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Cool
 
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This... this is a new concept !
 
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@ffao Me, too, ffao
12:42
hello
So I have another iteration of misheard and obscured that fits the fortnightly challenge, but I want to post a second one before it, and the first hasn't been solved yet :P
12:56
this is a hard one
oh, well the one I have in mind is potentially harder lol
Yes but we will have the concept in mind, it might help
yeah that's true
I want to do my science one and then a movie quote one, then i'll probably stop and try to come up with something new
also i added a hint
13:59
Wow this guy is trying to tell me my edit is bad/ to roll it back, when it is clearly a perfectly fine edit...
14:27
turns out some extraneous "i need more characters so i wrote this" text was actually what the guy was upset about...
So the "It really sucks that I need to add 15 characters up here..." in the title was a hint too ?
supposedly
ahah I am the one who deleted it
guess we think alike then haha
we are hint killers
14:34
honestly it was just really annoying to deal with, don't count on putting hints in other people's answers...
This is a bad idea, the answer osner could also change his post and destroy this hint
exactly, I just wanted to clean up the answer because it was at the top and not spoiler tagged, and the guy was getting downvoted (deservedly, but it was a first post)
I'm starting to get pretty antsy adding hints on my puzzle haha, I already wrote up my sequel and want to post it :P
It was solved yay!
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Q: Misheard and Obscured

Gordon AllocmanMy friend was trying to tell me an idiom he heard, but I think it got lost in translation. What he ended up telling me was this: Bread makeup Not harmful Obviously 525600s Can you guys figure out what idiom he was trying to tell me? Note: As it has caused some confusion, everythin...

In case you were wondering the first like was supposed to be Wheat
alright I will post the science one in a little bit
15:14
I am so bad with oppograms
which one are you working on?
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Q: Science Oppograms

Business CatHere come more Oppograms, this time science-related courtesy of our fortnightly challenge. The rules: In each set of words, find the opposite of each word, then anagram the letters of all opposites to get one term. The oppograms below form one physics term, one chemistry term, and one biology t...

the first line
ooh didn't notice that one, time to get to work :)
there are 4 opposites to find in 16 letters, so we should have only small words
abnormal -> normal/typic/usual
original -> copy
ignore -> know/heed/attend
plagiarise -> create/renew
abnormal could be usual as well
ignore could be heed or attend
original could be used
15:19
i can't find a small word for plagiarise
give maybe
what is the opposite of a shack?
villa
maybe
castle or mansion maybe
I don't know enough science to notice any anagrammed terms though
15:27
Would you like to share those terms?
for this line I have :
straighten -> bend/move/curve/twist
lazy -> fresh/lively
shack -> manor/castle/mansion/villa
alright i'm going to post my puzzle
physics + chemistry + biology = huge set of possible words
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Q: Misheard and Obscured: Jumbled Science edition

Gordon Allocman(First iteration of this puzzle here, reading this puzzle is certainly not necessary but might help give an idea of what to do) Hey guys, my friend just got back from one of his intro science classes (I don't know the exact subject) and he wanted to tell me a cool factoid he had heard. Unfortuna...

enjoy
If I knew which subject was which I might be able to make some more headway but alas
can't figure out sent item, but I think the first three words
imagined -> real
water -> fire
seldom -> often
leaving 7 letters left (if i didnt mess up the math)
15:42
deoxyribonucleic acid = 20 letters / 2 words
imagined -> real
water -> ice/solid/sand/fire
seldom -> often
[sent items] -> received/gift
sent items -> inbox !!!!
ooh
off by 2 letters then
frequent maybe
can't find anything though
or usually, still gives nothing
abnormal -> normal/typic/usual
original -> copy/used
ignore -> know/heed/attend
plagiarise -> create/renew/give

imagined -> real
water -> ice/solid/sand/fire
seldom -> often/usually
[sent items] -> inbox/received/gift/

straighten -> bend/move/curve/twist
lazy -> fresh/lively
shack -> manor/castle/mansion/villa
15:58
imagined could be true, lazy could be active, shack could be house, original could be old, ignore could be aware(probably not)
original could be old ?
original = new, old is opposite
ok, I though original was "authentic and initial" so it is old
thesaurus.com says old and newest are both valid antonyms -_-
Well I have to go, see you later and good luck with this oppogram
 
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18:03
I'm really awful at those things, but plagiarize could be pen?
I cant seem to get anything with pen and the other words we have so far :/
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Q: Misheard and Obscured: Jumbled Science edition

Gordon Allocman(First iteration of this puzzle here, reading this puzzle is certainly not necessary but might help give an idea of what to do) Hey guys, my friend just got back from one of his intro science classes (I don't know the exact subject) and he wanted to tell me a cool factoid he had heard. Unfortuna...

You don't have to say, but are the comma separated items to apply to one term?
yeah, each line is one word essentially
That's what I was expecting similar to the last puzzle
last part could be mitochondria
18:12
It is
Midas -> Corn -> Dryer
I'm tripping on Doofus right now. I think I could crack it if I had it. Alas, back to work.
maybe dunce/idiot
Hey, folks. Anybody home here?
I'm having a heck of a time on puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/35288/… Best answers are coming from the newbies. What causes the question to get locked?
Usually all it takes is one bad answer from a new user coupled with a large amount of answers, sometimes just a large amount of answers will cause it
18:20
Yeah, we definitely have that. Sorry.
Nothing to be sorry about
I just hope I don't get my head bashed in upon reveal. But I think it worth the wait.
Nothing to worry about. Sometimes puzzles suck, sometimes they're great. To be honest, you'll learn more about your puzzle creating by seeing how people respond to them.
And if you place it on a line by itself it makes this nice link
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Q: The bigger I am, the less I will hold. Who or What am I?

zipzitWhat am I? The bigger I am, the less I will hold. No one else would be so bold. I get comfy in the car, as we travel real far. I used to get used a whole lot. Now, nobody gives a squat. It's clear when I fail, you'll hear folks wail. I was popular in the eighties. I su...

@GordonAllocman I know a grand total of zero about all the crazy stuff I'm googling right now. This is way above my head :)
You are probably going too deep, as noted in the puzzle, my "friend" is in an intro science class
18:36
Hmm maybe.
anyone still working on the oppograms one? I posted a wip answer just now because I forgot about chat rooms
I got pretty stuck so not really. It sucks when they use words that don't actually have any real opposites, like shack
like a manor is very different from a shack but I wouldn't qualify them as opposites per-say
the streets could be an opposite :P
also assuming you are correct with your answer, ice is definitely not the opposite of water...
Aha! Now you are thinking.. but there are four states of matter!
18:39
yeah, I wasn't sure what counted as opposite, but it worked for the anagram :P
Bose-Einstein condensate is a bit long.
anagram? Huh? I'm talking about my comment / hint to Rebecca on my question, the bigger I am, the less I will hold...
"orbital mechanics" is 16 letters and you can make "cite", thats where I'm at for the 1st one
@GordonAllocman were you talking to me about ice not the opposite of water?
normal also fits but you run out of letters too quickly
18:41
@zipzit whoops, people are discussing two different puzzles right now
@zipzit no I was referring to the oppogram one haha, but I guess now I have a hint towards yours (still as confused as I was before)
@zipzit, there's a few flagged answers on your question, so that's probably why it got protected.
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Q: Just having some fun

SahibPrime To: John ([email protected]) From: Anna ([email protected]) CC: All ([email protected]) Subject: Just having some fun... Hello, everyone! I decided to experiment with a few things lately. I have an image for you. Can you guess what my favorite animal is? Hopefully you can! ~ Anna

I think it is dog
Looks like the outline of a plastic bag to me
ahah true
18:44
It's clearly a funyarinpa
definitely a funyarinpa
only 3 more weeks for the next game to come out... cant wait!
It looks like it'll be even more confusing than the other games, looking forward to it
@WesleySitu Which game is that?
@BusinessCat Zero Time Dilemma, third of the series
starts with 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors. second game is Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
@whrrgarbl I dont think it can be orbital mechanics because I took out cite and tried to de-anagram the rest of the letters but couldn't find 3 fitting words
but cite is probably correct
18:51
@GordonAllocman yeah I haven't found anything either
I'm trying to think of other likely phrases but they're all the wrong number of letters
I knew number 2 was deoxyribonucleic acid but I failed at retro-engineering it :( I feel stupid
I did find that an anagram for norm used heed cite is Induced Threesome though
and I just found out my anagram solver doesn't know scientific terms q.q
andy's ?
wordsmith.com or whatever
fun fact, apparently there are no 3-word anagrams for "nuclear fission"
19:00
3 weeks for zero time dilemma? omg
suns if colinear
alone crisis fun
I thought original might be banal, but it makes it tough to fit
abnormal original ignore plagiarise -> norm, abc's, hail, cite -> orbital mechanics. there i got it :P (jk, still stuck)
ooh, "banal" is a new direction for antonyms
the issue is I can't think of a single 3 letter word for any of the others
19:11
ignore -> "see" ? idk
hmm, that could be it, but not seeing any science terms
how about ack
that would be pretty obscure, but maybe haha
well... computer science has science in it
don't think the answer is carcinoma blanket
@BusinessCat can you verify there are no other spelling mistakes in your other clues?
19:16
@GordonAllocman There is not, and I'm really sorry about the one there was.
Also couldn't help but laugh at "carcinoma blanket"
no worries, mistakes happen. Just wanted to make sure
You guys were on the right track for a few of them, by the way
I think I have the term, just need to fit it
ok so I'm thinking it is Terminal Velocity, the words are cite, norm, and 2 other words
ignore could be yell original could be vita (big stretch) or ignore could be levy and original could be tail (slightly less of a stretch)
oh good term. I was trying "quantum mechanics" but no dice so far
I think the levy & tail one fits decently actually
19:28
why tail?
original meaning beginning, tail meaning end
ohh, gotcha
I think I will post it since it seems to fit enough at least to me
original can also mean first and tail means last so that fits as well
which would leave chemistry left
darn not correct
try matching centripetal force
only other thing I have is chemical reaction which leaves chealaci which could be ignore = cache original = ail but that fits even worse
well I have to prepare for a meeting. good luck with the rest of the oppograms

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