if i set up a bot to randomly viist one of your posts
 
Okay no upvotes
 
But impact is based on views.
 
once every few seconds
 
2:01 AM
"Estimated number of times people viewed your helpful posts (based on page views of your questions and questions where you wrote highly-ranked answers)"
 
Ill help you @thecoder16
 
Views on my questions or questions where I have a high-scoring answer.
Yeah, what Alconja said.
"highly-ranked" is pretty loosely defined though.
 
it would only take about 1.15 days to generate 100k impact! xD
*5 because my browser is slow
 
Hmm
We just have to wait like 24 hours and that number of people impacted will change
 
On SFF a bunch of low-activity users have over 1m impact just because they answered this question at some point.
@thecoder16 Once every 15 minutes, otherwise it won't change the number.
 
2:03 AM
XD
 
@Randal'Thor while you're here, has a correct answer for puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/60736/… been written?
 
@thecoder16 hoping to get an accepted answer? :P
 
@thecoder16 I think so, but I still need to work through those answers to confirm. (That puzzle was pretty hard to wrap my head around.)
I've already upvoted them though, so that's a good sign.
 
yeah, same, i'm also not entirely sure if i'm right
 
Any ideas for a catchy musical enigmatic puzzle title?
Like Rand died while watching the Phantom of the Opera should be catchy
Though tragic
 
2:06 AM
@North "What am I sing-king about?"
 
XD
 
(inspired by the good old German Coastguard joke)
 
@Randal'Thor That's a major setback, but stay sharp!
 
Cringe
 
It'll take just a minuet to get back afloat, as long as you act natural.
 
2:08 AM
What do you get if you drop a piano down a mineshaft?
A flat miner.
 
aaah
 
What do you get if you drop a piano into an army base?
A flat major.
 
I can't Handel the puns
 
Stop
Im dying from laughter
 
And speaking of pianos:

AE's wonderful donkey jokes

Dec 9 '14 at 17:33, 15 minutes total – 31 messages, 2 users, 1 star

Bookmarked Mar 7 at 14:01 by Rand al'Thor

 
2:09 AM
Oh God that looks scary
 
AE had us all beat three years ago.
I miss AE around these parts. Wonder if he's still around on SE.
 
Oh God... so cringey
 
oh, and i forgot the best musical joke i saw on se chat
in The Practice Room, Mar 7 '16 at 8:39, by Rory Alsop
A 'C', an E-flat, and a 'G' go into a bar. The bartender says: "Sorry, but we don't serve minors." So, the E-flat leaves, and the C and the G have an open fifth between them. After a few drinks, the fifth is diminished: the G is out flat. An F comes in and tries to augment the situation, but is not sharp enough.

A D comes into the bar and heads straight for the bathroom saying, "Excuse me. I'll just be a second." An A comes into the bar, but the bartender is not convinced that this relative of C is not a minor. Then the bartender notices a B-flat hiding at the end of the bar and exclaims:
(click and read it all)
 
Whats the difference between a trampoline and a viola?
You take your shoes off on a trampoline
 
2:11 AM
I play viola, we can no longer be friends. :P
 
@thecoder16 If I knew anything about music, I'm sure that'd be hilarious :-P
What's the difference between a buffalo and a bison?
You can't wash your hands in a buffalo.
 
Wow.
Just....
I was gonna say one has wings
 
Also, Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
 
Mooooo
 
i got you beat here :P @Randal'Thor uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/…
 
2:13 AM
FLAGGED! :-P
 
What did the alto sax play?
 
@Randal'Thor lol
 
It doesn't matter, its already out of tune
 
What is the difference between a well dressed man on a unicycle and a poorly dressed man on a bicycle?
Attire.
 
Ouch
That hurt
I think we scared Deusovi and FFAO away
 
2:15 AM
Whats the difference between a BMW and a porcupine?
A porcupine has pricks on the outside
 
XD
 
Ive seen that
 
@thecoder16 Why did the bicycle keep falling over?
Because it's two tyred.
 
Were on bicyke jokes now?
 
2:17 AM
Well, I didn't start @the bicycle jokes.
 
True
Best meme ever
 
The internet is weird.
And stupid.
 
Bubbles!!!
 
(he said, on the internet)
 
My friend showed it to me
I am the internet
 
2:20 AM
You look more like a thorn.
 
Thank you
I prick people and annoy them
Sounds accurate
 
Ho dare, won ew anc tarst klagint ni garasman.
 
@Sid escape while you can
I cant read pig latin, @Randal'Thor
I very much regret that
 
Fi ew tawn ot eb tetulyre elbicompinhenser.
@North It's not pig latin.
 
Sid
@North Hmm? What?
 
2:22 AM
Its like weirdly transposed backwards stuff
 
@North That's called an anagram :-P
 
@Sid Wow your alive
How did you survive the dropping piano?
 
I got lazy with the last word because it was just too long to really mix up properly.
@North Wait, was Sid in the mine or the army base?
 
Both at the same time
Sid is magical
Because he's that guy from Beyblade
 
Sid
@North not magical. Just teleport abilities. :P
 
2:25 AM
Well more like cloning
 
What do you call a man with a seagull on his head?
Cliff.
 
Why did the seagull fly iver the sea?
 
To look for fish?
 
Because if he flew over a bay he'll be called baygel (bagel)
 
groan
:-)
 
Sid
2:27 AM
Okay. Seriously, what's going on?
 
What do you call a man with a car on his head?
Jack.
 
Gtg bai
@Sid Rand, TC16, and I were telling bad puns
O/
 
@Sid We took a trip to @the @north and found a lot of bad jokes at the pole.
 
Sid
@Randal'Thor ... I actually read that as "we took a trip". :/
 
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Q: 8 8 8 = 6, find the missing expression

PeggyWhat expression should be added in between of 8, numbers cannot be changed or removed,

 
4:29 AM
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Q: A Suspicious Mail

pfgIt's an average normal everyday day. You find a piece of mail in your mail box. It doesn't look like the rest of them: The text reads Who sent this? Why? What should you do?

 
 
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7:42 AM
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Q: Misspelled Movies

DLoscContinuing in the Twisted TV Titles and TV Title Mondegreens vein, here are some Misspelled Movies. Each title is a homophone of (i.e. sounds the same as1) a real movie title, but is spelled and/or punctuated differently. I'll give a description of what the movie could be; you give the misspelle...

 
8:16 AM
ok, now I can officially say I have thought about the C4 and came out empty-handed
 
8:27 AM
@Sphinx hmm?
spam post?
 
 
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11:28 AM
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Q: A Simple Word Game

TreFoxThis is a simple little word game I devised, that may require a little out-of-the-box thinking. I'll give you a few examples of my rule: The = 44 Boombox = 28 Gothic = 56 Hopeful = 70 Hopeless = 69 What's incomplete's number?

 
C4 hint: There is no subtraction
 
11:52 AM
Now that's a much needed hint, since I was trying to chill the heat out of heart, and then tried to find someplace where I could remove the remaining T..
or whatever the letter that's left.
 
12:51 PM
(On the other hand, here I was fairly convinced "remove" was the def in a site- or internet-specific way, though I fail to think of one)
 
1:14 PM
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Q: We're found in vans, in bags, on bikes - we're found in books, in maps, online

Rand al'Thor We're found in vans, in bags, on bikes, Most everywhere that people dwell. Dogs may hate us, but we bring Important tidings, good or bad. We're found in books, in maps, online, Most everywhere that info dwells. China may hate us, but we're here: Even in this riddle, you know. ...

 
1:49 PM
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Q: How many green triangles are displayed in this image?

qq jkztdAt some point, there may be two valid solutions. (actually three: one obvious, one less, third one even less.)

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Q: The god of war (riddle)

Me myself and IUsed to threaten, used to defeat. Sometimes it grows, sometimes it shrinks. Used to conquer, used to protect. It marks your downfall, it marks your success. The true god of war, the creator of mess. What is it? Hint 1: Hint 2:

 
2:05 PM
Hi
 
hey
 
Why did the chicken cross the road?
To sue me for making this joke
O/
 
What's the most common Irish name?
Paddy O'Furniture
 
2:49 PM
@Sphinx Too broad?
 
3:11 PM
What do you call a video recorder crossing a river?
Cambridge
 
3:53 PM
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Q: A riddle to make a channel queasy

geggieAn accidental discovery of mine, this groan-worthy riddle is answerable with a single character when posted in a Slack channel: What governs the level of disease? As this is my first riddle here I'm wary of making it too obscure, so here are a few hints: Hint 1: Hint 2: Hint 3:

 
 
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5:06 PM
anyone wanna test a riddle i made? its video game based
 
5:29 PM
How do you guys make cool visuals for your puzzles, especially letters with text on them like the Suspicious Mail puzzle that's popular right now?
 
Photoshop, GIMP, other tools
 
Just finding photos of ripped paper or envelopes and overlaying the text?
 
5:55 PM
Yes, why not? There are a lot of free paper backgrounds‌​, typewriter fonts and handwriting fonts that you can use.
 
6:22 PM
(You should, of course, make sure that they are free to use.)
 
When ffao is somehow stumped on a C4
 
6:41 PM
@Dragonrage unfortunately there's no easy way to do that
 
@EriktheOutgolfer i could start a room with them and paste it there. or link them to a pastebin
 
one time link is best
one time secret
 
@thecoder16 does one time secret have an option for a single time use? i dont see one. do i have to create an account?
 
the point of one time secret is that it's single use :P
 
oh, ok. so the lifetime is separate from that. it just designates how long the link will last before decaying, but will auto destroy after a single use?
 
6:56 PM
why do you think it's called a one-time secret :p
 
as a programmer i dont necessarily trust other peoples naming conventions. ive seen too many names that dont actually apply to what the named thing does
well, i can make a one time link then if someone wants to try it my riddle.
 
Sid
Ha! I see I have managed to get a word out of the C4... except it definitely doesn't mean "Remove".
 
Does it mean "red"?
 
Sid
@MOehm No. My idea is that Red could mean "R".
 
As in RGB? Fair enough.
 
Sid
7:03 PM
@MOehm yeah.. And since there's no subtraction, Remove is most-probably the def here.
 
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Q: Top Users (and Chatters) in Puzzling SE, For NEW USERS ONLY!

NorthCiphers, anagrams, and crossword-like clues of the usernames of our top Puzzling SE users (or) frequent Puzzling SE users. Should be fairly simple, so therefore, new users (up to 45 days, with rep < 250 of time of answer submission) can get easy rep and meet our community's moderators and top puz...

 
Sid
@Sphinx 6 is definitely Gareth. :P
 
none is me for sure :P
 
@Sphinx ive been here for 2 years or something i guess, so cant answer that :(
 
Sid
@MOehm Could Beat mean delve? I have got an idea but I am not sure about beat meaning delve...
 
7:15 PM
if 11 is Lukas Rotter, then I'm afraid that, well, ugh
 
lots of users have colorful avatars, I'm not sure who exactly that is
 
Sid
probably GPR? Purple?
 
that makes sense
 
Aha, I see what you're going for, but I don't see how delve can mean beat.
 
Sid
@MOehm Exactly.
I mean, it almost fits...
 
7:19 PM
Yes, the wordplay would fit.
 
@Sphinx Shout out to everyone too old to play but too new to get on the list.
 
one thing that has going for it is that red = R is a bit of a computery abbreviation, so it might fit the hint
 
Sid
I don't get 10 and 12...
 
6 is Not gareth
Wow I thought 12 wouldve been super obvious
 
Sid
@North You are probably too new to get the joke there....
 
7:29 PM
Yeah
Your probably right
Were you being sarcastic? Orobably
 
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Q: sphinx about has misspelled word

Jordan.J.Dhttps://chat.stackexchange.com/users/-595/sphinx I'm a bot, constantly posing puzzles in my Lair. posing => posting?

 
@PuzzlingMeta -1, meta is not chat
 
@PuzzlingMeta seems like a
 
Sid
@PuzzlingMeta ...what?
 
Looks like he just posted it just to post
 
7:32 PM
meta seems to be an appropriate place to post that, it's just not wrong
 
Ah frick I forgot about EriktheOutgolfer and EricTressler in that question. My apologies in advance.
 
@North Unfortunately, you have misspelled my name.
 
I did!?
 
Well, either that or you mis-anagrammed.
 
I might've mis anagrammed
 
Sid
7:39 PM
Oh, so that was 10. duh.
 
Whoops, i did miss anagram that
 
Too bad it's no longer grammatical :-).
 
Yeah
Flip me
 
Throw egg at a churchman.
2
 
Sure
Thanks
 
7:43 PM
@North ok, (╯°□°)╯︵ uoɹʇɥ
 
A gag at churchmen
Boom
 
I am quite certain I am not on the list
And I am not new enough to participate
 
@North I'm actually not called Erik the Outgolfer on main, and both me and Eric are not that active anyway :P
(I am called Έρικ Κωνσταντόπουλος)
 
@EriktheOutgolfer which main?
 
Puzzling
:P (my parent profile is PPCG, where I'm most active)
 
Sid
7:47 PM
Okay, @Eric is messing with my brain now with that C4. How can it be not what I intend it to be? Almost Everything fits....
 
Sorry mics the pick....
 
well, you can't include every active user, you'll probably end up with >100 users or something
 
Lol
I got all the mods though
Bass is only on the list because nobody else gets 10k in 10 months
Like how.....
 
Sid
@North Rubio..
 
(^^^ == spoiler, what if a new user is reading chat rn)
 
Sid
7:50 PM
and a whole host of others early in the site's history...
 
Aaah
Rubio will probably kill me because of my description of him
 
@North i did that over on arqade.
 
Whats arqade
 
gaming.se
 
@North nah, everyone says that about him
 
7:52 PM
i got 16,007 rep that year
 
@North would he really kill you for saying something he has put in his profile himself
 
True
 
@North I'm sure there must be lots. I've already got almost 4k in 3 months.
 
Noice
 
last year I had gotten 19,624 rep over PPCG
 
7:54 PM
Wow
 
Some SE sites are more active than others and you can get rep faster there...
 
If we're really comparing rep gain rates...
 
Hmmm
Okay i get it
 
What the
 
7:55 PM
i mean jon skeet probably gets 10k rep a day over on so
 
Deusovi am i not supposed to put restrictions on who can answer?
 
Gareth change 0
Deusovi change 0
 
Why would you want to? You can encourage newer people to answer, but setting hard boundaries on who can and cannot answer seems absurd to me.
 
11/10
 
7:57 PM
(also, I need to pick up my pace so Gareth doesn't pass me up)
 
I just dont need you answering that in 30 seconds
 
dang it, I just missed the first page :(
 
Thats the only reason why restriction os there but ill get rid of it if it really is a problem
 
what first page
 
(by 2k rep :P)
@EriktheOutgolfer the link you posted
 
7:59 PM
Well, I haven't figured out all of them. In any case, 45 days is a pretty short time period.
 
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