The Sphinx's Lair

Deusovi

7:06 PM

it's not a numeral prefix - the word "digit" originally means "finger/thumb/toe/etc"

and then bit and trit came from portmanteauing it with the prefixes

matt

ah right

Avi

Thus Deus hath spake pon wee mortels

matt

what does that mean

"spake"? "pon"?

Avi

Thus Deusovi has spoken upon wee mortals

probably with some grammatical mistakes

matt

hey North!

Prince North Læraðr

7:19 PM

@matt Heya

bobble

Other people came to my defense, though, which was nice.

Prince North Læraðr

Yeah

Avi

Uhhhhh

I think that person misunderstood total impartiality as an attack ;(

Lukas Rotter

Looking at that quote I thought bobble dropped some heavy insults on them -> was disappointed

Avi

23 hours ago, by bobble

I just want to be your frieeeend

matt

7:22 PM

??

bobble

quite sorry to disappoint :P

Avi

somehow I don't think bobble would do something like that

Prince North Læraðr

Okay, it sounded a little harsh, but an expected response to "But why though"

matt

what is going on here, i am confuzzled

Prince North Læraðr

Discussing a comment

Voldemort's Wrath

7:23 PM

I remember that comment

matt

i do not

Voldemort's Wrath

@Gabbie -- I assure you, nobody is trying to hurt you. Bobble is simply pointing out that this is not the correct StackExchange website for these types of questions, and Bubbler brings up a good point too. It's okay to make mistakes when you're new! Just make sure you act on them and learn from them! Welcome to StackExchange! :):) — Voldemort's Wrath yesterday

Wait that's mine

hang on

-2

Q: How can you classify quadrilaterals?

Please help! This is an IXL activity I need help with because I want to improve my Math skills. Which words describe this shape? Choose all that apply.

Lol

To be fair

lol indeed

7:24 PM

I'm pretty sure that person is like 6 years old

Voldemort's Wrath

hmm

Avi

good on them for figuring out how to create a stackexchange account

Prince North Læraðr

I do think they are waaay too young for stack exchange

I did IXL in elementary school

Avi

not literally 6, but figuratively

Voldemort's Wrath

Well, they reponded with:

Thank you Voldermort's Wrath; now I feel welcome. I just felt that Bobble was a little too harsh, but I guess that's okay (?)...thank you very much! :) — Gabbie 44 mins ago

matt

7:25 PM

yes also they misspelled @Voldemort'sWrath

Avi

Moldymort

bobble

I just say "Voldy"

Voldemort's Wrath

lol

voldy is a good nickname

Avi

tbh

the little bobbles are like yellow molds growing all over the profile pic

Voldemort's Wrath

Lol

Actually, these bobblies are feeding extra power to me. They might be defective, bobble

bobble

7:27 PM

You think.

Voldemort's Wrath

Uh, oh

Well then I can just...

bombarda

See? explosion

bobble

You can't ever truly destroy a bobblie

Voldemort's Wrath

Yeah my intention was not to do that

Avi

they're like horcruxes

Voldemort's Wrath

just to show how incredibly huge my power is

btw you can destroy horcruxes

Avi

7:28 PM

not with bombarda

Voldemort's Wrath

Well, if you do it hard enough

Avi

but they're more invincible than horcruxes

Voldemort's Wrath

Yes

Again, not my intention

Avi

Moldymort will soon become Moldymold

Voldemort's Wrath

Or just voldy

voldy is a cute name tbh

Avi

7:30 PM

Too bad they named him Tom.

Voldemort's Wrath

tommy is still cute

lol

im losing brain cells

k bye bye

i have homework D:

Avi

In Danish, “Romeo G. Detlev, Jr.” rearranges to “Jeg Er Voldemort,” or “I Am Voldemort.” In Spanish, “Tom Sorvolo Ryddle” becomes “Soy Lord Voldemort,” and German speakers have “Tom Vorlost Riddle,” which morphs into “Ist Lord Voldemort,” like the original English version. If you’re a French reader, our young wizard becomes “Tom Elvis Jedusor,” which then turns into “Je Suis Voldemort.”

matt

wow

how did you...?

Avi

google

msh210

@Avi "like the original English version": except that it's in the third person instead of the first

Avi

7:45 PM

Possibly - I have no idea what that translator was thinking

also, I didn't write that bit of text

matt

wonder what klingon would end up being

Avi

but, I'm not quite sure that the rest of that article was either relevant or appropriate for this chat

msh210

@Avi PLAGIARISM!!!

Mithical

I knew the Elvis thing but not the others

Avi

@msh210 with no citation

alright

msh210

7:47 PM

Only pathetic plagiarists cite.

Avi

I'm going to attempt making a bermuda rectangle again :( hopefully I don't get defeated

jafe

"good artists borrow; great artists steal" -- jafe, 2020

2

Avi

scam artists...

... borrow but never return

matt

@Avi what's a bermuda rectangle?

Avi

@matt inescapable, that's what it is

and filled with sharks

bobble

7:50 PM

If you seek beneath these floors
A treasure that was never yours
Thief, you have been warned, beware
Of finding more than treasure there

matt

@bobble nice poem! :)

or did you not write it?

Avi

JK Rowling wrote it

bobble

It's at the front of Gringotts

Voldemort's Wrath

Gringotts

cool

Avi

It's a really good poem though

bobble

7:51 PM

There's another verse but it's not relevant here

I have the first two Sorting Hat Songs, the Hogwarts School Song, and all of the half-decent short poems in the series memorized.

matt

wow

Mithical

my little sister has every prophecy from percy jackson (and the heroes of olympus) memorized

bobble

I have a life, why are you asking? :)

matt

heh

bobble

@Mithical I have the Big 3 one memorized but none of the others

Mithical

7:54 PM

heh, I only memorized the second big one

Avi

Haha spoilers - Percy Jackson is waterboi

matt

i used to have 88 digits of pi memorized

Avi

3.2

ez

bobble

3.1415926

matt

3.141592653589793238462643382379502884 is all i got now

Avi

7:55 PM

3.14159265358979 is all I usually remember

but I don't really care lol

Mithical

(I've gone on before about why Riordan is better than Rowling so I'll just link that and not get into it too much here)

bobble

pi ~ 3

Avi

I just do that in case my calculator doesn't have a PI button and I need to multiply something

Mithical

@Avi I only remember 3.1415926

one of my cousins supposedly memorized 100 digits but until I hear it for myself I'm holding out doubt

matt

hm

and then there's me, who for no reason at all made an html ipa chart in 3 days

Mithical

7:58 PM

(but I don't put it past her, she's... freakily multitalented)

Avi

how so

and to what degree

Mithical

she's a born actress and singer, for one; she taught herself how to play piano; one of the most intelligent people I know

she draws extremely well

Avi

oof

Mithical

I'm envious if I had to be honest

Avi

drawing OP

Mithical

8:00 PM

I can put words together. That's about it

bobble

(nice article, Mith!)

Avi

I can code + make random puzzles + piano + do math + other random things. That's about it

Mithical

(thanks)

bobble

@Avi are they good random puzzles?

Avi

Can't write, draw, or talk to other people

@bobble Generally so

And not repeats, either

I can technically write but I condense condense condense

until my 1 page becomes 1/10th of a page

Mithical

8:03 PM

@Avi Nobody ever accused me of being laconic...

Avi

I'm still salty about this one time I wrote a 3 page story and caught a grammar error in it 5 years later

Haven't written any stories since :/

msh210

@bobble The only poem from the books that I know by heart is Peeves's on Voldemort's death. And I'm not even sure I know that one correctly.

Avi

We did it

We bashed them

bobble

*bashed

Avi

Wee Potter's the one

@bobble thanks

And Voldy's gone Moldy

So now let's have fun!

Avi

8:35 PM

so, besides sharks

what other fun stuff might you expect to see inside a bermuda triangle/rectangle?

bobble

dragons

with top hats

because.

Avi

dragons with top hats, sharks, and?

bobble

the dragon thing was my only idea

jafe

yikes, first chain puzzle's live!

Stiv

Let's see how this goes! :)

Sphinx

9:01 PM

4

Q: Chain Puzzle: Tabletop Games #01 - Let's Play

This is the first Chain Puzzle in the Tabletop Games series, in which all puzzles are themed around board games, card games, tile games, and the like. The answer to this puzzle is a thematic word or phrase. The solver whose answer is awarded the green checkmark has first refusal on the opportunit...

word enigmatic-puzzle visual sequence board-games

1

Q: What is the Name of this Toggling Puzzle?

I came across an interesting toggling puzzle while looking through a code repository on GitHub. I want to find out more about it and see if there is any info on how to solve it, how to ensure solvability etc., but I can't seem to find any references to it online. The closest I can find is a puzzl...

logical-deduction

Prince North Læraðr

Anyone want to collab for the puzzle, we can meet in the Chain Puzzle room

Mithical

I'm exploring an idea

Sciborg

Hello :D looks like someone solved the C4 while I was gone

Avi

Connect Four, Battleship, Monopoly, Blokus, Chess (and a bunch of others that I don't know) w.r.t. Tabletop games

bobble

They're currently meeting in the Chain Puzzle room

Sciborg

9:09 PM

We have a Chain Puzzle room? Nifty

bobble

@Sciborg, how much work do you have on a scale of manageable to dying?

Sciborg

@bobble Yesterday I was dying but today is much more manageable, I basically am done for the day which is nice

bobble

yay!

Sciborg

:D

I'm reading the chat logs and lol, guess you're "a little too harsh" for not wanting to help user with what is obviously their math homework on a puzzling website. How dare you

Avi

turns a-boat

matt

9:16 PM

hey mick!

the sphinx's lair* = plants hex irish

wikipedia* = i wipe a kid

Sciborg

Heya Matt :)

matt

theta yam :)

Sphinx

0

Q: 1000 gold coins to share with the king

You are the knight of a great kingdom in a unknown world. Your king sent you to a dungeon and you killed the dragon and got 1000 gold coins from the dragon layer. Normally, you are supposed to give all gold coins to the kingdom but the King says; Congratulations, you collected $1000$ gold with y...

mathematics logical-deduction strategy

matt

9:31 PM

note to self: the anagrams scare people away

bobble

BOO!

matt

that- no

from my math homework:

> 15. Atrough is 12 feet

that is the entire question

i'm like "what tf do i do with that?"

Avi

Answer: Apeak is 12 feet

matt

thank you for that

Avi

but yeah idk that sounds like an incomplete question - you may want to shoot your teacher an email or something

bobble

9:35 PM

don't shoot your teacher. that's illegal.

Avi

. that's illegal

matt

so ~~periods~~ full stops are illegal now?

Avi

get shot . that's illegal ggg

specifically, I have shot you the string ". that's illegal"

matt

??

will be back

Avi

Or, in other words, a sentence-ending punctuation mark that is illegal

Mithical

9:38 PM

Are you restricting this only to English: Because things work differently in other languages:

Avi

Yes, I am restricting this only to English: Other languages can retain their mechanics:

this is a Bermuda Rectangle (solved)

this is a Bermuda Rectangle (unsolved)

deduce the ruleset, and then you can make your own to post on PSE, I suppose

bobble

1. A single loop (which may cross over itself) must go through every colored square

haven't figured out any other rules

Gareth McCaughan

@matt Don't you have a pair of digits transposed there?

merrybot

10:02 PM

@GarethMcCaughan oop, yes, thanks :)

@Avi ok how does that work

Avi

22 mins ago, by Avi

deduce the ruleset, and then you can make your own to post on PSE, I suppose

merrybot

at the moment it's just "draw a loop through all the colored squares"
can't think of any others

but there are several unique solutions with that rule

Avi

fineeeeeeeeeee

Grandpa told you that there were sharks and dragons with top hats inside the Bermuda Rectangle. Ever the curious one, you decided to see for yourself. Due to the bizarre nature of the Bermuda Rectangle, you can only survive if you find a safe path. The rules are the following:
1. You start and end on the same square.
2. You can only turn when you see (are on the same square as) a shark (blue) or dragon (purple).
3. Once you're in a shark- or dragon-infested region, you will be chased down! You must visit every square within a colored region to escape.

merrybot

where do the top hats come in?

Avi

the dragons have top hats

curious indeed

merrybot

10:13 PM

i read it as "(sharks and dragons) with top hats"

i.e. they both have top hats

Gareth McCaughan

so far, no actual distinction between the sharks and the dragons

Avi

Correct - I wouldn't want to be eaten by either of them.

Gareth McCaughan

sings "When you're a Dragon, you're a Dragon all the way ..."

merrybot

~singing random words~

Gareth McCaughan

(not random)

merrybot

10:15 PM

rtgfyg6t5dgy6

Avi

for the record - I think this puzzle type is full of possibilities

especially if someone can figure out what the dragons are doing :(

perhaps a tea-time so rudely interrupted by our protagonist

merrybot

speaking of tea, my cup is empty ... accio

there we go

Avi

alright, enjoy

merrybot

sips

Avi

I'm off because exhausted from setting and deducing that one :(

merrybot

10:22 PM

aight, bye :)

meanwhile, my balanced elevenary is going well

merrybot

10:41 PM

@bobble try telling the <expletive><expletive> to shut the <expletive> up

bobble

11:23 PM

I just tutored calculus for 80 minutes. dear goodness, my brain hurts.

Lukas Rotter

Will the cryptic-clues tag ever stop being misused? I understand the reason for the repeated mistagging... Unfortunately we can't change the name of it :)

bobble

Two ideas: move the "don't use this for enigmatic-puzzles" warning to the front of the tag and all-caps it, and/or change it to "cryptic-crossword-clues"

Sphinx

0

Q: Where does my friend lives 2

One of my friend, Anne, is staying in London. She had told me which street is she in but to my understanding, there are a huge number of houses living in the same street. Fortunately, every house in this street has a colour and neither two shares the same colour. She told me that: 3665?66, 13×r+1...

enigmatic-puzzle

Lukas Rotter

Second one might lead some to think it has to be a crossword. Although I suspect if you know what it means that misunderstanding might not even happen

(being a crossword, that is)

bobble

What do you think of the "move-the-warning" idea?

Lukas Rotter

11:33 PM

Sounds good IMO. But I suspect most people who mistag don't read the tag deacription at all

bobble

I know that some other SEs have gotten special warnings that pop up when you use certain tags. Maybe try for that?

merrybot

@bobble ahh

bobble

example of getting a specific-tag warning