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Anonymus 25

12:31 AM

Oh nice

Stevo

would people mind giving me a type of puzzle to make?

or is anything fine

Anonymus 25

Anything's fine

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Sphinx

1:53 AM

Q: Around the World in Many Days

How have you been? I am excited to tell you about my new trip. It’s my most ambitious one yet – a full trip around the world! I will definitely keep you posted about my whereabouts. I hope you stick along, this will be a long ride! I started my trip with some culture. I visited a beautiful theatr...

Q: One million positive integers

How many different (multi)sets of one million positive integers are such that their sum equals their product?

mathematics number-theory

oAlt

2:34 AM

@TakingNotes @juicifer y'all are too fast :P

TakingNotes

Ah, think I was just pipped to the post there!

Surprised juicifer managed to figure out the second part after the sudoku so quickly as well!

Jafe

2:50 AM

had to put a cyrillic A in "dear puzzling" to avoid it being auto-edited out... freakin' robots improving people's posts for reasons that make perfect sense

oAlt

ugh, I think I messed up somewhere in the grid

I'm waiting to see juicifer's solution path since I can't find where I messed up

(I ended up in a grid where I was unable to disambiguate the 5, 6, 7, and 8)

Jafe

3:43 AM

looks like the solution path is up :)

juicifer

@oAlt thanks haha

sorry the path took so long, I kept finding places where I was stupid the first time around

like I left the F and G ambiguous for the longest time after realizing that they must be 2 and 3 despite the fact that I could've figured out which was which immediately lmao

TakingNotes

i did the same thing haha

juicifer

good to know I'm not the only one lol

oAlt

4:32 AM

@juicifer nah it's fine, and thanks :))

Ok I'm looking at the solution and I'm still trying to find where I messed up

Ok, if I still remember correctly, I think I rot13(zvfgnxrayl nffvtarq T nf 1, rira gubhtu V nyernql sbhaq bhg gung X jnf 1)

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oAlt

7:51 AM

@Sphinx I actually got inspired to make a sudoku again because of this haha. I can't quite quantify my progress, but if I really had to, I think I'm 1/3 done?

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Jafe

9:06 AM

so the digits 1-3 have been placed, gotcha

that's grrat to hear

Sphinx

9:32 AM

Q: A (non corny) mathematical puzzle

What's the nine-letter word I'm looking for? It starts with O. x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x

word enigmatic-puzzle visual

oAlt

@Jafe lolll

Sphinx

9:58 AM

Q: PSE Advent Calendar 2022 (Day 3): Okay everybody, from the top!

This puzzle is part of the Puzzling Stack Exchange Advent Calendar 2022. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.< Previous Door Next Door > My brother and I have a Christmas tradition, in which each year we contrive ever more intricate and obscure ways o...

word knowledge letters music seasonal

Stiv

10:11 AM

CCCC: Big area of California university near Christian Union has traces of cockroaches, underlying subsidence, and venomous pit vipers! (9)

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Jafe

11:12 AM

sounds lovely, one ticket please

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oAlt

12:16 PM

@Sphinx My head from looking at the screen too long from trying to solve this :P Need to get my eyes off screens for now

Head hurts*

Head hurts so much I couldn't even type properly

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Gareth McCaughan

1:47 PM

@bobble Absolutely! Was just waiting until you said it's ready :-).

Gareth McCaughan

2:20 PM

Candidate MathJax info page is now at puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7421/…. If you have any interest in the use of MathJax on PSE, please take a look.

@bobble It's up. I've made a few further tweaks from the version in the Google doc.

Puzzling Meta

Q: A brief guide to MathJax for PSE users

[Context: as described at https://puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7396/where-should-we-link-for-mathjax-help, in PSE's "editing help" page the section on LaTeX has a link labelled "MathJax help" that currently goes to a rather old, not at all PSE-specific, page that seems like it might ...