The Sphinx's Lair

Stevo

1:48 AM

Hi people I am back from lurking

AncientSwordRage

@Stevo welcome back!

Stevo

Except now I want to make a puzzle, I am stuck lol

@AncientSwordRage Hi!

Parcly Taxel

3:47 AM

Let's reopen this Q puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/118158/…

I was the one who first voted to close, on a strict reading of close reasons

oAlt

4:00 AM

Apparently "satellite" can mean "lackey" , but idk if any of the synonyms there are relevant

Jafe

4:12 AM

satellite could also be MIR or ISS or the name of a moon

Jafe

4:41 AM

not voting to reopen a question that doesn't even say what the question is

Stevo

@Jafe agreed, but then he edited to show his displeasure :shrug:

and plus, I don't have enough reputation ....

sigh

I am like the only person in The Sphinx's Lair who has the least reputation

*active

Jafe

5:19 AM

it's not like rep matters a lot here... people calling for votes is like one of the only things where it makes any difference, and even that is pretty infrequent

re c4 i wonder if we're looking for the name of a metal... for example TITAN is a satellite and TITANIUM is a metal

south shields could maybe be the outermost letters of "south", like shields are the outermost covering of the thing being shielded

Stevo

5:48 AM

@Jafe ye I agree there, but stuck on 1.5k is not good for voting for anything...

And I'm not making any puzzle anytime soon...

Stevo

6:05 AM

And I don't see any questions I can answer- they all seem to be answered faster than me.

Sphinx

6:17 AM

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Q: Vowels and consecutive consonants

Replace X, Y and Z with three different words to form a meaningful sentence: In 15th century Europe, the people of the city X experienced the flow of Y whenever a Z performed. The three words should satisfy the following conditions: X = Anagram of (2 vowels + a set of 3 consecutive consonants)...

Stevo

6:27 AM

@Sphinx Interesting, I finall might be able to answer this if someone doesn't snipe me

msh210

@Stevo someone did

Stevo

I was just writing my beeping answer up

nice snipe btw

ye dam my reputation is never gonna grow lol

msh210

Well, if you know another answer, you can post it.

There may be more than one.

Stevo

Well, that was my answer :(

and Milan is the only fit for that X

Z is a performer, an 8 letter word that is a performer = minstrel with the Milan condition...

M Oehm

No need to shed tears over a missed minstrel's performance. I don't think answering this one would have increased your rep significantly.

msh210

6:37 AM

Uster

Uster (High Alemannic: Uschter) is a town and the capital of the Uster District in the Swiss canton of Zürich. It is the third largest town in the canton of Zürich, with almost 35,000 inhabitants, and is one of the twenty largest towns in Switzerland. Uster is located next to a lake, called Greifensee. The official language of Uster is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect. The town of Uster received the Wakker Prize in 2001. == History == The village of Riedikon was first mentioned in year 741, while Uster...

Stevo

@MOehm Ok, now I think about that, that is quite true

@msh210 Oh no I got busted oop

not sure that's gonna cross the line

M Oehm

And the people there experienced a flow of lemon when a minstrel played?

Eew.

Stevo

Not sure I would want lemon covering me...

msh210

@Stevo Yes, I'll admit that I'm a fool.

Jafe

there are people ready to pay good money for that, at least judging by the amount of skin products containing lemon out there

Stevo

6:45 AM

@msh210 And I'll admit that I am a very slow answerer

M Oehm

Well, citric acid is useful for removing the juice stains that collect under your fingernails after cutting and removing the stones of plums.

Jafe

Tours

Tours ( TOOR, French: [tuʁ] (listen)) is one of the largest cities in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France. It is the prefecture of the Indre-et-Loire department. The commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole metropolitan area was 516,973.Tours sits on the lower reaches of the Loire, between Orléans and the Atlantic coast. Formerly named Caesarodunum by its founder, Roman Emperor Augustus, it possesses one of the largest amphitheaters of the Roman Empire, the Tours Amphitheatre. Known for the Battle of Tours in 732 AD, it is a National Sanctuary with...

msh210

@MOehm good to know, thanks. Does it work for carrot stains also?

@Jafe ooh, yeah, that's a good one

Stevo

@Jafe the only question is then what?

Apart from that I am guessing that they still like Lemon being flowed upon them when a minstrel comes along

M Oehm

@msh210 I have no experience with that. I guess those stains come from rasping a lot of carrots?

msh210

6:51 AM

I'll… have to look up "rasp". Please stand by.

M Oehm

I mean grating.

msh210

… Yes. Or peeling. Or even a few.

"Peeling" I mean using a vegetable peeler to make thin strips of carrot.

M Oehm

Oh. I do eat carrots and I peel them, but I never noticed any stains. Yay for genetically enhanced food, I guess ...

msh210

My hands wind up orange.

oAlt

@Jafe it's in the title, though I'm guessing that's not enough

M Oehm

6:56 AM

I'll have a closer look the next time, but I don't remember anything that wouldn't come off with regular soap.

msh210

In 15th century Europe, the people of the city Tours experienced the flow of decaf whenever a Scotford performed.

2

M Oehm

[This puzzle is in the spirit of the Whenever-an-X-performed puzzle series started in 2022 by chandar777.]

Take this, Riley.

msh210

Also red bell peppers, come to think of it.

Stevo

@MOehm Well, I mean... we could make that happen... right?

M Oehm

Pandora, why don't you just open that box?

@msh210 I don't experience that, either. A web search for carrot stains turns up a lot of advice on removing stains from upholstery or clothes; narrowing that to hands, I get pages that suggest lemon juice or vinegar should work.

msh210

7:11 AM

thanks for filling in for my laziness :-)

M Oehm

You're welcome. Concentrated vingar or citric acid are household staples here, because the water is quite hard and you need them to clean the lime-encrusted nozzles on the water taps frequently.

Sphinx

8:01 AM

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Q: Can you Avoid the Spear-Wielding Gladiator?

You are trapped in a circular coliseum, and a gladiator with a spear is chasing you. You can't defend yourself, but you can run faster than the gladiator. You run at 11 feet per second, and the gladiator runs at 10 feet per second. The gladiator's spear has a range of 10 feet. You must stay at l...

mathematics calculation-puzzle geometry pursuit-evasion

Stevo

@Sphinx not something I can answer

oAlt

8:52 AM

South shields dropped could also be removal of last two letters of smth representing a/meaning satellite but that hasn't gotten me anywhere

Jafe

10:08 AM

Surat also fits the X in that puzzle above btw

Stevo

@Jafe idk if there is any other answers...

Jafe

probably... there are a lot of cities

msh210

@Jafe it's in Asia (unless there's >1)

Stevo

@Jafe plus its been accepted, and that would be not much reputation for me... although even 1 reputation kinda counts

M Oehm

But was it in Asia in the 15th century? :)

Jafe

10:19 AM

ah sorry forgot that was limited to europe

@Stevo not trying to get you more rep, i just started thinking about it when you said there aren't any others with no justification

the existing answer was clearly correct anyway

Stevo

@Jafe Oh, my apologies then

AncientSwordRage

11:51 AM

Whenever my C4 isn't solved instantly I get paranoid I did something wrong with it

Sphinx

1:12 PM

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Q: Find the name and the city

Find the name and the city of my European friend using the following clues: Name Non-prime number. Trussville, Alabama. City Prime number. Clinton, Tennessee. Procedure to find the name and the city Seven-segment display. Alternate dimension in 'Stranger Things'.

knowledge enigmatic-puzzle

M Oehm

1:35 PM

^ This is as artless as a puzzle can get.

Sphinx

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Q: Wooden disentanglement puzzle

I recently came across this disentanglement puzzle and after spending weeks trying to understand and solve this seemingly simple puzzle, I am completely stumped. I do not know what the end goal of this puzzle is (I am assuming that we have to free the rope with the bead and loop on each end from ...

mechanical-puzzles solvability

M Oehm

It more or less spells out the solution. The only enigmatic thing is the reference to Stranger Things, which I haven't watched. But if I'm ever going to, I've now seen a major spoiler.

@AncientSwordRage So take note: You yould mitigate your paranoia by making instantly solvable, but ultimately bland C4s. I don't recommend that.

Stiv

1:56 PM

@MOehm Agreed - for an 'enigmatic puzzle', not much was left to be truly enigmatic...

PS Not too much of a spoiler - it's introduced fairly soon in season 1 :)

M Oehm

It's a pity. Chandar777 has some good ideas, but the presentation is often very lacklustre.

AncientSwordRage

2:48 PM

@MOehm given I can't always judge what's instantly solvable and/or bland, I might not even manage that

Sphinx

8:32 PM

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Q: Digerati IQ test

This question contains spoilers. After making the Digerati IQ test (http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.digerati.iqtest) there are three questions where I still don't know how they come to the correct (green) answer. Can somebody explain? My reasoning: a big circle cannot have an ope...

visual pattern

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