Zendo

Wen1now

2:00 AM

master: 123

boboquack

Guess: True iff has an odd number of distinct prime factors

ASCII-only

123 is false

@boboquack Yes

boboquack

Wait

micsthepick

o/

boboquack

I had one more guessing stone, right?

ASCII-only

2:01 AM

@boboquack Yes (I didn't mess up this time :P)

boboquack

Yay

ffao

sorry for making you factor 1001

boboquack

I didn't

I just know it's XYZ for some X,Y,Z prime

ffao

ASCII had to

Wen1now

I am failing certain you can only guess at the end of your turn

ASCII-only

2:02 AM

@ffao Well I didn't need to :P

Wen1now

7*11*13, commonly known AMC fact

boboquack

@Wen1now I never ended my turn

And your autocorrect is failing

Wen1now

Oh, sorry then

ASCII-only

@Wen1now AMC fact? O_o

Wen1now

AMC - Australia Mathematics comp

ASCII-only

2:03 AM

I know :P remember I'm in Brisbane too, but what is an AMC fact

boboquack

So should I make some rule now?

ffao

a competition in which knowing the factorization of 1001 is a useful fact doesn't sound like a very good math competition

@boboquack yes

Wen1now

The factorisation of 1001 is really nice and beautiful

It's one of those must-know factorisations

boboquack

Hmm, sorry, thinking

Let's do a word one - using this checker

True: BEARD

False: HAIRY

Wen1now

An AMC fact is just a fact which gets typically used in an AMC

typically as in once every few years

boboquack

2:10 AM

Order: Wen1now, ASCII-only, ffao, micsthepick

Wen1now

The checker isn't working for me

ASCII-only

@Wen1now Pressed enter?

Wen1now

master: master

ERR_CONNECTION_RESET

boboquack

master is false

ASCII-only

@Wen1now Ctrl+f5 maybe

master: cat

Wen1now

2:11 AM

I've reloaded a few times, nothing happened

boboquack

cat is false

star the order please

ffao

master: bank

boboquack

bank is false

micsthepick

mondo: tear

(guess true)

ASCII-only

guess true

Wen1now

2:15 AM

guess true

ffao

guess false

boboquack

tear is true

micsthepick

Guess: A koan contains the word 'EAR'

boboquack

? Do you want to guess or not?

Wen1now

micsthepick hasn't finished yet

micsthepick

2:17 AM

1 min ago, by micsthepick

Guess: A koan contains the word 'EAR'

Wen1now

I think we need to do a [pass] or something to end a turn

boboquack

@micsthepick eared is false

micsthepick

I'm out of stones

[pass]

Wen1now

And I gtg

ASCII-only

@Wen1now So is it your turn or mine

boboquack

2:19 AM

Order: ASCII-only, ffao, micsthepick

Wen1now

Sorry, I'm pulling out

Who wants my stone?

micsthepick

me

ASCII-only

master: queen

micsthepick

I'll give it to FFAO if I get it

Wen1now

You guys can split it into thirds, take a third each

ffao

2:20 AM

that sounds reasonable

boboquack

queen is false

ASCII-only

@Wen1now Good idea

So we'd need to phrase our guess in a way in which it's still readable even though it only has every third letter

ffao

master: forth

um, ascii didn't pass

this is confusing

ASCII-only

Oh wait pass then

boboquack

forth is false

ffao

2:24 AM

I have no stones anyway, so go mics

micsthepick

mondo: stare

guess false

boboquack

sorry

forth is true

whoops

@ffao @mics do you want to change your actions?

I never had a choice

no

guess false

2:27 AM

Guess false

stare is false

:/

[PASS]

Too late to join? :P

it's never too late to join

micsthepick

2:29 AM

I would let someone join at any time

ASCII-only

master: reams

boboquack

Order: ASCII-only, ffao, micsthepick, Sp3000

micsthepick

beaten.

boboquack

reams is false

@micsthepick ?

micsthepick

I was going to type out the order

@ASCII-only passing?

ffao

2:31 AM

waiting for ASCII to pass

@micsthepick yes

master: tryst

tryst is false

everything is false

pass, no clue yet

boboquack

@mics

Hello?

Sp3000

2:41 AM

Should we skip mics temporarily?

ffao

um

I think that's a good idea

they can rejoin when they come back

Sp3000

master: froth

ASCII-only

ping me when it's my turn pls tyvm

ffao

@bobo

micsthepick

sorry

master: temporary

Sp3000

2:46 AM

Well I guess that works (once bobo returns)

ffao

we can skip mics but we can't continue without bobo, so I hope he does

Sp3000

Well time to stare at that C4 again I guess

ffao

.-.

boboquack

@Sp3000 froth is true

@micsthepick temporary is false

Sp3000

Hmmm

micsthepick

2:59 AM

@ffao ^

boboquack

Sorry

internet dropped out

Sp3000

Well I have no stones, dunno about mics

ASCII-only

My turn then?

Sp3000

But in any case @ASCII-only is soon

micsthepick

I think I have one

Sp3000

3:00 AM

Oops belated ping

no guessing for me

master: aster

aster is false

Master: bold

bold is true

3:03 AM

Pass

micsthepick

ohh

master: koan

boboquack

koan is false

Sp3000

master: rate

micsthepick

PASS

welp

Sp3000

(oops too fast sorry)

boboquack

3:05 AM

rate is false

ASCII-only

master: interesting

ffao

ASCII asked the same word I was going to

boboquack

interesting is true

ASCII-only

@ffao O_o

I must be psychic lol

ffao

Hivemind o_O

Now I need a new one

Master: terror

boboquack

3:07 AM

terror is true

micsthepick

hmm

ffao

Do I have more than one stone?

boboquack

I think you have one from Wen1now

but no others

ffao

Yolo

Guess: the first and last letter are two apart

boboquack

Correct!

Good job

DAB?

micsthepick

3:10 AM

would follow the secret rule

boboquack

yes

ASCII-only

Okay, I can't play another game, bye everyone

boboquack

I can play again

ffao

Anyone want to take master? I'm on mobile

boboquack

but I might drop out at some point, internet is playing up

micsthepick

3:11 AM

I could take master I think

boboquack

@ffao I would have thought master is easier on mobile than student (not than computer)

Sp3000

(need to head back to work :/)

ffao

Not when you're actually walking and have to reply every X seconds or the game stops

micsthepick

I can't unstar anything :P

ASCII-only

I could write an app to make it easier on mobile, but not sure if that would be allowed though (and not sure how helpful it would be)

micsthepick

3:14 AM

o/ if able to play again:

o/

boboquack

o/

@ffao how did you get it?

ffao

o/

ASCII-only

@boboquack ~~magic~~ psychic ability

Everyone in Puzzling is psychic I think

ffao

Forth and froth having the same truth in essence suggested that only the extremes matter

I confirmed this with bold

micsthepick

We can play with 3.

should I go ahead?

ffao

3:15 AM

Then it was just a matter of seeing what was common between bd and fh

boboquack

(and tr)

ASCII-only

So basically when I randomly guessed "interesting" I was just lucky :P

ffao

I already knew the rule when I guessed tr

boboquack

? tear was ages ago

ffao

Interesting was to check if it could be descending too

Huh, I forgot tear

If I remembered I would have guessed one turn earlier

boboquack

3:17 AM

@mics please do

micsthepick

A valid koan is a word that may be defended in the game Contact

True: send

False: receive

ffao

Recieve couldn't be defended, though :P

micsthepick

oops :P

ffao

Master: carbon

micsthepick

carbon is False

(Someone can star the examples if they like, and the following)

Order: ffao, bobo

boboquack

3:21 AM

hmm

Master: stop

stop is False

Master: carp

carp is False

Master: a

a is False

3:24 AM

Master: sender

sender is True

Master: bend

bend is True

Master: bent

bent is True

3:29 AM

Master: endocrine

micsthepick

endocrine is True

Master: band

band is False

bland or band?

bland could be true

silly typo

boboquack

3:35 AM

Mondo: bland - guess false

micsthepick

@ffao your guess?

boboquack

@ffao?

oops

ffao

FLse

micsthepick

i'll take that as False

False was the correct answer, and you both get a guessing stone

bobo gets to use theirs first, if they choose to do so

boboquack

Guess: True if the word contains en

micsthepick

3:39 AM

counterexample:

dope is True

boboquack

yay more info

ffao

Dope?

Um

Master tops

micsthepick

tops is False

guess or pass?

ffao

Pass

boboquack

Master: doer

can I edit

micsthepick

3:46 AM

doer is True

boboquack

Mondo: doer, guess true

oops

oh well

micsthepick

nvm

ffao

Eh, did you have a good guess?

Master: dare

micsthepick

dare is False

ffao

I half expected that to be true

Pass, out of ideas

micsthepick

3:49 AM

:)

boboquack

I expected that to be true :P

micsthepick

>:)

ffao

I guess we had the same idea :P

boboquack

I thought it was 'two consecutive letters "add up" to S'

hmm

Master: jig

j+i=s, right?

ffao

Should be

micsthepick

3:53 AM

jig is False

but yes, j+i is s if a=1

ffao

Yep, definitely not that

Master: train

I forgot it was my turn

micsthepick

train is False

boboquack

mondo: dollar - guess true

ffao?

ffao

True

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