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@bobble yay
@Deusovi ahh interesting
 
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@bobble this is actually the exact same mechanism by which I self-censor curse words, interestingly
 
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Q: Left hand leads, Chip!

user45266 Like Baruchel, Cartwright, and Hamill Heroics and games net me clout As private as I am general In battle my pike is drawn out If I should play white on a chessboard the clock's more engulfed due to motion I find the sand cathartic, not bad, at sinister depth of the ocean! What am I? (te...

 
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07:52
CCCC: Some stuff put over wood, perhaps! (5)
 
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10:17
Just curious, what does it usually mean when there's a "perhaps" in a CC?
That's usually a definition by example.
Often it means the word(s) before it represent an example of something rather than a straightforward synonym of the thing itself.
Ah I see. Thanks!
Either that, or it's an anagram indicator
As far as I know
10:47
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Q: A young vegetarian adventurer

simonalexander2005A friend of mine wrote the following story. He always was one for using too many words though, and I think that has complicated this puzzle somewhat. Can you unravel it for me? A young vegetarian adventurer was once nearly married. After watching his bride walk down the passageway between the cha...

11:45
Congratulations to @Deusovi whose team once again won the Galactic Puzzle Hunt. (The team he's in; I don't mean to imply he's running it. At least, I think he's in TSBI.)
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congrats!
i assume each galaxy's winner now proceeds to the Intergalactic Puzzle Hunt
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Q: Who am I? (a very easy visual puzzle)

Megaptera novaeangliaeIf... ...then: (post your answer as a picture)

 
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@msh210 don't know if the '!' allows a full definition of 'STASH' which could be a collection of stuff stored over wood, and is also ST (some stuff) + ASH (wood, perhaps)
@Amoz that checks out to me though
14:19
@Amoz That was not the intended solution. Also, I don't think I'd use "some stuff" to indicate the first two letters of "stuff". (But I've surprised myself in the past.)
 
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Q: Mega-puzzle of many number puzzles: Nikoli Octathlon

swashbucklerThis puzzle has been my Moby Dick of puzzles for so long. It's from MellowMelon's old puzzle site and is a Nikoli-based megapuzzle with eight sub-puzzles. I'm copying the puzzle image from there so as to follow the rules for this site, and I don't know the answer to the puzzle (I've only gotten a...

 
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Sid
Sid
17:24
Is the term "pussy" used to describe a timid person come from the word "pusillanimous"?
@Sid seems likely, but that's a question for ELU unfortunately
@Sid yes IIRC
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Q: Story of a hag and of a hog

BarryPoppinsJump to the image to skip the 'flavour' story I am very worried about my auntie. I have not heard from her for nearly a month now, and our last phone call was very strange: -"Hello?" -"Hi auntie, how are you?" -"Who is it?" -"Your only nephew. You always do that..." -"Oh yes. I'm good, thanks for...

18:51
@Sid etymonline.com/word/pussy doesn't mention it.
19:19
@GarethMcCaughan thank you! yep, that is indeed my team (and the specific TSBI subteam that won is me and the rest of the usual competitive group)
Congratulations, and good luck!
19:34
@Deusovi congrats! Does that mean you set next year's, à la MIT?
19:55
nope! but we do have another hunt that we're working on - tsbi.buzz
 
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Q: Allegedly legible lexical ledger

SlowMagicCan you figure out what's going on here? ********** - D ------------ ********* + O ------------ ********** - W ------------ ********* + T ------------ ********** + E ------------ *********** - O ...

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@Sid Pretty sure not. It comes from "puss" = cat, of mysterious Germanic origin, whereas "pusillanimous" is from Latin, the first element meaning something like "weak".

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