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1:20 AM
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Q: I Just Don't Know What to Say

Brandon_J I must have been having a terrible time getting out my words during today's meeting. I found my notepad covered in nonsense! What was I trying to say? tea Sasquatch unusual frog peptide crime goldfish relevant red herring democrat caucus water ...

 
1:40 AM
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Q: A Fairy-ly Odd Chess Identification Puzzle

Rewan DemontayI had a rather odd idea today. I realized on my own something about a certain fairy chess piece that could he done. I then got the idea to make into a puzzle of identification. The idea is that you must figure which fairy piece is going to be used (whether changing a piece or by promotion) or i...

 
2:37 AM
@Rubio hmmm... what do you have now?
@Rubio if only i could solve this... the persian would revive... >:)
and all those damsels rescued
@Brandon_J nice avatar!
@Rubio W_+I_+>_SE_+CRACK
finally... solving my very first CCCC
:)
 
2:52 AM
@OmegaKrypton grats :)
You pinged me earlier - then deleted it. Not sure if you still needed something
More precisely: W + I + _ES_< + CRACK
But same diff
 
@OmegaKrypton Thanks!
 
nothing... :)
 
If I can just figure out how to keep my chat avatars separate on Chess and Puzzling, we'd be good
awkward to have a PSE avatar in the CSE chat while running for CSE mod
 
I’m not sure you can. There isn’t e.g. “Puzzling” chat per se - you have one account for (almost) all chat
 
But it's associated with the puzzling site
i.e. I wish I could use this avatar just on puzzling chat rooms
 
3:03 AM
The room is, and you can have a parent site
But there’s not different user settings for different sites in chat
 
Bummer
I kind of like my identicon, at least
Alconja's is my favorite, though.
 
3:21 AM
You might call it
... iconic
 
You might.
You might indeed. But please don't.
 
3:43 AM
CCCC: Prostitute I arrested charging energy wrong in a disaster (8)
@Rubio
hope this is not too badly-formulated...
 
I’m also hoping this ;)
Just confirming no indirect anagram here?
 
4:05 AM
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Q: How can I divide/split an array of numbers into 2 subsets such that their gcd sum is maximized?

Guhfg gehlthonExample array : (6,7,7,6). Solution : The required two subsets are (6,6) and (7,7).Their respective gcds are 6 and 7. Final answer is 6+7=13(which is the maximum gcd sum possible) . Thanks.

 
@Rubio what do you mean by indirect anagram
 
You can’t say “food in civilized confusion” to clue TAME anagrammed to MEAT
 
nope, not here
 
Whatever is the anagrind fodder needs to literally be in the wordplay in one form or another
Ok just making sure
 
at most something similar to "sodium confusion" => "AN", only one term
changing to short forms
 
4:14 AM
Yeah that is still indirect, though possibly fair depending
 
then one case only
an easy one
 
Note earlier GPR switching out “in ring, awkwardly” for “in kidnapping ring” because while ring often stands in for “O”, doing that in an anagram is indirect and not good form. We’ll see :)
Pretty sure I know what it is here anyway
 
4:33 AM
just asking, but must the def. part be at the beginning or at the end?
@Rubio
@Rubio are you here?
check your inbox please
 
Yes, it has to be cleanly separable from the wordplay and at one end
 
oops... please wait then
 
Ahh. That explains a thing or two lol
 
then lets change to this
CCCC: Half a local puzzler initially irritated by appointments with Persian king (11)
 
This is entirely new I take it
 
4:36 AM
yes this is
old one is too bad
this is better i think
THE PERSIAN REVIVES
 
That ... is not a good cryptic abbreviation, I don’t think. First, maybe you could get “dog” from R but certainly not the reverse. Second, if you can’t find it in sphinx.mythic-beasts.com/~mark/random/indicators it’s probably unwise to use a potential abbreviation (and many of those listed are very British and not necessarily good ideas to use outside of specifically British settings, so just because it is listed doesn’t automatically make it fair here)
Also the mobile client is pretty annoying. Lol
 
wow... new resources... thanks!
@Rubio
 
@OmegaKrypton MITHR(-andir)+I_+DATES
 
@Ankoganit nice
@OmegaKrypton see crosswordunclued.com/2009/07/connectors.html near the bottom; “with” isn’t a very good connector word between wordplay and def. my last clue would have ended with “turned over drug with a sarcastic remark” but for that. For future reference. That site is another good resource.
I’ve learned more than I ever thought I would about cryptic clues from hanging out in here. Hehe
 
5:00 AM
yep thanks @Rubio
 
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Q: Help to solve rubick

JS4 How to solve my rubick? Which pattern left?

 
^ at least try to English hehe
 
5:22 AM
Meh. I have work to do and I’m studiously ignoring it. But I hear plaintive rustling of documents and folders from the other room. I hope it hasn’t become sentient in my long absence.
 
5:37 AM
CCCC: Woman I arrested at first after primary verification, lost it on provocation (10)
 
6:05 AM
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Q: Finding maximum possible sum of GCD's of an array of n-elements

DBZ NetworkA sequence of positive integers A1,A2,…,AN. Split this sequence into two non-empty (not necessarily contiguous) subsequences B and C such that GCD(B)+GCD(C) is maximum possible.Find this maximum value.

 
7:01 AM
^ at this rate we should have full contest coverage by this time tomorrow
 
@Ankoganit nice job!
 
7:39 AM
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Q: Rotating the String

JannetWe have to rotate a string in a specified direction by a specified magnitude. After each rotation make note of first character of the rotated string. After all rotations are performed the accumulated first character as noted previously will form another string, say FSTRING. Check if FSTRING is a...

... codeforces as well?
 
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Q: Rotating the String

JannetWe have to rotate a string in a specified direction by a specified magnitude. After each rotation make note of first character of the rotated string. After all rotations are performed the accumulated first character as noted previously will form another string, say FSTRING. Check if FSTRING is a...

 
hm, I can't find this one
it's almost certainly taken from some competition, but I haven't had any luck with it
 
 
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9:45 AM
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Q: Polygon Construction for Specified Number of Interior and Boundary Lattice Points

athin Construct a simple polygon on a grid of equal-distanced points such that: all the polygon's vertices are grid points, there are exactly $i~(\geq 0)$ lattice points in the interior, and there are exactly $b~(\geq 3)$ lattice points on the boundary. As a practice, construct it f...

 
 
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1:46 PM
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Q: 2019 gold coins to share

OrayYou and your friend has found in total 2019 gold coins in a treasure hunt. Since your friend found to place to dig up, you offer a game to share the coins to him: "We have 2019 coins, I will put as many coins as i want into the bags and you will see how many coins I would put inside for each bag...

 
2:06 PM
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Q: number that can be formed by adding a pair of consecutive numbers

GohmaSuppose i have two consecutive number 3 and 4. so i can form all numbers as 3 , 6, 9, ...(all multiples of 3) 4 , 8, 12,...(all multiples of 4) also we pick any numbers from these list and add them to form another number. i am required to find number of numbers which can't be formed by any m...

 
2:26 PM
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Q: There's a wealth of information here. Make the most of it!

Stewie GriffinThe puzzle below contains a wealth of information. However, if you were to make a list, you will soon realize that there's something missing. You're task is to fill in all the blanks. Have fun, and make the most of it!

 
3:06 PM
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Q: Please figure out this Pan digital Prince

UvcGiven: P, R, I, N, C, E, T, O, M are all distinct digits varying from 1 to 9. PCRON, PRINCETOM are two concatenated Numbers. PCRON is the highest possible number you can have fulfilling the following relation: $(PCRON)^2$ = $PRINCETOM$ Please give you’re deductive reasoning to figureout ...

 
3:46 PM
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Q: Who am I ??? - 3.0

Ak19From the pictures below, can you find my name ?

 
 
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5:35 PM
@Rubio You double-posted this message :-) Also, "a little too polished for a first-timer" is a bit of an odd concept - no reason that someone who hasn't been on PSE before shouldn't be able to formulate a perfectly good puzzle.
Pedantry aside, though: message received, ten-four, roger, etc.
 
@Randal'Thor My internet has been stupid for a week and it was cutting out at the time.
 
6:28 PM
Anyone want to cast some delete votes on these closed questions (in decreasing order of deletability): one, two, three @Alconja @hexomino @Ankoganit
 
 
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9:27 PM
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Q: What is this puzzle called? Have you seen it before?

GeronimoFTW The puzzle writer has named it “Twins and Triplets” but I believe that this might be an alias for the actual name of the puzzle. The premise behind it seems too simple for it not to already exist. I have scoured the web looking for examples but could not find any. Has anyone seen any logic puzz...

 
 
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10:27 PM
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Q: Use 1 9 6 2 in this order to make 75

ThomasI'm looking for a solution to make number 75 with numbers 1 9 6 2 in that oder and the same rules as in Use 2 0 1 and 8 to make 67

 

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