The Sphinx's Lair

1:28 AM

@Jafe CHRISTIAN (perhaps a puritan) and CHRIST, IAN (as in ian fleming)

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Jafe

3:24 AM

that's right

3:59 AM

Ahhh, "reaction to particularly outrageous part in 007 novel" clues that (i.e. only one wordplay component)

Q: PSE Advent Calendar 2022 (Day 6): Christmas and Squares

4:14 AM

CCCC: Murder man in a mad dash? (9)

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Anonymus 25

5:22 AM

ELI(MINA*)TE gets close, but I don't see how it conpletely works

(ANIMA*)TION too tho

Sphinx

5:43 AM

This puzzle is part of the Puzzling Stack Exchange Advent Calendar 2022. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 100 reputation.< Previous DoorNext Door > Today's door leads to a signature "easy" puzzle by Anonymus25! I know, some of my recent puzzles haven't performed...

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Cannonball Adderley Quintet - "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (1966)

10:18 AM

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10:34 AM

A term we said when someone did: "Eat it."

Maximal praise.

To "eat it" is to relish every nibble.

And share.

Share delight.

(Timed out. Tried to align those two sentences.)

Don't listen to rumors. Despite what is said, i'm a good girl. Even if i'm not good, or a girl.

Truth be told, i am good. Just not a good girl. My lancet lands across every indiscretion.

(tried to make that funny but it's no joke)

(Truly, if someone tries to fuck over someone else, holy shit! Every repressed aggression comes into play.)

Again, @GarethMcCaughan, clean up on aisle L.

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And You and I: i. Cord of Life, ii. Eclipse, iii. The Preacher the Teacher, iv. The Apocalypse...

3:15 PM

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To go on:

The purest joy of teaching is having a student exceed the teacher. Mine do.
All the way to chairing departments.
Signed, ice breaker.

"teacher asks to be shown the same; preacher asks to lose their name"

Signed preacher/teacher

Half of "Music Lover/Teacher" is this simp.

To know is to love is to, on a good day, teach.

Other half has a name: Carol. We met 43 years ago. She is certifiably teacher.

4:11 PM

@humn "Just eat it" - Michael Jackson

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Eat It (Official 4K Video)

4:38 PM

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4:59 PM

@humn I'm not sure what you're asking me to do, but here's a Top Tip: if you're going to post something that will predictably be followed by asking someone else to remove it, please just don't post it in the first place.

@oAlt , i'll repeat it.

(and can't you delete your own comments?)

@GarethMcCaughan, thank you for being you.

@humn :)

I would have difficulty being anyone else.

Mithical

5:02 PM

Have you tried?

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF! I try on everyone

That was a setup.

@juicifer Also let me just say before I sleep, @juicifer my gosh, that thumbnail scared me. (Looks like I won't be able to sleep for a while :p) And I should have expected that Weird Al would have done that parody, but I didn't lol

@humn so, anyway, was there something you were wanting me to clean up, and if so what? e.g., are you wanting me to remove the naughty words in the comment immediately before the "cleanup" one?

@GarethMcCaughan , once i explicitly asked you to clean up after me. THANK YOU AGAIN. Not this time.

so, er, what did "clean up on aisle L" mean?

5:08 PM

It meant that i left a mess. Nothing new.

"Aisle L" = "Lauri" other name for humn.

so you pinged me saying "clean up in aisle L" with the meaning "I have made a mess but I don't want you to do anything to it"?

@Gareth , you have cleaned after so many messes i can't be grateful enough. * THANK YOU *

Want me to make a fresh mess?

I'm not fishing for thanks. I just want to understand.

I know you ain't. Nonetheless.

(Remember, i eat shit for breakfast, puke pike all day, and give head to what might be a pillow at night.)

(Throw out the parentheses. That was genuine.)

True, phenominally flawed, at your service.

A friend winked, (think you know the story), and there i went.

Miss him so. Keep aiming my Cupid's arrows but he's no longer in sight.

Q: D&D 5e : Is the puzzle presented below solvable with the information presented?

5:44 PM

Joel

Dang!

Wish i could've transplanted a lung. He said it was too late.

I have at least one to spare!

Why do my favorite persons die of cancer? Ain't there a cure?!!!!!!!!

(working on it)

To be sure, i don't have a cure. Each approach is that, an approach. Haven't yet found the golden key.

Yet poised.

(Yuh, position of privilege.)

(And, yuh, blind behind the arch.)

Thomas Markov

6:48 PM

We've just got a puzzle design question on RPG:

Is this puzzle, as presented, solvable by the average player, with only the information included below? If not, what would need to be added/changed/outtaken to make it more logical and cohesive (but not inordinately simple). The Context System is DnD 5e, in a homebrew alternative earth. The play...

dnd-5e player-communication puzzle

I'm thinking it may be better suited for you guys under the puzzle-creation tag.

Sphinx

7:20 PM

Q: Watson's deduction about the Mystery Man

Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Watson have taken a case to identify the whereabouts of a mystery man. The only clue thus far is a single photograph of the man, presented here. Watson starts in. "Well he's a stylish dresser, he's wearing a nice suit and matching canvas tennis shoes. I think th...

riddle photo-puzzle

Q: Is the puzzle presented below solvable with the information presented?

Is this puzzle, as presented, solvable by the average player, with only the information included below? If not, what would need to be added/changed/outtaken to make it more logical and cohesive (but not inordinately simple). The Context The players are in an archaeology delve into a city that ha...

riddle logical-deduction puzzle-creation