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1:37 AM
I just received a request to edit the CCCC archive, but there was no indication (aside from email address) as to who it was. Was it someone from here?
 
1:59 AM
I visited the archive recently to look at some older clues, but didn't send an email about it or request edits to my knowledge.
 
i have the archive up constantly just so i can look at clues whenever lol
 
Understandable, it is a pretty cool piece of Puzzling history :)
One of these days i'll get bored and program a bot that will scrape all the past C4s and spit out random ones to practice solving.
 
*and then stop halfway through, get frustrated, and give up?
 
how dare you know me too well
 
2:15 AM
I mean I wouldn't even get started, so you are up on me there
 
2:28 AM
@TakingNotes supermarionation
Supermarionation (a blend of the words "super", "marionette" and "animation") is a style of television and film production employed by British company AP Films (later Century 21 Productions) in its puppet TV series and feature films of the 1960s. These productions were created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed at APF's studios on the Slough Trading Estate. The characters were played by electronic marionettes with a moveable lower lip, which opened and closed in time with pre-recorded dialogue by means of a solenoid in the puppet's head or chest. The productions were mostly science fiction...
 
yeah, that's correct! :)
 
@TakingNotes do you want the explanation? Or are you happy?
 
say what now??
 
@Sciborg Supermarionation is the way thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Stingray were filmed
It's also the concatenation of Super Mario +nation (synonym for land)
 
nifty! today i learned :D
 
2:33 AM
CCCC : Gram of heroin found in twice lit churchless vesper ( 8 )
@Sciborg a house mate of mine was if not obsessed very enamoured with Gerry Anderson TV shows
I can still recall the opening tune of Fireball XL5
 
Alas, it seems I'm too young and/or American to even know any of those shows...
 
I'm off to bed, but will check in the morning
@Sciborg oh they're way before my time.
 
When I have to google "who is gerry anderson" it reminds me how much of a zoomer I am
 
2:49 AM
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Q: How to get started on this Slitherlink (No Swiss)?

fishThis is a puzzle from Round 4 of WPF's Puzzle Grand Prix this year. It's a Slitherlink with the additional rule that "Every Swiss cross-shaped arrangement of five cells must contain at least one cell inside the loop and one cell outside the loop." What I find particularly interesting (i.e. frust...

 
 
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5:10 AM
@AncientSwordRage is it G+H in TWI-LIT for TWILIGHT (vesper)? although i confess i don't understand the function of "churchless" if that is the case
aaa nvm i got it, it's TWICE LIT minus CE for church of england
so TWI(-ce)LI(G+H)T
 
5:46 AM
"of" would seem to do nothing in the clue then? :0
 
6:30 AM
0
Q: Expected waiting time

Sagar ChandYou arrive at a station at time t=0. Train A can come anytime between [0,5] and train B can come anytime between [0,7] and train C can come anytime between [0,9]. You will board the first train you get. What is your expected waiting time? Assume uniform distribution for train arrival

 
7:11 AM
@Jafe correct!
@oAlt I needed it make the sentence read better ...
 
7:35 AM
CCCC: Doris's dad's health resorts (3,4)
 
DAY SPAS (Day's Pa's)
 
@AncientSwordRage yeah, ideally all the words must serve a purpose in the clue. (That's not to say that the clue was outstandingly bad, for everything else in the clue was valid. :00 )
 
7:50 AM
@TakingNotes yup
 
8:49 AM
CCCC: Throne before British spy-turned-royalty? (6, 7)
 
9:35 AM
@oAlt eek, I've gotten used to much looser cryptics rules, will need to bring my A-Game for CCCC
 
10:01 AM
hehe
 
 
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11:20 AM
I just noticed that Joe Z. deleted his account. What the heck :-/
He was a good guy, consistently in the top 3 users by rep (and sometimes #1) in the early years of PSE.
Never in any trouble, unlike some of the other high-rep users back then.
Dec 22 '20 at 19:28, by Rand al'Thor
Jun 1 '15 at 20:05, by leoll2
The puzzling altar is currently occupied by JoeZ, sorry
 
11:48 AM
Wait legit? Noo ;-;
 
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Q: Cryptically Coping

Jeremy DoverTetchy that jafe just outputs one puzzle per week? Well, think twice! jafe's jamming quite quickly, seemingly superhumanly! However here's my mollification, another attempt. Hearty hopes thou takest enjoyment, erudition. ACROSS 1 "I'm a riot!," man rambled before lauding institution of marriage ...

 
 
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1:07 PM
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Q: Political Bantering Puzzle

PremSimply Puns Or Cryptic Clues In BOLD: Sitting atop a tall chair in the garden, one English Politician P was having his Evening Beverage, His American Neighbour N was asking "Our Admiral can write Programs. What about your Countess ?" P replied "What is Programming, according to you ?" N elaborated "

 
 
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6:25 PM
@oAlt "gram of" = g, arguably, as in "1 g APAP". cc @AncientSwordRage
At least in "gram of heroin" (g H) I think that's valid
 
6:48 PM
@msh210 that's good to know
Not sure what apap is?
 
6:59 PM
A painkiller.
 
Oh right!
Must be an American one?
 
Better known in the States as acetaminophen and in the UK as paracetamol.
Dunno where it's from originally.
 
 
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10:58 PM
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Q: A Puzzle That Beats The OP

Dannyu NDos With a voice on my first, the OP doesn't have me; he lives in a foreign country. With a raise on my second, the OP simply cannot do me; I am so wild. With a block on my fourth, the OP has simply done me; so will the answerer. With a retraction on my fourth, the OP maybe will do me; he wants to b...

 
har de har
> Some U.S. citizens, particularly those in coastal regions, have raised concerns that their counties may never get a chance to be represented, due to rising water levels and tectonic shifts.
this bit is especially genius
 

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