The Sphinx's Lair

Rand al'Thor

00:11

@Emrakul As a Lojban enthusiast, I suspect you'll be interested to know that SFF has just received an answer from the founder of the Language Creation Society, in their official capacity as LCS spokesperson, providing us with all the filings (yes, all of them) in the Paramount vs Axanar legal case about the Klingon language.

That answer is going to get bountied up to the nines.

TrojanByAccident

01:05

Greetings, @ChrisCudmore

Chris Cudmore

Does this mean we're doing cccc in Klingon now?

Greetings.

Rubio

That can't make them any more difficult to solve.... :)

TrojanByAccident

@Rubio It might, actually, as language definitions change

Chris Cudmore

I'm going to define RICKLE§S as meaning "Not exhibiting allergic reaction " and claim the win.

Will

wow you got it

Chris Cudmore

01:10

I don't know how that § got in thete

Rand al'Thor

can't tell if @Will is joking or not

> Where the wild things came from, for pranksters? (6)

Any of you crossword heads got a lead on this?

Chris Cudmore

He would have given it to me when I mentioned it earlier. He even made a joke about it.

Rand al'Thor

It's going to be something related to books or literature.

TrojanByAccident

@ChrisCudmore indeed.

2 hours ago, by Will

False. "Rickless" means that Rick Astley did, in fact, run around and desert you.

As seen 20 messages above :P

Will

That's true, I did joke about it, but to be fair RICKLE§S is an entirely different word.

Rand al'Thor

01:16

R1⊂≮£€$$

TheGreatEscaper

I think I have the answer. Is it RÍÇKŁÊŠS?

Rand al'Thor

Ha!

Alconja

I note that "trolling" is also 8 letters long...

Rand al'Thor

GMTA, @TheGreatEscaper :-D

TheGreatEscaper

:P

Alconja

01:18

Google Me This Acronym?

TrojanByAccident

@Randal'Thor it's ,-1(|<l355

@Alconja Get My Tushy Aroused

Rand al'Thor

If anyone wants a fun and easy cryptic clue to pass the time until Will's is solved, you can have this one for free:

> Great, formerly incarcerated tree spirit (9)

TrojanByAccident

Guys, I've got it

RICKROLL

per this Google Search

Volatility

@Randal'Thor Is "incarcerated" a synonym of CELL?

Alconja

I wouldn't have said so. Incarcerated is imprisoned, and cell is more the prison itself.

TheGreatEscaper

01:27

@Will this is my final guess. If it's not the answer, consider yourself a cryptic god.

҉҉҉҉҉҉҂҉҉҉҉҉҉҉҉҂҉҉҉҉҉҉҉҉҂҉҉҉҉҉҉҈҈҈҈҈҉҂҉҉҉҉҉҉҂҉҉҉҉҉ ԆΐϾḴ╚₠ᵴﯓ ҉҉҉҉҉҉҂҉҉҉҉҉҉҉҉҂҉҉҉҉҉҉҉҉҂҉҉҉҉҉҉҈҈҈҈҈҉҂҉҉҉҉҉҉҂҉҉҉҉҉

Rand al'Thor

R̡̛̝̪͉̞̣̩͉͉̤̈̑̇̅̋̎̐͘͝Ỉ͇͕͕͇̠͎̘̞̝̟̄̋͗͆̈́͌̽̏̇Ć̛̛̺̝̰̞̱̱̥͓̜͕̄͂̈́͊̕͘̕K̞̠̟͉̜̭̓͒̇͐̆̈̽̕͠͝‌̟̻̠̲L̢̛͖͕̼͈̭̠̥̪͋̂͌̔̐͆̐͆̕͜É͕̤͖̹̰̖̬͖͎̘̈́̓̆̀͆́͌͝͝S̯̱͍͓͔͍͇͙̬̋͌̑̓̋̂̄̌̔̕ͅŚ̛͔͍̻̽͒́͊͛̈͐̕‌̙̯̣̝̲͎̙

Will

I've been waiting for the Zalgo

TrojanByAccident

My final guess is RICKROLL, as per the search above

R̢̡̢̢̛̲͙̟͚̞̱͈̳͔̟͚̟̥̮̮̟̗̠̤̟̻̦̮̮̓̽̈́͌̈́̅̀́̈́̒͌̀̈̓̄̈́̆͛̍̄̇̿̇̒́̈́̕̕͜͜͝Ĭ̊͌̊̈́͛͌̆͐̎̇͌̔͒͛̇̚͝‌̨̨̙̯̺̙͍̜̳̪͇̠͇͓͎̖̲̖͙̣̥̣͓̯̘͉͖͕̤̽̑͛̅̇͐̎̅́̓̕̕͜Ç̛̻͇͉̝͉̣̟̔̋͊̈́͆̽͛̆̅̾̂̆̒̎̍͑͂̀̐̊͂̈̇̿̇̒͗̽͠‌̟͇̖̝̣͈͈͙̺̫͇͙̱̼͖̳͈̣̻̭͜ͅĶ̡̨̰̟̝̳̫̹̤͓̘̫̘̥̖̪̥̣̩̤̻͖̭̰̥̦̣͂̃͐̍̆̒̃͋͒̀̏͋̍̑͆̉͛̅̊́̌̓͗͂͘͘̕͝͠͝‌̝̺R̢̛͙̝̲͚̻̝̜͙͖͔̘̟̮̺͉͕͉̮͇̤̜͙̫̫͔͕̲͇͛̈́́͑̋̐̎̉́̀͂̄̃̓͆̑̒̋̐̒̒́̚͘̚͝͠͝͠ͅƠ̈̑̈́̓̽͛̿̓͊͗̿̏̀̾̚͠‌̨̡̡̛̲̘̝̙̼͓̱̬͙̱̥̥͕̤̩͚͔̗̱̤͔̙̘̰̦͓̐̑̓̋̐͌̒͒͆͐͋͘ͅĻ̲̗̖̝̥̪̀̾͆̇̏̈́̿̌̀̎̂̆͒̀̍̐͗̔̒́͑͆̉̅̈̍̅͆̃͘‌̢̧̧̱̮͙̞̞̦̼̹̯̮͉͍̳̼̠̪͉̠ͅͅĻ̧̧̛͙̜̱̰̝̠̜̙̝͙̣̰̙̹̗̪̮̠͈̰͙̲͎̒̌̏̾́̈́̐͆̾͋̈́͊̎͐̄̄̃͛̈͐̋͑̇̾͋̎̚͜͝͝‌̢̩͈

Rand al'Thor

Let's ... not go too far with this.

TheGreatEscaper

@Randal'Thor and @TrojanByAccident this is just ridiculous now :P

Rand al'Thor

01:33

I know I started it, but enough's enough.

TrojanByAccident

@TheGreatEscaper Indeed

TheGreatEscaper

Hang on, 'The Carpenters' is a song by Rick Astley?

Alconja

But it's carpenter (singular), and lower case (which if I understand correctly means it can't be referring to a proper noun)

Will

Correct, "carpenter" does not refer to a proper noun.

y'all were close and now you're not

Chris Cudmore

Back to ant.

Rand al'Thor

01:37

Does punctuation matter in cryptic clues?

Chris Cudmore

Not usually.

Rand al'Thor

For instance, in this puzzle, was it OK to have a comma between "rosemary" and "first" even though "rosemary, first" was meant to be interpreted as R? Or is that considered dodgy?

Alconja

Pretty sure that's fine

Chris Cudmore

That's fine

Rand al'Thor

Good, good.

Chris Cudmore

01:39

Could perhaps be I.E.?

Antiexxx

Rand al'Thor

Could just "reaction" be the def?

TheGreatEscaper

But then 'had no allergic' becomes a really dodgy phrase

Volatility

@ChrisCudmore IE is "that is"; "perhaps" might be EG (although "perhaps" would already be used with "The carpenter, perhaps" if it clues ANT)

Will

apparently I need to add a knowledge tag to the CCCC

Rand al'Thor

@Will Grrr.

Will

01:44

@Randal'Thor Eggers

Chris Cudmore

Ok, by this time I've solved a couple of cross letters.

Don't make me brute force all 8 letter words!

Rand al'Thor

@Will Blimey, that's obscure.

Thanks!

Will

@ChrisCudmore Ugh fine. Let's say you've solved two of the three imaginary cross letters: -I---E--

Volatility

@Randal'Thor next one is QUEST

Rand al'Thor

@Volatility How the heck.

I'm so cryp at craptic clues :-(

Volatility

01:54

def: "Crusade", hidden in ("of the") campbellesQUE SToryteller

Rand al'Thor

Ugh. I was looking for an &lit solution, because of the exclamation mark :-/

Will

I mean... you could have gotten it that way

maybe

with some luck

Rand al'Thor

No, the word I'm thinking of right now isn't quite "luck".

:-P

When I went AFK earlier today, I was fully expecting that library puzzle to be all done and dusted when I got back.

But it's no surprise that it isn't, given how hard the clues are getting!

Will

Gonna go watch TV. I may be around on mobile.

Rand al'Thor

Have fun :-)

I'm signing off too. It's late.

Rubio

02:01

aw man

I got those independently

just hadn't saved my edit

i'm through #15

Rand al'Thor

@Rubio #15 is easy.

Brb, editing again.

Rubio

just started looking at it :)

Rand al'Thor

Done.

Phew, now I can sleep easy.

I solved the Aymara one too - my 500th (non-deleted) answer on the site.

It was Aymara. I had to.

Rubio

The fish thing?

I saw your answer.

TrojanByAccident

@Will can you give us the md5, or A1Z26?

Rubio

02:11

lol. I love that i'm still getting sporadic upvotes on puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/46016/…

TrojanByAccident

02:25

@Rubio I love the answer with the DIY particle accelerator

Rubio

yeah that one's pretty loltastic.

Chris Cudmore

Check this one stackoverflow.com/a/154939/18907. It's been giving me 30 rep a week for 7 and a half years

Rand al'Thor

@Gareth @Will @Rubio @Beastly (ooh, there are lots of 10k-ers now) Delete votes on this?

Rubio

@ChrisCudmore I ... I kind of feel like you just told everyone in this chat room to piss off. :)

@Randal'Thor (VTD)

user61230

@Randal'Thor Fascinating. I'm quite adamantly opposed to legal award on the basis of language as intellectual property, for reasons that should be obvious.

user61230

02:35

I'm definitely going to be watching this closely.

Rubio

@ChrisCudmore Well - ok - except maybe Beastly Gerbil. cuz, like, he's not human, he's a gerbil.

user61230

The issue may overlap trademark law, though. It would be unfortunate, but reasonable, for the court to award damages to Paramount based on the use of "Klingon."

TrojanByAccident

@Volatility Your python program is failing to give a solution for a 9x9 number slope, after over 9 million tries

@Emrakul The name, maybe, but not the language, I don't believe

user61230

Yeah, that's what I mean. There's (very) tenuous legal precedent in place for treating languages as the collective "property" of the speakers, even if constructed.

user61230

But Klingon was a trademark before it was a language.

Jim

02:43

It's been so long I've forgotten how to solve CCCCs

TrojanByAccident

@Jim Don't worry, @Will's just really obscure

Chris Cudmore

@Rubio Nah, just saying that it's funny what has traction.

Jim

I believe that but I can't even tell my brain how they work

Chris Cudmore

Puzzling is a bit different though, once a question is answered and accepted, the question tends to die.

But, a good universe theory for star trek or Harry Potter could generate rep for years

Silenus

@Randal'Thor, the QUEST clue is an &lit because Joseph Campbell said that every good story involves a quest. It's a hidden word AND an &lit.

Jim

02:49

On the CCCC. PERHAPS didn't have a RASH. PERHAPS - RASH = PEP

That's the thought I have to offer

Where an allergic reaction is a rash

Chris Cudmore

Nice. Then "the carpenter" would be the definition.

Now we need had no in there.

TrojanByAccident

PEPTIDES

Chris Cudmore

No. Ignore that.

TrojanByAccident

lol

Chris Cudmore

Nope. Doesn't work. We've run out of wordplay.

TrojanByAccident

02:53

ik

Chris Cudmore

Unless "The" is the def.

Rubio

seems unlikely

Jim

Yeah that's the problem I had

Rubio

"Artlcle"is only 7

and not much you're going to get that from anyway

Chris Cudmore

And if so, @WILL will be banned from cccc

Volatility

02:55

@TrojanByAccident I did warn you in the readme

TrojanByAccident

Anyone that wants to can take a look through this search-by-mask

Volatility

(and that's the reason I posted an 8x8 instead of a 9x9 puzzle)

TrojanByAccident

@Volatility probably, somewhere

Rubio

why did you decide on an I and an E in those spots?

Jim

Is there a synonym for pep that's 8 letters to describe carpenter or can pep be the wordplay by reduction?

TrojanByAccident

02:57

1 hour ago, by Will

@ChrisCudmore Ugh fine. Let's say you've solved two of the three imaginary cross letters: -I---E--

unless that was for something else

Actually, disregard me. I'm pretty sure that was for something else

Jim

Is what I suggested legal?

TrojanByAccident

@Volatility lol, currently at 9,277,000 tries

Jim

Where pep the word could be used as the definition or wordplay after reduction?

Volatility

@TrojanByAccident how long have you kept it running?

Rubio

I'm not sure what you mean, @Jim.

Jim

02:59

So

did not have

RASH

Perhaps did not have RASH

TrojanByAccident

@Volatility Well, it was running for most of the night, then I closed my computer, then it's been running for a good 8 hours now

Jim

PERHAPS = PE P

Volatility

I see

Jim

Pep is still a word

Chris Cudmore

@TrojanByAccident no, that was the CCCC hint

Jim

03:00

Cheer, spirit etc

TrojanByAccident

@ChrisCudmore Ah, okay. It's relevant than

Rubio

oh

Chris Cudmore

Hive, sneeze

Tear

Rubio

You mean using clues to form PEP, meaning to then use a synonym of PEP in a charade? No, you can't do that

Silenus

Can we get TOLER any kind of way, for TOLER+ANT = had no allergic reaction? Although they aren't quite synonyms.

Chris Cudmore

03:02

They'd be impossible to solve with that much indirection

Rubio

well -

Jim

@Rubio okay. Can pep be the definition?

Chris Cudmore

Nope

Rubio

No, the definition (by definition [HA!]) has to be a straight definition without wordplay

Jim

@Rubio okay

Chris Cudmore

03:04

Generally, the def could be a regular crossword clue.

Rubio

i mean, it can be a play on words, but it can't be from wordplay

so - if we take the hint as true, then this doesn't start or end with either ANT or BEE

Silenus

@Rubio, what is the hint you're referring to? I can't seem to find it above.

Rubio

@TrojanByAccident this.

Chris Cudmore

I starred it.

Silenus

@ChrisCudmore thanks

Will

03:07

@Rubio why would I lie like that oh my word

Rubio

Oh. hi. :)

Chris Cudmore

I claimed I would have a couple of cross letters by now.

Rubio

It wasn't exactly certain it applied to this CCCC, but I guess it is now :)

Silenus

Got it: HIVELESS HIVE [the carpenter, perhaps] LESS [had no]; [def] had no allergic reaction

TrojanByAccident

arg

Rubio

03:11

"carpenter hive" is a thing?

That's kinda gross. :)

Silenus

Well, carpenter bees make hives, so presumably you could call a hive made by carpenter bees, a carpenter

Rubio

@Silenus Good job.

TrojanByAccident

@Rubio carpenter bee hive

ninja'd :P

Rubio

No, I mean, I get what it's supposed to be

but I don't know that it's fair

Will

HIVELESS is right but that reasoning is wrong

Silenus

03:12

Rats, again!

TrojanByAccident

Hey guys, it would be great if some of you could check out Language Design on Area 51 :-)

Will

Carpenter bees do not actually make hives (they're solitary bees!)

Silenus

Ah, so they're hiveless

Rubio

eh. ddef?

Silenus

Very esoteric! @Will you must be a melittologist...

Rubio

03:15

chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/34717558#34717558 is it too late to vote on this? :)

TrojanByAccident

@Rubio Not at all, we've got 6 votes so far :)

Rubio

Jim

Has @Will been brutal or what?

I haven't been around enough

Rubio

Oh, just every time :)

I don't know how he comes up with these

They're killer.

Killer bees.

Ok I'll shut up now.

Jim

Fire ants?

TrojanByAccident

03:17

@Rubio That's beeutiful

Jim

Carbonless even?

Rubio

@Silenus You're up. Have fun following that.

Will

I came up with this one when I was taking some of my precious Diphenhydramine HCl :)

You, know, wishing the hives would just not.

Rubio

I'm going to remove the -I---E-- hint from the star board unless someone strenuously objects.

Jim

@will perhaps covered in a rash?

Will

03:20

covered in... hives... ?

Silenus

CCCC: The humor of Lovecraft's fantastic horror! (5)

Jim

I really wish I didn't miss whatever this new thing is

Rubio

@Jim ?

Jim

Sorry meant "bee" thing

Then I realized t was solved while I was researching

Rubio

ICHOR

Silenus

03:24

@Rubio, that was fast!

Rubio

See, I DON'T SUCK. :)

*shakes fist at Will*

Silenus

I figured I'd give an &lit about literature.

Rubio

hehe

Jim

I was staring at Arkham Horror while Rubio solved a love craft cccc

Rubio

CCCC: Truly, first victim declared liable. (8)

Will

03:35

You just gave me an idea for a CC good job :)

TrojanByAccident

@Will Haven't you been banned from CCCC's?

Rubio

04:00

So, like, let's just turn CCCC into a fun game of "keep away from Will" :)

TrojanByAccident

@Rubio :)

TheGreatEscaper

04:26

Okay, I just thought of this and couldn't resist:

Oops, gotta sort out a plurality issue first.

TrojanByAccident

@TheGreatEscaper Very interesting idea, 10/10

TheGreatEscaper

:P

'Forcibly move my first cryptic clues (6)'

Ankoganit

wow

Volatility

04:46

For all those interested, I've updated my Number Slope grid generator to prettify the output (and make it completely pseudo-random): github.com/AbsVolatility/number-slope

TheGreatEscaper

That reminds me, @TrojanByAccident will we be seeing your puzzle anytime soon?

TrojanByAccident

@TheGreatEscaper After I solve it, yes

Sphinx

05:25

0

Q: Time for another Add-A-Gram!

An Add-A-Gram takes a word, adds a letter, and then shuffles the letters to make a new word (I guess you can call this an Add-A-Gram's Add-A-Grammar). In this game, I will define an Add-A-Gram chain, and a solution should contain the complete list of words in the chain. For example, if I provide...

Sphinx

05:37

0

Q: No one is gonna help you!

Here is a puzzle for you. I hope you got a good brain for this one ain't easy. One wrong move and you are done for. These dogs and other 4 legged creatures aren't gonna lick your wounds. In the land of the rodents, the nightmare has just begun. But the police is not gonna help you. ...

riddle video-games

boboquack

06:42

@TheGreatEscaper Where's your big grid-deduction puzzle?

TheGreatEscaper

I delayed it from yesterday, not wanting to rush the end

I thought that I might have left it till after MIT puzzle hunt

but I only have 4 more things to design

So it's possible that it might be up today

TheGreatEscaper

06:54

2 things left.

Sphinx

07:14

1

Q: Another another Add-A-Gram

This is based on the Add-A-Gram puzzles by wildBillMunson. You need to find a chain of words, such that each next word is an anagram of the previous word plus an additional letter. Example: a doctor inside a rejection inside an elector; the solution is "vet", "veto", "voter". Here is the chain...

word knowledge anagram

boboquack

@TheGreatEscaper Hope so...

TheGreatEscaper

I'm making the final images for upload now :)

boboquack

07:38

I keep getting excited when I see '1 question with new activity'. :D Then I see it's just an edit. :P

Rubio

man

i was going to bed, too

what happened to "after MIT" ?

:)

boboquack

I might actually have a chance, if everyone is off doing the MIT puzzle hunt

Or maybe someone will do it as a warm-up :P

TheGreatEscaper

I'm writing it up right now, bobo!

Ehhhhhhhh whatever @Rubio :P

Rubio

I know what it feels like to just want to let the world see ;)

If it helps . . .

less than an hour after posting my latest puzzle, I already regretted two of the decisions I made in the last moments of finishing it

A little more time, a little more thought, and it would have been a stronger puzzle

TheGreatEscaper

I think this one has been put off enough :P

Sphinx

08:00

1

Q: Add-A-Gram marathon!

This is based on the Add-A-Gram puzzles by wildBillMunson. You need to find a chain of words, such that each next word is an anagram of the previous word plus an additional letter. a Tasty bone in British gratitude in a Roasted fashion in great in secret in a Stone in peculiar in a rank in far ...

word knowledge anagram

TheGreatEscaper

:D

(@Rubio, @Boboquack, @anyoneelsewhocares :P )

Rubio

nice

i'll look when i'm done with this add-a-gram

Sphinx

0

Q: WITLESS - A Puzzling Journey

IMPORTANT! READ ME: The only 'puzzle' parts of this are the links, titled 'Set X', 'Inscription X', or 'Constellation X'. Everything else is flavortext, apart from this readme section, although the flavortext does tell you that the meaning of the inscriptions is not supposed to be deduced until...

grid-deduction

Rubio

.... which is right now.

Sid

@Rubio You are too fast. :P

Rubio

08:15

I got hung up on secret. I still don't think that's valid, but I can't find anything else that works.

Sid

And @TheGreatEscaper I actually don't quite understand what to do with that puzzle..

TheGreatEscaper

Set 1? Don't look ahead.

Sid

Yeah

TheGreatEscaper

Okay. Just think about it for a bit. Try to notice stuff. And don't overcomplicate.

(and definitely don't look at any of the other links!)

Different people will find different sets easier to understand, but they should definitely be attempted in the order I've put them in.

*solved in the order I've put them in.

Rubio

I may be dense, but I am with @Sid here - it's unclear how to know what the objective is, and there's no way to know before moving on if you have an understanding or not.

I see patterns, I guess? I don't know if they're relevant because we're not asked (yet) to complete a pattern and see if we're right.

TheGreatEscaper

08:20

These are grid-deduction puzzles.

Oops I forgot to put that in the readme.

Sid

Yes, but they need to have an objective. I am not sure, if it is to find the odd one out or to continue the pattern or anything else.

Rubio

I mean - I assumed that - but what is there to deduce? There's nothing to do

It's just - here's some patterns. (Ok, that's nice. Moving on.)

TheGreatEscaper

No, this is not a pattern puzzle.

Rubio

No self-check step to see if you actually found something that lets you do something.

TheGreatEscaper

@Deusovi understood the objective from the teasers I posted in this chat :P

Rubio

08:23

Ah. So, each grid stands alone

and you have to solve each grid using some rules

Sid

@TheGreatEscaper That's because Deusovi is a genius!

TheGreatEscaper

@Rubio, correct.

Here's the relevant part of the edit: 'These are plain grid-deduction puzzles, apart from the fact you must work out the mechanics yourself. Once you know the meanings, they are simply pen-paper puzzles in the vein of Japanese puzzles such as Sudoku, Hashi, Nurikabe, Slitherlink, etc'

Like I said, solve time GREATLY varies.

Rubio

Ok so here's the thing

It's a question more than a critique

TheGreatEscaper

Sure.

Rubio

How do we know if we're solving them, without looking ahead to see what we're supposed to glean from them?

I think I see how Set 1 works, but I have no idea if I'm actually right

TheGreatEscaper

08:26

Does each puzzle have a unique solution?

I know it sounds really silly

Rubio

I don't know. Are you asking: here's an empty grid, here's N icons, place them in the grid uniquely following the rules and constraints?

TheGreatEscaper

But 'you'll know it's right'.

No puzzles arrive in a solved state.

I should probably add that into the readme.

I think the first step is to consider that right now you're asking 'what do we even have to do?'

And that question is a good one :P

In a sudoku, you have empty spaces to fill.

In a slitherlink, you have a loop to draw.

In hashi, you have bridges to draw.

In nurikabe, you have a wall to make.

In Akari, you have lights to place.

So, the first thing to think about, is:

In 'WITLESS', what do you even have to do?

Will

ohh I might be onto something

Rubio

Well, yeah, that's pretty key. I didn't understand that at all then.

is chat broken?

whoa. that was weird. I couldn't hit the chat server for a couple minutes.

Will

yeah I think I've got it

TheGreatEscaper

08:33

@Will Set 1? Nice :)

@Rubio my server died for a few minutes a while ago.

But it wasn't at the same time as you.

Will

I guess set 2 will confirm with absolute certainty whether I'm doing the right thing?

TheGreatEscaper

...maybe :P from the way you've said it, then you've solved set 1.

Will

oh yikes the first one in set 2 is...

hmm

TheGreatEscaper

I'll misquote an old zen koan:

'The rules aren't changing. The mind is changing.'

Will

oh!

TheGreatEscaper

08:38

:D

It sounds like you're speeding ahead of the others... not sure whether to be happy or worried :P

Will

meh I'm gonna go watch a show I recorded then head to sleep

so my progress (or quite possibly lack thereof) is inconsequential :)

Rubio

i seem to be most of the way through set 2

Will

unless of course I can't sleep which is an event with a fair probability of occurrence

Rubio

i'm not sure if I did the last of set 1 correctly because I got a result that didn't feel right

Deusovi

I've finished sets 1 and 2, haven't looked at 3 because I'm trying to figure out how to import images into Adobe Draw for the ipad

TheGreatEscaper

08:40

Save image

On the right hand side of adobe draw, there should be some layer stuff

Press the + to add a layer

And say that you want to add an image layer

Deusovi

Thanks!

TheGreatEscaper

And give it access to your photos

Rubio

bah. @Deusovi is on the case. I might as well quit now ;)

TheGreatEscaper

No worries! @Deusovi

@Rubio awwww! I did design this puzzle to be a solving experience. As soon as an answer goes up, the temptation to throw that experience away will only grow :P

Things only really start picking up at set 5, anyhow.

IAmInPLS

hey @Deusovi

Rubio

08:45

oh. i fixed set1 #5, derp.

How's that?

Deusovi

@IAmInPLS Hey!

IAmInPLS

@Deusovi What happened to the riddle "two have four but four have six"? (If your great mind remembers it, ofc)

Ah, here: puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/47466/…

Volatility

Aww, came late to the party, it looks like

TheGreatEscaper

Not that late :)

Will

done with set 3 & now I'm really off
this is fun though!

Deusovi

08:54

Plagiarism. Plagiarism happened.

IAmInPLS

@Deusovi Ah, damn. It came from reddit, right? By chance, do you know the answer?

Deusovi

No, I don't - sorry!

TheGreatEscaper

I don't think the answer to that riddle is anywhere

Reddit is lost. The OP of the reddit post didn't have the answer.

Rubio

@Will Is it just me or is set 3 not unique?

Lot of freedom seems to be available in that one

Deusovi

It's unique. I haven't had a chance to look at it yet, but I know it's unique

Will

08:59

It should be... unless I'm missing something.

TheGreatEscaper

Which one in set 3, Rubio?

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