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12:49 AM
nice!
 
1:12 AM
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Q: Prove that $e^{\pi} - \pi < 20$

Dmitry KamenetskyWithout using a calculator or a computer, can you show that $e^{\pi} - \pi < 20$ ?

 
 
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Q: Sponsored by a riley riddle

IsaacRoan SisonWhat 6 letter word has the same properties? The whole makes harm, 5 letters makes me displeasured, 4 letters makes me a national greenhouse, 3 letters, makes me a wooden canvas. 2 letters is in a medical facility, Lastly, for 1 letter, you may wanna request this.

 
 
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4:12 AM
@Stiv yep! Nicely found.
 
4:54 AM
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Q: Reverse, Add, Anagram!

IsaacRoan SisonSo i came up with an idea while watching a video explaining about the Reverse, add system. This is how mine works: garnish singing innings signings gigging igging gig igg If you don't understand: You reverse your word and add the original word and the reversed word together. Now find an anagra...

 
 
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6:57 AM
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Q: Wormeus and the Pink Lady Stickotaur

happystarWormeus lives in a labyrinth containing lots of apples. His main ambition in life is to eat as many apples as possible but his nemesis, the evil Pink Lady Stickotaur, has other ideas – if you pardon the terrible cliché! Wormeus can move up, right, left or down one space and so can the Pink Lady S...

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Q: Quartum non datur

Albert.LangCan you give a good rational approximation of $$\sqrt[3]2 \times \sqrt[4]2$$ without doing any significant maths? Hint: Attribution: Mine.

 
 
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8:33 AM
I have numbers stuck in my head thanks to fillominoes (tried doing some in mellowmelon's pack), now I am going to sleep >.>
 
9:21 AM
CCCC: A letter, written in Greece by bishop without neverending hope reveals God in Egypt (6)
 
@Stiv a nu bis_
 
@msh210 Yup, and it's back to you!
 
CCCC: A letter, written in the United States, is a note you put on a sort of cheese (6-1)
 
10:20 AM
@msh210 do + u + bleu
 
10:41 AM
@Jafe yes i do
 
heheh
CCCC: A letter, written in Oakland: "L.A. – dystopia?" (8)
 
We have a new c4 trend!
 
trending in PSE: the use of letters
 
10:56 AM
Well, blow my ABCs, we have a letter trend! Ba dum tishhhh
 
@Jafe _land la dy_ = one who lets. Very nice clue!
 
@msh210 thanks! that's correct, of course
 
Star my ba dum tish above, please
 
ugh, those last 5 apples are hard to get to... poor hungry wormeus
i'm starting to be convinced it can't be done, which probably means i should have done some homework like the puzzle suggests
 
Happystar's puzzle, right?
 
11:04 AM
yeah
 
It's like more of a coding puzzle, if I must say so
Perhaps the [computer-puzzle] tag would be better suited for it
 
not sure where computers would be needed, it's pretty simple to visualize (up until the point where i get stuck, that is)
 
11:51 AM
If I have not misunderstood the rules (which I probably have), I found a solution but it's so bad in terms of move count that I hesitate posting it xD
Nvm, OP is actually asking for the least moves, so mine would be NAA anyway
 
12:15 PM
@LukasRotter if i may ask, what do you do you get the pink lady down to the bottom half?
probably missing something here but every way of getting her out of either r3c3 or r2c5 leads to either death or the pink lady ending up back in either of those squares
 
I got her out of r2c5 to the bottom half by taking "she will favor moving horizontally if both are availabe" very very seriously ;). But I think it's actually intendes this way
 
hmm interesting
 
12:34 PM
CCCC: A letter, written in France, is just a caractère. Core users scribble É at first. (1'6)
 
1:00 PM
@msh210 hah, this is J'ACCUSE (initials), this time an actual letter written in france
 
1:25 PM
@Jafe yes, indeed
 
CCCC: Doctor Strange is insisting... (9) / ...Iron Man is like Black Widow (6)
 
@Jafe asserting* fe male
 
@msh210 yup! nice job
 
thanks
CCCC: One-time predator (5)
 
1:47 PM
at first i thought if "up" meant "one-time" this could be UP+DOG &lit. but then i was like "hmm, what's updog?"
 
I'm going offline soon for >48 hours. I'll post the intended answer here, rot-26'ed so as not to give it away.
efa9886b9585070fd12f33cc01143b5e4f2b961a6f79da3929152024778752ba is the SHA 256 of the answer, when the answer is written in full caps except the first letter, like tHIS, according to emn178.github.io/online-tools/sha256.html
 
2:30 PM
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Q: Friday's Bee Donimoes Problem

Don KirkbyA swarm of dice bring nectar back to the hive from a domino garden. I just finished adding a new puzzle race game to Donimoes, my collection of domino puzzles and games, so I thought I would post a few bonus problems here. The game is Bee Donimoes, and the bees are dice flying back to the queen b...

 
 
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HTM
9:49 PM
@msh210 This is a ddef for NONCE, which can mean "one-time," as in a nonce word, or a sexual "predator"
@msh210 And the hash for "nONCE" matches that afaict
 
so it does
 
HTM
CCCC: Drop a note in parts (5)
Wait hang on, that clue's not quite right
CCCC: Drops in parts (6)
Can't delete the original one unfortunately, so everyone pretend that I didn't just provide a hint for you all for this clue
 
 
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11:34 PM
In class today my math teacher got excited about a problem having a nice answer (2) and exclaimed "Deuces!", which my brain interpreted as "Deus's" and was momentarily confused why a Puzzling user was being invoked.
 

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