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Jafe

12:12 AM

what would the def be in that case? just "(in) las vegas"?

Stevo

play around in las vegas more like

Jafe

12:37 AM

play around in las vegas could be something like GAMBLE maybe, in any case i think it'd have to be a verb

obv gamble is only 6 letters

i have no idea what "after end of [twitch] stream, typically" could clue tbh

juicifer

1:01 AM

ok I think I've got it

@TakingNotes after a twitch stream sometimes comes a RAID, where a streamer will send all their viewers to another channel. take three (letters away) from "72HRS" to get RS and then put E before it to get RAIDERS, the other sports team in vegas

(well one of a few but certainly the raiders and golden knights are the most notable)

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ACB

3:04 AM

@ACB Nobody commented. But seemingly bot agrees with me :)

Jafe

3:49 AM

have to recommend today's independent cryptic, for anyone into that sort of thing

humn

4:23 AM

YesSongs #2: YES - I've Seen All Good People

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Dear @moderators , please take it easy on me. I've been taking it easy on internet/whatever fools for more than half a century. As one.

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Prince North Læraðr

5:59 AM

friends!

@Rubio Is that Rubio?

I feel like I haven't seen you in especially forever

Jafe

hey north!

what have you been up to

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Sphinx

7:53 AM

Q: "Where? Or is it When?!" - a GCHQ word association puzzle

Instructions (adapted from The GCHQ Puzzle Book (2016) and the introductory puzzle here on Puzzling Stack Exchange): The words in the following list can be partitioned into equal-sized sets depending on words associated with them; each set has its own word association method. This list is arrange...

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AncientSwordRage

10:25 AM

@Jafe yeah, it would be a stretch

Jafe

saw a children's book use an apostrophe in "darlin' caroline"

people who drop their g's: would you pronounce it like that?

to me it sounds more natural to use the ng sound there because of the following /k/ but it's entirely possible that's just me

Puzzling Meta

10:43 AM

Q: Monthly Topic Challenge #9: Game/Quiz Shows

This is the ninth installment of the Monthly Topic Challenges with topics suggested and voted on here. This month's topic is "Game/Quiz Shows" (suggested by HTM) and will span from the 1st of April to the 30th of April. During this period, we will compile the list of relevant questions and post i...

discussion topic-challenge

Jafe

@ACB and the bot rebels

many of the MTCs have been interesting but i've been too preoccupied with gladys stuff to pay them proper attention

obv if they start to get very few entries it's better to put things on hold... looks like the last one got 4 entries by 3 separate people

meanwhile holy cow that 3=0 question has over 5.5k views and is still near the top of HNQ

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Sphinx

3:14 PM

Q: CS50 puzzle day

([CS50 2nd puzzle]https://i.stack.imgur.com/xUSnV.png) can someone help me solving this puzzle please I've been struggling for hours! i've thought about the first part of the puzzle and i found these answers: Google competitor: Bing Took ownership of: Acquired Subject of many myths, like Ge...

enigmatic-puzzle algorithm

ACB

4:10 PM

@Sphinx this guy has asked this question on stack overflow too. Google reveals that there are prizes for solving this.

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Prince North Læraðr

10:02 PM

@Jafe Well, I came back from Italy about a week ago or so, I was with our college's choir singing throughout Italy

Besides that not much, just been super busy with college

Jafe

10:57 PM

wow that sounds amazing

did you time for tourist stuff while there

Sphinx

11:27 PM

Q: Quaternion Intuition

Is there any intuitive way of understanding why we need 4 dimensional numbers to do 3 dimensional rotation? I know that there are 3 dimensional numbers systems, like the one explained by Casual Graphman in this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvI7dGXFgm8. After all, you only need 2...