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12:50 AM
aaand i just bit my tongue in the worst way possible
 
I'm not sure what to do with this answer - it seems pretty low-quality, but I'm not sure. I would leave a "please spoiler" comment except that they seem to be a fairly experienced user.
 
watch this
there we go. (you won't see anything b/c the edit must be "peer reviewed")
 
... and I'm going to "Reject and Edit" because you really shouldn't put meta-commentary about an edit
 
i had to b/c of the 6-character minimum
 
I used to get around that by adding some text above the spoiler indicating what it was. Even if that text was just "My answer is:"
 
12:57 AM
hm
(i still have no idea what "when do finishing" means)
 
Neither do I
 
i'd imagine it's "when they finish" but idk
 
 
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2:05 AM
finishing is a thing you can do to concrete, meaning to make the surface nice and smooth. "when they do finishing" = "when they perform the task of finishing concrete".
(I take it that answer is actually two answers: Maybe climbing mountains? Maybe finishing concrete?)
 
2:39 AM
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Q: My God, it's full of stars!

paramesisAn entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #32: Grid Deduction Hybrids My dear friend, unknown to us, may have relocated again. He sent me imagery and constellation maps indicating that a distant red spiraling galaxy was at his zenith, and nearly collinear with the largest local galactic cores. ...

Anyone wanna put this to rest? :P
 
(if anyone wants to talk to me: square-land)
 
3:16 AM
2
Q: Mensa online IQ test question - visual analogy with squares and circles

pilotjoker999I took a Mensa online IQ test(https://www.mensa.lu/en/mensa/online-iq-test/online-iq-test.html) and encountered this question which I wasn't able to do: This question is basically a visual analogy, where the first picture is to the second picture as the third picture is to the forth picture. Thi...

 
 
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4:42 AM
@jafe do your bounty magix on the 80-upvotes-yet-no-accepted-answer space grid deduction puzzle jk
 
@oAlt What is "bounty magi(c)"?
 
i was referring to jafe's recent activity of putting bounties on questions (the two that come to mind are "With Apologies To Robert Frost" by Rand'al Thor, and "Let's change CORONA!")
 
why not set one yourself? you have the rep :)
 
yeah ive been thinking that as well
though i want to get just a bit more rep beforehand
 
 
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6:40 AM
i wonder if the indicator part in the c4 is the hyphen which is to be interpreted as a minus sign
 
How would you apply minus to a word?
 
like step-dad could be PACE for step minus PA for dad, making CE?
there are some short names of musicals that could be useful like hair, cats, ida, honk, ...
 
Ooh, that might work
the definition part would mostly be "cover" then
 
PASS could work for cover (as in, cover a distance)?
 
7:00 AM
the clickbait hit HNQ and is now my most viewed post of the year
exactly as planned, mwa ha ha
 
hehe
On another note, the only thing that I know so far here is that the Mark guy is saying what seems to be one of Fick's laws of diffusion. Other than that, I don't have the energy to try to figure out the rest (because that energy is reserved for school requirements :'( )
 
wow looks like there is a lot going on in that one
 
ikr
also part of the reason why its making me lazy-- its dang huge and there are a lot of components
also im guessing only "Fick's" needs to be used???? (sounds like "fix"??)
whatever i don't know anymore :'(
 
7:20 AM
could be "antifix mark" or "counterfix mark" or something... neither of those seems to be a thing though
 
at this point im just laughing cuz it's all over the place
 
7:38 AM
ooh, new tags in the chain puzzle: "three-dimensional", "construction"
 
yeah
cool, Anon said i was almost there with the ficks idea
ok imma stop for now
 
 
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9:15 AM
New connect-wall posted! :)
 
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Q: Yes, this is the legendary wall

AnkoganitAn entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls This is it. This is the very wall. His life, his work — this wall was the center of it all. One simply cannot imagine his fame, greatness, and legacy without thinking about how this wall was always there to witness all his up...

 
how y'all manage to make two connect walls now >_<
ok i think i know partly what's going on there
oh dang this is interesting
 
9:47 AM
OH Boy so many aha moments
now, to decipher what the heck those spots and lines could mean...
and i still haven't figured out all what they all share in common aside from one obvious fact
 
10:11 AM
Good to know you're having fun :)
 
10:23 AM
yeah and i answered hehehehe
that was so good omg
 
Thanks :D
 
:D
 
For what it's worth, the meaning behind the color yellow is pure coincidence, I just wanted a color that stands out easily
 
ohh, ok
 
But now I'm gonna pretend it was my plan all along because it fits really well :p
 
10:32 AM
HAHAH
("his", right @Ankoganit ?)
 
My pronoun? Yes
 
ye ok thx
 
 
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11:42 AM
hah, i was half-expecting it to be related to a certain topical person who's associated with a big wall
 
1
Q: It's your turn now!

Prim3numbahWhat is the simple rule behind these three relations below? $F$ $\rightarrow$ $C$ :: $R$ $\rightarrow$ $I$ $\rightarrow$ $\sqrt{F}$ :: $IA$ $\rightarrow$ $D$

 
12:10 PM
hm. I saw the name Paul Panzer on the site and thought "that name sounds very familiar" and then I realized I was thinking of Saul Panzer (from Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe books) -- also a puzzle solver, of sorts.
 
@jafe ah shoot, missed opportunity :p
 
Topical indeed
 
 
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2:38 PM
0
Q: Psychology Today Culture Fair IQ test question - dot moving within a star

pilotjoker999I took an IQ test at Psychology Today(https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/tests/iq/culture-fair-iq-test) and encountered this question which I wasn't able to solve: I could not find a pattern in how the dot moves within the star. Any help in this problem is appreciated. Thank you.

 
3:21 PM
Opinions on this comment? It's entirely in rot13, and translates to basically "yep, that's right, and I learned about this from YouTube". Which I'm not sure is useful, especially given that it's in rot13
 
yeah, probably not super helpful
 
It seems like "yep, that's right, good job, here's a checkmark" comments are generally allowed here, but I've never seen one in rot13 before
 
There's one word that could be considered a spoiler in there, though
But just rot13ing that word would probably be a better idea
 
two, really. VFF and nfgebanhg
 
Ah yes, that too
 
3:27 PM
(just try pronouncing "nfgebanhg")
 
?
@bobble right, we're not super picky about "unnecessary" comments, but i would've tried to rephrase that one to avoid the rot13
(honestly i generally don't mind not rot13ing comments on answers at all, because if you're scrolled that far down you probably don't mind spoilers)
 
I'm not sure what to do about it - none of the flag reasons seemed to make sense. Though I guess bringing it up here is similar to flagging.
 
not sure there's a strong reason that anything needs to be done about it
 
Flagging feels unnecessary
 
It's just weird, then
 
3:30 PM
Yeah
 
agreed
i will be in square-land
 
(also: my interview with reach college is confirmed!)
 
epiccc
 
yayyyyyyyyyyy
 
Congrats!
 
3:36 PM
*celebration*
 
congratulations!
 
this gives me something new to stress about
 
*more celebration*
@bobble *virtual hugs*
 
list of single-question tags: , , , , , ,
the first 3 have no tag wiki
that last should be is synonymized already with --
why am I looking at tags? I dunno
 
Did you...*manually* find all those?
 
3:43 PM
the tags page is sorted by number of uses, I just went to second-from-last page
 
Ah
 
(last page is all 0-use tags)
(mistype: it's )
not Ohno
 
@bobble trust me, it'll be alright - i was a complete mess in my college interviews and things worked out fine
 
anyways, for the tags above: the ones without wikis I think can be safely edited out and left for Roomba. Not sure about the rest - though it's not very useful to have them.
 
ah yes, robot vacuum
 
3:52 PM
0hh1 is a [grid-deduction] genre that has many other names - wonder if we can find a synonym that's in more common use as a tag
 
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Q: Strategy for solving 0hh1 and Unruly?

Rand al'ThorQ42's game 0hh1 and Simon Tatham's game Unruly are two almost identical logical deduction games. In each one, we're given a square grid which is to be filled by tiles of two colours, and a certain initial setup of given tiles. We need to fill in the rest of the tiles, subject to the following res...

is the only question it's on
I guess Rand didn't want to make as well?
 
yeah, i'm looking to see if there's another tag that's consistently used on questions of that type
because 0hh1 and Unruly are names for the same genre
it's also called Binario, Tic-Tac-Logic...
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Q: Fixing a Binairo Mistake

Anonymo-5000The rules of Binairo are simple: 1) Each row and column must have an equal number of black and white circles. 2) There can be no horizontal/vertical line of three like-color circles. Starting from a position of fixed circles (indicated by those with dots in the center), one can complete a g...

here's another question about it without that tag (or any other genre-specific tag)
as for the others, i think you're right that some of them can just be edited out
just took care of [sorting] and [bingo], and merged/synonymized [synonym] into [word]
 
so edit out bingo, synonym, sorting, and mnemonic?
oh you just did
 
yeah mnemonic is the only one left to deal with, but i didn't want to bump too many old questions at once
 
wait until later to get rid of it then?
 
4:00 PM
sounds like a good plan
or you can do it now if you think three questions isn't a big deal - i'm probably being too hesitant? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
nah, I can wait until these move at least halfway down the front page
I've been wanting to bring up the single-use tags for a while, not entirely sure why I picked just now
 
just now is as good of a time as any!
yes, you have already announced that - no need to announce it again
 
(sorry)
 
4:29 PM
7x7 appears to be too large for a single-tetromino nurikabe. I shall make it 6x7 instead
Is there any way to properly estimate the size of board required beforehand?
or maybe that's too small?
 
@bobble i dont think so :/
 
@matt what was the announcement?
 
i made my own chatroom
 
oh cool
 
here is link if you're interested
 
4:40 PM
@bobble no easy way to that i know of
 
5:08 PM
C4 hints: (1) The last letter is S. (2) Part of the clue is an indicator, but (4) the hyphen is just a hyphen. (3) The answer has one syllable.
 
5:38 PM
nooo, my theory!
 
I think (?) I got a working 7x7 tetromino nurikabe. Time to check it.
I kept having problems with 2x2 oceans, due to the shape constraints
 
@jafe :-)
 
Hey, I got an idea - what if "cover" = C over, so we take a work meaning "musical" and put a C in front of it
and then def = folk
can musical = LAN? because then C + LAN = clan = folk
 
we know the last letter is an S, though
 
ah drat
but I got idea
 
5:52 PM
ah yes ,english
 
I think it might be CATS. For no apparent reason
It must be the musical=sound prob?
 
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Q: Constant puzzle

JKHAA constant is hiding behind this puzzle, can you tell which? 4 $\rightarrow$ 2 $\rightarrow$ 1 $\rightarrow$ 1 $\rightarrow$ 1 $\rightarrow$ $\dots$ ? $\rightarrow$ ? $\rightarrow$ ? $\rightarrow$ $\dots$ 4 $\rightarrow$ 3 $\rightarrow$ 6 $\rightarrow$ 0 2 $\rightarrow$ 1 $\rightarrow$ ...

 
cover can be an indicator for first+last letter, but that's not enough letters
 
CATS* = CAST, if that matters
 
6:02 PM
would be an indirect anagram
 
i wouldn't rule out musical as a homophone indicator necessarily
 
I started reaching for straws a while back
 
folk seems like a more likely def than cover since folk can be plural
 
6:05 PM
yeah
skin kins
 
don't skin your kin
 
collecting kinskins
 
CANS KINS hm
cover is SINK, KINS the two ends are flipped
Idk how that works
 
Is "kins" even a word? I thought "kin" was plural/uncountable/whatever the word is
 
isn't "a kin" like "a relative"?
 
6:09 PM
yes
 
@jafe Yeah
There's also "a kin" and "akin"
 
Is "kin" like "deer"?
 
so kins would be valid for "folk"
 
the word you're looking for is "collective"
other "collective nouns" are oxygen and bread
no one says "2 breads"
 
oxygen & bread are "non-count" or "uncountable" in my idiolect.
"collective noun" makes me think of "murder" (of crows).
 
well i call 'em collective nouns
(more info here)
 
Cover: "to make one's way through, across, or over"
Synonym: RUN
RUNS?
 
@bobble that's odd
 
I didn't fix it during my Big Edit, probably should have made it "loaves of bread" or the like
 
6:14 PM
runs would have to be covers, no?
 
@jafe Oh, you're right
 
how about gens for folk?
with some homophone that means "cover", maybe
 
whistles God Save the Queen
 
What I was thinking gens before too
Is JENS a word?
 
"people named jennifer"
 
6:19 PM
Jen is a first name
 
also jens is a scandinavian first name
 
Okay hold on, GEN means to "find out about" or "provide someone with information"
Doesn't cover also mean that
Like "covering news"
 
Jens is also a user
 
yes, but it can't be a ddef
 
6:20 PM
yeah there needs to be an indicator somewhere
 
@jafe pronounced with a /j/ I assume?
 
yeah
 
wait... if Jens is a given name, what's the "son of" family name? Jensssen?
 
jenssen
like hanssen/rasmussen etc
 
oh darn
 
6:23 PM
Can cover mean to take multiple letters from either end
Like if there's a musical called GENERATIONS GENS?
^Not a real thing but you know
 
i think it'd be indicated more clearly if it was that complicated
but i remember seeing something like "thick coat of..." to indicate first two + last two
 
I was hoping for Jensssen, like i.stack.imgur.com/icMkT.png
 
heheh
 
@jafe Maybe musical cover is G...E N....S
 
in german you can have triple consonants, like Schiff + fahren -> schifffahren
 
6:26 PM
0
Q: Puzzle regarding emptying of cup!

Rishabh JainInitially, I have $3$ cups with infinite capacity and some prefilled amount of water(positive integers). I can do only one operation repeatedly by choosing any $2$ out of $3$. The operation is that if you have $2$ cups with volume $a$ and $b$ and $a <= b$, then the operation changes the volume as...

 
just imagine having a fff ligature
 
@jafe nice
you can certainly have triple consonants in Hebrew but it's an abjad so that's not surprising
 
aren't vowels marked in hebrew with those niqqud and things?
 
ah right, so ddd could be like dadedi
 
exactly
 
6:28 PM
@matt yeah
 
can cover mean "remove the cover of"? i know top can mean both "put top on" and "take top off"
 
@msh210 Oh yeah, I've always been curious, is it Jehova or Yahweh? And how do people "know" what vowels are it and which aren't?
 
@jafe right. There are some actual words like that (though I don't know any offhand that people actually use often). E.g. ששש means "that was happy"
@PrinceNorthLæraðr "what vowels are it" meaning in that word specifically or in words in general?
 
@msh210 More like "how do people know how it's pronounced"?
Okay hold on
Skins is a British teen comedy-drama television series that follows the lives of a group of teenagers in Bristol, South West England, through the two years of sixth form. Its controversial story-lines have explored issues like dysfunctional families, mental illness (such as depression, eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar disorder), adolescent sexuality, gender, substance abuse, death, and bullying. Each episode generally focuses on a particular character or subset of characters and the struggles they face in their lives, with the episodes named after the featured characters...
(s-)KINS??
 
how did you find that?
 
6:31 PM
@PrinceNorthLæraðr I dunno about academicians. I can only speak for Jewish tradition, which is that we don't know how it's pronounced (and we don't pronounce it).
@PrinceNorthLæraðr how does the wordplay work?
 
@msh210 Can cover means "take off cover"?
@bobble Typed skins musical
 
is that a musical, though?
 
I don't think so
arg
 
@PrinceNorthLæraðr not that I can think of
 
6:34 PM
deus'll probably pop in any second and solve this in 5 minutes
 
pretty sure he's been here since november 1 when the clue was posted :)
 
hm
 
Combining a coupla ideas said today would just about get you there.
 
" C over, so we take a work meaning "musical" and put a C in front of it"?
 
time to dig up the lyrics to god save the queen...
 
6:39 PM
@jafe lol no, that wasn't a hint. I meant things that were said about the c4
 
hmmm
 
are you humming it right now?
 
C over musical
 
musical is "sung", cover means reversal somehow, and GNUS are folk :)
 
@jafe by golly you've got it
(kidding)
 
6:46 PM
i gnu it!
avi will put this one out of its misery
 
why would avi kill the gnu? that seems cruel
 
but if it's in misery
 
killing bad.
murder illegal.
 
Avi
murder fun
 
Ugh
CASTE sounds like CAST
 
6:52 PM
still need the final S :)
 
I know!!! Ugh
 
Avi
what's going on with this CCCC anyways
 
MURDER IS ILLEGAL DON'T MURDER
also, murder wrong
 
crows have a right to gather the same as gnufolk
 
Avi
@bobble it may be wrong
it may be illegal
but it is fun!
 
6:55 PM
hmm, UTES are a folk, UT is a musical note, and the ES magically appears when you say "cover"
 
I think we made need to stage an intervention for avi
 
Avi
I think that will provide me a ripe victim
 
someone else help here?
 
Avi
___S
 
"we need to talk about the murdering"
 
6:56 PM
I think we need to stage an intervention for jafe. ("the ES magically appears when you say 'cover'"?)
:-)
 
Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti. Anything?
 
heheh
 
Avi
unfortunately musical as an anagrind doesn't make folk into kolf
because kolf is not a word
 
. . . or isn't it
 
the kolf it isn't
 
Avi
6:57 PM
either way folk doesn't contain the letter s
 
. . . or doesn't it
 
Avi
folk that
 
we're gonna solve the kolf out of this one
 
Avi
come on there has to be a limit to linguistic innovation
 
i've reached the point where i'm looking at the list of 920 words qat knows for ???S
 
6:58 PM
I'm with ya
 
I'm off for lunch.
 
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