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Shadow Don posted...

The dart scene always slays me

The best part about that is the inspector with the wooden arm is taken straight from Son of Frankenstein.

I like good Burger King. There's one kitty corner from my apartment but it's sadly not good Burger King.

A couple of times. Once in my parents' car when they hadn't put a sticker on and once when my sticker fell off because I decided to put it on at 5 in the morning in freezing temperatures.

The Popo posted...

American Beauty

This.

Spurner posted...

Totally forgot Michael McKean is in it.

He and Tim Curry are the only two people I can remember. I sort of think Christopher Lloyd may have been too?

Yi yi is probably my big one.

No, but I'm getting one. My 1099 just came this week.

Wordle 236 5/6*







I somehow drew a complete blank. Second guess was parse, then passe and then I felt sure that I made up the word paise but it turns out that it's the plural of "paisa," 1/100 of an Indian rupee.

joe40001 posted...

Huh, I guess I'm starting to learn that the Phistomsphel ring is just a double jellyfish uniquely observed.

I think it's the other way around: it's a double jellyfish (or a pair of x-wings plus the knight's move and diagonal restraints) keeping the digit out of the forbidden zone in your puzzle. Under normal sudoku rules, there's nothing keeping any specific digit out of the ring.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/4/0/AAPWHiAAC58o.jpg

Wordle 235 5/6*

joe40001 posted...

Fun fact: The puzzle is still solvable if you replace the bishops rule with:
"Cells 2 diagonal moves from a box's center cell cannot contain that center cell's digit."

joe40001 posted...

Fun fact: The puzzle is still solvable if you replace the bishops rule with:
"Cells 2 diagonal moves from a box's center cell cannot contain that center cell's digit."

That solution does require you to notice the SET/Phistomaphel out the gate and so it doesn't allow for the 6-color jellyfish solution.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/7/7/AAPWHiAAC51Z.jpg
You could still solve with whatever method you want if you notice that, for example, purple has to reappear appear in the grid once in each colored verical line and once in each colored vertical line. That means that there are a total of 8 purples in the colored lines/columns, plus the initial appearance, and therefore no more purples anywhere in the grid.

It's a deep purple solution when you dissolve it. Hope that helps.

https://youtu.be/j-TG44-mDkY

I realized that Sudoku Pad saves your steps, so here is most of the final solve start to finish. Sudoku Pad lost a few of the steps just before the end that I had to re-create. Not depicted is where I had a lapse of logic in the very final step, missed a knight's move that resulted in a valid grid anyway, and spent an inordinate amount of time wondering how there was one unique solution.

Wordle 234 6/6*

And the puzzle colored in a way that actually works this time:

https://imgur.com/a/rRicHlD

And solved:

https://imgur.com/a/qCLmAL9

Break-in without first considering all options is this:

We know through earlier discussion that every value that is not in a center square is located in sets of 2x2 squares and are diagonally adjacent to one another. The cage shared by boxes 3 and 6 limit the positioning of where yellow and black can be placed in that configuration. Similarly, the cage shared by boxes 4 and 7 limit where purple and orange can be placed. The combination of those possibilities gives us this grid:

https://imgur.com/a/Nnbmn6t

The boxes connected in the green squares are three bi-value squares with an extra digit in a fourth square. Since we know that every non-center square is located diagonally adjacent to a square of the same value, we can eliminate not only the extra value from the square, but its matching value in its potential counterpart in the diagonal cell. That lets us place the orange in rows 2 and 3, the yellow in row 7 and 8, and in turn bumps out potential diagonals allowing us to place purple in rows 1 and 2, black in rows 8 and 9, and we're so far ahead of ourselves that we'll be able to place dark gray in rows 1 and 9 immediately.

And the whole puzzle whittles itself down with the same logic.

https://imgur.com/a/rRicHlD

(Finally) the colored puzzle.

Grid colored:
https://imgur.com/a/3yYL0so

I haven't disambiguated yet, but I can already tell that the cages and inequalities on the sides contains a complete set of the digits 1-9, with the center square appearing exactly twice, just as the prophecy foretold.

joe40001 posted...

I've noticed none of your pictures have had multi-color on, are you not using that? If so that will make things very hard.

Not if you can find the break-in.

https://imgur.com/a/bbioGd3

Yes, at least locally.

https://imgur.com/a/0r18d5R

More useful set equivalence goodness:

The diagonally adjacent cells are contained in four-square blocks arranged in a sort of x-wing pattern. In the above example, the purple squares are either housed in the blue group or the red group and either the green group or the orange group. All of the cells in the blue group in rows 3 and 4 are contained in the killer cage and therefore cannot be diagonally adjacent. That means that purple is in the red group. That also means by block 3 that the other 4 purples are housed in the orange group.

After reading that, my apparently needlessly complicated set-making tells me that every number in the grid appears diagonally adjacent to itself everywhere it appears in the grid unless it's in the center of a block. Unless I'm mistaken.

Kevin Conroy is by far the best Batman.

A surprisingly satisfying 4.

Before actually posting the solution, I also semi-think that all the center squares on the two main diagonals are all odd and the remaining center squares are even, although that may have been something I came up with when I was misinterpreting the rules.

A very satisfying 3.

I'd care if I still had Facebook stock.

Just my dad's mom.

joe40001 posted...

You may...be? right, I'm having trouble following your overall statement. But you might be making things overcomplicated for you. It seems like you saw the ring

It's an equivalent set like the ring except it's isolating the cages instead of the boxes in the corners and has an extra row, thus an extra set of digits 1-9. I can throw in an extra column and make the two sets equivalent, like this:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/4/0/AAPWHiAAC4s8.jpg
The blue set is now equivalent to the red set. The center square sees all of the other blue squares and therefore appears in the red set exactly once, somewhere in column 8.

This is another similar equivalent set:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/4/1/AAPWHiAAC4s9.jpg
The blue set is still equivalent to the red set with the column we know contains the red square corresponding to the center digit removed. The center square is still included in the new blue set and can still see all the other blue cells, so the new equivalent sets still have to contain the center digit in red exactly once, this time in column 2.

But like you said, it didn't really get me anywhere. Just noodling in SET theory.

Lucky 3. Probably would have got it in 2 if I hadn't changed my starting word.

joe40001 posted...

Because the digit in R5C5 can only appear in purple, that means it cannot appear in the blue ring above. And I think several sudoku people here like serious_cat could talk about the significance of that ring.

Phistomefel's ring didn't get me very far, but I came to the same conclusion with this equivalent set:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/3/8/AAPWHiAAC4rW.jpg
The digit in the center square can only appear in columns 1, 2, 8 and 9 in rows 3, 4, 6 and 7 by either knight's move, diagonal, or plain sudoku rules. That requires the digit in the center square to be diagonally adjacent in those rows, thus eliminating the remaining possibilities left in the Phistomefel boxes. (Plus the additional row of red compared to blue means there's an extra complete set of digits 1-9 in the red squares in addition to the equivalent set.)

A decent 5. I had three in the right spot by the third guess, but ended up with a lot of options.

saspa posted...

But does the cereal taste more like cocoa puffs or bland like lucky charms?

It's almost too sweet.

VipaGTS posted...

Where this does concern me is that she used her position as a teacher and took advantage of a student. that in itself should have some sort of charge or punishment.

That's what the charge was. It otherwise would have been legal in Missouri.

Wordle 228 2/6*




Third in a row below three, and first two.

I donated to Wisconsin Democrats to watch the Princess Bride live table read, and same.

Wordle 227 3/6*





I probably should have gone with "those" as my second guess instead of "these." First guess was "least" and got me my second three guess answer in a row.

The Birds got a PG-13 rating on re-release.

Dakimakura posted...

Wordle 226 5/6*







https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/6/7/AAe_4aAAC3tT.jpg

Got myself in a scenario that it could be too many different words.

Ouch. That was me yesterday.

Wordle 226 3/6*





A tough 3.

Wordle 225 4/6*






I'm prouder of my second guess than overall result. FWIW, the correct letter in the wrong spot was R

Another disappointing 6.

Wordle 223 6/6*








Blah. I usually go blank, but this time there was a surprising abundance of possibilities.

I keep looking at this thing and #1 can't unsee what I apparently overthought and #2 am really not sure how the toroidal rule works on a diagonal. For half a second, I thought I knew where one digit went, but realized it would have immediately been eliminated on the regular diagonal.

When I first got mine, docked. Now I think I'd have to dig around to even find my dock.

I'm not watching a 45 minute video on bowel health in the middle of a 2 minute cat video, morals or not.

I got it in an unremarkable 4.

Where in the unsourced article that you plagiarized this this hack writeup from does it say they're axing the dwarfs? You even copied and pasted the response from Disney that they're going in a different direction with them with input from the dwarfism community.

That last throw inbounds was uglier than the foul.

Just got it. I probably would have got it one sooner if I'd been able to remember that "wican" doesn't appear in the word list because it's actually "wiccan" but "wicca" is in the word list and would have been my fourth guess instead of fifth.