@Randal'Thor I don't know. I haven't really looked at this one too much - I just saw you musing about a potential double meaning of "paramount" and decided to butt in. :P

if its leading, then its not tracking or kerning

@WesleySitu I believe you mean "keming".

yes that!

:P

Well, I'm off guys. Good luck with the riddle, I'll check up on you tomorrow. :D

Goodnight! :-)

Hmm, a + inside a circle is a symbol for XOR, isn't it?

hmm, sequins could be silent letters maybe? Purely decorative?

yep XOR. i was thinking it was convolution, but that ones rotated

Hello.

A user was removed yesterday, making one of my posts sunk down on the drain.

I only realized this because I got the Disciplined badge.

Is it possible to figure out what post was this?

I kind of don't remember, what I have answered yesterday.

@ArbitraryKangaroo Haha no...

I'm working on a new puzzle though

But it's taking some time

@ArbitraryKangaroo Nah, something wordplay-ish this time.

@ArbitraryKangaroo No, like I said, it's taking some time. Should be ready in a week or two. (Besides I need some chilling out in Pujas :D)

Shubho Saptami BTW :)

@ArbitraryKangaroo It is in the chat. Why do you ask?

@ArbitraryKangaroo we made a separate chat room so it wouldn't fill up the chat here

@Matsmath No, you can't.

@ArbitraryKangaroo What is "para" in this case? But if I got what you mean, no, the riddle needs to be solved... as a riddle. :)

@ArbitraryKangaroo Which part are you struggling with?

Well, partly you all are on the right track, with some minor details off, which I think would fix themselves when you get the second last stanza (about the pair).

Ok I'll add another hint.

@ArbitraryKangaroo cc @Randal'Thor and @Sconibulus See the new hint

@ArbitraryKangaroo Sorry for the cryptic hint. I think it's more fun that way. :D

Stupid fly is annoying me. ._.

@ArbitraryKangaroo Uhm which one? About U-X?

@ArbitraryKangaroo You're right about the hint yes. ;D

@Alconja Ehm instead of posting here, post an answer?

@Alconja May I ask you to hide that? I'd still like everyone to solve the riddle. :D

Hmmm.. won't let me delete it... Sorry...

@Alconja Can I do it for you?

If you have the power...

@Alconja Thanks. In any case, you were right. I think you should post an answer, but I'd still need you to solve the riddle to accept yours.

So I short circuited things?

@Alconja I guess my question was slightly badly designed there. I mean, it's my fault.

Totally understand. I feel like it's rare for me to make a puzzle without regretting something after the fact. :)

@Alconja Would you post an answer explaining how you got to that solution?

Just having a look at the riddle to see if I can do it "properly"...

@Alconja Ok thanks, and sorry for deleting your chat message, maybe you could have kept it. I just wanted to see how the others get to the end.

Not at all... No point having the fun spoiled by accident. I won't answer unless I can actually make it work the right way (though based on one of your hints, I have an inking...)

@Alconja Posting a partial answer is fine. Go for it! :D

@ArbitraryKangaroo Well, kind of. :D But he/she is still missing the reasoning part, which I'd like to see.

@ArbitraryKangaroo Are you going to tackle that question as well?

@ArbitraryKangaroo Ok, looking forward to your answer. :D Well, the question is still very recent, do you want my input already? Just to make sure you're sure.

:D

@ArbitraryKangaroo I like to lighten up the mood.

@ArbitraryKangaroo I agree. :D :P

My style of writing makes me sound like I'm always angry. So I add emoticons.

@ArbitraryKangaroo Well, that's a bit exaggerated lol

I wonder if someone knows where this comes from:

@ArbitraryKangaroo Ahah sure, no worries.

Re: redrawing... I haven't decided. I think I will do a wrap up post though, because I think there's some good lessons learned from it (for me). Might take me a week or two to get to it though.

I also think it has a vaguely interesting evolution story... (e.g. it and This is important were actually both born from the same core of an idea)

(and I still didn't manage to actually get the original idea all the way through to fruition)

No the common origin is so buried (especially in This is important) that you can barely see it any more... you'll just have to stay tuned for the wrap up, when I get to it

(but you can consider that a meta-puzzle to mull over until then: what is the common ancestor puzzle idea that lead to both those puzzles? reverse-puzzling :P)

Just to make the square whole to make it clear the cube is separate from the 'K' (and to allow me to pre-colour a few bits to make each side a little more interesting/unique). But yeah, strictly speaking, there's not a huge amount of "point", beyond aesthetics.

Nope. Just "important" and "rejbas" shared a great great ... grandfather of a puzzle idea.

Don't put too much time into trying to find it. Like I said, it's barely recognisable in "important"

And in fact, without my explanation, its probably impossible to see... Just interesting to know (I think) that they have shared lineage.

Yeah, I've been asked that before... And like I said then, it's hard to estimate since I tend to chip away at things over a long time (and they evolve so dramatically in that time)... but certainly in the many 10s of hours for most my "bigger" ones.

I wish I could draw, I'd love to make rebuses.

@ArbitraryKangaroo Why would a question get him banned?

@ArbitraryKangaroo I think there are designed chat rooms for testing chat capabilities. :P

It's not letting you post it?

Maybe you should delete that, it takes up a lot of space.

I think it depends on your screen size...try resizing your window... :O

@Ankoganit Don't give him ideas! :D

@ArbitraryKangaroo Well... I can still delete. >:D

@Alenanno :P

@ArbitraryKangaroo Closed as largely opinion-based :P

#puzzles

@ArbitraryKangaroo We could ask him...

@Alenanno Title-text: how to use quipqiup while solving ciphers

:P

Good that you mentioned, I better add a link...

Wait a minute

...done.

I'm sooo close to 5k...

In the question:

Wait, it's 5002 for some reason.. D:

No, it's 5000 again

What do I get for 5k anyway...just tag-wiki-approval? Meh...

10k is a lot more interesting...

Anyway, 5k in 3-4 months is not bad...

@ArbitraryKangaroo You can now reverse the votes if you want...(though it doesn't probably count as serial upvoting, but still, better safe than sorry)

I was hoping someone would nominate GRP's steganographic riddle for the best of Q3...

But apparently no-one has done that yet

@ArbitraryKangaroo Everything indicates it should be fine: chat is informal; there are multiple precedents; in fact I've even talked about RD before in here with no issues; and I'm pretty sure Emrakul has explicitly said it's fine in chat. However, everything indicated that what I did before should have been fine too - even by the rules they came up with after the fact to cover that unusual situation - so who knows.

@Matsmath Yes, you can check on this page: puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/recently-deleted-answers/29343

@ArbitraryKangaroo He asked for a riddle in chat, so I gave him one.

@Ankoganit Indeed, 10k is the best new level to reach.

@Randal'Thor, thanks so much. It was the Who stole that money? question.

@Matsmath Out of curiosity, can you see that deleted question even without 10k rep, since you answered it?

@ArbitraryKangaroo It opened on 12 April 2015. It's currently down, but you can still see what it was like using the Wayback Machine, and it might be back up soon. Yes, only riddles, at least for the moment.

Similar to PSE? Not really. It's restricted to riddles, for one thing, and the riddles are higher quality than the ones here (basically, the best riddlers of PSE walked out and set up our own place). Also there's only a few contributors (although anyone can send us riddles to theriddlersden@gmail.com) - it's not a 'social' Q&A site with lots of users like PSE.

@Randal'Thor, no, of course not. But I remember what it was about, and that how I answered it. Thank you again for your kind help.

@ArbitraryKangaroo d'alar'cop, Avigrail, Oblongamous, and myself set it up. (d'alar'cop was the top user on PSE for a while, and the other two used to be quite prominent but gave away most of their rep in bounties.) As for when it will reopen, I'm not sure yet, but I'll let you know ;-) You can see how the riddles are presented using the Wayback Machine link above. I'm not sure what you mean by "just a coincidence"?

Well my computer just took an hour to update, but it was, for once, worth it!

I have a ton of new accessories, my favourite being a 'vault' of sites which will open them for you, and auto sign in

I never have to sign in again!

@ArbitraryKangaroo Is what the reason for what?

Sorry if I'm being dense :-)

@Randal'Thor Could you add spoilers to that new answer under the 3 riddles?

@Alenanno This one? Done.

@Randal'Thor Yes, thank you!

@ArbitraryKangaroo Yes, we first met here on PSE and then set up the new place together.

@ArbitraryKangaroo I'm not sure I can answer this one way or the other...

I mean, I can't neither confirm nor deny that user is right, since I'm the OP. No?

@ArbitraryKangaroo Alenanno never said horse was the answer. I've asked Guest to add explanation to their answer though.

To do: come up with a good board-games puzzle in the next 8 days.

@ArbitraryKangaroo SfS?

@ArbitraryKangaroo Like I said on the question, I don't know the answer (assuming you're talking about this question).

I just thought it was an interesting variant, since in the original wording of TSLF's question, using both hands as a balance scale sounded much more realistic than being able to determine the exact weight with one hand.

@Randal'Thor I am sorry, I didn't reply as I am at home. The spacing should be correct to get the word. If you have tried everything, then I might be wrong somewhere. You could try the sum of phrase. Here's a hint. What do you do to get a sum?

Add things up?

I've already tried counting the words in each sentence ... maybe adding something like the letter counts in each word?

I'm not sure if I've tried every possible spacing of those commas and dots, but I've certainly experimented a lot. Is the final word VAN?

Oh wait, it could be STATE!

For the first word, the most sensible things I can find are PI and PEE.

The middle word is still making no sense at all ...

Ignoring the paragraph gaps, there's an ABOUT in there, but I can't make sense of the bit between ABOUT and STATE.

No, there is a single word. And it is pretty obvious

---..--...-.

As well as trying it by hand, I've plugged it into an online translator, but it's not recognising any words in there.

Added a hint. Should make it obvious now

Wait, Morse code can be solved by hand? I have always used an online translator

@Sid Woo :-D

@Sid Of course it can, if you're patient enough and/or enough of a Luddite.

@ArbitraryKangaroo you can do more fun with messages in sandbox, a chat room where you can play with chat features

@Randal'Thor you have the first part. Then, the 2nd part about sum...

Does anyone know how to change the color of the text in posts?

Thanks

Oh what

No, I know it is possible I saw a puzzle recently with it

@Sid How do you define the word "phrase"?

This question has been massively overhauled to make it much clearer. Reopen votes, anyone?