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12:06 AM
We are currently needing some more people in Codenames
 
Currently busy
 
I would but I have two tests tomorrow so should probably be getting some sleep
 
Sleeeeeep
It's like
12 there
 
Yup and I have to get up at 7 and I'm somewhat of an insomniac so I should def be off to bed :P
 
SLeeeeeeeep
 
12:21 AM
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Q: Now You're Packing with Portals #1

WoofmaoI was staring at my window last night, and daydreaming (nightdreaming?) about filling it with shapes. Suddenly, I was struck with inspiration for a new type of puzzle! Here's a fairly easy instance: Pack the colored polyominoes into the white area, without rotating them, so that they fill it per...

 
@PrinceNorthLæraðr ^
 
I went to check my all-time editor ranking (I'm #5!) and saw this
 
I thought you would... appreciate... the current displayed count
 
12:24 AM
hides
 
I have a very high edit-to-badge ratio, at least among the top editors
 
ah yes, an omen
 
of what? o_O
 
the bobblie judgment day is approaching
we must flee
 
don't leave meeeeeeeeeee
 
12:39 AM
it's too late, i hear them
 
Oct 21 '20 at 20:32, by bobble
I just want to be your frieeeend
 
baa-boow, baa-boow
 
Help! runs away
It's coming for me
 
only god and Deus can save us now!
 
are you sure they can stop me?
okay, i guess Deus could
 
12:41 AM
that's the most ominous thing you've ever said
 
@Sphinx Someone should make a mobile game out of this
 
I gather that you would play it
 
Honestly mixing tetros with portals sounds like a hilarious game jam game idea
might steal that
 
finish your current projects first
 
Where did my personal chatroom go?
Did someone delete it?
 
12:49 AM
maybe it got frozen?
 
@bobble how well you know me sometimes :p
 
or if it reached the criteria to get frozen, but it didn't have enough messages, it would be auto-deleted
 
That's probably what happened, but it wasn't two weeks yet
 
> Rooms will exist indefinitely, so long as there is at least one person actively talking in the room. A room is considered worth retaining if it has more than 15 messages by at least 2 users.

Rooms not worth retaining which are inactive for 7 days will be deleted. Rooms worth retaining which are inactive for 14 days will be frozen. Frozen rooms do not allow any new messages to be sent, and are not shown in the default room list to prevent cluttering the rooms interface.
7 days
so less time than deletion criteria
 
12:51 AM
THat explains it
thank you
 
1:33 AM
Thank you
 
Thank you for deleting Deus, let's all forget what happened, ok?
 
1:58 AM
I'm, um, very shocked that the Pento-Doku has lasted this long... I'll be offline for a while for dinner and such. Feel free to answer while I'm gone.
 
@bobble I would, but I cannot do grid-deductions. I don't get them
I'm going to bed now
 
they take practice to get into
 
just like CCs...
I've gotten better at solving them, at least. Even if I'm bad at making them :P
 
2:17 AM
Just looked at the transcripts. Lesson: Lukas Rotter is EVIL :p
 
2:59 AM
My quick attempt on a cc: Talk! Er, machine! (7)
 
3:11 AM
Explain?
 
Talk synonym is SPEAK
It is straightforward now
@PrinceNorthLæraðr
SPEAKER
 
Uh
Enumeration is wrong
 
No, it's 7
S-P-E-A-K-E-R
 
Mb I just saw SPEAK
how is machine=speaker?
 
Is a speaker not a machine?
 
3:20 AM
Machine does mean speaker though
Maybe if you said "type of machine", but even then, id still say its not fair
A good way to think about it is that it should go both ways
Speaker is a machine, but machine is not a speaker
 
i don't think i agree with that
 
In what sense?
 
like it's fine to define Volkswagen as "automobile" but in the other direction you'd need a definition-by-example indicator ("Volkswagen, for example" would be fine but not just "Volkswagen")
 
That's what I meant
Sorry should've clarified
Not that the def has to be substitutable but that if your were to replace it, it could work
At least with some stuff
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Anonymus25-ReinstateMonica Close though
A suggestion I would give is to go through the list Deusovi has, and try to make a CC just using one of the wordplay types until you think you have it down
For example, double defs are pretty easy, just find a word that has two separate meanings (like TRAIN for example, so you can clue like locomotive drill (5) or something)
At least that's just kind of how I got better at CCs. Not that my grammar is great >.<;
 
 
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4:40 AM
@bobble I see Jeremy Dover has solved the Pento-Doku!
 
@Anonymus25-ReinstateMonica Be careful when you use the ping
 
 
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6:57 AM
CCCC Hint: Copper = P
 
@LukasRotter Is it SWAP MEET ? As in SW(A(P)M)EET?
Lol I was just typing in my phone as that popped up
 
@Graylocke yes!
 
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Q: Escape the bunker!

Culver Kwan You wake up and found yourself in a room. There is a sign: You are now in a bunker. There are thirty-six rooms in this bunker. There is a number in each room. For every room, you can go to another room if they are connected by a passageway(passageways are always two-way). Each passageway can on...

 
I am kind of afraid of being next but I will think a moment first ;p
@LukasRotter I really like the way it as an example of uh... recursive “IN”
 
Thx
I only realized later that swap meet was AE only so I was kind of afraid of that xD
 
7:05 AM
I wouldn’t really have immediately come to that conclusion from the definition, but it makes sense to me. Not that I am necessarily the best judge ;p
 
7:22 AM
12 hours ago, by Prince North Læraðr
Or P inside AM makes APM okay never mind
That one hurt
 
 
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3:39 PM
@LukasRotter ah :P
 
 
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5:04 PM
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Q: Skyscraper 6x6 Stuck at the end

Sandro4912I try to write a program to solve a skyscraper puzzle. Until this last steps I always took a look at the opposite clues. But I can find a solution for the last fields. This is until were I came: 3 2 2 3 2 1 = = = = = = 4 |2| | |3|5|6| 1 = = = = = = 2 |1|6|3|2|4|5| 2 = = = =...

 
*Someone asks for help on a Skyscrapers*
me: edits for grammar
gerbil: answers their question
Different priorities :D
 
Lol
I took a Pottermore quiz again just for fun
And I got the exact same wand as I did when I took it a year ago :P
Larch wood, 12 1/2, Dragon heartstring with rigid flexibility
 
5:26 PM
ooh rigid
 
Yup
I'll be in the Grove for more nerding
 
@bobble me: finds an overcomplicated way to continue, starts writing it up with screenshots, gets beaten to the punch by someone doing things the obvious way
2
 
The pento-doku?
 
@Deusovi Hehe, me
 
the Skyscrapers, I think
 
5:28 PM
Ahh...
Did not see the earlier reference.
 
6:25 PM
@Deusovi whoops, sorry :P
 
6:40 PM
Felt like sharing the blob that constitutes my cat.
 
b l o b
 
He is 27 pounds, we had him on a very strict diet until recently and he did not lose an ounce.
 
7:36 PM
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Q: My Eight Cousins

Bernardo Recamán SantosMy eight cousins are all a different prime number of years old, and their average age is a whole number. Recently they all came to visit me and, as they left one by one, I noticed that at all times the average age of the cousins remaining was also a whole number. Moreover, I noticed that the sum ...

 
8:35 PM
b l o b c a t
 
9:03 PM
@GarethMcCaughan , sorry to interrupt. I do believe you are the pure ingredient in the mix. Beyond puzzles.
(i mix thunder and lightning between shopping for household goods.)
@matt , i do believe you are the antistatic cling guard in the tumbler.
(awkward)
Again, i've been hermit since coming out in 1971. Back into the shell.
 
 
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10:59 PM
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Q: O Cryptic! My Cryptic!

Jeremy DoverAn entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #48: Unusual tag mix Please find below a poetic cryptic crossword. A very tiny cryptic crossword, because each cryptic clue is a poem. I must beg your indulgence in advance...since this is a tag mix, I felt the need to balance my respect for the form, rhym...

 
11:50 PM
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Q: How to I solve this table below?

Gabbie This table looks very confusing and I have a lot of trouble trying to solve it. Can you please help?

 

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