The Sphinx's Lair

Q: Strange Glyphs From Another Time

3:30 AM

@Stiv yup!

and thanks to both of you on the compliments

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Sphinx

5:22 AM

The following glyphs were recently uncovered at a dig site, which have stumped cryptographers and linguists alike. These symbols are guessed to be some sort of ancient language, but nothing is yet known. Photos of these glyphs have been distributed to news sites, newspapers, and magazines in hope...

6:18 AM

CCCC: Let go of rising anxiety about not attending lecture - it's a matter of opinion! (7,2,6)

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11:25 AM

@Stiv freedom of speech ddef (sorta)?

@msh210 It's the right answer, but it's not a ddef. I'd argue there's a wordplay half (which I'd need to see explained) and a cdef...

@Stiv oh I see… rising anxiety about not attending = omof<

and let go of is the past participle, or whatever you call it

Which is much better than my first solution.

You're there. Can you express the wordplay in a single summary line?

Um… probably

(Just thinking for oAlt's benefit in a year's time...!)

11:31 AM

freed omof< speech = a matter of opinion

@msh210 That's the one :) Well done for finding it

Well, I had some help from the setter.

Equivalent of letters in the grid in an actual cryptic crossword... Nothing wrong with that :)

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Gareth McCaughan

12:42 PM

Signal boost for this Meta question puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7396/… about the possibility of making the "MathJax help" link on PSE's version of the formatting help page go to something more useful than what it currently links to. If you have Opinions on that, please take a look and cast your votes.

oAlt

12:56 PM

@Stiv hehe

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Q: logical deduction - Persian Rugs - A Zebra Puzzle (Einstein's Riddle) Variation

2:53 PM

Sorry for the C4 delay. I don't have one prepared, and haven't had a chance to write one.

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Sphinx

4:25 PM

You can play this Zebra Puzzle here: https://www.brainzilla.com/logic/zebra/persian-rugs/ Client #1 Client #2 Client #3 Client #4 Client #5 color name type symbols price place Five men, who just bought Persian rugs, are side by side. Each one b...

logical-deduction logic-grid

AncientSwordRage

@msh210 no worries!

I wonder if anyone has spotted a pattern in some of my C4s?

Aug 6 at 1:06, by juicifer

wait you're not stiv :P

AncientSwordRage

4:44 PM

@juicifer good observation

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6:08 PM

@AncientSwordRage so I see NORTHUMBERLAND, BOURNEMOUTH CHRISTCHURCH AND POOLE, and TYNE AND WEAR recently

not sure if that's all there is to it or if that's even the pattern

The last seven clues in sequence are HANDRAILS, BOURNEMOUTH CHRISTCHURCH AND POOLE, KISSES, BEAT A HASTY RETREAT, MIRACULOUS, TYNE AND WEAR, and SHALOM...

I'm seeing a few body parts: nor[THUMB]erland, [HAND]rails, bourne[MOUTH]..., kisses, beat a hasty retreat, miraculous, tyne and w[EAR], s[HALO]m (for a saint, anyway!)

Certainly all the place name clues contain body parts

6:26 PM

I'm seeing kISSes and sHALOm but I'm not getting anywhere else with that

ah wait you also have MIRaculous

AncientSwordRage

6:49 PM

Not all of my CCCCs fit the pattern and the pattern isn't limited to the answers...