The Sphinx's Lair - 2019-05-12

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Q: Surely they can fit?

Suppose you have a grid of squares that has even dimensions, with at least one dimension greater than or equal to 4 squares, and from one corner you remove a 1x4 rectangle of those squares for example: □□□□□□ □□□□□□ □□□□□□ XXXX□□ Can you fill in that grid using as many copies of the following...

12:31 AM

haven't looked at the question but based on the title i'm certain they can't fit

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2:18 AM

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Q: A cryptic tricolour

This puzzle is part 8 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys. Dear Puzzling, As I'm writing to you, I'm looking at an extremely impressi...

geography anagram cryptic-crosswords

3:16 AM

@North I'm totally late, but I'll definitely throw my vote in as well: where is the difference? merge 'em, please!

4:05 AM

@Deusovi you are still trapped... free yourself?

4:25 AM

@OmegaKrypton I took a look at it. Seemed very "guess-what-I'm-thinking", and I'm not interested in doing a word search. (And I don't see the promised crossword anywhere...)

@Deusovi Which puzzle?

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Q: Deusovi - trapped!

I have been trapped in a void I know nothing of. There is nothing but four plain red walls, annoying me very much. Thanks to my experience in Puzzling Stack Exchange, I am observant to find a small switch at the corner of a wall. Curious and seeing it as the only possible way out, I pressed ...

word wordplay enigmatic-puzzle visual crosswords

It doesn't look too bad

People do seem to like trapping you, that's for sure

have you guys spotted the answer yet?

@Deusovi the wordsearch has been done

i mean, is it that hard to spot?

oops!

(covering mouth, in desperate hope you guys dont spot it)

4:41 AM

The two sets of letters that Arnaud extracted almost look to anagram to KEY FIVE or something, but that doesn't work. I see that you're trying to push "spot" as a hint, but I can't immediately think of what that could mean.

Oh, one was blacked out.

you gotcha!

So... YE FIVE? (IVY FEE? FEY VIE?)

check hint no. 4

no anagrams involved

you are so so near

I haven't done anything more than Arnaud has.

yes here

@Deusovi here

4:45 AM

...please tell me the answer's not SPOTIFY.

...

REMOVE THAT!!!

NOW PLEASE

...what?

@Deusovi THIS..............................

Could you please stop with the all-caps? (and whatever roleplay-ish thing you're doing)

ok :)

4:52 AM

So, I get that you're basically telling me that's the answer. I don't see how you were supposed to get that from the puzzle. (I also don't see what the white-on-black text is supposed to mean, or hint 3.)

white on black: ignore the 2-letter words while searching in the wordsearch

huh

hint 3: Brandon_J's comment was the nearest attempt

yet no one finds it

Whoa, is that @Sid ?!

Hello @North Long time no see. :)

5:00 AM

I haven't seen you in a while :)

Good to see you again

Hello :) nice to meet you

Oh hey Sid! How have you been?

I see, the God of Eggs is still around these parts. :P (Sorry, I won't make that joke again)

God of Eggs?

Why do I feel like I should know that joke

I am good. Haven't been able to come back to Puzzling these days. College life is hectic.

5:03 AM

ah yikes

How are you all doing?

I've been busy as well

AP Bio test is on Monday and I'm stressing out

Deus, a newcomer named Brandon_J, Rubio and I got into a rather lively discussion regarding open-ended questions

And it seems as though Rubio, Gareth and Deus had another discussion about merging trivia and knowledge

@North The Dog is still around too?

Yeah, things have been going pretty well! Just finished my third year of college, and I've had more time to devote to PSE recently. As North mentioned, we've been having a few discussions about site organization in here, and I think they've gone well

Huh, looks like I am the only one who had disappeared

5:07 AM

@Sid He went into hibernation for a while but I poked him enough times to wake up

@Sid Also you missed Riddler. For the better

I disappeared for a while too.

True

But you came to chat occassionally so I didn't think too much of it

I became a tree and joined literature SE

Ummm

Spyfall got frozen bc no one played

@Deusovi You seem like the only person in PSE to actually seem like a college student

Like Rubio and Gareth both seem too old

Mith sounds like they graduated already

I'm not sure if I should take that as a compliment or an insult.

But I can't picture you doing anything else but studying in college. Like in a library or destroying people in debates.

@Deusovi Neither nor

Just an observation that I thought was interesting

Also now that I've played through Ghost Trick (with a couple walkthroughs cough) it's so much funnier to see your avatar. I can't picture the game without thinking it's you telling me direction on what I should do/what's going on

Plus he kinda fits how I've seen you solve/debate: you analyze things very deeply, take very good notes through observation, get things done, and is straightfoward. Just like a detective

Thank you! (And hope you liked it! It's a really nice game.)

5:14 AM

I loved it

Do they have a sequel?

Sadly, no. Though you may also enjoy the Ace Attorney games (by the same developers).

Is that the Phoenix Wright one?

Yup.

Objection!

I'll check it out soon

Any other cool puzzle video games to consider?

Btw if y'all haven't played Undertale, totally check it out

Baba Is You was just released about a month ago -- it's really cool.

5:17 AM

Oh I heard about that!

I've also wondered if it's possible to set-up the situation "YOU IS BABA" but I haven't found anything on it. I watched a game review (mostly spoiler free) on it and I wanna try it out

@North I passed my high school equivalency exams about a month ago...

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Q: Can you find my name?

I am known for my sacredness, I also provide brightness. I am very noble. I have a million inside me, But I end with a thousand. Who am I?

@North Nope, you can't have [adjective] IS [noun] sentences.

@Mithrandir I have no idea what that sentence means

@Deusovi Aww that would've been funny

Pronouns are considered adjectives?

I never knew

I mean I know that possessive pronouns can act as pronouns

No, but "you" functions as an adjective-like thing in this game.

5:23 AM

Definitely will check ut out, granted that I save up some money

huh

@North I tested out of high school :P

@Mithrandir Mith's too good for high school XD

@North Can you please link this conversation?

@North deus = god and ovi = eggs, in some form of Latin

@Mithrandir aaaahhh

@Sid Idk how to link conversations... :/

5:32 AM

Starts here:

yesterday, by Rand al'Thor

@Rubio @Deusovi Per this meta, is there a reason why knowledge and trivia haven't been merged yet? (Genuine question, not trying to be snarky: I mean, did you decide the voting on that meta isn't enough, or did you just forget about it?)

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11:54 AM

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Q: What is this Cipher

Found this note on my desk, its turkic alphabet, what kind of cipher is this

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Q: Ladies and Gentlemen....Please count your cards. Can you beat our prime dealers at our Cryptic Casino to earn some cold cash?

Cryptic Casino employs only prime dealers and encourages the patrons to count the cards unlike other casinos. We introduced a new game recently and encourage you to match your wits with our prime dealers. Our game is simple. We post 3 numbers as clues for each new sequence we unfold. Today’s num...

mathematics knowledge number-sequence

12:54 PM

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Q: Help Aunt Nora solve this puzzle

Aunt Nora has the following images which contain hints to objects used in the production of a specific substance. What is the substance?

lateral-thinking visual

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5:40 PM

Today I realized something weird: Blackbodies and black holes are called so because they absorb all light. Dark matter is called so because it doesn't.

If it doesn't absorb light, shouldn't it be called white matter?

Because white reflects all colors

Or maybe invisible matter because light passes through it?

6:20 PM

Does it matter? :)

@North I think he's even younger than me :D

@North The answer I linked.

@North !

@North I do ... @Sid here you go:

On Merging [Knowledge] And [Trivia] - A Discussion

2 days ago, 1 day 19 hours total – 321 messages, 14 users, 2 stars

Bookmarked 2 mins ago by Rand al'Thor

6:42 PM

@Brandon_J Who?

@Randal'Thor All of these replies are kinda far back so I have no idea what they're referring to

You can click the little arrow

I was talking about Mithrandir

I'll be 17 in a couple months.

Well hello!

I turned 18 this year

Congrats on passing that high-school equivalency test!

Thanks. ^.^

Will you go to college early?

I had the option, but I decided to hold out.

6:55 PM

Dunno yet. Have to deal with the draft process currently. Also, no idea what I'm actually going to peruse as a career.

I was academically ready for college when I was 16, but no way I was ready emotionally.

Who's Sid?

Seems like a cool guy

@Sid is Sid.

So I was wondering...do they use cash in the Czech Republic?

We only have cheques, sorry.

Mmkay

7:03 PM

weakly relevant self-plug: biology.stackexchange.com/questions/82873/…

All I know about spiders is what a Brown Recluse looks like, and only because I have some in my house.

the little fiddlebacks....

@North That's why SE chat has link-replies ;-)

Hi Rand!

Hi hi.

Happy Mother's Day to any mothers we have in the room, or, failing that, to the mothers of those in the room.

7:11 PM

@Brandon_J Only in certain countries.

Since I am not aware of any mothers that hang out in this room, I nominate @GarethMcCaughan to be the stand-in mother for Mother's Day.

Ooh I second, even though I'm like 95% sure that Gareth is a dad

But regardless, I second

Also I feel so young

I'm still in high school :/ wish me luck in my AP Biology test tomorrow!

Good luck!

@Randal'Thor That's true.

g'luck

AP was a pretty good experience for me. I did Stats and World History.

7:17 PM

thx

@North Good luck!

Oooh how was stats?

Almost did CompSci until I found out that you had to handwrite code with a paper and a pencil

(and since you were talking about guessing people's ages, yes, it's clear you're a youngster :-) )

I got a 100 on the Stats exam

JK a 5

7:18 PM

@Brandon_J Out of 120? That's pretty good

I was kidding

Gareth McCaughan

I am, as it happens, a dad.

@North good guess!

@Randal'Thor Yeah, I figured once you reach a certain point age kinda becomes irrelevant

We have enough for Codenames, BTW

7:18 PM

I have to leave tho

So count me out

OOh I'm down

My dad tells me age now is just a countdown till death which is kind of depressing

@Randal'Thor How clear is it that I'm a youngster? (other than talking about highschool)

@GarethMcCaughan I didn't believe in reincarnation when I was your age, either

@Brandon_J I guessed a while ago, but I have some experience in that...

@Brandon_J Eh I could tell you were younger bc you knew what SSBU was

I'd pictured the age progression as North, Mith, Deus, Rand, Rubio, Gareth

I do relative ages better than absolute

I think

7:21 PM

That actually wouldn't be far off from my observation

@Brandon_J Hmm. I'd probably have guessed you're older than North and Mith at least, maybe in university. Harder to pin down, though.

@Brandon_J That could be right, but I dunno about Rubio.

Damn, is it that obvious that I'm a youngster :P?

Are we counting in dog years or human years? :-)

Also haven't we confirmed that Rubio is at least 30+ yaers old in human years?

D'Arvit, I was just about to post something about accounting for dog years when calcuating Rubio's age.

7:25 PM

@North Sorry, but yes.

you don't have to be sorry, but i didn't know i was that obvious

@Loong Really?

Harhar

@Randal'Thor Yes. Nominated about 100 days after the end of the suspension.

@Loong Congrats!

7:28 PM

hm?

Being mod?

Well, thank you; however, I am a mod since 2015.

Okay I'm confused I didn't enter this conversation (walks away slowly)

@North It's hard to define exactly what ... boundless enthusiasm, but lots of us have that ... chattering a lot, somehow? I should probably stop before I cause offence :-P

@Loong And it wasn't removed?

I assumed they get an automatic signal to look into all such cases.

@Randal'Thor Maybe a certain tone of bubbliness? I am pretty chatty, maybe it's me posting a block of text at certain intervals

7:35 PM

@Randal'Thor It wasn't removed. The user had a few (partly self-deleted) accounts. I guess, the old tools could not find the connection to the new account.

Huh, interesting.

That suggests a certain workaround ... wouldn't be great if people knew to abuse that :-/

Too late. The current tools can see it. ;-)

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9:43 PM

@Randal'Thor i graduate highschool this year.

Gareth McCaughan

I always assumed, I'm not sure why, that Rand was a little older than I am. Now I think about it, though, I think I agree he's probably younger. Pretty sure I'm non-negligibly older than Rubio.

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11:25 PM

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Q: Missouri raptors have wild hairdos

Across: 1. URL for commercial clothes (7) 3. Steal each commodity (6) 5. One gut was queasy, you can stick it out (6) 7. Throw caution to the wind and sell art (7) 9. Endlessly care for vehicle (3) 10. March saint does prank next to Dad (7) 12. Martha upset by one missing end of...

cryptic-crosswords

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