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oAlt
oAlt
00:05
@GarethMcCaughan (or pi :P )
Jafe
Jafe
00:57
CCCC: Rock group publicly disparages people from Miami and other parts of the Sunshine State (13)
Dmihawk
Dmihawk
rofl for some reason my brain's immediate reaction was to picture a rock band called the "Midiflorians" who only play Star Wars parodies >_<
Jafe
Jafe
hah
Prince North Læraðr
Prince North Læraðr
01:26
I feel like the answer might be HEARTBREAKERS, particularly because that was one of the only 13 letter rock band groups I could find. Oh, unless ROCK is the def
But HEARTBREAKERS interestingly has HEART, which has the word HEAT, which is a potential substring of "people from Miami" (Miami Heat?)
Hm, maybe it's "people from Miami and other parts of the Sunshine State"? FLORIDIAN is only 9 letters though
Hm, "The Sunshine State" might be a red herring. Why write "the Sunshine State" rather than Florida?
If STATE is the def, MASSACHUSETTS is 13 letters long
What can "parts of" indicate usually in CCs?
MASS is a rock band, but it's such a common word that I would be shocked if it wasn't a rock band name
 
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Gareth McCaughan
Gareth McCaughan
02:41
My immediate guess was that the def is "rock group" but it means not a small number of people who get together to play rock music, but a category of rocks found in the ground. Something like SEDIMENTARY (although obviously not that since it's only 11 letters long). But I don't give that more than say a 20% chance of being right.
Ankoganit
Ankoganit
03:22
MOUNT RUSHMORE is a 'rock group' with 13 letters; doesn't fit the enumeration, sadly
 
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Graylocke
Graylocke
05:50
@GarethMcCaughan This was my thought too, but none of them are long enough. METAMORPHIC was also only 11.
msh210
msh210
06:33
@PrinceNorthLæraðr I like this, because "parts of the Sunshine" could clue the final TS. But I don't see how the rest of it can work.
Graylocke
Graylocke
@msh210 ET is "and" but there is a long way to go ;p
Graylocke
Graylocke
06:48
@Stiv I didn't know you weren't sure who to give it your checkmark to when I commented before. But imho I think the one to make sense of the half answers deserves the award :)
 
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Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica
Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica
09:56
Disparages is probably an anagram indicator
msh210
msh210
@Anonymus25-ReinstateMonica It could be. Then we'd need to be anagramming PEOPLE.
I was thinking "publicly" could be a homophony indicator. (MASSACHUSETTS has ~"chews" in it, which almost means "disparages". Even so, I don't see how the rest could work.)
Maybe there's a rock group whose name means "publicly disparages people from Miami and other parts of the Sunshine State". :-)
Jafe
Jafe
10:32
i wonder if there's a Moonshine State
 
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oAlt
oAlt
11:46
maybe something along the lines of what Ankoganit said, but just "rock", like Ayers Rock. unfortunately that's the only one that's survived up till now in my head knowledge, and i don't know any other famous rocks/rock formations, let alone 11-letter long ones
or maybe it could have been used for the slang form of "gem"/"gemstone"?
Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica
Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica
@oAlt What mountain range has 13 letters? (Because I think rock group could be some kind of mountain range like Anko, but maybe in the lines of Gareth
oAlt
oAlt
(oh frick, i meant 13 when i typed 11 oops)
i don't know any either, unfortunately
Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica
Anonymus 25- Reinstate Monica
12:01
@oAlt Oof, I just realised
@Jafe are any of our ideas correct?
Jafe
Jafe
no comment
msh210
msh210
@oAlt Ford?
@Jafe I've got that moonshine in my pocket, got that good stuff in my flask, feel that hot blood in my body when it drops, ooh.
Jafe
Jafe
apparently there's an old prospector named william ford who found gold in australia way back when
which means the list of notable fords includes william, henry, harrison
msh210
msh210
@Jafe Harrison Ford and Arthur Kennedy are two big actors whose first and last names are U.S. presidents' last names.
Surely that fact can be worked into a puzzle of some sort somehow.
Sphinx
Sphinx
-4
Q: help me please it urgent

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cipher
msh210
msh210
12:16
-4 before the Sphinx got to it.
Jafe
Jafe
i was like "there's a president ford?" for a minute there
msh210
msh210
You're excused, as a Finn-Australian.
Jafe
Jafe
naming finnish presidents is easier, there have only been like... 14?
12, actually... so apparently not that easy
msh210
msh210
:-)
Ford was pretty recent. Americans would say "there was a President Arthur?"
Jafe
Jafe
hehe
msh210
msh210
12:22
> In November 2014, Henry L. Roediger III and K. Andrew DeSoto published a study in the journal Science asking research subjects to name as many presidents as possible. They reported data from three generations as well as from an online survey conducted in 2014. The percentage of participants in the online survey sample who could name each president was the following:
Arthur ranks last, i.e. least memorable.
(source)
Jafe
Jafe
the presidents quiz on JetPunk has arthur correctly guessed 47% of the time... he's tied for last place with pierce and hayes
i only remember him because of the how i met your mother episode where one guy grew sideburns and the others called him "our [number]th president chester a. arthur"
msh210
msh210
ah
In any event, none of this chitchat is helping us with the important task of solving the C4. Or is it?
oAlt
oAlt
12:59
@msh210 ?
@msh210 heheh
Sphinx
Sphinx
0
Q: A long, almost for physics riddle

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riddle word wordplay affix-riddle
msh210
msh210
13:16
@oAlt the guy from the previous C4
You said "frick".
oAlt
oAlt
13:34
Oh, right
i dont know why i easily forgot but thats that
msh210
msh210
14:02
@Anonymus25-ReinstateMonica "Rock" or "group" could be, too.
Jan 4 at 15:11, by msh210
@LukasRotter Leur's rule: For every word, there's at least one person who considers it an anagram indicator.
 
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Sphinx
Sphinx
18:03
-2
Q: You are stuck in a room with only three doors you have to get out of there

user73720You are stuck in a room with only three doors you have to get out of there Behind the first door there is a killer joker Behind the second door there are three lions who haven't eaten anything from the last three months And Behind the last door there is a rouge ninja and he will kill anyone he se...

riddle
 
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Sphinx
Sphinx
19:18
0
Q: Why is “AFTS” the solution to the crossword clue "Times before eves, in ads"?

Richard LiI was doing a crossword from the NY Times (from Mon, Feb 11, 2019 by Portia Lundie / Will Shortz) and I got the following clue. 51 ACROSS - Times before eves, in ads The answer is "AFTS". However, I do not understand why and how "AFTS" fits the clue. Why is the answer "AFTS" and how does the cl...

crossword-clues explanation
Sphinx
Sphinx
20:07
2
Q: Bar trivia is heating up

Jeremy DoverAn entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #49: Pub Quiz Camouflage Last week I popped into my local bar, Staggers, on Tuesday night with my work colleagues to have a few well drinks and jalapeño poppers, and kick some tail at bar trivia. Somewhat to my surprise, the bartender Sam had put up a huge...

logical-deduction knowledge enigmatic-puzzle
 
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Sphinx
Sphinx
23:03
0
Q: Staying safe and secure

Vassilis ParassidisI am a nine letter word. No matter how hard you try, it is impossible to pass through. Part of me is useful to end an argument or a fight. Another part of me, in the wrong hands, can be catastrophic. You see part of me everywhere. Part of me read backwards describes criminals or crowds. Who am I?

riddle word
Jafe
Jafe
23:48
CCCC hint: the answer contains the letter Q

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