Puzzles Etc. - 2016-06-03

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cbronson

00:22

@LeppyR64 when you're finished with the puzzle you're currently working on I would love if you took a stab at mine :) If you can't figure anything out then perhaps I should make the next one a little easier.

LeppyR64

@cbronson I intend to. This one's a bear though :)

cbronson

@LeppyR64 awesome, thank you!

LeppyR64

@WesleySitu Not even really sure if this is on the right track, but it's something to do with stuff liek this. Never used imgur, hope this works. imgur.com/qjaD9xI

Austin Powers rings in my head, "But what does it all mean Basil?"

Wesley Situ

@LeppyR64 what to do with face 3 then?

LeppyR64

Shhh.... :)

Hmmm, Sven Orm's clue means the crosses are dice, (cross me once and bend me five times), five folds to make the cube
Sick Harming - Tock Tock - They're hands on the clock. The squiggly and the straight seem to match that

Wesley Situ

00:34

for sven orm's, i interpreted that as dont cross me as you unfold the dice on me or i'll bend you back five times back into a cube

LeppyR64

Could be

Wesley Situ

just another line of thought im trying, but no results yet :P

LeppyR64

Which face is 3 in your graveyard image, middle cube left face?

Wesley Situ

yes

look at the silver die image if you want reference

LeppyR64

just like the silver die

duh :)

Wesley Situ

00:35

also note that this isn't a normal die

LeppyR64

yeah noticed

1 not opposite 6

Wesley Situ

yep

LeppyR64

opposites usually sum 7

I wish I knew what F.N. - West and S.N. - North was

Wesley Situ

i think that'll be when we get to the map

also, if we try taking the sides to be times as a clock, how do we tell which side is up on some of the faces

LeppyR64

I was orienting them as the face would be with the center of the 4x4 grid

3 is troubling though

Clock's say tick-tock or is it misdirection...

Gonna go do some dishes and ruminate.

Ruminate doesn't mean rum, but that ain't a bad idea.

cbronson

00:51

Can you even ruminate without rum?

It's at least less plesant

1 hour later…

LeppyR64

01:59

@cbronson I helped out but your hints point at the transcript and I'm drawing a big ol blank there. The time stamps don't show me anything. I'm afraid I'm not going to be much help straight off.

I wouldn't be discouraged though. I don't think your puzzle is too hard. There might just be something that intuitively you jump too that some people don't.

cbronson

@LeppyR64 Thanks for that! Try looking at the timestamps together rather than in isolation

1 hour later…

LeppyR64

03:22

@cbronson I got no more than what @feelinferrety got.

feelinferrety

Yeah, kinda stuck on the research front here. All I got left at this point is observations.

LeppyR64

I notice that in the Netherlands a lot of addresses end in "plein"

"plein" literally means "square"

feelinferrety

03:43

"plein" = "plying" = wet bending??

feelinferrety

04:08

Ugh. Bedtime.

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BmyGuest

06:09

@LeppyR64, @WesleySitu like your gimp work and ideas. Do you have any ideas about the ring yet?

Generally: the graveyard part is the one where mistakes can happen easily - both for solving and building. I did cross check multiple times, but I've unfortunately proven multiple times that I make mistakes. Hence, if you do some intermediate steps in painting, show them (giving me an opportunity to check).

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BmyGuest

07:41

I be also summarised some of your work in the wiki post now.

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Lord of dark

09:32

@Anton Am i right now ?

Lord of dark

10:08

Almost 6000 questions ! Come on we need 4 more puzzles !

Anton

Bingo @Lordofdark

Notice that there could be only 1 location on the map, btw.

taking the first letter of the name.

Lord of dark

I've spent at least 40 minutes on an anagram solver without success, and today I've just looked at the letters and I've seen "anniversary"

Anton

aren't those kind of moments beautiful ? :)

Lord of dark

oh yes, I am so relieved now

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Anton

11:29

And here goes the silly answer to my question :)

Khale_Kitha

12:20

Nice, though, Anton. Was too involved for me, this week - haven't felt well

@Lordofdark Those review audits are so condescending, aren't they? "Stop, you idiot. Pay attention to what you're doing!" .... I was, you stupid machine. Start working correctly.

And they always count against you, even when broken.

Lord of dark

Ahah I had the feeling that the system was going to fuck me on this on so I screen shot

LeppyR64

12:42

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Q: A pirate's treasure-hunt

My dear puzzle friends, I need your help! An old acquaintance of mine has recently passed away and mentioned me in his will. I was quite thrilled, as the man was rather rich due to some clever investments during his lifetime. Unfortunately, he was as, hmm, unconventional as he was rich. He alway...

enigmatic-puzzles visual geography treasure-hunt

I really don't have anything to go on with the Ring. i.sstatic.net/YqUSJ.jpg

I can align it with the graveyard. The text on the right says "Quo Vadis" which means where are you going. The parts on the bottom look like the dice, but some of the faces are light and dark. Not sure what's up there.

(Mostly just rubber ducking it here) but if anyone has thoughts throw them in.

Lord of dark

You have spent so much time on this puzzle. Are you guys close to the end ?

I will look at it tonight it looks asewome

Jonathan Allan

12:59

@Deusovi gonna have to rethink the "no textbook mathematics" after this corker:

10

Q: Find the odd number out (from math book)

Found this in my brother's math book, we tried to solve it but didn't manage to find any solution. Apology if it it too easy, but we really tried to find it. Find the odd number out: $\frac{3}{8}$; $\frac{4}{9}$; $0.37$; $0.4\overline{8}$; $\frac{7}{15}$; $\frac{9}{11}$ The only thing we foun...

math odd-one-out

LeppyR64

13:10

@Lordofdark We're wrapping up clues and we have a general idea where we are heading, but there's still a couple big tasks to wrap up.

I gotta print these dice out so I can cut them I think.

Lord of dark

13:33

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Q: Confused clock face puzzle

There is a clock face with the correct (target) numbers written in circles. But somebody confused the clock face and created a crazy clock with numbers written in elipses. Your task is to repair the clock face by moving individual numbers one by one around the clock's perimeter and aslo using...

This puzzle is interesting but sooo unclear

Anton

Imagine you are the blank circle

You can only move on a line, swapping your position with the number in it.

I haven't found anything yet. :[

Lord of dark

Yeah i get it now, but I had to read the question, answer and comment several times

Anton

well, it has "confused" in the title :>

Lord of dark

13:48

It could even be impossible

Anton

There seem to be no way to swap 2 numbers next to each other with only shifts of 3, 6, 9 and 12

But I'm probably speaking too soon...

I have made a 1-12 cycle that starts at 6

Lord of dark

but you can't turn it :p

Anton

no, but it's a better start than being 1 notch off

as 6 is divisible by 3

I'll post my partial answer

LeppyR64

14:05

State space of ~6billion. Might be able to brute force it.

Breadth-First search. Still take a long time though.

Lord of dark

The more I try the more I feel like it is impossible

Anton

I'm getting closer

Very unoptimized solution, but I'm getting it.

arf, I missed my shot

I'll post my current progress and see if someone will pick it up.

Lord of dark

14:21

I stop here with this, If nobody as solved it tonight I will try to brute force it

cbronson

Morning

Anton

I also would have loved using colors to show the operations better, but it doesn't stay spoilered :/

Hi cbronson

Lord of dark

14:42

We should put a puzzle in the name of this chat

LeppyR64

15:03

@cbronson did you see @feelinferrety's progress?

cbronson

15:14

@LeppyR64 checking now

He's got the idea down, I'm sure he'll have the execution here shortly. Once the transcript is solved it gets a little easier

Lord of dark

user image

6000 soon

Anton

15:30

ok I found it.

after 145 moves

sigh

Business Cat

I'm not sure how long my solution was. I got lost counting it

Anton

16:20

There we go, 6000 questions.

Business Cat

....and I am thoroughly confused by it

At least the 6000th question wasn't a "which comes next in an IQ test question" question

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feelinferrety

18:56

>_>

<_<

Empty on a weekday afternoon? That's... odd.

LeppyR64

:)

Everyone went home early for the weekend

Lord of dark

4

Q: Reverse puzzling - What is my brother solving?

This puzzle is inspired by the previous reverse puzzles My brother and I love puzzles. But I know he is solving some puzzles without me. So yesterday I sneaked into his bedroom to find out what he is working on. The only thing I found is this piece of paper with numbers on it : (2,8) ...

logic-puzzle enigmatic-puzzles reverse-puzzling

My puzzle has been there for 24h hours and is still not solved ! Woh !

It's afirst time for me !

LeppyR64

PS: If you want to talk Pirates we made another room.

Business Cat

I'm never really sure where to start on those kinds of puzzles

LeppyR64

@BusinessCat on @Lordofdark's puzzle or the pirate puzzle?

Business Cat

19:06

Lordofdark's

feelinferrety

Ugghhhh, does anyone else want to just nuke anything labeled iq-test?

Lord of dark

@BusinessCat I don't know any good method to solve this but I would try to identify some patterns

ahah just ignore them dude, don't nuke people

Business Cat

Downvote at your leisure

feelinferrety

I'm not nuking for realsies. I'm just frustrated with the influx and they're all just stupid patterns that can't be solved because they're so open-ended.

Business Cat

You'd think people would get the idea of all similar questions have negative score, but even then...

Lord of dark

19:11

I don't like them, but I understand you can see some challenge in finding an answer "as natural as possible"

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Wesley Situ

21:46

@GordonK i have some rhymes if youd like to add them in

Gordon K

21:58

Fire Away. I'm getting all sorts of Edit clashes as I add stuff an other people try to!

Wesley Situ

theyre names of famous scientific people

second set is Fred sanger, third set is marie curie

so that can help you out a bit when filling in words :P

which means that my contribution for the google safesearch is unfortunately incorrect...

i thought that was totally it

Gordon K

Well spotted

Wesley Situ

22:40

@GordonK maybe john bardeen but thats a nobel prize in physics

Gordon K

Yes - They are all double-winners

I was busy looking in chemistry and I had the wrong connection

Wesley Situ

astonishing demolishing --> amazing razing

and the last to excludes nudes

Gordon K

I had eludes!!!

Just leaves the first

Wesley Situ

more or less the same lol

LI might start with little, but i cant find a fitting for the I

Gordon K

Little / Light / Limited / Less

Wesley Situ

22:46

also could start with low

Gordon K

impact / influence / impression

Less Impress????

A bit weak

Wesley Situ

yea

Gordon K

Limp Imp. !!!!

Low Inflow

Think its: Least Increased

Wesley Situ

23:02

that works

i cant think of anything else better

Gordon K

Cheers for the help

Wesley Situ

was fun

Lord of dark

23:51

Mmm... I have an idea for the fortnight challenge... I'll post it in the weekend !

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