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2:55 AM
 
 
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3:57 AM
It's gotta be Warriors, then, I suspect.
If "after end" = _R and we ignore "of", we get a little closer to WARRIORS, but I don't quite see it.
 
@PrinceNorthLæraðr nope, not me, clearly somebody else
 
4:44 AM
an impersonatrubio?
there's a Rio casino in las vegas but i don't see how that helps with the wp any more than río = stream
maybe it's RIO'S ("of stream in las vegas")?
the preceding R is "after end" per msh210 and all that captures R = raiders' starter
and the las vegas would have to be one from a spanish-speaking country... wikipedia suggests spain, uruguay and honduras are all possible
so W + _A + _R + RIO(R_)'S @juicifer
 
there it is!
 
ha!
"after end of" not belonging together is pretty impossible to see
for me at least, obv not msh210
 
yeah it took me a while to realize that was even a possibility lol
 
CCCC: Man who plays all of his music on the guitar, nothing on a type of piano keys (4,5 x2)
 
@Jafe Oh that's sneaky
 
4:56 AM
just to be clear the x2 means there are two answers, both 4,5
 
@Jafe is this JACK (nothing) + BLACK/WHITE (a type of piano keys)?
 
Ah nice
(I thought it was gonna be John Mayer again)
 
@juicifer yup!
 
@oAlt same lmao
but very nice clue
CCCC: A string of letters and numbers used to reference a location where the answers to my most recent C4s are sometimes found? (4 4)
 
thanks
hmmm!
 
5:25 AM
@juicifer hash mark? It's apparently part of a basketball court; and hash is a string of letters and numbers while mark (like "X" on a map) is used to reference a location
 
not what I was going for
my last two solutions being basketball related is purely coincidence, and I'll note that the sequence of c4s involved goes much further back than two
 
@Rubio Hehe
@Jafe All kinds! A lot of sacred music, but also did a song from Dear Evan Hansen and even a piece by Brahms
 
cool
 
Tons of fun
We did this piece called De Profundis by a Hungarian composer and it was WILD
We did another piece that was in Tagalog
A lot of Latin
De Profundis is in Latin
 
The most recent few C4 answers are, I think, Frankenstein, vision, clipper, warriors, distilleries, and securities act. (But I've messed up the order.) I can't think of anything those are all found in except a dictionary or encyclopedia.
 
5:39 AM
Hello Mith ;)
 
6:00 AM
Hello ;-)
 
Wasn't talking to you -_-
Jkjk
 
(old meme of Mith being my sock)
 
(Ohhhhh that's right I do remember that meme)
 
6:14 AM
it's been... at least eight years and I still can't escape it
 
HA!
Maybe that's because Rand IS your sock
 
6:26 AM
most of my socks get thrown away well before 8 years
 
Mith must really take care of their socks
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8:43 AM
socks are cool
 
9:28 AM
The Clippers and Warriors are both based in California, but as I'm busy with something else I don't have time to think about the clue further
Meanwhile it's tempting to think of "a string of letters and numbers used to reference a location" as a POST CODE, which fits the enumeration, but I haven't thought about how to proceed from that either
 
@oAlt I wonder whether each C4 answer appears in post code (in monospaced code in a PSE post) posted the same day or so. But I can't check now.
 
 
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10:56 AM
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Q: A safe with 4 locks

Dmitry KamenetskyYou are trying to open a safe. There are 4 locks and 4 keys (red, green, blue and yellow). When you insert the keys into the locks, the safe will make $k$ beeps, where $k$ is the number of keys that are in the correct lock. If all keys are in the correct locks then the safe will open. Otherwise y...

 
11:11 AM
I have free time (2 weeks) once again - time to update the C4 sheets again
 
i think each word can be "post code", i.e after an international code word for a letter?
victor frankenstein, whiskey distilleries, x-ray vision...
yankee clipper, zulu warrior
 
Oh that's really clever
 
will list others once i'm on desktop, swapping tabs between the search is a pain on mobile
 
oh my gosh
 
11:32 AM
(hand clap emoji)
 
11:44 AM
ok so it's alpha male, bravo maestro, charlie brown, delta dental, echo chamber, foxtrot comics, golf tournament, hotel california, india pale ale, juliet landau, kilo weight, lima bean, mike love, november revolution, oscar mayer, papa westray, quebec magnetic, romeo gigli, sierra mist, tango in the night, uniform securities act, victor frankenstein, whiskey distilleries, x-ray vision, yankee clipper, zulu warriors
that's a nice sequence and well hidden, nobody suspected a thing hehe
 
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Q: I am a professional person

RogerAThere are 3 boxes A,B an C- each with 3 rows. Each row is a word. The blanks in each box are the same single word. After filling the blanks you will get 3 separate words (one from each box). Put them in the 7 letter box below to get the final answer. The words may not be in order. Linked:What co...

 
12:45 PM
@Jafe & well done finding it!
 
1:32 PM
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Q: Leading flags in order

Prim3numbahComplete the list by placing the correct flag in the empty rectangle below. Explain.

 
1:43 PM
thanks, wouldn't have got it if oAlt hadn't found the answer first though!
 
2:00 PM
:D
Well done finding the sequence and well done to @juicifer for hiding it :DD
Actually well done as well for finding out what "post code" really meant – it never would have occurred to me to interpret it that way
 
 
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4:36 PM
@Jafe right on!
and thanks everybody for the compliments!
@Jafe to be fair it was a lot easier to avoid suspicion here given that the thing that connected the answers wasn't even part of the answers lol
oh and I almost forgot to post the spreadsheet
 
4:59 PM
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Q: Five lettet words with one vowel difference

Richard KayLooking for 5 letter words where just the vowel is different. Eg. Bland, blind, blend but to cover all 5 vowels.

 
 
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8:41 PM
CCCC: The W in "SDWA" and "WC" is a British W (8)
 
9:15 PM
@Jafe WATERLOO = WATER (The W in "SDWA") + LOO ("WC"), for a British win (in the battle)
 
9:26 PM
ha
 
9:59 PM
that's it
 
10:14 PM
I'd love to know what an 'American W' is in contrast... Though I guess with the whole colour/color and favour/favor thing, it's probably just a 'double'...
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CCCC: C.Ronaldo's last run ended badly (was seen to be clutching his head) (3,7)
 
10:37 PM
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Q: The best scoring REVOLVER

Rewan DemontayThe initial setup a chess game creates this layout: P P P P P P P P R N B Q K B N R If we change the symbol each piece is represented by, something interesting occurs. * * * * * * * * R E V O L V E R The lower half creates a valid English word, if knights are represented by the letter e, bisho...

 
11:02 PM
Can a mod delete the Monthly Challenge suggestions on this post used as #7 (board games) and #8 (cellular automata)? I've marked them up as such but can't delete since not my suggestions... Thanks @Rubio
 
my kid was taught in school that "a" is the "american" way to write the lowercase A (the "australian" way is like "ɑ", apparently)
don't think they have separate W's though
 
as an american I've only ever written it "ɑ"
 
@Stiv hah, this is great - it's O (ronaldo's last) plus RUNENDED* clutching H, making ONE HUNDRED (=C)
 
oh nice
 
@Jafe It absolutely is :)
(correct, I mean - 'great' is not for me to decide...!)
 
11:07 PM
hehe
CCCC: One might be a danger holding a bit of lanyard (9)
@juicifer well i'm even more confused now
 
@Jafe I'm Australian, used to write ɑ but changed to a in high school. I'm the only one I've seen handwrite an a though, I've only seen them typed.
 
11:29 PM
Also Australian, written ɑ my whole life - thought a was just a typing thing and wasn't a thing people physically wrote, haha
 
yeah i've never seen "a" handwritten, i don't think
 
11:54 PM
I've written "a" with the line over the top in two circumstances:
- trying to be pretentious
- accidentally wrote some other character first and am now making the minimal changes to fix it
 

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