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12:57 AM
@GarethMcCaughan correct :0 I meant "perhaps a tiger" as "cat". Would "notice" on its own still be dicey, then?
 
 
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4:54 AM
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Q: Final Fantasy $1$ has been released today?

Souradip DasI had a friend in my school who used to hate studies . He always liked to play video games, studying nothing, always talks about video games in school, and also gets some scolds from the teacher. Surprisingly, in every exams , he used to score full marks, being one of the toppers in school !! . O...

 
 
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7:45 AM
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Q: To be decoded (BINARY)

DcybrozLook at this image using a pixel editor. black is 0 white is 1 red is end of statement

 
8:14 AM
@oAlt I think so? A notice might express a caveat, but most notices don't and most caveats aren't written in notices. ... Or maybe there's a meaning of "caveat" that isn't quite the one I know.
Ooh, there is. Nothing dicey here; my apologies.
 
augh, i looked at caveat but only as ca(vea)t!
 
9:00 AM
@GarethMcCaughan oh nice lol
@jafe hehhh
 
 
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10:37 AM
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Q: When was he born?

aminabzzWhen asked about his birthday, a man said: "The day before yesterday I was only 25 and next year I will turn 28." This is true only one day in a year - when was he born?

 
11:09 AM
CCCC: Chum bags drug (8)
 
11:26 AM
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Q: Three fun questions (IQ)

aminabzzWhy was Napoleon Bonaparte always wearing a yellow belt? Why does a snake never go on a trip? What will you take first if a car hits you?

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Q: Say my name? What am I?

aminabzzI can be heavy or light. but I have no weight. I can be short or long. but I have no dimensions. I can be sweet or bitter. but I have no taste.

 
11:51 AM
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Q: Numbers with a shared property

DEEMThe following numbers share same property. What are the next two numbers with same shared property? What are the previous two with the same shared property? What is the largest three digit number with the same property? What is the smallest two digit number with the same property? One hundred th...

 
12:41 PM
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Q: Compoundoku wants REALLY BIG!

Earlien Rules of Compoundoku: Solve both left and right Sudokus. In addition, the board below them is the Compound Board of both Sudokus. Each number on the Compound Board should tell either: (1) the number on the left Sudoku, or (2) the sum of both numbers on the left and right Sudokus; in the respec...

 
1:22 PM
Just posting here since nobody checks review queues on meta.
 
@Sphinx "IQ" seems to be to questions online what "You'll Never Believe What Happened" is to stories online.
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1:56 PM
0
Q: What am I dear friends?

aminabzzI am what that just belongs to you, but only others use it! But you don't get offended nor get enjoyed when others use it. What am I?

 
2:21 PM
0
Q: Find the area of the given triangle

Aniruddha DebAnother mathematical puzzle: Find the area of $\triangle FGH$, given that $FG=GH$ and the radii of the circles shown are $2$ and $1$

 
2:44 PM
@GarethMcCaughan I really want this to be an &lit. I mean, that would be impressive.
 
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Q: A dead body was found buried near our Old House?

Souradip DasI lived in a very old house with my father a very long time ago . We are a family with $3$ members , and my mother had died long ago. We have now shifted to a new house , since the old house became too old and we have decided to sell it at some point . Right now no one lives in the house . One da...

 
Unfortunately, although some Web pages talk about using medicines/chemicals in chum, I can't seem to find any that list any such, which makes the definition "half" of the &lit hard to find (and the likelihood of this being an &lit less IMO).
 
@msh210 No comment, obviously.
@msh210 No comment, obviously.
 
Yeah, I know.
 
huh, time to look up "chum"... i thought it just means friend
as does "drug"... in russian
now to fit in "bags" somehow... :P
speaking of compact clues, here's one from the independent that i find pretty questionable if i understand it correctly
It's painful below (10,5)
 
2:50 PM
@jafe oh, interesting
 
15 letters to clue 15 :)
 
@jafe What is it?
(I'm impatient and lazy at the moment, especially with clues said to be "pretty questionable". :-) )
 
I was thinking 'irritable bowel' but that's one letter short
 
the answer is "dislocated elbow"
 
It's painful = def; below = reverse wordplay?
 
3:01 PM
that seems like it
 
Or maybe: It's painful = description of the clue; below = reverse wordplay
 
3:13 PM
heheh
i've seen "cryptically" as an indicator for that type of wordplay
don't think i've ever seen it unindicated, though
 
I saw a great reverse anagram a while back: "How to make oarsmen use force (5 3'1 3)"
(Gjvfg bar'f nez)
 
Sid
"It's painful" as a definition of "dislocated elbow" sounds wrong.
 
Etiquette question: is it OK to create a less challenging puzzle, and request that answers be provided (at least for an initial period) by folks with below a certain reputation? I was thinking about the recent Meta question about encouraging new participants.
 
@Sid agreed. You would be unlikely to look up 'dislocated elbow' in the dictionary to find the definition as 'it's painful' :P
 
@JeremyDover specifically, 101,000? :-)
 
Sid
3:21 PM
I mean, just replacing in a sentence: "I had a dislocated elbow" changes to "I had a "it's painful".
 
There have been questions before that have said things like "this is intended to be an easy-to-approach question; if you're an experienced puzzler, please consider leaving it for others to solve". I think those questions were in fact left alone by the more experienced puzzlers. I don't think there's anything wrong with making the suggestion, but obviously it's not enforceable. (Though you could e.g. declare that you won't accept any answer from anyone with more than 10k rep, or something.)
(That would feel a bit weird to me, though.)
 
@GarethMcCaughan And then you get into What if the acceptance puts him over 10k? .
:-)
 
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Q: Do we have a beginner question tag?

BarkerI recently posted a question targeted at beginners and I stated so in the question. Shortly after it was asked, a high rep user answered the question. It was an honest mistake, they answered before reading the flavor text explaining it was for low rep users, and they removed their answer until ...

@GarethMcCaughan Best way to enforce such a restriction: get a high-rep user to post an answer without spoilertags and then immediately delete it. Anyone with more than 10k rep will see the deleted answer and be spoiled before they can start working on the puzzle themselves.
 
That's an amusing idea.
(Slightly better: post with spoiler tags, delete, remove spoiler tags.)
 
Sid
@Randal'Thor That is evil
 
3:30 PM
Uh oh...what have I done :-)
The reason I ask is I put up a Connect Wall several days ago, and there seemed to be some newer users interested. Figured I'd put together an easier one to introduce folks to them.
Thanks for all the tips! I think a polite request at the beginning (and maybe an indicator in the title) will be sufficient.
 
In the end I think the best way for new users to get better at answering is experience, but the problem is people are likely to either read an answer when someone posts, or stop as someone has already answered. The best thing is to keep trying to solve it even if you aren't first, it'll give more experience
But obviously theres a big discouraging factor when someone answers quickly before you
@JeremyDover and it doesn't mean that higher rep users can't solve it, it just means they wont post the answer, so everyone can still enjoy it :)
 
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Q: B​ee​p-b​oo​p!​ What's my animal?

Voldemort's WrathYour friend who works at a telemarketing company loves leaving little codes for you all over the place! Today, she left an especially confusing piece of paper taped to your desk! 1209-852 1209-770 | 1477-770 1477-852 | 1477-770 1209-852 | 1477-770 1336-770 | 1209-852 1336-697 What's my favorite ...

 
Also thats a cool cipher that I'd never seen before ^
 
@GarethMcCaughan I now see that I actually did that.
I knew that idea was a familiar one!
 
Well that definitely seemed to work, 5k views! :P
 
3:44 PM
@JeremyDover IMO, putting it in the title would be a bit too much. There's only so much title real-estate anyway, and putting meta stuff (tags, difficulty levels, etc.) in titles is generally Frowned Upon.
 
@Randal'Thor: Thanks...wilco. I'll try to make it prominent in the text.
 
what does "wilco" mean? my usual frantic google turned up a band and some companies
 
Sid
My theory is that it was just a typo for "will do"
 
Old US Army shorthand for "will comply", I think WWII vintage. But the band is pretty good too :-)
 
ah. I know current Navy shorthand, since I'm related to a civilian worker there. No army though
 
3:57 PM
I assumed it was an alternative version of "roger" originating from the name Roger Wilco (which I was vaguely aware of without knowing who/what it is). Turns out I got the etymology the wrong way round and the name Roger Wilco comes from combining "roger" (received) and "wilco" (will comply).
The more you know ...
 
4:07 PM
I just put up that gentler connect wall...watch it be impossible :-)
 
@JeremyDover completely unnessecary but it would def look cooler if you copied Stivs format for the 16 words :)
 
Won't take long...will do.
 
4:27 PM
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Q: A Gentle Connect Wall

Jeremy DoverMy last Connect Wall seemed to attract some interest from newer solvers, so I put together this puzzle to provide a gentler introduction to this puzzle type. EXPERIENCED SOLVERS: please let some of our newer contributors have a crack at this one first! As usual, a Connect Wall is a set of sixteen...

 
Avi
i see
World PEACE, World HUNGER, World BANK
guess the last one must be SABER World
obviously
Even better, lol: saber.worldbank.org
Heavy duty, heavyweight, heavy saber?
oh, it's been answered - rest in pieces
 
4:52 PM
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Q: Multiplying to reverse digits

Rand al'ThorToday I noticed that $294$ is a multiple of $49$, which is the last two digits of $294$ reversed. How many other numbers have this property? That is, how many three-digit numbers have a factor which is given by taking the last two digits and reversing them? I don't know the answer to this questio...

 
 
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7:47 PM
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Q: My prefix is a human being, My infix is an insect being

risky mysteries My prefix is a human being. My suffix tells you it is what. My infix is an insect being. I have features that can cut.

 
 
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10:13 PM
@GarethMcCaughan What I find interesting is that all three words here mean "to fish", though in different tenses and, to some extent, different types of fishing. To chum is to use chum to attract fish; to bag is to capture a hunted animal; and "drug" is a nonstandard past of "drag" as in to drag the lake for something. I highly doubt that this is relevant. But it's interesting.
 
Avi
10:28 PM
tripledef?
or quadruple def &lit.?
highly unlikely but insane if correct.
 
10:43 PM
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Q: Linesweeper (Knight)

boboquack Draw a single loop which does not intersect itself by connecting pairs of cells which share an edge. The loop may not pass through any clue cells. Numbers indicate how many of the cells which touch¹ the clue are passed through by the loop. (Question marks indicate any number is possible for that...

 
 
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11:59 PM
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Q: The Rock and Roll Connect Wall of Fame

Jeremy DoverA recent Connect Wall I wrote seemed to attract some interest from newer solvers, so I'm putting together a few of these puzzles to provide a gentler introduction to this puzzle type. EXPERIENCED SOLVERS: please let some of our newer contributors have a crack at this one first! A Connect Wall is ...

 

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