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Q: What plant do I be, whether an apple or a tree?

Rewan Demontay Curved like a circle. Knotty sides. My color is . _ _. . (old women brains). Specks of evil on my enlightened self. A strong mask to hide my true self. To protect the weak of what I am. What plant am I? This is just something I sort of made off of the top of my head. Sorry in a...

 
3:49 AM
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Q: Oh boi! Dis aint Engliz! #1

NatashaFirst some Engliz: These weird combination of letters are actually words translated in some different languages, and concatenated. Each line has one word translated in different languages. These nine words form three groups of three words each, with groups separated on the basis of a common rel...

 
4:10 AM
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Q: It could be alive,

Duarte Arribas It could be alive, but it is not Could be any color, Depends on the one you got.

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Q: Tokyo Metro puzzle special #2: The tour of the Metro

Tzu LiThis is a simpler puzzle: How many stations do you have to pass by to pass by every station of the Metro? map Please either 1) explain your solution or 2) make an image of the route. Once consensus has decided that a particular one is the least, I will accept that answer. Clarification: Stati...

 
5:08 AM
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Q: Who attempted to betray the Boston King?

Rewan DemontayThe Castle Of Weshire recently declared war on the Castle of Boston. The two armies soon met, the Boston King and Weshire King giving out orders from behind their lines of soldiers, surround by their spiritual advisors. However, due to recent political drama, the Boston King suspected that there...

 
5:27 AM
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Q: Cryptic Crossword with Missing LUGs

Omega KryptonInspired by jafe's Cryptic with missing capitals and Tzu Li's Tokyo Metro puzzle: Solve the clues and fill the grid. Each clue is missing a different London Underground Station As jafe has noted in Traversing Africa: A Cryptic Journey: By request of the Sanity Preservation Institute, some l...

 
5:46 AM
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Q: Pattern recognisation problem, $2 \star 8 \star 8 = 161642 , 4 \star 9 \star 7 = 362843,...$ , then M=?

Suresh The following sequence was given to me: $$\color{red}{2 \star 8 \star 8 = 161642}$$ $$\color{blue}{4 \star 9 \star 7 = 362843}$$ $$\color{red}{7 \star 5 \star 9 = 356344}$$ $$\color{blue}{9 \star 6 \star 8 = 547245}$$ $$\color{red}{5 \star 7 \star 9 = 354546}$$ $$\color{blue}{3 \st...

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Q: Cyrus' Adventure (Part 5)

K SharingCyrus walked through the third door and went into a damp passageway. Suddenly, Cyrus found a big bug on the floor. "Damn!" Cyrus stepped on it and the bug died. After a while, Cyrus arrived at a small room. Inside the room was a huge robot that wasn't working. Cyrus noticed a small hole on the ro...

 
 
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8:58 AM
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Q: Four buttons on a table

Jay MarI was asked lately (in an interview) to solve this puzzle, which is similar to the 4 cups on table puzzle. In a certain room there is a rotating round table, with 4 symmetrically located indistinguishable buttons. Each button can be either ”on” or ”off”, however one cannot tell its the current s...

 
 
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11:51 AM
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Q: speciality of the binary sequence $\underline{100101100110100}101101001$

SureshOne friend has given me this binary sequence and asked what is its speciality if we add next few terms to this sequence? The binary sequence was: $$\color{blue}{\underline{100101100110100}}101101001 \dots$$ Hints Given: It's a Classical one. So,could anyone please help me to recognise its special...

 
12:10 PM
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Q: Level up to match my power of eight

Shantanu Bopardikar I eat my way around, to avoid get eaten. My pray eats me if I don't eat it first. I have been around from the golden age. Some try to finish me, some claim to finish me. But everyone fails in front of my power of eight. What am I referring to?

 
1:05 PM
Should I post another hint for the C4? Is everyone avoiding looking at it because of its naughtiness?
 
1:36 PM
I wouldn't mind another hint.
 
I'm not avoiding it because of its naughtiness. I'm avoiding it because that's what I do to every C4 after I've run out of ideas.
 
@JohnDvorak Glad to hear it! (Not glad that you've run out of ideas, just glad of some evidence that I haven't annoyed or embarrassed or offended people.)
So, what would be a useful hint? First letter? Saying which bit of the clue is the definition?
 
For what it's worth, I don't find the C4 particularly naughty or out of taste.
 
Also good to hear.
 
I don't mind it either. I'm just using Gareth's own words.
 
1:51 PM
Identifying the def would be a good hint in this case, I think. (But first letter is okay, too -- your pick.)
 
That's very pick-sellated.
 
 
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3:55 PM
You both deserve Capital Punishment for crimes against humanity.
 
4:28 PM
@Rubio If you punish someone, that's kind of wordplay.
Anyway, it's not capital punishment unless it's PUNISHMENT.
 
WAAAAIT A MINUTE... OH HEY I HAVE A LOT OF CAPITALS NOW YAY I'M RICH!!! :D
 
@Mithrandir Whyyyyy
I'm dyiiinngg
 
So are we all, hopefully slowly.
C4 hints: (1, old) I don't think anyone's got the right definition yet. (2, old) At least one comment has got some of the right wordplay. (3, new) First letter is D.
 
4:43 PM
not sure if immortality will be invented in my lifetime... eh, must be too expensive though :P
 
JD and MO, as penance for your silliness you must both sit down and read these long books on economic theory by Karl Marx and David Graeber.
 
4:57 PM
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Q: It doesn't matter the side you see it

Duarte Arribas It doesn't matter the side you see it, As long as it's vertical, it's still the same, Just be sure that at night, you know where to aim. What is it?

 
5:12 PM
@Rubio lol r/technicallythetruth
 
Hehehe
Just, you know, leading by example here. Or something.
 
I upvoted that ;)
nice dog example
 
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Q: Puzzle Game (Including algebra, binary etc.)

realtccPuzzle Game This is a little puzzle game. Hope you enjoy: If x=64 and y=153, what is √x × xy + 86? Follow this link, download the file and, when it asks you for a password to open it, enter the answer to the previous question (no commas or anything, just the numbers): https://www.dropbox.com...

 
Wow
 
@Sphinx btw, I was going to answer "rot13(n cra)" until I realized that, eh, rot13(lbh trarenyyl pna'g hfr vg hcfvqr qbja...)
 
5:22 PM
@Sphinx thanks @GarethMcCaughan - I’m on mobile and would have taken way too long to appropriately address that nightmare
 
@GarethMcCaughan Hm. So it begins with a D. I'm sure the answer is DIRECTION (way) with DI(e) + (e)RECTION, the two tablets being taken from the whole, not only from erection. (I'm not 100% certain about die being "get terrible", though. I guess it is intended in the context of going stale.)
 
ah, crap. The reason this took everyone so wrong is that I made a mistake. The answer is DIRECTION, and it was meant to be DIRE + ERECTION minus two Es, and somehow I managed not to notice the extra R. [EDITED to fix a typo; I can't even correct a mistake without making mistakes in it today...]
sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
 
ooooooh
and I thought that answer was flawed because it didn't actually use the fact it says "tablets"
 
Oh, so the terrible referred to your spelling. :)
 
it's too bad because aside from completely not working it was rather a nice clue
 
5:32 PM
yeah, rip
 
oh well. MOehm, over to you; please make a new clue quickly so that we can pretend this one never happened.
 
it could've knocked a lot of immature kids off of the crossword club :P
 
I'm trying to come up with a "that made it even harder" joke, but I'll better refrain ...
 
yeah, it was a real cock-up, sorry
 
... that pun
 
5:37 PM
I still liked the clue. (It's an extra R, by the way.)
 
@JohnDvorak ew, no
 
aargh, I cannot brain today. I was sure I wrote "the extra R". Bleh.
 
Anyway, as a follow-up to the naughty clue I can offer the not very subtle ...
 
@Sphinx alright, so... +0/-0, but it's actually not that easy... also, it might be a rot13(fyrqtrunzzre), but I doubt that since, most probably, rot13(vgf "iregvpny" cbfvgvba vf npghnyyl jung zbfg jbhyq pnyy gur "ubevmbagny" bar, jvgu whfg gur rqtr orvat iregvpny)
 
CCCC: Begin from scratch in Blackpool? Thanks for nothing! (7)
 
5:42 PM
I have the solution but I think it's better if I not post any C4s today.
 
don't feel forced to post anything, even the best brain has its bad times ;)
 
Someone else less likely to post a horribly broken replacement can solve it.
 
Yes, it's not very hard.
 
ah, well, then you should ...
 
*rimshot*
 
5:45 PM
pretty sure Gareth just went to sleep :P
 
Pretty sure not :)
 
Hey, that clue wasn't horribly broken.
 
hm, dogs can generally sniff how agitated a human is...
 
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Q: Just another "What am I" poem

LMDHere's a little poem; try to guess "what I am." I accept every answer as long as the explanation is satisfying. You can't touch me as you like I can be a cushion for your mind But too often I'm a spike So I'm not always that kind Sadly, many try to make use of me Seeing me as part of thei...

 
Sid
5:59 PM
Oh. This room is still alive....
 
the Sphinx is immortal, of course! ;-)
 
Oops, I thought it was the zombie room. *shuffles off*
 
The Return of the Rubio has led to a surge of TSL activity.
 
What we really need is a surge of Contact activity though
 
even the bot has started sighing, yeah...
 
6:04 PM
Later tonight
~2 hours maybe
 
6:28 PM
oh, there are people here?
 
Nope, nobody in here atall
I'd like to ask we switch the Contact scheduled thingie to a different day. Wednesdays would be lovely.
 
I feel like the scheduled event are pretty much useless and ignored
 
@JohnDvorak they're scheduled at a time for the US folks and most of us who play... aren't in that tinezone
Move it four hours earlier
 
I'd say let's not remove them altogether
they're mainly reminders to "play Contact, people!"
 
6:43 PM
Zendo has been frozen
 
nah, it's just cryogenically preserved for the time we'll use it again :P
 
Frozen? I don't know what you're talking about...
 
6:59 PM
@Sid Yo!
 
> Zendo? More like Zen-don't
 
Sid
@North Heya!
 
wait what? my answer to that question got accepted ?
 
uh... lol?
it doesn't even contain the formal explanation...
 
7:08 PM
@EriktheOutgolfer ♫Let it go ...
@EriktheOutgolfer Ok in honesty I think the picture is worth the thousand words there, it is pretty self explanatory, but -- that can't possibly have been the OP's actual intended answer, can it?
 
maybe OP thought "first come, first served" or something? ...
but they didn't confirm it other than with a tick
 
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Q: Put it on, get higher

Duarte Arribas Put it on, get higher, Put it down, what a shame, Lose it at the end And have no one to blame What is it?

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Q: What's In The Box?

PerpetualJWelcome to Archie's Fun House! I would like to begin by thanking you for paying us a visit today. This is a craaaaaazy place indeed! Today though, we have something rather special waiting for you. It's a rather peculiar contraption, and most believe it to be almost alive. Some have stated that it...

 
@EriktheOutgolfer alright, the last thing one could think about the riddle if they have read beyond the small number of lines would be that it's "too broad"... literally, after some time examining it, it's not
 
Wait..
Did you just @ yourself?
 
yeah, reply to your own message (indicator of continuation of another message)
hover over the ▼ at the left of the message, look at the number that appears in the URL at the bottom-left corner of your browser's window (the message's ID), type :msgID<space> and then the reply
 
7:34 PM
That's actually weird
 
7:57 PM
@North is this puzzle of yours correctly answered yet?
 
no... and no one's answered it i dont think
 
kk
 
8:48 PM
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Q: Oh boi! Dis waas never Engliz! #2

NatashaThis puzzle is second in the series, the first one being this. But these are related in no way. Below are some weird combinations of letters, which are actually words translated in some different languages, and concatenated. Each line has one word translated in different languages. Thes...

 
 
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11:03 PM
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Q: Can this be drawn in one line without going over the line?

Mike Can this image be drawn in one line and without going over any lines?

 

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