The Sphinx's Lair

3:09 AM

CCCC hint: the first letter is K

3:27 AM

hmm

4 hours later…

7:11 AM

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_by_name_(K)

I'm going in I guess

The only 10-letter ones on that list IINM are Kalolimnos, Karaginsky, Killygowan, Kiritimati, Kokanongwi, and Kolmenasva.

Ooh thanks

2 hours later…

8:45 AM

And AFAICT there's no national capital city or national currency that's 10 letters starting with K.

9:03 AM

Regional capital cities (e.g. of the provinces of some country) I haven't checked.

2 hours later…

10:43 AM

There are no 10-letter K names at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_islands or dreamfiction.fandom.com/wiki/…

CCCC hints: 1) The first letter is K. 2) The answer is more commonly known in English by another name, starting with B.

adding hints because there are a few things about this clue i'm not crazy about (it was very late when i wrote it)

2 hours later…

12:41 PM

@Jafe KALIMANTAN (aka borneo) is LIMA protected by ATANK* N

that's it!

Q: Two prisoners and twenty marbles

1:22 PM

Two prisoners are planning their escape. Their cells are locked with a padlock that must be opened with a 5-digit code (numbers 10000 to 99999). Each prisoner knows the code of the other prisoner's lock. One prisoner starts with a small bag with 20 identical marbles, while the other prisoner star...

strategy

CCCC: North is now two degrees in island capital (9)

1:47 PM

@juicifer ahhh I should have remembered that K name

@Jafe I think it's fine, though up as anagram indicator is something I think I've only seen now but idk it's probably more common than I think

(Said "think" too many times there...)

(you're overthinking it)

@oAlt yeah i don't like "up" in retrospect

@juicifer :)

@Jafe I see

2:12 PM

@juicifer Out of interest, how did you find this answer?

@Stiv went through en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_by_name_(B) on a hunch that oalt was on the right track and started visiting pages for more significant islands to see if any of them had alternate names that were 10 letters and started with K

that's devotion

idk I've definitely done crazier things for a c4

2:41 PM

Commitment to the cause. (standing ovation)

@juicifer ISLAMABAD (capital) = ISLA(n -> MA+BA)D

2:53 PM

ooh nice

3:21 PM

@Stiv that's the one

@msh210 thanks!

Satisfying

CCCC: Island in a moat is strangely giving people a religious experience? (12)

@Stiv isl. amisation*

@juicifer ind. eed

lol

CCCC: Island in moat I'm organizing (5)

Daniel S

3:39 PM

@juicifer TIMOR (hidden word)

3:51 PM

@DanielS right on

Daniel S

CCCC: Firm bluff bordering island. (8)

4:24 PM

Q: Very Kind Neighbors

a) Place numbers 1 to 25 on the cells of this board so that each of them, except for 1 and 2, is the sum of precisely two of its (up to 8) neighbors. b) Do likewise with the numbers 1 to 36 in a 6 x 6 board? ¿Can a similar outcome be achieved in a square board of any larger size? Puzzle due to G...

mathematics

4:35 PM

@DanielS con Crete

Daniel S

@msh210 That's the one.

4:53 PM

Augh, I finished my thing too late

5:37 PM

CCCC: Uranium + water = oopsie (2-2)

Ankoganit

@msh210 lol this is U+HOH (=H2O)

it is indeed

hah

Ankoganit

CCCC: Bit of magnesium and iron in charged cobalt particle condensation (11)

4 hours later…

Q: What song are these lyrics from (translated into emojis) ~ 2

10:05 PM

😁👈🏻🤠🐎🎰 👈🏻🎰🗺️🏘️🏘️ 🕰👉🫱🏻🫲🃏 👉🧠🤠👈🏻🛏💰👈🏻👇 (2x) I am happy to share this wonderful song with you. You will love driving or doing any travel with this song. It's an English song, probably prior to 1973 (you don't need to read the exact year or numbers 1973 as a hint necessaril...

knowledge rebus music emoji

10:49 PM

@Ankoganit ooh i like this one, it's M_ + PRESS in CO ION for COMPRESSION