The Sphinx's Lair

Q: Nono-cube - Ultimate Puzzle Giant

3:49 AM

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Prologue - Instructions Shamelessly copied and pasted the following from @jafe's puzzle :P This is a three-dimensional nonogram. The first square gives the enumerations for the Z-axis, top to bottom. The next sixteen squares depict the layers of a $16\times16\times16$ cube. Some rules: If a ...

logical-deduction visual grid-deduction three-dimensional nonogram

I have no idea who i should give the check to. Any suggestions?

visual geometry grid-deduction nonogram triangle

6:17 AM

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Q: 3D? No-no! 3 Sides

Introducing the Isometric Nonogram! α) Boring Definition Column: Blue Part + Green Cell Row: Yellow Part + Green Cell Adjacent/ Continuous cells: Purple Cell + any of the Orange Cells β) Clues All clues are provided. Only one colour, red is needed for this nonogram. ...

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Q: Reverse dots and boxes – Guess the last move

Alice and Bob are playing a game of reverse dots and boxes. The players take turns adding one horizontal or vertical line in one free spot on the grid (marked with light gray lines in the below image). Alice goes first. If a move completes a $1\times1$ box, the player gets one point ...

strategy game game-theory retrograde-analysis dots-and-boxes

6:45 AM

Can't resist gushing! Puzzling.etc was great before i found out but it/we keeps/keep up the steam to new velocities. I really wish i could bounty questions.

:)

(And, yes, i wish i could complete my uncounted-by-now unfinished-as-yet puzzles. They might be goodies! What i've posted completed themselves, for better or worse.)

@humn i also have some such puzzles lol

@OmegaKrypton , No doubt!

@OmegaKrypton, yours is the most recent puzzle i plus-ed! So visual, so suggestive.

thanks lol :P

@humn this idea came to my mind when i was thinking of a twist to jafe's nonograms, but then this took me some time to draw the diagrams lol

and the puzzle was only a beginners' edition... let's see how it works out

6:51 AM

So much to look up. I just love nonograms.

To make it too easy, @Omega Krypton, would you mind a link to jafe's nonogram?

you know what? i only learnt what nonograms is when jafe posted the 3D edition - beginners

I'll give a link to mine in return . . .

@humn jafe has a LOT

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

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A: Tricolour nonogram

oops just realised some mistakes: 1) row 252: 5 chunk should shift right for one block 2) first row of FRANCE: first grey block should shift right for one block

e.g.1

6:53 AM

Thank you!

A: 3D nonogram, beginner's edition

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nonogram: this is depicting

e.g.2

And again!

Q: Nono-cube - Ultimate Puzzle Giant

welcome :)

my own:

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Prologue - Instructions Shamelessly copied and pasted the following from @jafe's puzzle :P This is a three-dimensional nonogram. The first square gives the enumerations for the Z-axis, top to bottom. The next sixteen squares depict the layers of a $16\times16\times16$ cube. Some rules: If a ...

logical-deduction visual grid-deduction three-dimensional nonogram

1)

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Q: Nono-Cube: Approach at Your Own Risk

Inspired by jafe's 3D nonograms :) Answer is one word. This puzzle is a part of Ooohh, it all makes sense now! :D

word visual grid-deduction three-dimensional nonogram

Burp!

word cipher visual grid-deduction nonogram

2)

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Q: Not Just Black and White

Answer for this puzzle is one word. Have fun! Highlighted parts are where I realised I have clued it wrong... Sorry for all this inconvenience! Hint: usefulness level 1 usefulness level 2 This puzzle is a part of Ooohh, it all makes sense now! :D

and 3). that's all compared to jafe's idk how many...

6:57 AM

Now you're asking for it! I don't think this one's been solved:

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Q: Semiminibino...hologram

☆ Be the first to make your own semiminibinononohohohologram ☆ “ ! ” you interject? Might not be quite as supercalifragilisticexpialidocious as it sounds, though. What could look like a...

nonogram

[speechless] +1ed

@Omega K, did you take to more than two colors? Or just to the limit? I never thought of either and now can't stop.

@humn not yet...

A "chromatic" nonogram could consist of integer values that add up to a column or row. I would start with something easy.

(Got so excited on the subject that my mouse jumped off the table.)

squeak

7:08 AM

!

sorry should be oink

I keep peeking at the puzzles mentioned and am forming ideas but this conversation is more fun at the moment.

. . . and still looking for my previous favo(u)rite . . . stay tuned . . .

Oh no! Looks like user Silenus has been scratched. (I hope to remember incorrectly.)

. . . change of username . . .

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Q: A simple nonogram

Solve the nonogram. (Click for a larger version.)

no-computers nonogram

+1ed

!

notorious no-computers tag...

7:19 AM

as if it were needed in this case.

there are online nonogram solvers

but not for 3d, triangular, and multicolours (i think)

Oh. not yet!

that's why we make them >:)

!!!

Fill in the blanks.

wow

7:22 AM

How about a multicolor or multidimensional crossword?

(Guess i'm talking about USA-type crossword, but who cares.)

multicolour CROSSWORD? wdym?

multidimensional : made

Dnwim.

crosswords three-dimensional

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Q: Pure 3D Crossword

This puzzle was made as requested by EKons, here. So, enjoy this three-dimensional realistic sensation!

and another one by jafe

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Q: 3D Crossword, Cryptic, Statue View & Maze

The following image depicts the layers of a $5\times5\times5$ cube. Using 3-dimensional thinking, can you find the way out of the cube? Empty version with no crossword numbers Empty version with crossword only 1. Crossword (blue squares) Across 1. Separately 4. Hurry 7. Phy...

grid-deduction crosswords mazes cryptic-crosswords three-dimensional

Q: More-than-Two-Dimensional Crosswords from Atomic to Zen

U Bd, O K!

& Ur using up my +-es for the day.

Here's my original, that was thrown under the wheels deservedly a lesson:

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Following Peter Taylor's answer to The smallest crossword > It's not hard to construct a 1x1 crossword: . . . A single-cell crossword could be called atomic. _______ Surreal: |10 | Across Down Up Diagonal (no black | ...

enigmatic-puzzle

@humn lol

@humn i dont get the question posed as well. sorry :/ (didnt -1)

+1 from me

7:30 AM

@OmegaKrypton , Thank you for not -1-ing, much as it deserved it. I didn't know what i was doing, just the best i could.

I still think of Puzzling as almost anything goes.

try posting more specific questions later no maybe? ;) (and i am definitely not entitled yet to say this, given my rep)

@OmegaKrypton , yes, a lesson or two, or three or . . .

four

You and i have enough reputation points to make a difference, @Omega K, congratulations!

Took me years.

Of fun!

:)

7:34 AM

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Hey, @jafe, just to be rude, did you make up your avatar/icon?

Hey, @humn, just to be rude, why ask?

nope, that's the default one i got :)

(And you know, @jafe, i'm a fan of your work, just to be complete.)

no offense

@humn 2nd one here

<3

7:39 AM

Sooner or later . . . (I'm a graphic designer, just to get personal.)

and your avatar is nice @humn

you made it urself?

Thank you, @Omega K! Yes.

Figure it out in full scale.

guess how i get the omega piece in my icon. [those who know please keep silent :) ]

i know hehe

Oh wow wow, @Omega K, i just looked at your piece at full scale. ! ! !

Action packed.

I can see the hand reaching for the piece that completes the puzzle.

(Correct me if i'm wrong.)

7:43 AM

the... final... piece

Oh I'll, correct me: It's the piece of resistance!

hehehe

lol both works :)

but where's the source? i didnt make that piece myself

Too much fun.

At one point i was part of a group depicted by omega, resistance.

(Still am.)

piece de resistance lol

7:45 AM

!!!!!!!

It can mean two things: Something irrestable, and ...

Something that resists.

oxymoron :)

!

Answer: from wikipedia logo ;)

@humn @jafe

Hey, if you're gonna call me an oxymoron i might just call you a pluripotent.

Sid

@OmegaKrypton "Piece de resistance" gave this incredible puzzle

7:52 AM

wow

echoed

How i love puzzles that combine verbal and visual!

And, for now, i'm out of votes. Ain't there a way to allow more?

(I should know, but my intrusions to meta.meta.stackwhatever have been curtailed.)

(After all, i'm only humn. Used to be murine.)

For anyone who cares, i learned English from natives and have a love/hate relationship with the language. It embodies the best and the worst of natives and invaders.

Bye for now.

Q: we are five we have three thousand four hundred fifty who are we?

8:18 AM

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we are five we three thousand four hundred fifty, who are we ?. Its a riddle like question but stranded with getting the answer for this question , am very sure the answer will make me slap my head if i get help. it might be about things of our daily use or logic.

riddle

8:37 AM

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Q: Three Subway Escalators

This is not my puzzle, and I don't remember the source, but I don't see it posted here yet, so... A subway station has three escalators running side-by-side. One escalator only descends from the street to the subway platform, and the other two escalators only ascend from the subway platform to t...

situation

too broad??

Q: Game Night at the Binomial Elks Club

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The Binomial Elks Club, being predominantly composed of ambitious and competitive personalities, often held game nights in which members enjoyed battling each other for high stakes and bragging rights. On this particular night, a crowd had gathered around Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. These two f...

story game nim

9:50 AM

If y'all want a CCCC hint, I'll be glad to provide. Just so you know: I'll be barely online for the next 6-7 hours and then completely offline for about 26 hours for shabbat.

hint then please

@msh210

"Simp" is of course in an unusual dialect (like South African English or 1970s English) or register (like slang or formal). In fact, words in unusual dialects/registers are rampant here: they're in the clue itself, they're in the solution (or component solutions) of the cryptic part of the clue, and one is the solution to the definition part of the clue.

10:07 AM

The idea that operating a computer counts as work is one I will never understand

I mean... please educate me on the subject

@JohnDvorak I haven't read it carefully but en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_on_Shabbat seems to be a reasonably good introduction.

10:28 AM

> when using a CRT display (but not later types of display), words which appear on a computer screen are actually flickering many times a second; according to some authorities this means that such writing is not considered writing at all

I feel like this kind of distinctions misses the purpose of sabbath and stumbles deep into rules lawyering

Gareth McCaughan

I feel like I really hope you are careful to avoid making this a contentious argument. (Also, it's being started just as, for obvious reasons, a group of people with one specific and important opinion about it are going to be unable to comment.)

I would suggest that attitudes to "rules lawyering" may reasonably vary.

10:45 AM

@JohnDvorak You could call it that. There are many detailed, technical discussions about halacha (Jewish rules of practice). That doesn't mean that the spirit of the sabbath is unimportant. And, yeah, I can't stay here and debate this much now but feel free to ask stuff on Mi Yodeya if you like.

Is Sabbath starting already? Didn't realize that, sorry.

Fri/Sat midnight is still five hours to go, even for Japan.

Gareth McCaughan

Sunset, not midnight.

Sunset on Friday?

Erik the Outgolfer

Friday's sunset to Saturday's sunset

(you basically learn this in SE chat :P)

Gareth McCaughan

It's maybe worthy of note that one specific but highly influential religious tradition took "boo, look at those Jews with their rules-lawyering and neglect of the spirit of the law in favour of its letter" as a means of differentiating itself from its predecessor. Adherents of any version of that tradition may want to consider that this may give them a not-entirely-fairly negative attitude to formal religious rules.

The idea that the creator of the universe might like intricate formal systems of rules doesn't prima facie seem any sillier than the idea that he/she/it might dislike (to take a few fairly well known examples found in major religions) eating cows, lending money at interest, or homosexual sex.

10:54 AM

True. Does orthodox Judaism state that he does like that?

(also, should we postpone this discussion for 24 hours to give msh210 the ability to participate, or rather 48 to cover everyone?)

I'm curious, where does msh210 live?

... or should I avoid the topic altogether?

11:22 AM

@JohnDvorak UTC+3 right now

@GarethMcCaughan interesting

@JohnDvorak / all : judaism.stackexchange.com/q/31831/170

Thanks for the link

@JohnDvorak no, but I've stuff to do before sunset (partially because we don't cook on the sabbath but we like to have nice meals in its honor :-) )

Ah, thanks.

11:37 AM

Enjoy your sabbath, @msh210

wordplay pattern word-property

12:59 PM

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Q: What is a Romeo Word™?

In the spirit of the What is a Word™/Phrase™ series started by JLee, a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.Template taken from Rubio. If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Romeo Word™. Use the following examples below to find the rule. $$ % set Title text. (spaces around ...

Erik the Outgolfer

> What's wrong with the title?

oh god

Q: 5 Precommitting Pirates Puzzle

3:19 PM

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Another variant of the Pirate Puzzle, inspired by this variant and a bit more complex. Scenario: Five pirates of different ages obtain 100 gold pieces in total, and want to decide how to split them. Procedure: First each pirate, in order from youngest to oldest, makes a proposition on how to ...

mathematics logical-deduction

micsthepick

3:53 PM

I'm Adventist. We have the sabbath from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset too

Q: What is a good/standard list of "simple English words" suitable for puzzling?

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Suppose I'm trying to computer-solve a puzzle, or computer-create a puzzle, where "every word in the whatever is a common English word." For example, intuitively, BUNNY is a common English word, TAPIR is borderline, and EURYPTERID is definitely not a common English word. Where would I find a com...

puzzle-creation crosswords

Q: Finger sequence – find the continuation

5:20 PM

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Pick the correct continuation for the sequence. Options:

visual sequence

Q: Complete the series on this set of numbers

7:40 PM

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Here is one that I can't seem to solve: Complete the following series: 529, 531, 542, 544, 561, 558

mathematics

Puzzling — BOUNTY!

8:21 PM

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Q: Stuck in a Virtual Dungeon

You're stuck in a virtual room. You tried to open the door but it seems to be locked. The robot guard opens the door's tiny window and looks at you. You: Can you please help me get out of here? The robot doesn't seem to be able to talk but he displays a message: 24D024CC246024DD24D324CD...

cipher visual steganography

letters cryptography history

10:21 PM

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Q: And yet we'll reunite

My crush texted me: Met me there, tomorrow, 21th of July. Prove all your romance is true. Prove what you learnt in maths, computer science, litterature... and during all those years of studying will serve us. If we are meant for each other I'll see you at 9pm. 1987 : A ’2019 ’ * P C, T T ...