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3:23 AM
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Q: Brothers and Sisters

XilpexA boy has as many sisters as he has brothers, but each sister has only half as many sisters as brothers. How many brothers and sisters are in the family?

 
3:53 AM
@Rubio Thanks. Will update soon (that obviously changed with the UI refresh). Also planning on incorporating GPR's nested parentheses code from many months ago and a rework of the way it renders so that it handles (mostly) all de-rot13-ing, even if people use different formats (I've seen rot13:blah, rot13[blah], (rot13)blah, rt13(blah), etc. None of which currently get caught).
 
 
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7:35 AM
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Q: Dropping this riddle here

jafe Used in bluegrass, no woodwind, no brass; but have some class, don't rhyme me with gas. Anglers I face, in ocean's embrace; but in this case, don't rhyme me with space. Who or what am I?

 
 
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10:03 AM
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Q: Giving away bounty after it has expired?

Amruth AI had started a bounty , but forgot to give away the bounty for the answer . I understand after bounty expired it can be removed from featured TAB , but assigning bounty is removed after it has expired ? This is totally wrong .

 
 
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11:06 AM
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Q: What sort of maths is this?

chasly from UKI have a number n I increase n. I now have a new number n+1 I change my mind and decrease n: I now have a new number n-1 I change my mind again and increase. I am now back to n+1 No matter what I do along the above lines by increasing and decreasing, I can't get back to n. What am I doing? ...

 
12:03 PM
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Q: Someone scrambled my calling sign- who am I?

Magic Octopus UrnBefore I left the scene of the crime I left my calling sign... But on the news the next morning all that was left was the following: .Iaaabmmnt Which seems to be what I wrote, but not how I wrote it! belacgjfdikh And this... this appeared under it as well, and I surely didn't write that! ...

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Q: Make the largest box from a cardboard sheet

mpasko256A boy in order to tidy his room asks his parents for a cardboard box to store lots of small toys. Unfortunately they didn't find any but only a raw cardboard sheet of dimensions 60cm x 80cm. Being very busy they told him to make one by himself. What are dimensions of the biggest cuboid box volum...

 
12:42 PM
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Q: Emojional cryptic crossword

jafe ACROSS 3. 🌟½☥🐪🚫👣 (9) 7. 🏆❌🖽⚔️ (3) 8. ½🍔🇫🇷🌊🏢 (6) 11. ♉½🇬🇷✉️ (3) 12. 🔫⭐⏺️♥️🗽🎭 (5) 13. 🍈♥️🇨🇴🏙️⏮️🍟🔚💐 (6) 14. 👂♀️🦌💰 (5) 16. 🎩👦♻️🐴🦄☝️🗾🏝️ (6) 19. 🐏💪🔀 (3) 20. 👊💢🦇👔⛔👁️😢➖💯 (7) 21. 🥋🚫👽👌🦅🔰🎤🎶 (7) 22. 🥂🙏 (6) DOWN 1. �...

 
1:00 PM
@EricTressler (assuming Eric is American) I think the answer is LIT(T)ER (def: transport, T(esla, unit) in LITER (litre, volume))
 
@Alconja cool. (I don't know if rot13:foo is something you can reliably handle; no trailing delimiter means you're outright guessing where it ends. but the other random forms people use, it'd be nice to have support for as well)
 
@Rubio I'm planning on keeping rot13(...) the "official" format, but adding a blanket "rot the whole comment" mode if a non-official mention of "rot13/rt13" is detected.
Rendering it inline, but separate to the original comment to make it as helpful as possible.
 
Ah, that works.
I think most (all?) the 'rt13's were one person who I recently asked to use rot13() and pointed at your userscript. so that may not be all that useful, though of course won't do any harm, to support.
 
1:17 PM
@Rubio good to know. Didn't think it was particular prevalent, but remembered seeing it once.
 
1:30 PM
(I'm afk for a bit so if my C4 answer above is correct, the next will have to wait)
 
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Q: I'm drawing a blank on my name, help me out?

Magic Octopus UrnI'm a wrestler, I know that because I just got hit over the head harder than I've ever been hit before. So hard, in fact, that while I'm trying to remember my name... all that comes up in my head is: ... ...... ... ... ... ...... ... ...

 
1:58 PM
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Q: What will the french man say?

Rémi HenryAn english, a french and a german are speaking. First the english says : "M". Then the french says : "M" as well. And the german also says : "M". They all agree and decide to change the order. The german says : "D". The french says : "V". And the english says : "S". ...

 
2:37 PM
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Q: The English Debate

Brandon_J I have 6 articles, an insect, a calculator, a basic verb, a stack exchange, four spaces, a core muscle, some males, and some black goo. I have more, but I risk giving myself away too easily. Who am I? Complete answers indicate what is clued by each phrase in additi...

 
3:34 PM
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Q: What number + 1 equals itself?

Sebastian DixonAnswer in numerical form. The answer is not an integer. The answer is in string form. The answer is not my love life...

 
 
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5:48 PM
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Q: Triple Trouble Tribond

Matt Before you are 9 tribond puzzles. The solutions to each set of 3 (a, b, and c) creates a further tribond puzzle. Then, the answer to each of those (sets 1, 2 and 3) come together to form a final triplet to solve. 1 (a) EXCHANGE, DECK, CALL (b) MOUNTAIN, PRICE, ROVER (c) TELLER, TOY, BOARD ...

 
6:27 PM
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Q: Can you solve for x?

peerless [s]   [u]  [r]  [q]  [22]  [r] , [q]  [22]  [p+2k]  [100-7k] , [q]  [k]  [3q]  [t]  [100-r]  [u] , [21]  [p+s-k]  [q]  [3p+k]  [23] , [p+s]  [22][2p+s]  [u]  [s]  [4s]  [u] , [k]  [r-s+k] [100-r-s] [p] [3q][12], [q] [100-r] [u-s] [23] [p] [12][r] [t].                                  

 
7:17 PM
@Sphinx Am I the only one here who literally has no idea what this is asking?
 
the clearest question I see is "ru even."
 
@Rubio looks like we're supposed to solve for... [Erik the Outgolfer has given up trying to understand this question, sorry for the inconvenience]
 
oh, could it be a quote with X as the author? one set of braces appears to map to a single word, looking based on the punctuation
 
7:41 PM
It is tagged enigmatic-puzzle, after all.
I'm assuming each [] yields a word or letter or sequence of letters or something like that. Though how I'm not sure. (Can't be that each [] is an A1Z26 letter, because there's [r] and [100-r].)
 
7:58 PM
I got it! oh, it's much, much simpler.
"Can you solve for x?" No, I can't. Done and done.
 
8:22 PM
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Q: A riddle to solve What am I?

Elise PerryI come in many different colors, but today I am pink I am used to link things together I can be found inside of socks I can not be easily broken I can be purchased at different stores, but today I am at Walmart waiting to be used. What am I?

 
@Alconja That's right
 
8:41 PM
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Q: Creatures from the Deep saw the heroes on a bridge

ChaoticIt was dark and cold in the land of Nemeria. A fellowship of heroes traversed a bridge in a straight line, one after another. Below them, only an abyss. They could hear the howling of strange creatures never seen by humans eyes. But they finally got to the other side of the bridge in safety. Thei...

 
9:32 PM
Apologies for the somewhat unsavoury surface (it didn't start out that way), but:
CCCC: Doubt after exploding cars kill prostitute (9)
 
9:57 PM
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Q: Jealous, Lying, or unAmerican

RubioI opened my email today to find this odd image. I suddenly had a strange craving, which fortunately I was able to satisfy outside my local Starbucks. What is it that I had to have? Now that you know what I have here, you know you're jealous. If not, you're either lying, or unAmerican. You m...

 
10:16 PM
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Q: How to make 18 from 1, 3, 4, 8

BillThePlatypusThis question was on my sister's 5th-grade homework, practicing order of operations. It was to make 18, using the numbers 1, 3, 4, 8 and the operations +, -, and *. The instructions imply using each operation only once. Additionally, grouping with parenthesis is allowed. Neither my sister, my fa...

 

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