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11:01 AM

Ah. Looks like I am in time to see a game end

Well, we can start again

Sherlock9 defending: A

10. The guy who made your name.

Are we playing?

10 It's not ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

He-llo??? Anyone there?

11:07 AM

We are

@Sherlock9 Yeah

@Wen1now yeah

I can think of too many words starting with a

Any other guesses?

Boo

90: Rotate 180 degrees

I mean, I know that's not the actual definition. But I'm just going for guessable clues

11:10 AM

60. P: Bee

60'. V: Bird

@Sp3000 maybe contact 60?

Maaaaybe contact 90

25. A Void

91: Lobster, perhaps

Re 25: we're not on L :(

11:13 AM

(Maybe 25 is a bit unfair that, if Sherlock isn't on Puzzling)

40: Not a question

C40

@Sp3000 I know we are on A..

Sorry, Internet troubles

40 answer

40 ✔️

Why'd you say we weren't on L?

11:16 AM

C25 perhaps

25 absence

(because my knee-jerk reaction answer started with L)

Contact 90, loosely

@Sherlock9 no.

why use knee-jerk reaction instead of reflex

11:17 AM

41: Isaac with three laws

111: f(infinity)

c111 (but probably not)

c111

c111

I'll take a swin

1. Part of circumference

11:19 AM

contact 41

c1

c41

contact 1

may'swell contact these while they last

lol two of the Isaacs (AFAIK) have three laws

Contact 41 I guess

11:20 AM

I'm fairly certain just Isaac would've done

(but nobody was contacting it)

There were no contacts for just Isaac

112: *

41 Asimov

I'd say "Isaac ____" would be fine

11:21 AM

1 Arc

Oops. I should've looked at all active clues

41 ✔️

1 ✓

113, 114, 115: ^^^

92: 10^-10

c113,114,115 I guess

11:22 AM

c90 I guess

c113, 114, 115

92 angstrom

Hint for 91: Actually, I'm not 100% sure it's correct. Also lobster is misleading (if it is correct)

92 ✓

does "I guess" mean not certain

92': 10^-18

c92'

11:23 AM

contact 91, assuming it's wrong

Contact 91

1: Not ANSI

why are none of my clues starred

contact 1

1': ...

c92' I think

1 ASCII

11:24 AM

1 ✓

except I gtg pretty soon

92' ATTO?

so do I, so maybe I shouldn't have given so many clues

This may be kinda unfair

1: 1 (1)

yes on 92'

11:25 AM

c1??

Wait taking the 'this may be kinda unfair' into account, I can knock off a few question marks

42: vegetable or staging

112 isn't starred

@Wen1now a few = 2? :P

(and that is a real clue)

91 ARTHROPOD

11:27 AM

Contact 1

c112

92' is still starred

91 ✓ I guess

113 114 115 AT ALL ACTIVE

Contact 112

11:27 AM

yes on the 113 chain

112 ASTERISK

yes on 112

Okay I guess we can't snipe Sherlock9 with easy clues

@Wen1now Yes. That is indeed correct

47: <---

11:28 AM

contact 47?

c47

47': <---

c47

47'': <---

c47

c47'

11:29 AM

c47'

47''': <---

Apostrophe

116: Name of a programmming language that involves taking the crc32 of parts of the source code

47''': yup, APOSTROPHE

unc47'

11:30 AM

c two of 47, 47' and 47'' I guess

uncontact 47'

(star all the 47s please)

1' isn't starred

Was 25 ever guessed?

@ppperry ~~It is...~~ or is it a ninja star

11:31 AM

didn't look starred to me

I guessed absence for 25

Oh ABYSS for 25

@Sherlock9 I already said No to that

6: Contains benzene rings

Neither is it ABYSS

@ASCII-only contact 6

6: AROMATIC

11:32 AM

Uncontact 25

25 isn't even starred I think

(I would do 47'''' but that's already been guessed :P)

@Wen1now that's probably because (a) people are too conservative with their stars or (b) they don't think the clue is worthy enough to be starred

It's starred now btw

Sorry for dropping syntax, on phone

11:34 AM

Is it not because there are too many stars to fit on the starboard

1' ANSI

yes on 1'

55: who entered..

contact 55

@ASCII-only there is never Too many stars. You just need to reduce your screen size

47+': Husband

11:35 AM

111 ALEPH

@Sid Nope, there's a hard limit... my screen size is more than enough to show all the current stars

47+'': Husband's father

55': Recent puzzle theme that may seem a bit "out there"

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/53490/contact/?tab=stars

Okay cya

11:36 AM

90 and 60 have been out there and contacted for a long time

Somebody else can man the 90 clue. I vote ascii only

Contact 55, 55'

Alright, I think I should pass on one of these

PASS 90

Did anyone contact that

I'm gonna bank on 90. AMBIGRAM as the closest thing that comes to mind

11:37 AM

If 90 isn't AXIS then I say that the hint was misleading

c90 maybe (forgot to do this, IDK if allowed)

@ASCII-only (not allowed)

noooo

@Wen1now Help how to man this clue

Contact 6 someone?

Anyway, we seriously have enough clues now :P

11:39 AM

RIP Wen is now a zombie

Okay then PASS 25

wen said "okay cya", so they probably just left

VTC too many clues

My guess for 90: ABOUT TURN (have another one but a lot less fitting)

@Sherlock9 (I uncontacted, did anyone else contact?)

11:41 AM

I'd like to contact 6

contact 25, 6

... now someone did

@Avigrail voila

@MikeQ pls guess

Oh @ppperry I guessed ALEPH for 111

11:42 AM

@Mithrandir contrabass?

25 AVOID ?

no on 111

@MikeQ :| i will be so disappointed if this is actually it

@MikeQ (@Sid?)

I have to leave now.

11:45 AM

o/

where is everyone

(111 was ASYMPTOMITE, 116 was A PEAR TREE)

yay I got 111 right

Although that isn't exactly correct

wait

Pass 60?

wth that's not a word @ppperry do you mean ASYMPTOTE

11:46 AM

I can't contact anything, and there are enough clues already

@Sherlock9 Sid is AFK and only contacter

I contacted 6

Stars need to be cleared on 111, 116, 90

I contacted 1.

I can't reach those

Pass 55, 55'

11:48 AM

I contacted two of 47(')(') as well

55. AVIGRAIL

@Sherlock9 can only pass one at a time

wait 55 is not starred has it been cleared already

contact 55

@Avigrail it's already been passed, you can't contact now :/

11:49 AM

Oh ppperry left, maybe that's why 55 was cleared

55 then

In that case 55'. ALIENS

c55' but almost certainly not (does it count as passed)

@Mithrandir Oh I misunderstood. I thought it was a clue, nvm then

user image

55' ✓

11:51 AM

that is not a check mark

Whee. Next letter, @Sherlock!

Can we assume Sid is MIA and clear stars on his clues

(was sort of wondering whether 55' was unfair though, dunno if Sherlock checks Puzzling)

If he doesn't I'd say yes

Sherlock9 defending: A O

11:53 AM

I mean, there's plenty of other contacted clues anyway

I haven't checked Puzzling in ages

OK, everything dies ;P

60 - apiary, 60' - aviary

Yep

Yep everything does

11:54 AM

47 dies; ARWEN

47' dies; AVATAR

@Sp3000 :| aviary != birf

47'' dies; ARROW

those are the two I got lol

42 dies, asparagus

:| why arrow

11:54 AM

Ohh, that completely went over my head

staging?

47+' dies; ARAGORN

His profile picture

47+'' dies; ARATHORN

@Sherlock9 but why is that ARROW

11:55 AM

@ASCII-only "<--" is arrow

@Mithrandir :| three LotR clues = too many for starboard

oh .-.

@ASCII-only meh

1, 6 die, any guesses?

Aromate?

I had AROMATIC but close enough

11:56 AM

A for 1

1 ✓

1: Main artery

7: very pumped for this

2: mail service

@ASCII-only It's "apiary : bee :: aviary : bird" - it wasn't meant to imply that the answer was a type of bird

@Sp3000 Oh, I guess that works

11:58 AM

Contact 2

Hello

Contact 2

Asparagus staging = you throw off fuel tanks two by two while also using thrusters on all of them. Optimal in theory and popular among KSP players but hell to make in real life.

RIP nobody knows 1

c1

Contact 1

11:59 AM

I'm sure we're just expecting Sherlock to get one and aren't bothered contacting

How is knowledge of PSE unfair on a PSE chat room but LOTR is okay

@MikeQ It's not PSE-specific

@MikeQ Right, the clues are for us and not for the defender

I guess?

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