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10:51 AM

C4 hint: The answer is a noun.

11:14 AM

I feel like this is MONTAGE (shuffle, MW sense 1) with MONTE being the card game but I can't see how "a scrap" clues "AG" or "scrap" clues "G"

Maybe this kind of scrap, since silver can be a kind of scrap and silver is Ag? I'm not sure

msh210

@oAlt That's not the intended answer.

oAlt

Ah, that's a relief actually

oAlt

11:50 AM

Wait, I feel like this is FARRAGO (shuffle) again, with the card game being FARO (which is also a gambling game), and that leaves RAG = scrap but I can't justify it well, other than the fact that a scrap is a fragment, and a rag is a fragment of old cloth?

msh210

@oAlt yep! A scrap is typically a fragment of something old or left over, so a rag is a good example, I think.

oAlt

Hah, didn't expect the answer to be the same as a previous but recent one lol

(and yeah, that explanation makes sense)

CCCC: Capital city with dinosaur beheaded and bees flying around (6 5)

Sphinx

12:47 PM

Q: A MYSTERIOUS CIPHER ON REDDIT

First of all I must specify that the cipher is not mine, I found it in a post on reddit by a user named master with a few numbers after it. I'll give you guys some context. I have always been into cryptography and to learn I started following some people on reddit (I know I sound like a stalker)....

Q: Why can't a 1 go in this field

I've moved onto "expert" sudoku's in my app and whilst I am getting by solving some, others I'm having a hard time with. With this one, I used a hint so the AI could note all the fields up for me but it hasn't put a note for 1 in this box. Why? I can't see anything which would rule it out for "ce...

sudoku

msh210

1:24 PM

@oAlt sounds like a great place to visit

oAlt

1:36 PM

Indeed

Sphinx

2:02 PM

Q: Smallest square that can pack thin digits

If we draw the digits 0 to 9 using a rectangle 2x5 (except the 1) they use up 81 squares. Is it possible to pack them all into a 9x9 grid. What is the smallest n by n grid that can pack them all?

tiling packing

AncientSwordRage

2:12 PM

@Sphinx are those the right/best tags?

msh210

@oAlt buenosaires = inosaurbees*

oAlt

@msh210 Yup!

AncientSwordRage

@oAlt how on earth did you find that anagram 🤯

oAlt

2:32 PM

By hand lol

I tinkered with the letters in notepad and I saw after a few minutes that I could form "dinosaur" without the d and I tried pursuing that path lol

well I mean it's not that impressive since others have done better

Aug 17, 2022 at 13:39, by msh210

CCCC: Ma, pa, household go on destination. Man's formaldehyde, music add farce! (2,3,4,3,6,4,3,2,3,6,3,2,6,2,3)

wahahah

msh210

CCCC: Coming up (for years!) in Michigan: soda mix (7)

@oAlt oh, yeah, I'd forgotten about that one. That was a fun one

Sphinx

3:18 PM

Q: Stay away from these

Replace the question mark with the correct film director. Explain.

knowledge enigmatic-puzzle visual

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Sphinx

4:59 PM

Q: What is up with these two groups of flags?

Here are two groups of flags. In your opinion, which flags look better, those in group A or in group B? I'm curious. Please answer this poll by upvoting the corresponding comment. To solve the puzzle: What is the distinction between the two groups?

flags

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Sphinx

7:31 PM

Q: Have you heard this riddle?

I am often debated, About the sound I have created Never standing I always fall Was I silent Or did I call?

riddle

juicifer

8:05 PM

@msh210 yeah this is still FARRAGO, which we get by replacing the Y in FAYGO (a Michigan soda) with a reversal of ARR. (as in arrival)

msh210

@juicifer yes indeed

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juicifer

9:27 PM

CCCC: Request to drink an extremely large brew (4 3)

msh210

@juicifer p(a)lea l_e

nice clue

juicifer

@msh210 thanks! and correct

msh210

CCCC: Mix distant characters for someone reading Italian poetry (7)

juicifer

now why is this farrago again

juicifer

9:49 PM

jk this is DANTIST* @msh210

msh210

@juicifer yep!

@juicifer I tried. :-) Nicely dodged.

juicifer

yeah it was clearly either farrago again or it was an anagram of distant

once "rago" didn't mean anything in english or italian I figured it was an anagram lol

juicifer

10:44 PM

CCCC: City in Queensland, Australia (6)

Chengarda

11:12 PM

Landau

Landau (Palatine German: Landach), officially Landau in der Pfalz, is an autonomous (kreisfrei) town surrounded by the Südliche Weinstraße ("Southern Wine Route") district of southern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a university town (since 1990), a long-standing cultural centre, and a market and shopping town, surrounded by vineyards and wine-growing villages of the Palatinate wine region. Landau lies east of the Palatinate forest, on the German Wine Route. It contains the districts (Ortsteile) of Arzheim, Dammheim, Godramstein, Mörlheim, Mörzheim, Nussdorf, Queichheim, and Wollmesheim....

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