boboquack

Just a question: do we really need find-the-tag?

(it's disappeared off the front page but still needs some spam votes to delete)

spam: puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/71269/…

^ don't think that's a duplicate

VTDupes please: puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/61950/…

@Sid (and Gareth) Sorry for the pings, but I read the main site before going to chat :P

Are you two on the same team?

oh, I see

What hunt is this?

@Deusovi (or other mods) apparently, the Winter Olympics are on, so happy times for the mods!

@Rubio quite the opposite. The mods have tools, therefore they control tools. If the mods control my account... does that make me a tool?

@JohnDvorak there's mod tools for that

@Rubio Righty-o! I thought it would be better to flag and be wrong than not flag and be right.

@Doorknob is the 6th hint dependent on the 1st and 5th hints?

if you want it to add multiple reasons (added 4 characters; deleted 5 characters; etc.) you have to delete the edit name each time you reedit, I think

It's more confusing when you edit twice within a few minutes so it gets saved as one edit.

Oops, clicked wrong button in review

In another puzzle, order meant alphabetical order, unfortunately fir(-e) is already in alphabetical order

@Deusovi Wait, I thought you were trapped in the maze

@sharur The person in question is no longer the Prime Minister of Australia.

@user202729 it's about 20000 characters or so I think by testing.

(sorry if I'm breaking some form of chattiquette)

Hello everyone! I'm trying to use the Esoteric IDE for a big project but there seems to be a character limit. Is there a way to remove this?

@Chris Maybe I'll make one sometime

In general, the reasoning goes like this for problems with solutions sets of 3 or more: suppose we want to find the *actual* solution. Then find a common property between all the other solutions, note that it leads to multiple solutions, and conclude that the common property doesn't hold. This would mean that your desired solution is the only valid solution.

@Ariana see the problem?

If I place 3 to the side of the 1 and 2, there isn't a unique solution - 312 and 123. So 3 must be between 1 and 2, and so the solution must be 132 if we assume there is a unique solution.

If I place the 2 last, there isn't a unique solution - 132 and 312. So 2 should not be last, and since it must be after 1 in must be second. So the solution must be 123 if we assume there is a unique solution.

If I place the 1 first, there isn't a unique solution - 123 and 132. So 1 should not be first, and since it must be before 2 it must be second. So the solution must be 312 if we assume there is a unique solution.

For example, if I have the following puzzle: place 1, 2 and 3 in a line such that 1 comes before 2

The problem with assuming a unique solution in a non-unique solution is that we can find reasoning for any solution that will confirm it as a unique solution.

@Ariana want to come discuss this in Puzzling's chatroom?

@Ariana the other solutions are eliminated because you have assumed there is one solution.

@Ariana If we impose the condition that there can only be one solution, take any of the above solutions and you're done.

(suppresses rage)

@micsthepick Were you surprised by today's turn of events?

Oh, it's been a shocking day for me. So many things have happened so quickly.

down's still up

!

o/

(I'm not an expert on cheese, even though I love cheese, so that's the only one I know too)

10: correct

10: Cheese

contact mtp 1

3': correct

3: correct

3': C -> C++, perhaps

3: Ab -> C, perhaps

contact 1

contact 70