Puzzles Etc.

humn

19:00

how do you pronounce ~~ghoti~~? (thankshu for reminding me to edit)

manshu

it has been 7 messages since @humn haven't edited anything.

Khale_Kitha

He got spooked by optimistic Pangloss.

manshu

ok...6 now

And the answer might be fish knot

humn

nice!

Khale_Kitha

..lol

humn

19:01

K_K, i still love your 5-times-edited-on-purpose puzzle

question_asker

I didn't learn that one in boy scouts

Khale_Kitha

hehe, humn

i just wish I hadn't had to edit it, later.

humn

ohhhhh

manshu

@humn Karen puzzle

Khale_Kitha

It's a slippery one, q_a.

humn

19:02

a different one, manshu, ....

Khale_Kitha

The fish knot. A derivative of the slip knot, but more slippery. :P

manshu

I don't remember

Khale_Kitha

...I don't know why I'm still laughing at that.

Oh, wait, I know..

May 13 at 15:21, by Khale_Kitha

And Khale is a complete nutter who finds amusement in the smallest things.

manshu

Wait. Fish knot is not a word?

question_asker

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Q: What's the next two numbers in the series?

What's the next two numbers and how did you get to the answer? The series: 2, 4, 4, 8, 12, 16, 48, 64, 288, 448 Hint 1 Hint 2

number-sequence

Gordon Allocman

19:04

I just saw that and was about to post it

hint: coming soon

Khale_Kitha

...to a puzzle, near you.

resists adding that, as a comment

manshu

haha

question_asker

There's a use—mention distinction problem with that puzzle

are the hints coming soon, or is "coming soon" a hint, twice?

(It's almost definitely the former)

Gordon Allocman

Not found in oeis so either its a pretty good question or a really bad one

humn

q_a, come again? (joke)

Khale_Kitha

19:07

Apr 5 at 19:27, by Khale_Kitha

Please keep in mind; the measurements below are highly accurate (as are their relationships to each other). However, the descriptions are for entertainment purposes only. Unless you win money, then you owe me 10%.

**NOW!**

Never gonna happen!

**At some point in the future (also; At some point)**

We’re in pure Nostradamus territory here. We have a magic 8 ball and even it said, “Ask again later”.

**In the future**

This isn’t going to happen during any variety of soon you care to use. In fact, it’s pretty far out there. Not as far as ‘at some point’, but we’re certainly not suggesting y…

Soon.

Gordon Allocman

I hope you guys are ready for puzzling friend part 3 (coming soon) where I employ the use of methods needed to solve it

Khale_Kitha

"I employ the use of methods needed to solve it" - Still trying to solve this puzzle.

What's the strikethrough syntax, in here? @humn

manshu

I hope you guys are ready for Sherlock puzzle part 3 (coming soon) where I Moriarty (have something)

Gordon Allocman

If I can get my idea to work, it will probably be a bit harder that the last one (harder relative to who is trying to solve it I guess)

Khale_Kitha

I have an idea, for a chemical puzzle. Can you solvent?

:P

humn

19:09

K_K: three - dashes at each end - - - without spaces - - -

Khale_Kitha

ah, okay

so..

@question_asker Here's a rebus for you: ~~COLA~~

Gordon Allocman

Nuka-cola

manshu

nota-cola

humn

so what is it?

Khale_Kitha

It refers to: pretends to be dramatic A drink!

manshu

19:10

colacut

Kolkata

Khale_Kitha

Yes, humn

took me a second to realize you were answering, haha

manshu

Kala Khatta?

Gordon Allocman

this is ~~rebus~~

Khale_Kitha

LoL, why did you edit your answer, humn, when you had it right

haha

Gordon Allocman

seven up?

Khale_Kitha

19:12

yes, lol

humn

just edit-happy, K_K, it was meant to be a new line asking if it's ~~rebus~~, what is it?

manshu

but how?

Khale_Kitha

7-UP "THE UNCOLA"

►

Gordon Allocman

Weak rebus, obscure reference, you are well on your way to making a puzzle for here!

Khale_Kitha

I wanted to do it earlier when we were talking about it, but didn't know how to do a strikeout, outside of LaTex, lol

lol, Gordon

humn

19:14

when you nose gets kinda runny, you may think it's kinda funny but ~~it's~~

manshu

Another rebus: What activity is it? ~~SHIT~~

Khale_Kitha

Snot Stew.

Gordon Allocman

its snot

humn

hmm, maybe it's s

Khale_Kitha

Oddly, a book I remember my librarian reading to us when I was like 6

humn

19:15

~~|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||~~

Khale_Kitha

Some things, like snot, stick with you.

hahaha

Gordon Allocman

@Khale_Kitha Take your star and get outta here....

Khale_Kitha

hahahha

manshu

There is another thing that sticks with you.

Khale_Kitha

Your skin, if you're lucky.

Gordon Allocman

19:16

btw you probably wont see my next puzzle until like friday since it requires a lot of work to make and i'm lazy

Khale_Kitha

Yeah, I still haven't figured out how to use Blender to make my next one, so I need to think of an interim puzzle.

Gordon Allocman

My interim puzzle also involves a fair amount of work :/

manshu

I have been procrastinating a puzzle idea for 2 months now.

Khale_Kitha

Why make puzzles when we have trash bag puzzles to read?

manshu

looks at q_a's puzzles

yeah ..true

Khale_Kitha

19:18

Ah, that's the shortcut for taht..

10₧ for Griffendor.

manshu

But this year, Slytherin wins.

question_asker

huh what now

Gordon Allocman

wants to find bad puzzles. gets directed to own user page. cries.

question_asker

ah, the classic trick

manshu

@GordonAllocman I know how it feels.

Khale_Kitha

19:20

Oh, and humn..

humn

did manshu ever get sufficient credit for getting "fated" into the last puzzle? bravo!

Khale_Kitha

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This wall's for you, @Alconja

humn

(copying)

Khale_Kitha

haha

manshu

It wasn't until I completed the crossword that I found that I can make a word 'fated'

Gordon Allocman

19:21

@Khale_Kitha You approach the door

Khale_Kitha

That's what I thought of, too :P

question_asker

@humn what is this!!!

manshu

and door hits you

@question_asker it's a fence

question_asker

ah! that's actually... what it looks like

Khale_Kitha

Expensive fence

Too many fenceposts

- - - | - - - - - - - - - - - - | - - - - - - - - - - - - | - - - - - - - - - - - - | - - -

Wow, it worked.

manshu

19:22

It is a number line

humn

how? (got it, great!)

Khale_Kitha

like that

without the spaces

manshu

|

question_asker

--I--

manshu

ahh..that's how

humn

19:23

works with spaces too: ~~| - - - - - - - - - - -|~~

manshu

Not I, use |

question_asker

-| |-

manshu

single |

Khale_Kitha

Lift, q_a! Lift!

-|=|-        -|=|-

question_asker

I... what

-| |- -| |-

Khale_Kitha

19:24

They look like little dumbells =D

Gordon Allocman

hunter22

question_asker

I'm trying, I'm trying

Gordon Allocman

that showed up is asterisks right?

manshu

Another rebus: I it's You

Khale_Kitha

asterisks?

humn

19:24

i don't see *s

Khale_Kitha

same

humn

just remembered, two clues from a real crossword recently:

Gordon Allocman

damn its hunter2, i ruined the meme

Khale_Kitha

blank stare

humn

wuss: _ _ ssy

Khale_Kitha

19:26

sissy

humn

intractable one: _ _ _ _ ard

manshu

@humn hussy?

Khale_Kitha

laggard?

Gordon Allocman

@Khale_Kitha knowyourmeme.com/memes/hunter2

humn

they weren't my first guesses

manshu

19:26

@humn haggard?

This is a room of polite and humble people.

Khale_Kitha

just....not worth knowing

humn

(just being rhetorical)

question_asker

-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-

Khale_Kitha

I suppose I'm the only one, to whom, that word makes them think of Rhett

question_asker

I'll never learn your fencepost trick

humn

19:28

Butler?

Gordon Allocman

from rhett and link?

Khale_Kitha

~~|------------|------------|------------|------------|~~

humn

q_a, two more -- dashes -- at each end ----> for 3 total at each end... ahhhhhh...

Khale_Kitha

From gone with the wind

question_asker

|

aha!

Khale_Kitha

19:30

Oh, that one's interesting

manshu

_

Khale_Kitha

*

question_asker

~~ɬ ɬ ɬ ɬ ɬ ɬ ɬ ɬ ɬ ɬ ɬ ɬ ɬ ɬ ɬ ɬ ɬ~~

somebody tied a bunch of ribbons on my fence

Khale_Kitha

~~---=~~=_---=

wtf happened there.

manshu

~

Khale_Kitha

19:31

My text was assimilated!

manshu

@Khale_Kitha This guy is weeping.

Khale_Kitha

Is that it? He looks Borg, to me.

manshu

The tennis player?

Khale_Kitha

I'm really curious how that happened..

question_asker

~~ɫ ɫ ɫ~~

Khale_Kitha

19:32

I think we've gone past Etc and into Sandbox, now.

manshu

~~<------>~~

humn

vvvvvv is that crossed out?

manshu

█

Khale_Kitha

no

manshu

~~Fork~~

humn

19:33

right, though, K_K, i saw someone playing in the sandbox with ~~strikethrough~~

question_asker

~~ǁ ǁ ǁ ǁ ǁ ǁ ǁ ǁ ǁ ǁ ǁ ǁ ǁ ǁ ǁ ǁ ǁ ǁ ǁ~~

now my fence makes a clicking noise!!!

Khale_Kitha

hah

manshu

~~Snape killed Dumbledore~~

question_asker

now that was a niche joke

eyyyy @Khale_Kitha somebody just upvoted my answer on CCC

Khale_Kitha

Yeah, and my question

lol

humn

19:35

must've been Pangloss

question_asker

one of us got more rep ...

ah, the ol' pangster

Khale_Kitha

~~╞------═------═------═------═------═------╡~~

humn

where's K_K's puzzle with the re-edits?

Khale_Kitha

Now i like that one =D

manshu

checks my own inbox. Finds ~~nothing~~

question_asker

19:36

asd

how do you force a space?

Khale_Kitha

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Q: Historical music

A song is represented by the changes you see, before you. What song is it? (I promise it's not too broad, just take a closer look.) love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love lov...

pattern visual music

humn

that's the one, manshu

Khale_Kitha

fixed is the only way I know of, in here, q-a

manshu

BTW @humn I need to say something that I should have told you long ago.

question_asker

fixed?

Khale_Kitha

19:38

the fixed font button, I mean

humn

manshu?

Khale_Kitha

Or maybe with ` marks

If those work in here

question_asker

no such luck!

manshu

My rep was not deducted on that pink question of yours even after its deletion.

question_asker

doh

humn

19:38

all the better, manshu, you deserved those other ^votes anyway

Khale_Kitha

√

manshu

:)

Khale_Kitha

≈

manshu

|||-|||

question_asker

~~|——x——x———x—x——x——x————x—x——x——|~~

ok

Khale_Kitha

19:39

Barb wire

humn

~~|-x-x-x-*-x-x-|~~ with some fur

question_asker

yes!

I fixed my problem by using em dashes

which, for reasons only I understand, I have memorized the alt code for

(it's 0151, if you were wondering)

Khale_Kitha

aww

manshu

~~Clarke Kent is Batman~~

Khale_Kitha

the strikethrough won't work for me

humn

19:41

it stopped working?

q_a, you can ALT-key em dash?

question_asker

yeah, alt+0151 on the numpad

Khale_Kitha

Yeah, it's the line, so it doesn't get made small by the font

- vs —

humn

sure—enough! (didn't even know that about the ALT key... now manshu owes me another life lesson to keep up)

Khale_Kitha

lol, humn

¿que pasa?

:P

question_asker

there are a few things near the end of the ISO-whateverthenumbersare page that I have memorized

Khale_Kitha

19:43

I have so many alt codes memorized, it's like 90º :P

manshu

Alt +987 = █

Khale_Kitha

or just 219

question_asker

like alt+0223 is es-zett

humn

haha, just think of all the ones you've forgotten

Khale_Kitha

⌠
⌡

humn

19:44

at least you could, if you hadn't forgotten them

manshu

Scratch and win: ████████████████████████

Gordon Allocman

ñ

13 years of spanish drilled that one into me

Khale_Kitha

I hate when someone says: What was it I was going to say?

My response is always: "I don't know, you never told me."

humn

then they say: "never mind"

question_asker

haha

Khale_Kitha

19:44

or

"What was it I was going to tell you?"

question_asker

I like "what was I going to say" just as a placeholder, like "don't start ignoring me yet, there was going to be more and if I think of it soon, I'll start saying it"

haha "there was something I was going to tell (or say to) you and I forgot" always gets me real worried

humn

Let me outa here before this things blows...
What's wrong with it?
I'd...
Where'd you have it fixed?
I just had it worked on.
Who worked on it?
The man that's got the garage...
Well, he ain't no good.
The man you want is the man...
I had him.
He's the one that ruined it.
Well, I see you got plenty water,
But are you outa gas?
No, it ain't that. I think maybe it's...
Oh, it couldn't be that.
Well, there ain't much wrong with it.
What you need is some of them new gadgets.
You know, the kind that you buy...

manshu

Friend: What was it I was going to say?
Me: The same thing that you planned me to listen

Khale_Kitha

..age

Too few stars on the pinned start over there -------- >

manshu

"Well, I see you got plenty water" got reminded to fill the water bottle

question_asker

19:47

I still wish taht calling it the starboard had caught on

Khale_Kitha

hehe

question_asker

@humn what is that?

Khale_Kitha

This is the starboard.

Gordon Allocman

the percect double entendre

question_asker

I read that as "percocet"

Khale_Kitha

19:48

At least the double entendre is painless.

Gordon Allocman

how did you pin?

Khale_Kitha

Feature as the room owner

Gordon Allocman

ah

question_asker

1

Q: Every day is Thursday

Sunday is Thursday Monday is Thursday Tuesday is Thursday Wednesday is Thursday Friday is Thursday Saturday is Thursday But... Thursday is sometimes Saturday Where am I?

riddle

manshu

Does anyone else feel like the room name should be changed or is it just me?

Khale_Kitha

19:50

Nah

humn

@question_asker, that quote? A vaudeville bit by Frournoy Miller

question_asker

The only thing about the room name that gets me is that looking at it in a tab title, it's visually similar to the main Puzzling page

but I don't care enough to suggest changing it

manshu

Oh..so it IS just me.

question_asker

@humn oh wow, that's cool! I hadn't heard of him before that

Khale_Kitha

I had thought about putting bountied posts in here, like Sphinx does, but figured it'd be a bit redundant.

humn

19:52

☆2★1☆0★1☆3★4☆5★6☆7★

2

thank you

question_asker

@Khale_Kitha yeah - the ELU chat is set up to show a feed of some kind and it drives me nuts

Khale_Kitha

I wondered if that would be the case, too

Though bounties, here, are pretty rare

question_asker

@humn why am I not surprised to see that amos and andy was almost definitely plagiarised from an all-black act.

Khale_Kitha

lol @ the upvotes on my comment on that puzzle you linked, q_a

humn

ha, q_a, really, by the way that was supposed to be Flournoy Miller with an "l" in the first name

question_asker

19:55

@Khale_Kitha hahah I only saw it now! nice

Khale_Kitha

....that clarifies things..... rofl

question_asker

@humn I figured it out, google corrected it for me

manshu

it's 6 now

7

Khale_Kitha

lol

question_asker

this monkey's gone to heaven

Khale_Kitha

19:57

Did you happen to see the new pinned star, q_a?

This is the starboard. It's on the starboard side of the page.

13

Replaced

manshu

It's nice that you can star your own messages.

I would have starred my all the messages.

Khale_Kitha

Yeah, there's a reason I rarely star things, lol

manshu

What? Whatever you stars goes there pinned?

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