The Sphinx's Lair

Khale_Kitha

18:00

Yeah, that is rather aggravating, Matt.

"I swear I JUST laid down..."

TheGreatEscaper

Any sleep paralysis experiences here? I kind of love them, in a weird way.

IAmInPLS

The most vivd dreams for me are in the morning, when I try to go asleep again, after having waken up too early

Khale_Kitha

TGE, go to sleep.

Matt

I take naps on the bus every day, and I've slept so hard therein, that I've drempt

TheGreatEscaper

...sorry mum!

Khale_Kitha

18:00

hehe

TheGreatEscaper

Fine

heading off now :P

Gnight PSE!!!

Khale_Kitha

Chao!

(did I spell that right?)

Matt

Good night, and good luck

IAmInPLS

Gn!

Matt

chiao ?

Khale_Kitha

18:01

I don't recall

Mithrandir

Ciao!

Khale_Kitha

ah, ty

Beastly Gerbil

I learnt an interesting fact: those who sleep on their right are less likely to dream while those who sleep on their left are more likely to have dreams and nightmares. It's to do with the hemispheres...

Luckily I sleep on my right :P

Mithrandir

@BeastlyGerbil myth?

Matt

hm?

I sleep on my left

Beastly Gerbil

18:02

No fact @Mithrandir

Matt

barely dream at night

Khale_Kitha

I've noticed that "Those who sleep on their" is somewhat annoying... since I sleep on all sides.

Mithrandir

Sneek peek of upcoming puzzle:

Continuing with your progress, I see. Onwards with your hunt! Until you solve this puzzle, however, you aren't going anywhere. No way to avoid it.

To solve this puzzle, it is mostly the same as the previous puzzle like it. Don't make the mistake of thinking this will be easy - it's really not. On the bottom part of this plaque, there are several types of puzzles. On your neck is your head. Kryptics, sudoku, enigmatic-puzzle - it's all there. Unless you want to stay here, you must solve it.

Beastly Gerbil

@Khale_Kitha :P

Chris Cudmore

If I sleep on my right, my wife kicks me when I snore.

Mithrandir

18:02

I sometimes end up upside down when I sleep

Like, feet on pillow

Beastly Gerbil

wah, how?

Khale_Kitha

I imagined you on your head, with your feet touching the ceiling.

Mithrandir

@Khale_Kitha Fairly easy

Khale_Kitha

Put another pillow between your knees, Mith - might help - also with your back.

Chris Cudmore

If one of my boys crawls in at 2 am, it's like sleeping with a helicopter.

Khale_Kitha

18:03

Yeah

Mithrandir

If I sit up the wrong way I smack my head on the ceiling

#Loftbed

Matt

once I tried to push my wife out of the bed while asleep

Mithrandir

She must've appreciated that.

Khale_Kitha

Yeah, I used to have a bunkbed in a room with a ceiling fan. Let me say that you learn spacial awareness...

Matt

she tried to move my elbow because I was taking up too much room. I pushed back, apparently

Mithrandir

18:04

Oh, that's why my mother sleeps with an ax under the bed...

Matt

KK, I see a lot of things in here that cue wordplay for me.

but there's no wordplay tag ... ?

Khale_Kitha

There might be a very small part that's wordplay....sort of....not enough for the puzzle to be considered for the genre.

Beastly Gerbil

end of forever = er/r something like that...

Khale_Kitha

What if it's 'orever'?

=D

Beastly Gerbil

or ever? or not or ever? that is the question...

Khale_Kitha

18:08

Re-looking at the tag definition, MAtt

Meh, definition doesn't really tell me much

Matt

I was just trying to make anything of the first line

but I have no idea who Cook is and why he's barking

Beastly Gerbil

bark = embark on a journey?

might clue 'em'

Mithrandir

@ChrisCudmore Can you change the 4th to not refernece b**kh***? (not offensive, just spoilers) I use that word somewhere else, and need it to not be there

Sconibulus

Cook was Hawaii, right?

Matt

my "round" interpretation of the second line might be "o"

and each line resolves to a letter

Khale_Kitha

18:11

I'm going to put wordplay on there, because it could be it, but...

Honestly....I don't really know what the tag means - and the definition feels useless to me

Beastly Gerbil

James Cook

Captain James Cook FRS RN (7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager and joined the Royal Navy in 1755. He saw action in the Seven Years' War, and subsequently surveyed and mapped much of the entrance...

He found ausralia hawaii, new zealand...

Sconibulus

yeah, wordplay's definition sucks, but I have a really hard time defining it

so I haven't fixed it yet

Matt

Cook's bark is endeavor

Sconibulus

if you feel capable of fixing it, it desperately needs fixing

Mithrandir

@BeastlyGerbil you need another .5k rep

:P

Matt

18:12

"...his commission in 1766 as commander of HM Bark Endeavour for the first of three Pacific voyages."

Khale_Kitha

The actual description of it's not bad....once you click further into it. The summary is bad. Might try to look at it, later.

Matt

good find, BG

Sconibulus

Oh right, there's a ship type called a Barque

Beastly Gerbil

@Mithrandir ah but I don't have a load of accounts or random sites which give me 101 rep :P

Mithrandir

Those don't count anyway

Only sites with 200+ rep

SO you need

ANother .5k

Beastly Gerbil

18:13

really? oh

Chris Cudmore

@Mithrandir Seen. We had a couple others I'll dig out. But I did like the structure of that clue!

Beastly Gerbil

Well Puzzling is basically my only 'good' site

Sconibulus

you have almost as much on Puzzling alone as I have across the network

Beastly Gerbil

:P

Sconibulus

I must suck at Stacking :)

Chris Cudmore

18:17

@Mithrandir sent. But it's not as much fun.

Khale_Kitha

Two answers have been given.

Chris Cudmore

I've got one answer on Stackoverflow that nets me about 2-300 rep a month.

731 votes on that one.

Khale_Kitha

TRE :P

Matt

is TwoBit correct?

Khale_Kitha

He is, except for his reasoning for the second paragraph.

Matt

18:19

oh

well then I'll stop digging my rabbit hole

Khale_Kitha

hehe

You could help him with that part =D

Matt

I was thinking "and ever," which is slightly changed endeavor

Khale_Kitha

Honestly, there's a ton of missed clues in his answer.

But his reasoning is sound.

Chris Cudmore

Ok. I'll be back. I really need to get to the Boy Scout office.

Matt

a round trip endeavor

Mithrandir

18:22

Okay

Rand al'Thor

@IAmInPLS @Mithrandir No. Don't close plagiarised questions; flag them for mod attention so that they can be deleted.

Mithrandir

They can be deleted after being closed

Rand al'Thor

It's technically not off-topic.

Closing it sends the wrong message.

Mithrandir

Like either 10k or 20k you can VTD closed questions

Rand al'Thor

I'm tempted to vote to reopen it, just so that its final state can be open and deleted.

Mithrandir

18:26

raises eyebrow

Rand al'Thor

@Mithrandir 10k, yes. It still takes at least three people though.

Mithrandir

Yeah, so I just need another 6373 rep :P

Sid

Okay, I need a clarification.. How is lieutenant pronounced? Leftenant or Lootenant?

Mithrandir

b

IAmInPLS

@Randal'Thor Alright, was not sure

Rand al'Thor

18:30

@Sid Leftenant.

Or Lootenant if you're American.

Beastly Gerbil

he's indian

Sid

Oh, So, Americans pronounce it as Lootenant and British as Leftenant?

Techidiot

^ Yes.

Sid

@BeastlyGerbil British ruled us for 200 years. We follow British English.

Beastly Gerbil

Oh you do? I knew about the victorian empire, didn't know the language was still related...

Sid

18:33

It depends. Some people use British English, some American.

I think, most people use British English..

Beastly Gerbil

well considering britain is becoming more and more american I assumed that India may have already turned american, as english hasn't as stong a hold there

surprising

Sid

Well, 1.2 bn people are there. I can't say for the majority. But, Whom I know, mostly use British English..

Techidiot

Actually, Indian English is totally different now and has its own name.

Rand al'Thor

I'll take the U in colour and the S in maths with me to my grave.

Beastly Gerbil

With you there!

Techidiot

18:37

A good number of words are still pronounced like British but not all. There's a good reference here

Sid

Yeah, Maths always has an "S". It is even lucky for me... :P

Beastly Gerbil

Thats why I'm happy the tag here is mathematics to avoid WW3 on this site on math v maths

Rand al'Thor

@BeastlyGerbil It didn't use to be.

There are meta posts about it.

Sconibulus

math is the future

Rand al'Thor

20

Q: Can we have the tag **maths** as a synonym for *math* please

Being British, the tag math feels very ungrammatical for me so I'd like to be able to write maths and have it treated identically. Addendum. Community sentiment seems to agree on changing math to mathematics, for which math and maths would be aliases.

Beastly Gerbil

18:40

+1 +1 +1

Rand al'Thor

-2

Q: The [math] tag is pointless

In my opinion, the tag [math] is pretty useless, as we already have the following tags: Geometry Arithmetic Combinatorics Probability Number-theory Every math puzzle can be identified with one of those categories, except Algebra problems, but puzzling isn't meant for Algebra I guess. What I'm...

discussion tag-synonyms

Matt

NOOO! 'MURCAH!

Sconibulus

the shortening of words is inevitable

Beastly Gerbil

-1 -1 -1

Sconibulus

eventually all of our words will look german

kolor

Rand al'Thor

18:41

@Sconibulus Btw, I didn't realise you'd been around for so long! I was looking through some user lists today and noticed you've been on PSE for about the same time as me. I always thought of you as one of the new crowd :-P

Beastly Gerbil

:P

Matt

if by german you mean emoji, then yes

Sconibulus

@Randal'Thor I really am, my first post was more than a year after I joined the site technically :)

Sid

@Techidiot You should give hints to your riddle now... I can't concentrate till I understand what the hell is going on in that puzzle..

Khale_Kitha

Okay, clues are finalized, Matt.

Matt

18:47

hm?

ooh

would not have gotten the airline

I think I have my metacryptic ready ... but I'm unsure of the clues' quality

Khale_Kitha

Yeah, I realize that the airline clue was a bit regional, so I feel bad for that part.

Though, also searchable.

Matt

I guess the only way to find out is to submit them to the judging public ...

Beastly Gerbil

happy to give feedback...

Techidiot

@Sid Added 2 more lines just for you!

:)

Chris Cudmore

back.

Khale_Kitha

18:52

wb

Sid

I am literally slamming my head on my bed and thinking, "what is that thing"?

Techidiot

It's a "kind" of steganography

But, the riddle speaks about the answer as well

Khale_Kitha

I had an idea about the answer, earlier, Tech - I'm just not sure enough of it to post..

And your clues haven't told me yes or no

lol

Is the answer in English?

Beastly Gerbil

well if they haven't told you 'yes' then probably not...

post anyway :P

Khale_Kitha

It's more that I don't get anything useful from the clues, lol

Rand al'Thor

18:56

@Techidiot In each line (except the two new ones), there's a comma or full stop in the middle dividing two separate phrases. Maybe the steganography part has something to do with that?

Khale_Kitha

I'm reasonably sure my ideas don't pan out, so I'll just mention them, here.

I figure the 'Elders' are the capital letters.

There's only a few in the first part but they can spell "ICE"

Beastly Gerbil

more cryptic rebuses...

Khale_Kitha

They can also spell "ICI".

Which can match: It's vague but I stay here, I will say.

Techidiot

@Randal'Thor Not relevant.

Matt

how do I make small text?

Chris Cudmore

18:59

3 Elders could also mean ROT(-3) of some subset of the letters.

Techidiot

Riddle speaks about two things

Khale_Kitha

You can /$ \small typehere $ if I recall

Techidiot

1. The answer

2. The steganographic way to get the answer

No Rot's

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