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HIMTEEKIVUDS
The Moon System of Embossed Reading (commonly known as the Moon writing, Moon alphabet, Moon script, Moon type, or Moon code) is a writing system for the blind, using embossed symbols mostly derived from the Latin script (but simplified). It is claimed by its supporters to be easier to understand than Braille, though it is mainly used by people who have lost their sight as adults, and thus already have knowledge of the shapes of letters. == History == Moon type was developed by Dr. William Moon (1818—1894), a blind Englishman living in Brighton, East Sussex. After a bout of scarlet fever, Moon...
that's what they are in current order, at least
reorder in a chain based on anime and presumably we'll get the solution
wow, well found
@Deusovi *the question
no, he really means the solution
hm? I meant what I said
but isn't there an arrow after the solution
_________ ___. => ?
00:03
I have no idea how you got that, but I'll second Gareth's wow
oh, yeah, there's proably one more step
but it'll be an easy one
yeah, almost certainly
TSUKIHIME DEV
there we go
duh, it's made by Type-Moon
of course it is
who is going to post that?
00:07
you did most of the work, so you can have it
I reckon I already have at least as much rep as I deserve for that question
ffao would be fair
but so would Deusovi since he made the to-me-still-astonishing Moon Type leap
or the final answer could be CW since multiple people contributed
I wouldn't object to any of those
that moon type leap o_O
@Deusovi oh so you used a spreadsheet
I already happened to know Moon Type was a thing.
00:09
this is such a genius idea
@ASCII-only Google Sheets. It's what I usually use to organize puzzly things that require a lot of data collection.
Knowing it was a thing is step one. Noticing that all the characters obliquely described look like Moon Type letters is step two, and that's the bit I find super-impressive.
(Though I didn't know about Moon Type either.)
It requires not merely knowing Moon Type is a thing, but having it sufficiently available to memory that seeing a bunch of symbols that look a bit like Moon Type triggers the thought.
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Q: Point of no return

Jack Pettinger Now that we are here, there's no going back, just get another, there's more in a pack, Link me together, to make me longer, or double me up, to make me stronger, I wonder how many there are of me, I'll probably end up in the sea, Can you name me?

I love that they described Konosuba as "EXPLOOOSION" in the puzzle, with three Os
it's pretty accurate
@GarethMcCaughan Thank you! The alphabet is fairly easy to recognize once you know it exists, I think. Lots of simple geometric shapes.
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Q: What is the biggest known jigsaw puzzle size by pieces as of 2018?

J. DoeBiggest I've observed so far are 18000 pieces, right?

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@Sid well aware, sid
@Rubio spam/joke answers are stupid. :)
a puzzling note? no? lol
elam backwards is male idk
@ALinuxLover what does that have to do with anything
absolutely nothing :)
00:55
what does anything have to do with anything, really?
also yeah i noticed the male thing
STAN ELAM is an anagram of MALE TANS
or STALE MAN
or MALE NATA
@TrojanByAccident ... that doesn't help
the order is important
lol maybe it does
00:58
or... last name, which is where it came from?
they're just the first eight letters of the message... no use anagramming it
true
so i assume substitution cipher. brute forcing it, see u in five days
@ASCII-only well aware. that’s why i didn’t note that in my answer
@ALinuxLover ... it's eight different letters
lmao
anyone else think point of no return could be a plastic bag?
01:03
@TrojanByAccident yes
@ASCII-only lets pretend i never said anything im tired ok
@ALinuxLover how do you know what that means? o_O
@ffao what what means
plastic bag
??
@ffao its a bag made of plastic...
so you think point of no return could be a bag made of plastic. ok this is confusing
I'm not sure I want to understand anymore
01:09
yes think about it
once you put all ur stuff in one you dont want to take it out
if one breaks you just get another one. you can buy them in packs
somekinds of plastic bags (trash bags specifically?) have dedicated linking parts, to make them longer, or make them stronger by using two
wind blows them easily into the ocean
they are mass produced
??
ok, I get it now
@TrojanByAccident Spam/joke answers are typically not a good idea, no. Baiting mods, though, is almost never a good idea.
Baiting mods?
legitimately confused now
@TrojanByAccident are you going to post the plastic bag thing or should I? lol
You replied to me saying calling people's answers stupid wasn't very Nice, by calling joke/spam answers stupid. Why would you do that? Heh
01:18
or do you think it needs better support
@ALinux. Feel free to, I couldn’t think of anything solid for a few, it’s yours
@TrojanByAccident just don't say things like "this is stupid", i assume that's what Rubio means by baiting mods
ok thanks lol
(@Rubio ?)
@thec ah
@Rubio was not intentionally baiting, was more stating my opinion and slightly making a joke
01:20
Yeah, I get that, but sometimes context matters.
Anyway. Carry on :)
@Rubio context is stupid
lol. see, now that was actually funny :)
^he says this, but you won't be seeing me on the site for a while :P
01:37
btw @ALinuxLover are you glad you found this place? :P
01:58
@thecoder16 re: the time i was suspended for a bit
> When you're running in a big circle, everything is in every direction at some point
@JohnDvorak *spinning?
02:11
@JohnDvorak the center of the circle is either always left or always right, so that's false
Everything inside the circle is in every direction in the absolute sense, everything outside of it is in every direction in the relative sense.
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Q: User closing a duplicate question, but also answering

Jordan.J.DI came across a question today that was closed as a duplicate. One of the closers also answered the question (with 5 upvotes). Is the answer then considered low quality, and should be deleted? Or should it be ignored completely? It seems contradictory to me to close something as a duplicate (it h...

If the ground you're running on is very nice, you can invoke Stokes' theorem and say even more.
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Q: Sudoku Construction Question (No puzzle, advice needed)

NellingtonI'm one of a group of people building a big puzzle hunt. I have what I think is a pretty good idea for a puzzle, but I'm having trouble constructing it. Basically, what I need to do is make a sudoku but it needs to fit the following criteria: 1) It needs to be challenging, but not fiendishly ...

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Q: Help on riddle that was sead by teacher

Max James ClarkMy teacher does riddles all the time he did one where he said tag to a bunch of kids then he said whoa It

 
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Q: The A-B chocolate puzzle!

ami_ba Imagine you have 2 types of chocolates (A and B). You randomly pick up two chocolates at once from your bag in a specific pattern. If the same type of chocolates come out, you give them both to your sister. If you pick up different type of chocolates, you put 'B' type back in your bag and give...

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Q: The mathematical quiz

asiniyThere are 4 equasions. What should I paste on ? in the latest one? 1 + 4 = 5 5 + 3 = 11 7 * 7 = 61 10 - 1 = ?

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Q: You have 15 boxes, each containing a real number, ordered least-greatest. How do you find the 5 that will yield the greatest product, the quickest?

Lily PotterAs the title says, you have a 10 boxes, a real number is in each, and they're ordered such that box 1 contains the lowest value, box 2 the second lowest, box 3 third lowest and so on, until box 10, which contains the highest value. You want to be sure to pick the 5 boxes with the greatest total...

 
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Q: Finding the murderer

ami_baThere are six suspects "Siva", "Durga", "Ekagra", "Naman", "Aniket" and "Manish". Amartya has written the murderer name in secretly in his diary in a mysterious way as "DVVPQ". Police were unable to solve the mystery so they called Dipjyoti. After a minute, Dipjyoti was able to decipher the ciphe...

 
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@thecoder16 yes lol
 
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Stephen Hawking has recently passed.
12:37
On Pi Day too, and Einstein's birthday :(
12:49
Also the same date as Galileo died.
... or not, actually.
it's a very sad day D:
Ah, no, sorry, it's that Hawking was born on the same date as Galileo died.
And Feynman died on the same date as Galileo was born.
Life works in mysterious ways.
@GarethMcCaughan Coincidence??!
Reincarnation, obviously.
I can't find anyone of comparable eminence to extend the chain further at either end. Deaths on the same date as Feynman was born include Becquerel and Schwarzschild, fine physicists both but not in the Galileo/Einstein class and I think not even quite in the Feynman/Hawking class.
12:57
Perhaps Hawking had just invented a time machine, went back to the day Einstein was born, and then was reincarnated.
(actually I think Einstein > Feynman > Hawking; Galileo's early enough in the history of the field that it's hard to tell whether to put him above Einstein or below.)
Feynman -> Galileo -> Hawking -> Einstein. Hmm, it's a pity the order doesn't go E,F,G,H, isn't it?
(> means "greater scientist", -> means order of reincarnation)
coincidences pile up, until they aren't anymore.
Fans of coincidences may enjoy unsongbook.com. (This produces widely varied reactions; try a few chapters and give up if you just find it annoying rather than hilarious and intriguing.)
"May 10, 2017
Palo Alto

The apocalypse began in a cubicle." i'm sold :P
Not sure whether "done" means "already in love" or "so much nope I'm just closing the browser tab now".
13:03
flarified :)
clarifed, but maybe also flarified xD
Is that meant to be fiction in the vein of Foucault's Pendulum, or what?
It's fiction. It has something of the Foucault's Pendulum about it, but it's odder than that.
I can only enjoy this kind of thing if it's both me and the author together as spectators, and not just me gawking at a deranged person. For example, I was very uncomfortable reading the time cube site.
No gawking at deranged people is involved.
Alright, then I'll take a look at it this evening.
13:07
... though I wonder what you'd make of this squid314.livejournal.com/327646.html written by the same guy as Unsong.
(in response to a challenge, he did the best job he could of "steelmanning" (opposite of "strawmanning"; constructing the least-crazy possible version of a theory) the Time Cube guy)
I can't follow any rabbit holes at the moment (work), but that also sounds interesting. Nice neologism, too. Have a good day; I'll be back later.
(of course least-crazy-possible Time Cube is still completely bananas, and of course Scott understands that)
Sid
Sid
Hawking was a legend. :(
In any case, life goes on. So, @Eric hint for the C4?
13:32
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Q: What is an evading slinky relative to all of these things?

Keelhaul If a strawberry cake inequally cut facilitates a duck with a bow-tie If a polyhedron is part of a ringed planet If some spaceships contain an Escher figure And if a blue juicer relies heavily on six pointless dice What is an evading slinky relative to all of these things?

13:43
C4 hint: Part of the clue might be unfair in a print publication
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Q: Today starts my new puzzle series!

Rubio Wow. I said I might undertake to create fresh and witty Puzzling questions because brilliant men on the internet have solved my latest ones way too speedily for my foolish conceited pride - so everyone consider this a fledgling attempt I expect qualifies for favorable attention and greater vot...

Sid
Sid
@Rubio Nice puzzle! Short and fitting to the occasion.
I sorta hoped people who immediately got it would, like, leave it for others. Oh well.
> If you're one of those PSEers who gets this instantly, consider leaving it for less experienced puzzlers to solve.
Sid
Sid
@Rubio Well, I am inexperienced. I shouldn't have left that puzzle. Free upvotes there for the taking. :P
13:52
well, the text doesn't really make sense after some point
You try fitting 50 words to that pattern and still have something that roughly incorporates a sensible thought without using any punctuation beyond a single period and one dash :)
I thought Rubio did very well at making it make sense.
Sid
Sid
Yep. He did.
well, it does indeed make sense, but what is "greater votes" (+1 btw)
It was more an exercise in "Can I do this?" ... answer apparently was "Yes". hehe
13:55
"Now I, even I, would celebrate / In rhymes unapt the great / Immortal Syracusan rivaled nevermore / Who in his wondrous lore / Passed on before / Gave men his guidance / How to circles mensurate" is for me the gold standard in this sort of thing, though it falls over a bit at the very end word-order-wise.
i need to prepare a day early next time - i was only on the 10th digit :P
hehee
@GarethMcCaughan Yeah that's pretty awesome
I originally planned to stop at the first zero, but my text to that point made syntactic sense but hadn't actually said anything yet, so I had to press on
Also, "Today starts my new puzzle series" is, well, more or less literally true. :)
Sid
Sid
15 upvotes in 35 views is almost Alconja-level...
I'm not sure if that should delight or irritate me, that this puzzle gets the votes that fast compared to others that took forever to construct. Hehe
14:22
@ABcDexter Hah. that's cool!
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Q: Not "Bingo," not "Snoopy..."

ChowzenOn a recent job application, I was asked to make a list of notes that I thought were pertinent to my being considered for the job. They asked me for "No more than 1101" numbered statements, and I think they said that each statement should contain two items, but I ignored that. These are what I...

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Q: On which day The Joker usually going on a date?

athinYou are an investigator. You are to investigate The Joker to know on which day he usually going on a date with Harley Quinn. Inspector said that The Joker is always lying if and only if it's Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday. Inspector is saying the truth. You: Well... I heard that you alw...

@GarethMcCaughan Here's one of my favorites (but it handles zero poorly):
15:05
xD
nice ones
Hmm. The words don't really make that much sense, and I agree that zero is handled poorly. The music distracts from that a bit, that's all.
The words are contrived, but they make sense - the song is about trying to make a mnemonic for pi.
Hmmm, how to handle zero then o.0
Skip a beat? Use ten letters instead?
I don't mean they're literally nonsense, but they're really not that coherent.
15:09
Skipping a beat makes sense.
Yeah, fair enough.
Sid
Sid
Ha! That Joker puzzle was a nice one.
15:54
#ThingsIWasNotPlanningOnDoingToday: Flipping my bike over a barbed wire fence and then crawling under it myself.
Is it just me or the stars are a bit too all over the place?
Sid
Sid
@Mithrandir What were you planning to do? Jump over the barbed wire fence and push the bike under it?
@Sid eyeroll
Was any female Homo Sapiens nearby @Mithrandir?
There were no humans around at all.
I was... a bit lost.
16:13
Hope you're not hurt
Not hurt. Slightly muddy cause I came across a small pond, though.
Take care, mate.
16:36
Oof Gandalf.
smooth
So you jumped (crawled) a fence...? Trespassing?
Nah, all public property.
Oh okay
then why is it barbed
Sponsored by a local tailor?
@North cows
Ic
MOOOOO
Which country in the middle east do you live?
You dont really hear of publicly barbed cow land in America :P
16:48
I think according to the UN this is occupied territory...
17:03
@Rubio - when you mentioned "If you're one of those PSEers who gets this instantly, consider leaving it for less experienced puzzlers to solve." was there some rep level above which you didn't want people to give it a shot? I consider myself less experienced, as I've been on PSE only 3 months, and struggle in puzzles that don't give an "aha" moment quite quickly. OTOH, I do have 4k rep, which can be viewed as high. Thoughts?
@Phylyp I'm pretty sure that just meant "Gareth, Deus, and Rand shouldn't answer this"
Any list of that sort needs to have MOehm on it.
(Gamow is also very high-rep but largely absent these days; likewise f''; Beastly Gerbil is right up there too. But MOehm is the most unforgivable omission :-).)
17:20
which is why Rubio decided to imply without accidental omissions ;-)
@Phylyp my intention roughly was “if this applies to you, you know it does”.
I mean, I got it instantly, but only because of the date and my intention to make the same puzzle, but I’m not experiencwd
Sid
Sid
@Phylyp If you have rep >15k, don't answer. :P
Cheers @Mithrandir @GarethMcCaughan @Rubio @Sid that's reassuring. I was suddenly concerned if I'd crossed a line there.
17:28
@Sid Is there a problem with that?
Sid
Sid
Not necessarily. Though it depends how you want to look at it. For instance, someone might view it as imposition of someone's views or something like that.
If it were "Jon Skeet is going to force people to be feminists", that would be a problem for sure. But so far as I know the only power Jon Skeet holds is the power of writing lots of really good answers on Stack Overflow.
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Q: Happy Pi-Day! Try to solve this "PiDoku"

André DalwigkTo celebrate the Pi-Day (3/14) adequately, a challenging math puzzle must not be missing. Rules: Fill in the numbers 1-9 exactly once in every row, column, and region. On top of that, you need to use $\pi$ exactly three times in every row, column and region to fill in the remaining gaps. ...

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Q: As Easy as the Italics

TreFoxYou wake up in a daze in the middle of the night. You're in your bed, but something's... different. Your cat, Mr. Snuffles, is gone. Jumping out of bed, you see a trail of ginger cat hair leading out of your room. You follow it into the kitchen, and up onto the counter, where to your horror it...

@Sid So I followed the first link on that page...
"While abuse by women aimed at adult men exists, it's exceedingly rare" -> factually false
"Abuse by women aimed at children is much more common, but the roots of that abuse are also in patriarchy" -> so when a woman abuses a child, it's all the men's fault. Great logic there
I didn't need to be triggered this early in the day. :/
18:31
as easy as the italics-part of it is probably substitution
pretty sure they are...
@North Really? It's definitely a thing here in Britain.
18:38
@Randal'Thor yep, they are, the last link leads to some poorly written website
you visit the links? o.0
well, there's always the possibility that the links are in fact non-spammy, but the first four don't even work
@EriktheOutgolfer An incompetent spammer then.
@Randal'Thor That's one of our textbook sports spammers that I constantly ping Rubio about
@Randal'Thor Well I live in SoCal so the idea of a cow in general is pretty foreign unless they're cooked.
18:47
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Q: If a baker's dozen is 13, how much is a sheperd's Pi?

ugorenFrankly, I have no idea. The first answer which is convincing beyond argument will be accepted.

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Q: Doubled Up Paragraphs

pfgThere is more to this text than can be immediately seen. Find the answer\hidden a layer inside/ Give an answer as the text inside of the answer\in here - 4 words/ that you find.

@Sphinx VTC VTC
@Sphinx FTC FTC FTC
Whats vtc or ftc
Vote To Close.
Fortnightly Topic Challenge?
F*** The Cops?
ftc is flag to close (since I don't have enough rep yet)
18:50
I flagged to close
@Randal'Thor Whatever happened to those...?
"I accidently made a platipus dog" -@Nondescrypt
I got my friend to join Puzzling SE like last month
@Mithrandir Dunno. I suppose people lost interest and nobody picked up the baton?
Essentially when Lucas Rotter left :/
Oh right! He had a bot to post them.
I'd forgotten that.
I thought it was mostly me making the meta posts.
18:55
uh, has he made the reasons he left public?
(or was it just me finding out and telling Beastly Gerbil about that?)
Wait, you found out why he left?!
Not public AFAIK.
Or if it was, the gossip didn't reach me.
no, I just found out he left :P
Who's Lucas Rotter?
if he had told me privately somewhere else I wouldn't have published anyway
@North Ex-user on Puzzling.
*Lukas Rotter
18:58
Oh
He made some awesome puzzles, and helped a lot with organising the topic challenges too.
whyd he leave then?
we don't know :P (see above)
Dunno.
That's what we're saying.
18:59
"No ship Sherlock" (Necks meself for such obvious question)
his posts can now be recognized by his ID, 14478
I think he said that he wasn't going to use his account anymore, so he deleted it.
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Q: What is Lukas Rotter's secret?

Rand al'ThorThe former user Lukas Rotter has had1 an intriguing profile picture: This looks like it's some kind of encrypted message! And just to confirm my suspicions, on his profile he says: By the way, my profile picture is also a little puzzle. You'll get +0 reputation if you solve it! Now I'm a...

Yeah I cant find him/her/singular they on User search
@North Because he deleted his account.
19:01
I figured that out :P
Oh, but then he recreated it?
Lukas Rotter, Salzburg, Österreich
101 1 3
Page not found
who knows if that's authentic :P
Jan 22 '17 at 20:29, by Lukas Rotter
@Mithrandir Don't frequent Puzzling.SE anymore, so might as well delete it lol
19:03
yes, because the account is deleted
Who's the oldest the user of Puzzling SE?
Apparently he's still active on other sites?
Lukas Rotter, Salzburg, Österreich
4.2k 1 9 22
can't know, the profile is hidden
@Randal'Thor right, he specifically said Puzzling.SE
1 min ago, by Mithrandir
Jan 22 '17 at 20:29, by Lukas Rotter
@Mithrandir Don't frequent Puzzling.SE anymore, so might as well delete it lol
@North User IDs are strictly increasing, so you can find out by looking at users with the lowest numbers.
19:04
(absence of a "Network User" link means exactly that)
But most/all of the very first users are no longer (or never were) active here.
@EriktheOutgolfer I know, but the avatar is the same.
Gtg bai people
@Mithrandir I know.
Why are we all stating the obvious to each other today? :-P
@Randal'Thor that is him, but I can't know if he's active on sites other than SO too
(his chat profile leads there, isn't that where you got it from?)
No, I got it using seekrit mod powers by searching for "Lukas Rotter" on the SO users page.
19:10
can't be reliably sure, but Lukas Rotter doesn't exist on Code Review or Super User
Sid
Sid
19:21
Okay, that pidoku is seriously tough...
19:33
Sp3000 has a 3-digit user ID
that's the smallest I can recall off the top of my head
(of course, I could actually look at the list of users but that would be no fun)
the first user is technically Adam Lear
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Q: A brand new rebus (for new puzzlers)

QuantumTwinkieHere is a basic rebus with a common theme!

20:02
@ffao Yep, Sp is the only still-active user I can think of off the top of my head who was around before me.
d'alar'cop, Emrak/Zyerah, Joe Z, klm ... all transcended to higher planes of puzzling.
Or something.
Sid
Sid
20:31
I finally completed that pidoku thing. Now, I can sleep soundly...
 
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Q: A Pi day What Am I?

QuantumTwinkieAnother Pi day themed puzzle like my other one. I contain 5 letters, I only have 1 syllable, I can be referred to as money, Or I can be the foundation of something wonderful (and quite popular too), I can be followed by a word similar to “crazy” to be something sweet, ...

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hi
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0
Q: What are the odds of this? (probability question)

SavettiYou have 3 numbers, each are randomly selected from 1-100. I have 2 numbers, each randomly selected from 1-100. What are the odds (percent chance?) that 2 out of 3 of your numbers match my 2 numbers, in any order?


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