@GarethMcCaughan Figure this is obscure enough and has been up long enough to go via Qat and wikipedia, to get: SANKEY* (with "use a _ maneuver" as an anagram indicator & "hymnodist" as the def).
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Woe I dislike them, / Hints shall be revealed quite soon / Should it not...
I worked on the plans and gridding on and off for about a week, and then clue-writing took 4-5 hours or so over the course of a few days. Glad people seem to be liking it!
@Rubio - Interesting I emailed him and gave a link to the question and asked if he was OK with that and he said, "That's fine, thanks for letting me know!". Maybe he's changed his mind now that the same author has posted a whole raft of his ideas without seeking any further approval.
@JonathanAllan I don't need it but wouldn't mind seeing it. The latest communication from him was pretty unambiguously "Don't" so I'm going to stick with that (at worst it's a well-justified excuse to keep those questions off the site, as I'm frankly tired of seeing them posted ad nauseam).
a machine intended to crack a big list of passwords billions of them it is known that the process would take months, with the following clues Find the exact date and time when will the cracking process be finished.
The actual process began exactly at noon, but we don't know, on which
day.
By th...
Title says most of it. I've been at this for hours with almost no progress. There are two codes (37068 and 57063) that didn't work although they seem to fit the conditions given. Can someone please give a clue to put me on the right track? I feel like I'm going absolutely nowhere, but would still...
A cloak blankets way overhead,
Beginning the time for your bed.
Remember my comfort and love
Inviting the skies up above.
Look! You can reach like a kite;
Look and not burn from the light!
Is this closer to islands at sea,
Albeit you need not to row, actually?
...
Yes, it’s back again! This one is going to be a little different however.
Number Of Moves: 11
Checkmater: White
Final Position:
Now find this notations!
@Rubio hm, maybe it's possible to create a private room for discussions nobody else is supposed to see? the problem with OTSs is, well, one intercept and the secret is over, and nobody legitimately knows who to blame afterwards
@EriktheOutgolfer I split the info up across two different OTS messages, so intercepting one wouldn't be a big deal but would make it obvious someone was messing where they weren't wanted.
"Kindly state your name." The nurse's voice was polite, but quiet.
"I'm sorry, I can't hear you, my hearing's bad."
Being mostly deaf was quite frustrating for our patient.
"Please tell me your name and date of berth."
"Pardon, but you really must speak up.."
"Excuse me, are you still ther...
You create it. Then you set it private. Then you hope the person you want to talk to has a chat profile. Then you add them to the private room, with write permissions. then you ping them into the room. then you click your heels and spin around three times, and hope all the above actually worked.
The interfaces for almost all of that are, well, clunky. Because of course they are.
to pass one piece of information, it's way too much of a headache. :)
Here on Puzzling, we're a little different from other sites. Like, we know the answers before we post the question (usually), and we want other people to come to the same conclusion. And sometimes, we work on puzzles with other people. Take my Clues series. There is a list of Clues, and the puzz...
@EriktheOutgolfer well sure. in this case the user in question was me, the privacy issue was my email address, and I assumed the risk (and mitigated it). I get the concern about OTS being intercepted. I was ok with taking that risk by not giving up all the info in one message, and in making sure the intended recipient got the first one before issuing the second. I think I'm ok here. :)
At the moment, though, all I've got is a dead kitten in the backyard that we're waiting to remove after the mom and surviving kitten clear out. They're not keen on moving out, though.
https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/51097/the-third-room-of-numbers-dungeon This has existed for 2 years (technically two days) and it seems to reappear every April but I'm still lost
Working on a Guardian Cryptic, and I can't figure out "Scotch Governor? (5)" -- Found answer online, but the clue makes absolutely no sense from a definition or wordplay perspective. Answer is rot13(bcgvp)
Left alone, I'm a word with five letters.
I'm honest and fair, I'll admit.
Rearranged, I'm of no use to trains.
Again, and I'm an overt place, warm and well lit.
What am I?
user477343 has been gifting reputation in bounties for a while now, finding (usually very) old posts with interesting but somewhat overlooked answers to award extra rep love to
re the "scotch governor": an "optic" is, among its other meanings, a thing attached to a drink bottle in a bar, which provides a way to dispense an accurately measured quantity of, say, scotch. (It's called an "optic" because the mechanism is that it lets the drink into a chamber of known volume, and you see by eye that it's exactly full, and then you release the contents into the customer's glass.) So it's a "cryptic definition" clue rather than a def+wordplay one.
(An optic, in this case, governs the amount of scotch poured out.)
You and your friends Brutus and April are exploring an ancient temple when you encounter a locked door with a stone keypad next to it numbering 0, 1, 2 and 3.
Out of curiosity you decide to type in an answer.
1321
A booming voice then says,
Three of those numbers are correct in correct...
Here an easy one which dates back to when I was a kid.
I have a crown
Yet I'm not a queen
I have a lot of children
Yet I don't have a husband
Who am I?