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Q: Backwards Boggle

FrpzzdI came up with a fun little 1-player puzzle for myself to do when bored. Pick 5-6 words, preferably words that share a good number of letters, and try to create a Boggle board containing all of those words. For example, with the words PEACH PAGEANT SHOW WASH WASPS SHAPES I created the follow...

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Q: What does this picture represent?

user46376What does this picture represent in math?

01:22
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Q: Where are you at this time

Jason P SallingerWhere are you if, When it's 10 o'clock, it's 2 o'clock When it's 5 o'clock, it's 7 o'clock

01:56
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Q: MAR10 Day Puzzle: What character am I?

yummypastaIn honor of MAR10 day, I have created a puzzle for you! Try to guess what Mario universe character I am, and what game I'm from. R ad to k ar l thi v? of s y a e h to the s fl? er f d e e ll The ' ound the c r ? i ??? ? ? r?? ? Hin...

 
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Q: Which will be the next two term?

SAHEB PAL $$26\quad 28\quad 28\quad 30\quad 30\quad 28\quad 32\quad 30\quad ?\quad ?$$ If I consider the sequence of odd term then it follows like $2$ increasing. So the first missing term is $32$. Also if I consider the sequence of even term then it's oscillate, so the $2$nd missing term is $28$. Di...

03:46
(status: finding excuses to further procrastinate on posting a C4)
maybe I should follow Sid and pass my turn with something simple
04:46
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Q: What am I? (Identify the single word)

Phylyp You find me on a die, and The flag of a peaceful island I'm used on maps, but not many I'm an old coin, but not a penny What am I? I'm not a star, nor a letter/number. If not solved, I'll provide a hint every 24 hours.

 
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Q: Root - Dairy + Letter Mixed Around

Pingu PardusThis is my first riddle on Puzzling SE! Hope you guys like it! I associate with a group and take only two I am a sound most people hear in their lives Root minus dairy plus letter mixed around A large boulder rests upon my shoulders Wrapped around a human I lay Flipp...

 
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11:56
CCCC: Boy is against beer crafts -- retrograde or a leap forward? (8)
 
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15:53
(Spyfall is about to start if we get enough people)
16:06
(need one more player for Spyfall)
16:56
@ffao this is a long shot, but if "against beer crafts" can be "revue", then we have MANEUVER (def.: leap forward); revue: 1. a form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied.
17:23
I guess I retract that, but it's all I have.
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Q: Who are these two sisters?

Rand al'Thor Once each month I slept with you, But unfortunately I'm a young woman. I'll give it to you square: I'm rich! Halfway to perfect in an attack. My sister makes much less sense: Her misfortune was to be created. Twice I told her, I really did, But her perfection has now dimmed. ...

 
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Q: Alice special phone number

Shanaul HaqueBob asked for Alice's phone number. Alice gave him her phone number but told him, "Until you tell me what pattern is hidden in my number, I won't receive your call." Help Bob to find the pattern in 854-917-6320

18:52
I have another (better?) idea, but I can only get it to fit half of the wordplay
post it, maybe someone else (read: Deusovi) can get the other half
hello!
Well, I think "boy is against beer" could just be "male - ale" = m. "Metaphor" fits "a leap forward". On the other hand, "retrograde" and "leap forward" are both elatives, and "elative" has the "v" for against, and "ale" backwards. That doesn't work, because we'd need both things in the final clause to make "elatives" plural, and then we can't put anything in reverse.
@Deusovi lmao how
I͈͈͕͎̦͖ͅ'͔̬̠m͡ ̰*a̘̥̫l̢̝̭w̯͚̞a͏̻̥̰͎̲ͅy̶̺͉̟̮ͅs̭̖͔̲̹̼* ҉w̶at̢̰͔̤̻̙̞̳c͔̩͚͙̠̮͈͘h̝̮͈̞̺̬̳i̳n̪͍͝g͙̺.̬͈̹.͈͟.̳͙̟̝͓͉
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(I just happened to have the page open)
19:01
So I'm sitting here with a long list of "crafts" and trying to get them to fit into something meaningful, and I assume "beer" is ale. I don't know anything that could replace "beer crafts"
@EricTressler I don't think "boy is against beer" would give M. First of all, "against" isn't really a removal indicator as far as I know, and second, "boy" could give M by itself.
(so "is against beer" would be unnecessary - it would be valid, but it doesn't seem like ffao's style)
Surprisingly, "elav" doesn't seem to appear in any normal English words.
Huh, really? That's strange.
I have a really liberal word list, and it only gets 3 hits: belavendered, thielavia, thielaviopsis
 
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21:06
@EricTressler other than proper names, that's all I get as well
Spyfall is still happening if anyone's interested
Will it still be happening if we're not interested?
Probably not
Considering that if nobody wants to play... people won't
I'd say don't go there right now though...
People are being clowns at the moment.
21:13
I don't really have time to Spyfall anyway. I just like being overly pedantic about sentences that look conditional but aren't
I thought they were being fishermen
There's something fishy going on
 
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Q: A Preposterous Puzzle

H WaltersThe Preposterous Puzzle In text form: ONGOKEAU TTFDNQAN ITHZTEEC HLTIEZST RUINKTLU EHSLSIEH TUSNOTPO EUIOOSGD The word preposterous traces to the roots prae (before) and posterous (subsequent). The modern usage of this word conveys an absurdity, but it was originally meant more precisely t...

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Q: The writing is on the wall for these hieroglyphics

ChowzenMy mother, turning 80 this month, is convinced that anyone born into Generation Z will not be able to decipher the following. This is an ancient form of communication called "Cursive" [kur-siv], which is soon to be as extinct as the Latin language and the Mullet hairstyle. Is there anyone ...

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Q: When was this marvelous thing first invented?

Rubio The answer to this puzzle will be a year.

22:42
@Rubio - I found the runes, but can't find where they come from. I've tried every fictional and real runic alphabet I can think of to see what they say. D:
22:54
@Deusovi what's this
The puzzle by Rubio just above.
There are runes hidden in an off-white color.
I've changed them to red here.
Anyway, they look runish, but they don't seem to resemble any actual runic alphabets.
@Deusovi yay thanks
what did you use to do that
Als it might be some kind of transformation (e.g. reflection) black magic
An image editor with floodfill and global mode.
@Deusovi :| oh yeah that works
I was wondering because I remember somehow doing LSB filtering but I forgot what I used - it was probably paint.NET with some kind of color channel magic
I added some tags I meant to include.
23:02
also isn't steganography supposed to be there too
Yeah, I used Paint.NET. The magic wand tool is a godsend in these situations.
They won’t help. But they might. :)
@ASCII-only no, that's the entire point of
The steg tag was left off on purpose (for now)
@EriktheOutgolfer No it's not. means "the directions are not explicitly given", not "I'm using this to hide other tags".
23:03
@Deusovi Not as useful with a photo with LSB tricks encoding a hidden image
@Deusovi ah, then the tag excerpt doesn't describe it very well
> puzzles where the puzzler must deduce what type of puzzle it is
@ASCII-only Tried all those. None resemble the last character.
also I thought that the puzzler is the one posting the puzzle
23:04
no, I think "puzzler" can be the one who is solving the puzzles
hm
yet having to deduce the type of the puzzle, at least for me, means exactly that relevant tags are hidden, maybe it should say something else instead?
That’s one usage of “enigmatic” I’ve seen used pretty frequently and that’s how I use it from time to time in cases where the explicit tag gives away entirely too much up front. If that usage is inappropriate then I apologize and we may want to make it clearer that the tag shouldn’t be used that way.
Anyway I’m going to be Not Here for a bit so have a lovely evening or the time zone local equivalent for you.
"have a good time"
23:24
@Deusovi :/ it's probably not an actual alphabet at all (or if it is one, it's very obscure)
I also considered that, but there's not enough information to decode as a cryptogram.
Right, so it's probably some kind of obscure alphabet or transformed alphabet then?
That's what I'm thinking. I don't think it's transformed, though - there's no clear pattern that the characters follow.
23:48
sup xd
this stackexchange is great it's been so much fun having only posted one question
@Bass you're pretty damn good lol
@Deusovi :| I've gone through basically all of this (+ fictional languages) and haven't found anything yet
yeah, I went through that entire site already
:/ how fast do you read
I mean, I just had to look for something that looked similar, then filter those out by whether they had all the characters.
They did not.
you've looked through all the conlang sections?
23:51
yep - not many that look similar
:/
The alphabet Rubio's using can't be that obscure, right?
You'd think so.
Also as4/wen may know but they haven't been here lately, maybe Doorknob?
the pointy B is in Etruscan, and I've seen it before too. I wonder if mapping each character to the languages it corresponds to would lead to anything
or else mapping them to the letter they correspond to in the language they're in, assuming there's a mapping to English characters

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