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Anonymus 25
Anonymus 25
12:01 AM
Not going to lie, just had my worst nightmare: All of my Puzzling rep dissapeared!
Bad dreams
 
Stevo
Stevo
oh no...
i just had my worst nighmare ever...
I was a rogue planet and I crashed into the sun...
 
 
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Sphinx
Sphinx
1:24 AM
0
Q: The soundtrack to my life; track eight

Taco タコスI'm looking for a song, but I can't remember the words. I partially remember the lyrics to a few songs that played around it on my mixtape growing up, but that's about it. Can you help me? Gardens, new cars, and a house up in the hills. Oh May, do you want to get married, or run away? Now I'll g...

riddle knowledge music acrostic
 
Stevo
Stevo
yes, i know sphinx
 
Taco タコス
Taco タコス
Night all! 🙃🎧
 
Stevo
Stevo
bye!
im not going to try. Its probably a music track ive never heard before
 
Taco タコス
Taco タコス
@Stevo I doubt it :)
 
Stevo
Stevo
oh.
um
well
i am not a person who listens to music. EVER
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
1:48 AM
0
Q: Always six of us

Prim3numbahThe answer to this puzzle is 12 letters in total. Here's some info: 2 each

enigmatic-puzzle visual
 
oAlt
oAlt
2:12 AM
@Sphinx how did I not see this earlier lol
 
Anonymus 25
Anonymus 25
3:06 AM
@JeremyDover Aparrently humn was the first person to say Fanning in this chat
 
Stevo
Stevo
ok?
A contributor says some algebra have spelling errors and have a con in it (7)
ouch
wait, does that work?
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
3:24 AM
"spelling errors" seems... insufficiently precise
 
Stevo
Stevo
exactly what I thought. That doesn't work.
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
because you need to stretch it pretty far to justify what you're doing here
and also, "says some" is unused
 
Stevo
Stevo
uh why did I even think of that answer to make a cryptic
@Deusovi says is unused.
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
okay - you can't have unused words
 
Stevo
Stevo
@Deusovi exactly why I said it didn't work...
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
3:25 AM
and if you're using "some" to just take some arbitrary nonconsecutive subsequence of letters... yeah that definitely doesn't work
 
Stevo
Stevo
palm face
 
msh210
msh210
I thought this C4 would go faster. So hard to gauge sometimes.
 
Stevo
Stevo
3:44 AM
I really suck at making tables.
 
 
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Sphinx
Sphinx
8:35 AM
1
Q: How to derive the approach for the problem?

Banking AspirantThe question is taken from the book Puzzle Mania. I have with full certainty taken their permission for reproduction of the problem. obQuestion: "5 children A,B,C,D and E were born in different months January,February,March,April and May not necessarily in the same order. Each of them weighed dif...

logical-deduction calculation-puzzle
 
 
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AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
10:02 AM
@msh210 the surface has made me think of some many different possible answers
 
Anonymus 25
Anonymus 25
Is "supply depot in Scotland parsible as Scotland in "supply depot"?
 
AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
I have one more guess, but I haven't got the wordplay right, and I'm not confident on the def... but it fits the hints
 
Jafe
Jafe
11:03 AM
let's hear it :)
 
AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
11:22 AM
@Jafe The half-guess/#justforfun is: Def: abominably, wordplay: a bomin(-g) abl(a)< (suppl)y
I don't know which of the words are indicators, or how they work ¯_(ツ)_/¯
 
Jafe
Jafe
boming = sinking?
 
AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
Also Abominably means 'terribly' which is only a partial match
@Jafe oh, well I forgot how to spell bombing apparently
back to the drawingboard
 
Jafe
Jafe
ah
 
oAlt
oAlt
@Anonymus25 nope, "X in Y" doesn't work as "Y in X" (I haven't seen any instances where "in" can mean "surrounding"/any other containment indicator)
Also I'm still holding on to the idea that "sinkin' slowly" means that the answer also ends in IN... I hope
 
Jafe
Jafe
i think the hint could mean that the -in word ends at index 6 and the four remaining letters are clued by "slowly"
 
AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
11:28 AM
@Jafe that makes sense, but then it means the def is at the start?
 
Jafe
Jafe
yeah
 
AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
somethign like ASSIGN???? (assignment?)
 
Jafe
Jafe
the hint says that no word needs to be read oddly
only taking the even letters, the clue becomes "upy eo n ctad s ikn lwy"
which is clearly grammatically correct welsh, so scotland must have been a red herring
 
AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
DISPENS(-E)ING (in scotland (pennines??)-> dis pen s (-n)in(-es) g)?
@Jafe I think you insulted somebody's mum in welsh just now
 
Jafe
Jafe
heheh
 
M Oehm
M Oehm
11:39 AM
Or the -in word is a compound verb like "goin' down" and the overall meaning is slowly.
But that would leave awfully little space for the supply depot in Scotland.
 
Jafe
Jafe
@AncientSwordRage not convinced but this gave me an idea for another clue which i'm definitely stealing
 
AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
12:07 PM
@Jafe nice
DISPENSARY (ARY from (t)A(r)RY ?) But I can't see any other wordplay
unless " sinkin' " -> "s 'INK IN' " -> " s PEN ", but that sort of violates the 'not read oddly' hint
SUSTAINING -> SUS T(r)AIN ING ? Again even shakier wordplay/def matching
Also I've definitely tried to use HIGHLANDS and LOWLANDS in place of scotland, but gotten no where...
 
Jafe
Jafe
also the sixth letter of sustaining is I
 
AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
@Jafe good catch
USTAININGS? :p
TARTAN and SPORRAN crossed my mind
 
AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
12:30 PM
#justforfun: CON TENT FUL? sCOtlaNd (-dalts< -ST LAD?) + TENT + FUL(-GENT) ???
#justforfun PORTENTOUS: POROUS (sinking slow) with TENT (depot?) inside? Scotland vanishing would be a very bad portent D:
I'll stop before it stops being fun :p
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
1:01 PM
3
Q: Two numbers missing

DrDIn the following diagram can you fill in the two missing numbers (represented by the question marks)? Please explain your answer. Please pay attention to the tags.

riddle knowledge enigmatic-puzzle
 
msh210
msh210
1:31 PM
C4 hints: (1) None of the words in the clue needs to be read oddly. (2) The sixth letter is N. (3) I think it's a ddef.
 
Anonymus 25
Anonymus 25
JSALISBURY instantly came to mind for some reason
 
Jafe
Jafe
 
msh210
msh210
1:46 PM
@Jafe it is indeed
Would you call that a ddef?
(I wasn't 100% sure, hence the hesitancy in my 3rd hint.)
 
Jafe
Jafe
not sure
maybe not because one def is for inchindown and one is for inchin' down, but then again there's not a separate wordplay term (that i know of) for changing whitespace
 
msh210
msh210
It is valid, though, right?
(I mean, I don't see anything wrong with it. Just double-checking.)
 
Jafe
Jafe
yeah
 
msh210
msh210
okay, whew
 
Jafe
Jafe
CCCC: Maybe an indication that one is on a tropical vacation, absolutely in no hurry at all (9)
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
2:14 PM
0
Q: Extremely Difficult IQ Matrices

ErinHere are six different matrices, can anyone crack them? https://ibb.co/sR4t8ng

pattern
 
msh210
msh210
2:56 PM
ooh, I have an idea: instead of constantly pinning and re-pinning the explanation of what the C4 is, each C4 entry can link (its first four characters) to one such message
 
AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
3:12 PM
@Jafe I suspect: HURRICANE, 'I CAN' in HURRY, hurr(-y for no 'absolutely') ican (absolutely ~ I CAN) e (AT All i.e. every one)
I feel like something is off here
 
msh210
msh210
I'm not seeing how the wordplay would work exactly, but that looks like a very promising idea.
 
AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
3:43 PM
@msh210 it's too close not to be...?
 
 
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M Oehm
M Oehm
4:54 PM
@Jafe It's LEI + SURELY.
 
AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
5:06 PM
@MOehm THATS MUCH BETTER
Ughhh I looked up LEI (flower garland... trying to get it to fit) and thought... too short!
 
M Oehm
M Oehm
Than a hurricane on a tropical vacation? You bet! :)
 
AncientSwordRage
AncientSwordRage
@MOehm I don't, but I still agree
My backlog is filling up, I need to solve one soon....
 
Avi
Avi
@Sphinx oooooh
this looks promising
if only I had less HW ;-;
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
5:29 PM
-2
Q: Find the missing number in the table

SamsUnfortunately I do not have the exact source. My friend came across this question while going through a mock test and sent it to me.

mathematics
 
Avi
Avi
5:42 PM
Does anybody here speak french?
 
M Oehm
M Oehm
Un peu.
 
Avi
Avi
 
M Oehm
M Oehm
(Well, "speak" is a bit much, but if I can look things up and reactivate my school French, I could perhaps help.)
 
Avi
Avi
Just need the one phrase since I don't want to butcher it
with google translate or something
although it does seem to have avoided butchering it
according to my limited understanding of pipes, tests, and masculine/feminine "the"
 
M Oehm
M Oehm
@Avi Okay, j'ai repondu.
 
Avi
Avi
5:53 PM
Thank you!
 
 
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Jafe
Jafe
7:51 PM
@MOehm that's right
 
M Oehm
M Oehm
CCCC: Raw fish with soy sauce, sweet and sour starters -- I am in Hawaii! (7)
 
msh210
msh210
8:26 PM
@MOehm s_ a_ s_ H(I'm)I
Nice clue. Does this mean we're on a tropical-vacation sequence now?
 
Jafe
Jafe
8:37 PM
i'll pack muh bags!
 
msh210
msh210
Are we gonna follow Gladys's route?
 
 
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Sphinx
Sphinx
9:57 PM
0
Q: Squares in a quadrant: How big is the pool?

AnonThe local council is building a new pool complex. A one hectare ($100\times100$m) block of land has ground suitable for pool-digging, but a local ring road runs through it, leaving only an exact quarter-circle available. They want a children's wade pool and a deeper adults' pool, both square. The...

mathematics visual geometry
 
 
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Jafe
Jafe
11:09 PM
i don't think gladys has been to hawaii yet... probably need to rectify that at some point if that's the case
also, i haven't been to hawaii yet which also needs rectifying
 

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