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@Avastar Is this possibly mandates (rules) = man dates (the headline of a hypothetical first short newspaper piece about Adam and Eve)?
Oh, it's protocol (rules) = proto- (first) col. (short newspaper piece).
h/t (for both of those possibilities) to wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/rules.html
00:40
@bobble 🎉
 
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02:55
it a fit of procrastination, I have written a . unsure whether I'll post it but I'm pretty sure it checks out
^ man date
:p
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Q: Eight circles in a star

DanThe diagram shows a regular pentagram. Circles of the same color are congruent. Wherever things look tangent, they are tangent. Are the red and green circles congruent?

03:53
upon further consideration, the surface for one of these clues is trash
this is why you never post first drafts, folks
04:31
@GarethMcCaughan, please tag the burnination request with [status-completed]
@bobble if you like, I can post a list of un-merged synonyms
Before I go after , I'll burn a few smaller tags, like , pursuant to established guidance (e.g. puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6666/…)
04:54
what's the issue with the riddle tag
it won't be burned completely, don't worry
it just had a bunch of questions which use it to mean "puzzle", so I'll be editing it off
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Q: What is the riddle tag for?

TheRubberDuckWhen I think of a riddle, I think of the questions between Gollum and Bilbo in The Hobbit, or the classic riddle of The Sphynx. With that in mind, I might define a riddle as "A description or set of clues that indicate a single noun." This meta question has a slightly different definition, maybe ...

@bobble yeah i expected someone would eventually post the actual man as in the person :p
05:16
Glad to be of service
 
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07:01
@msh210 Well, I did mean protocol, so you got it, but I didn't realise the cluing was ambiguous, apologies
07:15
hehe i do like the idea of "man dates" as a sensational news headline similar to "man walks on moon" or something
07:39
@Avastar nah, it wasn't. "Man dates" was a poor solution.
08:35
CCCC: Old lady and solver hiding inside, not shifting (8)
 
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11:54
I wonder whether this involves a letter subtraction (something like hiding the inside letters of solver or hiding "in")
 
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A solver is a piece of mathematical software, possibly in the form of a stand-alone computer program or as a software library, that 'solves' a mathematical problem. A solver takes problem descriptions in some sort of generic form and calculates their solution. In a solver, the emphasis is on creating a program or library that can easily be applied to other problems of similar type. == Solver types == Types of problems with existing dedicated solvers include: Linear and non-linear equations. In the case of a single equation, the "solver" is more appropriately called a root-finding algorit...
 
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Q: A game of dominoes

Bernardo Recamán SantosAmbrosia and Janiya are going to play a game of dominoes with all the usual rules, except that they have agreed that at all stages of the game the number of spots on display on the table must be a prime number. What is the longest (i.e. largest number of dominoes played) such a game can last? Wha...

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Q: Puzzle with various shape designs

Loopin Link of the source: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScqzIEZfbZNRr0UGNWhAUMnBhwPakMSAfmrElqr-WldGfs5hw/viewform Visual puzzle with various shapes.

@bobble well done! Tag applied.
16:53
This deserves more attention, really. Here…
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A: Should we burninate [word-problem]?

bobbleThe burnination has been completed, only checks watch just under eight and a half years later. word-problem is no more.

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20:15
Also on meta, is there anything more I can do here? puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7638/69582
20:58
i don't think that user can very easily post pictures
some websites just don't work from mainland china
the captcha thing prolly boils down to that as well

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