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@oAlt dual IPA
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Q: make three products equal along sides of septagon

FirstName LastNameInspired by question 126115 Make the three products equal and as large as possible in case 126115 author feels this is plagiarism feel free to close Assign numbers $1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9$ (note $7$ is missing) to points $A...G.H...N$ and supplement remaining $5$ of total $14$ numbers to make all $7$ p...

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@Jafe yessir
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CCCC: Nolan's contribution is no main dish (8)
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@Sphinx this is a repost of a question closed for breaking the rules against ongoing challenges. (They've since edited that admittance out of the prior question, but it's in the history)
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Q: Gaps Between Ecuadorean Numbers

Bernardo Recamán SantosA positive integer is said to be an Ecuadorean number if for some m, the sum of the first m of its n digits, m < n, is equal to the sum of all its other digits. Numbers such as 11, 134, 235, 2024 are all Ecuadorean. What is the largest gap there can be between two consecutive Ecuadorean numbers?

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@Jafe Insomnia = isnomain*
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@oAlt our first day averaging >1 c4/h
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hahah
03:41
that's correct
CCCC: Canada's got US photographer (6)
@oAlt C(Amer.)A
@msh210 ye
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@bobble (I kept looking at the wrong puzzle until I finally clicked the hyperlink in the reply. For a while I was wondering what was wrong with the septagon puzzle lol)
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@oAlt (heh)
 
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Sorry for the delay.
@Jafe CCCC: Don is back inside of me, for some reason (6)
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it was an offer he couldn't refuse
 
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Q: Visual puzzle with a grid

Fraternal9274Puzzle I composed, the reasoning matters more than the correct answer.

@msh210 Don Vito back inside of me = m(otiv<)e = motive (some reason)
There's probably a better Don Vito, though...
@oAlt that's the one I had in mind; and yes your solution is correct of course
08:41
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CCCC: "It's hot, country kid!" (5)
@oAlt is this possibly a triple definition of chile? it's hot = chili (maybe it's also spelled chile?). country = Chile. kid = chile (eye dialect for child).
hm, yeah, according to Wiktionary, chile is a regional spelling of chili
@msh210 yep, you got it
apparently chile and chili are etymologically unrelated... one comes from a word meaning "pepper" and the other "cold"
which in turn is unrelated to english "chilly" meaning cold
^ Ikr
wait, which is which
08:47
sry i have them reversed there
the pepper is the pepper, the country is the cold
interesting
CCCC: Heat Spain, Canada, and others up (8)
And also the chili is hot but chilly is cold
sometimes when you have a cold you have fever
09:01
hah
@msh210 btw this is escalate (as in a situation getting more serious) = ES CA (et al.)<
@oAlt btw it is
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CCCC: Biologist went; you got number (6)
 
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@oAlt _t went y_
@msh210 ye
CCCC: Mutative? Mutative? Add a couple of wheels and it'll be able to move on its own. (10)
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@msh210 aut(o)m(o)tive*
@oAlt precisely so
I'm all out of good cryptic clue ideas, so I'll borrow the ball sport surface again just this once (and I'll have to brainstorm again)
ball sport surface can be grass, or clay, or baize, or…
CCCC: Move left regularly in ball sport (4)
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@oAlt go L f(=frequency) ?
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(f=frequently would make more sense for "regularly", but I don't see f as an abbr. for frequently)
@msh210 almost there
oh duh: go + l_f_
^ @oAlt
@msh210 correct :)
@oAlt CCCC: Movement left in ball sport (4)
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Q: Try Triling ("Triangular-Tiling")

user23087You are given a grid. Some of the cells in the grid are labelled with positive numbers. You must partition the grid into triangles. There must be a triangle for each labelled cell Each cell must be completely contained within its triangle The vertices of each triangle must be intersection poin...

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@msh210 Is this PO(L)O?
"the puzzle is to move two matches"
"what if I moved three"
What kind of answer is that? So clearly missing the point puzzling.stackexchange.com/a/126646/69582
@Stiv I don't see why it would be; can you explain? (And it's not the intended answer.)
@msh210 Ha, I read it as a (bowel) movement with L(eft) in...
ahhhh yes that does work
Actually it works better than my intended answer, so go ahead.
I intended poo + L with "in" to connect wordplay and definition (which I don't like so much)
Aha, so the L was just in a different position to your intention. 'in' works for me. Sure, I'll go...
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I guess that probably could have been a Schrodinger haha
Oh wow I like that, why did I not remember that lol
CCCC: Anxiety as deer left skinned (with permission) (5,6)
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@Stiv stag (-l)ef(-t) right
@oAlt Yep :)
CCCC: Coffee cup returned after covering counterfeit coin (10)
 
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@oAlt CAP(=covering)+PUC<+CINO*
 
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@Ankoganit nice
thanks
 
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@Ankoganit yep!
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CCCC: China imprisons "mischievous" worker for good (7)
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Q: Pattern based IQ tests

KaiI took an IQ test (at https://iqcenter.net) and found some of the questions challenging. I wanted to ask if someone can provide clarification on how to solve them. Puzzle 1: Puzzle 2: Puzzle 3: My take: B. 1 hollow square and 1 filled triangle in each row. Circles in each row are always filled...

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Q: May the Fourth Be With You - a Star Wars Day Bounty Hunt

StivBackground: As part of the entertainment at my brother's wedding - which took place in the UK on May the 4th this week - I created a puzzle hunt 'for a general audience' and a range of ages to fit with the day's Star Wars theme. The following 9 sub-puzzles were dotted about the wedding venue, eac...


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