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01:04
@msh210 yikes yeah I’ve heard similar stories, I’m gonna try to get a head start and watch some crash course videos/ skim the textbook so I’m not going in blind
Though I know somebodyyy cough that aced through it
01:37
@juicifer I’d agree, the surface was pretty good
02:06
Was Ioio a sailor?
02:33
Not that I could see
I was looking at similar stuff like "Io" but I don't think Io is a sailor moon character at all
OH maybe it's AINO???
Minako Aino is the name of Sailor Venus
Though not sure how that fits the wordplay
The Sailor Moon manga series features a cast of characters created by Naoko Takeuchi. The series takes place in Tokyo, Japan, where the Sailor Guardians (セーラー戦士, Sērā Senshi), a group of ten magical girls, are formed to fight against antagonists who aim to take over the Earth, the Solar System, and the Milky Way. Each Guardian undergoes a transformation which grants her a uniform in her own theme colors and an elemental power. They are named after the planets of the Solar System, with the exception of Earth but including its moon. While many characters are humans who possess superhuman strength...
Tell me if you guys see anything interesting
Never in my life did I think I'd be on the wikipedia page for Sailor Moon
Thanks JUCIFER
Chibiusa (ちびうさ, Chibiusa or Chibi-Usa, renamed Rini in the DiC and Cloverway English adaptations) is one of the main characters from the Sailor Moon manga series created by Naoko Takeuchi. She is introduced in Chapter 14, "Conclusion and Commencement, Petite Étrangere", first published in Nakayoshi on July 6, 1993. She is a small child from the 30th century who time travels to the past to seek help from the Sailor Guardians. She later returns, a few years older, in order to train as a Sailor Guardian herself—Sailor Chibi Moon (セーラーちびムーン, Sērā Chibi Mūn), translated as "Sailor Mini Moon" in the...
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sailor moon characters with 4 letter words include MARS (who's also known as rei HINO) MASK(tuxedo MASK?), KINO (Sailor jupiter), AINO, or RINI
I'm thinking do over might be a reversal indicator, so maybe a moon in our solar system reversed?
Of the Solar System's eight planets and its nine most likely dwarf planets, six planets and seven dwarf planets are known to be orbited by at least 300 natural satellites, or moons. At least 19 of them are large enough to be gravitationally rounded; of these, all are covered by a crust of ice except for Earth's Moon and Jupiter's Io. Several of the largest ones are in hydrostatic equilibrium and would therefore be considered dwarf planets or planets if they were in direct orbit around the Sun and not in their current states (orbiting planets or dwarf planets). Moons are classed into two separate...
But why would Jucifer putting "needing a" if the solution didn't need an A?
Sailor moon needing do-over is a fine surface on its own
So three letter MOON +A <
02:51
Usagi Tsukino - A = US GI, which is... a US soldier, not a do-over
Wait can needing A be -A?
This changes things
Yeah, I first learned it from Jafe (and it turns out it can mean that in the dictionary too)
But my default interpretation is the same as yours – since it needs X, it wants X to be given to it
Perhaps the definition is over
And we're taking out A DO
which could be more useful given words are long
Just like how a person would want to gain something they need
02:56
do can also be a hairdo (but here, I hope not)
I considered that
Sailor can be any one of these:
> Sailor – AB (able seaman), TAR (slang), RN, SALT, JACK, HAND, OS (ordinary seaman)
TRIO?
Hm
T(-a)R(IO) but not sure that means do over
hmm
I'm trying to see if I can find four letter words of OVER
Interesting thing to note: a "do-over" is a noun but do over is a phrasal verb
So like I don't think REDO is allowed as a def to do-over
Though a noun form of REDO means to redecorating a room which can be a sort of do-over
Okay I have a crackpot solution
REI HINO is Sailor Mars
Maybe if A=I because a is like something for singular "one" and I is roman numeral for I
RE(-i)DO????
Oh wait but I don't know if REDO is a synonym of OVER
I'm lost
03:51
Aug 12 at 13:46, by juicifer
@msh210 as opposed to a parisite
funnily enough, a very similar pun was used in yesterday's (thu 15 aug) NYT crossword
it was rot13("cnenfvgr" sbe "cnevf fvgr")
i wonder if the c4 is the name of a sailor whose last name is Moon
which is difficult to google because of all the anime results :P
Hehehe
darn you jucifer, you're a real lucifer
04:08
Moon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: == People == Alan R. Moon (born 1951), British designer of board games Aliona Moon (born 1989), Moldovan singer Angus Moon QC (born 1962), British barrister Ben Moon (disambiguation) Moon Bin (1998-2023), member of South Korean boy band ASTRO Brendan Moon (born 1958), Australian rugby union player Moon Byul-Yi (born 1992), member of South Korean girl band, rapper and songwriter Mamamoo Moon Byung-Woo (born 1986), South Korean football player Charles Moon, American politician Moon Dae-Sung (born 1976), South Korean retired taekwondo athlete...
is there a sports team called the Sailors
That would be right up juicifer's alley
04:28
wikipedia knows a couple (no Moon that i can find, though)
Sailor Moon... but I don't think this is it since doni/dona/doin/doan/dion/daon have no chance of meaning "do-over"
@Jafe he's probably grinning widely rn
04:46
could also be swab, salt, AB, gob... 'course, I can't turn any of those into "needing a do-over", but then, I'm a very mediocre cryptic solver
04:57
I've went through those myself too
05:56
@oAlt shakes fist
 
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06:57
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Q: Is the Ted-Ed Leprechaun's Magic Bag Unique?

Tim CInspiration: Ted Ed: This one weird trick will get you infinite gold - Dan Finkel Codegolf Stack Exchange: Shift Right by Half a Trit Consider a Magic Bag which has the following properties: Whenever a whole number of gold coins is placed into it, a larger whole number of gold coins may be tak...

07:48
I'm quite sure this is wrong, even given the question mark, but if moon (in the informal, verb sense) were "arse", then "doing that over" (anagram) would be SEAR, and a sailor is a sea-er...
07:58
you generally can't anagram letters not in the clue though... one of those unwritten rules that i'm sure is written somewhere
so scrambling the letters MOON would be ok but not scrambling the letters of a synonym of "moon"
btw if anyone says that barry gibb is a creep they're actually wrong, although it's an easy mistake to make
because the creeps are the heebie-jeebies, whereas barry gibb, he be bee gees
08:17
Oh right, that's true; I even knew that, but apparently forgot (see "I'm a very mediocre cryptic solver", supra). Indirect anagrams, if you're looking for a place it's written.
 
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10:15
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Q: Age is just a number!

StivIf... Colin is 14, Caren is 33, and Anetta is 85 (and/or 86) How old is Shamu?

Stiv puzzle with [knowledge] comes in. Step 1: Check periodic table
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14, 33 and 85 are all metalloids on the "staircase"... colin and caren can be broken into element symbols, but anetta only if you reverse some of them...
11:07
Posted an answer. I'm having a hard time believing that that's all there is to it...
Honestly thought that one would fall SO FAST so I'm pleased it gave you a little runaround. Just a short and sweet one I thought up on a break. That really is all there is :)
@LukasRotter PS Generally an excellent strategy ;-)
@oAlt (I reckon tweaking the very first line of your answer to 'Shamu is' would give the solution more power)
Will do :)
Very nice!
@oAlt While we're nitpicking, you've got a doubled word: "So we see that Shamu is ... is ..."
and that's too few characters to suggest an edit for :)
It was a lovely coincidence (that I had not spotted before posting) that three of these featured 'on the staircase'! Other faves I found when researching this include THUMB IS, MURT IS NOT, and MY PODIUMS ARE...
@RyanM That second 'is' is actually needed since SHAMU IS is what is anagrammed.
11:16
errrr, yes, right >_<
I should sleep
brain no work good now
@Stiv yeah, and it reveals that the first line and spoiler is actually the one that's not grammatically correct :)
@RyanM RY M IS SOUP'D
As further proof of my brain being, in fact, soup[ed], I misread "anagrams" as "antonyms" and was extremely confused for a few moments
Lol
12:15
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Q: Three 7-letter words, 21 unique letters, excludes either HM or QS

Frisky DingoThe title says it all. I'm looking for three seven letter words consisting of 21 unique letters, and the final result must exclude either the letters HM or QS (Excluding S may be impossible based off of my own attempts). The closest I was able to get by hand (admittedly without the excluded lette...

Re the C4: I like that "OI OI [Sailor]!" is IO< twice (i.e. needing a do-over, or rerun)
But the do-over there is doing double duty
Can over by itself be a reversal indicator? This could also be MOON - (A + DO)< or MOON - (A + DO<)
Yes, 'over' is quite common for reversal
Either way, I'm lost (and definitely not lazy to do more Internet diving for the clue)
@Stiv I see, I thought I misremembered
12:49
CCCC hint: the correct solution, as well as every correct interpretation of the wordplay, have already been mentioned
(here, in this chatroom, in discussions about this clue, in case there are any sticklers watching (I know there are))
sticklers? here?
stickler? I hardl-
hahah
13:14
favourite australianism i've learned today: a few roos loose in the top paddock
Gotta be Ioio, then
@Jafe hah
@bobble thanks for sharing
I really don't want to go this route, but I'll bite... based on the clue sequence going on, it seems that the next answer should be SALT, as mentioned by Ryan M. But I don't see wordplay for it yet
atlas is a moon
(On the other hand, I still won't be checking Mithical's nor the 39 Clues list)
13:21
@Jafe Got to be it
anybody wanna put a bow on this one?
atlas minus a backwards = salt
yeah
thanks for putting it in writing lol
13:44
@Jafe closes 500 tabs
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heheh
@oAlt btw: I don't know of any team called the sailors, but I was strongly considering making one about the seattle mariners (especially because "seattle" contains all the letters in "salt")
but I just couldn't quite get it to come together
Ahh
CCCC: Wash dummy number two (7)
14:00
@Jafe sham poo
that's it
CCCC: "Made like some Rays, perhaps going for a cycle" - on X, someone made a post about a baseball player with this sort of arm (8)
14:13
@juicifer Tungsten Arm = stung ([were?] made like some [sting]rays, perhaps) going for a cycle + ten (X)
@Jafe Ahhhhhhhhh
good find!
@oAlt I think i may have mentioned this prior?
@oAlt Sequence?
@PrinceNorthLæraðr oh
ohhh that's right
anyway yeah, I assume the sequence is still going but I haven't kept track of how many left there are
@oAlt what's "someone made a post…"?
Oh never mind. Got it.
14:26
@oAlt exactly right!
thought this one would stand a lot longer tbh, so well done for solving it so fast
Thanks, and thanks also to Google
Well, I have no clue sequence prepared yet, so a regular clue is coming right up
nice try, we'll call this clue 1
4
14:42
@Jafe :P
CCCC: I almost left Scottish sweetheart right after beginning of sorrow in Philippine island (8)
I qui(t) jo R after s_ = Siquijor
@msh210 Yep!
CCCC: Twisted, misshapen heart of scoundrel is lacking feeling? (8)
emphasis(-n)*
yes indeed
14:48
emphasis=feeling?
CCCC: English cathedral city, ultimately (3)
"say it again, this time with more feeling"... I'm not sure (hence the question mark)
Ah, fair enough
E _l _y &lit
that's right
14:55
CCCC: Understand Princess Grace's suspicion (3)
@msh210 Di G_?
yep!
Ah, that's a cool indicator
thanks; I found it on a list
@oAlt ? can you elaborate?
15:05
To dig is to understand (in old slang). Di was a princess. A suspicion of something means a tiny bit of it, hence the first letter of Grace.
I had a suspicion that a suspicion of something could mean a trace of something, and indeed I just looked at it on Wikiped... never mind (thanks)
And yes, I have heard of that usage before of dig but I cannot remember the sentence it was used in
15:20
clue number two coming up
15:35
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Q: A jumping grid!

Prim3numbahReplace the question marks with the correct numbers and explain the reason why. 6 9 0 2 0 0 9 1 2 9 9 1 8 0 0 2 2 1 0 2 4 0 0 2 0 ? ? ? ? 2 0 2 6 1 0 2 ╎ ╎ ╎ ╎ ╎ ╎ ╎ ╎ ╎ ╎ ╎ ╎ ╎ ╎ ╎ ╎ ╎ ╎ -- -- -- —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— ——

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Q: Testing Puzzles for Feedback: Enigmatic Puzzles 3

Stephen SI'm starting to test out puzzles for my second puzzle book (link to the first). They're all enigmatic word puzzles. Try out this new puzzle I'm testing and share any feedback you might have to make it even better. Happy to share hints if you ask:

@juicifer ":P" part 2
CCCC: One cent missing from altered cost of Prince Hugh's curry and processed sugar (4-8 4 5)
The def might be slightly inaccurate but oh well... that's what I get for hurriedly making this
15:55
it's hard coming up with a c4 sequence on the fly
heheh
🥴
16:20
@oAlt (-c)ostofprincehughscurry* -> high-fructose corn syrup
@juicifer Yup! 1) I should have used sweetener rather than sugar. 2) It was such a pain when I realized I miscounted the C's and had one extra lol
@juicifer and long anagrams, for that matter :p
16:39
CCCC: Be first in line (4)
17:18
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Q: Need help with riddle (What am I?)

GeometricPythonI need help in answering this riddle: I am a machine that hungers Fed constantly by booming shots, blood, and luck The chewing, metallic and vile And still I bring more comfort than the dance of hell below What am I?

 
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22:16
@juicifer bit of a long shot, but RULE? "to be first in importance or prominence" and also a "rule" is a line
23:14
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Q: Sometimes I stand up, Sometimes I lay down, I wait patiently for you to talk. What am I?

Will.Octagon.GibsonSometimes I stand up, Sometimes I lay down, I wait patiently for you to talk. What am I?


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