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  • gryhnd51
    Premium Member
    • Feb 2019
    • 5

    #226
    during my many years on this site there have often been times when folks have helped someone who's stuck. There are no rules against doing so. I do think that the chat room might yield a faster response.

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    • oddcouple
      Member
      • Dec 2017
      • 0

      #227
      I've never asked for anyone's help in solving a crypto. Like looking in the back of the math book for an answer. You learn more by figuring it out yourself, even if you have to struggle.

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      • Lurker
        Member
        • May 2009
        • 379

        #228
        Wait, the answers were in the back of the book? Aaargh!

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        • wvwoman
          Member
          • Feb 2019
          • 6

          #229
          oddcouple, sometimes the struggle just doesn't come up with the answer. i like to know the solution, and see if i can figure out why i couldn't get it.

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          • guavamango

            #230
            Oddcouple, I do appreciate your point of view – I assure you that I didn’t give up easily. I’d worked on it for almost an hour but then had to go to “real” work. If the contraction had been “you’re not” rather than “you aren’t”, I *think* I would have solved it. Also, I had considered, but discarded, the possibility of “ii”. Although I’m a newbie, out of 2,077 puzzles it’s the only one I haven’t been able to solve so far. Now, thanks to GtrZan, I have added “aren’t” to my list of possible contractions and never again will I discard “ii” as a possibility!

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            • wvwoman
              Member
              • Feb 2019
              • 6

              #231
              i don't recall ever having that quote.

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              • maradnu
                Premium Member
                • Feb 2008
                • 296

                #232
                Unlike you

                Most of us are here to do cryptograms, and only chat and post as we feel moved to.

                Then again, how would someone who had only completed four cryptos even know.

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                • maradnu
                  Premium Member
                  • Feb 2008
                  • 296

                  #233
                  Cryptograms

                  Do you even know what a crypto is?

                  You posted a couple of half assed riddles. Those are not cryptos.

                  And many of us have literally hundreds of forum posts.

                  And you are most decidedly NOT a leader.

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                  • GtrZan
                    Member
                    • Mar 2013
                    • 18

                    #234
                    Originally posted by maradnu
                    Do you even know what a crypto is?

                    You posted a couple of half assed riddles. Those are not cryptos.

                    And many of us have literally hundreds of forum posts.

                    And you are most decidedly NOT a leader.
                    shhhhh.... ignore the troll, they HATE that

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                    • munchlet
                      Member
                      • Mar 2008
                      • 85

                      #235
                      The troll has been booted. He gone!

                      Thank you, Stephen.

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                      • wvwoman
                        Member
                        • Feb 2019
                        • 6

                        #236
                        yay!

                        Originally posted by munchlet
                        The troll has been booted. He gone!

                        Thank you, Stephen.
                        and a woohoo!!

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                        • oddcouple
                          Member
                          • Dec 2017
                          • 0

                          #237
                          So if someone is banned, does that mean they're banned from the forums? Or from the whole site including puzzles?

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                          • momn8r
                            Member
                            • Feb 2008
                            • 28

                            #238
                            "You can't wrap love in a box, but you can wrap a person in a hug."
                            — Unattributed

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                            • lacrosseballs

                              #239
                              Typically, contractions are quite useful...

                              "Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd. Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd."

                              - William Congreve


                              It's not bad if you just spell out heaven, turned, and scorned. Otherwise, it's vicious.

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                              • momn8r
                                Member
                                • Feb 2008
                                • 28

                                #240
                                obnoxiously difficult quotes

                                "Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein."
                                — Proverb

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