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oAlt
oAlt
02:19
"at home" fits the enumeration and means "at home" so that's probably it
Jafe
Jafe
02:36
solved
alternatively, "in" means home so it's MC Cain, the beatboxing killer
 
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msh210
msh210
04:06
Wasn't OJ SIMP a killer?
Wait, no, that was his son.
juicifer
juicifer
04:29
allegedly
Jafe
Jafe
05:02
no no, OJ's imp is an evil spirit that appears in the middle of the night bearing orange juice
also known as a juicifer in other mythologies
5
Sphinx
Sphinx
05:57
0
Q: Solving Puzzle for IQ test

MissweiweiI already know the answer to this but I don’t know HOW the answer is C, can someone please explain this to me in a simplified way as you would to a 10 year old? lol thanks

pattern
 
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oAlt
oAlt
06:57
@Jafe I can't
 
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Sphinx
Sphinx
10:47
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Q: What you are not

PeteYou are not Paul Carrack. You are not David Copperfield. You are not Annie Sullivan. You are not Albert Einstein. You are not Loretta Lynn's father. You are not a house builder. You are not Sigmund Freud. You are not a moving staircase. You have not been hoist by your own petar. What are you?

enigmatic-puzzle
 
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Sphinx
Sphinx
12:17
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Q: What even is this chess position? #2

Tim SeifertHere comes a new retrograde chess puzzle! This one features a cute little maneuver at the end that I would like to share with you: Can you determine the last eight moves made by Black? (14+14), FEN: ? Oh, right ... Apparently, it happened again. Somehow, while exporting the diagram, the chess ...

chess retrograde-analysis
 
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Sphinx
Sphinx
15:17
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Q: A little emoji puzzle

PDTCan you please fill in the ? correctly and of course justify it?:

enigmatic-puzzle emoji
 
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Ryan M
Ryan M
18:43
@Sphinx I am not any of those things so the answer is obviously just... me.
I have no idea what this C4 is, but a dead end gave me an inspiration for a future one of my own...
@msh210 Clever cluing!
man, I need more of these that I can figure out; I have 13 in my "unused" list :-p
nitpicky gripe:
Figuring that out is part of the puzzle. — Pete 6 hours ago
The correct answer is "yes"
It's asking if the puzzle was written as intended, which it was.
juicifer
juicifer
CCCC hint: there might be a reason why I initially wrote the enumeration as "(4 2)" (and it's not just that I'm stupid)
Gareth McCaughan
Gareth McCaughan
19:11
@RyanM I think the correct answer is "there is no error in the last line". (The question was "is the typo in the last line deliberate?", and the answer is that there simply is no such typo; the relevant words are a famous quotation from Shakespeare and are spelt as he spelt them.)
Ryan M
Ryan M
@GarethMcCaughan Yeah, that's essentially what I meant by "yes" ("Is the typo in the last line deliberate?" "Yes"), though your phrasing is probably more precise (there is no typo in the last line, rather than a deliberately added typo).
Gareth McCaughan
Gareth McCaughan
right. there's a big difference between a deliberate mistake (which is likely of special significance, maybe part of a hidden message or something) and "huh? there's no mistake here"
of course it's also true that the usual spelling these days is different from Shakespeare's, even though no one ever uses the word as anything other than an allusion to the Shakespeare quotation and probably < 5% of people using it know what it means.
Sphinx
Sphinx
0
Q: Can you checkmate a king you can't see?

noedneMotivation If you play bullet chess with time management skills as poor as mine, you often end up in endgame situations that require delivering checkmate by playing several premoves in a row. For example, a useful technique in these situations is the ladder mate shown below. In the diagram above...

strategy chess game checkerboard board-games
msh210
msh210
19:54
@RyanM thanks
@Sphinx I recall seeing the same puzzle (albeit perhaps with completely different choices of clues) on this site before. Am I imagining it? I can't seem to find it.
 
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msh210
msh210
21:07
@juicifer edge + in. Nice clue.
juicifer
juicifer
@msh210 that's it, and thanks
Sphinx
Sphinx
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Q: (wordlist provided) Two 8-letter words that share no letters, containing 3+ letters vpbgkjxz

Frisky DingoThe wordlist is here. Please submit all pairs of 8-letter words with 16 unique letters from this list that cover 3 or more of the following uncommon letters: vpbgkjxz. (Q doesn't occur in this wordlist.)

letters pangram
msh210
msh210
CCCC: He worked with Thomson as a journalist in the 1970s (8)
TakingNotes
TakingNotes
@msh210 THOMPSON (partner of Thomson in the Tintin comics) and THOMPSON (Hunter S., a 1970s journalist)
msh210
msh210
21:24
yes indeed
TakingNotes
TakingNotes
21:34
CCCC: Chases around E and our agent? (9)
 
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msh210
msh210
22:45
@TakingNotes I guess if this guy goes around with a bunch of flunkies including his agent, and if his agent is also yours, then the whole clue sorta describes an ENTOURAGE. And it's an &lit as an anagram.
TakingNotes
TakingNotes
22:57
you're so close but you're missing the most crucial aspect of the clue
Ankoganit
Ankoganit
23:15
@TakingNotes maybe this is referring to Entourage the TV show? Some of the main characters are Chases
the wordplay being the anagram that msh mentioned
TakingNotes
TakingNotes
yeah, that's it
the main characters (the titular ENTOURAGE) are the Chase brothers, E and their agent Ari
(and Turtle but I couldn't figure out how to work him into the clue)
Ankoganit
Ankoganit
ahh
that's very nice
Sphinx
Sphinx
23:51
0
Q: Game of discs inside a square

Dmitry KamenetskyA 3*3 square is given. Two players alternate in placing discs of 1 unit diameter inside the square. A disc can be placed if it doesn't overlap another disc or the edge of the square, it can however touch them. Does any player have a winning strategy?

game-theory

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