The Sphinx's Lair - 2016-09-04

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12:18 AM

I just realized now that this room is called 'The Sphinx's Lair' and not 'The Sphinx's Liar'... Always thought it was some kind of joke I didn't get. This is embarrassing, so I'm posting it here :P

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user61230

12:47 AM

@Randal'Thor The first time I saw one of these was in person, and I was blown away, legitimately counting the spikes.

2:41 AM

@Randal'Thor "Illuminati Confirmed"

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5:53 AM

I thought that what defined fractals was having "fractional" -- really, non-integer -- dimension. So if you built something in stages like the Koch snowflake, but managed enough variety in the ways each stage was derived from the last, so that it isn't self-similar, it'd still be fractal.

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9:23 AM

@ABcDexter Lol for that link you posted on my answer... I finished The Alchemist just a week ago. That quote was the primary reason I posted that answer.

10:07 AM

@manshu you're welcome ^_^

2 hours later…

12:11 PM

"Eventually inspiration strikes and after several minutes" - I wish... I think my goal for this year on puzzling is to answer one of rand al'thor's questions correctly :P

Anyone who does so deserves a medal

@BeastlyGerbil Maybe we should introduce a golden badge for it?

@LukasRotter, There should be a new class badge for that, diamond badges :p

Ever tried anagramming rand al'thor?

12:27 PM

Just did so, this is what I got:

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So not really anything

Oh no... I think I'Ve found what he meant...:

Although I quite like Harlot Darn...

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...

Never heard the word 'althorn'.

Google says it's some instrument.

Musical instrument

I guess the one you meant is "darn harlot"?

12:31 PM

If you look at the bottom of rand al'thor's profile you'll see what it means

@LukasRotter Uhhhh....hush hush befor rand comes..

@Ankoganit I think he has something to explain to us :p

Hugh Meyers has the best anagram....

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"Huge Rhymes"

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So very true

My anagram is 'Liberty Bagels' :P

@BeastlyGerbil Or "Really big, best".

12:37 PM

I prefer that one :P

The best ones I found for mine so far are "ultra stoker" and "ultra stroke"... Kinda sound like some pokemon attacks imo.

Have you ever played "There is no game"? Here

Easy enough, but sure to give you a good smile.

Lol. I have firefox 48 and I get this:

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Can someone explain to me what a browser is? :P

That's sad...

Do you have any android device?

It's on Google Play

Yeah, but I'll update firefox to 48.0.2 real quick. Maybe that makes the major difference :P I'll try it on android if that doesnt work

12:46 PM

Do you know of any such "weird" kind of game?

My favourites are this and the "That Level Again"series...

Aaah I've played that, fantastic game

Nevermind... It was (unsurprisingly) my fault. I forgot to fully enable JavaScript... So the error message is just a bit misleading

Ah, that makes sense...

One problem is that the game is real short...

Took me like 20 mins to finish

Aaaaah I just completed there is no game. Very clever

I think I'll make a puzzle out of it one day

1:06 PM

@BeastlyGerbil That'll be cool!

"There is no Puzzle" ==> "Closed as unclear what you're asking." :p

:P

@BeastlyGerbil You should also make a story out of it so it fits in the (presumably) next topic challenge: story

Yeah good idea

I'm currently working on an arcade/casino for my next puzzle so I'll create it for my next one

Gotta go now

Bye!

Nice talking with you people

:)

I got to go too, bye

1:52 PM

@Randal'Thor, congratulations on becoming the user with the most rep (well at least until Gamow comes back) :)

2:26 PM

@LukasRotter I'm surprised that one is lasting so long ... but then it is the weekend. I'll hold off on adding a hint until Monday or Tuesday.

@BeastlyGerbil You mean only mods can answer my questions? :-P

@Ankoganit !

@Randal'Thor, more the other way around, anyone who can answer your questions deserves to be a mod :P

@BeastlyGerbil Thanks!! It's good to be back in my rightful place :-D

And by the end of October I may have a few more thousand anyway.

probably

@BeastlyGerbil Nah, I've posted some easy ones too.

Even the "moderate visual number puzzle" wasn't too challenging. It took far longer to make than it did to solve!

Hi, @Randal'Thor. Yes, that did look as if it took a long time to make. The image was seriously impressive.

2:35 PM

The latest Mysterious Email puzzle was also a tough job to make, but at least it's also (apparently) tough to solve.

Well no leads in an entire day, think it can be classed as difficult

I hope the puzzle that I've been working on all week will be tough to solve too.

@RosieF Sure, but how can you define a fractional-dimension object if it's not self-similar? Using self-similarity is the easiest way to define dimension. You need 4 squares to make one 2 times as large, so the dimension of a sphere is log_2(4)=2. You need 3 Sierpinski triangles to make one 2 times as large, so the dimension of a Sierpinski triangle is log_2(3).

I see. So is the Mandelbrot set fractal only thanks to the (slightly distorted) smaller copies of itself that it contains?

> A fractal is a natural phenomenon or a mathematical set that exhibits a repeating pattern that displays at every scale. If the replication is exactly the same at every scale, it is called a self-similar pattern. An example of this is the Menger Sponge. Fractals can also be nearly the same at different levels. This latter pattern is illustrated in the small magnifications of the Mandelbrot set. Fractals also include the idea of a detailed pattern that repeats itself.

So maybe it has to have structure on every scale (for some rigorous definition of the term) but not necessarily exactly the same structure?

If you see the alphabet fractal that doesn't have the same structure at every scale

2:44 PM

Supposing there were two ways to replace a straight line segment by a longer polyline: the one in the Koch snowflake and some other (perhaps 5 segments of length 1/4, say). Symbolise them by 0 and 1, and let the binary rep of sqrt(2) indicate the order they're applied...

Ooooh! Now that's a beautiful idea.

... assuming that the prevalences of 0 and 1 -> 1/2 each in the limit, do we now have a fractal of well defined dimension? sqrt(log_3(4)*log_4(5)), is it?

Or, to be really devious and avoid such nice things as limits and convergence, 010011000011110000000011111111 (run lengths double)

Or that transcendental number which is all 0's except a 1 in the (n!)th place for each n. The fractal you get that way would probably have the same dimension as if it was all 0's, but still wouldn't be exactly self-similar.

I always felt that using n! was a bit overkill. n^2 or n(n+1)/2 would have done.

For transcendentality?

2:51 PM

Yes.

Or would it only prove irrationality?

Huh, are you sure? I don't remember how the proof goes, but I thought having such big gaps was needed somehow.

OK. It's entirely possible that there was some subtlety I missed.

3:13 PM

@Randal'Thor enigmatic puzzle is not cup of tea. I'm more interested in solving riddles.

I'd say riddles are easier, but some riddles can be very tricky

The later ones are more interesting.

Anyone had a go at this puzzle, btw? Looks interesting.

I've seen it but couldn't figure anything out

3:29 PM

What's wrong with this riddle? Am I missing something?

'A hint when composing riddles: A good riddle usually has some kind of play on words or alternate meaning, so that you have to interpret part of the riddle in a non-obvious way in order to solve it. It is also unambiguous; when you have the solution, it should be obvious that the solution is correct. – GentlePurpleRain♦'

That was a +5 comment

@BeastlyGerbil Most of the lines seem like they do involve wordplay or alternate meanings - I mean, whatever the solution is, it can't be winter and summer and spring. And the solution may very well be obvious once it's found. I really can't see why that riddle has a score of -14 (!!!) and 3 votes to close. Looks like a nice riddle to me.

4:03 PM

@BeastlyGerbil the alphabet fractal was handmade, so it's not a true fractal based on a set

4:25 PM

About fractals - there was a program, called Fract - in the old windows games - I liked playing with it as a kid - trying out different combinations and seeing which would produce the best figures. :)

@MariaDeleva Was the princess puzzle solved?? I am searching for it now, and not getting it...

@Sid, no, it is not solved yet.

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Q: The princess' journey came to a crossroad

This is a sequel to A princess fell in love During her journey, the princess encountered a very strange crossroad. Can you help you her choose a safe way to go to the prince? What would she encounter on each of the roads? Here is a map of the road: Note: You can click on each road to...

cipher lateral-thinking enigmatic-puzzle visual anagram

Yes, thanks... I was looking for it.

No problem. :) Thank you for being interested in it. :)

I think the lateral-thinking tag is important, as it doesn't seem to apply to the solved parts.

4:39 PM

I have an idea for a puzzle in the "Such-and-such Word (TM)" sequence. Should I bother checking if this idea has been used before, or just go ahead and make my puzzle and hope it isn't a duplicate?

What's the title?

@Randal'Thor For your puzzle, I doubt there would be any duplicate...

But yeah, there aren't that many Word(TM) puzzles. If you think you have an unique idea, you probably do

@Areeb I haven't decided yet.

Oh, if you're worried about it, just comb over those puzzles

4:41 PM

@LukasRotter The lateral thinking might be that she loses hope and commits suicide or goes back home and makes up some story or whatever. That could be an alternative answer since all others point towards danger..

@Areeb I thought there were an awful lot, but I'm having trouble finding a search term that will give me a complete list ... apparently SE's search box doesn't like the ™ symbol.

@Sid Then it would be mildly too broad IMO :P I'm still confident the cat part is partially correct, and there's some other part to it. I just can't believe the OP just accidentally put that gray background behing 'cat' :D

@Randal'Thor puzzling.stackexchange.com/…

"Cat" could even mean tigers.... SUFFOCATION even anagrams for Cautions off.. Maybe, that's what the OP is looking for...

@Areeb Danke :-)

4:47 PM

Kein Problem :D

@Sid I think Yandrakus' answer already contains this guess... Wasn't accepted :(

@LukasRotter Ohh... extremely sorry, I didn't see his answer.. Perhaps, hints are required now....

@Sid it is still too early for hints. Besides, hints would spoil it

5:05 PM

Besides, I am sure rand's puzzle is much more complicated than mine :)

@MariaDeleva It shouldn't be that bad :-)

@Randal'Thor, if you are talking about yours - by complicated, I don't mean bad - actually, although I am still bad at solving them, I like such puzzles very much - they require a lot of thinking and teach me a new way of interpreting stuff :)

@MariaDeleva I know it wasn't a criticism :-) I just meant 'bad' as in difficult/time-consuming.

Some of the puzzles on this site are almost like rocket science to me, written in Chinese with substitution cipher. :) But it is because I am still new to all this. :)

There are clues pointing towards what you need to do, but you have to be able to distinguish them from red herrings.

5:13 PM

I am sure there are :)

Oo, an answer. That was timely.

Ah, interesting one. :)

Wow... And there I was, sitting incredulously about how clean and similar to the prequels the answer seems, after I completely went crazy with overanalyzing the families of the people and the siginificance of the capitalized letters :D Great puzzle!

:-D Thanks!

@LukasRotter, I was also looking at the capital letters, but didn't make anything out of them. :)

5:20 PM

Yeah, the links and the capital YOUR and the "family tree" thing you mentioned in a comment were all just part of the flavour text, to make it look like a promotional email.

Once you ignore the stuff that just helps to make it look like spam, what's left as an actual hint is that they keep talking about where you come from.

I realized that all the capitalized words in the text have a total length of 17, which is exactly the number of people mentioned... After that point I completely lost it :P

@LukasRotter Wow ...

yesterday, by Rand al'Thor

It's funny to see everyone barking up wrong trees in the comments :->

:-P

Really?? That was it?? Well, I can take solace from the fact that I at least had took out the birth cities of the 17 people and then thought that @Randal'Thor wouldn't post the same logic twice.... I am a complete idiot....

> Oh, Doctor. Fooling you once was a joy, but fooling you twice the same way? It's a privilege.

@Randal'Thor Oh well... Completely forgot about that in correlation to beastly's comment...

5:26 PM

@Sid I wanted to do something for the history topic challenge, so I came up with the idea of using historical figures somehow, and everything else sort of fell into place around that. But I'd better not use anything about lines on a map next time ;-)

Yeah.. next time, I would first check out everything on a map.. and then proceed to others..

I tell you though, it took a hell of a long time to come up with a good collection of names. Finding famous historical figures born in specific places isn't as easy as you might think.

Originally I was planning to draw two letters in the Americas, but couldn't really find anyone famous born on the west side of America long enough ago to count as 'historical'.

Kudos on finding a Ukrainian composer.

Yep... Posting puzzles on this site is a very tough task.. You can spend 4-5 days on framing a puzzle and it would be solved in 4-5 hours...

@RosieF en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ukrainian_composers ;-)

Originally I was going to use Stravinsky, Borodin, and Mussorgsky, who were all born in St Petersburg, and make the loop of the R very very small, but then I decided that would be too much effort.

5:31 PM

Don't I just know it. I spent days on my first puzzle, making sure that not only did I have questions that have the desired numbers as answers, but that there is a way to deduce each... & Gareth cracked it in just over an hour.

@RosieF, don't worry - my first puzzle here was actually a riddle I was thinking about for several months - and it was solved in about half an hour.

:D

I guess I'm lucky, then. My first puzzle took me around 10 minutes to construct, since it was a bad red herring simple cipher puzzle... Rand al'thor solved it in about 42 seconds, and I remember someone calling him a "puzzling nerd" :D

@LukasRotter Heh. I'd completely forgotten that puzzle, but looking at it now, it does ring a few bells.

3.5 minutes, not 42 seconds :-) This one yesterday, on the other hand, had literally 61 seconds between question and answer.

@Sid: I did the same and couldn't believe that the map thing would be used twice in a series of puzzles. I didn't see the Lambda shape was meant to be an A and screwed up the first shape by putting Chicago in the middle. Never mind.

@Randal'Thor Fairly quick :P Do you coincidentally know if there's any data-explorer query already for getting the fastest accepted answer on a specific SE site? Or do I have to write one myself now?

5:45 PM

@LukasRotter data.stackexchange.com/puzzling/query/79305/…

@MOehm Yeah... Just unlucky... I would wait for the next puzzle of Rand al'Thor unless it doesn't come out in the middle of those horrible things called Exams...

@LukasRotter Or if you count self-answers: data.stackexchange.com/puzzling/query/216360/fastest-answers

@Randal'Thor Thanks, I guess one could say there's still a realistic record to break :P (excluding self-answers)

@MOehm Aww, damn. It's annoying to get so close and yet not all the way :-(

@Randal'Thor Does that list contain answers for closed puzzles??

5:48 PM

@LukasRotter On SFF I once managed 15 seconds: data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/79305/…

@Sid Yes. The record holder is actually for an answer to a bad closed question.

@Sid I may do another Mysterious Email puzzle quite soon, since the agent will obviously need another message when they get to Cairo to tell them where to go. Or would it somehow cheapen the Mysterious Email series to do two close together rather than keeping them as rare gems?

@Randal'Thor Like Sid, I've patted myself on the back for at least having the right idea. But I liked the puzzle. It's not your fault that I was operating under false assumptions.

@Randal'Thor I suppose everyone here will have their opinion here, I guess you could listen to them.. Personally I feel that you should do them maybe once in a few months or something like that...

@LukasRotter The best way to get into the fastest answers list is to hope to be lucky and find a puzzle just posted that you know the answer to... Then, post some nonsense and later edit it to give the correct answer.

I can't believe randalthor managed 800 characters in 19 seconds still

@Sid Right, so maybe the next puzzle's intro text will include the story of what happened at the rendezvous in Cairo.

@Sid Great technique, or I could also just post "42" as a (correct) answer to every question

5:58 PM

@Sid The snag with posting nonsense first is that the edit history will reveal it.

@Sid Not "some nonsense"; that would be abusing the system. It's OK(ish) to post a minimal version of the correct answer and then flesh it out, but not just nonsense.

@LukasRotter, that'll work better

@Randal'Thor Fair enough.

@RosieF Not if you manage to edit the answer within the "gray zone" - I think the first 5 minutes.

I guess I would be suspended for telling that on chat..

6:00 PM

@BeastlyGerbil It was a self-answer, so I might have had the answer ready as soon as I posted the question. (I can't remember for sure, but that'd be my guess.)

@LukasRotter Ooh, didn't know about that. I knew that comments take 5 minutes to set, but didn't know that about answers.

That makes more sense ;)

@LukasRotter Shadow-editing only works as long as nobody posts a comment within that 5 minutes. If I see a nonsense answer posted just to get FGitW, I'll comment on it to make sure everyone sees what that answerer was up to ;-)

Speaking of typing speed: What is your average words per minute? Take the test here! I think you can also post the result as an image.

@LukasRotter I type fast. SE has trained me in that if nothing else did.

6:04 PM

I can vouch for that - I started typing my answer on an easy riddle today, and posted 5 minutes later than rand did :)

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Yay

The 5 wrong words was when I accidentally turned Caps Lock on halfway through without realising

I think in english I'm the average secretarian :P I can get up to 105 in german though.

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@LukasRotter Impressive considering how long some of those German words must be ;)

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:D

Woah

6:06 PM

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i win :P

I feel like my result isn't very good now :P

Wow, I need to work harder to beat @Deusovi

@Deusovi, disappointing. You got a word wrong... :P

@BeastlyGerbil Yeah, I'm so ashamed D: (:P)

6:09 PM

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Improved!

Nice!

Still can't beat me though :P

@Deusovi At least I got 0 wrong words :-P

fair enough

@Randal'Thor, you're going to be at your keyboard typing on those keys until you beat Deusovi now :P

@BeastlyGerbil Yep, you got it :-P

6:15 PM

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Good luck :P

@Doorknob Those digits are different sizes and not perfectly aligned. I call foul.

Hm, I was going to excuse it due to font differences, but the alignment is off too

(@Deusovi ---like this---)

Yeah, that's the font. If I wanted to fake it, I could have edited the HTML :P

@Randal'Thor (thanks, i always forget the syntax for strikeouts - it's different on other sites too)

6:17 PM

Hmmmmm, look at the 2 in 352, its tiny.

All of the 2s are slightly small though

so it's at least semi-plausible

My pessimistic self says 'ITS FAKE!' while my optimistic self says '....ITS PROBABLY FAKE'! :P

And Unfortunately, It doesn't work on my computer. Strange...

Finally an opportunity where my screenshot of the DeepWeb.SE private beta might actually be appreciated:

@BeastlyGerbil Should I take a screen recording while I'm doing it? :P

6:20 PM

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I think I win

Fake

(Please)

years -- lol

@BeastlyGerbil :O What are you talking about?

@RosieF Ha, good catch!

6:21 PM

I'm hoping its fake because you got over 100 times more than me :P

Nah, seems plausible to me. :P

@Areeb 666 keystrokes for 420 words? Those are very short words you've got there, mate.

Haha @BeastlyGerbil, my normal typing speed is around 72 wpm

(I like the attention to detail, too - "hours" was replaced with "years".)

1 min ago, by Rosie F

years -- lol

6:23 PM

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wow, I can't read

I can write though! Just not read, apparently.

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I know, you have to do it all the way

Haha I took it again and got 420 keystrokes

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Here's me completely legitimately killing it at typeracer :P

@LukasRotter Meh, too easy when competing with randomly chosen people. Need to race against @Deusovi to really stretch myself ;-)

Yeah, it wasn't very hard for me either - although they DID make me take a typing test after to make sure I wasn't cheating

(I got 122 wpm)

You can play typeracer with friends

6:36 PM

@Deusovi You can bypass that if you're really fast. (and also want to annoy people). Just start later like "I" did in the gif and you'll beat everyone, but the end result is like 40wpm :P

I'd really like to see a video of a race betweeen @Randal'Thor and @Deusovi. As @Areeb pointed out, this is possible in a private racing room.

Sure, I'm up for it.

play.typeracer.com/?rt=uthwade73fre

This puzzle took a long time...

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Q: Who stole the diamond?

Inspiration from @BeastlyGerbil's puzzle In Puzzlville last night, someone stole the famous Stone of Wondrous Mystery! Can you help the police find it? But first... maybe you should read the news. Note: I cannot confirm that all of the images came through clearly enough. If you find that th...

enigmatic-puzzle

@Mithrandir you forgot the 'e' in 'Puzzlville' unless you meant it to be that

@Areeb It's in there, at the end...

There isn't a 'e' between Puzzl and ville?

6:43 PM

@Deusovi Bah, I kept making typos and having to backspace and fix them.

Hey, so did I.

@Areeb Nope

Yay you took inspiration from me! I feel important...

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@Mithrandir ah, it just looks weird without one

The color of the car was distracting @Randal'Thor! That was clearly unfair!

6:44 PM

@BeastlyGerbil Your art skills are clearly better.

@Deusovi Ready for a rematch? :-)

I use an app that makes it easy for me :P

Not at the moment, busy speed-solving "who stole the diamond".

OK, good luck with that :-) I had a look at it, but I don't understand those square-barcode thingies or what to do with them.

@Deusovi We'll see how long it takes...

@Randal'Thor They're called QR codes.

6:46 PM

@Randal'Thor The essence of it is to probably copy & paste the QR code inside an online converter :P

@Mithrandir Can't read the cereal barcode - too blurry. Mind giving me the full version?

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@Deusovi

Thank you!

Ooh, a sudoku!

7:04 PM

Whee @BeastlyGerbil solved the sudoku.

i'm now figuring out the light and dark green tiles

@Mithrandir Very helpful, that one...

People seem to be ignoring this comment:

@BeastlyGerbil First take a good look at this one... :P — Mithrandir 24 mins ago

Their loss.

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Q: Sharing and rewarding what went into making a good puzzle

I'd like to put forth an idea which I think could simultaneously address two heavily discussed topics on Puzzling.SE:- Adding more content about puzzle creation itself (in addition to being a repository of high-quality puzzles) Rewarding good puzzles by awarding the questioner more than +5 per ...

discussion questions self-answer reputation

7:22 PM

Is it still OK to use the riddle sandbox?

@MariaDeleva Yeah, it's just not mandatory anymore.

It's optional.

Thanks

@BeastlyGerbil @Deusovi @AnyoneElseWho'sWorkingOnThePuzzle Dark green, then light.

Okay, is 'cereal' important?

Nope

7:28 PM

lol

But there is another hidden (clamps hand over mouth)

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I found it!

@Deusovi What?

What you were referring to with that comment.

7:30 PM

Ah, okay. :P

Noo why a downvote. >.<

Is it in the first image with the weird question mark?

@BeastlyGerbil No more hints...

Found it too

Mithrandir: I notice some letters are moved over a pixel. Is that intentional?

@Deusovi Probably not.

7:33 PM

It doesn't seem to spell anything, and it may be just an artifact of imgur compression or something.

Alright, thanks!

I'm kinda an awful artist on the computer...

Also, are those ingredients supposed to be legible? (Or important?)

@Deusovi No...

Stuck again :p

gbz0d

7:39 PM

what?

Dark & Light

:P

Better ping @Deusovi so that it's fair...

Okay....

Oh!

I think I get it

...never mind

Yay. I've stumped Deusovi.

Not many can say that

7:42 PM

Well, I am working on homework right now :P

I've done mine earlier today!

I don't have any...

Ever...

Yes tag badge :D

puzzling.stackexchange.com/help/badges/94/riddle?userid=25966

Well done

....Still stumped....

Do the numbers somehow relate to the letters in the newspaper @Mithrandir ?

@BeastlyGerbil Goood.

@Deusovi Ping :P

Okay, I've tried that didn't get anything

7:55 PM

@BeastlyGerbil Try again...

@BeastlyGerbil @Deusovi Look back to the Sudoku. And look at the above message :P

Thanks

I was thinking that the numbers could be interpreted as a bar-code, but they don't alternate in the Sudoku so I scrapped that idea

I wouldn't use QR/barcodes that much...

Well, you've used a lot so far.

@Deusovi Exactly.

8:04 PM

This is gonna bug me so much...

@BeastlyGerbil First take a good look at this one... :P — Mithrandir 1 hour ago

I can't find anything new - and every time I try and relate the numbers to the letters I get nonsense. Very annoying

@Mithrandir, does the bear have anything to do with the puzzle?

@BeastlyGerbil Sort of. Put those two images together.

What the baseball one and the bear?

yup

8:16 PM

Base Ball Bear is a Japanese Rock Band?

@BeastlyGerbil No, no, no. >.<

:P

@BeastlyGerbil Baby Bear. In other words, a Cub.

So it would seem to be Hendricks or Lester.

Good thoughts

Look who ventured here...

8:19 PM

The Diamond might by involved

Diamond Cub

Got to go now, if it's still unsolved tomorrow I'll have another crack at it.

Diamond could be a baseball diamond.

Cells. Dark, then light. Newspaper. — Mithrandir 8 secs ago

8:44 PM

@BeastlyGerbil If you count the title, there are 18 lines in the first column of the story. I tried taking that index of each line, but didn't get anything meaningful.

@Scimonster Who counts the title?

@Mithrandir I know, i'm pushing it...

@Deusovi What happened to 'speed solving' it? :P

I suddenly remembered I had "real life" responsibilities. :/

@Deusovi Real-life responsibilities? Never heard of it.

8:54 PM

I wonder if the numbers were transcribed on the wrong axis, and should actually be read in a different order.

@Scimonster Go on...

@Mithrandir That's it. No more insights.

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^the expression on my face

@Mithrandir Youwe tawking?

9:33 PM

@Mithrandir So we just have to use the sequences 4, 1, 8, 8, 6, 2, 1, 9, 1 and 1, 3, 1, 3, 9, 9, 2, 3, 5 somehow on the initial image shown in the question?

@Randal'Thor You could glean that from chat...

Dark first, remember.

I'm thinking of letter sequences.

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Maybe those numbers tell us which words to look at, or which letters within a word?

But not all the words are 8 or 9 letters long :-/

2 hours ago, by Mithrandir

@BeastlyGerbil No more hints...

9:38 PM

Drat.

I'm going to sleep. We'll see if it's solved tomorrow ;)

OK, goodnight!

10:23 PM

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Q: Can we customise the "How to Ask" popup that appears when asking a question?

I've already raised the issue of the title prompt for questions, which after community consensus was changed by Community Manager Shog9 to read "What's your puzzle or your puzzle-related question?" rather than "What's your creation and solving of puzzles question?" But just now I noticed the "Ho...

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