The Sphinx's Lair

@matt That would not work

It would be "start of digestive" and tract would be the def

@Stiv Gastrointestinal: (LIONSEATINGSTART)*

oooh

nice

jafe

5:47 PM

nice

Niceeee

Stiv

@LukasRotter Bingo! And speedily too. Well done :)

I had that answer and was trying to figure out the wordplay :(

@Stiv NIce surface

The circumstance surrounding the fraud paper (7)

Stiv

@NorthLæraðr Thanks :) I'm happy how it turned out! I wanted to squeeze in a couple of red-herring indicators, and it actually seems to have worked.

rubiks-cube retrograde-analysis

5:58 PM

hey @Wen1now! dont think i've seen you here before :)

cc I just thought of

Reversed xenon definition transport (5)

cluing FEDEX

Sphinx

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Q: 1x1x1 Rubiks Cube Puzzle

The solved position of 1x1x1 Rubiks cubes as shown was shuffle rolled without moving outside the 4x4 puzzle grid. All cubes are similar with face opposite colors: red to magenta,green to yellow and blue to cyan. Within its grid the puzzle can be played by quarter rolling the cubes up,down,le...

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Q: Matchstick Problem: Turn 1 into 12 by removing a matchstick

Below are some matchsticks arranged to display an expression. Your task is to remove one matchstick so that the resulting value of the expression will be twelve.

mathematics lateral-thinking matches

6:16 PM

@matt you probably can't do that

@NorthLæraðr what's this?

@Avi CON+TEXT

@Avi why not?

you can

just realized it was (XE + DEF)<

but the surface needs major improvement lol

how might i do that?

Gassy noble given food back in transport corporation? (5)

6:25 PM

i see

oh

but it doesn't work

why not?

because XE+FED< doesn't work

it has to be (XE + DEF)< or FED + XE<

right right

we have to clue DEF

but I think you get the point that the surface has to be readable lol

6:27 PM

right, yeah

@NorthLæraðr this one is a good example of an almost-surface

if not for the "fraud paper" sounding awkward, it would be really really good

@Avi hm. how full surface/

maybe fraudulent paper? I couldn't get fraudulent for con tho

Situation first covered on newspaper, perhaps (7)

C_ + ON + TEXT

perhaps?

niceeeee

That's clean

newspaper, perhaps = "text"

6:34 PM

CCCC: Conversationally dominate pretty boy with a wide assortment (7)

lol!!

I had a version of this one in mind which was borderline NSFW, so I mitigated it a bit, lol

- conversationally, + of tools

Smuggling shelfed exotica in some transport vans (5)

[some transport vans], _FED EX_

6:55 PM

hey @bobble!

hey

how goes it

hey, @FadedGiant! :)

n-nope they left

ok then

7:23 PM

Oct 28 '19 at 2:10, by Alconja

CCCC: Confused, arrange, sort, illicit, sad, and anomaly?! (7,10,3,9,2)

big honkin' anagram?

Oct 28 '19 at 2:32, by PiIsNot3

@Alconja It’s ANAGRAM INDICATORS AND LITERALLY SO

"Confused" is the indicator, rest is the anagrammed text, the whole thing is the definition

that's dedication

7:45 PM

that's ado incited, indeed

you must stop now, lest the anagrams take over the world

we will never stop anagramming

never stop* = overspent

@Avi dot hats and I cite, indeed

several funny anagrams [warning: some nsfw] are on this page

matt and avi, I charge you with Excessive Anagramming.

7:56 PM

I am the lord* = Hide, mortal

what is the punishment

that's probably the best one on there

the punishment is death by anagram

your parts will be taken out and mixed around into new, strange formations

sure

there's only 6 anagrams of AVI

7:58 PM

and like 0 of "matt"

IAV IVA AIV AVI VAI VIA

VIA is at least a word

i must protect avi

Deusovi* = Ivo sued

devious

Deusovi* = Evodius

8:05 PM

hm

UV, so die!

Used ovi

doves UI

3

sudo vie

doves UI: a touchscreen designed specially for doves to use

I dove us

I've sudo

douse VI

nope

if you stop, I will give you a nice, non-brain-stealing bobblecrown

8:09 PM

accepted

sure

here you go

you may edit an image of a bobblecrown onto your profile picture

hi-res version?

nvm

very nice

8:13 PM

im making mine rn,hold on a sec :)

very happy bobblecrown!

thanks! :)

back to Terrible Answers I Am Grading: one egregiously bad graph had this explanation below it: "I couldn’t figure out how to add different colors for te lines and I couldn’t add the lable for the y axis."

... yeah, kid, I'm still taking points off

image so we can see exactly how egregious it is?

nah, just imagine some graph paper that has a few hastily-drawn points and you get the picture

one axis isn't labeled, and no numbers are given

8:20 PM

that kid is stupid

the instructions: "Provide a title, label the X and Y axis, and label each line appropriately or use a color key. "

they did 1 of those things

actually, wait, 1.5

changed my profile pic :)

takin a while

the bobblecrown is so pixelated :(

yeah ... limitations of a sucky program

any other Terrible Answers?

so are you giving advice so they can improve their answers

or is that past the scope of your job

8:25 PM

I am going to tell the teacher the common mistakes, he can help them improve

nags a ram

be nice to rams

anagrams

your picture has updated

ooh yay

are you okay with being a bit tilted?

8:30 PM

it is allowed

okay good. hope the bobblecrown isn't... queasy

9:17 PM

[2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 4, 1, 1, 1, 3]

oh boy

by hoo?

hobo-y

10:23 PM

@matt That is so confusing

You get a bobblecrown! And you get a bobblecrown! And you get a bobblecrown! Everyone gets a bobblecrown!

10:58 PM

@Avi what does that mean

@NorthLæraðr cf. my new profile pic

@matt you will see later

ominous...

11:49 PM

when is it worth it to do tiny edits? My bomber-maze answer has a typo where "combining some suggestion" should be "combining some suggestions"... seems too small to warrant a bump, though

@bobble Urm, you don't get review queue for posts of your own

So you wouldn't get +2 points for editing your own post

Oh... for the home page

I don't care about rep, just the fact that there's a post of mine that has a typo