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12:24 AM
@Dmihawk good to hear it
 
12:51 AM
:)
 
 
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Q: A Harry Potter sequence puzzle

Raziman T VWhat is the next term in the following sequence based on Harry Potter? None, 16, None, 16, 5, 9, ?

 
 
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10:32 AM
@bobble it's closed, but a humongous problem space
 
10:43 AM
in The Nineteenth Byte, 57 secs ago, by caird coinheringaahing
@AncientSwordRage It looks interesting. The biggest problems I see is with defining a word list (I.e. "what is/isn't a word?") and that arguably it's a fixed output problem, meaning for that it wouldn't work well as a standard code golf
 
 
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Q: When was Ensquare born?

DrDProfessor Matlogic posed this question to his smartest math student: "Famous mathematician Ensquare was born on this day, this month and this year AD at this time (hour and minutes) pm. True to his name, all those five numbers (the day, month, year, hour and also minutes-seperate from hour number...

 
 
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Q: Audience-specific texts for our "Needs Attribution" custom close reason

bobbleLast year (2020) saw some changes to the question closure system across the SE network. One of the changes was to introduce audience-specific texts for custom close reasons, so that the OP, close voters, privileged users, and the general public can all get slightly different versions of the same ...

 
3:30 PM
@bobble I don't see how to solve that puzzle
 
4:09 PM
C4 sort-of hint: The answer is unknown to Qat.
 
Khat or qat (Oromo: Jimaa, Somali: Qaad/Khaad, Arabic: القات‎ al-qāt; Amharic: ጫት ch’at) is a flowering plant native to East Hararghe Zone and West Hararghe Zone of Ethiopia. Khat contains the alkaloid cathinone, a stimulant, which is said to cause excitement, loss of appetite, and euphoria. Among communities from the areas where the plant is native, khat chewing has a history as a social custom dating back thousands of years analogous to the use of coca leaves in South America and betel nut in Asia.The World Health Organization (WHO) classified it in 1980 as a drug of abuse that can produc...
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it's a word search/bank for crosswords etc.
 
 
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7:15 PM
@msh210 transmission seems to be the common thread
@msh210 BANGER. Def. 5 and 9. here: en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/banger
 
@AncientSwordRage 'BANGER' is in Qat, I'm afraid
 
7:36 PM
@Stiv oh no, I should have checked
hangs head in shame
 
7:54 PM
I suspect this is msh210's way of telling us it's a proper noun...
My thoughts on the CCCC... While a 'carrier bearing in [a] driveshaft/axle' is a real car part, I suspect this is a cloak. My current theory is that the answer is a Carrier of some description (possibly a haulage firm, or the name of an aircraft carrier, if we're looking for a proper noun - rather than just a bag...) which begins with E which is the [compass] bearing found in both of the words drivEshaft and axlE...
'Knocks loudly' could clue something like RAPS. Alternatively, 'loudly' is represented by F in musical notation (and I'm not sure what 'knocks' will be doing then...).
As for 'Have suggestions?' - no, I don't!
 
Stiv, may I interest you in my latest meta post?
 
I'm thinking the definition is "Have suggestions"
 
@bobble At some point, yes :) Unfortunately right this second I only logged on for a quick check before an evening of work! But if I get a moment I'll take a proper look :) (I'm sure I'll be distracted at some point...)
@ChrisCudmore Equally possible - in which case, 'Carrier' could be a charade of some kind, followed by the rest. I'm struggling to piece it all together coherently!
 
Could be [Synonym for Carrier] containing "IN" But that makes the rest really hard to parse.
Didn't help me, but might clue someone in: 4wheelparts.ca/a/drivetrain-axle-gear-guide-axle-gear-glossary
 
8:43 PM
@msh210: DAKELH, also known as Carrier. E (bearing) in D_ A_ K_ L_ H_ (suggestions)
That was a cool clue!
 
Whoa.
 
@JeremyDover Woah. Well done for parsing that! Out of interest, why does 'suggestions' clue initial letters? That's a new one on me...
 
8:59 PM
I had the same question
 
Thinking of "suggestion" as "hint", providing "just a little bit" makes sense to me, especially given the "?" indicating things are a bit stretchy.
 
 
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10:56 PM
@JeremyDover Correct, of course. Well done
@JeremyDover thanks
@JeremyDover yeah, that was the idea. Like "the wine has a sewage bouquet, with just a suggestion of fertilizer"
Pretty sure I've seen "suggestion" as an initial-letter indicator.
 

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