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3:00 AM

Q: Crossword clue - Each morning, the sun faces here, the home of the moon goddess and produces a dazzling colorful display

Answer likely a museum, park, tourist attraction or city name Something you’d find on roadsideamerica.com

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Jafe

4:16 AM

ugh, my search for 17th-century poets whose name ends in -osie or -esio or similar has come to nothing

maybe we're looking for a female comedian from Nice after all

oAlt

@Jafe haha i also briefly considered that

Jafe

hmm, apparently rosie o'donnell's nickname is "queen of nice"

contains the osie*, and she is a comedienne

Jafe

4:37 AM

to roll is to shoot (a film), and donne is the 17th century poet!

so it's RO(SIEO(-p)*+DONNE)LL @msh210

(you might say the camera is rolling if it's currently shooting a film)

msh210

4:50 AM

@Jafe yep! Well found: I had thought that that would take longer

Jafe

thanks

i like how either side could have been the definition there even when you know the answer's going to be a name

spent some time looking for names that end in -oise* because i was looking at it from the wrong end

msh210

Thanks. And I'm glad the capitalized Nice deceived you, albeit briefly.

Jafe

CCCC: Actress from Paris, and one from the UK with broken toe, entertaining fool bored by poet from the 17th century (8,6)

i hope y'all left your search tabs open

msh210

Bri(git)(te(bard)o*)t

oh wait no. It's Bri(git)t e(bard)ot*

Jafe

5:07 AM

that's right

msh210

This is getting silly, but CCCC: Art Mills, with ursid poet of the 17th century? (6,6)

Jafe

hah

msh210

(edited slightly)

Jafe

i've heard of monkeys with typewriters but a bear with a quill is a first

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Sphinx

10:37 AM

Q: Themed Boggle Grids Continued

This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #7: Board games. Click here for the rules. Here are some more themed Boggle grids that I created or discovered. Some of these may be references to other board games. Digraphs are not used here. Some of these grids may be too large (or unsuitable...

language letters board-games

Sphinx

11:02 AM

Q: Boggle Everywhere

This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #7: Board games. Click here for the rules. Boggle is a board game using letters. To make a word in Boggle, connect some letters horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, without using the same letter twice in the same word. Task 1: How many diffe...

mathematics optimization letters board-games

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humn

12:15 PM

@msh210 , truly agreed that downer votes are good for the system. Disagreed that they should have weight equal to votes of approval. Simpler the way it is, understood. (More of a general SE pule than here.)

Still, though, even when a solution surpasses its puzzle, didn't the puzzle sow the seed?

I eat corn (and more, fill in the blank) for nourishment while praising my uncle who grew it along with acres of and stys of what i don't.

= please don't downer-vote on a whim. Too easy. Enuf sed.

in The troll, 2 mins ago, by humn

ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE ~ Johnny Mercer & The Pied Pipers (1945)

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Sphinx

4:06 PM

Q: IQ test question. 3x3 grid with 3 possible colors

Faced with this question during job interview and wondering what is the sol

visual pattern grid-deduction progressive-matrix

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AncientSwordRage

5:51 PM

Art Mills is a baseball player, but ART could just mean ARTHUR or ARTURO. Ursids are either meteors or bears, but there's a famous bear called Arturo...

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