Puzzles Etc.

Result of my experiment in the Sandbox is "My original message was lost after few quotings"

No guesses on the M. Night Shyamalan(sp?) one, yet.

何？

Hello again

7:07 PM

@Khale_Kitha There was an edit. He added 'rapid' to the second line.

hi

Hi @manshu

oh, he did

@You chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1/sandbox

Well. That gives it away.

7:08 PM

So don't even try.

And the Cricket Kit one had the ANAGRAM tag added by OP.

one thing I miss about being college- or immediately-post-college-aged is knowing a bunch of people with access to institutional-licensed software

Hahaha, @manshu

ROFL, Chris. Because that helps...

@HughMeyers I hope you get your present some day

before your next birthday, at least

7:09 PM

I know!

Please don't. Otherwise I'll start "hmm"ing you

@manshu If you remove the @You part... MUAHAHAHA!!!

hm

So, free hint. Pay attention to what she says about herself.

Anagraming the names doesn't seem to be useful, though (pardon one of the anagrams)

Gina Tess
Giantess
Seatings
A Signets
Ass Get In

Ron Ghints
Sting Horn
Rig Nth Son
Nigh Snort
Things Nor
Throng Sin

7:10 PM

NOTE: This hint is especially for this room

Or: WRONG HINTS

ASS GET IN

I really hope that one doesn't help with the puzzle...

get in the stable?

Ty, manshu.

7:11 PM

@HughMeyers Besides "I'm a numbers girl"?

@question_asker Which means the Kit belongs to Sir Mixalot!

Yeah, that's the only thing I remember her saying about herself.

Her father's name is numbers

That and one other thing.

or maybe mother's name

7:12 PM

and super smart

send me the link please

She hasn't had enough begging yet

She calls herself a super smart numbers girl

It's a SSN!! (kidding)

I know that what Hugh means is the "super smart" thing

but I prefer to think that the answer just requires Hugh to beg her more

q_a..are you that girl?

7:13 PM

I'll never tell

It was in the original part

fluttering eyelashes emoji

the only other thing she says is that she's worth it.

That's me.

@question_asker I remember you saying something like this in this room

7:14 PM

She's going to make you work for it

aha!

Notebook, Clueless, and Twilight all have 8 letters.

And she's "half serious"

she's exploiting your labor for your own gift!

I think it's time you rose up and seized the means of production, Hugh

Hugh, DO IT! :)

Put the right two together and you're done.

7:16 PM

She keeps talking about begging, too

I wish I knew who Hugh was responding to... lol

@Khale_Kitha Yeah, same.

maybe hugh is a dog

smh

maybe hugh is the smartest dog on the internet

Who is the richest beggar on this earth?

7:17 PM

@question_asker I want to star that, but I can't.

guys... there are so many angles to check here

yeah

the dog angle, the proletarian revolt angle, the dog angle...

sigh..

the strips angle

7:18 PM

yes yes this is all gold

Mmmm... Strips...

Mmmm dogs.

@HughMeyers In Asia, we eat dogs.

OMG...Hugh just ate some dogs

Some parts.

I ate a human once. :)

7:20 PM

maybe she's only half serious about hugh having three tries. maybe he only had two, and he's used both of them up already

and now he is screwed. :(

sorry for coming up with so many good ideas everybody

it's my curse :(

Dun dun dun...

the half serious numbers girl

Nhoh sihk jo gau

7:21 PM

Too many languages.

I can speak a little Cantonese but I have no idea how to write it.

6 mins ago, by Hugh Meyers

Put the right two together and you're done.

Who was this directed at, Hugh?

おねがします。

Us, I assumed

No idea

7:23 PM

That's what it seems like.

We should @HughMeyers to wake him up.

send me the link to the puzzle please

28

Q: My Puzzling Girlfriend

So it's my birthday yesterday and my girlfriend comes over. We're kidding around and I asked her if she'd gotten me something good. She said: "Oh, yeah! Big time!" Well, of course I wanted to know what it was. She went over to my computer, typed in a url and saved it to my favorites. "I'm goi...

the only things she says she is in the original incarnation of the puzzle are "half serious" and "a numbers girl"

She said "I was wrong"

7:25 PM

oh sorry, she also says she [is] "going to make you work for it"

And she talks about being "worth it"

@manshu not until the update

So no idea what "right two" meant to mean

Sort of narrows it down, doesn't it?

Not in the slightest, sry.

7:26 PM

HM said the thing he was referring to was in the original puzzle, before the update

the two I mentioned seem the most likely, because I think the "make you work" and "worth it" ones are tenuous at best

also... they seem less like clues than the other two

Yeah, I agree, I just don't see how half of the number is helpful to us.

more like flavortext

any more than the entire number

Both are gibberish to me

she also says SCRUB on the piece of paper

followed by a sentence with a bunch of cleaning-related words

Scrubs are delicious.

7:28 PM

yeah

but not the word "wash"

I mean, I'm sure there are infinity other cleaning-related words she didn't say, but... I dunno, it stuck out to me that she was trying to hint at something by saying those particular words but not others

errr...we have special room for this puzzle :p

And "You have a super smart girlfriend. As long as you don't mess that up you'll be fine"

Meh

Maybe the password is a beg?

Just a random thought.

but prostrate is 9 letters :P

7:30 PM

so a lot of people are making guesses that I feel like can't be right

because they feel way too arbitrary

Yeah

hugh's puzzles, however hard, rarely if ever feel arbitrary in either their solution or manner of solving

Thanks

No, I know, for certain, that every one of these arbitrary answers can't be it, because it's a HM puzzle.

I've not even entertained them.

right, exactly

I know before he weighs in on them

haha

7:32 PM

yeah

meanwhile there is a blushing Hugh

You mean a blushing hue?

if past experience is to be trusted, the correct solution will seem blindingly obvious when we see it.

Oh, of course - that's what's annoying

He's already intimated, in the comments, that it's something easy.

Easy puzzles that are hard to figure out are really annoying. Why do people write these types of puzzles?

.......Oh wait.

hahaha

7:34 PM

my vote tank is empty too

have we verified that hugh's girlfriend doesn't work for TFC or FIB?

ROFL!!

I was considering the next hint on the email puzzle to come from a female agent. What's your GF's name, @HughMeyers?

Ada

Though, I admit, I haven't thought of a second hint. The one I did, today, I've been holding on to for 4 days.

Kk

Hugh's girlfriend's name is palindromic and a programming language

7:36 PM

LOVELACE See if that can fit somehow.

the nerds here are going crazy

lol

The thing that people overlook in storyline puzzles...

Is that when a character makes an assumption That doesn't make it right!!

yes

speaking of assumptions (but not character assumptions)

It doesn't technically say anywhere in the puzzle that the password is all numbers

No, I've been assuming it's a word

But I suppose it could be numbers.

the closest it comes is when hugh says "how many digits" and his girlfriend says 'eight' without correcting him

7:38 PM

huh

but everybody is guessing numbers

Maybe the answer is the name of a company which makes scrubber kinds of stuff. -_-

Everybody guessed numbers on the HeLiCoPtEr puzzle, too...

and EVERYBODY (yeah) is rocking their body (yeah)

etc is back alright

7:39 PM

The thing I'm unsure of is to if Hugh's answers to comments are any clues.

@question_asker YEAH!

I know some are completely arbitrary - credit card, etc.

they almost always are

dummy is a word there

And the "Hugh" character is a musician

7:41 PM

Hughsician

q_a i can see your urge to go into etc part of this room

"Also, I think I was supposed to have at least some chance of getting it before the eight digits hint."

ffao

@Khale_Kitha I guess that Mathematica code takes the last 2 bits of some pixels and converts them to ascii

Wouldn't know which, I don't own mathematica either

Yeah, I assuming it's trying to affect the RGB, but I can't tell, for sure, which method.

Ah, okay - I wasn't sure if you did or not - ty, anyways.

That indicates to me that eight shouldn't be employed in solving it

7:43 PM

That's why the Mathematica answers are annoying - most people cannot test them.

True, q_a

(ノÒ益Ó)ノ彡▔▔▏

I can't do this now.

oh geez.

I just...@HughMeyers...

did you figure it out, KK?

I figured out some clues...

( つ•̀ω•́)つɐ what?

7:47 PM

One sec - if I don't put this together quickly

I get the feeling you might have figured out how to get a step or two past something I've been struggling with

I'm not sure - I'm up in the air, but I haven't hit ground, yet..

let me move my google tab over next to this one, so I can switch easier..

You could just do it without telling us...duh

Okay...

Yeah, I just can't get anywhere with it

I'm on the edge of my seat, on tenterhooks, with bated breath

7:50 PM

Somehow, I don't....

with popcorns

lol

Hugh just posted this in the other room.

Babe and dummy, yeah. Bad boy was a first.

Ada kids around a lot.

ADA again.

Ada...haye haye ada..hosh udaye ada...karde deewana

maybe her name isn't Ada... maybe she's the assistant district attorney, Jack McCoy!

7:54 PM

BEN STONE has 8 letters!

1. There's a song called "When Numbers get Serious", bu Paul Simon that I'm looking into.
2. There's a commercial/song called ["Six Is A Serious Number"](http://ontherunstl.com/six) that reflects when The Cardinals get 6 or more runs, in a game. Many places put things on [discount](http://www.wallisco.com/subpages/cardinals/), when this occurs. Wallis Oil Company has actually trademarked this phrase.

hahahaha

Stupid non-links

It's just that if that info helps, I can't see it going anywhere.

List of women in mathematics

This is a list of women who have made noteworthy contributions to or achievements in mathematics. These include mathematical research, mathematics education, the history and philosophy of mathematics, public outreach, and mathematics contests. == A == Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876–1964), Russian–Dutch researcher in statistical mechanics, randomness, and geometry education Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799), Italian mathematician and philosopher, possibly the first female mathematics professor Dorit Aharonov (1970), Israeli specialist in quantum computing Grace Alele-Williams (1932– ), first woman to...

Maybe this?

anyway

I'll be back on in a while. I'm looking forward to seeing progress on this puzzle.

7:57 PM

I'm at a wall, personally, I think

which you probably won't find :p

I'm sticking with ADA LOVELACE as a key hint.