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oAlt

02:58

@juicifer N and S part o' ET = onset (attack)

Sphinx

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Q: 5 friends Each Liking 1 Color- To find Based on clue

Using the clues provided, determine the correct combination of colours for each person: Five friends (Alex, Ben, Claire, David, and Emma) each have a favourite colour (Blue, Green, Red, Yellow, and Violet). Alex's favourite colour is not Blue or Yellow. Ben's favourite colour is Red. Claire's fa...

juicifer

@oAlt yep!

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oAlt

04:11

CCCC: Perhaps autism, according to doctor in good hospital department, has affected my nose (8'1 8)

Jafe

04:23

as per + G + ER + 's + syn(Dr.)ome*

oAlt

@Jafe Yes :)

M Oehm

Yes. Took me a bit to see where the (literal) 'S came from.

Jafe

that was the last bit i got as well

CCCC: Son's old incurable complication showing no hint of autism spectrum disorder (6,9)

M Oehm

04:43

@Jafe That's COLOUR BLINDNESS = (SONS OLD INCUR(a)BLE)*

oAlt

Ahh, another spectrum

M Oehm

Yes, not an 80's homecomputer ...

oAlt

Lol (TIL)

Jafe

04:59

correct!

M Oehm

05:25

CCCC: Drug seen in contents of movie rated only 40% in Spectrum? (7)

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msh210

07:36

(looks up Spectrum's rating of Dune …)

oAlt

08:06

A rainbow is a spectrum, but can't get it to fit

Also, here's the home computer in question, just in case

Jafe

08:53

ra would be 40% of "rated", and the "in" is there

but yeah don't see how the rest would work

Sphinx

09:27

Q: Can you find the last 20 Moves?

For this puzzle, I tried my hand at a type of structure similar to those appearing in a few of Dmitri Baibikov's (brilliant!) puzzles. It took a lot of fiddling to finally get this working, but I'm really happy with the result: Can you determine the last 20 single moves that led to this position?...

chess retrograde-analysis

Jafe

last 20? sheesh

Jafe

09:47

answered a rubik's cube question, lol

tryna keep Bass from overtaking me on the all-time board again

oAlt

Lol

Re: C4, "contents of movie" is surely "ovi" but I cannot get that to fit either

msh210

(looks for an answer of Bass's to award 500 bounty to, just to spite Jafe…)

oAlt

10:07

haha yeah they answered anyway

msh210

10:23

@Jafe "Now look at all edge pieces with orange in them. We should be able to find a piece that's either a duplicate (e.g. two different edge pieces with orange-blue) or impossible (e.g. orange-red edge piece but orange and red are on opposite sides of the cube)." Why an edge piece specifically? Can't it be elsewhere?

Jafe

rats, you're right... it's not that simple

clearly i'm doomed to 7th place with perpetual 77,777 rep

deleted mine, i don't think it was salvageable

contents of movie are clearly OVI but none of the usual drug abbreviations look promising inside that string

M Oehm

^ Yes. Should have used "middle part" for better surface reading.

Perhaps you're all putting the cart before the horse?

msh210

10:42

Ah, it's Zovirax = _ovi_ ra_ in Zx

@MOehm this hint gave it to me

@oAlt and this link

Jafe

ahh couldn't see the definition being "drug", that is such a wordplay-y word

nice clue

msh210

@Jafe 'tis

Jafe

it's.

M Oehm

@msh210 Yep, that's it.

Thanks.

msh210

CCCC: Second smothered in soot here (5)

AncientSwordRage

10:49

@msh210 50% serious guess: THERE = (-smo)there(-d) // (soo)t here

msh210

not my intention, I'm afraid

AncientSwordRage

actually what am I thinking? That would be two cryptics

Jafe

11:33

it's actually _ot her_ = second

lot of substring opportunities in 5 words

oAlt

@msh210 Thank you. I also had the feeling that the answer was a proper name for a drug

@msh210 (ultimately, that one also goes to MOehm :))

msh210

12:01

@Jafe yep yep

@oAlt ah, true

@Jafe (my idea being "other" as in "I call my dad every other day")

Jafe

12:30

CCCC: Late 50s movie ultimately embraced by enthusiast (6)

msh210

@Jafe fallen (late) = LL _e embraced by fan

nice clue

oAlt

Ahh

50 and above, for enthusiast (5)

Jafe

13:02

correct!

thanks

msh210

CCCC: An even mixture of… thing (5)

oAlt

Ominous

@msh210 I'm guessing this is night anagram, where even = evening archaically or poetically

msh210

@oAlt aye

oAlt

13:26

CCCC: Previous parliamentary leader going back... (9) / ...left evil (8)

Whoever answers the clue that's answered second, you go next

Jafe

latter one is sinister ddef

and p_ + receding

oAlt

@Jafe yup!

bobble

Yeah well if you won't take my word for it then I'm afraid you have to try it for yourself. The move sequence is really complicated. Btw how does one 'accidentally turn a sub-cube' to reach an unreachable position?? Only by taking the cube apart one gets at unreachable positions and that can hardly be called 'accidentally '?! — Matthé Uijttewaal 2 hours ago

Is that a fair criticism of me asking for a move sequence?

msh210

13:45

@bobble dunno why you said "accidentally" in the earlier comment… in any event I'd assume that either (a) he doesn't remember the sequence, (b) he can't be bothered to reproduce it, or (c) he cheated (twisted a corner or replaced stickers). In any case, I don't think you're getting your move sequence from him.

Jafe

not sure why a move sequence matters if the question is "can you make these patterns" and the answer is "dunno but check out these other patterns i made up"

msh210

@Jafe also a good point :-)

bobble

There was a previous answer that also made different patterns so I thought the folks in that Q&A thought changing the patterns was okay

Jafe

14:05

CCCC: I wager everything I have in Tennessee's capital (7)

juicifer

Sep 9, 2022 at 15:05, by M Oehm

Yeah. You should go all-in in Tennessee wit your next clue for a change. :)

(for avoidance of doubt, we're looking at T(ALL IN)N, a capital)

Jafe

hahah

that is right and i have no memory of seeing that even though i clearly did

hell i even responded to it :P

should get my memory checked

juicifer

CCCC: I say "how come you're not playing NBA Live 2000?" (3)

Sphinx

14:44

Q: This is a rebus

Body must be at least 30 characters, so here it is: This is a rebus:

visual rebus

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AncientSwordRage

16:41

@juicifer Y2K?

As in "why 2000?"

juicifer

16:58

@AncientSwordRage what would be the definition part then

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AncientSwordRage

18:22

@juicifer .... I don't know... I really off my cryptics game it seems

AncientSwordRage

18:35

@juicifer oh hang on I think I remember my earlier logic. 2000 is the def for Y2K. Y is from I say "how come (why~Y) and you're not playing NBA Live, NBA 2K was a rival to NBA Live

juicifer

@AncientSwordRage yeah, there you go

fwiw my intention was "how come you're not playing nba live" -> "why 2k" (i.e. why are you playing 2k)

and then you homophone the whole thing

AncientSwordRage

@juicifer that's kinda how I read it, but I couldn't articulate it very well

CCCC: Tablet describes Trojan hero commanded to devour everyone (11)