Puzzles Etc.

i thought it was r2??r

10:39 PM

middle finger

LeppyR64

definitely r2??r

gotta go feed kids

INPUT SYMBOL FOR NUMBERS -- SIGNWRITING HAND-FIST INDEX MIDDLE

index and middle fingers make the sign language for 2

oh reading wrong my bad

index AND middle

not middle "digit" :p

ok so r2??r

hand-cicle must be O

no, D

10:42 PM

:o

unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D800.pdf

look at it here

1D801

got nothing in there

just under the top left square

and that's the symbol for D

I dont see any image in there

scroll down

second page

10:43 PM

just boxes with the codes in

nothing else?

@Deusovi you can actually see the symbols in that pdf? mine just shows blanks

nope

yeah

like totally redundant :p

10:43 PM

wow

yeah I see none of that just the numbers at the bottom :p

no wonder I couldn't do anything

I was just going by their unicode names

@f'' so it is "o"?

no, deusovi is right

10:45 PM

ok

guess you know sign language then :p

there's the full screenshot if you need it

Does "Ill Omens" mean "bad signs"?

(at least, of the second page, which is all that matters)

same for @LeppyR64's post cant see any images... maybe need to add something onto Firefox for it

i.e. the sign language isn't very good?

10:46 PM

or it could refer to the bad encoding

so... r2?dr

I had to reupload the image it links to because the first time, I got an address with a J

the middle one's a U

and I couldn't figure out how to write the J movement

heh

we're still not sure about the fill modifier though

Jonathan, any ideas?

10:48 PM

no clue

I dont know what a fill modifier is :)

look at leppy's link

presumably it modifies the previous characters

ooh

fill means that you're facing the back

but... a backwards U is still a U

and a backwards U symbol isn't really anything, is it?

there's more than one way to fill

(look at the last page of the unicode pdf)

...is it something you can see but we can't?

yeah fill modifier 5 whatever that is

10:51 PM

I googled it but zilch

that's all i see

no, just pointing out that there's fill modifiers 2 through 6

it's like it's completely undocumented

well, that should be enough to let you know that it's in a different orientation than U

10:53 PM

H!

so what was it?

it was H

sideways U

um h is a sideways u?

:/

ooooooo K

um

riiight and that needs a modifier?

10:55 PM

because it's sideways

otherwise it would be U

why not just sign h?

don't know if there IS one

it's on the image

we have "lower latin..."

then maybe f'' didn't see it

annnny way

maybe just part of the puzzle?

10:56 PM

I'm pretty sure that's the right way to write H

I don't really get it, don't worry :)

fill means different orientation

(the lower and upper latin things are because there's no way as far as I can tell to sign capital or lowercase letters)

the symbol for U turned sideways is the symbol for H

(yeah, there isn't)

plus no sleep

10:57 PM

(and also lets you know you're on the right track when you convert the characters)

as I said don't worry - to me a fill is a thing a drummer does :p

it's the literal meaning of fill

it is?

like, turn an empty box into a colored box

:/

10:59 PM

it's a "modifier character" - unicode uses them to change colors of things

like, you can change the skin color of some emoji using them

now that makes sense

like a paint fill

it's not always color, but color is the most common

yeah

👦+🏾=👦🏾

not displaying

displaying, but no change

11:00 PM

same numbers in replacement boxes

i think Accolades is referring to SE badges

oh I see - + to seperate then show same chrs together should show what it does

yeah that is a fill - but turning something isn't a fill (a modifier yes)

but does not matter :)

in Sutton Sign Language, fills are used to indicate turns

so an empty hand is facing towards you, a filled hand is facing away from you

11:02 PM

and closing eyes and stuff from what I read

Long one is Research Assistant

damn, just got that one :/

LeppyR64

Bronze is Revival. Just got it last week :)

Populist for gold?

Yeah, that's gotta be it

I'll work on editing the CW answer, you guys put them together for the key

11:07 PM

ARAPANOVECV?

yep, looks good to me

except there's a -6

which may be Caesar ciphering?

yeah ARAPANOVECV too

6 is also N

now we just need the blue key

red key had a minus too right?

sorry colours

^^

red key had -6

11:09 PM

the other one you solved

green didn't have any modifiers

blue has +5

ah plus

ok

(blue is the unsolved one: i.stack.imgur.com/14k9p.png)

yeah no clue still

22 letters 21 letters just coincidence

i was so disappointed that these weren't cryptics :/

11:11 PM

late to the game... what's left unsolved?

Alconja!

this one and the meta-ish thing

and it's not cryptic

hihi

meta-ish thing: i.stack.imgur.com/4w9g8.png

Right part looks like an anagram of "Too Much Spaghetti Turns"

ok so obviously blue key first

11:12 PM

not cryptic, f'' said

yeah, we got the other two keys already

and its not using the letters reversed on left (even though 22 letters) or the begining of the right (even though 21 letters)

and if push comes to shove the final room has a plastic bag in the draw to relieve us of our tortured existence

...so much for sleep :D

...also 22 is multiple words I think (due to a comment earlier)

4 hours ago, by f''

also I didn't separate the words for those letter counts

So both the green and red keys were kind of meta-PSE puzzles, does this imply the blue one is too?

wouldn't rule it out

ooh

green = other puzzles, red = badges, blue = users?

11:18 PM

the spaghetti thing could be security to the party

or tags?

SECURITYTOTHEPARTY is only 18 letters though

THESECURITYTOTHEPARTY

remember that craze?

there were at least 30 of them

so the right side is definitely "the security to the party"

now what about the left...

oh is that the famous recipe?

i've missed something... why is that obvious?

the "security to the party" puzzles would be closed immediately now

they were a series of 30-ish puzzles made by various users that all had the same format

11:21 PM

elitist puzzles :D

so why spaghetti?

you were trying to sneak into a party. you watch one person go up to the door, the guards say a number, they respond with a different number and get in. you watch another person go up to the door, the guards say a number, they respond with a different number and get in. this repeats a couple times

anagram?

yes I saw one

then your friend goes up and says the wrong number, thinking he has the pattern, and gets killed (usually by elephants for some reason)

the spaghetti was part of the story common to all of them

ok

so what puzzles involved an executioner?

no idea

oh!

reverse hangman

Q: The Survivors of Dictionaria

11:23 PM

to rated:

12

STORY: The land of Dictionaria was once a utopia where all words lived together in perfect harmony. Words respected each other and the big words always found a place among their smaller compatriots. The words worked together to weave letters into poetry and literature. But just as every cheery...

riddle english language letters

18

Q: The hangman game backward

So, @JLee has posted a hangman game (Hangman- No misses left) on SE. I would like to create one too, but let's do it backward - guess what was the question, with only 1 letter missing: fill in an "a" - you wish you have it for your lovely home fill in an "e" - I will have some water and I am fi...

and it has 22 letters!

ok :)

bingo

ECNCGGM...

...ESRO

ECNCGGMESRO+5 is the blue key

recheck the second letter

h

11:26 PM

w

ahwm surely?

it should be W unless I made a mistake

Yes, it is W

oh well i can't count

19th letter

11:27 PM

4th letter of thehangman....

(i was doing 17th)

you mean the third letter?

16 4 19 13 -> 3rd is 19

or am I that tired?

other side

you should get some sleep

;p

oh haha wrong sides i see face palm

last one!

11:29 PM

oh gawd

PB

yeah, that never stops being funny

put all the pieces except 4 that are identical into the PB

i don't think there are four identical pieces?

oh wait, there are

yeah there are loads of sets of four

top right thing

11:30 PM

four half square rectangles of each colour

for example

oh, i was interpreting them as square pieces with lines on them

only one of each circle number though

shrug

you should probably figure out where the keys go...

yeah, probably

I was guessing we could somehow shuffle all the smaller pieces around to end up with some leftovers?

11:32 PM

all the keys have 11 letters

and +5 / -6

maybe there's a way to dissect the grid into four pieces of the same size (and shape?) so each piece has one of each type?

no, there are only two red blanks and only one green blank

15 green squares, 21 red squares, 11, 11, 11, +5 -6. hmm

yeah that's what I thought :)

the keys don't interact with the grid

yes some pieces left over - keys must go into the arrangement somehow

oh

11:34 PM

or not

"APLASTICBAG" has 11 letters

nothing interesting on the locked door red/green striped wall

hm, i thought vignering APLASTICBAG with the keys would do something

so, we've actually got 6 keys (the ones we solved and the matching ones)

still not quite sure about the +5 and -6

could be Caesar ciphers, could be something else

oh yes "marked squares" not "tiled squares"

11:39 PM

but I don't see why we'd need to Caesar cipher one meaningless string of letters to get another meaningless string of letters

if you don't know what the modifiers do, try using the key without one first

and remember, it's a key

deciphering "aplasticbag" with key "arapanovecv" gives "ayllsguhxyl"

so... probably not

into "FOUREQUALPARTS" maybe

the keys can't be divided into four equal parts

no the plaintext :)

11:41 PM

@Deusovi you're on the right track, but that key is missing the modifier

cipher text even

ok with APLASTICBAG but with the unmodified key?

that's what I just did

oh

and with the unmodified blue key for example?

oh, my other message was misinterpreted

tried cutting off the last six letters, tried Caesaring by 6...

hm?

11:43 PM

I meant out of the three keys, one doesn't have a modifier

you using dcode?

yeah that's what he did

TAKEASFLAGS

green gives that

promising

ok

Caesaring by 6 gives GERRYMANDER for red key

re " I don't see why we'd need to Caesar cipher one meaningless string of letters": I couldn't get the right letters for the key without doing that

11:45 PM

and for blue, ROT THIRTEEN

first we need to divide it up into 4 equal parts somehow

we gerrymander it :p

equal how though - we must at least ignore the numbers

maybe the numbers just tell us that those squares will occupy four separate districts

and then read something off the result as though they are flags - i.e. semaphore

yeah

maybe reading as flags first will somehow help?

yeah the markings on each square can be read as semaphore

11:51 PM

wait...

like the bottom left most square is D or 4

we'll need to read them off differently depending on which group they belong to

ie read 1 normally, 2 sideways, 3 upside down, 4 other sideways

then to it's right is X

yeah I know flag semaphore

yeah I am reading bottom row of "1"

11:52 PM

the lights apparently lit up red though

we need to find the correct division

for 2 we must rotate

(at least no numbers are mirrored too)

we need to find the division though

lets translate it in your ss

no

we'll need to read them in different directions

whch I closed :/

11:53 PM

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/…

yes

we need to gerrymander in green's favor!

indeed

currently red is winning all the sections, hence the red lights

don't translate yet - the direction you have to look at them from depends on which group they're in

yes I rotated to have "4" the right way up

11:56 PM

yeah but you don't know that that one's in 4

we don't have the groups yet

otherwise it would have been D

we don't have the groups yet. you don't know that that one's in 4

it could be in 3, 2, or 1

eh?

dont we want to write out current config?

no, we need to gerrymander first

then gerrymander

11:58 PM

because how we gerrymander changes which direction you look at the letters from

well then we need 3 1/4 green in each