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posted a meta Q about [formation-of-numbers] answers, in case any here have opinions! @Stiv I know you have thoughts on the genre in general
personally I think they're too open-ended
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Q: Riddle: I am a mollusc

Ichthys KingI am a mollusc Remove my first, and I'll make you quite fast Now remove my second, and you won't feel best Now remove my third, and you'll get a square seven Now remove my fourth, and it's lost What am I?

 
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Q: Binary Grid Challenge and X & O Conundrum

AryanYou are given a 5x5 grid with some cells filled with either "X" or "O". Your goal is to fill the remaining cells with "X" or "O" following these rules: Each row and column must contain exactly three "X"s and two "O"s. No adjacent cells (horizontally or vertically) can have the same symbol

 
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09:10
@bobble (shudders)
 
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13:42
@ACB been a week since q3, so q4 is now up
plus I wanted that sweet sweet confetti jafe mentioned
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Q: Minimally clued 5x5 Hidato

CrSb0001Puzzle attribution: Me Goal of Hidato: Fill in a grid with a series of consecutive numbers that connect each other orthogonally or diagonally To get the green checkmark $\color{green}✓$: Solve the puzzle (showing solution process is optional) or show that no solution exists/the solution is n...

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Q: Cryptic Division 9: Sent to the Clue Factory

juiciferThis is a word division puzzle which uses cryptic clues. If you're unfamiliar with either or both of those, you can click the associated link. In order to solve the alphametic, you'll first need to fill in the dividend, divisor, and quotient by solving the cryptic clues. I've left the enumeratio...

16:07
I passed the confetti stage a while ago...
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Q: Hexominos from pentominos, heptominos from hexominos

Bernardo Recamán SantosAll twelve pentominoes can be obtained by attaching a single unit square (edge to edge) to one of the squares that make up one (or more) of the following four tetrominos: a) What is the least number of pentominoes required so that all 35 hexomionos can be obtained by attaching (edge to edge) ...

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Q: Can you find Redrum's Pirate Treasure?

JoostVanPoppelRedrum is a Dutch pirate and when he set foot on an unhabited island he lost his treasure. Or as the Dutch call it his "Schat". Can you figure out what his treasure/"schat" is?

 
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21:18
@msh210 Oh wow, thanks for the bounty on This should be clear!
 
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22:21
@Stiv it was well deserved. I happened to come across it the other day (yesterday?) and saw that the answer had very few points especially considering the (IMO) unusual difficulty of the question. So I decided it deserved some more points
23:02
CCCC hints: 1) The fifth letter is H. 2) The thid letter is K.
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Q: A puzzle about ERIC

AmozThis is a puzzle about (7, 8, 8), or ERIC for short. Can you decode them? IM[K]N, OPQFR ABNP, AC V R[K]T, U R[K]T HIJK L, HIJK JPFH, SFH NPFJ L, NP[J]F V D, EF GF ERIC = ??P??[K] [J]?GFP ?[N]??[K]R

@Jafe is this quad def for LIKE HELL? that can mean hardly (like hell I will), terrible (it stinks like hell), hard (I worked like hell) or torturous (the literal meaning)
that's right
thanks
23:41
CCCC: One who might bother going around to make a chart? (12)
ooh i like this one, it's CARER going around TO GRAPH for CARTOGRAPHER &lit.
@Jafe yep!
(and thanks lol)
CCCC: Laos borders multiple countries (5)
i like how graph = chart is right there in the word cartographer but the part of that word that actually refers to charts is the carto- prefix

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