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12:00 AM
CCCC: Can of Coke is terrific selection (7)
(not sponsored)
 
imagine being sponsored by coca-cola and having to have like 50% of clues mention some product of theirs
and it would have to be in a positive light too
 
12:14 AM
@Jafe depends on the contract
Simpsons for years have had a contract that they can mock fox
 
12:59 AM
didn't know that, sounds like a very simpsons thing to have in the contract
@juicifer ahh this is _ke is ter_ (=can)!
 
it sure is!
 
CCCC: People of India and Britain joined with love (4)
 
@Jafe this is a very sweet clue for I GB O
 
thanks! that's correct, back to you
 
CCCC: Male performer featured in Polish board game (8)
 
 
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2:31 AM
if "featured in Polish" can clue POLY (as in Pole-y, maybe?), this could be M (male) + ONO (yoko, a performer) + POLY, a board game
Pol. can be an abbreviation for polish as well but still don't see where the Y comes from in that case
 
it is not monopoly
 
ooh, plot thickens
 
2:44 AM
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Q: Present and future – A letter from Gladys

Jafe Letters from Gladys are geography-themed standalone crosswords. Each puzzle has five thematic answers, which are places, sights or landmarks in or around a certain location (in this case, an island). Each thematic answer is notable enough to have its own article in the English Wikipedia, althoug...

 
3:09 AM
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Q: My uncle likes toast but not cereal

blackjack_sparrowMy uncle likes some things but not others. He likes toast but not cereal. He likes bicycles but not motorbikes. He likes ice but not water. He likes lamps but not lava lamps. He likes claw hammers but not spirit levels. What does he like?

 
 
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9:54 AM
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Q: Yet another word riddle

animaldesequia Getting rid of me would be paradoxical, but if you did it, you would be enlightened. If you called a doctor, I would become inactive. If you are lost, just try to think of me. If you want to know what I am, you first need to solve me. What am I?

 
10:44 AM
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Q: Doodles and Scribbles

Auribouros Sometimes I scribble on my notebook at work, but today it feels like the doodles are somehow connected... What am I supposed to do with this?

 
 
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1:41 PM
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Q: More stepping stones

Dmitry KamenetskyStart by placing prime numbers 2, 3 and 5 anywhere on an infinite square grid. Now you can place a prime number $p$ subject to the following rules: It must be greater than all the previous numbers placed. The sum of its 8 neighbours must be equal to $p$. What is the largest prime that you can p...

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Q: Pit of Radiance - A study on board games

Auribouros (Author Note) A while ago I made some puzzles for a now defunct puzzle hunt project, here's one of them. The answer to this (and most other puzzles of said hunt) is a single word. The puzzle itself is fully contained within the image above. Author notes don't matter. Additional note: For the seq...

 
2:06 PM
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Q: A strange number pattern, isn't it?

DrDThis looks like a strange number sequence to me. Or is it? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 20 21 22 23 24 25 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 ? ? ? ? ? So what are the question mark numbers and why?

 
2:31 PM
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Q: A Few Tile Problem?

AlteringIntegralHave designed a number of puzzles - would love to know what you thought? From the four tiles which two are A and B?

 

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