The Sphinx's Lair

Techidiot

12:26

@Will- Is it QUIRE? Nobleman Beheaded (S)QUIRE?

Will

Yup :)

Techidiot

Hmm.. Let me think

IAmInPLS

@Techidiot Give me another 'simple' one like earlier :-P

Techidiot

Haha

Beastly Gerbil

These new CCCCs aren't lasting very long are they.... :P

IAmInPLS

12:38

No, they're not

already 4 done since I came

@BeastlyGerbil What is your latest hat for ??

Beastly Gerbil

I have a new hat?

The trophy one?

Think that was get a hat and your site has 20 unique hats (something like that)

IAmInPLS

No, the one with a big number

8 243 721

IIRC

Beastly Gerbil

Oh that one. Don't know its a secret one.

IAmInPLS

Damn

Ok, on the chase for elementary, sorry for the Hot queue ^^

Beastly Gerbil

I should get 'search you must' in a second

IAmInPLS

12:44

I got it too

Will

I had to search four days rather than three to get that one :/

Beastly Gerbil

New puzzle

Techidiot

CCCC: Rodent trapped behind turned jar, West Indian Jewel(6)

Beastly Gerbil

Note I'm creating a docs sheet with the writing on it

Done

IAmInPLS

12:59

OOOOh Damn!! Two hats in the same time!

Taco hat and Elementary

Beastly Gerbil

Nice

IAmInPLS

@BeastlyGerbil I'm now #3 with you :-P

And I'm going to read your puzzle

Beastly Gerbil

Nooooo.....

:P

dcfyj

Lively chat this morning

or evening depending where you are

IAmInPLS

Hello @dcfyj

dcfyj

13:01

'lo

IAmInPLS

Actually, it's 2:00 PM here

Beastly Gerbil

1PM here

IAmInPLS

And it's Thursday so, not the morning

dcfyj

Lively chat today*

IAmInPLS

('cause it could be a Sunday morning)

dcfyj

13:02

@IAmInPLS Thursday doesn't have a morning?

Techidiot

@BeastlyGerbil- What are the color names? Can you give the names in the sequence of there appearance? here

IAmInPLS

@dcfyj No, I meant that I don't usually wake up at 2pm on Thursday, whereas i can do it on Sundays

@BeastlyGerbil imgur-maze ?

Beastly Gerbil

@Techidiot can't do that, but I can guide you here

@IAmInPLS nothing to do with imgur

IAmInPLS

Starred your CCCC @Techidiot

Sphinx

1

Q: El Circo de Desconcertante

Well. It took you long enough. But finally you have tracked El Circo de Desconcertante down to this door in this dismal alley. You knew you wouldn't just be allowed in, so you've come prepared with the information you need. Now it's just a matter of saying the right thing...

Techidiot

13:03

@IAmInPLS Thanks.

Beastly Gerbil

@Sphinx you're 15 minutes late you know

IAmInPLS

@BeastlyGerbil Yes, it has something to do with the tag. Look at the previous questions!

Beastly Gerbil

Well, you're not looking for imgur photos. You have all the photos you need. So I won't tag it that, because you don't need anything else to proceed

The only imgur bit is clicking on the images

IAmInPLS

@BeastlyGerbil That is what the tag was created for

Display name

Rule #21 in chat: If you don't want to start a discussion, never say "morning", "day", "evening", "night" or any term that describes the current time.

Beastly Gerbil

13:07

'A puzzle in which you need to find and follow links to successive i.stack.imgur images in order to progress.'

IAmInPLS

Or, I believe so, seeing the questions

Beastly Gerbil

@IAmInPLS that's the tag wiki ^

Has anyone translated El Circo de Desconcertante yet? :P

Sconibulus

usually at least one link is somehow 'hidden' in an imgur maze

Beastly Gerbil

yeah nothing imgury here

Sconibulus

(My puzzle hides them the best way, I think)

IAmInPLS

13:08

'Right, 'right

@Sconibulus Still unsolved ?

dcfyj

@Displayname I don't mind starting discussions, this is a chat room, you're supposed to discuss things :P

Sconibulus

sadly, yes

IAmInPLS

@BeastlyGerbil That has no sense, does it?

Display name

@dcfyj It's extremely repetitive, though.

dcfyj

meh

Beastly Gerbil

13:09

@IAmInPLS what does? El Circo de Desconcertante?

Sconibulus

my guess is "The disconcerting circus"

IAmInPLS

@Sconibulus Well, I did some Spanish

It's more: The circus of disconcerting

Sconibulus

I don't think the of would translate

Beastly Gerbil

Well Google Translate doesn't get it quite right, it's supposed to be the Circus of Puzzling

dcfyj

@IAmInPLS That's a literal translation

IAmInPLS

13:11

Not literal, it is The Puzzling Circus

@dcfyj Yeah I know :-P

dcfyj

@BeastlyGerbil When I put puzzling in g-translate I get misterioso

which is more mysterious than anything

IAmInPLS

El misterioso circo

I think we're getting played by Goggle Translate

Beastly Gerbil

Oh well, the name doesn't really matter :P

Meanwhile, someone got the first step right...

Although he didn't realise it was ASCII encoded...

dcfyj

yup, because I put circus of puzzling and got
Circo de desconcierto

Beastly Gerbil

And if you put 'the' in front you get deconcertante

dcfyj

13:14

ah

Beastly Gerbil

Okay, btw I am going to refrain from any hints this time (unless people get really stuck)

dcfyj

Of course, you only just posted it :P

Beastly Gerbil

No it's just I usually help a bit in chat... :P

Jim

I missed so much CCCC

IAmInPLS

Yeah, let people think

Jim

13:16

Thinking is good

dcfyj

Hello person I've not seen in here before

Beastly Gerbil

he's been here the last few days...

IAmInPLS

@dcfyj Well, he's a member for 4 days

Let him some time :-P

dcfyj

I don't recall seeing him tuesday and I was rather not in the mood for internet yesterday (wasn't well)

Techidiot

@BeastlyGerbil- The note has "cab" twice. Is that intentional or an error?

Beastly Gerbil

13:21

typo...

Jim

@BeastlyGerbil how did ensure the colors retained the correct data? That's what I tried with my puzzle but was sure the colors changed slightly when saving

Techidiot

Oh okay

Beastly Gerbil

@Jim yeah I had that problem (try it on the original circus poster and you don't get the right results). I think it's because if you save it as jpeg then lossy compression will cause the colours to change slightly, so I made sure the colours were right and saved as PNG and it worked...

IAmInPLS

@BeastlyGerbil Was bout to say that (jpg vs. png)

Techidiot

@BeastlyGerbil- I love your art! You can later post a guide for making these. May be with some tools to be used. We are paint users :( This is fascinating

Jim

13:24

@BeastlyGerbil I tried PNG too, but it changed the values by one bit here and there

@BeastlyGerbil excited to try yours if it's still there when I'm finally in the office

Beastly Gerbil

@Jim I imagine it will be. It's pretty hard

Jim

Faaaaantastic

@BeastlyGerbil you should try the one I created since it has at least one concept you already know :)

Beastly Gerbil

@Techidiot yeah I don't use paint :P. I use Sketchbook. It's pretty good, think it costs £20 a year, and I'd definitely recommend it. I believe they made the movie 'The book of life' on it, so it's very good...

And I mainly make images, by taking images offline, then drawing over them :P. Maybe adding a bit of shadow or so on...

IAmInPLS

@BeastlyGerbil Sketchbook is love, Sketchbook is life

Beastly Gerbil

Ah no not that...

My aim by the end of the year is to have all the posts shown in your profile to be over 20. Hopefully this will get there to fulfill that

@Techidiot oh I fixed the typo

Saiid

13:36

Jeez, did I miss 5 CCCC's while I was asleep?!

TheGreatEscaper

Hulloo

Beastly Gerbil

@Saiid yep :P

IAmInPLS

@TheGreatEscaper o/

Beastly Gerbil

@TheGreatEscaper hello!

Saiid

@TheGreatEscaper Ello

@BeastlyGerbil Wow.

Let's see...

Rodent = RAT, most likely..

trapped behind is a position indicator

IAmInPLS

13:39

Turned jar = raj?

Beastly Gerbil

turned jar = raj

TheGreatEscaper

Isn't there a more recent CCCC?

Beastly Gerbil

ninja'd :P

TheGreatEscaper

Gentlepurplerain's

IAmInPLS

@TheGreatEscaper Well, it's only 48 minutes old

@TheGreatEscaper Twas solved

TheGreatEscaper

13:39

I don't even know how to navigate this site

Saiid

@TheGreatEscaper GPR's is about 8 hours old, mate.

TheGreatEscaper

Why are the starred comments on the side out of order?

IAmInPLS

@TheGreatEscaper You'll elanr :-)

TheGreatEscaper

Oh, they are in order

but there are two different types of stars for some reason

and for some reason GPR's CCCC is a hollow star

Beastly Gerbil

yeah the empty middle ones are pinned

IAmInPLS

13:40

@TheGreatEscaper The empty stars are the pinned ones

Saiid

That means it's pinned

Beastly Gerbil

ninja'd you all :P

Saiid

ah, ninja'd twice

IAmInPLS

@BeastlyGerbil You ninja'd this time

TheGreatEscaper

Why is GPR'S still pinned?

Saiid

13:41

and again

@TheGreatEscaper no room owners online atm

Display name

@TheGreatEscaper Because no room owners are here during christmas time, apparently

Saiid

ninja'd :P

IAmInPLS

Ok, ninja time

Saiid

and again :P

TheGreatEscaper

Isn't deusovi a room owner?

He's been around

Saiid

13:41

Yeah

IAmInPLS

Gentlemen, prepare your keyboards

Saiid

probably just forgot

IAmInPLS

He's a mod

Beastly Gerbil

'last seen 10 secs ago'

Saiid

lol

Display name

13:45

That "last seen" stat must be flawed. There's no way everyone in the room is camping all the time.

Saiid

yes, no way at all...

Alright, let's try going in a different direction

def. rodent

turned jar = raj

west indiaN jeweL?

:/

that's not 6, though

Bungicasse

Hey guys, I'm rather new to puzzling. How would you go about solving the El Circo de Desconcertante. I mean, what is your thought process??

Beastly Gerbil

I created a chat room for my circus as I really think this is going to take quite a while to solve

Sconibulus

Jar doesn't have to be jar though

Saiid

true

Will

13:50

I thought maybe if turned was an anagram indicator it could somehow be jerboa but I can't see how you'd get the e, b, and o

Saiid

actually, what if we interpreted 'behind' as 'trappeD behind'

IAmInPLS

@Bungicasse For me, I'll let the other doing :-P

Sconibulus

Nacre looks almost promising

Saiid

?

Alright, I'm almost positive that it's to be interpreted close to this:

Sconibulus

I think pearls are nacre, and it starts with can

It would need to be a derivative word to get six, obviously

Saiid

13:52

Rodent(def) trappeD behind turned jar(RAJ), west Indian Jewel

unfortunately, that's 5 consonants with a single vowel

dcfyj

Wouldn't West be Indian Jewel?

Will

^

IAmInPLS

^

Saiid

shush, I just woke up, okay?

Bungicasse

How do you guys do that, I understand nothing.

dcfyj

13:53

lol

Saiid

lol

dcfyj

West is cluing the left parts of the words

Display name

@Saiid "5 consonants with a single vowel" :)

Techidiot

@BeastlyGerbil- Any free ones? :p

Saiid

arg stop it

dcfyj

13:54

@Bungicasse You should take a look at this. It's rather informative.

Saiid

anyway, that leaves us with D RAJ I J

dcfyj

Hard to make a word out of that lol

Saiid

lol

or, if we interpret 'jar' loosely as 'can', D NAC I J

Display name

It's 100% the world famous DJ Naci, his nickname is "The Rodent"...

dcfyj

lol

GentlePurpleRain

14:04

@Techidiot I'm guessing it's supposed to be GUJARAT (JUG reversed, followed by RAT), but there's a word-length discrepancy there.

TheGreatEscaper

Seems correct

If it isn't, then that's a very interesting coincidence

dcfyj

GPR, mind pinning the current C4?

Sconibulus

it is pinned?

IAmInPLS

It's already done

dcfyj

Oh, I hadn't looked over there :P

Saiid

14:07

@Displayname +1

@GentlePurpleRain Where do you get the A from?

IAmInPLS

Dear Santa, can I have a Guru badge for Christmas? I only need 3 upvotes, and I've been very kind all the year.

37

A: What does this group of numbers represent?

I don't know if it is the right solution, but if we consider: Then I got this explanation:

I have not any shame :-P

Saiid

'once' of shame. nice

Beastly Gerbil

No-one made any progress on my puzzle?

Saiid

we've made progress

Beastly Gerbil

any more though? :P

GentlePurpleRain

14:14

@Saiid That's where I'm saying there's a discrepancy

Display name

@Deusovi @Emrakul @GentlePurpleRain Would you mind if I included mods with names similar to yours in a puzzle? They wouldn't act very "mod-like", that's why I'm asking.

Sconibulus

you really like making edits, don't you Gerbil

GentlePurpleRain

@Displayname Doesn't bother me. I can't speak for the others.

Beastly Gerbil

@Sconibulus badge hunting

GentlePurpleRain

Although if you're using similar names, you're probably covered under parody "fair use".

IAmInPLS

14:16

@BeastlyGerbil Only 45 to go

Beastly Gerbil

yep :P

Display name

Deusovi is also OK with it, I guess

Nov 13 at 18:49, by Deusovi

@LukasRotter Feel free to include me as a corrupt overlord. I won't mind. :P

Will

14:29

Perhaps for Emrakul you could just take a different MTG card :P

Sconibulus

I nominate Ulamog

Display name

@Will Yep, I had Ulamog in mind

Well

Sconibulus

or Kozilek, if you're sneaky

Display name

Lemme just give away the current names then, and tell me what you think about them:

CruelYellowAridity, Sireenc, Ulamog

Beastly Gerbil

sireenc?

Display name

14:31

Anagrammed "sincere" the same way "devious" was anagrammed.

Beastly Gerbil

aah ok

Display name

Sir Eenc, maybe? :P

dcfyj

Ulamog, lol

Sphinx

0

Q: It's skinny for the smartest chaps, a combination lock perhaps

I am stuck on this riddle and cannot seem to find a link between the two phrases 'It's skinny for the smartest chaps, A combination lock perhaps' What is it?

riddle rhyme

TheGreatEscaper

Looks too broad...

IAmInPLS

14:41

Yay, 2 more upvotes and that'll be it

Saiid

I have a serious problem

I've been doing nothing but watch Pentatonix for the last half hour

Display name

You're doomed. It was nice knowing you.

GentlePurpleRain

@Displayname I wouldn't even recognize the connection. I thought it would be something like GentleVioletRain.

Beastly Gerbil

How about HarshVioletHail?

dcfyj

Oh no, not HVH, GPR's evil twin!

Beastly Gerbil

14:48

@GentlePurpleRain I never actually asked, why GentlePurpleRain? :P

dcfyj

Because he wanted to be a backwards RPG?

2

Sconibulus

it sounds like a gfycat url

dcfyj

It's quite possible he has no particular reason for his name, like me.

Beastly Gerbil

and me :P

Sconibulus

I'm a bastardization of a little scone

dcfyj

14:51

Maybe I should rename myself something like "Dynamic Closet Fork Youth Jumping"

Saiid

Can you rename yourself?

IAmInPLS

@dcfyj "Damn, Come Forward, You Jelly"

dcfyj

heh

Beastly Gerbil

@Saiid yep

Sconibulus

I always thought dcfyj was short for Delta Charlie Foxtrot Yankee Juliet

dcfyj

14:53

In a way yes, I suppose

Sconibulus

which is clearly the change in dancing chucks over starcrossed northern lovers

dcfyj

DeeCeeEffOuaiJay

IAmInPLS

Ouaï *

:-p

dcfyj

heh, I didn't bother putting the Umlaut on :P

Saiid

I finally just closed out all the tabs

IAmInPLS

14:57

Wise decision

Saiid

lol

Beastly Gerbil

Yeah I had to do that this morning because they'd all got so small that I didn't know which was which

Display name

Oct 6 at 20:07, by Deusovi

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