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06:39
Ace. Will provide a cryptic clue when I get to my desk - pretty sure I have one written for an old series that I realised I couldn't use when I went to post it...
Aug 16 at 14:31, by Jafe
nice try, we'll call this clue 1
07:20
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Q: When Mo and Bo met Jo, Mo asked, “Are Bo and I both negative?” What can be deduced about Mo and Bo?

Will.Octagon.GibsonBeginner puzzle (suitable for people who are new to puzzle solving). A certain city has two types of people: the ‘positives’, who only ask questions for which the correct answer is “yes” and the ‘negatives’ who only ask questions for which the correct answer is “no”. When Mo and Bo met Jo, Mo as...

This is weird.
It's at 5 downvotes.
With literally no other interaction.
No comments, answers, or anything.
07:51
@Jafe Ha! Honestly - you'll see which series it fitted in but didn't fit in... (But now I'm wondering if there's a sequence I can start with it... AIR OF MYSTERY)
CCCC: Hill is focus of this movie, which is basically about a hill (10)
@1929 "the west is defined as above the tropic of cancer" <- that makes no sense, is that intentional?
(west is to the left in a normal map, not up)
hmm wasn't there just a sequence with all 10-letter answers
@192927376337929292283737373773 Got to be honest, I think -5 is probably overkill right now without people being able to see what the puzzle leads to... I've had a look at the puzzle and I just can't satisfactorily ID most of the places being referred to - I wonder if the clues are just too oblique for people to spot a way in?
@Jafe It's to the left and above the Tropic of Cancer. Although I should probably tweak that somewhat or maybe change that clue entirely.
@Stiv Hmm.
I got Cuba, Illinois and Xinjang, probably already containing a wrong one.
Well that's not entirely a failure.
08:04
I don't understand what "which had the same case" means? As in, is also an island nation?
I'll add some more clues that might help on this or like change the wording a bit.
@LukasRotter I was thinking Illinois, Xinjiang and also possibly Sudan for the wartorn nation
@LukasRotter No it refers to the latter, as in the first letter of the name of the disease.
And now the last letter.
So it overlaps.
Okay well edited.
So it makes somethings clear.
And hopefully makes it easier to get.
@Stiv Actually I should probably clue more on the specific zone.
I'll add that as a third clue.
Added new hint.
This should hopefully narrow things down a lot.
I want it to be hiccough, but can't make it work entirely.
(which of course isnt an actual illness, but it would be funny if the patient said so)
It is an actual illness that I can say.
Also I am not completely guranteening that the final word will not have to be shifted in some way to get a real illness.
But the hard part is getting to the word itself, afterwards it is pretty easy.
08:38
@192927376337929292283737373773 yeah I think that's too much
Also out of curiosity what's the significance of your number? Only the 1929 part is explained by your profile description haha
@Stiv Hill is the focus of Goodfellas, which is "good as" (basically) about "fell" ("a mountain, hill, or tract of upland moor")
Or is it just random
@Stiv nice clue
08:41
Well it sums to 152.
Yeah
You can shift the last two numbers to 25 and that is the date of my birthday.
You were born in January of 1925?
Man, I was so close.
08:44
As in [month] 25th.
Interestingly 152 has 8 factors, and 25*8 = 200.
@192927376337929292283737373773 Ahh
But yeah it's also random.
So is 4.
4 is the number of wheels on a car.
@msh210 yeah.
@192927376337929292283737373773 most cars
The Reliant Robin is a small three-wheeled car produced by the Reliant Motor Company in Tamworth, England. It was offered in several versions (Mk1, Mk2 and Mk3) over a period of 30 years. It is the second-most popular fibreglass car in history after the Chevrolet Corvette, with Reliant being the second-biggest British car manufacturer for a time. == History == === Mk. 1 === The Robin was first manufactured in October 1973 as a direct replacement for the Reliant Regal. These models feature a 750 cc engine, but in 1975, the car gained a number of improvements including an engine boost to...
08:48
4 is also the number of people in a medium-sized family.
That has stopped production.
So I will pull a Scotsman and say I am talking about all currently produced cars.
@msh210 Yes! Over to you. And thanks - I really liked this one and was ready to use it for the 'O' in dOubleletters without twigging the additional double 'L' until the last moment! Hence its rejection and later use only now.
@192927376337929292283737373773 I guess at least it's not one of those numbers that say they're composite but turn out to have only one factor aside from 1 and itself
CCCC: "I love King Richard III's portrayer in the 1995 film adaptation": so rave nuts. It's a mental disorder. (8,7)
@msh210 AN + O + REX + IAN + ERVOSA*
@msh210 an (I, one) 0 (love) Rex (King) Ian (Richard ... adaptation; last name McKellen) sorave* = anorexia nervosa. Got help from Wikipedia
Oh my gosh
09:03
you have the better explanation though :D
I think you must've been within a second of one another.
I think Lukas should go next
I have no clues prepared :p and you got it first anyway
Yeah, these guys are good. (Or my clues are too easy; but I think it's that these guys are good.)
2
(according to the timestamps, 1 second apart)
CCCC: Treated them with a perfected medication (9)
09:07
That would be 3,284 years.
So if the timestamp was in seconds, about 1,270 BC.
Which is an interesting epoch.
@LukasRotter Well the only thing I can say, and which is probably wrong, is that "with" might be the separator here.
@LukasRotter oh apparently meth* + a + done exists as a medication
And "a perfect medication" seems like the definition and "treated them" as wordplay.
@oAlt correct!
Well you got it anyways.
CCCC: Try photographed serving of alcohol (4)
09:19
A shot is a serving of alcohol and means photographed
@LukasRotter And also?
and halso have a shot, so triple def?
yep!
@msh210 Shouldn't this be "puzzle being hard"?
I don't see any reason for the "puzzle's" there unless you mean "puzzle is being hard".
09:25
the being-hard of the puzzle
But grammatically "of course 'puzzle is being hard' is not a reason to downvote" might make more sense.
@msh210 I see.
CCCC: Key soldiers at home on purpose, avoiding unit, for fun (13)
Either way is acceptable: with or without the possessive 's. I think with the 's is more traditional.
Making sure the current C4 is always on the starboard.
as opposed to port side
@192927376337929292283737373773 We usually pin it (privileged users with an italicized name can do that) so it's at the top of the starboard as long as it remains unsolved.
But I won't complain about an extra star :P
Ah
Alright.
Privileged users means ROs and/or mods?
yeah
@LukasRotter enter + TA + in + me(-a)nt
@Jafe yep!
CCCC: Rubbish singer from Australia, a real stinker! (9)
10:02
@LukasRotter I'll confirm Illinois from here.
1818 as in repetitive since it repeats 18.
(1818 is it's year of admission.)
And this is the only state that has that case.
So odd from there.
10:52
@Jafe This sounds double def.
@Jafe is this TRASHFIRE; a rubbish singer (thing that singes) and also an Australian term for something poorly done? i can't find any online sources that support it being one word and not two, but it's the only term i can find that matches both the defs and the enumeration
@TakingNotes not the intended answer, i'm afraid
thought as much
 
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12:56
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Q: problem about pigehole principle

footballer_mathDuring a lecture, each of 26 mathematicians falls asleep exactly once, and stays asleep for a nonzero amount of time. Each mathematician is awake at the moment the lecture starts, and the moment the lecture finishes. Prove that there are either 6 mathematicians such that no two are asleep at the ...

@Jafe apparently RAFFLE can mean rubbish, and the singer from australia is (as usual) SIA, so this is RAFFLESIA, a flower that emits the smell of rotting flesh
correct!
sia just is a more useful string of letters for wordplay than "kylie minogue"
CCCC: Flower that reportedly contains "rubbish smell" - primarily one in Germany (5)
hehe this is S+eine, a flow-er that reportedly contains rubbish
yep!
13:10
nice continuation
thanks :)
CCCC: Looking back, a line overlooked by grandmaster Firouzja, a native of northern Iran? (5)
@Jafe AZERI (a native of northern Iran) = ALIREZA (grandmaster Firouzja) - A L (a line), all reversed (looking back)
that's right
this was the last one, ever
chill, it's been like six seconds
NINE MINUTES.
Not six seconds.
same thing
No it is not.
9 minutes has 540 seconds.
9,000x more!
It's been TEN MINUTES NOW!
13:26
take a walk or something
or maybe take a look at this channel's archive and see how many other c4's have taken longer than six hundred seconds to post
you'll be astonished by what you find
I'll bet mine have the longest average delay...
somebody else can make that spreadsheet
resist... resist...
@Stiv you'll have to first find all the acknowledgements-as-correct
have fun
13:47
CCCC: Ken works, as this babe aches at heart (5)
_be ach_, ken's job in the barbie movie!
lmao I just got there too
He… works as a beach??
goes to check Wikipedia
Ah, thanks.
14:26
@Jafe you got it!
CCCC: Of course I'm going to pay this back, I love you! (3, abbr.)
@Jafe IOU ("Of course I'm going to pay this back") = I + O (love, in tennis) + U (you, in texting)
yup yup
CCCC: Creepy crawly is atop huskless pasties (7)
14:48
@TakingNotes BEASTIE = BE (is) + _ASTIE_
15:44
CCCC: Family: Girlfriend, me, son, 'that woman', and bird (10)
@Stiv kin gf I s her
@Stiv kin GF I s her. GF was my break-in point
Oh come on HAHAHAH
lmaooo
Ha, here we go again!
Anyway, you're both wrong
jk jk
15:49
Correct of course
16:02
CCCC: A route (a "motorway" in the UK) is something that can take you to a very faraway place? (7)
16:30
@juicifer A+RTE+M1+'S=ARTEMIS
(M1 being this, of course)
16:45
@Ankoganit spot on
CCCC: Rent perhaps is going up in India — one hundred thousand and one, total (7)
@Ankoganit MUSICAL (Rent, perhaps) = LAC I SUM<
@juicifer yep!
17:02
CCCC: 11-minute song on incomplete record, with backmasked sort of "code" hidden within line (11)
17:14
I don’t know songs 😮‍💨
17:47
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Q: An 18-Letter Challenge: three 6-letter words, with limitations

Frisky DingoPlease use the following 22 letters to make three 6-letter words (it's the alphabet w/o H, M, Q, and S): ABCDEFGIJKLNOPRTUVWXYZ Here are the limitations: Use YAWL for wordlist: https://github.com/elasticdog/yawl/archive/master.zip Each letter can be used only once. Maximum of 5 vowels between ...

18:32
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Q: An 18-Letter Challenge-B: three 6-letter words, with limitations

Frisky DingoUsing the YAWL wordlist https://github.com/elasticdog/yawl/archive/master.zip: Locate three 6-letter words comprised of 18 unique letters, Using C and V, Not using KRANTZ / PLONGD / PRANCK, Using a maximum of 3 vowels total. (I tried to make this work with CRWTHS, but couldn't find a single oth...

 
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21:09
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Q: Connections vertically and horizontally

Tyler Seacrest quarter blow kill bill two punched through decree pound sent law executed passed draw too cuff cent The goal is to rearrange the sixteen words above so that the four words in each row, AND the four words in each column, have some sort of connection. Here is a barebones interac...


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