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CCCC: Coder first multiplied by ten, refactored after installing Python; in review it looked identical (10)
 
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Q: Hanano 2 time solving

slomilHas anyone of you tried Hanano 2 video puzzle game? And can he/she share expectations about good speed for solving puzzles(at least first 15 levels)? I for example so far could sit on and solve 3 problems consecutively(also have other occupations-job, other hobbies etc.), but couldn't solve more ...

 
1:31 AM
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Q: Connect Wall: Visual Edition

Jeremy DoverIt feels like a while since the last Connect Wall, so here is one. As usual, there are 16 words which can be grouped into sets of four with each group associated with a word. The resulting four words also have a connection, but in this case, the final connection is a picture, not a word or phrase...

 
 
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2:34 AM
Smogon Puzzle Hunt just finished! Puzzles are up at spo.ink/sph20archives. My puzzles are 2-2, 2-8, 2-15, 2-17, 2-18, 2-24, and 2-26.
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4:53 AM
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Q: What is this thing #2?

Lakshay SuraI'm posting an another one, hope you will like it. Clues: Some What does a cat do?? One is everywhere but still not God. An Indian data analytics company. Brother(or sisters maybe) of pie. I am looking for two words.

 
5:44 AM
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Q: time taken by slower wine crusher

dagwoodTwo Grape Crushers take 4 days to crush certain amount of grapes.If one of them crushed half the grapes and the other crushed other half , then they complete the job in 9 days. How many days will it take slower crusher to do the job alone? my solution : the time taken when they both do 1/2 the ...

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Q: A packing game!

Culver Kwan Amy and Ben are playing a game which is suggested by a genie. Amy first chooses $a,b,c\in\mathbb{R}^+$. Then a empty cuboid box with internal measurements $a+b,b+c,c+a$, and infinite supply of cuboid blocks with measurements $a,b,c$ magically appeared with the aid of the genie. Ben has to pack a...

 
 
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6:59 AM
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Q: Wrap a squashed, bullet-riddled lowercase lambda around a cube

plasticinsectThe following rather squashed and bullet-riddled lowercase lambda: ...can be wrapped onto the surface of a cube in a way that perfectly covers the entire cube, with no gaps and no overlaps. How can this be done?

 
 
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3:25 PM
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Q: Moving matches to produce largest possible number

Bernardo Recamán SantosMaría Lucía Uribe´s recent match-moving puzzle (Move matches and make largest possible number) begs for the following matter to be settled once and for all. If each of the numbers from 100 to 999 is written using matches, such a 907 below, and I am allowed to move three of any number´s matches, w...

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Q: What links these numbers?

simonalexander2005What links the following numbers (and many more): 115 1262 241 2207 398 3001 434 4073 568 5024 622 6134 715 7002 840 8006 925

 
 
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4:40 PM
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Q: Grandpa's last laugh

MithicalTo say my grandfather was eccentric is like saying water is wet - technically incorrect, but close enough that nobody really cares. I suppose in lieu of a better word "eccentric" will do. In any case, my grandfather was a writer, as well as a puzzler... and a prankster. He loved elaborate, drawn-...

 
 
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5:56 PM
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Q: Spelling Bee Bee Bee

FlanManI once attended an English-language spelling bee where a speller, during her turn, repeated the same letter three times in a row, and she was judged to be correct. She spelled the word perfectly, without restarting, and without stuttering. In fact, none of the words from that day’s spelling bee h...

 
6:28 PM
@Sphinx @Deusovi HNQ train here we come
 
7:22 PM
CCCC update: I'm in the path of Tropical Storm Isaias, so I might be out of pocket for a while, depends on power. A bit early for a hint, but the CCCC starts with P. If you get it, you'll know, and please don't wait for me to throw the next one out.
 
@JeremyDover, sending luck your way!
 
@bobble Thanks! We should be OK, since this isn't a bad one, but I'll take all the luck I can get :-)
 
stay safe
 
7:37 PM
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Q: What did my uncle want to write?

Excited RaichuI've always been a writer as well as a puzzler, and my uncle shares that same fascination with both. Recently, he shared with me a complex puzzle that he'd made when he was my age. He said that the solution was the kind of book he'd always wanted to write and publish. I took a picture of the puzz...

 
7:52 PM
yikes, hope it goes ok
i think the answer is PALIN+DRO(c > M)E*
anagram CODER, multiply C by ten to get M, add (michael) PALIN from monty python
 
@jafe You are correct! Tag, you're it :-)
Thanks for the well wishes!
 
CCCC: Soldier, visiting unattractive women, brings McDonald's meal? (6)
 
8:22 PM
@JeremyDover good luck
 
8:50 PM
@jafe I would never have gotten that... the only knowledge I have of Monty Python comes from reading Ready Player One
 
9:18 PM
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Q: Three identical digits on a digital clock

ThomasLOn a digital clock showing 00:00 to 23:59, what is the probability of having exactly three identical digits?

 
10:07 PM
@jafe Soldier = GI. visiting = insertion. unattractive women = HAGS. brings = equation. McDonald's meal? = Scottish meal = HAGGIS.
 
 
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Avi
11:28 PM
I have a CC
but i forgot it :o
Needle-like letter run out of circle-like (8)
bleh
there goes the surface, because I can't tell the difference between 1 and 2
ACICULAR = A (a letter) + CI(-r)CULAR
another potential "One half of instrument..."
for A + C(ICU)LAR(-inet) if you can insert the ICU
 

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