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Sphinx
Sphinx
12:12 AM
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Q: What does this picture and pattern mean?

miaoI am trying to find out what this picture means and where to find it (I could not locate the source). It's really important for me. Thanks everyone for helping.

puzzle-identification
 
 
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Sphinx
Sphinx
4:00 AM
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Q: I’m not subject to conviction

Ébe Isaac My prefix is a preposition My infix is an exclamation My suffix may be a fraction I’m not subject to conviction

riddle word wordplay rhyme
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
4:59 AM
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Q: Footmen And Friends #1: A Long Ways Away

Rewan DemontayTonight premiers the first show of Footmen And Friends, a show dedicated exclusively to kings and pawns. Let's give these soul-men of chess a chance to shine instead of their big sisters and brothers! For the show's pilot tonight to be a success, tell me, how many moves will it take White to mat...

no-computers chess optimization
 
 
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jafe
jafe
6:59 AM
hehe, i had to go and recheck the dictionary to verify that "make up" can mean "form" when people were stuck on that last clue
i've seen "a french" in published cryptics to mean UN so i thought UNE was fair game as well
definitely a good point to keep clue length in mind... for next week i have one with 83 letters, probably need to break that down a bit before posting!
here's a challenge: come up with the shortest cryptic clue (by letter count)
one that 1) is not a double def and 2) doesn't rely on numbers or punctuation trickery
here's one with 9 letters: Man in Mali (2)
 
mbingo
mbingo
7:21 AM
Land I led (4)
UNE for "a French" is certainly just as fair as UN is! I've historically disliked the "X French" construction, but I suppose I'm coming around to it with the "X (French)" parsing...
I too tend to write long clues, largely because I find it easier to put together a reasonable surface reading that way (though I don't make them long consciously or deliberately). It's something I need to work on for sure.
 
 
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Sphinx
Sphinx
8:28 AM
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Q: decrypt the code('ILKAI LKAIF VSTDS PSVLI UTFLK 02 10 8 7 000 0')

JISHNUILKAI LKAIF VSTDS PSVLI UTFLK 02 10 8 7 000 0 Along with the above short ciphertext the intelligence agencies also provided the following background information on it: • It is confirmed that the sender and the receiver has neither met each other nor communicated by other means for a long time. Th...

mathematics cipher cryptography
 
 
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Sphinx
Sphinx
12:16 PM
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Q: Today's Letter Sequence

GlorfindelCan you figure out what the next letter in this sequence is? C, N, O, I, Z, E It's a very simple one and will no doubt be cracked in a few minutes, but I thought it was fitting for today.

letter-sequence
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
12:35 PM
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Q: Sequence Puzzle - Sequence Of The Day

Scratch---CatLook at these two sequences. The rules of these two sequences are the same. 0 32 15 3 9 5 4 2 6 7 13 110 174 155 314 2120 5360 24671 119546 193002 240820 274454 153700 1397287 17916598 26245242 8880928 7320921 14726415 42969065 35308126 14978764 68756682 ... 8 11 94 58 10 49 57 ___ 1...

mathematics number-sequence sequence seasonal
 
jafe
jafe
i feel like there might be the same idea behind both of these
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
1:13 PM
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Q: Cipher puzzle - Cryptography of the day

Scratch---CatI received this in my email: Kpa nfwa jnjnbb vo Sk kizk auy phurtpijd? Don't ignore the "mathematics" tag! Solve it.

mathematics cipher
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
Despite having been last seen on the site in mid-2016, user f'' has only just recently been overtaken in the list of top answerers in the mathematics tag!
That's quite a feat.
 
jafe
jafe
who did it?
ah, there was a link :D
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
Hexo and almost Gareth.
 
 
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msh210
msh210
5:10 PM
Hm, no progress on the CCCC in my sabbath break.
I've a hint that I think will completely give it away — though of course I may be wrong — but I think I'll forbear for now.
 
jafe
jafe
google has taught me that there are not many people who got tired of painting
 
msh210
msh210
Hm.
Okay, so here's a hint that'll not completely give it away: music
 
ThePuzzlingPlatypus
ThePuzzlingPlatypus
so Avi was onto something with that "Bob ross becomes a rapper" joke
 
msh210
msh210
5:26 PM
yes, onto something. or on something. ;-)
 
ThePuzzlingPlatypus
ThePuzzlingPlatypus
That's mean
I'm also about that weird, and I don't even drink
I assure you that no illicit substances need to be involved to think of something like that
 
msh210
msh210
I was just kidding
 
ThePuzzlingPlatypus
ThePuzzlingPlatypus
I know
 
msh210
msh210
Meant no offense
 
ThePuzzlingPlatypus
ThePuzzlingPlatypus
I need to focus on Codenames now
honestly though, all of the stuff Avi's done is stuff I sometimes do, except for making good puzzles
Avi's way better at that
I haven't had inspiration for a riddle in a year
the only person I know who moved from painting to something else was Henri Mattisse, who went blind and started doing the collages
a Batman cartoon taught me that
 
jafe
jafe
5:36 PM
didn't know that
i know hitler moved from painting to something else but i doubt that helps here
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
3
Q: Puzzle on a Pie Crust

eyl327Can you find the hidden message in this pie crust?

word visual letters
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
5:58 PM
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Q: Vowelburgers™ Chef’s Special

Ébe IsaacInspired by Avi's Vowelburger™ Riddle. Hope you enjoyed our Double Supreme variants We at Vowelburgers are finding more and more ways to bring variety to the table. The chef’s choice of the day consists of a vowel patty, a complementary cheese layer and a special bun. The variety lies in the othe...

riddle word pattern letters
 
 
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Avi
Avi
9:24 PM
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A: Four $\pi$'s to make any integer

BijidIf you're allowed to "use the operation $N$ times", couldn't you simply do $$\frac{\pi}{\pi} \times \frac{\pi}{\pi} \times (1+1+ \dots +1)$$ The addition being with $n$ ones.

^ I'm of the opinion that this answer should've been deleted as not pertinent instead of being edited (because it still fails to satisfy the basic criteria of the question)
@msh210 Yeah, I was high on puzzles, how'd you know?!
Speaking of puzzles
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
9:46 PM
1
Q: Find the two numbers not fitting the sequence

FIreCaseThis sequence is complete (cannot be extended in any direction), however, two numbers don't fit. Which two? 15 68 53 8 66 6 73 5 57

pattern lateral-thinking
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
10:05 PM
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Q: Find the secret word hidden in this message

eyl327The following message was received from a friend: I need you right away to help me use 0x1DD1A to find out how to set up my 0x223C 0x71C487! The message didn't make sense at first, so I went to him for clarification and he told me he just got an Echo Connect and needed help accessing Google...

word cipher computer-puzzle letters
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Q: No trap in this one

FIreCaseThis visual puzzle resolves to a number.

knowledge visual lateral-thinking
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
10:43 PM
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Q: With apologies to all the Elizabethan sonneteers

msh210I heard, O James; I beg thou 'll again share the singular connection I first saw -- not in thine indication quite unrare now only when in t' after-gleam of lore. Do tell: hast wanting heaven's lead-drawn hail? Hail hath not all behind, or first before. Can jousting orbs have not incursions frail...

enigmatic-puzzle
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
11:02 PM
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Q: Can you decipher these ancient numerals?

eyl327This stone was found at the foot of an ancient door. This old note with some mathematical relationships was discovered nearby. Can you use this information to figure out what number each of the 9 symbols on the stone represent?

mathematics formation-of-numbers number
 

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