Puzzles Etc.

humn

6:01 PM

The puzzle lists questions that were posted. any speculations on whether any answers were posted?

or is it a straight-out dialogue, told as an SE story?

Gordon Allocman

The disclaimer is that it is all just make believe so probably not real questions

humn

right, but in the world of make-believe, were there other SE-related parts not told in the story? just wondering

manshu

Destiny Feat. Apache - Jump it On

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I think totally unrelevent

humn

nice find, manshu, even in a non-English language like the questions in question in the question

manshu

I haven't looked at it yet :p

Gordon Allocman

6:07 PM

@humn I see what you did there

humn

editing? compulsive about it vvvvvvvvvvv

manshu

@humn You are using my tactics against me.

Gordon Allocman

no the questions in question in the question part

manshu

but....

Apr 9 at 8:44, by manshu

@humn I will never regret that day...I promise :)

humn

you'll regret that promise

Khale_Kitha

6:10 PM

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Q: How to write a plural form of 'ex' (ex girlfriend..etc)

She's my ex But then, In my photo album, you see many exes/exs/ex's of mine?

plural

Must resist the urge to finally sign up on this site so I can mention that they need to all live in Texas...

manshu

@humn not if I answer your every message after 2 min. :p

f''

there are a couple comments to that effect already

Khale_Kitha

Haha, are there? I didn't look close enough

Gordon Allocman

If the answer to this is correct I will be pretty disappointed puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/32762/good-apple-hunting

humn

right, Gordon, not much to do with computer science, for instance, but like little johnny, i like the way they think

Gordon Allocman

6:16 PM

exactly, if anything it should have been tagged steganography

humn

if you really mean "stenography," we could use some puzzles that use Gregg shorthand (probably already have)

Gordon Allocman

I missed some letters haha

humn

interesting idea, though, data compression before computers

just for the record, my theory about math-targeted closures is that some of it is displaced frustration over our site's being riddled with off-the-cuff riddles

(all of which i enjoy, including cultural puzzles where i have no clue)

Khale_Kitha

I challenge you to write something and not edit it, humn. :P

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manshu

@Khale_Kitha true

humn

6:21 PM

one of these i'll ~~learn to~~ edit what you write .. . . . .

Khale_Kitha

Don't be ridiculous

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I miss Balki Bartokomous =D

manshu

How much score you people give to 'Breaking Bad' on the scale of 0 to 10?

humn

nothing bad to say about it but it wore me out

manshu

tv show

Khale_Kitha

Dunno - couldn't find enough interest to get through the first episode

manshu

6:28 PM

I am thinking to start watching it.

Gordon Allocman

Not game of thrones 0/10

but in all seriousness I watched the first season but lost interested in the second one pretty fast

manshu

@GordonAllocman in breaking bad?

Gordon Allocman

yes, GoT is amazing

manshu

@GordonAllocman I have read two books of ASoIaF

and have watched maybe 4 or 5 episodes of it.

Gordon Allocman

Haven't read the books yet, show is awesome though. Which reminds me I haven't seen the lastest episode yet

manshu

6:30 PM

KK have read the books.

Maybe all?

right @Khale_Kitha ?

Khale_Kitha

not recently, but yes

Gordon Allocman

f" sniped the answer to my puzzle

manshu

I felt (while watching the episodes) like books are better than the tv series

Gordon Allocman

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Q: Our puzzling friend 2: Electric Puzzaloo

Thank you guys for helping us figure out what activity my friend wanted to do over here! Unfortunately the puzzles didn't stop there. When we asked him to give us the location of where he wanted to go, he gave us this instead: Lorem ipsum vestibulum elementum sapien quis pulvinar Quisque et...

enigmatic-puzzles

Khale_Kitha

"f", how'd you figure out that puzzle?"

f": "Elementally, my dear Watson."

(I like the edited version, more =D)

humn

6:35 PM

^^^^^^^^^^^^ the R was silent

Gordon Allocman

Idk whose answer to accept now

manshu

did you know that "Elementary, my dear Watson" has never been in any book of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

humn

Gordon, might want to hold off in any case so that the answers get more attention

which might be a topic for discussion at some point as well ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Gordon Allocman

Same reason people say "Luke, I am your father"

there is a wiki article on it

Khale_Kitha

right, manshu - it came from the movies

manshu

6:37 PM

@GordonAllocman Don't spoil Star Wars for me please.

Khale_Kitha

The wookie wins.

Gordon Allocman

@manshu Kirk becomes the captain of the starship enterprise

Khale_Kitha

D'oh, I recycled manshu, again.

manshu's avatar is yelling at humn's Q

or was.

humn

Good job, @f'', you've earned some more sandbox playtime

May 11 at 0:13, by humn

Puzzle: In the sandbox chat room, try and get the robots into a feedback loop.

and K_K's avatar makes every outburst look bewildered

Gordon Allocman

In case anyone was wondering, the conversion to elements was hinted at, it wasn't only guessable

humn

6:41 PM

(looking for missed hints now)

i like to edit answers to mention clues and such that were missed, just to try and give full credit to the original puzzle

Gordon Allocman

I'll give it some time, he might edit it himself

humn

^^^^ right, think i've only edited someone else's answer that way once

Gordon Allocman

Also leppy pointed it out in the comments under it

humn

some comments deserve promotion to the permanent record

... but this isn't quite the best of all conceivable worlds

question_asker

(KK doesn't hang his hat in Tennessee, though)

Gordon Allocman

6:44 PM

right, but I figure f" might notice and edit it in

question_asker

@humn I think I'm reaching the point where I want to know the intended method of solving that one puzzle. So uh, tell... your "friend"... to let me know.

humn

oh hoho, nice of you to remember

question_asker

to be honest, I've been remembering, I just keep telling myself I still could get it

humn

think i could arrange a seance, q_a, .. when? where?

question_asker

(I don't think I could actually get it, and I almost definitely won't kick myself when I find out the answer)

manshu

6:47 PM

which puzzle?

Pangloss

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Khale_Kitha

Don't be so optimistic..

question_asker

what!!!

Khale_Kitha

Haha

question_asker

pangloss, old friend!!

(@manshu, this'n: puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/26088/…)

Khale_Kitha

6:48 PM

It's the ghost of optimism, past.

Optimism has left.

question_asker

spooky!

consider me spooked

Khale_Kitha

lol

humn

right, spooked, never too late to revise that answer

manshu

Now I can't feel good anymore.

question_asker

ooh, that new musical rebus answer might be correct

humn

6:52 PM

you can always start feelin ferrets

question_asker

:O

I never use that one

Khale_Kitha

She's going to get you, humn

haha

Gordon Allocman

Nice, leppy updated his answer so I can accept his

Khale_Kitha

dissonant

...and das an ant, too

humn

gotta like the way the musical answer "dissonant" goes with the title's "highly"

gotta also like Wesley's technical take

Khale_Kitha

6:56 PM

Nope, sorry guys :) The hint indicates that the strike-through is not pronounced. Here, is it pronounced as "Not". Maybe I should make the puzzle a little more specific ... — fffred 2 hours ago

This is confusing....if "not" is a pronounciation of strike-through

question_asker

@Khale_Kitha lol I got on his case in a comment on the question

Khale_Kitha

Nearly any possible answer would be, including the OP's "wrong"

question_asker

right - you can't say "not" doesn't work because you don't pronounce the strikethrough if the strikethrough has any meaning that comes through in the written answer

Khale_Kitha

Yeah

question_asker

you can say it's not the right answer

Khale_Kitha

6:57 PM

I mean...."not" isn't a pronunciation unless we redefine that word

And if we do - then there's no answer

Oh, I get it.

The answer is "Zero" because the 14's not really there... o.O

question_asker

well, what I think that person means is just that the strikethrough doesn't become a word