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matt

12:05 AM

and by Long™ i mean probably at least a few months

Sphinx

12:59 AM

Q: Restore the table runner

The holidays are coming. Time to get out the beautiful table runner my grandmother quilted by hand... Oh, no! Moths got to it! Can you help me to restore it? For those who prefer text only: RGSRMVRB EOAEEAEY MTNGTLRD SOHIIOES DEMSNLER DEHEITED REPSAREP SEHEITAR DESSRNEV DEHEIVAD RECSINEB RE...

Anonymus 25

So I've been backreading the chat, and it seems something is wrong with Lypyrythm. I won't do anything more and keep the conversation because I respect privacy, but I just want to wish so that he gets better, whatever is wrong with him.

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Jafe

4:03 AM

how's it going, @matt?

there's still time to join the PSE advent calendar if you feel like making a christmas puzzle :)

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msh210

5:20 AM

CCCC: Root is sort of sensational (6)

Sphinx

5:34 AM

Q: Light the darkness

The answer is an event in Wikipedia. Find the date. 4️📅🤐⬇️🏪👀(🥘🇵🇭-S)(🎲21+A)🇺🇸

knowledge rebus emoji

Stevo

5:48 AM

hullo

Jafe

6:02 AM

meanwhile i want the c4 to be an anagram of "root is" but the only thing i can find matching that is a ugandan city that does not seem sensational in the slightest

Anonymus 25

6:23 AM

Obviously the C4 answer is GARISH

M Oehm

Because it has six letters?

Anonymus 25

Click the link

Root

A synonym of sensational, sort of

(Joke answer, don't take it seriously)

Stevo

@Anonymus25 ok

10 days left, I could bump it up.

Anonymus 25

Wait, roots are YELLOW, right?

M Oehm

I know it was a joke answer, but I don't see the joke. :(

Anonymus 25

6:30 AM

@MOehm Just search "garish root"

Stevo

ohhhhhhhhhhhh

M Oehm

No.

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Mithical

7:33 AM

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Stiv

8:35 AM

@msh210 RADISH where RAD = sensational and ISH = sort of

msh210

9:29 AM

@Stiv yep!

Stiv

(Of course, whether or not it really is sensational is a matter of opinion...!)

CCCC: Objective: Smuggle operative and head of CIA into Mediterranean island (8)

msh210

10:04 AM

@Stiv C(on C_)rete. Very nice clue!

Stiv

@msh210 Correct, and thanks :)

msh210

CCCC: Objective: Get ex-head of Federal Reserve into bed with head of CIA (8)

Jafe

10:45 AM

@msh210 maybe this is ALAN (greenspan) with C_ inside BED for BALANCED (objective)

msh210

@Jafe it is indeed!

Jafe

CCCC: Twenty-four-seven? (5)

i only know greenspan from some comedy film where a frustrated financier said "for the love of alan greenspan"

AncientSwordRage

@Jafe SCORE ddef with 4-7 being an example of a game score

Jafe

that's correct

msh210

11:04 AM

@Jafe a financier, or a CIA director?

Jafe

film bloopers, with NSFW language warning

AncientSwordRage

11:38 AM

CCCC: Massaged cardinal in bed, having morning prayers cut short ( 8 )

Sphinx

11:56 AM

Q: Connecting points to form triangles

$3n$ points are drawn on a flat piece of paper. Is it always possible to connect pairs of points with straight lines, such that you form $n$ triangles and no two triangles intersect or touch each other?

mathematics geometry

Stiv

@AncientSwordRage BELAUDED = B(E + LAUD(-s))ED

AncientSwordRage

12:12 PM

@Stiv Correct!

msh210

12:23 PM

@AncientSwordRage belauded=massaged?

Stiv

As in 'praised to excess'

msh210

oh, I didn't know that meaning of "massaged"

thanks for the educamation

Stiv

It's an obscure one, I grant you

AncientSwordRage

I doubled checked on merriam webster, and it was one of the top synonyms

msh210

yep, merriam-webster.com/dictionary/massage has it

Stiv

12:27 PM

I mean 'obscure' more as in 'not the meaning that first jumps to mind', which would probably be 'rubbed' or 'manipulated'

CCCC: Dead man disfigured; case for defence is turned on its head, confounded (6)

msh210

@Stiv d. amn* e_d<

Stiv

@msh210 Spot on

msh210

12:50 PM

well, I'll be, um, confounded

CCCC: "What's in it for me?" is something to think about. (13)

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Sphinx

2:01 PM

Q: PSE Advent Calendar 2021 (Day 8): Reindeer Family Reunion

This puzzle is part of the Puzzling StackExchange Advent Calendar 2021. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.< Previous Door Next Door > In the style of the author's Cryptic Family Reunion puzzles, this puzzle is a list of twelve thematically related w...

cryptic-clues seasonal

Sphinx

2:26 PM

Q: What is a Chess Number™?

This is in the spirit of the [What is a Word/Phrase™][1] series started by [JLee][2] with Number version puzzles. If a number conforms to a special rule, I call it a Chess Number™. Use the following examples below to find the rule. Chess Numbers™ Not Chess Numbers™ 314 315 273 372 18...

mathematics pattern number-property

LOTGP

2:50 PM

Does PSE have a puzzle hunt team?

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AncientSwordRage

5:34 PM

@LOTGP a what-now?

LOTGP

A group of people that regularly participate in [puzzle hunts][en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle_hunt#Puzzle_hunt_events]

M Oehm

(If you want direct links, the seond pair of brackets must be round ones.)

LOTGP

@AncientSwordRage A group of people that regularly participate in puzzle hunts

Thanks

AncientSwordRage

@LOTGP ahhh gotcha

bobble

chat.stackexchange.com/faq#formatting

LOTGP

5:49 PM

They certainly seem like something that people on this site might enjoy.

bobble

Deus is in a big puzzle hunt team

There's no site team, though

Sciborg

@LOTGP We have organized smaller groups to do puzzle hunts before, me and bobble and north did a puzzle hunt a while back. But there's no definitive site-wide group.

Could be fun if we had a document listing upcoming puzzle hunts, or a more organized puzzle-hunt-group-finder in here

LOTGP

6:06 PM

Yeah, it could be a useful resource for those who are interested in participating but don't have a team of their own.

Sphinx

Q: A Heartbroken riddle

Someone broke my heart, Part of me resides in the intersection of Rand al'Thor and the 26 Sometimes I just need every way of knowing who the fourth to win a race was. Then again sometimes I just run marathons and win silvers and bronzes. But the sums of my life is the sums of all the races I ran ...

riddle knowledge

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matt

7:33 PM

@Jafe i might if i come up with any puzzle ideas

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Stiv

10:35 PM

Oh gosh, pretty sure I'm due the biggest ever serial voting recalculation. Someone's just gone through and upvoted 20 of my old posts in one fell swoop...

Gareth McCaughan

11:14 PM

I'm sure they all deserve it.

Stiv

Well, thank you kindly - I wasn't fishing for the compliment, which I know you know :) - but rules is rules I s'pose... Second time this week too. Guess it makes a change to gripe about upvotes rather than downvotes!

Sphinx

11:36 PM

Q: Complete the rest of this sequence

Usually I don't like this kind of "guess the next terms" puzzles. But at this time of the year I wonder whether it makes sense to post such a question. So here is the starting of a sequence: $$33, 3, 33, 3, 35, 12, 3, 0, 44, 4, 43, 3, 32, \dots$$ The task is to complete the sequence. Moreover, it...