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12:15 AM
The hat triggers are so messed up; I got Edward (post a positively-scored question on 5 consecutive days). I've posted 5 positively-scored questions during the whole of Winter Bash; most definitely non-consecutively
 
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Q: I made a game theory math puzzle, but

Michael PrimoI was making a mathematical game (viewable here: www.michaelprimo.it/beta) where you have a 3x3 grid, one central yellow button with a generated number and the other eight blue buttons with clickable and summable numbers. I thought: "what if everything is predictable?" So I made this: "We have ei...

 
@bobble hm, weird
 
your head better, 'borg?
 
12:40 AM
it's been 3 hrs and deus hasn't solved your sashi park
this is looking good!
 
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Q: a lost riddle about the moon

alostriddleserI am searching for a riddle i once encountered during D&D it goes along the lines of "I rise twice a day but yet i only set once" unfortunately this one is not the complete the answer should be the moon or the sun

 
I took a nap and some Advil, and my head feels much better. Might give your Sashi Park a second try :p
Forfeited the checkmark by asking you for help earlier, though, but ah well.
 
12:56 AM
Dang bobble, that one was tough!
 
Ahh, you got it? Nice!! :D
Beautiful explanation and solve path, too.
 
Thanks Sciborg. I don't feel like anything fell easily until the very end. But that said, I saw the answer fairly early on...proving it was unique was the hard part.
 
It was a tough one, I got through placing four tetros and then realized that I didn't have room for the last one and had messed up on step two.
Starting over felt a bit too daunting :p
 
Understood. I went to dinner in the middle kinda hoping someone found the "trick" to make it fall. I got there, but it felt like I was going through the bedrock rather than around.
 
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Q: Family gymkhana (puzzle)

gmn_1450During a weekend, 3 families, each with two children, got together for a gymkhana. In one of the games, only for children, there were 3 rules: brothers don't face; youngest kids play only against youngest kids; no one can play two consecutive matches. In the first match, Jefferson played agains...

 
1:09 AM
I will be curious to see the intended solve path in comparison, I can't see a better way than the one you took from a cursory study - but maybe there's something we missed.
Shaping the 5 was definitely the first big break-in and was intended to happen first
 
1:23 AM
@JeremyDover, would you be interested in my intended solve path? I could post it in grid-deduction later.
Same question to @Sciborg as well
 
@bobble you would get a second upvote, if it were possible, simply from having an easy way to copy into a spreadsheet :P
 
did you copy the table into a spreadsheet?
 
I would be really interested in seeing the intended solve path, always fun to compare :)
 
yep ... I seem to live in them ...
though I am meant to be trying Penpa -.-; so I may abandon my terrible attempt and go back to my Year of Learning and Bravery -.-;
 
Penpa is actually really cool, once i got the hang of it. The main thing is that "shading" = placing squares, "edge" = drawing Sashigane edges/walls, and "line-dotted" can be used as the dotted line tool in puzz.link.
 
1:32 AM
that's my Penpa Crash Course, just shorter
 
I like the puzz.link dotted line better, it's harder to see in Penpa.
 
did you use the thin or fat dotted line?
 
Thin, but I probably should have used the thicker one
 
I will start putting my intended path into grid-deduction, might not finish before dinner
 
bobble, would definitely be interested. Like I mentioned, I got it but definitely felt I was grinding it down.
 
1:42 AM
hop into grid-deduction then
 
2:01 AM
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Q: RIP Puzzling! (#2)

zixuan is bad at Puzzlinglast one: RIP Puzzling! (#1) So, you turn off dark mode, and things seem normal at first, but then you see a message at the bottom in red that looked something like this... Hahaaaha! What are you going to do now? You write it in paper, and you say, "Sure, I'm going to figure out what you're pla...

 
@JeremyDover is it MUTTERINGS (grumbling), which is MS fanning about UTTERING?
 
 
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4:10 AM
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Q: Don't close me, I'm dangerous

SciborgI haven't written a riddle in a while, and my New Year's resolution is "make more puzzles," so here is a quick little riddle for you! Dragon or demon, locked in its pen, But without even moving, I once killed two men. Most things like me kill when they're open, exposed, Yet my murder made marty...

 
4:22 AM
@msh210 You got it!
 
 
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5:52 AM
@oAlt test
nah never mind it needs another person
 
@oAlt Does this help?
 
CCCC: Making an error, perhaps, in speech, Ms. Fanning? (10)
 
6:15 AM
@JeremyDover nah but since you volunteered (:P):
@/JeremyDover did this ping you?
 
Nope
 
Yay thanks
 
@JeremyDover Nice CCCC. It's preventing me from doing another, very similar to it: Ms. Fanning, out to get Ms. Willson, pulverizes (6)
 
I see what you did there! I like your comeback too :-) There may come a day when Ms. Fanning CCCC's become old, but it is not this day.
 
6:31 AM
Nope. :-)
 
7:06 AM
@msh210 this is MISDEALING, anagram of Ms. Dealing!
and by anagram i mean homophone!
3
 
7:38 AM
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Q: Shikakui Hebi: Similarities

Anonymus 25- Reinstate MonicaSo, my first Shikakui Hebi puzzle didn't go well, so I'm trying again! Only this time, no more arrows. Instead, it's now a nonogram-like! This is a Shikakui Hebi puzzle. Rules of Shikakui Hebi are: Solvers are to draw 1 big snake/a long line with twists and turns around a rectangular grid. The ...

 
8:00 AM
@Jafe, mika" on muta tie?
It's slang i learned once upon a time.
If not likewise, sorry to bother.
Saved my life Heslingin tie
Means: what thuh
Too good for the shadows:
She not only makes me think. She makes me suspect.
And she is. Asleep.
 
8:29 AM
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Q: I magnify to stupify who am i

CeddI am the eye. Stories I tell are untold I capture through my aperture For the illumination of the expanse I magnify to stupify I am the eye. Who am i

 
@jafe not my intention. But I'm afraid it works as well as mine does, so I'll give it to you. Mine was miss+splayed=misplayed.
 
8:50 AM
ah, i see
(misplaying*, i assume)
seems like i have no choice but to keep ms. fanning on
CCCC: "Local puzzler attracted to Ms. Fanning?" – New Statesman (5,7)
 
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Q: But She Don't Care

ExalEve was visiting Alice and Carol's house and looking through the stuff on their side table, as she does. Eventually, Alice came back from the kitchen and Eve waved a piece of paper she had found in her face. "What's this?" she asked. Alice took a look and replied, "Bob and Dave came by the other...

 
9:14 AM
NO MORE MS. FANNING PLEASE
 
9:53 AM
@jafe uh, yes
 
10:30 AM
@jafe This is obviously new statesman Yunus Demirer, who was appointed the ambassador to Slovakia for Turkey last month. Still working on the wordplay. :-D
 
self-explanatory, really!
 
10:44 AM
Demirer sound a lot like admirer, which obviously is pointed out by attracted
 
(or "ambassador of Turkey to Slovakia": apparently that's the usual wording - though it sounds weirder to me)
 
Autocorrect^🤦‍♂️
 
@jafe oh, it's North + Dakota + N
 
@msh210 that's right
 
I also think that Yunus is pointed out by local puzzler, since Yunus is in Indonesian language which means Jonah, a man who was swallowed by a big fish and is a mystery, or should I say, a puzzle
Just a coincidence^
 
10:49 AM
@jafe I was looking for wordplay for Omega Krypton :-)
 
@msh210 Pls no more Ms. Fanning
 
Mr. Fanning?
 
@msh210 You can do: Big glowy thing is a puzzler (5,7)
 
@Anonymus25-ReinstateMonica I meant I was looking for it in his clue.
 
@LukasRotter We have quite a c4 trend here
They are "old saw" quality
wink
 
10:57 AM
That comment alone should authorize msh to make another one that lasts like 2 weeks :)
 
@LukasRotter that's never my intent
CCCC: Ms. "angry, moody – a stripling, prima facie" Fanning (12)
 
 
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12:50 PM
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Q: Is it possible to solve a sudoku which has multiple solutions without backtracking?

PeanojrI solved a sudoku without backtracking (with this I mean I never had to suppose that in a certain cell there was a certain number, but in each state I could deduce a number with certainty). Then I solved the sudoku with a solver I coded, and I found a different solution. I checked both the soluti...

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Q: Saturday Telegraph Cryptic no 29562

Ray JacksonClue “Grass over pretty Cambridge backs” answer is RYE. I get the grass, but what is the connection in the rest of the clue?

 
1:39 PM
I don't like it when this room is quiet
@msh210 I suspect that we have ourselves an old saw here
 
I don't like it when people talk just to make it not be quiet :-). Different people have different preferences!
Activity varies at random. Sometimes it's very quiet, sometimes there's an endless flow of chat.
Btw, @Anonymus25-ReinstateMonica, it looks as if the last four "old saw" comments are all from you. I think it's time to let that one rest.
 
 
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2:46 PM
@Anonymus25-ReinstateMonica And anyway, they aren't. The saw clue was poor-quality. These Fanning clues haven't been.
"anyway" = "besides what @GarethMcCaughan said"
 
@msh210 Can confirm. I actually have greatly enjoyed the Ms. Fanning interplay, because it lets me see how some great puzzlers think of things differently than I do.
 
Btw, I think the def is in "angry, moody", just working on the wordplay
Hey, Anko's here
 
that would be "ms. angry, moody", no?
 
3:17 PM
@Anonymus25-ReinstateMonica The definition of a (Ximenean) clue is at its start or end, always.
@JeremyDover also a poor one :-)
 
Well, we always have jafe! :-)
 
yes, that's certainly not the poor one I meant
 
I just assumed it was me :-)
 
can't be, you don't think of things differently from how you do :-)
 
 
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6:23 PM
My grandparents appear to appreciate my terrible Chinese handwriting :D
I wrote them thank-you cards in English, and then included Cantonese thanks at the end in my absolutely horrible calligraphy
 
how "absolutely horrible" is it, exactly?
 
the characters are supposed to fit in neat square boxes, and I distorted them so everything is in rectangles of varying size
 
hm.
also, stroke order
 
oh my stroke order is good
i took Japanese, so I can write ish fine
just not neatly
 
i see
 
6:48 PM
ok this is weird. my chromebook isn't letting me log in.
 
to...
 
... my chromebook.
 
ah. that bad
 
yyyep.
let's see if restarting it does any good
what the hell's happening now? "who would you like to add to this chromebook?" w-
this is just confusing
 
i am afraid that i am unable to be tech support
 
6:59 PM
hm
 
7:25 PM
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Q: A four-letter word in two ways

Rand al'ThorContaining four letters, Making two sounds. One of the options, Feminine and plural. The other one is Third-person singular. What's this word That baffles me?

 
7:51 PM
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Q: Visiting streets, not houses

balazs.comThe section points are houses and lines are streets.(All one unit length). What is the fewest number of units you must travel to have every street at least once visited?

 
8:38 PM
I'm not familiar with the legendary tale of balazs, but from the little I've heard things might get spicy, now that he has returned
 
 
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10:30 PM
I just found out that Music Lover's/Teacher's niece and nephew are physicists.
I thought they were a theatrist and a folk singer.
If i can't spill secrets here i'll go there.
@matt, if you're here let's go there
 
10:47 PM
@humn The two are not mutually exclusive.
That last sentence I just added to my connect wall -- rot13(Nabgure fbat yvxr "Lbh Fhssre" vf "Orff, Lbh Vf Zl Jbzna".) -- well, that's probably the first time anyone has ever written that particular sentence.
 
@msh210, v'z lbhe ovgpu
 
@humn Pardon?
 
eyes of the world
 
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Q: Sequence represented by fruits

gmn_1450A person is confused about how a mathematical sequence works, to explain to her, her teacher does not use numbers and turns into sets of fruits. Which sequence is being represented by the teacher? a. Farey Sequence b. Sequence of prime numbers c. Sequence of odd numbers d. Fibonacci sequence e. ...

 
Heya North :)
 
10:54 PM
Muka tei, @jafe
= mulla on, hard slang
= i miss the old country
 
hard is the correct word
 
.
 
i'm an expat now as well
 
?
it can happen!
 
will probably be a while before i get to the "i miss the cold" phase but we'll see
 
10:59 PM
i miss pohjois meaning up in the sky
 
@jafe Good luck in your new digs. May I ask where in Austl. you live?
 
@msh210 thanks! i'm in the brisbane area
 
Is there a community of fellow countrymen there?
 
Believe so.
 
11:06 PM
(Of course, you may not care whether there is.)
 
(!)
 
there are quite a lot of finns here, mostly students and work&travel folk but there are some who live here permanently as well
(from what i can tell... we haven't exactly been allowed outside yet, and won't be for another week)
 
Again, social isolation is my specialty, except online
 
@jafe That's nice.
 
"what you don't know, i have never heard"
 
11:12 PM
Can anyone help with tagging here? It was originally [riddle] (obviously wrong), but I'm not sure what the proper tags would be.
 
welcome
i feel the same way. tag and release.
 
thank you, kind squiggly
 
!
Others will do better. My motto.
My hope.
And gift.
 
i don't understand that question at all but that's probably just me
 
neither do i, but that users is confusing at the best of times
 
11:18 PM
 
they posted all those tromino-pair questions, and the highly downvoted equation questions where they argued at their (incomplete) solution was the only right one
 
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Q: Landings and stairs

Vassilis ParassidisLet's have two views of landings and stairs. We obtain the second VIEW B, by rotating the VIEW A 180 degrees clockwise. The distance between two landings is 8 feet, shown by the arrows. The stairs are touching a building. How many doors does each view have? NOTE: I did not draw the total number o...

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Q: Honeycomb: a hexagonal grid of letters

SerenThis puzzle consists entirely of one image, attached below. The image is large and you will need to zoom in to see some of the details. There is no hidden information, only what you can plainly see. The answer is one word.

 
neither will
 
@jafe I got stuck on "We obtain the second VIEW B, by rotating the VIEW A 180 degrees clockwise.". Can't we rotate it counterclockwise instead?
:-)
 
@hexomino , don't you dare
i remember what you said once "today i learned something"
 
11:22 PM
no, totally different. if you rotate counterclockwise then the result will rotated 360 degrees more than if you rotate clockwise. obviously
 
@humn sits quietly in corner
 
@bobble Oh.... Shoot. I answered assuming I could rotate counterclockwise instead. Maybe I should delete it.
 
Why was this voted to reopen?
It didn't address the issue of why it was closed in the first place
 
@PrinceNorthLæraðr it did in the answer's comments
(I'm not a reopener)
 
Sacre d'
I'm calling Music Lover/Teacher right now just to show off.
 
Exactly what are you showing off?
If you've never listened to Rite of Spring, 100% recommend
(To everyone, not exactly at humn)
 
I've never listened to Rite of Spring, but now I will :D
Oooh, this is really pretty
Lots of weird clarinets
 
11:43 PM
"pretty" is not the word to use to describe this piece :P
@Sciborg Also, that's a bassoon. Yes, the opening solo instrument is a bassoon
A quick rundown of Rite of Spring:
- Chaos, chaos, and chaos
- It's a ballet that involves human sacrifice
- It's absolutely awesome
No, I'm not weird
 
None of us are weird
spending time on a puzzling site is perfectly normal
*hours
 
Finding a ballet about pagan rituals involving human sacrifice humurous is perfectly normal
 
It's really weird and awesome
Had no idea it was about human sacrifice :p
 
Well, it's called the "rite" of spring
I've seen parts of the ballet and it's oddly disturbing
Very eerie
My favorite quote about this piece comes from a composer named Saint-Saens:
When told that the opening solo was played by a bassoon, he remarked, "If this is a bassoon, then I am a baboon."
 
There are some parts are really beautiful, and some parts that are creepy, and they mix together oddly well :P
 
11:55 PM
ya
 
I would never have guessed the opening was a bassoon, I thought it was a clarinet for sure
 
Oh, no one would
It's absurdly out of the range of a bassoon
 

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