The Sphinx's Lair

Techidiot

19:00

On phone so cant dig much.

Beastly Gerbil

there are also some shaded right, some left

only two unshaded

oh.

I think we might be being stupid

We haven't thought about the height of the buildings

n_palum

@BeastlyGerbil No someone did that, also irrelevant

Beastly Gerbil

oh

Techidiot

I did. But it gives J

n_palum

The shade on the face of the buildings is not important, that's aesthetic

Other stuff might be

Beastly Gerbil

19:02

we haven't found the 'other stuff' yet though :P

oooh! Bold lines on the walls

n_palum

I know

Beastly Gerbil

You've been giving hints all along! :P

Techidiot

Picture speaks a thousand ciphers ;)

n_palum

Have I? /s

@Techidiot Oooo that's a good idea for a large scale puzzle :P

Beastly Gerbil

apparently

Techidiot

19:04

@n_palum This seems large enough already ;) I liked the art again

n_palum

@Techidiot This is a tiny one :P, I wanna do a bigger better and nicer picture for a puzzle :P

Beastly Gerbil

01001100 01001001 = 10 0s

10 windows

windows = 0

6 1s 6 spaces

spaces = 1

n_palum

10 mins ago, by Beastly Gerbil

BINARY LI: 01001100 01001001

Beastly Gerbil

yep

Sconibulus

but it doesn't pattern match?

Beastly Gerbil

19:07

?

Kritixi Lithos

@BeastlyGerbil tab = 00001001 => 2 1s. 2 > 1 hence tabs > spaces. QED

Beastly Gerbil

:P

n_palum

Not following the critique of it?

Beastly Gerbil

@n_palum I have no idea which order the buildings come in though

Techidiot

Oh

Got it

Window is 0

Beastly Gerbil

19:10

ooh how?

Techidiot

Line is 1

Beastly Gerbil

i already found that

Look up past n_palums big comment :P

5 mins ago, by Beastly Gerbil

10 windows

Techidiot

I thought you said spaces

Beastly Gerbil

I also said that :P

(I'm assuming you must be on mobile?)

Oh and did you hear? 6 over run chase

Techidiot

I can clearly see it matching the pattern . ?

Beastly Gerbil

19:12

whats the pattern?

Techidiot

Yes on mobile. And yes. Unfortunate

01001100 01001001

Beastly Gerbil

oh that yes

Techidiot

We get this by windows and the straight lines

Beastly Gerbil

but I don't know how to order the buidings

oh!!!!

Techidiot

Go from start to end..

Beastly Gerbil

19:13

I see.

You are saying a bold line = 1?

Techidiot

Yeah.

Yeah

Beastly Gerbil

Sorry, i got confused

Sconibulus

yeah, that works

Beastly Gerbil

Oh is that it then @n_palum ?

Techidiot

Yes. Absolutely :)

Sconibulus

19:14

wait, but why is binary backwards?

n_palum

Makes sense I presume so

Beastly Gerbil

just to make it less obvious?

Techidiot

Just a clue that theres binary

n_palum

^ ^^

Beastly Gerbil

ok. Should me or someone write up an answer or shall we make a community wiki?

Techidiot

19:17

Whatever you feel the best

8 runs per over.. hmm.. not too easy though. :)

Beastly Gerbil

they are going to have to go big from the start, no time to play themselves in

n_palum

Not sure who did the most or what not, up to y'all

Beastly Gerbil

could be some wickets

n_palum

I feel like BG is always figuring mine out :P

Beastly Gerbil

I got SKY, group effort on LI and I think it was scon who got NE ?

Techidiot

19:19

@BeastlyGerbil I think they will go easy. Too much hitting could harm KKR

Beastly Gerbil

It will be interesting to see if they change their batting order...

n_palum

You two can fight it out

Beastly Gerbil

who?

n_palum

You and Scon

Beastly Gerbil

and its hard to fight over the internet :P

Techidiot

19:21

Narine & Lynn terrorized a match. I think they ll be the ones opening up

Sid

Hehe, our love for the mods is unparalleled. Deus is twisted and evil. GPR is toxic. Emrak is an eldritch horror.

Beastly Gerbil

And if rubio becomes mod everyone wants to an him

And if gareth gets elected, everyone doesn't think he's human :P

Techidiot

@BeastlyGerbil I am curious on who is going to bowl 2 overs.. Bhuvi or Rashid

@Sid See this tweet

"SRH scored at 6.4 run-rate their entire innings, then why are KKR asked to chase at 8 an over? Is that Duckworth system really worth it?"

:p

Beastly Gerbil

it factors in different things

powerplays and stuff

Techidiot

Yeah

Too many things.

Sid

19:24

Like I said, I never understood the Duckworth Lewis system. They are actually punishing the team who bowled first.

Sconibulus

there are powerplays in cricket?

Beastly Gerbil

@n_palum meh. I typed up an answer if you want me to post

@Sconibulus depends on format and the league you play in

Sid

@Scon Yeah. Basically only 2 fielders are allowed outside the circle.

Techidiot

Yeah. Happened to India once. They bowled brilliantly and got 50 to win from 1 over

@Sconibulus Is powerplay used anywhere else? Didnt knew

Beastly Gerbil

think ODIs

def not tests

n_palum

19:27

@BeastlyGerbil I can't tell you to post an answer or not

Beastly Gerbil

your puzzle :P

Techidiot

I mean (any other sport)

Sconibulus

Powerplay is a thing in many sports with a penalty box

n_palum

Yes but I don't own the rights to post :P

Beastly Gerbil

well, I typed it up. @Sconibulus any objections if I post?

Sconibulus

19:28

not at all

Beastly Gerbil

@tech soft signal out!

and it is!

Sconibulus

Power play (sporting term)

"Power play" is a sporting term used in many various games. == Temporary numerical advantage in players during a team sport == In several team sports, situations arise where following a rules infraction, one team is penalized by having the number of players on the field of play temporarily reduced. The term power play is commonly applied to the state of advantage the unpenalized team enjoys during this time. Specialized tactics and strategies can apply while a team is on the power play. === Ice hockey === In ice hockey, a team is said to be on a power play when at least one opposing pl...

n_palum

I've only ever heard it called a power play in hockey

Techidiot

@BeastlyGerbil Shhhhh.. Lets not get excited yet

Beastly Gerbil

can we now? :P

Techidiot

19:30

Hehe.. Lets wait for 40 odd balls :p

Beastly Gerbil

oooh!!!!!

Sid

The powerplay in cricket is different. It simply means that out of 9 players fielding(excluding the wicket keeper and the bowler(Think of bowler as pitcher and wicketkeeper as the guy who stands behind the batter in baseball), only 2 players are allowed to remain out of the x-yards circle.

Beastly Gerbil

out!

what a start!

Sconibulus

would you want to be far away from the ball?

Beastly Gerbil

yes in case they try and hit boundaries

usually someone goes cow corner and long on/off

Sid

19:33

Cricket is similar to baseball. Think of it that way. The batsman can hit it hard. If you catch it, he is out. So, you would want to remain at the boundaries to catch them.

@Beastly and @Tech Well well well, this game has become infinitely more interesting.

Beastly Gerbil

37 off 30...

Techidiot

@Sid Its time you start liking it ;)

Beastly Gerbil

11-2 off first over. exciting start from a neutral perspective

Sid

Noooooo, hold on. Wait for 15 days. I would then start liking it again. :P

Techidiot

I told you if they go hard it will backfire

Beastly Gerbil

19:35

if we can get gambhir. out...

WOOO!!!!

Techidiot

Champions trophies dont turn up much exciting like IPL..

@BeastlyGerbil You are much quicker than my cric app

:p

Beastly Gerbil

watching it live

Techidiot

Lol. Is this match fixed or what? :P

I want to turn on my tv. But ... my wife .. :(

Sid

Put it on mute.

n_palum

Or reeeeally quiet

Techidiot

19:39

Lol. If she wakes up and dont find me on bed.. cant imagine the consequences :p

Beastly Gerbil

this is going to be really close

Sconibulus

you said 'soft signal out' earlier, what does that mean?

Techidiot

@Sconibulus Umpires first guess before going to tv umpire

Sid

Is that a new thing? I don't remember having heard it before.

Sconibulus

ahh

Techidiot

19:41

Which basically is a system to detect if a ball hit the bats edge or not/if a catch was taken or not

n_palum

@Techidiot It's not like you're out on the town, just watching cricket :P

Techidiot

Benifit of doubt goes to umpires decision

@n_palum Get married and then meet me :p

n_palum

@Techidiot I get yelled at for staying up late by my girlfriend, I can't imagine what you'd get ;)

Sconibulus

The only time I ever get in trouble for getting up to do things in the middle of the night is if I'm supposed to do something the next morning, or if I'm particularly loud

Techidiot

She has already caught me lurking in my cell late nights

n_palum

19:44

I just get in trouble because she's usually asleep and wakes up easy xD

Sid

@Tech you can make an excuse like you had gone to the bathroom or to drink water to the kitchen..

Techidiot

And I was just puzzling :p

"Seriously, 27 needed off 24! So what's this rush and panic all about?" - This tweet @Sid @BeastlyGerbil is too sensible

@sid Already used them

:p

Wives are better than Sherlock in these cases. Trust me

Beastly Gerbil

@n_palum I have answered 9/27 of your questions (33.3%) and solved 6/27 (22.2%)

So yes I do particularly like your puzzles :P

@tech ooooooh

10 off 15

n_palum

Haha nice to know somebody likes em ;)

Techidiot

Yeah. I think boundaries off edges should be given out or banned :p

MI vs KKR and MI vs RPS and MI wins (Prediction)

Sid

19:51

Who won last year?

Beastly Gerbil

Sunrisers

7 off 2 overs...

Sid

Walk in the park.

Beastly Gerbil

think we lost this'

Techidiot

Hopeless.. Two Bhuvi required

And Malinga with bat :p

Beastly Gerbil

hehe

5/11 one hit away now

oooh good bowling

Mithrandir

19:54

/yawn

Techidiot

Nice commentry..

You can join these guys

m.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2017/engine/current/…

Beastly Gerbil

:P

ack. 2 of 7. just get it over with

Techidiot

Lol

Beastly Gerbil

come on single off the last over for a powerplay! :P

Techidiot

Haha

n_palum

19:56

Not that it matters @BeastlyGerbil but in the text for the ocean picture it has 's'more' which is like morse :P

Beastly Gerbil

oh didn't notice that. will add

Techidiot

Are they taking strategic timeout as well? :P

They should.. and it can rain again :p

n_palum

Not that big of a deal, just had mentioned there is a way to find out the cipher from each, picture or text

Beastly Gerbil

well. thats a shame

Sconibulus

could rain ending the game actually help?

Beastly Gerbil

19:58

sunrisers would go through

higher in the table

Techidiot

@BeastlyGerbil

google.co.in/amp/zeenews.india.com/cricket/…

Memory lane.. :p If not watched yet, watch that over on youtube

Night all. Cya

Beastly Gerbil

night!

Mithrandir

Night!

wonders who people are voting for (not asking for you to tell me)

I think I voted for myself...

Beastly Gerbil

can you do that?

Mithrandir

And I think a dog. And Glorf.

Beastly Gerbil

20:09

I basically voted for people with highest score

Mithrandir

ScoreScore isnisn't alalways the bbest measmeasure

Beastly Gerbil

why do you keep doing that? :P

No but in this case it matched my other reasons to vote

Sconibulus

I've changed my votes a few times, but they've ended up being the four of you in chat relatively regularly

Mithrandir

Buggy phone

Kritixi Lithos

iPhone? :P

Mithrandir

20:10

NopNope

Forklift

I voted for people that I recalled leaving helpful comments.

Mithrandir

OldOld AndrAndroid

Beastly Gerbil

are you serious that that isn't just you playing a prank?

Forklift

maybe it's a puzzle?

Mithrandir

Of course I'm serious, SwiftKey has this weird bug

Forklift

20:12

speaking of helpful, when is a usual time to add a hint? puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/51878/the-little-scamp

Mithrandir

Couple of days

MatbMaybe aa weweek

Kritixi Lithos

Try Google Keyboard. It's "swipe" feature is better

Forklift

oh haha. I'm so impatient :)

Kritixi Lithos

or GBoard as it's called now, I think

Mithrandir

ImI'm impafimpatient tootoo :)

Forklift

20:14

lordy that's a messed up phone

Mithrandir

I ddon't ththink I hhave any roroom for anytanything else atat the momenmoment

Kritixi Lithos

What version is it?

Mithrandir

@Forklift yes it is

@KritixiLithos 4.4.2, if you mean the phone

Kritixi Lithos

So KitKat

Mithrandir

The problem is that instead of completing the word when I click it, it adds to it.

Gareth McCaughan

20:25

I have something similar that only happens on Facebook. It's incredibly annoying.

Kritixi Lithos

you can rephrase that to "Facebook is incredibly annoying"

Beastly Gerbil

change the . to a : 'Facebook: It's incredibly annoying.'

Kritixi Lithos

I wrote 700 words on why Facebook is evil for school (that was just a part of my work)

Forklift

Was 700 the limit? I could write for days.

Kritixi Lithos

it wasn't the limit, it was just a part of my 1000+ work

Beastly Gerbil

20:31

some of us have more important things to do than write an essay ranting about facebook. some of us choose to spend out time productively and plot to hack into it and take it down instead

Kritixi Lithos

I presume you already have a plan?

Beastly Gerbil

well, if you can call such an elaborate and precisely perfect ploy a plan then yes :P

ffao

I didn't even look at the scores for the election

some things just can't be translated into numbers

Rubio

               LAST ELECTION   THIS ELECTION
 in first  1 hours:     91      70
 in first  4 hours:     165     128
 in first 12 hours:     225     207
 in first 24 hours:     260     295
 in first 48 hours:     303     323
 in first 72 hours:     395     323
TOTAL VOTES CAST:       416     323

Kritixi Lithos

such formatting

Beastly Gerbil

20:44

where did those stats come from?

Rubio

ok that was a fun mini-coding exercise. :)

Those are pulled from awards of the Constituent badge

Kritixi Lithos

If you really like fun mini-coding challenges, you should totally check PPCG out </self-advertisement>

Rubio

Interestingly enough, there are only 416 awards of that badge listed for the prior election, but the vote tally for that election indicates 417 were cast. So someone's badge (and presumably their whole userid) is now gone.

And, um, no. I have enough things to waste my time on ;)

Beastly Gerbil

rubio, but if someone voted both last year and this year, then it doesn't get counted this time

unless it can be awarded multiple times

ffao

it can

I have two constituent badges

Beastly Gerbil

20:52

ah ok then

Rubio

I'll post updates of that from time to time, because why not

I did that before by counting them manually and it was a bit of a pain ;)

Beastly Gerbil

lol

ffao

... you counted four hundred badges manually?

Rubio

well, no

they're grouped by pages of 60

Beastly Gerbil

ah right

just count last page

Rubio

20:56

so if you're even slightly clever you can avoid having to actually count and you can just see the difference between hour-group breaks and page breaks

turns out because votes were being cast as I was tallying, my last count was wrong for the first 12 hour group, by the seven votes that were cast as I was counting. I noticed at that point and accounted for that so my other tallies were accurate.

Beastly Gerbil

well I'm off to bed

night all! cya tomorrow

Sconibulus

21:23

no new votes in 24 whoule hours?

Rubio

21:41

we're not past 48 hours yet, so the 72 hour tally is the same

awesomepi

22:42

oh hey

It's my three year anniversary on puzzling

along with the three year anniversary of puzzling

user61230

OH RIGHT.

user61230

WE'VE BEEN HERE THREE YEARS?

8

awesomepi

Apparently

nope

awesomepi

22:56

can't believe it's been three years already holy crap

Sphinx

23:28

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Q: The case of the strange coffee

When you figure out that the guy speaking Gibberish meant you go back to the restaurant the following day, and hope for the best. When you walk in you notice the man who said the Gibberish in the first place but not the other man. After you order your food and start eating you hear the door b...

cipher

n_palum

@BeastlyGerbil lame :P

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