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PolygonPotpourri

00:59

@DannyuNDos Okay, I think the answer is [a logical property] IDLYDIABETIC* = DECIDABILITY, but 'soon' and 'diarrhea' are a bit flowery.

Dannyu NDos

@PolygonPotpourri Yup!

PolygonPotpourri

@DannyuNDos Hm. Why 'diarrhea', though?

Also, 'diarrhea' being an example of something 'flowery' doesn't happen too often.

Dannyu NDos

That is just to theme with "diabetic".

PolygonPotpourri

@DannyuNDos Yeah. A bit flowery, really. In cryptic clues, no word should be wasted.

Dannyu NDos

Sorry about that...

PolygonPotpourri

01:07

@DannyuNDos It's okay. Learn from it; refine it.

CCCC: Like this cryptic clue metapuzzle spanning fewer than ten clues, and the metapuzzle's answer? (7)

A full solution is needed.

Sphinx

01:21

Q: Um enigma de uma imagens com ícones japoneses , eu já tentei pegar as inicias mas não deu certo, me ajudem!

Eu já tentei várias coisas, como encontrar números na imagem, ver palavras através da imagem etc. Imagem 👇 https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1304954388443566142/13049754274666694656/IMG_20241109_215835_213.jpg? ex=67315893&is=67300713&hm=be100449725cfce74b3c92330eb71d33f462cd466a9eea2dab55...

visual

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oAlt

02:42

Since "fewer than ten clues" means "nine clues or less", here are the nine previous clue answers: 1+1=2, chemotherapy, no dice, idle time, big game, inner eyes, high-tech, acre-inch, look up

The clues themselves may also be important, but I won't list them for now

juicifer

03:09

interesting that the last several have all been two words but I can't suss out a pattern with that

Destructible Lemon

.... and 1+1 = 2

msh210

@juicifer some of them sound like they should be near-homophones... like "no dice idle time big..." should, with appropriate inflection, sound like some sentence. But, if so, I can't find the right inflection.

Destructible Lemon

anagram is 7 letters but i cant see any other reason thatd be the answer

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Sphinx

12:32

Q: Numbers in correct order

How many 7's must replace the question mark in order for this sequence of numbers to make sense? Explain your reasoning. 11111 222222 33333 444444 55555 66666 ? 888888 99999

enigmatic-puzzle number-sequence

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Sphinx

16:42

Q: What do these words have in common

Wet, ash, ask, ASL, BBC, sad, fig, kiss, rope, put, gas, has, top, lad, TRIP.

pattern word-property

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Sphinx

19:21

Q: Threatening queens

Two queens placed on a chessboard are said to threaten each other if the two lie in the same row, column or diagonal, and there are no other queens on the line segment between them. For which positive integers $k$ does there exist a positive integer $n$ and an $n\times n$ chessboard with a non-...