The Sphinx's Lair

Beastly Gerbil

10:45 AM

Wow this was actually correct

Mithrandir

11:04 AM

@BeastlyGerbil o_o

@Sphinx I wonder how that would fare on Literature

Beastly Gerbil

And wow. I got to 17k before @Rubio overtook me! :P

Techidiot

Haha @BeastlyGerbil That was...unexpected :)

Also, @BeastlyGerbil Todays game ruined my fantasy..I am ranked #2547 but took a risk of making Gayle as my captain..with Virat kohli, abd in as well..And look what misery!

Beastly Gerbil

11:21 AM

oh dear that didnt work...

Techidiot

Yeah...They have ruined this season to the core.

Sphinx

2:46 PM

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Q: How many silver marbles does Paul have?

Peter, Paul and Mary have between them 282 marbles. Though of the three friends, it is Peter who has the most marbles, he is the one with the fewest silver marbles, just the square root of the number of all his marbles. On the other hand, Mary, who has the fewest marbles, is the one with the larg...

Sphinx

3:08 PM

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Q: 2 images need to find the message

I have 2 images pretty much identical and there is a message or key of some sort within one of them how do i go about finding it?

cipher visual

Rubio

3:33 PM

@BeastlyGerbil your remaining days are numbered. Muahahahahahahaaaaa.

n_palum

Is that a threat?

I'm calling the Policeovi

Beastly Gerbil

@Rubio If I can survive till the net election, then I can have a few more months while you are banned ;)

May 2 at 19:50, by Sconibulus

"Who would you ban, and why is it @Rubio"

Rubio

I need that on a t-shirt

Beastly Gerbil

lol

n_palum

Hahaha the best part is "Does Rubio count as a normal human being" right above it

Rubio

3:39 PM

Indeed. And for the record, the answer to that is no. Though I'm not saying which word(s) make it thus.

Beastly Gerbil

there you go Rubio :P

Rubio

Lol

Mithrandir

Ooh, another question for the question collection

n_palum

"Who would you ban and why is it Rubio?"

or "Are you a real human"?

Mithrandir

My answers: 1.) because @Rubio is too good at Cryptics and I'm horrible 2.) no

Rubio

3:43 PM

I want to know what the question collection currently contains

Beastly Gerbil

I think the real question is, 'How come @RUio hasn't been banned yet?' I'm saying that all the mods need to step down and we get some real mods in, our current mods clearly don't know what they are doing.

Rubio

I've decided to run for Mod on the "Ban Rubio" platform. Make Puzzling Great Again!

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Mithrandir

Hello, this is Mith, running for mod! Why? To suspend @Rubio, of course! Foolish question!

Beastly Gerbil

@Mith are you really going to run?

I would, but I wouldn't be allowed. My nomination would be removed

:(

Rubio

Mith collects questions and diamonds :)

Mithrandir

3:46 PM

@BeastlyGerbil dunno.

Everyone would confuse me with Emrak if I did :P

Rubio

Well. I'm off for a brief while. Have fun

Mithrandir

Bye!

n_palum

Oh I thought you were gunna run Gerbil

Beastly Gerbil

cu later

why?

n_palum

I'd run if I actually had some credibility or rep here but oh well

Beastly Gerbil

3:49 PM

oh sorry thought you meant run as in go there :P

n_palum

Lol

Beastly Gerbil

I would run, but I wouldn't be allowed to

so I'll have to wait till next time

if anyone tries to run who has been suspended in the last year, their nomination gets removed

That happened to me the last time. And then ironically I got banned straight after for nothing :/

n_palum

Ohhh

So it's like down to Rubio Gareth... maybe Sp? maybe techi.. or Scon?

not really sure who else would run and I don't actually think Gareth will

Beastly Gerbil

or alconja maybe

if he runs

tbh I think its down to Rubio and Gareth, and if Gareth doesn't run then I'm pretty sure Rubio wins

Mithrandir

I mean, I'll run if I know that people would want me.

Beastly Gerbil

3:55 PM

but if Gaerth runs, I think I'd just back him to edge it

This almost acts as a prediction

And also based on that, and the fact my nomination got downvoted a lot, I have a feeling not that many would actually vote for me if I ran :/

Mithrandir

I'm going off now, back soon. Random stat: I've got around 3 and a half thousand helpful flags over the network.

n_palum

I don't think Alconja would because of time, I like never see him

Beastly Gerbil

he's around

just isn't doing much right now

Hopefully he's working on another puzzle

n_palum

Hmm gotcha

Beastly Gerbil

Somehow I actually managed to solve one of his last ones

Well, me and a lot of help from others

n_palum

4:06 PM

I've been stuck on a couple puzzles I wanna make.. they're like half done.. :/

Beastly Gerbil

I've been making a puzzle since last november, but its been too much hard work and I've given up...

And I've got a couple of disjointed ideas, but end of year exams coming up, cricket season begun, not had much time

n_palum

I haven't with work :/

Beastly Gerbil

good news for me is summer holidays coming up, plenty of time then

n_palum

side note.. if @GarethMcCaughan comes around, maybe a hint for cc

Sid

GamEn folks

n_palum

4:13 PM

and I have a question for him :P

Beastly Gerbil

GAmen

n_palum

GAmen

Sid

Ah. Looks like the gossip session for mod nomination is on.

Beastly Gerbil

well it is scheduled to start tomorrow

Sid

@beastly when exactly do you have your summer holidays

Beastly Gerbil

4:16 PM

no idea

couple of months ?

Sid

Um.. Isn't summer holidays meant to start in summers? And am pretty sure this month is summer month.

Beastly Gerbil

oh god no time soon

there you go starts July 21st

to september the 6xth

Sid

Oh, election starts tomorrow? Wow. Time flies.

Beastly Gerbil

7 weeks holidays then. Not bad

Sid

Man, I wish codenewbie comes back and does the thing he did last year

Beastly Gerbil

4:22 PM

which was?

Sid

See last year's Q&A thing of mods

Beastly Gerbil

this ?

or this

n_palum

probably the second one

Beastly Gerbil

'This post has been locked while disputes about its content are being resolved. For more info visit meta.' lol

Sid

Yep. The 2nd one.

I still remember my parents coming in to see why I was laughing so hard.

n_palum

4:31 PM

Hmm interesting to look back and see what people wrote and who ran sort of

Beastly Gerbil

i wonder if @marius will run again. or @manshu

Sid

Ah. So this year's idea is to ban Rubio. I am not complaining. :P

Rubio

So much love. I'm basking in it.

Beastly Gerbil

The amount of love rubio is currently receiving would be enough to incinerate the sun

Mithrandir

4:49 PM

So, @Rub - you going to be running?

(if you want me to run, leave me a note at my desk. Link is on my profile)

Sid

@mith aren't you already a mod? You want too much power. Bad. :P

Mithrandir

in The Reading Room, Mar 7 at 12:01, by Mithrandir

in The Sphinx's Lair, Feb 28 at 21:07, by Mithrandir

in The Reading Room, yesterday, by Mithrandir

@DForck42 MY REIGN OF TERROR HAS BEG- *cough* *hack*

Beastly Gerbil

5:38 PM

I'm definitely going mad. Now I'm talking to myself :P

ffao

5:50 PM

gah, I thought about giving mock answers to the questionnaire but I see CodeNewbie beat me to it

I would vote for Rubio if he promised to ban Rubio

n_palum

@BeastlyGerbil You're going mad

ffao

I just noticed that not seeing the CodeNewbie answer means I actually didn't read the questionnaire answers -- I already know enough from daily watching the nominees that a few questions wouldn't change it either way

I suspect the same will happen this election, depending on who the nominees are

Puzzling Meta

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Q: What happened to the 'How to become the president?' question?

It's been over a year, but there was a simple but otherwise interesting puzzle (especially for newbies) called 'How to become the president' or something on the site. It was basically like Which of the following is correct? a) All of the below b) Option C c) None of the above d) All of the ab...

discussion specific-question deleted-questions

Mithrandir

6:43 PM

@PuzzlingMeta after the election, we didn't want anyone else reading it - don't need some crackpot becoming president. So we took it down.

Gareth McCaughan

9:29 PM

@n_palum hi. You requested a hint on the CCCC and said you had a question. I'll let you ask your question, and here in just a moment is a hint:

@Sp3000 this not-serious answer to my CCCC is less absurdly far from correct than one might think.

n_palum

Hi - the question was about what email to use to send you something, wasn't sure if the one from your site works because it hasn't been updated for a couple years

Gareth McCaughan

@n_palum the pobox.com one has been my primary email address for many years and will probably continue to be for many more.

n_palum

Alrighty then, you're see an email at some point about laptops and another question I had

but it is not for here

Gareth McCaughan

OK. Thanks in advance for your comments on laptops, and I hope I can be helpful with whatever the other question is :-).

n_palum

10:06 PM

You don't have to be helpful XD it's a question from your site (I was reading :P)

Sphinx

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Q: Ernie and the Optical Gyroscopes

I almost always take up Ernie’s offers to crew on his boat, when he suggests an overnight expedition. But when he phoned last Thursday I had to remind him that it was TV night, and Acme Satellite Studios were airing the final episode of our favorite Nordic Noir series. But when he assured me that...

mathematics geometry word-problem

ffao

11:28 PM

that hint makes me feel even worse about the 4C: if Gareth means that the word contains er or um, I can see no candidates; and if he meant that we should look for cow child shows, I'm even more unprepared :)

Sconibulus

Rocko's Modern Life had a cow named Heffer I think

Deusovi

"cow" can mean to nag

Sconibulus

which has an er and is a childish old cow

n_palum

But how do you turn HEFFER into something like ROBBER

Sconibulus

Heifer is a word on it's own... and is plausibly close to thief?

but yeah, it's not very likely

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