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01:12
Oh, it's still not solved
...And I still don't know what the wordplay or answer is
 
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Q: Who am I ? Where do I live?

kpuzzlerI live in a house. To the north, there's a squad of gamers living in an apartment. One of their rooms is directly at the exit of the apartment, next to my house so I sometimes visit them. To the west, well, I won't travel there often. There's always drunk people there. I'd rather stay with the ga...

 
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06:20
@oAlt well, it's been <24 hours
I'm at a loss, too, though.
If "tongue twister" could mean "oxymoron", well, I managed to find a few possible 8,12 ones. But I don't think it can. (And anyway I didn't see wordplay for any of those.)
06:54
As well as LLL, 'three lines' could be something like 'row-tier-bar' or a poetic word like 'tristich', 'tercet' or 'triplet' used as a container for other wordplay.
Oh, I hadn't thought of LLL. One of the possible oxymorons I had come across was "military intelligence", which has LLL in it. I still don't see wordplay for it, though. (Besides the fact that tongue twister ≠ oxymoron.)
Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll is a fair tongue twister in three lines...
(L...LL or L...LL)
No other letters shared with what looks like anagram fodder at the head of the clue though
@Stiv oh, nice find. But I agree there doesn't seem to be any further wordplay for it.
 
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08:25
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Q: One number grid, two ways to divide it

BubblerFind a rectangular grid of the smallest area that satisfies the following: Each cell contains an integer between 1 and 3 inclusive. The grid follows the Fillomino rule: When the cells are divided into connected groups containing same numbers, each number belongs to a group of that many cells. ...

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Q: Use all eight of the given polygons to tile a parallelogram

Will.Octagon.GibsonThe goal of this puzzle is to use all eight of the given polygons to tile a parallelogram without gaps or overlaps. Rotations and reflections are allowed. Description of the polygons: The triangles are equilateral with side length as indicated. The quadrilaterals each have four equal side length...

08:54
arab could be something like OMANI
09:29
or CASABLANCAN
megalOMANIac is a nice 12-letter word that's probably easy to put into a tongue twister...
Like a power-crazed collector of prehistoric stones might be a MEGALITH MEGALOMANIAC
10:08
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Q: A Feast of Shadows

Stewie GriffinBeneath the moon's watchful eye, I weave, A silent creator, though none perceive. Feathers in shadow, a whisper in flight, Where black meets the edge of a pale twilight. I feast on fragments, scattered wide, Gathering stories that others divide. Born in a nest, but I travel far, To lands where pi...

10:29
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Q: Associated with outsiders

Prim3numbahWhat's specifically depicted here?

11:22
@Jafe I've thought of this too but it feels kinda unlikely
Maybe it's a category of a tongue twister, but I haven't seen any yet
Looking up medical terms for tongue rolling and tongue tie hasn't helped either
Equally, torture devices
Man, the CCCC must be responsible for a lot of dodgy-looking search histories...
Aha, it could be Barbaras Rhabarberbar, with brasherarab* = ashrabarber* hiding in 3 "bars" (lines)! @TakingNotes
Good thing I went with my gut and checked that article out just in case...
Ha, so bar-bar-bar was part of it! German language, no wonder it didn't come to mind or show up on Google for me...
nice find
(Its viral appearance last year passed me by...)
11:39
@msh210 thanks
I had no idea I was going to stumble upon the answer
Woah
Impressive find
11:55
@oAlt I read that and I asked myself have I seen this in that German song on youtube shorts? Turns out it was close.
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@Ankoganit thx
@Stevo Screw this ill just print out a photo and stick it on my cardboard
12:13
@oAlt that's right!
12:34
CCCC: Greek character trope ultimately associated with outsiders in Trikala (3)
That puzzle title was a low hanging fruit
@oAlt ETA (Greek character) = _E + T_A
@Stiv that's right!
Still Googled Trikala though before realising the wordplay...
Feeling slow today!
CCCC: Jet back from vacation; exit with gold plated treat! (5,6,6)
13:14
@Stiv black fo< rest gate au (a treat which is plated)
13:35
@juicifer That's it :)
13:52
CCCC: It's used to make brass instruments' notes clearer for beginners appearing with jazz finale (4)
@juicifer _Z + I_ N_ C_
(It's used to make brass)
@Stiv precisely
I wonder how easy it is to pull off a COPPER/ZINC Schrodinger for 'It's used to make brass'...?
CCCC: Nap gets OP through chronic illness and headache (8)
this isn't the answer, but I'm definitely gonna start referring to chronic illness and headache as "lajoopie"
14:26
migraine's 8 letters, and has I (OP) in it, but that's it
 
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15:31
> chronic: (of an illness) persisting for a long time or constantly recurring.
Anyone wanting to bet that chronic is a regular letter selection indicator?
 
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Q: It’s the transition that matters

The Empty String PhotographerCole gave a message to Atis. "It’s just a very long number!" Atis exclaimed, "The number here to be specific!" Cole whispers Atis something, but all she caught was something about numeric operations, primes and transitions. Can you help Atis work out the message? Here is the number in full: $$14...

 
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19:32
@oAlt Apoplexy is a headache (sorta) and has OP in it, but that, too, is it, I think.
19:52
something else that's 8 letters long and is a headache is THISCLUE
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Q: Im the darkness

user93063I am invisible, yet I make things clear, I can be shallow or deep, bringing distant things near. In silence, I speak, and in stillness, I show, reflecting both light and the darkness below. Without me, you stumble, yet too much and you’re blind, always ahead, but often behind. What am I?

20:46
@msh210 All moderators are moderators on chat.SE, so I have diamonds here and chat.SO, but not chat.MSE
Only ChrisF has diamonds on all three :-p
@msh210 the elusive triple-definition clue? :-p
@RyanM There have been triple, quadruple, and even quintuple-def CCCCs before
amazing, love it
That's a new one for me, but apparently a standard-ish thing in cryptics
Nov 14, 2017 at 5:26, by Ankoganit
@Deusovi septuple-def for CAST
21:37
Some of those seem like a stretch... a "plaster" is a bandage, not a cast (I think? I'm not British), and I'm not sure how "cast" can mean totaled/summed
 
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22:41
plaster n. (4): "A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; a plaster cast."
not sure about the second one
TBH, I'm a bit hesitant to take Wiktionary at its word
There's no citation, and I've checked multiple dictionaries (Merriam Webster, Oxford Languages - via Google Search, and dictionary.com), and none support that as an actual definition
23:23
britannica, cambridge, collins seem to have it
but yeah not a word i use either... to me a plaster is a band-aid and a cast is a cast
still can't see the totalled definition in any of those
23:57
@Jafe you want to check "plaster", not "cast" - but good additional sources nonetheless, as Britannica does have it, Cambridge does not, and Collins does, via reference to "in plaster"
So it sounds like it is indeed a legitimate definition, generally in British English in the context of "in plaster"

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