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oAlt

4:30 AM

@Amoz oops didn't notice this at first. It's simply better as a homophone clue :0

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Sphinx

9:25 AM

Q: ---Lights out---

Little puzzle. Instructions: all don't repeat

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oAlt

11:43 AM

May 5 '20 at 11:36, by jafe

hm, i was watching a video about cryptic clues and the guy explained that generally there is generally at most one "hidden word" clue per puzzle

hoho, my second one has five

Jafe

specifically i think that was about cryptics published by the Times, others of course may have their own rules

msh210

@oAlt and at most one anagram? :-)

Sphinx

Q: The Second Hardest Logic Puzzle in the World

This puzzle is an original creation of mine (as far as I know), although other people have solved it before me. You meet five people: Alice, Bob, Carol, Daniel and Evie. Your aim is to ask yes/no questions to identify them. One of these five people always lies, one always tells the truth, one fli...

logical-deduction liars

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oAlt

2:37 PM

@msh210 heh, quite tough

@Jafe yeah, and i think more than one hidden word clue wouldn't necessarily be bad in the first place :D

just one seems a bit too strict, but anyway

Jun 24 at 1:23, by oAlt

Not confident that msh210 would use "or" as a splitter

^ hmmm, i knew this was wrong somehow and just couldn't remember the counterexample, but now i do

May 25 '20 at 3:31, by msh210

CCCC: Stands around all bothered, or falls (9)

msh210

2:53 PM

Huh, and when I saw what you'd written ("Not confident that msh210 would use 'or' as a splitter"), I thought "true, I doubt I would". :-)

oAlt

Hahahah

@msh210 (and yeah, this makes sense. Though I forgot what a morpheme is (though googling should do the trick), I do get the problem, which is that part of the wordplay is closely associated with the definition.)

anyway

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