The Sphinx's Lair

Gareth McCaughan

00:25

Contact continues but currently seems like it could do with a few more people...

Jan Dvorak

Yeah, I'm getting ton of clues, but I'm getting none of them.

Gareth McCaughan

Having more people won't exactly help that particular problem.

But it may help the game move along a bit more.

Jan Dvorak

Yeah, I can't pass if nobody contacts

boboquack

04:41

@ffao how come you're back on 99 upvotes on 29-1=30?

Wen1now

Somebody undid an upvote probably

ffao

05:09

I don't know, that answer is so awesome, why would anyone undo an upvote

ASCII-only

Fixed :P

Alconja

@ffao I mean it is the 28th best answer of all time!

ffao

06:10

looks like it's back to 101 after the bump to the front page

Sid

Um, guys here is a CC I am stuck on.

Beginner of Athens (5)

Apparently the answer is ALPHA.

Which I don't seem to get from the clue.

Beastly Gerbil

I solved the numbrix btw

Techidiot

Could be a ddef.

Ankoganit

@Sid sounds like a cryptic def

ffao

beginning of athens, in greek? seems weird

Sid

06:15

Oh, duh.

ffao

or beginning of greek alphabet

Sid

Cryptic def, yeah.

Ankoganit

So basically one needs to interpret that as "beginning letter in Greek"

M Oehm

I think it's both: Athens provides the A and the reference to Greek.

Ankoganit

Oh, so it's an &lit!

That makes more sense

Sid

06:19

For it to be an &lit, where is the wordplay beside the "A"?

Ankoganit

You need to pretend A=alpha

M Oehm

"beginning of something" can mean its first letter and "something in Athens" can mean it's in Greek.

Sid

Ah..

Duh.

M Oehm

(You'll see that more often in "the French" or "Rousseau's cat" or "Nancy's a ..." or "Nice street".)

Wen1now

Hey, is anybody here familiar with puzzlescript?

Ankoganit

06:27

@Sid Here's the 15^2 page (look at 5d)

(and here's where the clue first appeared)

Beastly Gerbil

07:08

Numbrix solution is up @Sconibulus

Can you confirm it's correct?

Wen1now

07:29

numbrix?

Rubio

@MOehm "Nancy's a..." giving what?

Mithrandir

This user is starting to @rub me the wrong way: puzzling.stackexchange.com/users/37767/draftnba

Wen1now

Looks like an interesting profile puzzle, I'm going to attempt it :p

ffao

they'll post it soon, then you can attempt it

Rubio

which user now?

boboquack

07:35

I don't know

M Oehm

@Rubio un / une: The indefinite article (that is, the equivalent to "a") used in Nancy.

ffao

@Rubio probably a French article, since Nancy is a city in France

Rubio

Oh. I knew Nice, but not Nancy. thanks.

Sphinx

10:01

0

Q: Find the missing number :

Find the missing number in the following table. Answer Options are: 25 27 32 30

Sp3000

10:32

Well this is the point where I start to use tools and I think I've got the C4, but o_O I'd never have gotten it without tools so... hm.

Wen1now

10:52

Don't worry about it, I'm sure it's fine

Gareth McCaughan

12:00

@Sp3000 The clue's been there for something like four days. I think using tools is fine at this point.

@Wen1now Try @TheGreatEscaper?

Sp3000

Well in that case: INTRIGUE ("carry on" = love affair) = (UNTIE)* (untie "knots") restraining RIG ("dress")

Gareth McCaughan

INTRIGUE is the correct answer! Well done.

("carry on" = "engage in an affair", though, rather than turning into a noun.)

It's a rather old-fashioned sense of "intrigue", of course.

Sp3000

Ah right, I couldn't quite tell if it was a noun or verb in this context

But trust Gareth to come up with a clue with two "engage in a love affair" where I know the individual words/phrases but... not as love affairs :P

(having said that though I feel like the board game expansion "Dominion Intrigue" just made a lot more sense)

n_palum

@_@

Well good job Gareth

Sp3000

CCCC: Sweet treat from evening of puzzles held by annoying one in Greek island (5, 7)

On a side note, thanks to Gareth I learnt that there's quite a lot of types of corsets, apparently

Gareth McCaughan

12:12

@Sp3000 Glad to be of service. I expect there are a number of sites on the internet that can help with your future research on this topic.

n_palum

lol

Sp3000

Well, at least that's how the Andy Warhol contact clue came about :P

n_palum

I don't even know where to start with this cc

M Oehm

12:42

I'd start with the island.

n_palum

Do you think Greek Island is the def?

There are like a billion of them D:

M Oehm

Well, not necessarily Greek. There are many other islands that start with SAINT or SANTA, St. Thomas for example. They would fit the enumeration.

n_palum

Ahhh

M Oehm

(I know already which island. :) But I haven't got anything to keep up the chain at the moment.)

n_palum

Sneaky

M Oehm

12:52

There are, of course, many Greek islands, but as far as I know not many that have names with two words.

n_palum

True

dcfyj

The last level on this is mean

Sid

How is carry on=intrigue?

n_palum

@MOehm Two words that fit 5, 7 is where I am struggling...

M Oehm

13:09

The island could also be part of the wordplay. In that case, it's probably a well-known island with ashorter name.

Sid

Today's Guardian Cryptics has a clue: Bishop, say, tries fruit (7)

M Oehm

My first thought was Crete, which could make a word like CREME ...TE, which doesn't sound too bad for a sweet or a sweet treat.

Sid

The answer is apparently MANGOES. I don't understand the clue at all

M Oehm

@Sid The bishop is a chess piece or a chess MAN. It's a definition by example, hence the "say". The tries and GOES are nouns as in "Have a try/go."

Sid

But Fruit=Mangoes? Plural?

M Oehm

13:12

Apples are fruit, aren't they?

Sconibulus

I think the plural of fruit is fruit

Sid

bah. I had it wrong all these years, after all.

Plural of fruit=fruit. TIL.

Sconibulus

although you can say fruits, if you're talking about different categories of fruit

Sp3000

In the case where you have many types of fruits, it can be fruits. It depends what you're talking about, apparently

n_palum

@MOehm There's Saint Vincent

Sconibulus

13:14

it's like person vs people

err, people vs peopls

usually you say people, but if you're talking about multiple distinct categories, you use peoples

i.e. The Free Peoples of Middle Earth

English is fucking weird

Sid

Lol, true.

M Oehm

@n_palum Yes, but how are you going to fit in the sweet treat, the evening of puzzles, the annoying one and Greek?

Sconibulus

@n_palum Saint Maarten maybe, also many Greek Islands begin with Agios

n_palum

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sp3000

fyi it's Sint Maarten, slightly confusing :P

(and there's also Saint Martin?)

n_palum

13:22

There is

M Oehm

Oh, I can see an anagram of SMARTIE (but not Smarties) in Saint Maarten. Unfortunately, the island is Dutch and its name is Sint Maarten, so (4, 7).

Sconibulus

two halves of the same Island I think, one being Dutch and one being... I want to say French?

n_palum

So maybe it is sweet treat

Sconibulus

I ended up landing there on the way to Anguila

n_palum

So we need evening of puzzles, annoying one in Greek Island

M Oehm

13:23

Yes, that's where the Netherlands and France have a common land border.

Sp3000

o_O

Sconibulus

one in greek... enas?

Sp3000

(this is a geography lesson for me)

Sconibulus

is annoying an anagrind?

n_palum

It can be

Sconibulus

13:25

'annoying one in greek' sounds almost mythological, probably for Hermes or Pan

Gareth McCaughan

@Sconibulus The plural of "person" is "people". The plural of "people" is "peoples". The singular noun "people" (meaning a population with shared ethnicity, or something of the kind) is derived from the plural noun "people".

n_palum

^ that makes more sense to me

Sconibulus

but 'one in greek' could easily be just a translation

dcfyj

neo?

n_palum

Hmm I do like the idea of getting Pan or Hermes from that

Sconibulus

13:26

@GarethMcCaughan yeah, that's true, but it doesn't help explain how fruit works that well

Gareth McCaughan

@Sid To "carry on" with someone is to have an affair with them. To "intrigue" with someone can also have that meaning.

@Sconibulus I'm not quite sure why the explanation of person/people/peoples needs to have anything to do with fruit.

Sid

as in verb?

Gareth McCaughan

Verb in both cases, yes.

n_palum

Fish can be a singular count noun, and its usual plural is also fish. Fruit as a singular count noun has the plural of fruits.

However, both fish and fruit more commonly appear as noncount nouns, which do not have plurals.

When do you use the plural count noun fruits? You use fruits to refer to different species of fruit. However, fruits as a plural count noun as in these sentences is much less frequent than fruit as a noncount noun.

Gareth McCaughan

I think the plural of fruit-as-count-noun can also be "fruit". The question "How many fruit did you get?" when someone has just been shopping doesn't seem an ill-formed one.

thecoder16

13:37

ah, but it would be "how much fruit".

dcfyj

Both statements are accurate, how much and how many are both fine. Although, many implies types whereas much implies amount.

thecoder16

i have never hearth how many fruit, it sounds wrong for some reason

heard

Sid

isn't much for uncountable nouns while many for countable nouns? Or am I just mistaken?

thecoder16

yes, thats what i thought

TheGreatEscaper

Hullo.

Gareth McCaughan

13:45

hello TGE!

TheGreatEscaper

Hullo Gareth!

Sid

Good Evening TGE!

TheGreatEscaper

Hiya Sid!

Sid

Your game is too hard

TheGreatEscaper

baHahahAhahahaah that thing

Gareth McCaughan

13:46

@thecoder16 yes, "how many fruit" is unusual but it's not (I think) impossible. "Go and buy some apples and pears. I need at least six." ... "So, how many fruit did you get?"

TheGreatEscaper

Its at least a few years old

Deusovi

It's pretty good, though. Difficult, but rewarding.

Gareth McCaughan

and of course it's carefully crafted to look like it's a few decades old.

thecoder16

@GarethMcCaughan i don't think that works. many implies quantity. fruit itself is already plural.

TheGreatEscaper

That's mostly PuzzleScript @GarethMcCaughan :P

Gareth McCaughan

13:48

@thecoder16 "Fruit" is both singular and plural.

Sid

Now that I think about it, a decade back is 2007. Huh, it doesn't feel that way.

n_palum

I think it'd be "How much fruit did you get" not how many

Gareth McCaughan

In any case, I don't see how you get from "fruit is already plural" to "you can't ask how many fruit". "Berries" is plural but you can ask "how many berries?".

dcfyj

@GarethMcCaughan Yeah, the game engine he used doesn't really allow super fancy graphics haha

n_palum

@GarethMcCaughan Berries is the plural, the singular is berry

Gareth McCaughan

13:49

To me, "how much fruit" is answered in kilos or litres or something (a small basketful, enough for a pavlova, enough to last us a couple of days) whereas "how many fruit" is answered with a number (six, but one of them's rather small).

thecoder16

here i am on the third level, and i've managed to blockade myself into a box

now i can't do anything lmao

Gareth McCaughan

@n_palum What did I say that gave the impression that I am not aware that "berries" is the plural of "berry"?

@thecoder16 Yes you can, you can press Z.

n_palum

Eh.. how much could be answered with both imo, how many fruit sounds weird to me

dcfyj

@thecoder16 The undo button works wonders

thecoder16

well i meant game wise

ii'm trying not to undo :P

n_palum

13:50

@GarethMcCaughan I don't see how you get from "fruit is already plural" to "you can't ask how many fruit". "Berries" is plural but you can ask "how many berries?".

dcfyj

@thecoder16 Succumb to the need of it, I'm sure you'll need to.

Deusovi

You will not be able to do it without undoing.

TheGreatEscaper

giggles

thecoder16

challenge accepted

n_palum

fruit can be singular and plural, but berries cannot

thecoder16

13:50

besides that first attempt, of course :P

Gareth McCaughan

@n_palum What did I say that gave the impression that I had forgotten writing that?

dcfyj

@Deusovi I have, after I had already solved all the puzzles though.

Sid

Right, now I need to concentrate on level 5..

Deusovi

I feel like it'd be easy to slip up, even after knowing the solutions.

n_palum

Idk just the wording :P I wasn't meaning to imply you weren't aware, I am very aware of your word expertise

dcfyj

13:52

@Deusovi my brain works in mysterious ways.

TheGreatEscaper

No ones made progress on the knights kuromasu??

I might have to give it a serious crack this weekend :P

thecoder16

arguing with gareth about words is like trying to cut diamond with a wooden saw. if you cut anywhere deep, it will be into your own skin.

6

Sconibulus

I've tried, but I get to spots where I have to guess pretty quickly

TheGreatEscaper

Lmao @thecoder16

thecoder16

it's true.

TheGreatEscaper

14:05

I never disagreed with ya :P

I probably won't get into any solving action until after I'm done with my grid thingo

M Oehm

@Sp3000 The CCCC is CRE(PE S(UZE)T)TE - pUzZlEs ("evening", i.e even letters of puzzles) in PEST, all in CRETE

n_palum

Very nice!

Sp3000

Nice

M Oehm

Didn't know the "evening" device, but that was easy to explain.

So let's continue with the Greek island theme:

CCCC: Steal back most of new Greek island (6)

dcfyj

14:32

@MOehm Not sure how that's a 5, 7 answer...

M Oehm

@dcfyj Crepe Suzette, the sweet treat, is 5, 7, or have I miscounted?

Sid

Answer is CREPE SUZETTE

Deusovi

@dcfyj CREPE SUZETTE?

dcfyj

@MOehm Ah, that wasn't particularly easy for me to read, that makes more sense.

M Oehm

Yes, I should have gone easy on the parentheses. Sorry about that.

Deusovi

14:34

No, I think it's fine.

dcfyj

I read it as the inner parts needed to be removed

Deusovi

That's typically notated with lowercase or a minus sign (or both).

Techidiot

@MOehm Is it BOR(rob back) + NE(w) + O -> BORNEO(island def)

Ankoganit

Where does O come from?

Sid

How did you get O?

Techidiot

14:40

Greek letter Omicron :p

Ankoganit

Uhh that doesn't sound right

Techidiot

Not sure. That's the closest I got of it.

Jan Dvorak

It kinda fits

Techidiot

But, would like to get a confirmation from M Oehm on that.

Ankoganit

I think it's BOR+NEO(most of NEOS, Greek for new)

Sid

14:43

That makes more sense

Techidiot

Yeah. I tried that and got νέος (this) in translation

So, that's right. @Ankoganit Since you made it work. Go for the next CC

Jan Dvorak

I like most of neos

Ankoganit

@Techidiot Um okay but I need a minute or two

Sp3000

@MOehm is probably still around to confirm, maybe

Sconibulus

Figured out the Knight Move!

Ankoganit

14:49

Hm so should I wait for @MOehm?

Ok doesn't look like he's around

I think I'll go ahead

CCCC: Say, are turn-backs an illegal act? (9)

Gareth McCaughan

@Sconibulus Congratulations!

TheGreatEscaper

15:21

Nice @Sconibulus !

M Oehm

@Ankoganit Yes, that's it.

(Sorry about the delay, I've posted the clue from the office and I am now at home.)

n_palum

Welcome home

Sphinx

15:46

0

Q: West face East face

The 2 x 2 x 1 die with new configuration was created from 2 dice (w/ opposite faces total 7) that were glued together on one of their faces. If this long die is rolled twice, the sum of non-repeated results can be equal to 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,20,11,12,13,14,15 or 16. What are the glued faces of the 2 ...

dice

n_palum

18:08

@Deusovi Lots of stuff on sale for Steam summer sale if you're still looking for stuff

dcfyj

Summer sale started?

n_palum

Mhmm

Beastly Gerbil

18:29

It may be 30 degrees over here but Britain will always find a way to rain.... At least it was warm rain for once...

n_palum

Has to process it's Celsius there

Avantgarde

Celsius > F

K > all

Beastly Gerbil

Why can't the world settle for one set of measurements, one language, one alphabet....

Whats 30 celcius in fahrenheit? like 90?

n_palum

@BeastlyGerbil Culture, History, etc etc

Avantgarde

No idea. I am fine with one system of units, but I'd want different languages over one

Beastly Gerbil

18:35

make things easier...

I have no idea how big a yard is

dcfyj

A yard is a little smaller than a meter

n_palum

@BeastlyGerbil 0.9144m

Beastly Gerbil

metRE :P

dcfyj

Personally I think the imperial measuring system is stupid, but it's what they use in the US...

n_palum

Yeah dc they do re not er for a lot of things

also 86 degrees

Beastly Gerbil

18:36

metric is better

dcfyj

@n_palum duh, I'm from Canada I know they do that

It's from the French

n_palum

You're Canadian?

Beastly Gerbil

yeah -re verbs like etre

n_palum

@Deusovi youtube.com/watch?v=TfjvvCpe80A - I can't even imagine what a live game would be like

dcfyj

@n_palum I don't live there anymore, but yes

n_palum

18:38

Ooo

Cold eh

Beastly Gerbil

rockies where cool

dcfyj

?

Deusovi

@n_palum Live Spyfall games are interesting.

I've played a few. I'm awful at it.

n_palum

My goal is to do that asap

dcfyj

But everyone already knows you're the spy...

n_palum

18:41

Well..

Beastly Gerbil

@dcfyj a message didn't send. I wrote before hand 'I went to canada once. Great place'

Gareth McCaughan

I thought all Canadian verbs ended in -eh.

dcfyj

Regardless "rockies where cool" makes no sense.

Deusovi

Oh hey, Gareth's here!

Beastly Gerbil

Rocky mountains

Gareth McCaughan

18:42

@dcfyj perhaps "where" was meant to be "were"

dcfyj

@GarethMcCaughan pretty sure @GentlePurpleRain would disagree with you (like I do).

Forklift

@dcfyj that's true

Gareth McCaughan

actually, I disagree with me too. (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

Beastly Gerbil

bloody hell chat is being slow today....

dcfyj

@BeastlyGerbil I know what the rockies are >.<

Forklift

18:43

lol

n_palum

Do.. the rockies stretch to Canada?

Avantgarde

I think yeah

Gareth McCaughan

@BeastlyGerbil do you mean the chat UI is responding slowly, or not much conversation is happening?

n_palum

@GarethMcCaughan I'm confused with how to interpret this

dcfyj

@n_palum The rockies start in Canada and go all the way to South America (although they change name along the way)

Forklift

18:44

I think I can help: "rockies where cool" seems an appropriate response to nothing that has been posted in chat thus far

dcfyj

@GarethMcCaughan Pretty sure the former

n_palum

Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, commonly known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than 3,000 miles (4,800 km) from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in western Canada, to New Mexico, in the Southwestern United States. Within the North American Cordillera, the Rockies are somewhat distinct from the Pacific Coast Ranges and the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada which all lie further to the west. The Rocky Mountains were initially formed from 80 million to 55 million years ago during the Laramide orogeny, in which a number of plates began...

Gareth McCaughan

I mean (1) I don't actually think that Canadian verbs end in -eh and was just making a flippant joke and (2) it amuses me to quote Walt Whitman.

n_palum

I do (winks)

Avantgarde

Rockies stretch all the way into South America?

Beastly Gerbil

18:47

Sorry guys I'm having trouble with chat. It keeps glitching, not sending message and taking ages to load anything... Posted on meta about it

Forklift

Calling Andes Rockies?

dcfyj

@Avantgarde As I said, they change name

Avantgarde

That's what I think

dcfyj

@Forklift It's the same mountain range

Avantgarde

What's the changed name?

dcfyj

18:47

Don't remember

Forklift

I don't think it holds up because they are on and caused by diferfent faults, yeah?

Avantgarde

List of longest mountain chains on Earth

The world's longest above-ground mountain range is the Andes, about 7,000 km (4,300 mi) long. The range stretches from north to south through seven countries in South America, along the west coast of the continent: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. Aconcagua is the highest peak, at about 6,962 m (22,841 ft). This list does not include submarine mountain ranges. If submarine mountains are included, the longest is the global mid-ocean ridge system which extends for about 65,000 km (40,000 mi). == Formation == Mountain chains are typically formed by the process of...

n_palum

Andes are in South America?

Avantgarde

They have different positions on that list

@n_palum yes

n_palum

Andes != Rockies

Forklift

18:51

@dcfyj I think you are mistaken that they are the same mountain system. I am confident they are not. They sit on different tectonic plate intersections and would not have a geographic relation to each other. Though they seem to follow a line they have no relation to each other

Beastly Gerbil

You could make a puzzle of this

Forklift

might be too obscure. You'd have to knowledge tag it and hint pretty well

Beastly Gerbil

You could do a vigenere from ANDES -> ROCKY

Forklift

lol, thanks for the compliment, but I assure you I could not!

Sconibulus

RBZGG?

Forklift

18:57

see, this is why I tend to pass right over "cipher" tagged puzzles

Beastly Gerbil

Heh cool key

Lukas Rotter

@Forklift *starts to cry*

Forklift

it's not personal. I'm just dumb

Deusovi

Lukas! :D

We missed you!

Sconibulus

Oh, hey!

dcfyj

19:02

@LukasRotter HE LIVES!

Beastly Gerbil

Rotter's back!

Your goal of giving away all your rep is complete! :P

Forklift

it appears a celebrity is among us

Beastly Gerbil

Yes indeed

Avantgarde

Forklift

(checks profile) hmmm... alright then

Lukas Rotter

19:05

Hi everyone. Seems like I couldn't resist P.SE longer than a few months :D

Avantgarde

Hi Lukas

Deusovi

I'm glad you're back!

Beastly Gerbil

@forklift they made this for instance before deleting account

@LukasRotter has it really been only a few months? Feels like forever! :)

Forklift

wow, that's quite the puzzle.

Sconibulus

Were you unable to resist the allure of hybrid grids?

Forklift

19:10

it was the herpes riddle, certainly

the timing is too close to be a coincidence

Beastly Gerbil

19:22

@LukasRotter any more puzzles coming?

Deusovi

Patience, BG. Maybe he doesn't want to make any more for right now, or at all.

But if he does, I don't think asking will make him make them faster.

Beastly Gerbil

How can you ask me to wait for one of the best puzzle makers around? :P

Lukas Rotter

@BeastlyGerbil Well, I have a few ideas for puzzles. If I'm happy with the end result the first one will probably be posted next week. (assuming weekends are still as dead as they were before :P)

*weekends

Deusovi

(Yeah, that hasn't changed unfortunately.)

Lukas Rotter

LOL, I forgot about the editing feature in chat

Beastly Gerbil

19:27

oh dear :P

dcfyj

@LukasRotter you should play (and beat) this game :P

(For whatever reason me + typing = fail, lately)

Beastly Gerbil

Hm... I completed my 250th close vote around 30 mins ago and I still haven't received a reviewer badge. Should I be worried?

Deusovi

@BeastlyGerbil Yes, absolutely. Start panicking immediately.

Beastly Gerbil

My first came within 1 minute of me completing my 250th

Deusovi

(I think badges update every hour or something? I dunno. Maybe it's just a weird SE thing.)

Beastly Gerbil

19:32

oh ok then

Sconibulus

oh, BG, were you going to complete your answer?

Beastly Gerbil

Was just doing so :P

It might take a while... the previous shape I made is now a bit messed up so going to reprint to add images

Sconibulus

cool beans :)

Beastly Gerbil

should we also post a com wiki?

My and turtle have both solved half :P

Sconibulus

Out of curiosity, did the name mean anything to you?

Beastly Gerbil

19:35

what name?

Jormungard?

Sconibulus

I thought you said you had the slitherlink done yesterday, just didn't get it formatted to post?

Beastly Gerbil

Yeah

I solved the slitherink first but my mum made me go to bed :(

3

Sconibulus

yeah, it was supposed to be a little clue that it was 3d :)

Yeah, so you don't need to Community Wiki, you didn't really steal the work

Beastly Gerbil

I suppose...

Sconibulus

I mean, if you want to you can

Beastly Gerbil

19:37

I guess I have evidence... I'd still feel bad though

Sconibulus

whatever floats your boat

Deusovi

Yeah, I don't think there's anything wrong with not doing CW.

Beastly Gerbil

I'll provide a brief answer with the correct solution, a disclaimer saying I solved it first just didn't write up and a link to turtles answer

Then I won't feel like I'm stealing :)

Give me an hour or so, I need to make that icosahedron looks like a nice 3d shape instead of a squashed sphere :P

Sconibulus

but they basically are a squashed sphere

Beastly Gerbil

true, but the shape shouldn't be concave like mine was :P

Great puzzle btw. you combined 3 dimensions and two grid deductions in one. If there were question bounties you'd have one from me :)

and what does a manga series have to do with hinting d btw?

Sconibulus

19:51

Jormungand(spelling varies) is a snake that encircled the world in Norse Myth

Beastly Gerbil

oh

Jan Dvorak

that sounds like Ouroboros to me

Beastly Gerbil

wiki has it as jormungandr

Sconibulus

Incidentally, one of Loki's children

Beastly Gerbil

Jormungand (manga)

Jormungand (ヨルムンガンド, Yorumungando) is a manga series by Keitarou Takahashi, which was serialized in Monthly Sunday Gene-X magazine and published in North America by Viz Media. An anime television series produced by White Fox was broadcast between April and June 2012. A second season titled Jormungand: Perfect Order aired from October to December 2012. Both seasons have been licensed by Funimation in North America and Manga Entertainment in the United Kingdom for the first season. == Plot == The series follows Koko Hekmatyar, a young arms dealer who sells weapons under HCLI, an internatio...

Sconibulus

19:52

Yeah, as I said, spelling varies rather wildly

sometimes i instead of j, sometimes accents in various places, sometimes an r at the end, sometimes an ir, and sometimes nothing

Mike Q

Ourobouros isn't Norse

Sconibulus

Ourobouros is just a circle snake with the tail in the mouth I think

Jormungand is an Ouroboros, but not all Ouroboroses are Jormungand

Jan Dvorak

Oh, a hoop snake?

feelinferrety

20:08

@dcfyj I don't understand how the laser level works

Deusovi

Ogres Are Like Onions

To solve @TheGreatEscaper's puzzle game: puzzlescript.net/play...

Sconibulus

yeah

Beastly Gerbil

okay done the pictures for the shape. just need to write up the answer now

Beastly Gerbil

20:43

imgur isn't working

oh scratch that

Beastly Gerbil

20:54

okay @Sconibulus my answer is complete

Sphinx

21:24

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Q: Bus Driver Bob's Dilema

It was icy and cold morning in Michigan when Mr. Busdriver Bob arrived to work. When he got into his bus he remembered Mr. Boss having told him yesterday to first pick up some students 5 miles north. Despite having lost his compass and having a poor sense of direction, Bob deduced his bus was fac...

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Beastly Gerbil

Night all! (i tried to improve the 3d model btw)

Ogres Are Like Onions

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