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Dec-16-11
 | | Domdaniel: That's homologous and equiangular to your answer, of course. |
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| Dec-16-11 | | dakgootje: Perhaps it deals with Which atom has an average number of e valence-electrons. |
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Dec-16-11
| | Domdaniel: <dak> - < Bump is also nice inasmuch that it sounds like what it expresses.> There's a song by John Prine, 'Onomatopoeia' ...
<Hold it! Stop it! No! No! No! No!
Bang! went the pistol.
Crash! went the window.
Ouch! went the son of a gun.
Onomatopoeia
I don't want to see ya
Speaking in a foreign tongue.> |
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Dec-16-11
| | Domdaniel: So. damn. close. Right idea, sub-clues (almost) solved, one letter out.
When Sarpik didn't work I tried varying the 1st letter, not the 2nd. Argh. *Serpik*. |
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Dec-16-11
| | Domdaniel: I'll say this much for MAJ ... the agony isn't prolonged. He strikes, kerpow, it's over. None of that *chase* stuff, with ten of us closing in on Serpik or Septik. I never even *saw* the IgNobel clue. I could probably have got it in, oh, five or ten minutes. Eternities. And my memory for Dewey classification is a bit 001 these days, if not 594. |
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Dec-16-11
| | Domdaniel: It's funny (ha) how my annual performance (0-5-3-3-0) in the Klu Hunt echoes the Elo rating system. You start with nothing, shoot up to a maximum, lurch down to a lower plateau, then freefall back to where you started. The rating collapse is more protracted. |
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Dec-16-11
| | Domdaniel: <dak> WinKing?
Something like that, yes.
A tic may draw a deity upon one, or lift a curse...
Somebody has invented a typeface intended to show irony - the letters lean over, like backwards italics. They should name it Scilati. One day we'll have such toys here. Meanwhile, I wink. ;) |
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Dec-17-11
| | Domdaniel: That. was. phenomenally. stupid.
With the right palindrome, I'd have been on 'e' in a flash. I really have become a moron.
Svart gev upp. |
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Dec-18-11
 | | OhioChessFan: <"equivalent" is indeed a lovely word. Though I see it as starting with 'e' (2.718281828459045...) and then asking 'who?' - qui?> That is kind of spooky. |
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Dec-18-11
| | Domdaniel: <Ohio> It is, I suppose. Or proof that my neurons are not firing in proper sequence, or possibly not at all. I yam familiar with 'e', as shown.
I had *all* the components of the answer right ... except the palindrome which contained most of the giveaway '18281828' bit. And I was *stupid* enough to think that adding or subtracting the numbers in different bases would lead to a solution. Clearly, with 7 digits missing, it had to be an infinite decimal, like pi or e. That's piore.
I think that's the 2nd time this year, btw, where I natter mindlessly about something one day, it later comes up in a klu, and I've forgotten it already. Or can't make the leap to it. Also, these dam' kids are getting faster with ever-more-efficient googling. Remember the 'ungooglable' 'HYFIN'? I bet they'd crack it in five minutes now. Snarl. Waves imaginary stick at pesky youth in general. |
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Dec-18-11
| | OhioChessFan: <Dom: I think that's the 2nd time this year, btw, where I natter mindlessly about something one day, it later comes up in a klu, and I've forgotten it already. Or can't make the leap to it.> Wow, I copied this part of your post to reminisce about HYFIN. And then later in the post, you bring up HYFIN. <Also, these dam' kids are getting faster with ever-more-efficient googling. Remember the 'ungooglable' 'HYFIN'? I bet they'd crack it in five minutes now.> I wrote a note to myself to keep a copy of the Periodic Table handy. And it completely escaped me that HYFIN was going to be the clue I needed it. I haven't been too into the contest this year, but it doesn't matter, I'm way overmatched. |
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Dec-18-11
| | Domdaniel: I actually had the periodic table to hand (a leftover dead end from the previous clue) when the 'e' question with lutetium came up. Not that it helped. BTW, 8281828 is divisible by 239, which is also a prime factor of 1111111. A Polgar game, as I recall. |
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Dec-18-11
| | Domdaniel: Once upon a time, back in the day, in, oh, 2008-09, it was still just possible to look stuff up in *books* ... if you had the right books and knew what to look for. This was faster than googling. Now geurgle gets there first every time. Not that I'm exactly a novice geurgler, but even so. It's all part of the demise of ... something. |
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| Dec-18-11 | | dakgootje: <This was faster than googling.> Bit ambivalent about that development.
On one hand I prefer the longer complicated, and multi-media clues where more is needed than simply google. On the other hand, my chessbook-collection consists of 2 books [of which half concerns a booklet I won several years back at the clue hunt]. So for success, google and related internet-clues suit me better. HYFIN was great because it looked like some acronym. However everyone has become much much better at solving clues - so I wouldn't give it much more than half an hour.. |
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Dec-18-11
| | Domdaniel: "The most clairvoyant player in the database loses again." |
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Dec-18-11
| | Domdaniel: O Nuklu
Thou hast sent an army of googleurs to thwart us
But we fear not
Even though we walk in the valley of the shadow of google.We shall prevail. |
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| Dec-18-11 | | MostlyAverageJoe: <Domdaniel .. I had *all* the components of the answer right ... except the palindrome which contained most of the giveaway '18281828' bit.> How did you figure out that Zazpiak! was 7, and not 7! (i.e., 5040)? The palindrome was the first thing I got for that klu, with about 5 lines of code to get it. Alas, googling for 8281828 comes up with pages about unwanted telephone solicitations. And I missed the alphabetization, and had a seven factorial to boot. |
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Dec-18-11
| | Domdaniel: <MAJ> Well, 7! is only one off 71^2, no?
;)
I chanced to hit on a page with 'zazpiak something' as a Basque motto, derived from 71. Went with that rather than mess with factorials. My basic error was in finding a first palindrome ... and another 8-digit one which was a multiple of the 1st ... without checking the terrain in between. But I also missed 'alphabetize' ... if I'd seen 8281828, though, I'd immediately have checked the next 7-digit sequence in e starting with 1. I'm not googling enough. I keep trying to use 'knowledge' ... which leads to things like knowing the area code for Manhattan but forgetting that American water boils at 212. Can't accuse CG of being too Americocentric: they had 'sledging' and the English spelling of 'licence'. I went off on the wrong path on the 7x7, though - with 'hydrate' and 'morning'. I'd extracted some plausible names from the wrong diagonal. |
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Dec-18-11
| | Domdaniel: ♗ ♖ ♕ ♔ |
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Dec-18-11
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Dec-18-11
| | Domdaniel: ♗ ♖ ♕n |
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Dec-19-11
| | Domdaniel: Geurgle and Wiki are plagiarist's charter. So what else is new? Not this. Or this:
http://youtu.be/gWsjpt-p1pQ |
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Dec-19-11
| | Domdaniel: Return of the <Frogspawn in dubious Taste Dept> ... http://youtu.be/z8LmMtScH3g |
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Dec-19-11
| | Domdaniel: Another Klu missed because of a trivial typing error ... searching for 'Debbehe' instead of 'Debbeche'. I can't possibly get one now. I get nervous and shaky when I 'know' the answer, and make blunders. So like chess, rilly. |
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Dec-19-11
| | Domdaniel: And *this* time I recognized the Russian for 'first', but went hunting 1st games by actual Russian players, cities, etc. Not the blasted opening. Knowing stuff is so over. |
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