The Sphinx's Lair

@PrinceNorthLæraðr I don't think it's too much of an issue to have two mods in the same time zone, as long as the whole team has some geographical spread.

Prince North Læraðr

Fair

Rand al'Thor

Although all the Literature mods are between UTC and UTC+3.

Prince North Læraðr

12:50 AM

@Sciborg bows Thank you, but my rep is a bit low :P

Sciborg

:P

Rand al'Thor

Well, seems llike nothing's on fire any more, so time for me to head bedwards.

Later, all.

Prince North Læraðr

~~I'm also looking towards running for Lit mod one day~~

Sciborg

Good night!

Prince North Læraðr

@Randal'Thor See ya! Thanks

Sciborg

12:51 AM

Thank you again.

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

@Sciborg I want to apologize for my behavior, especially the DM thing. I don’t think straight when I’m upaet

Upset rather

Sciborg

I appreciate the apology. Thank you.

Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

Maybe msh, if he doesn't mind modding two different places?

He is quite perfect

Prince North Læraðr

Msh doesn't post as much on the site

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

I just feel left out is all

Sciborg

12:53 AM

That is due to your own behavior.

Prince North Læraðr

@ThePuzzlingPlatypus Let's not talk about this anymore, please?

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

I mean even before that I felt left out

Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

Yeah, DnD is fun...

Sciborg

Exiting this conversation before you force us to call in a mod again.

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

OkNorth, I only logged in to apologize

Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

12:54 AM

I have an idea, though it might take some work on Discord

Sphinx

2:54 AM

2

Q: Nurikabe: The Super-Kabe Attacks!

This puzzle is another Nurikabe, but with a new twist for me: it's a gigantic Super-Kabe! It's also, in my opinion, quite tricky and has some interesting deductions. I hope you enjoy! Rules of a Nurikabe (copied from my previous puzzle): This is a Nurikabe puzzle. The goal is to paint some cells...

Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

3:16 AM

@Sciborg I love the Nurikabe!

Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

4:05 AM

@Sid Since we know Gray is on the right track with a tdef, here's a guess: NAILED, NAILED a goal, NAILED the interview (and possibly a builder job), settled is a synonym to NAILED

Or possibly SEALED, cuz SEALED the goal, SEALED the deal, SEALED is also a synonym to settled

Or RACKED, 'cause RACKED up a goal, RACKED up a profit, and RACKED is once again, a synonym to settled

Pretty sure it's one of the three

bobble

None of those make sense to me

Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

Why

bobble

They don't pass the substitution test

"I scored a goal" "I sealed" - the second sentence does not mean the first

You're being too lose with defs

Deusovi

bobble is right - definitions have very precise rules they follow

just like the rest of cryptics

Prince North Læraðr

4:39 AM

Deus!

How was the MIT Puzzle Hunt?

Sciborg

Hey, Deus! :D

bobble

We apologize for there being some small fires while you were gone.

unless you're still gone?

Deusovi

it was great!

Prince North Læraðr

Can we get new R/Os?

It was a bit stressful when there were no mods and R/Os who could take of the situation

Ah... you missed out on what happened

Hm

bobble

4:56 AM

Rand kicked a bunch of messages into mod trash

Sciborg

I don't really want to discuss it except to say that it's over now, it was very stressful, and I hope a similar thing does not happen to me (or for that matter poor bobble, north, msh and mith) again.

Deusovi

backread a bit, but I haven't been paying attention to the D&D room

Prince North Læraðr

You really don't need to

D&D Room is fine

Sciborg

The D&D room and my lovely players were not the problem in this case.

bobble

you could maybe see the messages in mod trash?

Prince North Læraðr

4:59 AM

But I think this situation could have been entirely avoided if we had a R/O that could've stepped in to de-escalate the situation

Things got a bit hairy because there was no one to say, "That's enough, you need to back off"

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

Won’t happen again. I promise. I just wasn’t thinking straight

Prince North Læraðr

It's not just about you, don't worry

Deusovi

it's over; time to move on

Prince North Læraðr

I'm worried if some troll drops by and starts spamming

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

I know, I’m just apologizing

Prince North Læraðr

5:02 AM

I think you've apologized enough, and the rest of us would like to move on

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

Ok. If you ever decide to give me another chance please let me know

Prince North Læraðr

Anyways, I think we really need a couple more ROs here

Sciborg

I back North on this, yeah - the room has gotten popular enough that it would be nice to have a few more people who can moderate.

You should feel comfortable leaving and not worry about stuff going nuts while you are gone.

Prince North Læraðr

I wouldn't mind RO-ing

I'm decently active, and I'd say I've been around for a decently long time :P

(cough almost 3 years)

Sciborg

#TeamTree? :P

Prince North Læraðr

5:13 AM

Teehee

I think other users would be good candidates too if they want to

Sciborg

i don't know why but by mentioning how long you've been here, you've suddenly got me on a kick of reading the transcripts of my first week of Sphinx messages and laughing at how much we goofed around

there was some comedy gold when we first met

like just... all of this

bobble

6:01 AM

Pento-Doku update: there are now only 36 unknowns in the sudoku grid. Much progress was made.

Graylocke

6:15 AM

@Anonymus25-ReinstateMonica It's tricky. I don't know how I was on the right track :)

Graylocke

6:58 AM

@Sid Urf. So I am left with PLACED? As in hit a certain ranking e.g. in a sport? Got a job and settled at a little more obvious.

Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

@Graylocke Or placing a bet in a big match?

That works

@Sciborg HOLY SHIT THAT WAS FUN

Lol

Graylocke

Yeah... but it doesn't quite mean "scored a goal" unless you kind of mean... "I hit my objective"

Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

@Sciborg Your cursed joke has also spread to discord, you are officially a mem around the world lol

Eyyyy Sid

Sid

@Graylocke PLACED is correct. Your turn.

Graylocke

Yikes! Really? :)

Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

7:09 AM

What the-

Ankoganit

Huh

Graylocke

I was about to make a case for Lukas's "NETTED" being better :)

Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

I was just about to type in the fact that we are all wrong, apparently just me lol

So, evil mick, your turn

Sid

The "Scored a goal" = "Placed" coming from a Rugby term(or so I read)

Graylocke

Yeah - that is where I got that from too, but I wasn't sure :D

(I know nothing about sportsball)

Sid

7:11 AM

But yes. That was not a great clue from me. Sorry!

Graylocke

It was better than a lot of mine :) Speaking of which... -.-;

Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

Lol

Ankoganit

@Sid tip for future: a good way to avoid multiple answer in ddef/tdefs is to take meanings that are as unrelated as possible from each other

Like "Scooter was blue" for MOPED

(I have made similar mistakes in the past, so figured I'd pass on what I learnt)

*answers, not answer

Sid

Thanks. I tried to do that, although maybe "Got a job" and "settled" essentially mean the same thing in some contexts.

Ankoganit

Yeah to be fair there shouldn't ideally be many words that mean both 'scored a goal' and 'got a job' somehow

But English is a mess

Graylocke

7:21 AM

I have one I like the surface of but it is probably too easy... (tries to find a better one)

(Also - I lost the list of "previously done C4s")

Mithical

@Anonymus25-ReinstateMonica I'm not really active enough on the main site anymore for that

@PrinceNorthLæraðr things are looking slightly up on that front, although I'm still holding out until the CM hirings

@Sciborg that's what happened last time (when Gareth and Rubio became ROs)

Lukas Rotter

@Graylocke You mean this?

Graylocke

@LukasRotter woot! thanks :)

Lukas Rotter

7:38 AM

Apr 18 '17 at 14:16, by GentlePurpleRain

CCCC: "Hearken there, oh spell! I seek relocation. Help me escape hell, come home to kin unharmed!" (5'1, 2, 5, 4, 4. 5'1, 2, 5, 4, 4. 5'1, 2, 5, 4, 4.)

wow

Graylocke

Yeah that hurts... :)

Lukas Rotter

7:51 AM

Unfortunately the list is outdated since 3/3/20, for understandable reason

Graylocke

9:49 AM

Well this isn’t my best work but it tried to be related

CCCC: Final moment, but score below standard. (6)

Slightly self referential ^^*

Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

10:57 AM

Ummmmmmmmmmmm

Graylocke

11:16 AM

I feel I may be told off for that one, but..

msh210

1:44 PM

:-/ I think maybe I made my newest crossword too hard. Either that, or no one's tried it.

jafe

i tried it, and it was pretty hard!

msh210

hm.

Well, I guess I can add another hint (or hints). My last was <24 hours ago, though, so I'll wait a bit.

Stiv

2:15 PM

@msh210 I've also tried it - on multiple occasions - and couldn't get more than a handful each time... I'm guessing there are some pretty obscure words at play here, and it's very difficult to pin all of them down together...!

Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

@msh210 Definetely obscure words, I'm completely stuck

msh210

CCCC is Cryptic Clue Chat Chains! Latest clue is ⤴/⤵ there! Join the fun! See Deusovi's Cryptic Clue Guide and GPR's Archive & Statistics of past clues.

7

jafe

i can post what i have as a partial if people wanna collaborate

Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

Sure

msh210

I suspect, if you have a partial solution, that some of it may be wrong.

Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

2:27 PM

I have an answer for 13 down, but it doesn't quite fit in

msh210

(Nothing personal! I merely mean that some of the squares that are meant to be checked won't be so there's less verification than one might wish for.)

jafe

hmm ok

Jeremy Dover

I am working on it now too. Just shy of halfway through. Now that I see the trick, it is going a lot quicker.

msh210

@JeremyDover oh good! :-)

Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

@JeremyDover Post it! If we all contribute, we can do it!

msh210

2:28 PM

Seeing tricks is very important. Especially in contract bridge.

jafe

i suspect the trick has something to do with what anon said above

Jeremy Dover

I try not to post partials as a general rule, but are you good with it in this case, @msh210?

msh210

@JeremyDover I don't mind at all. I would imagine you might mind, though, that others build on the work you did, while you still maintain hope of finishing it yourself.

( . . . if you do.)

Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica

I created a chatroom for discussing the question, cmon in!

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/118596/…

@JeremyDover @jafe @Stiv

Jeremy Dover

3:12 PM

I've got to get moving, so I posted my partial as an answer. If anyone wants to run with it, feel free to use anything in my post, and either edit or create your own post freely.

Sphinx

5:32 PM

1

Q: A 7x7 Suguru - SS#9

An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus" Other puzzles in this series Welcome to the ninth puzzle in this series! For more information about the series, see the first puzzle and the introduction. Enjoy! This might not technically count as a 'sudoku', but some of the rules ar...

logical-deduction grid-deduction sudoku

bobble

@BeastlyGerbil I was so sure someone was going to snipe me on that one. Also I really shouldn't have done it, today was supposed to be hunkering down and completing a school project. Ah well.

Lukas Rotter

^ I was almost that one, I just needed 2 more minutes to formulate an answer xD

(and many others, presumably)

Beastly Gerbil

@bobble nice! Hope it didnt take too long in that case :P

Yeah this wasn't too hard, more of teaser of the puzzle type to see if people like it/whether its fun

bobble

6:01 PM

I am attempting to make my entry Very Hard, seeing as I have only one shot... hopefully it works! I may have to make some compromises as I approach the finish.

Beastly Gerbil

Looking forward to it :)

Sid

(Can a mod please pin Graylocke's current CCCC? Thanks.)

bobble

Also clear the pins for stuff relating to the old CCCC

Lukas Rotter

6:38 PM

Made my first ever (wacky) sudoku. Should I ask someone to test-solve it or just let it free? :) (I did verify that it does have a unique solution, just not sure how enjoyable it is)

bobble

You could ask, but I'm not sure who would be free to solve

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

I just want to apologize for how i acted yesterday. If there’s anything I can do to make it up to any of you, please let me know.

bobble

Please, stop apologizing. We want to move on.

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

As do I

bobble

At this point repeated apologizing is just bringing up the bad feelings again by reminding everyone of the incident

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

6:47 PM

I don’t know what else I can do though

bobble

Nothing. We've told you. Just please stop trying, leave this alone for a while.

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

I’ve had this problem before: apologizing isn’t the right thing but it’s the only thing I know how to do.

I don’t mean to get into the game. I just mean to prove I’m sincere about this.

bobble

We know you're sincere in your regret. You've apologized enough. Please, please stop

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

Ok. Thank you

I can be respectful, it’s just hard when I’m upset.

And that is what I want to prove

bobble

exiting this conversation now to prevent another go-around of the same cycle

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

6:50 PM

Unrelated: pretty sure e the cccc has a t in it from final moment. And standard is probably the def

Mithical

@ThePuzzlingPlatypus there is one thing

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

I’m done taking about the other thing

Mithical

just leave the subject in the past

Wonderful

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

That I can do.

Can I still watch though?

Mithical

sure

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

6:52 PM

If you ever change your mind about me, please let me know

Not like I could play with a full time job anyway

Is Notth’s puzzle posted yet? I was thinking I could try it at some point.

North, rather

I’ve created a personal chat room. I like hanging out with you all, so I won’t ask again. If you change your mind though, we can talk there

How do I send a chat room link?

Mithical

paste the URL

It'll onebox

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

Thank you

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/118611/the-platypussary

If anyone changes their mind let me know there. I should keep this out of main chat from now on.

Also is Sciborg ok? They unfriended me on discord, which I understand, but usually they have been online by now

Unrelated, but I have a great idea for a pub quiz camouflage puzzle. What decided ties for the ftcs

Lukas Rotter

Whatever suggestion the API call spits out first. I don't think it's alphabetical, I don't think it's sorted by creation date.

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

I figured it was least downvotes

Lukas Rotter

I dunno what dark magic is going on over at SE, the bot just sorts by total vote score and takes the first which wasn't already in an FTC

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

7:07 PM

Unusua tag combination already was

Beastly Gerbil

@Bobble and Lukas, as I know you both had solved the suguru, thoughts on the puzzle in general? If it was an enjoyable grid puzzle I'll consider making a much larger, maybe even wackier one in the future

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

but phrased as fusion

Lukas Rotter

I phrased "wasn't already in an FTC" terribly. What I mean by that: In the case that the suggestion for a previous FTC topic is not yet deleted, the bot ignores it. Otherwise we could get the same FTC topic 2x consecutively if no one deletes it

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

Oh

Lukas Rotter

@BeastlyGerbil I enjoyed it, yeah. Would definitely like to see a wackier one!

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

7:13 PM

I need to get back to work. How do I log out without switching to mobile mode?

Never mind I think I figured it out

Lukas Rotter

@BeastlyGerbil Sorry to ping you, would you be willing to test-solve my wacky sudoku? First time I ever created one

It should go without saying that that would ethically disqualify you from posting an answer in case the sudoku is OK xD

Beastly Gerbil

Do apologise, my computer decided it needed to update itself, but of course felt like it didn't need to tell me until it started doing it :P

@LukasRotter oooh in that case that might have to be an upcoming project! I can think of a couple ideas off the top of my head

And sure! Would be more than happy to

Lukas Rotter

7:28 PM

Thank you! No worries if you don't have time immediately, as long as I can post it during the FTC :P How do we go about sharing it in secret?

Beastly Gerbil

I have my email in my profile if you want to send it there perhaps?

Lukas Rotter

ok

Beastly Gerbil

I have some time tonight which I can spend on it, as long as its not too hard I should be able to check it today :P

Beastly Gerbil

7:44 PM

Got it! :)

Beastly Gerbil

7:54 PM

Love the design btw

Lukas Rotter

Thanks! Was a little bit disappointed that I couldn't come up with a reasonable way to use {you know what}, but they just had to stay there xD

Jeremy Dover

8:20 PM

@BeastlyGerbil I did the suguru as well. I liked it, but there wasn't much in the way of deduction. I'd love to see another one more challenging one! (Not to criticize the current one per se.)

Beastly Gerbil

@JeremyDover I agree this one wasn't definitely easy, although I don't know how difficult you can make a plain one. Introducing some different mechanics would definitely be interesting!

And the next one tomorrow is in my opinion the hardest out of the 14, so thatll make up for it :P

Jeremy Dover

Looking forward to it!

Beastly Gerbil

@LukasRotter I completely missed one of the rules which explains why I've been going in circles for a little :P

Lukas Rotter

I'm pretty sure I know which one you're talking about, will mark that one extra bold in the post :)

Beastly Gerbil

Aha, yeah makes things much easier :P

Beastly Gerbil

8:51 PM

@LukasRotter returned, hopefully the solution matches

Also apologies if you can't read the handwriting :P

Lukas Rotter

Yep, it matches perfectly. Thanks for the feedback, will post right away :)

Beastly Gerbil

No problem! Happy to help

Sphinx

1

Q: A Puzzling Sudoku (Warning: Hot!)

An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus" A Sudoku with an oddly familiar shape. Here's a Penpa Link. Rules: Normal Sudoku rules apply (Special) Thermometers: The digits in the thermometer shapes must be strictly increasing in each cell from the round bulb to the flat end...

logical-deduction grid-deduction sudoku

bobble

9:12 PM

@BeastlyGerbil Jeremy's already said my thoughts exactly. Fun, but unless there was a more difficult element next time I would not have as much fun.

Beastly Gerbil

Well, I'll guess I'll have to make it bigger, harder and wackier next time then :P

Sciborg

Challenge accepted :P

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

9:37 PM

I have a problem. That one-shot on Discord is still happening and I still don’t know how to play

msh210

9:58 PM

@ThePuzzlingPlatypus Three suggestions. (a) Ask the person in charge of the game ("dungeon master", "DM"). When I started playing it, I didn't know how either, and one of the things I did (and do) is ask my DM, who very patiently explains things. (b) Read the fine manual. Always a good idea when starting any game. (c) Don't ask here. People here are still irritated at your asking other, related questions, and probably would rather not hear from you on this topic at all right now.

Prince North Læraðr

^

bobble

^

Prince North Læraðr

The best option, of course, is to read the entire manual and ask questions if you are confused, but please do not do it here. This is meant for puzzling.

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

Ok I won’t ask.

The manual is gigantic though

How’s the puzzle coming North?

I’ve been looking forward to it.

Prince North Læraðr

It's done, and I'm just writing up the question right now, actually

Making a small example solve of how the crossword works

@ThePuzzlingPlatypus (shrug) It's not too bad. You can skip all the class, race, and background once you've picked your character and understand how your specific class, race, and background works

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

10:06 PM

Cool. Is it ok if I try it? It’s probably too confising

It’s not even about D&D. Before yesterday, felt like I was a friend of you guys. I just want to feel like that again.

I know I don’t deserve it, but I still consider all of you my friends

And that is the las I’ll say on the subject

Is it a regular or cryptic crossworD?that determines if I can do it or not

Prince North Læraðr

Cryptic

Mixed with a bit of logical deduction

Anyone know how to shrink image size?

bobble

put an "m" after the rest of the image link

Beastly Gerbil

Yeah theres website online that are really helpful for that

Reduce size as in size of the file or size of the image?

Prince North Læraðr

Okay

bobble

see my latest SS answer for an example

Prince North Læraðr

10:20 PM

Link please?

@BeastlyGerbil Just image size when I post it on my question. It looks too big :P

Beastly Gerbil

When you upload a picture, if you scroll all the way to the bottom to where it says i.imgur.com/????? etc, place an 'm' after the 5 digit code

Prince North Læraðr

Ah, okay

Yikes. Reduces the quality of the pixels though, so it looks a bit blurry. :/

Beastly Gerbil

It might reduce image quality, and if it does, you can make it so that the picture links to the larger higher quality image

Prince North Læraðr

(confused noises)

Beastly Gerbil

If it reduces image quality of it on its own, I'd find a website that can resize it for you

Or alternatively get it on your screen to a size you like, then use snipping tool and itll be resized

Prince North Læraðr

10:23 PM

I guess it's alright. It's not too big

Beastly Gerbil

If you want, when you post I can have a play around and see if anything looks alright, and if I find smth I can edit, and if its not quite what you want you can always rollback?

That sounded way less complicated in my head :P

Prince North Læraðr

Please do. My formatting skills need much needed work :P

Beastly Gerbil

My formatting is quite good except when it comes to any form of MathJax outside of '$' :P

Sciborg

I've never used MathJax in any post, so you're probably better at it than me :p

Beastly Gerbil

10:52 PM

@JeremyDover another really impressive answer to a grid-based question :P

Do you take notes as you go? I always start writing up the answer and have forgotten a lot of the logic, but all your logic is always explained flawlessly

Jeremy Dover

Thanks! It's giving me inspiration to come up with another. Hope I can get it done before the FTC is over.

I usually write-up as I go. Like you say, I forget if I do the puzzle by pencil and paper.

I makes getting ninja-ed a bit more frustrating, but decreases the likelihood :-)

Beastly Gerbil

I'm glad people are enjoying the FTC so far, I was worried about halfway through that there wouldn't be anyone else posting any! :P

Ooooh thats interesting and makes a lot of sense, I might have to start doing that too. I usually just take random screenshots and hope I can remember, but I've realised that my memory is really not good enough for that

Jeremy Dover

Even if you get ninja-ed, the writing is good practice, I find.

Beastly Gerbil

I was halfway through your roman numerals sudoku before I realised I'd made a simple error at the very start, but I'm actually glad I didn't solve it first as I was solving on mobile and my answer would have looked atrocious :P

bobble

I have a pretty good memory when it comes to relative placement, which means deductions are simple for me to remember and write down.

That kind of memory can be infuriating... for example, one time during a history test I could remember the exact layout of the page that had a fact I needed, and where on the page that fact was, but not the fact itself. Very non-useful

Jeremy Dover

11:03 PM

Even if you didn't get the checkmark, I hope you enjoyed the solve. I tried to get some good deductions in there, but it seems it was more straightforward than I thought.

Beastly Gerbil

Oh it had some very nice logic involving pairs, it was very nicely put together

It can be very hard to judge difficulty in these

Jeremy Dover

I find that writing up as I go forces me to be better about following a deductive path.

Beastly Gerbil

Some of the sudokus that I thought were hard in my series have been solved miles quicker than ones I thought were easy

Jeremy Dover

That's one of the things I like here: you have many different ways of looking at things, and someone almost always does something unexpected.

Prince North Læraðr

Finally

Chain Puzzle has been dropped!

bobble

11:06 PM

I'm always proud when one of my puzzles has a solution that exactly follows my intended path

Prince North Læraðr

Pffft it literally dropped like 10 seconds ago and someone already gave an upvote

Beastly Gerbil

Just one? ;)

Jeremy Dover

Current home page shows 2 upvotes and one view, @North. That's PSE-fu.

Prince North Læraðr

That's a bit sus

-_-

bobble

Now 4 upvotes and 3 views

Whatcha doin' over there, mister?

Beastly Gerbil

11:09 PM

Also, I don't think the grid is too large, it fits my screen perfectly!

Prince North Læraðr

It was the example grids

It was a bit large for my taste, so I shrunk it. I figured no one really cares about the quality of the examples :P

Beastly Gerbil

I'd say the third is maybe slightly large, but changing m to s makes it too small so I'd leave it as is

And exactly, thats just the examples

I'm absolutely atrocious at cryptics, so I will be happy if I even solve one clue here :P

Prince North Læraðr

They're not too difficult, or at least the ones I made

Sphinx

4

Q: Chain Puzzle: Video Game #01 - Teleporting Crosswords!

This is the first Chain Puzzle in the Video Game series, in which all puzzles are themed around video games of all genres. The answer to this puzzle is a thematic word or phrase. The solver whose answer is awarded the green checkmark has the first refusal on the opportunity to create the next pu...