The Sphinx's Lair

12:49 AM

Darn, the pirouettes puzzle was solved, nice

Deusovi

1:37 AM

hooray for teamwork!

(yeah i felt dumb when i saw the actual solve path - i had set up a whole lot of spreadsheet formulas for my idea)

Parcly Taxel

2:13 AM

math.stackexchange.com/questions/4165969/… This puzzle appeared on the MSE but I have since closed it

Basically: insert basic arithmetic operators into 28 ? 13 ? 9 ? 7 to get 9

Is it OK if I ask this on PSE (with attribution of course)?

bobble

I'm not sure if citing the MSE question would be enough - I'd rather have a citation for where they got it from

Parcly Taxel

In the comments the only attribution given is that it is from an "8 class textbook"

bobble

ugh, I'd rather you not, as I personally dislike that kind of question, but it might be on-topic? Consult a less biased source.

Parcly Taxel

2:31 AM

Anyway, an answer there showed that no solution was possible without parens. I can show that this remains true even if you allow parens

Tantalisingly, however, 2813 / 97 = 29...

3:28 AM

@msh210 the c4 answer is IMMA (slang for "i will") plus CURATE (organise a collection), with R switched to L, making IMMACULATE (neat)

although isn't "from left to right" supposed to be the other way around?

@Jafe It is indeed.

@Jafe It is indeed. facepalm

CCCC: Graham Chapman's part in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, for example: A fellow unlike Graham Chapman? (8,3)

bobble

how do I upvote a chat message? :)

Dangit, completely forgot about "I'mma" usage

4:20 AM

@Jafe straight man, ddef

Cute.

yep, that's it :)

3 hours later…

7:52 AM

@oAlt Alas, it's so titled that I can't search for it.

Q: ,,sɹǝʇʇǝnoɹᴉԀ,,

The answer to this puzzle is a number. For the color blind, here are the colors of all characters in the grid: VIBGWORGORWWBY VIBGWOWGORIVWY VIBGWOWGORIVWY WWWGWWWWWGWWBW VWWWYORWWWIWWY WIWWYWWGORWWBW VWBGYWWWWRIWBW VWWWYOWWWRIVBW WWBWYWRGORIVWY VWBWYWWGOWIWWW Here is the transcription of all c...

(Fortunately, it's near the top of the site's homepage.)

hahah

8:32 AM

@Jafe CCCC: North or South Central Pacific jive (6)

@msh210 I meant the clue, not the actor.

Graylocke

@msh210 Well no, I'm not sure I would say that either ;p

Mithical

This is getting far too silly.

Graylocke

... I would start quotes but I may never stop, so I am being restrained >.<;

(or possibly oppressed)

also "jive" has too many meanings...

1 hour later…

9:50 AM

@msh210 hehehe

Sphinx

10:36 AM

Q: A rather odd tree

I was exploring an ancient garden. It seems the original inhabitants had long since left. One of the trees particularly struck me. Besides the delicious-looking red fruit the branches were twisted into a strange configuration as though the tree were trying to tell me something. I made a detailed ...

knowledge cipher visual

3 hours later…

1:16 PM

Maybe the answer to C4 is ROAST, with "North or" meaning OR<?? And "South Central" means S is placed somewhere in the middle of the answer??? ...And thus the attempt falls apart :P