The Sphinx's Lair

4:29 AM

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Welcome to the Puzzling.SE top 10 word search, lets get solving: CZSMOCSYLAYOLNTIMMSJZGK ZPDAWZMROKTESEWORDUZBLG ZFMTNNFZGTJLIGEKPDENRDO WUJHRFYMIENZDDJRQSKYXIZ WMHEEDFCCMLZFETSXXGHANJ FXUMTJRKAFBUCLMRQLSMUKQ GWFATMJELUBPZWEINNKKYVR NCBTAZSNDULCBOLJDQFMAFM KXXIPKSEEKRIRNDGJEXELIK TXACDQCMD...

user435118

@Sphinx Can someone give me feedback on my first puzzle please?

user435118

Also what is a good way to get into puzzle solving, just practice?

user435118

5:11 AM

@Deusovi as an experienced user, can you give me some feedback please?

Sphinx

6:25 AM

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Q: A crossword (+ a secret message)

What number does this top-secret message point to? Ftq mzeiqd ue: ftq ecgmdq daaf ar fia tgzpdqp mzp fiqzfk ruhq This table and crossword could help: Crossword clues: Across: 4: A lifeboat, perhaps 5: Strips in Geography class 8: Somewhat thin 9: Whirlybird 10: Perma...

cipher crosswords

jafe

@Sid pretty sure this is O+BAM+A, who used to be a US senator

i tried so hard to make RUBIO work at first :P

Sid

7:59 AM

@jafe Bingo!

user435118

8:10 AM

Spend 2 hours on this: puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/97998/…

user435118

I give up, I got a few numbers but not many

jafe

btw i think A for answer is fine (assuming that was the part you thought might be iffy)

Q for question and A for answer are pretty common (just look at sphinx above, for example)

hm, it seems i use parentheses a lot (but i'm not going to stop)

CCCC: Making a misstep on vacation: being on drugs (8)

Sid

@jafe I was also thinking Love->0->O

Thought that might be a stretch

jafe

8:30 AM

O was the first thing i thought of when i saw "love"... i think it's pretty common

Gareth McCaughan

8:54 AM

@jafe Some years ago I made a resolution that every time I found myself writing parentheses in anything anyone else was going to read, I would try just taking them out and seeing how it looked. I find that I usually don't put them back again.

(I don't always keep my resolution.)

To be explicit, what I remove is the "(" and ")", not what's between them. (A "parenthesis" can be either.)

Sphinx

9:31 AM

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Q: Born a X, reaching adulthood no longer a X, but dead, X

Born a X, reaching adulthood no longer a X, but dead, X. What is X?

word

Sphinx

12:14 PM

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Q: This day in history VII

This day in history was solved first by Glorfindel with Yuzuriha Inori giving a more detailed answer. Today (9th May), a number of years ago, some sort of event happened. What was it and what do the clues mean? That wibbly-wobbly feeling Like you get higher than a ceiling A great psychological t...

riddle history

Sphinx

1:00 PM

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Q: Anagrammatically speaking 3

Fill in the blanks below. Each sentence uses words that are anagrams of each other. In each pair of sentences, solve the first sentence, change one letter of an answer-word from that sentence, and shuffle it to form the answer-words for the second sentence. The answer-words in all sentences are t...

wordplay anagram

Puzzling Meta

2:25 PM

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Q: How to choose the answer to accept in a multi-question puzzle?

Similar question but not extremely useful because this time is about multi-question puzzles rather than the answers quality. I recently posted this puzzle which was composed of multiple questions of the form: can you do [something] for $n=6$? And for $n=8$? For which value of $n$ [the same thing...

discussion answers accepted-answer

jafe

3:55 PM

@GarethMcCaughan that makes sense... i don't think there are many situations where the parentheses are absolutely necessary

as long as you don't apply the same reasoning when coding

Sphinx

4:29 PM

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Q: Query about block and stream ciphers

I don't know if you can help me or not, but I could do with any additional guidance here. I am currently solving a puzzle that needs to use a combination of block ciphers and stream ciphers. I am on my way to doing it, but could do with help as to whether certain things are possible and what so...

cipher

Deusovi

5:01 PM

@Daniil Not sure I can give too much feedback? It's a word search - not much to say about it really.

I would say that generally you shouldn't base things off of Puzzling trends that may change in the future. So "top ten tags", like "top ten users", would be a problem, because it would make your puzzle potentially unsolvable later.

(And I'm not personally a fan of word searches. There's very little actual puzzle to them -- it's just tedium, with no thought involved.)

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