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04:09
has no one else edited other users' posts in the whole week?
 
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05:21
Either questions or answers? I have
I corrected typos specifically, though
 
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12:43
I assume TakingNotes hasn't forgotten, but either way it's fine, no need to rush
13:12
nice of you to assume i hadn't forgotten but i also 100% had forgotten
CCCC: Website originally printed en masse that has come and dick, mistakenly... (3.6.3)
authors note: i do not endorse the subject matter of this clue and you should not interact with the subject matter of this clue beyond laughing at the news reports on it
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13:37
@TakingNotes Loll
Surely this must end in .com...
13:54
I'm running out of options to search because I don't want to put these options in my search bar
Oho I think I know what this is
I'm missing only the first three letters
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Q: What is the name of the lady with the white blouse?

kaksiThree ladies meet: Mrs. Red, Mrs. White, and Mrs. Green. One of the ladies notices, "Strange, one of us is wearing a red blouse, another is wearing a white one, and the third is wearing a green one." "That's really amazing," says the lady with the red blouse, "because none of us is wearing the bl...

@TakingNotes Yeah I know this one. I guess this is an &lit for (please DO NOT visit the website because it is pørnographic) www[.]wicked[.]com, built by printing w(ebsite) en masse then adding comedick*
And it got printed on toys for the movie which also happens to be named Wicked, which is why it's a major blunder
yeah that's it
again DO NOT visit the website
14:14
CCCC: Record breaking for Swiss supercomputer (4)
 
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15:22
LP breaking as = ALPS, a swiss supercomputer
@Jafe correct!
CCCC: The Beginning is third production handled by Bay (8)
i could fiddle with the wording for another minute but who has that kinda time
@Jafe B(third*)ay = birthday (the beginning). I like that
yup!
for the record it was his third handled as producer... if you count films directed the number goes up
15:41
CCCC: Lake in the middle of the month does nothing (5)
id(L.)es
@Jafe yes indeed
CCCC: Lake in the middle of month: Unproductive (4)
@Jafe Is this Lake Thun hidden word
yup!
15:50
related to Alps, too :)
full circle!
CCCC: A Belgian leader acted wrongly; one bound to give up the throne (8)
a+B_+d(I)cate*
@Jafe yep
16:09
CCCC: A Belgian who acts wrongly, a lame emu, and JD Vance (4-6,3,5)
@Jafe Jean-Claude Van Damme, (a lame ... Vance) anagram
yep
funny how you included JD Vance in the surface
hehe yeah that was a pretty fortunate find
actually wrote "acted" before checking... holy cow the guy is still churning out action films at 64
Haha
Also TIL that's not even his real name fully, and Van Damme isn't even his birth surname
CCCC: South Korean money sent back for water? (4)
16:22
S+now<
@Jafe right on
i was going to bed but guess one more won't hurt heeh
Lol
CCCC: Snow White actor Michael has company over (7)
well I've seen the answer but I'll have to sleep too...
anyone else is free to get it
16:35
i'm off to bed as well, md5 of the answer all-lowercase is 627b30a713d41bcf4a7bb4765c90bd9e
17:00
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Q: Enigmatic Puzzle: Locks in Clocks

Stephen SHere's a new enigmatic puzzle that I've been working on. I had someone play test it last week and it required some revisions, but I think it's all set now. If for some reason it still doesn't quite work out, I apologize in advance. Clock Picking How long must I wait between the clicks just to get...

 
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18:26
@Jafe c(oc<)aine
@oAlt is pørnography pornography that includes Norwegians?
c4 hash checks out, so I'll move things along
CCCC: Mistaken belief led to this? (9)
@Jafe nice
18:40
@juicifer Bielefeld* &lit (definition part is because it doesn't actually exist… not sure why the question mark is there)
@msh210 I guess I was just being a little too careful. in hindsight it definitely didn't need one
(but yeah that's right)
CCCC: North Carolina may have these in play pens (6)
Interview with the person who makes the NYT Connections puzzles: theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/11/…
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21:15
@mods: has this question ever been flagged for ?
@other users: is there still support for it? I could post a separate which would be broader to cover what Stiv asked for in their answer
@bobble So far as I can tell, nothing much ever happened with that question. I think requesting an exemption from the usual punctuation-checking (simplest might be just to ask for it to be turned off completely, which might work fine for Puzzling, or we could ask for exactly what Stiv suggested or something) would be a fine idea.
Got it. I will write up a feature-request soonish, unless someone else (@Stiv?) wants to do it
I was actually about to, but if you or Stiv would prefer to do it then I'm happy not to tread on your toes.
(I don't know whether FRs are more favourably received when posted by mods of the sites to be affected, but I can imagine they might be.)
NYT's Connections still makes me so angry, and not for the reasons spelled out in the article. I refuse to believe it was 'just pitched in a meeting' in which NONE of the members present had ever heard of the BBC's Only Connect... Plus I find at least one category every day highly unsatisfying and wishy-washy in its definition... YET STILL I continue to play it. Why do I do this to myself?!
@GarethMcCaughan Happy for you to do it. I'll sit on it far too long...
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Q: Could Puzzling be exempted from some punctuation rules?

Gareth McCaughanQuestion titles automatically have certain rules imposed on them, whose goal is to fix some common grammatical and stylistic solecisms. (It looks bad to end a sentence with several exclamation marks!!!, etc.) However, some of these are a poor fit for the Puzzling site, because most of its questio...

Thanks Gareth. Very thorough and efficient. Hope it goes somewhere!
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Q: Catching a Cat on an Infinite N-Dimensional Space

NGGYU NGLYDYou have just entered a very large room in $n$-dimensional space ($n \ge 2$). They are labeled $(1, 1, 1, ..., 1)$, $(2, 1, 1, ..., 1)$ and so on, with an infinite number of rooms in each dimension. In one of these boxes $(a_1, a_2, a_3, ..., a_n)$, a cat is hiding. but you do not know which one...


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