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Q: Issues with Graph-It (Geometry Homework)

You are working on your geometry homework (graphic quadratics) and become bored of drawing the axes over and over again. Instead, you find an online tool called Graph-It that you use to graph the quadratics easily. For the first couple graphs, it worked fine... but then, you started to get an err...

enigmatic-puzzle story

Voldemort's Wrath

I spent some time making this puzzle: puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/102456/…

So I would appreciate if someone could get a bit of a head start on solving it! I am very curious as to how this will go.

8:22 PM

somebody needs to make a MASSAGE &lit with definition - it's rubbish?!

hm

That reminds me - I made an &lit for my latest Around the Bend before scrapping the CC idea

Rotating body part! (5) BOWEL -> BOW EL -> ELBOW

nice

@bobble interesting

i like how well the unusual wordplay component fits the def

8:30 PM

Yeah, I was quite satisfied with how it came out

so why'd you take it out?

I made the crossword a non-cryptic one

ah ok

Two other favorite clues that I didn't use:

Legislator (and gentleman!) trades one for English alliance internally. (7)

"Good, about 51 aces" - Blackjack opener by top two leaders. (8)

[continues to think about my stegangraphy puzzle...]

Voldemort's Wrath

8:33 PM

[continues to worry that my puzzle has 14 views but 0 votes] lol jk

anyone wanna solve the cccc?

want to: yes. can: no

:(

i like RAMM or AIM for exeter museum

throwback could be reversal or moving the letter A towards the back?

lets try both

8:38 PM

not sure whether the def is "(quaint or) rubbish?" or "stuff from long ago"

the ? might be an anagram indicator but i cant find any anagrams

of "rubbish"

rubbish was the anagram indicator in the previous clue, i suspect it's used for a different purpose here

hm

what about "quaint"?

i wouldn't focus on quaint since the hint says the clue would work without it

ah right

ummm

@jafe "aim" reversed is "mia" ... might come in handy

8:45 PM

memorabilia could be stuff from long ago but that's 11 letters

not that i see how that would work anyway :P

@jafe, the pun in your title is just too good

hehehe

Jeremy, I'm going to be out for a bit (~1hr?), in case you care for when you post that puzzle

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Q: No Holds – a barred crossword

Across 1. Country girls finally returning home after being swallowed by snake (6) 6. Strong desire to omit essential part in writing important text (1,5) 11. Error usually eliminated within split seconds (4) 12. The woman's a stepmother to 21 across? (4) 14. Leave one's country to golf in Abu Dh...

cryptic-crosswords

9:01 PM

@bobble Might not be tonight. It is done, but I want to do a quality check. Tomorrow morning?

@jafe Curious if the "No Holds" is descriptive, or just a clever name. Looking forward to finding out

9:17 PM

Tomorrow morning I'm tutoring an then I have school

(hehe, got out of one obligation)

9:32 PM

@bobble ? i am confused

anything in the c4?

can anyone list CC indicator types?

ones I can think of are insertion, concatenation, removal, spoonerisms, reversal, homophones, containers

letter selection - firsts, lasts, odds, special (e.g., primes)

@Sphinx @jafe you used "Island dweller" to clue "islander" . . . sketchy IMHO.

. . . because it uses the same word, I mean.

I'm not saying it's illegal (and I might even do it myself), just that it's weak.

yeah i agree on that msh210
can't spell today

yeah, I was going to point that out but forgot

?

the fact that i can't spell today? /s

9:41 PM

I wouldn't use that either - I'd say it's illegal even (for the same reason that "skier's tool" -> SKI is illegal in a non-cryptic crossword)

:P

no, the ISLANDER thing

hidden word, example (e.g., "for example", "perhaps") indicators as well

although the latter might be better labeled hypernym indicator

no, definitely hypernym

hm

wouldn't really count it as an indicator at all, imo

ohhhh i almost forgot anagrandma

9:48 PM

@Avi huh?

anagram indicators exist

ah

there are also rare custom indicators

like I used "decays" once to indicate U changing to TH

and then there's "moved toward the front" or "shuffled rightward" or the like

rotation for the latter

decaying is super custom lol

yeah

"ah yes,Pthzzling"

gosh thats hard to say

fortunately puzzling isn't decaying just yet

9:52 PM

and I don't know if you call this an indicator but there are also copulas

like "becomes", "is", et al.

and there's "exchanging foo's end for bar's heart" to indicate an O becoming an A

dunno what you call that, either

the first part I'm calling a def-wp link or wp-def link

okay, sounds good

last one should clue swapping

or could just say

"exchanging foo's end for bar's heart" clues O->A

would rather say exchanging indicates SWAPPING

end indicates LAST

@matt jafe's latest cryptic crossword

heart indicates CENTER

and then in the breakdown just show what actually happens

_O->_A_

there's stuff like "Wings"

that'll be FIRST_AND_LAST

10:02 PM

@Avi you're compiling a list of indicator words, categorized by type? I think such things exist on the Web already.

. . . though they're doubtless incomplete.

cryptics.fandom.com/wiki/Cryptipedia

under "Setting and solving aids"

10:14 PM

right so

I'm only looking for the types

I'm making my own personal list (api) so I might as well get a long list of the generally used types

@Avi I wouldn't call primes common. Evens, though, yes.

public enum IndicatorType
{
INSERTION,
CONTAINMENT,
REMOVAL,
SPOONERISM,
HOMOPHONE,
REVERSAL,
CONCATENATION,
HIDDEN_WORD,
HYPERNYM,
ANAGRAM,
DEF_WP_LINK,
WP_DEF_LINK,
FIRST,
LAST,
CENTER,
FIRSTS,
LASTS,
ODDS,
EVENS,
FIRST_AND_LAST,
PALINDROME,
SWAPPING,
MOVEMENT,
ADJACENCY,
OTHER
}

this is what I have so far

oh, that reminds me - I have to remove hypernym

@Avi why the fancy {} stuff and the "public enim"?

If you want to include all words not used as words as indicators then you need to include hypernym.

I don't intend to directly include all words like that

10:21 PM

why not?

There's also CENTERS

I have the intent of doing something like "word" clues "another" or "indicator" indicates "indicatortype"

What's PALINDROME?

palindromes, like "kayak"

And what's ADJACENCY, different from CONCATENATION?

10:23 PM

palindrome a la:

It turns down, but it could turn up (7) - ROTATOR

from Enigmatist

Oh.

adjacency is like "A on B" for AB

@Avi then what's CONCATENATION?

concatenation is redundant

then why is it in the list?

10:25 PM

I have removed it

for some reason this got me thinking about grammatical cases

11:15 PM

Person with intense fear of palindromes: "I have aibohphobia. ... ... darnit"

how do you pronounce that?

ay bo phobia?

or possibly ay buh phobia

the latter

@Avi ironic b/c it is a palindrome

yeah, whoever named it was being mean to the people that had it

wait until you hear about hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

(fear of long words)

11:25 PM

what's the name for "fear of pickles"?

rational behavior

or, irrational behavior - depending on which way you look at it

@bobble nvm it doesn't have a name

@Avi yes

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