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North Læraðr

1:01 AM

@bobble Looks like they wanted to avoid the conversation

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Sphinx

3:51 AM

Q: Kudos to the person who solves this riddle

I am a word. To the well-educated, I am an object of pursuit (well at least to some degree, if you are an American). To the veteran gamer, I come at little to no cost (would-be players often bring their own cards to this game, so take that into account). To the rest of the crew, I am something to...

jafe

4:11 AM

CCCC: Animated flick: Chile-Tribe's End Uncertain (6 or 3,11)

bobble

a schrodinger? do we have to get both?

jafe

yeah

Deusovi

5:00 AM

FICKL*+_E or THE INCREDIBLES*

jafe

@Deusovi that's correct

Deusovi

5:36 AM

CCCC: A Monster's Expedition appears endless: it's penned by epic storyteller (7)

store.steampowered.com/app/1052990/A_Monsters_Expedition

been playing this recently, highly recommend

the puzzle design is absolutely fantastic and the writing is brilliant

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msh210

6:59 AM

@Deusovi Sounds almost like a non-cryptic clue for ODYSSEY. But I assume that's not the intention.

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Deusovi

8:46 AM

nope, that's not the intention

msh210

@Deusovi The preview video embedded in their Web site shows the player knocking trees down and moving the resultant logs to build bridges from place to place. It shows nothing else. Am I to gather that figuring out how to do so is the only kind of puzzle in the game?

(I mean, it can still be complex and interesting.)

Deusovi

yes, that would be a pretty accurate description

msh210

Interesting. I would think that would get trite soon. But I guess that's why I'm not a game author. Presumably the authors of this one have written it so it doesn't get trite soon.

Deusovi

my save file says I've played it for nearly 5 and a half hours, and it definitely hasn't gotten boring at all

msh210

Nice.

Deusovi

8:53 AM

there are a lot of interesting subtle interactions built in, and the designers are very talented at making interesting things come out of those interactions

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Sphinx

12:31 PM

Q: Gladys's Scrambled Cryptic

This is part 4 of the puzzle series. Part 1 is here. Dear Puzzling, Today I'm visiting a wonderful old castle surrounded by picturesque woodland. You may have noticed that I'm not exactly taking the most convenient route to visit my intended destinations – this is because I want to show these p...

knowledge geography cryptic-crosswords

Q: Nurikabe-Slitherlink

Yesterday's post and Stiv's answer provided inspiration for a new puzzle. What I envision will be a big effort, so I spent part of yesterday creating a study, a sample part of the bigger puzzle to get some practice. It's not too hard, but I think this small puzzle came out pretty well, so I figur...

grid-deduction slitherlink

msh210

@Sphinx @jafe I don't really keep up with PSE, excuse me. Is this in addition to your weekly Friday cryptic or instead of last/this Friday's?

Or did you stop the Friday sequence?

Also -- does PSE have any professional (by which I mean "for pay") crossword or other puzzle setters? There are certainly some people whose quality is good enough....

jafe

12:48 PM

yeah i abandoned the regular friday schedule

didn't quite make the full year... i think the last one was number 44

i'm posting the remaining gladys puzzles when they finish, there's no fixed schedule anymore

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msh210

1:52 PM

Every time I see the name Gladys I think of the one from Friends and/or Ms. Knight.