The Sphinx's Lair

Beastly Gerbil

19:01

Well there's another board-game puzzle available now :P

Sconibulus

@BeastlyGerbil is a medieval rook different than a normal one?

maybe that should be modern

Beastly Gerbil

By medieval rook I mean a rook in medieval times, so same as a modern one @Sconibulus

@ArbitraryKangaroo ?

user189275

The deletion request has finally come, but I have to wait for another 23 hours :(

Avigrail

@ArbitraryKangaroo good day

Sconibulus

Bleah, this is to basically fully solve the game

user189275

19:04

@Avigrail: (?? It's night here, late 12 past 30 at night ) Yeah, good day.

Avigrail

It's also night here :D

Beastly Gerbil

@Sconibulus, I couldn't think of another question :P

user189275

So why day ? Its 12 past 30 now.

Avigrail

I move in mysterious ways

user189275

@Avigrail: You are AWESOME, Avigrail, and Jack Sparrow, and mysterious , and I am a slow sod. But, hey, I still can't understand why you mentioned good day.

dcfyj

19:09

Whoever's doing the monopoly board, I recommend marking the doubles stops (places you stop while rolling doubles) since it might be relevant, rather than only marking the end of turn landings.

GentlePurpleRain

For anyone working on my puzzle, be aware that I give the checkmark to the best answer, not necessarily the first.

Avigrail

@ArbitraryKangaroo there are mysteries in life. Some of them you will never understand

dcfyj

@GentlePurpleRain I'd work on it, but I really should work since I'm at work :P

Beastly Gerbil

@dcfyj are you not paid to work at work? So work on puzzles!

GentlePurpleRain

@dcfyj Later, then. You can whip up an amazing answer that will steal the check from any other answer! :)

dcfyj

19:15

The puzzles I get paid to work on are called programs :P

user189275

@Avigrail: But I perfectly understand 42, the biggest mystery in life :)

GentlePurpleRain

@dcfyj I bet you could write a great program to solve this...

user189275

I'm joking, of course.

dcfyj

@GentlePurpleRain If I have time, but I'm awful at solving so the idea I have in mind is probably wrong anyhow.

GentlePurpleRain

@dcfyj People made some collaborative progress in chat, shortly before you started talking.

dcfyj

19:16

@GentlePurpleRain I thought about it. Unfortunately, my computer at home isn't plugged in at the moment, we're doing electrical work so I'm wainting for that room to be done.

@GentlePurpleRain Do notice that I was part of that :P

Lukas Rotter

I work so terribly under pressure that I literally waisted 5 minutes because I accidentally counted 13 as 13, not 4... I think I can definitely give up by now, lol. :P

GentlePurpleRain

@dcfyj Oops. Didn't scroll back quite far enough to see your name...

dcfyj

Pretty sure I found all the game reference, but I may have missed one or two

On the plus side I have a monopoly board at home ^^

Lukas Rotter

19:35

I think i got the correct sentence for the monopoly puzzle, but not sure about the word RETO respectively 8ETO... Is reto a word? :P

dcfyj

not to my knowledge

user189275

@LukasRotter: What is you getting ?

Sconibulus

@LukasRotter You might have the space in the wrong place

...re to seems more likely?

dcfyj

@LukasRotter If you're posting an answer I'll look at it :P

Lukas Rotter

I think I'm going to post an answer, yeah. :P

Does this make more sense? "Re to me"... no idea.. I have to check if I spelled all the locations correctly :P

dcfyj

19:44

I bet it's "Be to me" since it's B&O railroad

you wrote B&O as 8 8 O

user189275

@LukasRotter: Add the poetry slashes

Lukas Rotter

@dcfyj Thanks, I read that "8" as a "0". lol :P

user189275

@BeastlyGerbil: Not any plant, a potatoe

Rand al'Thor

I was just about to say, there'd better bloody be a clue in the question to point to the American version of Monopoly. But there is, so it's all good :-)

Beastly Gerbil

Why a potato?

user189275

19:46

48 chromosome, has "eyes"

Rand al'Thor

I would've got bogged down with Mayfair and the Old Kent Road and Fleet Street and whatnot.

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user189275

@BeastlyGerbil: That's extrmely nonsensical hyper insta thought riddle.

dcfyj

I'm sad that the meter died on that last line @GentlePurpleRain

Beastly Gerbil

It could have been 'Please be my loving wife' and that would have worked

dcfyj

No, that's short 1 syllable

GentlePurpleRain

19:51

@dcfyj How so? Just read it with the first beat on the "be", not on the "please."

And I couldn't use "my", because of the lack of Y.

Beastly Gerbil

2 hours ago, by Beastly Gerbil

Let me guess the answer: 'Marry me' :P

:P

dcfyj

@GentlePurpleRain All the lines are 7 syllables except the last line

GentlePurpleRain

It took me a long time to come up with a phrase that didn't use D, H, Y.

dcfyj

I bet lol

GentlePurpleRain

It's not about the syllables; it's about the stress.

dcfyj

19:52

I think @BeastlyGerbil should get the check, he was the first by far :P

GentlePurpleRain

COMpleMENting ME in LIFE please BE to ME a LOVing WIFE.

dcfyj

@GentlePurpleRain The syllables are important to the meter too though.

Beastly Gerbil

Sorry @Randal'Thor :P

GentlePurpleRain

Yes, but an unstressed syllable at the beginning of the line doesn't break the metre.

Rand al'Thor

@GentlePurpleRain Wait, are people proposing marriage in the Sphinx's Lair now? I thought that was just Mos Eisley!

:-P

Beastly Gerbil

19:55

Are there even any active females! :P

user189275

@BeastlyGerbil: Maria Deleva, Rosie F

dcfyj

On the site, yes. In chat right this second, I don't think so

Rand al'Thor

@BeastlyGerbil Rosie and Maria spring to mind immediately. There are probably others too.

dcfyj

and active isn't the question at hand, available is.

Rand al'Thor

Do we even know whether @GentlePurpleRain is male? Their profile says "parent", not "paternal parent" :-P

Beastly Gerbil

19:57

O_O

user189275

@Randal'Thor: Why the moustache, then ?

GentlePurpleRain

I am male, but I don't think the presence of a female is necessary for a marriage proposal in this day and age...

Beastly Gerbil

Yes but it says wife so...

GentlePurpleRain

@BeastlyGerbil Good point. I thought we were referring to your proposal.

dcfyj

Hey you can call your significant other "wife" regardless of gender nowadays

user189275

19:59

@dcfyj: I never heard the opposite.

dcfyj

Me neither

Anyhow, I'm off for now.

Beastly Gerbil

Umm, husband?

Beastly Gerbil

20:16

Wow, consecutive repcaps, first time ever

user189275

@BeastlyGerbil: What's that ?

Beastly Gerbil

@ArbitraryKangaroo what repcap?

You can only get 200 rep each day - that is the repcap

user189275

@BeastlyGerbil: Oh ! Rep cap.

Lukas Rotter

20:44

@GentlePurpleRain Please advise me how I could improve my answer (assuming it still lacks quality). Is the formatting bad or didn't I see all the hints? :P

GentlePurpleRain

@LukasRotter It looks better now. You are still missing one of the hidden game pieces; but that's not a big deal. The only other thing I would mention is that Monopoly exists pretty much worldwide. There are many different varieties in different locales, which is why the "American" hint.

(i.e. If you tried this with the U.K. version of Monopoly (as @Randal'Thor mentioned above), you wouldn't get very far.)

Lukas Rotter

@GentlePurpleRain Ah, I forgot "hat". Thanks for the suggestions, I will edit it soon. :P

GentlePurpleRain

@LukasRotter Also, I'm not sure why you call the gameboard spaces "fields." They are generally referred to as "properties."

Lukas Rotter

@GentlePurpleRain Because "field" the literal translation of what it's called in my language. I'll fix that too. :P

Sconibulus

@GentlePurpleRain well, the Taxes and Go aren't exactly 'Properties'... I'd probably use the generic 'Square' or 'Space'

GentlePurpleRain

20:52

@Sconibulus Good point.

Alenanno

21:13

Hey all

Lukas Rotter

I'm not sure if cipher should be added to the tags of the Monopoly puzzle, since it's essentially an encoding? So I'm not sure if an encoding is a subcategory of cipher here. Is it not tagged with it because if you have to move +7 it can be encoded in multiple different ways, therefore it's not a "standard" code? :P

Alenanno

22:52

@dcfyj @ArbitraryKangaroo The third puzzle is basically finished. I have to check it to see that there are no mistakes, but it seems ok.

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