The Sphinx's Lair

4:12 AM

@Stiv can you use "southern" and "beside" in the same clue like that? or does one imply a down clue and the other an across clue?

Q: Solve this QR code riddle please

6:02 AM

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This is the image for the riddle. Please solve this riddle. It's a jumbled QR code and you have to rearrange it and tell the link where after scanning it or the image after rearranging it. Hint: It's like a rubik's cube. I will even pay you for this if you answered correctly.

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6:48 AM

@msh210 My intention was for 'southern' to imply 'bottom end of' and 'beside' to mean 'place these two components next to each other in the answer'

CCCC hint: The city in question is a capital city.

7:08 AM

it's BI- + S(SA)U<

Guineus!

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7:42 AM

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Q: Solve this QR code riddle

This is the image for the riddle. Please solve this riddle. It's a jumbled QR code and you have to rearrange it and tell the link where after scanning it or the image after rearranging it. Hint: It's like a rubik's cube. I will even pay you for this if you answered correctly. This question is fro...

9:01 AM

@Jafe Yes, it is :)

11:23 AM

CCCC: Seedy motel of Benin City (12)

...which somehow is in nigeria, not benin

11:39 AM

@Jafe BLOEMFONTEIN = MOTELOFBENIN*

yup!

Nice one :)

thanks! i'm enjoying the ongoing theme hehe

Anonymus 25

12:33 PM

Ooooh

1:09 PM

CCCC: Suck in stomach muscles and go about showing it off! (6)

Apologies for the (temporary) departure from theme!

Anonymus 25

I really want to say VACCUM but can't figure out the wordplay

Oh wait, it's ABSORB as in ABS: stomach muscles, and go about showing it off: BOR from Borough, which means a town or district in American English, so it means showing off in a town. #BadC4Solutions

Really bad solution for the explanation of ORB

1:27 PM

yeah you can't anagram BOR if there's no BOR in the clue but i'd bet you're right about ABS

3:20 PM

Well, Anonymous 25 was halfway there, I think: ORB is ORBIT (go about) showing IT off.

@Stiv So: ABSORB = ABS + ORB(it)

aha!

3:38 PM

@MOehm Spot on. @Anonymus25 you were so close!

oAlt

Darnn

Jeremy Dover

3:54 PM

In case anyone here was taking a look at my just posted puzzle, I added a Penpa link. Sorry about forgetting it at first!

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Q: Japanese Streams Sudoku

TL;DR - it's a puzzle: In a previous puzzle, we presented a puzzle inspired by the recent Japanese Sums puzzle series at Grandmaster Puzzles which combined the Japanese sums cluing technique with a Sudoku, with a little bit of Cross the Streams thrown in for flavor. This puzzle makes this hybridi...

Q: You can count on Sergeant Sequence

6:32 PM

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"Ah, Sequence, there you are," said the Chief Investigator as Sergeant Sequence entered the briefing room. "Your man Patrick Terne is on the move again, and we need your help to track him down." "Where's he been this time?" asked the Sergeant, cradling his morning coffee. "All over - a lot of tim...

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Beastly Gerbil

6:48 PM

@JeremyDover really good puzzle! Had to use both restrictions all the way to the very end

Jeremy Dover

@BeastlyGerbil Thanks! I was really pleased with how this one came out. The 16s irritated me as a test solver, since it didn't seem like they helped nearly as much as they should have, but of course you needed them eventually.

CCCC: Second crew is in old vessel (9)

Beastly Gerbil

@JeremyDover I feel like theres probably some proper analysis of the 16s you could do to deduce where certain numbers can go, but I almsot like how you don't use them all at once which is what you first think to do

7:15 PM

@MOehm All I can think of is "Second crew's in old cruse", but I assume that's irrelevant.

Huh? Sorry, you've lost me there, I'm afraid. (I guess that means it's irrelevant.)

I guess so. :-)

(A cruse is a kind of vessel. And "cruse" sounds like "crew's".)

@MOehm oh it's s team's hip ("in", old) = vessel

nice clue

AncientSwordRage

@msh210 nice!

Yes, that's it.

AncientSwordRage

I was trying to work out SUBMARINE and CAPILLARY which both suspiciously fit 9 letters

7:25 PM

I was trying catamaran.

(Although I meant the "old" to go with the def. Don't know whether "hip" is really that old.)

Oh. Well, either way works, I think.

Yeah. The poor man's Schroedinger clue. :)

Didn't know the earthenware cruse, by the way. (But cruisehsip would also have 9 letters.)

Q: Puzzle changing edits, new suggestions and better analysis

7:59 PM

CCCC: European city with a source of fresh water — and a backed-up sewer (8)

Puzzling Meta

8:27 PM

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Disclaimer: I want to preface this post by saying that I am extremely frustrated right now, but I'm trying to make this a solution based post, and stop this from happening to myself or others on this site. Sorry if it comes off a bit rant-ish though. This problem has been discussed on Puzzling Me...

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11:23 PM

@msh210 this is a nice one! it's SPA (city with a source of fresh water) + NIARD<

11:57 PM

@Jafe yes indeed; and thanks :-)