The Sphinx's Lair

7:26 AM

at least seven someones do, apparently

i have no idea what to do with any of the c4 hints tbh

Stevo

7:37 AM

@bobble I have to be online at 6am next time. Need. To. Solve. More. Grid. Deduction. Puzzles.

3 hours later…

Sphinx

10:45 AM

Q: Time to get a watch

This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #6: Is it really that [time] again?. Last weekend I caught up with a friend I hadn't seen in a while. I went round his house on the Friday night with a big bottle of whiskey and the two of us put the world to rights, chatting deep into the early...

^ I just came here to groan. :)

Stiv

11:14 AM

@MOehm Ha, thought I'd use the title to beat a rogue answerer to that particular punchline!

11:24 AM

Oh, I groaned when I saw the answer, not the title ...

Stiv

11:56 AM

@MOehm Ha, then you should post! :)

12:10 PM

time to watch m oehm solve it

Solving is easy, but all the paperwork ...

(But I've posted an answer now.)

Stiv

Correct, of course :) If the [time] theme had come up in April, this would have been a perfect little 'April fool' puzzle.

12:28 PM

Hehe. You could also have put another kind of gnome on a clock face. ("It's four o'clock somewhere" seems to be popular.)

Hi.

how are you, interweb people

well i'm dumb... i read the answer and was like "wait, how does he know whether it's am or pm"

@TakingNotes is that controversy something to do with Oganesson?

TakingNotes

12:33 PM

not as far as I know :)

hmmm… hemlock should do the trick…

What? nothing

@Jafe , take at leisure/pleasure, if you're dumb how can you go quotes?

in other words, i got it. La ha ha ha ha ha haugh

"boring people quote interesting people; intolerable people quote themselves" -jafe, 2023

12:37 PM

へー！

OvO

OO.

smile

Still gotta wonder if there are yet-to-be-understood forms of human communictation.

slightly smiling

So you haven’t discovered telepathy yet?

12:40 PM

the telepathy chip only comes with human 2.0

It feels like telepathy when it works. But i think there's a baser understanding.

Why not upgrade the app?

I'm going for iBorg 3.1.1

Hmm. With the genetic manipulation and the weirding module?

i'd be happy if they finally fix the "back itches outside of reach of hand" bug

12:42 PM

Opening up the case, blowing off the dust.

Do you have a RAM yet?

@Jafe, you are my back scratcher! @parz, i cannot reach that packet space. But will keep trying!

No, no.

A Really Amazing Machine!

It looks like a singular Falinks…

and is basically a better Roomba!

A one-bit machine.

Multiple bits.

It can even go to war! Against pests!

12:47 PM

Multiple sips on multiple hips on multiple bits.

I grew up on 5-bit machines. Radix50.

Would post a puzzle based on that but it would divert trivia.

I have a minipuzzle!

Mobile Moment

(8! 5(8# 8# @ :8;807%%”3? 2@(99

^ that is crazy ass . . . but working on it

. . . got it grouped by 8's . . . no illumination . . .

. . . nowhere . . . clue @parz ? . . .

. . . if not, understood . . .

a TALL STORY is a bit of a sham, and contains the AL for aluminium... now to find out which recent controversy involved a TLS Tory

1:00 PM

(gotta guess that "alloy" is in play)

(also, notice how "TLS Tory" can be read as "TL Story")

(not to say that alumin(i)um seals itself upon oxidation; much to ponder)