Contact

contact 3

4. Beatles album which spells its own name in flag semaphore on the cover

4:49 AM

3 is hesitantly

3: correct

(modified 4)

4: contact

it's not like I know any Beatles albums

I think

4:50 AM

4 is hey jude

at least now I don't have to spend time thinking about it

61: London plane road

4 is not Hey Jude

4 is hello

I was going to guess it anyway, even if you didn't edit

4:50 AM

Nor Hello

contact 4

(If these happen to also be right then I apologise, because I only happen to know this album for just its cover)

61 is heath row

pass on 60

yep on 61 (though it's just one word I think)

4 is help

4:51 AM

Yup 4 is Help

60: HEE HAW

correct on 60!

oh, god

Eric Tressler defending H E A

I'm disappointed in myself over 60

62: Some people call him the space cowboy... (kinda)

Contact Sp3000 removed clue

4:53 AM

50. dworl or eglob

contact 50

Yeah messed that up, sorry. Fixed now.

1: Then add

2: Warm up with tea

contact 2, 50

1 is heat

4:55 AM

1: incorrect

50 is hears

50 is not HEARS

62 hint: Ledger

Contact 62 I guess :P

62 is heath

4:58 AM

yeah

did he ever sing that song? i couldn't remember the guy, steve someone?

6. Medic

I remember Maurice

contact 6

6 is healer

4:59 AM

6. Yup

No, but the song was called The Joker

51: 50+1 (note: non-obvious)

can I pass whenever, or only after claimed contact?

ok, pass on 50

HEART

If it's the word your defending, you can pass before any contacts (to signify that you think someone's got it). Otherwise in general you pass after contacts

Downgoat

5:00 AM

@EricTressler well you generally should only pass after a contact but if like 30 minutes have gone by and no one contact the it's ok to pass

50 is indeed EART(H) -> (H)EART

oh.. i was thinking of words to describe the wrapping, (shear isn't very close), and ignored the words themselves. nice clue

Eric Tressler defending H E A T

1, 2 stand

51: HEARTH

64: cartoon cat

64 is heathcliff

5:02 AM

yup

44. Motherboard part (2 words)

contact 44

ffao has contact on 2, btw

44 is heat sink

yeah.. I was thinking, but I guess etiquette

Pass on 2

44. Yup

5:04 AM

2: heat?

hm. I see now that I didn't guess that.

2: correct

Eric Tressler defending H E A T H

65: plant

1 stands

5:09 AM

pass on 65

65: HEATHER?

yeah

yep

that's it, game over

1 was heathen, which I only got now

5:09 AM

was that 1 as well?

ah

yep

I considered heat for 2 and also heathen for 1, but I couldn't come up with a good enough justification for that being 1. I should probably have guessed more

someone else?

how did you come up with heathen for 1 without understanding why?

It's @Helka's turn, I believe

I don't want to defend

5:12 AM

@ffao because when it stood after HEAT, and there was a "then" there

Well, I don't really have enough time to defend

I can try to think of something

but I only later realized it only makes sense in the context of the given letters; it doesn't stand on its own

Feb 12 at 21:15, by Rubio

We've had four clues at once. And as many contacts as people can establish.

^ wow, this was such a small number for nowadays

ffao defending: L

oh my god, we had four clues at once??

5:17 AM

1: Where lace is

contact 1?

pass 1

1 is lady

Have I said I'm the best defender ever?

1: incorrect - I was thinking of the lanthanides - La, Ce, etc.

5:20 AM

i had to look up uranium, as you recall

2,3: Which is (censored), the (censored) of the 2 or the 3 of the (censored)?

4: \begin{document}

4: latex

10: dangerous to ships (2 words)

4: correct

10': opposite of 10

(no clue what 10 is, though)

11, 12: ... and jellyfish, ... and germs

11', 12': [citation needed]

13: Sound of a drowning mathematician

I want to revise my clue, but I missed the deadline

is everyone else gone? I'm bad at this.

5:25 AM

the only reason I'm not feeling terrible about myself is that no one is contacting those either

@Helka @Sp3 there?

5. Rabbit

9. Rabbit or hare

10: dangerous to your sturdy ships (2 words)

14, 15: N/S, E/W

stars for 2, 3, 11, 12, 11', 12', 13 please

contact 10'

yay

5:27 AM

contact 11,12

9: leporid?

@EricTressler but not 11' and 12'?

9: Never heard of the word so it might also work for all I know, but not the one I have in mind

no

16: Deus' backsolve of Rubio

5:29 AM

we all backsolve everything anyway

pass 11

Contact 16, but I have no idea if ffao remembers

11 is ladies

11: incorrect

11 was LAMPREYS

bobo really dishing it up with the Puzzling Stack Exchange references there

from the fact that I haven't guessed it yet, the answer to "ffao remembers" is no

5:31 AM

@Sp3000 can you remember some of the things?

at least atm

I don't get lampreys

I can guess at 13

pass 12

12 is ladies

I remember the general theme, but not the individual words

5:31 AM

12: incorrect

@Sp3000 well, you can get 11' and 12' then

12 was LENTILS

Hmm not really

i have no idea what you're referencing

well, that's a problem :P

but I just assumed 12 was the old comedian schtick

and so I extended it to 11

@Sp3000 wait, you know the idea but not where it's from? :(

5:33 AM

contact 14,15

yay, finally

stars for 14, 15, 16 please?

so I should probably think about 14,15,16 for a bit

@boboquack I know it's referring to a specific Puzzling Stack Exchange puzzle although I've forgotten which exact one and it's not helping with 11', 12'

contact 13, I guess

14, 15: lat, long

5:35 AM

oh; wait, I retract contact

are multiple words necessarily specified

no

Not in general - I did it with HEAT SINK earlier just to be fair for first timers :P

pass 16, I really don't get it right now

16. LADLE

16: correct

5:37 AM

(from something something Soupcon metapuzzles)

ah, I think that was epsilon time before I returned to puzzling

but I knew it so fair

ffao defending: L A

14, 15 correct

10 was LIMPET MINE

10' was LIGHTHOUSE

11', 12' was LUDICROUS LOOP

13 was LOG LOG LOG LOG...

5, 9 stay

5:38 AM

that's what I had for 13

except just 3 Logs

2, 3 was LIGHT, LIGHTEST

I don't get 11, 12, or the prime versions

Hi @MorganG!

duh on 2,3

so many puzzling references

hehe

Hi @Sid!

5:39 AM

In the puzzle text for Ludicrous Loop (apparently) each paragraph started with a variation of "Ladies and gentlemen" where only the first syllable was correct from the second paragraph onwards

Being on mobile, I can't see the starboard. So, who's defending?

@Sp3000 first phoneme, you mean?

ffao defending: L A

Eh, probably. Not a linguistics expert here.

I didn't actually read the text of that puzzle

4: Slow musical piece

5:41 AM

contact 4

i was doing the same one

Did someone actually read all that instead of just skipping to the bullet points?

me!

TGE is an IRL friend of mine

-1: [...]

4: largo?

(fyi on mobile, usually I just have the starboard on a second tab and switch between when playing)

4: correct

5:42 AM

6: The best medicine

contact 6

@ffao I didn't even read the bullet points. I simply saw the tag and realised "this isn't for me"

on mobile I just practice my memory skills

6: laughter (or some variation)

incorrect

5:43 AM

@Sid I read the bullet points so I could be appropriately impressed by the solution

uncontact 6

6 is not a very good clue, everyone would guess that

2: Type of flow

@Sp3000 I want to save my remaining MBs of data. :P

unless it's a gambit that relies on the defender ruling out laughter

5:44 AM

well, it's a fine clue now, in light of your guess :-p

contact 2

C2

3: P

2: laminar?

2: correct

3: lap?

5:45 AM

3: correct

i thought it would be something to do with the complexity class

40, 41. Novelty item

4: Quoth xkcd (probably incorrectly) "Oh, when it's in the sky it's called ???" text: "My hobby: confusing people by mixing up linguistically pedantic terms"

Hmm is that a recent one? I don't remember that one

no, that's a result of me clicking the random button a few too many times

5:48 AM

Randall has the best hobbies

Randall should be President

10. Teary