The Sphinx's Lair

2:26 AM

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While on some adventure, you are transported away from your companion magically. Your companion, confused, enters a nearby building that suddenly materialised overnight. Inside the building there is an invisible announcer guy who says: yo we kidnapped your buddy and placed him with two ide...

liars

L.K.

8:27 AM

@stackreader I managed to get the answer on which you had an open bounty, please have a look through it(it covers all the aspect, I suppose OP is on some vacation to see that:). If you don't find it worth giving then leave it, else I need some money to buy some stuff(low on cash) . puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/51451/…

Gareth McCaughan

10:29 AM

@L.K. If you have found a way to turn Puzzling rep into cash then do let us all know...

Techidiot

@GarethMcCaughan Did you take a look at this ? May be someone can take it forward..

Gareth McCaughan

Looks like S. Rafael is most of the way there already.

Techidiot

S? Didn't get you. He's stuck on next step with that stone.

Oh..

manshu

Why happened to our CCCC?

Techidiot

Well, he has got a good progress. But, seems like he is stuck with the next part..

manshu

10:40 AM

@Deusovi Does "may" ever indicate something? I have seen it in many CCs.

Ankoganit

What's the current CCCC?

Mithrandir

2 days ago, by GentlePurpleRain

Sorry all, working on something important. Will try to have CCCC up in a few hours at most.

Techidiot

GPR is offline since Friday. So, may be we'll get it today.

Ankoganit

k got it

manshu

ohk...

yesterday I made a CC. tell me how is it.

Doctor beheaded lake for a duck (5)

Techidiot

10:44 AM

DRAKE? @manshu

manshu

yes. :)

was there any mistake or something?

Ankoganit

darn, got ninja'd

Techidiot

Surface is a little odd. But the wordplay is fine.

Anko would be a better person to make suggestions

Ankoganit

I agree with @Tech

Also, you could replace lake with a synonym

manshu

yes. I realised that none can behead a lake.

Techidiot

10:47 AM

Also, I think for is just a fodder right?

Ankoganit

Maybe "Doctor beheaded lake duck"

manshu

@Techidiot yes.

@Ankoganit It sounds better.

When we add synonyms, do we have to indicate it with something?

Ankoganit

nah

Techidiot

No.

But using synonym's for anagrams would be a bad idea.

manshu

oh. I could have made it more fun.

I agree. It will be very tedious.

Thanks guys.

See ya later :)

n_palum

12:02 PM

GaMen

GamEn!

o/

\o/

1:27 PM

→ 9 messages moved to Mith's Desk

Deusovi

1:44 PM

@manshu That clue is valid, but the surface reading isn't great. (You can't behead a lake - it doesn't make sense.)

n_palum

You can try though :P

Deusovi

@manshu Can you give an example?

n_palum

2:03 PM

That awkward moment when you forget about game identification rules and start a meta/chat debate in Arqade gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12450/…

Rubio

2:14 PM

GaMen everyone

Mithrandir

o/

n_palum

Heyo Rubio

GentlePurpleRain

2:36 PM

CCCC: Vocalize about surprise surrounding all-consuming action. (10)

^ With profuse apologies to everyone I left hanging...

n_palum

2:49 PM

WOW seems likely for Vocalize about surprise.. not finding words meaning action that start with W though

manshu

3:17 PM

@Deusovi About to be sold as a concern may be (5)

@Deusovi Yup. Ankoganit's version was better.

Deusovi

@manshu Are you sure that's not "maybe"?

And I don't actually think Ankoganit's version was better. The issue I had was the "beheaded lake", not "for".

manshu

yes.

Deusovi

Huh. That's weird.

GentlePurpleRain

I just realized that there may be an alternate valid-ish solution to my CCCC. Not sure if I should accept that one (if it's presented) or hold out for my intended one.

Deusovi

Maybe I'm just missing something.

GentlePurpleRain

3:22 PM

I guess I'll see what people come up with and decide.

manshu

Ankoganit's had that "lake duck" which could mean the duck in the lake

n_palum

I think you're fine to wait GPR

Deusovi

Oh, right - that's more reasonable

I didn't parse it that way, since I was used to reading yours.

Techidiot

@Deusovi Any ideas about this ? I am curious to know how its being looked upon. Not sure what kind of clues to put up without making it obvious..

Deusovi

They look similar to Futhark, but not quite the same.

I haven't looked at the puzzle very much, though. It seems to use a lot of Vigenere, which I'm not a fan of.

Techidiot

3:27 PM

Very less vigenere.. More of knowledge and imgur's. I have started using vigenere to very less extent.

Deusovi

Well, you used it twice so far in that puzzle.

n_palum

@Techidiot What is missing from the solution?

Techidiot

@Deusovi That's basic. A key is required for the encrypted imgur. That's it. Nothing sort of deciphering a phrase/sentence etc

@n_palum The solver got stuck at a step

Deusovi

Well, it's not fully solved, @n_palum. Right now, we only have this:

(I say "we", but I haven't been working on it at all.)

n_palum

Ah was confused because they said they had the answer

Is this supposed to be like an imgur maze? (if so are you tagging it as so after it's solved?)

Deusovi

3:30 PM

To be honest, I don't really like Imgur URLs being used like this either. It's just personal preference.

Techidiot

@n_palum Tagged it now. Yes. Just to let solvers know that they will be having imgur's going ahead..

n_palum

Would you have a different preference to utilizing imgur images in a puzzle?

Deusovi

The issue isn't using Imgur images. I have two major problems with most Imgur maze puzzles:

- They frequently have stories where using Imgur doesn't make sense

- the methods of hiding Imgur URLs often aren't good.

To elaborate more on the latter:

n_palum

I do agree that it should be mixed up. If you are cluing different links, they should be unique each time, otherwise they seem repetitive

Deusovi

Unlike, say, English words or phrases, Imgur URLs aren't "self-confirming". If you have one mistake, then you just know something is wrong, and you don't have any idea of what specifically is the error.

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n_palum

3:33 PM

As for that image, it looks like those old runic symbols/alphabet.. I don't particularly feel like hunting down old alphabets

Deusovi

This means that the methods of hiding URLs should be very unambiguous to be fair to solvers.

Techidiot

@n_palum I have added a unique way to get each imgur here..

Deusovi

Most of the time, they are not.

Techidiot

If you solve the puzzle, you are sure what the imgur would be.

n_palum

@Techidiot Wasn't necessarily saying yours, was just my comment on it.

Techidiot

3:34 PM

Yeah. Got it. And I prefer the same

Deusovi

@n_palum I mentioned "Futhark" earlier. That's the runic alphabet.

But none have that many lines.

Techidiot

@Deusovi Your assumption of it being Futhark is close in a sense

n_palum

@Deusovi I think that puzzle I made (from the more purely rebus version I referenced getting the idea from) is a fine way to hide the URL because it's pretty self confirming because you know what order it should be in (for the most part)

@Deusovi Ahh that's the name of it. But yeah, it doesn't quite fit

Techidiot

What that script is, is clued in there.. Just need to have knowledge of that(or may be curiosity of finding googling what it is)

Deusovi

@n_palum To be honest, I didn't like that either - mistakes were impossible to figure out, so it became "guess what I'm thinking". (You even had to give which of the letters were correct!)

Sp3000

3:37 PM

stars Deus' comment

n_palum

@Deusovi Hmmm.. Fair point.

Deusovi

I remember multiple occurrences of us having to use programs to check a ton of Imgur URLs. Don't remember which puzzles that was for, but it happened a lot.

n_palum

(Adds to notes for new puzzle creations)

@Deusovi Yeah there was mention of Rubio having a program that could just hard solve the url

Deusovi

Yep - we gave him the letters, and the program would go through all capitalization variants or orderings of the letters

Rubio

within certain constraints, of course. the search space is ... rather large, otherwise. ;)

Deusovi

3:39 PM

We had to do that because some of the cluing was unfair.

And this has happened multiple times. It's possible that you could successfully execute an Imgur maze puzzle. I just don't see it done often, if at all.

(Oh, and one more thing - typing in Imgur URLs is often tedious, especially when your only reward is the standard "image not found" file.)

n_palum

Yeah..

Rubio

Where Is My Friend? ended with an imgur image, but just the one, and if you got that far you absolutely had the right imgur tag.

n_palum

I just like experimenting with new ideas or types of puzzles I haven't done before, so they're not always great.

Speaking of making puzzles, where's the Deus meta puzzle?

Deusovi

It's still being made. I've been busy.

n_palum

School ending and moving home?

Deusovi

3:43 PM

Yeah. Plus other real life stuff. :/

n_palum

Always the priority :)

Rubio

I keep hearing about this "real life". Sounds like a drag.

Deusovi

(Also, I have certain "themes" for metapuzzles that I have to build around - it's a lot harder to do than I originally expected.)

n_palum

It's terrible Rubio (sometimes :P)

Deusovi

Anyway, should I post one or two preview metas?

n_palum

3:44 PM

@Deusovi I'd say only do that if you were looking to get some feedback atm

GamEn folks!

Hey Sid

heya Sid

GamEn

hey Sid

3:45 PM

Ah, yes. That Rubio's thing. I remember that puzzle where we used his program

Deusovi

@n_palum Nah - just wanted to give a sneak peek (and show you that I am actually working on it, and it's not just empty hype :P )

Sp3000

I'd like to chip in: Lack of confirmation and fair cluing are my main reasons why I dislike imgur links, but I also dislike (in descending order) 1) the fact that a puzzle's presentation may look clean at first only because everything else is in imgur-land, 2) the possibility of stumbling on an unrelated image which looks potentially related to the puzzle (really just a subset of the confirmation point) 3) the community's implicit acceptance that 5 alphanumeric chars -> imgur

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Sconibulus

I wonder if I could make a Choose Your Own Adventure puzzle...

Deusovi

Ah, yeah, that's another issue. You have no way to estimate the length of a puzzle if it involves Imgur.

n_palum

@Sconibulus I've thought about doing that a few times, but I often get stuck with, "when does it end", "what are the constraints", "how do you stop it from being tedious"

Sp3000

3:47 PM

For an example of 1), see puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/51730/… :/

n_palum

@Sp3000 Yeah it seemed pretty unanimous that the 1st was much nicer, the new one dragged on way too much

@Deusovi I believe you, I wouldn't give anything away unless you felt a need :)

Deusovi

@n_palum To be honest, I didn't like either of them

Sconibulus

Imgur puzzles are a great way of having step1->step2, but there needs to be a story that links the two steps

It has to make sense that they're together

Deusovi

A great way? That's debatable.

Sid

@Mith What explanation should I provide?

It's as clear as daylight.

Mithrandir

3:50 PM

'dash' in words isn't

n_palum

@Deusovi 'much nicer' wasn't implying it's great, just better than the new one.

Kritixi Lithos

A bit off-topic from the current discussion, but I think there should be a maze synonym for the mazes

Mithrandir

@KritixiLithos why? If you type in maze then mazes comes up

Kritixi Lithos

I tried searching [maze] in the search bar and it gave me no results

Mithrandir

You only need a synonym if it won't come up when you type another name, such as auto and car, to use Meta examples

Kritixi Lithos

3:51 PM

but that's just my personal opinion

n_palum

@Sconibulus second what Deus said - that's what we've been discussing so definitely debatable

Sconibulus

I agree that most of them are bad, but I think it's the most stack-friendly way of having a two-part, non encryption-based puzzle

n_palum

I cannot for the life of me figure out these Runic letters

Deusovi

You can have two-part puzzles without hidden information.

Sconibulus

But I also like cluing barcodes or qr codes at times instead of text strings

Sid

3:55 PM

I have never understood this and I am probably very dumb. What is the difference between UK and GBR?

And England?

n_palum

Ohhhh I may have found it, and if I am right, I think this is super obscure @Techidiot

Deusovi

The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England Explained

►

@n_palum What is it?

n_palum

I'm gunna see if the imgur link works with my deciphering first

Beastly Gerbil

England is a country, great britain is collection of england, scotland, wales, and ireland, and united kingdom is all countries ruled by queen (same as gbr - rep. of ireland)

n_palum

Oh yeah this is definitely it

Deusovi

3:57 PM

What was it?

n_palum

Should I post an additional answer about it and reference the other person's stuff?

Sp3000

@n_palum I don't really know how I'd compare those two, and the first one's just as much an example of my "puzzle-looks-clean-because-everything's-hidden-in-imgur-land" point :/ (the first one's also a great example of the delights of HNQ, but everyone's already aware of that problem)

n_palum

It's Ogham (The O and Gham)

Deusovi

The O?

n_palum

@Sp3000 Oh definitely aware of the HNQ problem that it became a prime example of

@Deusovi the big silver O I believe is supposed to be part of the name

Ogham

Ogham (/ˈɒɡəm/; Modern Irish [ˈoːmˠ] or [ˈoːəmˠ]; Old Irish: ogam [ˈɔɣamˠ]) is an Early Medieval alphabet used to write the early Irish language (in the "orthodox" inscriptions, 1st to 6th centuries AD), and later the Old Irish language (scholastic ogham, 6th to 9th centuries). There are roughly 400 surviving orthodox inscriptions on stone monuments throughout Ireland and western Britain; the bulk of which are in southern Munster. The largest number outside Ireland are in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The vast majority of the inscriptions consist of personal names. According to the High Medieval Bríatharogam...

If you decipher it, you get CVtNM png

Deusovi

3:59 PM

...Ah.

Sconibulus

@BeastlyGerbil I think that's not right

Beastly Gerbil

@scon isn't it?

is uk and gbr other way round?

even I don't know and I live here :P

n_palum

@Deusovi however, there is no indication of capital letters vs lowercase

Deusovi

D:

Sconibulus

I think there's an entirely seperate term, Commonwealth Nations or something, for recognizing the queen

and United Kingdom only includes Northern Ireland

(and England, Scotland, Wales)

Beastly Gerbil

4:00 PM

commonwealth is queen outside and in UK

Sp3000

o/ says hello from a Commonwealth nation

Beastly Gerbil

so australia is part of commonwealth

n_palum

Yeah I tried CVtNP.png and cVtnp.png and both have no image

Beastly Gerbil

is this the jack puzzle?

Sconibulus

Great Britain might be the island that England/Scotland/Wales are on?

n_palum

4:01 PM

Yeah it is

Sid

@Beastly What is "queen outside"? Former British Colonies?

Beastly Gerbil

@sid basically countries formerly of british empire who have chosen to recognise the queen as their leader (I think)

n_palum

This has to be the write language, but I have no idea what I am doing wrong... 4 lines to the left is C, V and t are given. 5 lines to the right is N and the slanted t looking one is M

and then the bottom two = png

Sconibulus

I think the United Kingdom might also cover things like the Falklands and Pitcairn? I'm not certain of that. They're still part of the British Empire...

Sid

Wow. I never knew that Canada was a commonwealth nation.

n_palum

4:04 PM

Bahh finally found it.. i.stack.imgur.com/CVtNM.png

There's another puzzle

Beastly Gerbil

ah nm wrong way round...

its the alphabet

26 boxes

Deusovi

v
y
G
d
p
p
n
g

Beastly Gerbil

how did you do that so fast

n_palum

^

Sid

Because he is Deusovi?

Deusovi

4:07 PM

saw that it was the alphabet, made a temporary sheet on the one I was using to work on my metapuzzles

Beastly Gerbil

how do you fill it?

Deusovi

put the numbers 1-8 vertically, then copied things down from left to right, top to bottom

(so d came first, then g and G...)

n_palum

:/ not following

Rubio

Deusovi is ... more machine now than man (twisted and evil). He can solve these things in a moment's thought.

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Deusovi

1 is in the v box, and it's lowercase, so the first letter is v

(S and E are start and end, not the letters S and E)

Beastly Gerbil

4:09 PM

ah I get you

n_palum

Ahhh got it now

Beastly Gerbil

that was simpler than i thought

is anyone keeping track of the numbers in the top right hand corners?

Deusovi

for the next one, it's pretty clear that connecting the dots gives us the 5-letter code

I'm not

we just need to figure out how to connect them

Techidiot

Oh, nice. That progressed nicely.

Deusovi

anagramming the dot letters gives BEPAINTS, which seems unlikely because it's an uncommon and unrelated word

also doesn't start/end at the right place

Sp3000

4:11 PM

PASTEBIN

n_palum

^

Beastly Gerbil

ah

and then probably the numbers are important

Deusovi

yeah, just got that

Sp3000

pastebin-maze

Deusovi

PASTEBIN C6ndUNaT

pastebin.com/C6ndUNaT

n_palum

4:12 PM

@_@

Beastly Gerbil

007 007 007 007 002 007 007 007 001 007 001 001 001 001 001 007 002 007 007 007 001 007 007 007 007 001 007 007 007 001 007 001 001 007 001 007 007 007
001 005 001 004 001 007 001 001 003 001 001 001 001 001 001 001 001 007 001 007 001 007 001 001 007 004 007 001 007 001 007 001 003 007 008 007 001 002
001 006 007 005 004 007 008 001 001 005 007 002 002 001 007 001 005 007 001 007 001 007 001 001 007 001 007 007 007 008 007 007 001 007 008 007 005 001
008 001 002 004 001 007 006 006 003 009 001 001 001 001 001 001 001 007 001 007 001 007 007 007 007 005 007 001 006 008 007 001 001 007 009 0…

ninja'd :P

Deusovi

...those double zeroes seem unnecessary

Beastly Gerbil

007 :P

Deusovi

7 7 7 7 2 7 7 7 1 7 1 1 1 1 1 7 2 7 7 7 1 7 7 7 7 1 7 7 7 1 7 1 1 7 1 7 7 7
1 5 1 4 1 7 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 1 7 1 7 1 1 7 4 7 1 7 1 7 1 3 7 8 7 1 2
1 6 7 5 4 7 8 1 1 5 7 2 2 1 7 1 5 7 1 7 1 7 1 1 7 1 7 7 7 8 7 7 1 7 8 7 5 1
8 1 2 4 1 7 6 6 3 9 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 1 7 1 7 7 7 7 5 7 1 6 8 7 1 1 7 9 7 7 7
1 7 1 3 8 7 5 6 1 8 1 7 1 7 3 1 5 7 1 7 1 7 1 1 7 1 7 1 8 1 7 1 7 7 9 7 7 7
9 2 1 3 9 7 2 1 6 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 1 7 1 7 1 1 7 8 7 1 6 9 7 1 2 7 9 7 7 7
7 7 7 7 3 7 7 7 1 9 1 1 7 1 1 1 9 7 7 7 1 7 1 1 7 7 7 1 1 2 7 1 1 7 2 7 7 7

Kritixi Lithos

Stripping the zeroes gives this:

ninja'd

Deusovi

4:14 PM

:P

highlighting 7s makes a thing

ZCVOAPNG

(or 0?)

Kritixi Lithos

btw there's a dot before the PNG

Deusovi

so there is

n_palum

If it is all important, the numbers from the upper rights of the images gives: 43.76517611.24 (not sure if dots are important, but two of them had periods after the number)

Deusovi

how long does this puzzle go on for?

numbers at the bottom are probably lengths of consecutive black/white strips

or something along those lines

n_palum

@Deusovi No idea @.@

Techidiot

4:16 PM

Nothing tedious(I assure) :)

Deusovi

(l) is obviously lowercase

barcode 93

Code 93

Code 93 is a barcode symbology designed in 1982 by Intermec to provide a higher density and data security enhancement to Code 39. It is an alphanumeric, variable length symbology. Code 93 is used primarily by Canada Post to encode supplementary delivery information. Every symbol includes two check characters. Each Code 93 character is nine modules wide, and always has three bars and three spaces, thus the name. Each bar and space is from 1 to 4 modules wide. (For comparison, a Code 39 character consists of five bars and five spaces, three of which are wide, for a total width of 13–16 modules.)...

n_palum

Ah there ya go

Beastly Gerbil

the widths

Deusovi

N5Hf5

alright, now it's just coordinates

n_palum

I just listed them

Or most of them

Beastly Gerbil

4:18 PM

43.76517611.24 + 99+87

Deusovi

where'd you get 87?

oh

Sp3000

Palazzo Pitti, Florence?

Deusovi

Yep, that's what I get too

n_palum

Wait where did 87 come from

Techidiot

Yup!

Deusovi

4:19 PM

bottom right corner of the gray image

n_palum

Ah I see it now, odd to switch up the consistency on the last one..

Techidiot

That went quite fast :) Nice work!

Deusovi

I'm not doing the writeup for this one - someone else can

n_palum

Hahaha

Techidiot

For whoever does the write up :)

n_palum

4:20 PM

Do we just want a write up of the continuation from the prior answer, or one that includes every step

Sp3000

Not sure if the relevance of the final location though, seems a bit arbitrary/wrong

Deusovi

well, it was just confirmed not wrong

Techidiot

@Sp3000 Why wrong/arbitrary?

n_palum

May be relevant to prior Jack puzzles? Didn't follow them all so idk

Sp3000

Oh it was Tech's puzzle, right

Techidiot

4:22 PM

Yeah.. Right.

Sp3000

(didn't realise that was a confirmation)

Techidiot

@Rubio Looked at the accepted answer for the airport? :p

I've traveled for 3 different weddings this year without a luggage..

GentlePurpleRain

@Sid Canada's only had our own flag since 1965, and our own national anthem since 1980. Until then, it was England's Union Jack and God Save the Queen (King).

in Contact, 59 secs ago, by GentlePurpleRain

Defending: C

n_palum

For that writeup @Deusovi I don't know who should do it, seeing as you did a lot of the second half work.

Deusovi

I don't mind someone else doing it.

GentlePurpleRain

4:36 PM

Because @Deusovi's going to busy in Contact for the next little bit... :P

Sphinx

4:52 PM

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Q: Help! Can you get my puzzle back?

Puzzling has a lot of really complicated stuff these days, so I just wanted to post a simple Boggle grid. You know that game, right? You form words by starting from one letter, then taking adjacent letters moving in any of the eight directions, but you can't use the same letter twice to form a ...

word-search

Rubio

6:04 PM

@Techidiot yeah no kidding. that's a stupid answer to a complete non-puzzle.

ffao

about the discussion on imgur-mazes: I liked what Ankoganit did with the spreadsheet to translate English words into imgur URLs

the downside is all your answers have to have exactly five letters

Rubio

@ffao That's not true, actually

ffao

how so?

Rubio

i.stack.imgur.com/system.png is a valid image

ffao

but you don't get to pick your URLs, do you? In that case, I rephrase to "all your answers have to have the number of letters picked by imgur"

Rubio

6:17 PM

Well, no, you can't make an arbitrary URL so you would have to have a lot of luck to get one that happened to be usable as a word

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Q: What is a KMorG Word™?

In the spirit of the What is a Word™/Phrase™ series started by JLee, a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles. (ApoloGies in advance, I seeM to be havinG soMe trouble with My Keyboard today.) If a word conforMs to a special rule, I call it a KMorG Word™. Use the followinG exaMples below to...

pattern wordplay word-property

^ This puzzle, though, demonstrates that it happens more often than you might expect

Techidiot

I think one of the Rubio's What is XYZtm puzzle had some imgur's with more than five letters..(this is what I typed) :p

ffao

yes, I remember that puzzle too, but if you can't do it on purpose it's not very useful for puzzle-making

Rubio

I really wanted to include "system" in that puzzle, but alas, it would have thrown off the all-caps-KMG whimsy

Techidiot

@ffao But, you may tweak your puzzle to fit the imgur right?

You may brute force a little to get a better imgur. Say in case, if you want all uppercase letters

or all numbers..

Sid

That requires incredible amount of patience and perseverance.

ffao

6:21 PM

I feel like we got side-tracked here. My point was that you can make a spreadsheet to translate English words into other strings, so your answers get confirmable even though the imgur urls are random

because one of the main complaints about such puzzles is that every answer tends to be arbitrary strings and you're never sure if you're right

Techidiot

Oh.. Yes. That sounds good. But, would need either a lot of patience or a script or something to get right words. I remember Rubio took a really long time to come up with those words

Or may be - watermark or put something in there so that the solver would quickly get to know that it is related to the imgur-maze

(once he gets it)

ffao

35

Q: A Thing Of Beauty Is A Joy Forever!

I...I've just seen something. Something wonderful. Something beautiful. I don't know what it is...I don't have the least idea, to be honest. But, its innate beauty is unmistakable. $\qquad\qquad\quad$ But I don't remember what it was like...I have such a bad memory! And it's troubling me a lot...

riddle wordplay enigmatic-puzzle visual imgur-maze

so all of the answers are actual words, then you use the spreadsheet to get to the URL corresponding to the word

Techidiot

That one was epic!

I get it now. And I liked that idea.

ffao

so the answer to the first part was "dream", which you use the table to translate to vxPtg.png

Kritixi Lithos

@ffao that is a great imgur-maze

Techidiot

6:26 PM

Yeah. I scrolled up to check if Anko said anything about imgur maze :p

Turns out, you were referring to his puzzle.

Sid

Yeah. I really loved that.

Anko's puzzles are usually very well-thought out. I like them very much.

Also, @Gareth you need to clean up your answer a bit on that puzzle.

Gareth McCaughan

@Sid yeah, probably

Sid

Hm, @Anko You also should do a wrap-up on that puzzle if you have the time for wrap-up lovers like myself.

Sphinx

7:40 PM

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Q: What do the images represent?

Can you guess the word hidden in the meaning of these images?

riddle visual knowledge

Gareth McCaughan

8:08 PM

What's the etiquette for candidates' own votes in a moderator election? Are we expected to abstain nobly, or to vote for ourselves regardless of merit, or what?

Mithrandir

Whatever you want.

ffao

this ^

Sid

Are candidates allowed to vote? I thought they aren't.

Mithrandir

We are, indeed.

ffao

candidates should have a say on who they want to work together with (assuming they pick the first choice for themselves)

makes a lot of sense

GentlePurpleRain

8:31 PM

Only 19 people have voted so far??

Sconibulus

we have a week, right?

Deusovi

Yeah, and you can change your vote at any time

GentlePurpleRain

I just earned my "Constituent" badge. Not sure why I didn't already have it from the last election...

Deusovi

You get a new one for each election.

GentlePurpleRain

Makes sense.

@Deusovi Why haven't you solved my CCCC?

Deusovi

8:37 PM

I'm not entirely sure how to answer that question.

I've been thinking about it, and I think I get the structure, but I'm not positive

GentlePurpleRain

It wasn't really a serious question.

Yeah, I assumed so

Gday

Hey!

Hey!

8:41 PM

What's up around here?

Deusovi

Voting for the election just started.

Mithrandir

And some people are zzzzzzing

incesterror21

So many blues in here

Mithrandir

There are other rooms that have a lot more... ;)

Sphinx

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Q: Mrs. Fakes curious puzzle

My favorite high school teacher, Mrs. Fake, is one of the most interesting people I can pretend to know. She is a woman of a rather complex descent being related to both Caligula of Rome and King Ahab on both sides of her family tree. She was my home room teacher in the 9th grade. Every morning...

cipher enigmatic-puzzle

incesterror21

9:04 PM

I do not have to vote, have I?

Deusovi

No, you don't have to. But you're certainly encouraged to.

incesterror21

Can I win a prize?

You really should enable bounties on elections!

Deusovi

You get a silver badge for voting. Is that close enough?

Mithrandir

Yes, you get a silver badge if you vote, but you really shouldn't vote just for the badge.

Deusovi

^

incesterror21

9:08 PM

Oh, sounds good to me

Joking aside, I raised a strange topic the other day to see how people are behaving in a serious discussion.

Deusovi

Hm?

incesterror21

I had them all arguing against me

Rubio

Mar 23 at 16:50, by Rubio

"I'm not closed-minded, you're just wrong."

incesterror21

Sounds like a mod

Where do I sign?

Rubio

:)

incesterror21

9:12 PM

@GarethMcCaughan seemed reasonable to some point. I also liked how @dcfyj acted

Deusovi

That joke was referring to me originally, so I guess that's pretty accurate :P

When was this again?

incesterror21

I was talking about last week. Saturday probably

GentlePurpleRain

@Deusovi See Gareth's starred comment at right.

Deusovi

Oh yes, that conversation.

incesterror21

How annoying it must have been to read

GentlePurpleRain

9:15 PM

@incesterror21 Are you saying you started that whole conversation just to see what people's reaction would be?

Deusovi

:/

There are much better ways to gauge the quality of a candidate.

incesterror21

I'm aware that this is only one part of a candidate's quality

And a mod should be more than a chatterbox

GentlePurpleRain

I think what Deusovi meant is that it might have been advisable to find a different way to gauge the candidates, rather than hijacking chat and potentially creating hard feelings.

incesterror21

I agree, there are other ways. At that moment I thought a discussion could do the trick. Also I tried to keep them all on one side - I can take the hard feelings

Gareth McCaughan

Glad to know I'm "reasonable to some point", I guess.

Rubio

9:20 PM

I was in that conversation too, but felt like ahem someone was either being deliberately obtuse, or was unreachable; either way, continuing to argue with someone who either cannot or will not listen to another point of view is fruitless, so I disengaged. It was, briefly, an interesting conversation.

Deusovi

"More than a chatterbox"? You can see what they've done. Their reviews, meta posts, and regular posts are all open for viewing. I wouldn't do something "dangerous" just to see how people react. It seems almost equivalent to those "Youtube celebrities" who do something that could cause severe harm, then fall back on the defense that it's "just a prank".

Rubio

oooooohhh don't even get me started on those people.

incesterror21

Who do I answer first now

Rubio

You needn't answer me at all, that's not what I commented for. If you want to, though, you've got 6 minutes to do it in, before I vanish for a few hours.

incesterror21

@GarethMcCaughan with "to some point" I meant to that point we got with the conversation. As you remember we stopped "at some point" and might some day continue hopefully

@Deusovi What can I say, maybe I'm just too lazy tbh. Besides I care more for personal qualities than their portfolio

Anyway, to sum this up, don't worry. I don't think we should call it dangerous. Plus I do not hold any grudges. If anyone else does, leave me a note

Now let me finish this damn movie, if you would. See you all later!

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