• Three logicians walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Can I get you all a beer?"
  The first says, "I don't know."
  The second says, "I don't know."
  The third says, "Yes."
  
• Gobble ;)
  
• "I was talking to your sister, and she said she had planned on only making turkey dressing for Thanksgiving." Me: Like, turkey sauce ???
  
• Turns out "dressing" is "stuffing", which makes the above make more sense.
  
• ♪And we all worship our king. (our king) His name is Malcolm. (our king) We must feed him gravel.♫
  
• Pesky bee!
  
• My grandma gave me a huge plastic spider toy from when my mother was a child and told me to use it in pranks.
  
• Bulk barn candy left at our grandparents in 2014 that they found recently and saved for us! (hersey's cookies and cream chocolate and cola gummies)
  
• Hot Fuzz

• PRAISE
  

(10-10-2016, 04:47 PM)Sruixan Wrote: »This is update #256.

Day one of mezzacotta complete:

• [11:12 AM] qwerx3: oh wow, why did i try to solve 1C without the second page...
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• [1:10 PM] Sruixan: WHY IS THE SPIDER SO HARD
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• [1:18 PM] Sruixan: I wouldn't believe it if they weren't australian
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• [1:55 PM] qwerx3: [are you serious a turnip is also called a swede]
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• [5:08 PM] Sruixan: OKAY SO THE AKADEMIA IS A THEATRE NOT A UNIVERSITY
  [5:08 PM] Sruixan: FOR SOME REASON
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• [5:28 PM] Sruixan: (I'd recognise a civ wonder anywhere)
  

Conclusion: we need to say more funny things and also maybe not solve all bar one of the puzzles before Fogel, Akumu and Kieros wake up.

End of message.

(10-10-2016, 05:31 PM)Dragon Fogel Wrote: »Hey, it's just payback for us solving SUMS puzzles while you were asleep.

(10-10-2016, 11:27 PM)Kaynato Wrote: »a, b, c,

a, b, c

a, b, c.

the ABCs.

(10-10-2016, 11:27 PM)Kaynato Wrote: »It's the ASCENSION ISLANDS. Theygo upupup andint othecl oudsSS.

(10-10-2016, 11:32 PM)Kaynato Wrote: »RRRRRR SSSSS TTTT UUU VV W

(10-11-2016, 12:05 AM)Reyweld Wrote: »Thanksgiving Highlights:

• Three logicians walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Can I get you all a beer?"
  The first says, "I don't know."
  The second says, "I don't know."
  The third says, "Yes."
  
• Gobble ;)
  
• "I was talking to your sister, and she said she had planned on only making turkey dressing for Thanksgiving." Me: Like, turkey sauce ???
  
• Turns out "dressing" is "stuffing", which makes the above make more sense.
  
• ♪And we all worship our king. (our king) His name is Malcolm. (our king) We must feed him gravel.♫
  
• Pesky bee!
  
• My grandma gave me a huge plastic spider toy from when my mother was a child and told me to use it in pranks.
  
• Bulk barn candy left at our grandparents in 2014 that they found recently and saved for us! (hersey's cookies and cream chocolate and cola gummies)
  
• Hot Fuzz

(10-11-2016, 05:07 AM)a52 Wrote: »ALL

• PRAISE
  

THE, GOBLINN
QQQUEEN

• qwerx was the first person in the competition to solve 2B what the fuck
  _
  
• (just before starting extraction) [12:16 PM] Sruixan: I had scarcely even looked at the actual puzzle image tbh
  _
  
• [12:59 PM] qwerx3: the heck could the chicken be though
  _
  
• [1:22 PM] Sruixan: I am literally surrounded by mathematicians I could send out a distress call maybe
  _
  
• [2:05 PM] Sruixan: some of these have stopped looking like words
  [2:06 PM] Sruixan: by which I mean I spent too long staring at GIGGLE going "that is definitely a word yep and not just a sequence of squiggles"
  _
  
• [2:53 PM] Sruixan: OKAY I DON'T FEEL AS AGGRIEVED AS I THOUGHT I WOULD
  _
  
• [2:54 PM] Akumu: hooray
  [2:54 PM] Akumu: i helped
  _
  
• [2:56 PM] Sruixan: WAIT FUCK WE'RE FIFTH
  _
  
• we discover that the team in second contains Sean Gardiner and collectively flip our shits
  _
  
• [3:50 PM] Akumu: I can say with pretty high confidence that the answer will end with LE
  (the jury is still out on this one)
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• [6:52 PM] DragonFogel: Argh, this is the second most frustrating word ladder puzzle I've ever seen.
  _
  
• [7:37 PM] Sruixan: oh no please continue flaliling
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• [9:30 PM] Akumu: I am pretty sure there are no pins in football
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• *insert five minutes of atrocious cricket puns with Kieros here*
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• [10:59 PM] qwerx3: hello i'm back
  [10:59 PM] qwerx3: had a dream that it was solved
  [10:59 PM] qwerx3: oh well

• [1:15 PM] Sruixan: GOT 3D
  [1:16 PM] qwerx3: that was sudden
  [1:16 PM] Sruixan: it was only sudden in so far as I have a visitor behind me who I have been screeching at for ten minutes
  (he was a jolly good sport about it bless)
  _
  
• [1:19 PM] qwerx3: ah
  [1:19 PM] qwerx3: ta means thank you
  [1:19 PM] qwerx3: not bye
  [1:20 PM] qwerx3: i need to understand british
  _
  
• [2:27 PM] qwerx3: the difference between a chihuahua and a dachshund is a peacock
  _
  
• [5:21 PM] qwerx3: looks like i can't distinguish africa and australia
  [5:21 PM] kotakun: I mean, they're both continents that start with A
  _
  
• [5:27 PM] Akumu: WHAT'S THE DEAL with this pyramid
  [5:28 PM] Sruixan: #justscraphthings
  _
  
• [5:30 PM] kotakun: Would you like a list of things that are wrong with that music?
  [5:31 PM] kotakun: Or the much shorter list of things that are right
  _
  
• [11:48 PM] DragonFogel: The answer is clearly BUCKLE UP MOTHER FUCKER.
  _
  
• [1:09 AM] kotakun: If I remove my glasses, that line looks sort of like a face.
  (it really kinda does)

• [2:15 AM] qwerx3: for context
  [2:15 AM] qwerx3: day 4 is mindscrew day in cisra (the predecessor to the mezzacotta)
  [2:15 AM] qwerx3: so potential twists abound
  [2:15 AM] qwerx3: nvm, looks like a standard day
  _
  
• [8:50 AM] Sruixan: WE GOT A TRUMPET
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• [10:26 AM] Akumu: What is the other approach to finding words
  [10:26 AM] Akumu: Not finding words?
  [10:26 AM] Sruixan: losing words?
  _
  
• [11:22 AM] Sruixan: I'm just going to assume we've accidentally walked into someone else's puzzle
  _
  
• [11:37 AM] kotakun: I mean, it is Thursday
  _
  
• [12:21 PM] Sruixan: AM I GOOGLING THIS
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• [12:40 PM] Sruixan: (how luck I am)
  [12:43 PM] Akumu: 96% luck
  [12:43 PM] Akumu: 96.03975% luck
  [12:43 PM] Akumu: *96.09375%
  _
  
• [12:57 PM] Sruixan: how high would we jump if we got this [SPOILERS] malarkey?
  [12:57 PM] qwerx3: 10th
  [12:57 PM] Sruixan: WELL GUESS WHAT I'M DOING INSTEAD OF MY WASHING UP
  [12:57 PM] kotakun: This [SPOILERS] malarkey?
  _
  
• [1:37 PM] Sruixan: I'm distressed by how much that almost works
  [1:40 PM] Sruixan: WHY IS THIS WORKING
  [1:41 PM] Sruixan: I HATE THIS SO MUCH I'M GOING TO EAT DINNER IN PROTEST
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• [2:24 PM] Akumu: Or is that too much crossover
  [2:25 PM] kotakun: This is Thursday; there is no such thing as "too much" anything.
  _
  
• [2:41 PM] Sruixan: yeah so good luck figuring out where to submit the answer
  [2:42 PM] kotakun: Probably one of the two we haven't gotten yet
  [2:42 PM] Sruixan: you never know
  [2:42 PM] DragonFogel: It turns out to be the answer to 2D.
  _
  
• [2:53 PM] kotakun: It's just showing us that the technological singularity hasn't happened yet, and we're all safe from being subjugated by our evil robotic overlords at least until next Mezzacotta Thursday.
  [2:54 PM] qwerx3: that's what it wants us to think
  _
  
• [3:24 PM] Akumu: Team Eagle Time, Last Of The Completed
  [3:24 PM] Akumu: LAST AMONG EQUALS

(10-14-2016, 02:09 AM)Kíeros Wrote: »

• [11:22 AM] Sruixan: I'm just going to assume we've accidentally walked into someone else's puzzle
  

• [1:20 AM] Dragon Fogel: "okay so this puzzle is that there are five rules for making posts"
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• [3:00 AM] Dragon Fogel: I hope it was at least solved by people in a sensible time zone for puzzling.
  _
  
• [6:30 AM] qwerx3: don't you wish there were a civ puzzle
  [6:30 AM] Sruixan: god yes
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• [7:52 AM] Akumu: I actually set an alarm for puzzle-release time, but then said "this is a terrible idea" and went back to sleep
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• [1:59 PM] kotakun: FUCKING BRISBANE
  _
  
• [2:23 PM] Sruixan: okay I need help
  [2:23 PM] Sruixan: and that is not a general statement
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• [3:01 PM] Sruixan: I definitely feel like I should be reading 5A in my ScreeTek voice
  [3:01 PM] Sruixan: "Lions reward offers also are posted! Aid for get leo captured will get max $$$$$$ reward."
  [3:01 PM] Sruixan: just imagine I'm saying those words with my mouth
  [3:09 PM] Dragon Fogel: How would you be pronouncing the dollar signs?
  [3:25 PM] Sruixan: Badly.
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• [3:25 PM] Sruixan: Anyway I am too frustrated with 5D to work on it for now so in an effort to remain helpful I pressed my Tab key 2,415 times instead.
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• [6:29 PM] qwerx3: NOOOOOO it's paris
  [6:37 PM] Sruixan: yeah I'm in Montreal at the moment and am scared of Paris existing at me
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• [7:17 PM] Sruixan: we know what we're doing at least
  [7:17 PM] Sruixan: (and that's pretending that Paris doesn't exist)
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• [7:53 PM] Sruixan: WHAT THE FUCK
  [7:53 PM] Sruixan: WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK
  [7:53 PM] Sruixan: WHAT THE TRIPLE FUCK
  [7:53 PM] Sruixan: WHAT THE FOURFOLD FUCK
  [7:53 PM] Sruixan: WHAT THE FUCK QUINTET
  [7:53 PM] Sruixan: WHAT THE HEXAGONAL FUCK
  [7:53 PM] Sruixan: WHAT THE FUCK RAINBOW
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• [7:58 PM] Sruixan: I can see the section in the write-up afterwards now "and there was that one team that just bullshat their way through Friday"
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• [8:21 PM] Sruixan: and on that note I am going to scream into a pillow
  

• everyone being too nuked to stop the slowest possible science victory out of the rubble of Austria (he was trying bless)
  
• everyone being sufficiently nuked into inaction for my Brazillian tourism to gradually overcome the Russian (ex-player) culture pool without me being conquered (surprisingly possible due to the lay of the land)
  
• as above, but with me nuking Russia out of existence if I could ever find the time
  
• China or the Dutch bulbing to XCOMs or stealth and trying to get to all the capitals? Rome and Vienna would have been real pains...
  
• the host hadn't disabled time victory
  
• (what actually happened) Austria, China and the Dutch all accidentally vote the Russian AI to be the World Leader (the intent was to oust me from the controlling position) and nobody can be arsed to reload the autosave