The word that jumps out at me from "A Housed Tin" is "thousand" but "thousand IE" seems useless. I agree about Observe, Moil, "the ones who hoes". I really hope this ends up being really clever rather than really stupid :-).
Yeah my big fear is it will be anagramming words from different spots together which leaves so many possibilities open that it's hard to get started at all
@Deusovi Hey I was wondering: the enigmatic-puzzle doesn't state how it must be solved, however, you can ask clearly what the objective is, right? As in, "you must find this", etc?
@Sid Not sure. IIRC in your case they're just cryptic clues that tell you how to solve the cipher, so I'm not sure whether you could call that "genuinely merged" or even unconventional.
@Sid 2 out of 8000 is not that much. :D If you need an idea, you can tell me what tag you'd like to use, and I'll tell you what you can use along with that.
I don't see the value of this answer. He's asking questions and says "AT ANY RATE, this may just be the wrong answer."... With 80 rep he should be able to post comments.
Hm... I just had an idea for a puzzle, but it would presumably look horrible on mobile. Probably even unsolvable because it'll irritate solvers. Is that a dealbreaker?
I think if the media had focused on policy, like at all, Hillary would have won in a landslide. Making it about personal scandals allows for a tribalistic false equivalency.
Although, I still can't believe Trump admits to all those felonies and is still only 3-5% behind Clinton if Polls are to be believed. Any other candidate would have been screwed by now...
In my country the elections were first scheduled on 1st July IIRC, but it's been changed twice since then, primarily because it was rigged.... Now it's on 4th December. (hopefully)
@Sid This is where I quote a rule from a fantasy series: "People are stupid, they'll believe something because they want it to be true, or because they're afraid it's true"
@LukasRotter Not sure what you mean, but if you mean forcing a line break without leaving a line empty, then put two spaces after the line with the linebreak, then go to the new line and keep writing.
LaTeX matrix syntax annoys me, to be honest. I mean, I understand why it's like that, it's just fairly difficult to work with. The \begin{bmatrix}...\end{bmatrix} is kind of unwieldy.
@Deusovi I wanted to make treasure-map, split it into a grid, and then hide information/clues/hints/puzzles/whatever in each cell (when you click on it it "zooms" in and shows another image).
Thanks all, white borders might really solve this problem. @Alenanno Probably treasure-hunt, geography, geocaching and whatever the puzzle is about [riddle, cipher, etc]. I haven't even started with the puzzle, so I'm not sure what other tags I might add.
Based only on the stuff you've said so far, without knowing anything about the underlying structure, I'd guess you really want Negate, Countermand, or Revoke
@Rubio It's just that "cancel" has other meanings in other languages and since it seems English is not his first language, I wanted to make sure of the meaning.
@RosieF Thanks, it was fun to make; I'm not really surprised XKCD is unequivocally pro-Hillary though, just surprised it was stated in such a blatant way without fancy graphs or humor
@dcfyj I'm pretty sure Peregrine Rook has the right answer to what the puzzle probably is supposed to be, but I'm not at all sure the puzzle the way he wrote it fits that answer.
SO moderator election started today. I always hope there's a corrupt nominee in there that will sneekily do evil :P I wonder how well moderators moderate moderators, but I think a bunch of "mistakes" here and there won't get too much attention :P
