Contact

We are currently waiting on caird coinheringaahing to confirm or deny Gareth McCaughan's guess for clue #62. Please wait until that has been done before making another guess.

caird coinheringaahing

62: Correct

Gareth McCaughan

hmm, does Lens know "is indeed"?

Mithrandir

You guessed correctly. Locutus of Borg must give up a letter!

Locutus of Borg

Mith defending: R E

Gareth McCaughan

clearly not

John Dvorak

7:09 PM

FR :P

Mr. Xcoder

238 dies

John Dvorak

70 dies

caird coinheringaahing

63 dies; RISING

John Dvorak

71 dies, Rankine

72 dies

Erik the Outgolfer

1 dies: RWANDA

caird coinheringaahing

7:09 PM

@Mr.Xcoder Russia?

ManyPinkHats

RANKINE, darn that was it

Thanks for saying; would've driven me mad

Mr. Xcoder

@cairdcoinheringaahing Yes

Gareth McCaughan

so why was 1 RWANDA rather than any other country beginning with R?

Erik the Outgolfer

because of the W

it did say "+ w +..."

Mr. Xcoder

Because it was R+w+...(anda)

Gareth McCaughan

7:10 PM

oh, wait, was that the same clue?

Erik the Outgolfer

of course?

John Dvorak

73 []

Gareth McCaughan

oh, wait, I was getting mixed up.

caird coinheringaahing

64: ṚUpend

Gareth McCaughan

I thought it was 238 that was declared to be RWANDA.

What was 238?

Erik the Outgolfer

7:11 PM

64 is unfair

Mithrandir

You can't make guesses right now; that's the defender's job. Wait till a clue has been passed. If you think you know the answer, please contact the clue. Once the defender passes, you'll be allowed to guess.

ManyPinkHats

c64

Mr. Xcoder

64 is definitely unfair even to most ppcgers

Mithrandir

You can't make guesses right now; that's the defender's job. Wait till a clue has been passed. If you think you know the answer, please contact the clue. Once the defender passes, you'll be allowed to guess.

Mr. Xcoder

I think

caird coinheringaahing

7:11 PM

@EriktheOutgolfer Not entirely, Upend is a perfectly valid word

John Dvorak

Shush bot

ManyPinkHats

wait, it's a PPCG thing?

Mr. Xcoder

@GarethMcCaughan Russia

Gareth McCaughan

ok

caird coinheringaahing

^^^ See

Mr. Xcoder

7:11 PM

Hmm maybe...

c64

Erik the Outgolfer

actually, 238 would've been fitting for AUSTRALIA, but we had an R

John Dvorak

74 What Weird Al's Foil actually is about

contact 73 maybe

c74

@ManyPinkHats yes

7:12 PM

is completely lost

Erik the Outgolfer

what did you think? :P

caird coinheringaahing

65: ___ without a cause

Gareth McCaughan

contact 65

ManyPinkHats

Can't say what I thought yet

caird coinheringaahing

@EriktheOutgolfer Uh, it doesn't work like that

Locutus of Borg

7:13 PM

65: It's not REBEL

caird coinheringaahing

65: It is Rebel

Mithrandir

We are currently waiting on caird coinheringaahing to confirm or deny Locutus of Borg's guess for clue #65. Please wait until that has been done before making another guess.

caird coinheringaahing

65: y

Gareth McCaughan

1. Island for a family get-together?

John Dvorak

c1

Gareth McCaughan

7:13 PM

2. Pinin' for the Forum?

caird coinheringaahing

66: ROI

Gareth McCaughan

contact 66

John Dvorak

75 Killjoy, perhaps

Erik the Outgolfer

3: Area.

ManyPinkHats

c66

Gareth McCaughan

7:14 PM

contact 3

Locutus of Borg

66: it's not RETURN ON INVESTMENT

caird coinheringaahing

66: No

u66

still contact 66

%contacts

7:14 PM

76 Giving money to church

Mithrandir

The following clues are currently contacted:
#3 by Gareth McCaughan
#1 by John Dvorak
#74 by ManyPinkHats
#73 by Gareth McCaughan
#66 by Gareth McCaughan
#64 by ManyPinkHats, Mr. Xcoder

Gareth McCaughan

(I was going to let MPH guess first and then pick the other of the two equally plausible guesses I had)

caird coinheringaahing

67: ℝ

Gareth McCaughan

contact 67

Mithrandir

There are now 10 unsolved clues. Please don't post any more clues until some have been resolved.

ManyPinkHats

7:15 PM

c67

Erik the Outgolfer

c67

(too easy)

John Dvorak

c67

Mithrandir

Locutus of Borg, there are a total of 7 contacts on existing clues. You might want to think about passing if you can't solve any of them. (Use !contacts to see current contacts.)

John Dvorak

@Mithrandir that wasn't nice

Locutus of Borg

Pass 66.

Mithrandir

7:16 PM

Clue #66 (ROI) was contacted by: Gareth McCaughan. Make your guess!

Gareth McCaughan

66. REGION OF INTEREST

(in e.g. a digital mapping system or image processing software)

caird coinheringaahing

66: No

Mithrandir

It looks like no one guessed right. Clue #66 is now dead. Carry on.

Gareth McCaughan

oh, it must have been REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

Mr. Xcoder

45: 1789, 1848, 1989

caird coinheringaahing

7:16 PM

66 was Republic (of Ireland)

Mithrandir

There are now 10 unsolved clues. Please don't post any more clues until some have been resolved.

Locutus of Borg, there are a total of 10 contacts on existing clues. You might want to think about passing if you can't solve any of them. (Use !contacts to see current contacts.)

Gareth McCaughan

contact 45

Mithrandir

There is no clue #66.

Locutus of Borg

Pass 3.

Mithrandir

Clue #3 (Area.) was contacted by: Gareth McCaughan. Make your guess!

Erik the Outgolfer

7:17 PM

c45

ah, too late

Gareth McCaughan

3. REGION

this time for sure

Erik the Outgolfer

3: y

Mithrandir

You guessed correctly. Locutus of Borg must give up a letter!

Locutus of Borg

Mith defending: R E M

Gareth McCaughan

1 dies: REUNION

caird coinheringaahing

7:17 PM

64 dies; Reverse

Gareth McCaughan

2 dies: RESPIGHI

caird coinheringaahing

67 dies; Real

John Dvorak

74 dies, Reptillians

ManyPinkHats

Okay, I had 64 right then

Erik the Outgolfer

> 45 dies: REVOLUTION

John Dvorak

7:17 PM

75 dies, Reverend

Erik the Outgolfer

:P

John Dvorak

76 dies, Restitution

73 dies, rectangle

Gareth McCaughan

for what it's worth, the people I know who are entitled to be called "Reverend" are none of them very killjoy-ish

ManyPinkHats

I don't think the bot understood the death of 45

GentlePurpleRain

6: van Rijn

!clues

Erik the Outgolfer

7:18 PM

I don't endorse the death of 45

Gareth McCaughan

and unless you're giving money to a church because you smashed its stained glass windows or something I don't know why it would be restitution

Erik the Outgolfer

I've purposefully put it in a quote

45 dies

contact 6

c6

7:19 PM

6: It's not REMBRANDT

John Dvorak

Governments giving money to church, specifically

GentlePurpleRain

6 y

Mr. Xcoder

I wonder what Erik and Gareth were guessing

Gareth McCaughan

why is that called restitution?

Locutus of Borg

%clues

Mithrandir

7:20 PM

There are no active clues.

caird coinheringaahing

12: Comment

Gareth McCaughan

I thought 45 was REVOLUTION though I confess I didn't actually check all the dates

Erik the Outgolfer

1: Comments and deletions, ha!

Gareth McCaughan

contact 12

Erik the Outgolfer

c12

caird coinheringaahing

7:20 PM

12': Comment-able

Mr. Xcoder

Your guess on 45 is correct

contact 12'

c12'

c12, 12'

Apparently it's a Czech government thing - they asked for too many taxes, then they had to give them back.

Gareth McCaughan

7:21 PM

ah!

GentlePurpleRain

7: Supply what is due

Gareth McCaughan

contact 7 perhaps

John Dvorak

77 a%b

Erik the Outgolfer

2: One of two famous brothers.

Mr. Xcoder

c77

Erik the Outgolfer

7:21 PM

c77

Gareth McCaughan

contact 77

contact 2

John Dvorak

c2

ManyPinkHats

c77

c2

GentlePurpleRain

c2

c77

Locutus of Borg

I'm going to kick myself, but...

Pass 12.

Mithrandir

7:22 PM

Clue #12 (Comment) was contacted by: Erik the Outgolfer, Gareth McCaughan, GentlePurpleRain. Make your guesses (one each)!

12. REMARK

12: REMARK

12: REMARK

We are currently waiting on caird coinheringaahing to confirm or deny Gareth McCaughan's guess for clue #12. Please wait until that has been done before making another guess.

caird coinheringaahing

Remark is correct

Erik the Outgolfer

7:22 PM

ouch, I felt that kick!

GentlePurpleRain

Is this an old version of Lens?

John Dvorak

@Mithrandir shush!

Gareth McCaughan

it probably is

John Dvorak

def old

caird coinheringaahing

12: y

Mithrandir

7:23 PM

@GentlePurpleRain it's whatever you last put on GH

You guessed correctly. Locutus of Borg must give up a letter!

Erik the Outgolfer

@JohnDvorak deaf old ;-)

GentlePurpleRain

@JohnDvorak Older than what is available on GitHub.

Locutus of Borg

Mith defending: R E M O

John Dvorak

77 dies, remainder

GentlePurpleRain

Because it shouldn't be complaining like that about mutiple guesses after a pass.

Erik the Outgolfer

7:23 PM

1 dies: REMARKSANDREMOVALS

GentlePurpleRain

7 dies. REMIT

Erik the Outgolfer

2 dies: REMUS

caird coinheringaahing

12' dies; Remarkable

John Dvorak

78 + most of an old laptop

Locutus of Borg

oh right, this is my locally modified version... the one that's normal and up-to-date is ~Lens, which uses the !commands

this is ~Lens2

GentlePurpleRain

7:24 PM

Nice to meet you, ~Lens2! :P

caird coinheringaahing

13: Far

Gareth McCaughan

contact 13

GentlePurpleRain

\c13

ManyPinkHats

6: Sucker of the sea

Locutus of Borg

13: it's not REMOTE

GentlePurpleRain

7:25 PM

8: Renovate

caird coinheringaahing

13: Correct

ManyPinkHats

c78

Erik the Outgolfer

just an easy try, but...

Gareth McCaughan

contact 8

GentlePurpleRain

c6

Erik the Outgolfer

7:25 PM

1: Delete.

Gareth McCaughan

contact 6

contact 1

c1

1: it's not REMOVE

c1

contact 78

7:25 PM

1: no, it looks like I'm going to be out of words...

79 .-.-.-

c8

1: yes

c79

There was no guess made for #1. What exactly are you confirming?

Erik the Outgolfer

7:25 PM

%kill 1

Mithrandir

I'm sorry, I've been told not to listen to you. Try asking a mod to add you to the whitelist.

Gareth McCaughan

%kill 1

Erik the Outgolfer

ah, sorry, should've said YES

Locutus of Borg

8: it's not REMODEL

GentlePurpleRain

c79?

caird coinheringaahing

7:26 PM

35: Sorry

8: yes

contact 35

c35

c35

contact 79 maybe

7:26 PM

pass 35

Erik the Outgolfer

35: REMORSE

Mithrandir

Clue #35 (Sorry) was contacted by: Erik the Outgolfer, Gareth McCaughan, GentlePurpleRain. Make your guesses (one each)!

GentlePurpleRain

35: REMORSE

Mithrandir

We are currently waiting on caird coinheringaahing to confirm or deny Erik the Outgolfer's guess for clue #35. Please wait until that has been done before making another guess.

caird coinheringaahing

35: Remorse is correct

Mithrandir

7:27 PM

You guessed correctly. Locutus of Borg must give up a letter!

Locutus of Borg

Mith defending: R E M O N

ManyPinkHats

6 dies

Erik the Outgolfer

alright, what is this?

John Dvorak

79 dies, remorse

GentlePurpleRain

3: Rebuke

John Dvorak

7:27 PM

78 dies, remodel

Locutus of Borg

pass 3

Gareth McCaughan

incidentally, I wanted to use ".-. ." as a clue for REMORSE except that I couldn't remember the Morse for R

Mithrandir

...but clue #3 hasn't been contacted!? Ok, I guess you know what you're doing... (You can !unpass if you made a mistake.)

Gareth McCaughan

3. REMONSTRATE

Mithrandir

You haven't contacted clue #3. Only those who have contacted the clue may guess. (To see who has contacted it, use !contacts 3)

GentlePurpleRain

7:27 PM

3: yes

Locutus of Borg

DH

Mithrandir

There was no guess made for #3. What exactly are you confirming?

user602338

Hello

caird coinheringaahing

Damn, just about to clue 3

user602338

I wam

Gareth McCaughan

7:28 PM

I don't understand how 79 works other than that it has some dots and dashes

John Dvorak

Welcome, user\d+

caird coinheringaahing

@GarethMcCaughan re-morse, morse code

Locutus of Borg

@GarethMcCaughan Morse code

user602338

I want someone to ask some questions about his her life

John Dvorak

.- is morse, .-.-.- is morse multiple times.

GentlePurpleRain

7:28 PM

I can start up the real Lens again, if needed. It looks like it died from some exception in the ChatExchange code.

Erik the Outgolfer

@user602338 um, this is a room for the game called Contact

caird coinheringaahing

@user602338 This probably isn't the right room for that, this is a room to play Contact

Gareth McCaughan

ah, multiple instances of Morse? OK, I guess

Locutus of Borg

@GentlePurpleRain Probably because I suspended the account.

Erik the Outgolfer

he can unsuspend it

user602338

7:29 PM

I want to do that but where?

Anyone who wants to accept?

Erik the Outgolfer

I guess over Philosophy's chat rooms?

caird coinheringaahing

@user602338 I'm not aware of any rooms on the SE chat that have that purpose

John Dvorak

Maybe some religious chatroom?

Erik the Outgolfer

yeah, that too

caird coinheringaahing

Listen to them, not me :/

Gareth McCaughan

7:30 PM

depends on the sort of questions user602338 wants to ask

user602338

I have just some simple questions abour 10 mins only!

Erik the Outgolfer

yeah, unfortunately, this probably isn't the place to ask them, sorry

user602338

About your school your universitty and etc

GentlePurpleRain

@LocutusofBorg So are you going to keep going with ~Lens2, or do you want a real Lens? :P

John Dvorak

That sounds like you're advertising us your poll. No go.

Gareth McCaughan

7:31 PM

this definitely isn't the place for interviewing people about their school, university, etc.; sorry

caird coinheringaahing

@user602338 You aren't going to get a lot of takers on SE, that's quite private information for most people

Gareth McCaughan

I suspect none of the Stack Exchange chat rooms is a good place for that

Erik the Outgolfer

this isn't a place for anonymous (eponymous via username) studies

Locutus of Borg

@GentlePurpleRain If you can avoid another instance of Lens pinging people 5 times in half a minute, then we can definitely switch ;)

user602338

@GarethMcCaughan oh bad news! :(

GentlePurpleRain

7:31 PM

@LocutusofBorg Can you point me to the transcript where that happened?

user602338

So bye

GentlePurpleRain

I'll start it up, then.

Gareth McCaughan

Bye!

Erik the Outgolfer

@GentlePurpleRain the numerous pings you got :P

GentlePurpleRain

...but I didn't.

Mithrandir

7:32 PM

58 mins ago, by Mithrandir

@GentlePurpleRain I've suspended the Lens account indefinitely until you're around and can fix that pinging issue.

Erik the Outgolfer

but it pinged you

and Mith pinged you too ^^

GentlePurpleRain

Yes, I got them.

Erik the Outgolfer

check your inbox maybe?

ninja

GentlePurpleRain

I forgot the inbox doesn't show up on Chat.

Erik the Outgolfer

that's why I have a Chrome extension to do the job

Mithrandir

7:33 PM

@GentlePurpleRain psst... i've got a script that does that

Gareth McCaughan

FWIW, I didn't get zillions of pings from Lens.

Erik the Outgolfer

I'm pretty sure those pings were what brought you here :P

GentlePurpleRain

@EriktheOutgolfer Nope. I had the tab open, and noticed activity on it.

user602338

How can I have a private chat with someone?!

GentlePurpleRain

Okay, I disabled that "feature" of Lens.

Erik the Outgolfer

7:34 PM

Gareth, not you

Gareth McCaughan

I might have got one ping. I didn't get lots.

John Dvorak

@user602338 no

GentlePurpleRain

@user602338 If you don't want to play Contact, please leave.

Mithrandir

@GentlePurpleRain lovely, I've unsuspended Lens

GentlePurpleRain

Lens is running

Locutus of Borg

7:34 PM

%shutup

user602338

How about assassins creed ?

Mithrandir

Ok, I won't say anything else for 10 minutes, unless you tell me to !speak. I will continue to star/unstar clues as I'm able, and I'll still keep track of the game.

Locutus of Borg

(actually for much longer than 10min but I didn't bother updating that message)

mod-bot will stay to star things

GentlePurpleRain

Defending: N

Lens

New game ID is 24 (you can use this to !resume an unfinished game if something goes wrong).

Erik the Outgolfer

7:35 PM

two Lens running

John Dvorak

It's nice that kicks are now public, but should we get notifications for them? I can see it getting abused.

10: ...

Mithrandir

That's only for ROs and mods

Erik the Outgolfer

only ROs get notifications for them, and they don't get into your inbox anyway

GentlePurpleRain

10: Nitrogen

John Dvorak

72: Fe+2

10 x

Gareth McCaughan

7:36 PM

contact 10

GentlePurpleRain

72: Nickel?

John Dvorak

72 ✔️

Erik the Outgolfer

um, Nickel is "Ni"

caird coinheringaahing

56: ___ say ___

Gareth McCaughan

and it's two after iron

Erik the Outgolfer

7:37 PM

c56

Gareth McCaughan

contact 56

GentlePurpleRain

56: Never

caird coinheringaahing

56: Correct

GentlePurpleRain

10: NORTH

Mr. Xcoder

776: <-----

Lens

7:38 PM

@JohnDvorak, GentlePurpleRain guessed N for clue #10. Please confirm or deny the guess.

Mithrandir

c776

Erik the Outgolfer

1: I'm veeery spoiled, my family takes care of me, when I grow up, they will put me in a very big enterprise, woo.

10 x

contact 1

1: NEPOTISM

7:38 PM

1: y

John Dvorak

73 Potter's broom

Gareth McCaughan

contact 73

Mithrandir

c73

caird coinheringaahing

57: Carson City

Gareth McCaughan

contact 57

Erik the Outgolfer

7:39 PM

two Lenses running again?

1: winner shoes

c57

c1

c73

c1

Gareth McCaughan

contact 1

GentlePurpleRain

7:39 PM

Why did it say I guessed "N" for #10? For the record, it was "NORTH". Not sure if that makes a difference to the answer.

Gareth McCaughan

I was wondering the same thing

1: NIKE

I was x-ing north

57: NEVADA?

1: NIKE is correct.

caird coinheringaahing

7:40 PM

57: Correct

John Dvorak

74 Really big cloud

GentlePurpleRain

!clues

Erik the Outgolfer

c74

Lens

74 : Really big cloud (by John Dvorak)
1 : winner shoes (by Mithrandir) (contacted by Gareth McCaughan, ManyPinkHats, Erik the Outgolfer)
73 : Potter's broom (by John Dvorak) (contacted by ManyPinkHats, Gareth McCaughan, Mithrandir)
776 : <----- (by Mr. Xcoder) (contacted by Mithrandir)
10 : ... (by John Dvorak) (contacted by Gareth McCaughan)

Gareth McCaughan

contact 74 maybe

GentlePurpleRain

7:40 PM

74: NIMBUS

!kill 1

John Dvorak

74 x

Gareth McCaughan

still contact 74

GentlePurpleRain

74: NIMBOSTRATUS? NIMBOCUMULUS?

ManyPinkHats

c776

John Dvorak

74 x

GentlePurpleRain

7:41 PM

I should totally know 73...

pass 73

Lens

Clue #73 (Potter's broom) was contacted by: ManyPinkHats, Gareth McCaughan, Mithrandir. Make your guesses (one each)!

Gareth McCaughan

73. NIMBUS 2000

Lens

(Multiple guesses will be ignored until the first is confirmed.)

ManyPinkHats

73: NIMBUS 2000

Lens

You haven't contacted clue #73. Only those who have contacted the clue may guess. (To see who has contacted it, use !contacts 73)

John Dvorak

7:42 PM

73 ✔️ (Nimbus 2000)

Mithrandir

73: NIMBUS TWO THOUSAND

Lens

You guessed correctly. GentlePurpleRain must give up a letter!

There is no clue #73. What exactly are you saying no to?

GentlePurpleRain

Defending: NE

Gareth McCaughan

ha ha ha, NIMBUS begins with N and therefore means the same as NO

John Dvorak

74 lives

10 lives

Mr. Xcoder

7:42 PM

776 dies

Gareth McCaughan

1. Inflammation of an internal organ

c1

2. Ancient queen

@Mr.Xcoder (NUMBER?)

c2

7:43 PM

75 Partial death

GentlePurpleRain

2: NEFERTITI

Mr. Xcoder

@Mithrandir Yep

Lens

The word being defended starts with NE. Your guess starts with N. Try again.

Gareth McCaughan

2. Yes

GentlePurpleRain

75: NECROSIS?

Gareth McCaughan

7:43 PM

3. Correct

Lens

There was no guess made for #2. What exactly are you confirming?

75 ✔️

@Lens come on...

ugh

There is no clue #3. What exactly are you confirming?

There was no guess made for #75. What exactly are you confirming?

Gareth McCaughan

7:43 PM

2. Correct

Mithrandir

shush Lens

Lens

There was no guess made for #2. What exactly are you confirming?

GentlePurpleRain

What is wrong with Lens?

John Dvorak

!who

Lens

I don't recognize that command, or you don't have sufficient permission. Type !help for a list of valid commands.

Erik the Outgolfer

7:43 PM

hm, I wonder if a regex in Lens contains a \w that should be a \w+ instead

Lens

@Mr.Xcoder, it's been more than 1.5 minutes since GentlePurpleRain provided a new letter, and you still haven't indicated whether clue #776 is alive or dead.

Gareth McCaughan

!kill 776

ManyPinkHats

Maybe it would be best to actually formalize the chat standards, so that there isn't as much stuff Lens can fail on

Gareth McCaughan

much better to teach Lens to understand better what people actually do

!kill 2

GentlePurpleRain

I don't think it's Lens not understanding; I think it's a bug in processing after understanding.

John Dvorak

7:45 PM

76 ({[]})

c76

contact 76

!kill 75

76: NESTED PARENTHESES

Mithrandir

The word being defended starts with NE. Your guess starts with N. Try again.

Lens

7:45 PM

The word being defended starts with NE. Your guess starts with N. Try again.

John Dvorak

76 ✔️

Erik the Outgolfer

"PARENTHESES"?

Mithrandir

There was no guess made for #76. What exactly are you confirming?

Lens

There was no guess made for #76. What exactly are you confirming?

GentlePurpleRain

bah

John Dvorak

7:45 PM

what.

ManyPinkHats

Normally, I'd agree, but there seems to be struggles with that. And yes, some problems don't seem to be with the NLP, but some are just plain weird

GentlePurpleRain

@EriktheOutgolfer and brackets and braces

Gareth McCaughan

Lesson: Never defend a word beginning with Y or N.

John Dvorak

Better: fix Lens

Gareth McCaughan

well, yes

John Dvorak

7:46 PM

(and Mithrandir)

Erik the Outgolfer

@GarethMcCaughan or X

Gareth McCaughan

but only GPR can do that, and all of us can do the other thing

GentlePurpleRain

It shouldn't matter. It looks at who is responding,and only interprets it as "yes" or "no" if it's the clue owner.

Gareth McCaughan

clearly it shouldn't matter...

GentlePurpleRain

!clues

Lens

7:47 PM

76 : ({[]}) (by John Dvorak) (contacted by Gareth McCaughan, Erik the Outgolfer)
1 : Inflammation of an internal organ (by Gareth McCaughan) (contacted by ManyPinkHats)
74 : Really big cloud (by John Dvorak) (contacted by Gareth McCaughan, Erik the Outgolfer)
10 : ... (by John Dvorak) (contacted by Gareth McCaughan)

GentlePurpleRain

!kill 76

Gareth McCaughan

3. One Laptop Per Child founder

Mithrandir

There is already an active clue #3. Please edit or repost with a different number.

Gareth McCaughan

wat

GentlePurpleRain

Okay, I'm killing Lens.

ManyPinkHats

7:47 PM

%clues

Mithrandir

10: ... (by John Dvorak) (contacted by Gareth McCaughan)
75: Partial death (by John Dvorak)
1: Inflammation of an internal organ (by Gareth McCaughan) (contacted by ManyPinkHats)
76: ({[]}) (by John Dvorak) (contacted by Gareth McCaughan, Erik the Outgolfer)
3: Rebuke (by GentlePurpleRain) (status uncertain)
74: Really big cloud (by John Dvorak) (contacted by Gareth McCaughan, Erik the Outgolfer)
2: Ancient queen (by Gareth McCaughan) (contacted by ManyPinkHats)

John Dvorak

77 Fantasy movie with sound track provided by Limahl

Gareth McCaughan

we need to kill Mithrandir too. (As it were.)

GentlePurpleRain

Some of those are from the last game.

Erik the Outgolfer

assassinates Mithrandir

Mithrandir

7:48 PM

eeeeekk

John Dvorak

It's sentient!

Mithrandir

so what clues should be alive?

GentlePurpleRain

I guess we're in manual mode.

I think the star board ---> is correct.

ManyPinkHats

Feature request: Lens/Mithrandir should exhibit existential fear when detecting a message implying they should be killed

GentlePurpleRain

@ManyPinkHats Added to TODO list. :P

Locutus of Borg

7:49 PM

%kill 2

John Dvorak

-1. Giving robots a sense of self-preservation is a road to hell.

Locutus of Borg

%kill 75

%kill 76

Mr. Xcoder

Can't play anymore, \o

Erik the Outgolfer

bye

Locutus of Borg

%kill 3

GentlePurpleRain

7:49 PM

1: NEPHRITIS?

Gareth McCaughan

bye Mr X

Mithrandir

The word being defended starts with NE. Your guess starts with N. Try again.

Gareth McCaughan

1. Yes

Mithrandir

There was no guess made for #1. What exactly are you confirming?

Gareth McCaughan

oh shut up Mithrandir

Locutus of Borg

7:50 PM

@Mithrandir the heck

GentlePurpleRain

I thought Mithrandir was dying?

Erik the Outgolfer

I thought we were going to mourn Mith lol

Gareth McCaughan

2. Unopposed

Mithrandir

dead

John Dvorak

orders a straitjacket and a sound-proof room

Gareth McCaughan

7:51 PM

4. Annoying kitten

John Dvorak

78 Annoying practice that Black Hat Guy once got beat at after a failed warning

GentlePurpleRain

4: NERMAL

Gareth McCaughan

yes, 4 is NERMAL

contact 78

ManyPinkHats

c78

Erik the Outgolfer

c74, still

Gareth McCaughan

7:51 PM

someone star 2?

pass 78

78. NERD SNIPING

78: NEGGING

ah, MPH is right actually

John Dvorak

78 ✔️ (negging)

Gareth McCaughan

7:52 PM

silly me

my apologies for nearly burning a perfectly good clue

GentlePurpleRain

Defending: N E T

John Dvorak

Nerd sniping was done by Cueball

Locutus of Borg

%shutup

Erik the Outgolfer

> Gareth make mistake
World end

Gareth McCaughan

2 dies; was NEM CON

John Dvorak

7:53 PM

77 dies, Neverending Story

Gareth McCaughan

3 dies; was Nicholas NEGROPONTE

Mithrandir

Ok, I won't say anything else for 100000000 minutes, unless you tell me to !speak. I will continue to star/unstar clues as I'm able, and I'll still keep track of the game.

John Dvorak

74 dies, nebula

Mithrandir

> [22:52:49] Muted for 100000000 minutes.

John Dvorak

10 dies, neon

GentlePurpleRain

7:53 PM

Will that be long enough...? :P

um, neon is "Ne"

Neon is Ne

(not "N")

which begins with N

and is in position 10

Erik the Outgolfer

but isn't "..."

John Dvorak

7:53 PM

It was clued as 10

Erik the Outgolfer

those ellipsis clues are just very ambiguous...

John Dvorak

NaH

Locutus of Borg

1: "I'm not your toy"

Gareth McCaughan

(personally I generally loathe those infer-from-the-clue-number clues, but as they go this was a reasonable one)

GentlePurpleRain

^+1

John Dvorak

7:55 PM

78 Rope lattice

Erik the Outgolfer

^^^+100

GentlePurpleRain

78: NET

John Dvorak

78 ✔️

78 Cat 5 lattice

Gareth McCaughan

contact 78

GentlePurpleRain

78: NETWORK

John Dvorak

7:55 PM

78 ✔️

Erik the Outgolfer

2: Ancient.

Gareth McCaughan

3. "... the horned moon, with one bright star / Within the ____ tip"

oops duplicate number

Locutus of Borg

c3

John Dvorak

79 Not the gross one

GentlePurpleRain

It's snowing outside right now... :(

Gareth McCaughan

7:57 PM

4. Binjamin

c79

contact 79

pass 3

3: NETHER

Yup, 3 was NETHER

7:57 PM

GPR was defending: NETHER

Gareth McCaughan

(it's a quotation from Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner)

boom

Erik the Outgolfer

2 was NETSCAPE

Gareth McCaughan

4 was NETANYAHU of course

GentlePurpleRain

@GarethMcCaughan Apparently Coleridge had a poor understanding of astronomy...

John Dvorak

79 was netto

Gareth McCaughan

7:58 PM

79 must have been NETT

Locutus of Borg

to continue with famous Israelis 1 was NETTA

Gareth McCaughan

I don't know whether he had a poor understanding, or whether it was meant to be eerie and weird precisely because it can't actually happen by natural means.

Mithrandir

BTW, random observation: This room has 30,000+ more messages than The Sphinx's Lair, all-time.

John Dvorak

> Either there's a gaping hole in the Moon or a thermonuclear war on its surface

Gareth McCaughan

Would rather not defend again right now

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