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C| MOM |
_\____/_
Nhgbzbovyr
I don't hear that word very often
Gbgbeb
cevagre
qbbe
hzoeryyn
The drawing is as follow:
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/ |\ \
_____---.---_____
--- . ---
\ . /
| . |
\ . /
| . |
| . |
| . |
\ \,./. `/
/\_ / . \ \/-/\
The subject is a film, its name has *7* characters, pick alphabets from:
Z N H C R A L T I K Y I T D
What is this film?
~xwindows
The drawing is as follow:
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--_ ,________ ||
+=========+ ==(==|||
--- |. ______/|`./ ||
| (=====( | | ||
_-- |. \|/ ''
+=========+
/ / | \
/ / / \
The subject is an object, its word has *10* characters, pick alphabets from:
P O L S H T R X O Z Q D K L G B F I V E
What is the word?
~xwindows
The drawing is as follow:
+=================+
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|| C| | | | C||
| -- +---+ -- |
`---------------'
The subject is an object, the word has *7* characters, pick alphabets from:
X O B A V U N O B T O K P M
What is the word?
~xwindows
The drawing is as follow:
____
- - _________
/ \ / /
| | / /
\ / / /
-____- /________/
+-------+ /\
| | / \
| | / \
| | / \
| | / \
+-------+ +----------+
The subject is an academic subject, the word has *8* characters,
pick alphabets from:
I S Y N E J Q T G V R M W O H E
What is the word?
~xwindows
The drawing is as follows:
' ~-
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\. ( )
'_ ._--_.
\\| \
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`----'
The subject is an object, the word has *6* characters, pick alphabets from:
B E I G T X W L T Y E K
What is the word?
~xwindows
Yep, that's correct. By the way, it's thoughtful of you to use ROT13;
not being too familiar with USENET, I haven't even thought of that myself when I started the thread.
I don't hear that word very often
I chose a longer word intentionally. It's less fun when it's too easy.
The drawing is as follow:
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/ / \/ //
/ / , /\ //
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+-+-------------+
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+---------------+
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The drawing is as follows:
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Indeed! Also, did you know that rot13 conversion is built in both in vim and in slrn?
ZNPTLIRE
I loved this series, as a kid
ybhqfcrnxre
gvgnavp
Also, this is my first newsgroup post, I hope I did it right. '^^
(Oops, I sent that as an email to you by accident I think,
let's hope it works this time)
On Thu, 15 Jul 2021, opfez wrote:
gvgnavp
That is spot on.
obbzobk
trbzrgel
It's not a pipe (4), not a wateringcan (alot), not a saxophone(9),
...what the hell is it?
Subject is a historical figure, whose surname has *7* letters,
Subject is a historical figure, whose surname has *8* letters,
On Thu, 15 Jul 2021, cymen wrote:
ybhqfcrnxre
Not quite. (It is not 10-letter, and the word you just answered
cannot be constructed from the given alphabet chips, really)
Although, I'm well aware of why that would be the first guess.
This item could be hung up a wall, a pole, or even laid pointing up
from the floor; and it gives out a type of energy that is
different from the item you answered. Another key part to look at
is its insides, because it would normally look different
from your answer there.
Regards,
~xwindows
The subject is an academic subject, the word has *8* characters,
pick alphabets from:
Subject is a chemical element, which its name has *4* letters,
pick alphabets from:
trbzrgel
On Fri, 16 Jul 2021, xwindows wrote:
Subject is a historical figure, whose surname has *8* letters,
Subject is a historical figure, whose surname has *6* letters,
pick alphabets from:
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Geometry
Oh, I just noticed we're rot13'ing answers. Whoops!
Subject is an object, the word has 16 letters, pick alphabets from:
Subject is an object, the word has *7* letters, pick alphabets from:
Subject is an object, the word has *10* letters, pick alphabets from:
+ +
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The drawing is as follow:
. ..
. .
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+.____,+_
| | | \
| ^ | |
| [_]|_/
`-____-'
Subject is an object, the word has *3* characters, pick alphabets from:
D A R E H T
What is the word?
~xwindows
I'm not sure how this isn't answered already but, grn!
I like how you can even just kinda bruteforce the letter cloud for this
one mentally if you wanted to
The drawing is as follows:
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Subject is an object, the word has *9* letters, pick alphabets from:
Z B I H Q M N U K X P B L T D G L F
What is the word?
~xwindows
The drawing is as follows:
____
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/ \/ |
('. . . . ---|K ').'.'
\ /===-
`--________--'
(_U__U_|
`-|K .'.'
Subject is a chemical element, which its name has *6* letters,
pick alphabets from:
O M N A I U L F E H X B
What is this element?
~xwindows
The drawing is as follows:
,---------------.
C| (+) (-) |
'---------------'
Subject is an object, the word has *7* letters, pick alphabets from:
S R M E Y P F B Z T O T A J
What is the word?
~xwindows
The drawing is as follows:
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..':;..---_| /_/
'--_|./
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Subject is an object, the word has *9* letters, pick alphabets from:
W V E Z X K N Q I U D R R B P T S L
What is the word?
~xwindows
P.S. This one can be quite difficult, since there are many designs
of this item; and this design might not be the first one you might think of.
The drawing is as follows:
.-======-._--_
,/__\. ,/__\. '\ -. ,-
,--------------, / ||___||
_-| e e e [^] | ( _-/ /#\ \-._ ,---.
' +--------------+ '- +-------+ '--------[u]| =================================== '---'
|#|
Subject is an object, the word has *5* letters, pick alphabets from:
O H M D V E S K M Q
What is the word?
~xwindows
Tbyq
The drawing is as follows:
|>
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Subject is an object, the word has *7* letters, pick alphabets from:
L P B S T I A U W M E O X J
What is the word?
~xwindows
The drawing is as follow:
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. . . .
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.. . |'| . ..
___----|_|----___
'===____ ____==='
'--___.---.___--'
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The subject is an object, the word has *8* letters, pick alphabets from:
R N L U D F B N O T Y I C K A Q
What is the word?
~xwindows
The drawing is as follows:
_._
,-. -#-
==== ,-v---o---X
`--'---' ^ | | | | ,--
###########################
Subject is a historical figure, whose _surname_ has *5* letters,
pick alphabets from:
R S M C N E J O H W
Who is this person?
~xwindows
What is this a drawing of?
The drawing is as follow:
#
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/ |
|/ |
v T
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The subject is an object, the word has *7* letters, pick alphabets from:
Q O G S C H S M A X W D Y P
What is the word?
~xwindows
The drawing is as follows:
+==============+
| | | | | \|
| | | | | |
| | | | | |\_ --..
|(_)(_)(_)(_) ||_) --..
| |
_^_ _^_
Subject is a historical figure, whose surname has *6* letters,
pick alphabets from:
D X N A L Y P O E T N W
Who is this person?
~xwindows
On Sun, 18 Jul 2021, Arch wrote:
What is this a drawing of?
That is definitely a computer //zbhfr//.
Speaking of that, mine now seems to require more force to press,
with much less feedback. Maybe it's now a time that I got to
take it apart for repair again, before it would give me trigger fingers...
my poor hands.
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| |______|_|_|
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The drawing is as follows:
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The drawing is as follows:
_____. _
(_( (_G-'_\_.-. \ /
(_| |_G-' / \
(_|_|_G-_- `-_-* --
Subject is a historical figure, whose _surname_ has *5* letters,
pick alphabets from:
G N X L E I O B Z F
Who is this person?
~xwindows
The drawing is as follows:
* x
- + /
+__ \ x | / + _ x
-- .' ', ~''
. + (@) -X-__
* x-- // ` - --_
x // | \ . *
// | - +
/ x \
/
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The subject is an object, the word has *8* letters, pick alphabets from:
R L U Y K R D S A E V Q W G M P
What is the word?
~xwindows
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On Thu, 15 Jul 2021, Dacav Doe wrote:
ZNPTLIRE
Yes! that is it.
I loved this series, as a kid
Ditto, although I discovered this series as a young adult.
(My parents have watched it when it was first dubbed+aired in my country)
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On 2021-07-16, xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jul 2021, Dacav Doe wrote:
ZNPTLIRE
I've recently purchased^Wpirated^Wacquired the series and started to watch it.
I've to say that the first bunch of episodes are not very good
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The drawing is as follows:
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'--___----__ \" /
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Subject is an object, the word has *9* letters, pick alphabets from:
G H A E V J O E P N L B M I X T F R
What is the word?
~xwindows
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-space no-newline ASCII form has following SHA-256 checksum:
a826863db521b62578145c7f4595b776392f7adea44c2bba227fe29cc7c6dbf3
c ~..~....)
c~... .~- +-----+
. / | |
)\ / . o | | |u|
/r\\ ` -- </\_ |[===[| --'
( // / /\ | |
.._' ... - / |_____|
J U F D E M I Z E Q I T X V H R* * * * * * * *
cvmmn
My favorite is crccrebav.
Makes me want to eat one! :D
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|(#)|=============_)__)__)__)__)__)
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R E T M Z H N O K J R S A M L X E P G V T E* * * * * * * * * * *
On Fri, 16 Jul 2021, xwindows wrote:
.---.__,__,__,__,__,__,__,__,__,__
|(#)|=============_)__)__)__)__)__)
`---'
The correct answer is "THERMOMETER", the variant depicted is a conventional liquid-in-glass thermometer, lying sideway; its bulb side is on the left.
Letters usage is as follows:
R E T M Z H N O K J R S A M L X E P G V T E* * * * * * * * * * *
To be honest, I thought this drawing was very obvious, at least to anyone
who have seen a lab thermometer before...
Sincerely,
~xwindows
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H A E D N U E R O S Q T N I P I* * * * * * * *
The drawing is as follows:
+-----------+ ___
\`--___ __--'\ -' `_ . '
\ ' \ ___ '---'
\ \ -' `_ . '
`------------' '---'
Subject is an object, the word has *6* letters, pick alphabets from:
S E T H V L R T E J A B
What is the word?
~xwindows
The drawing is as follows:
_______
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. ___ _____ .
|| - ____ ||
,__|| _-- ,__|| .
|[ ]| |[ ]| ) |
, | #(| | #(| '
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Subject is an object, the word has *13* letters, pick alphabets from:
N L K O S T Y H L P E K Q E W D U A M I I C G A
What is the word?
~xwindows
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-space no-newline ASCII form has following SHA-256 checksum:
7a6a17683859acffb6210d532d838af0cb9eafef683060fc3a229dba1c23b5ed
The drawing is as follows:
_--_,__________________
|-__-|---. ,---. ,---. |
| :|___| |___| |___| .'
| :|-----------------'
'-__-'
Subject is an object, the word has *4* letters, pick alphabets from:
K L V M J I F U
What is the word?
~xwindows
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-space no-newline ASCII form has following SHA-256 checksum:
da9d4f1a96d44b29aba8fb37cb8058642902fe838398294f6ec66573849a6c9d
The drawing is as follows:
... ,-.
c--==|||===| |
(_|||_) `-'
Subject is an object, the word has *7* letters, pick alphabets from:
F T I R G L P A J M T O E U
What is the word?
~xwindows
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-space no-newline ASCII form has following SHA-256 checksum:
d2dcd56488d7b253e860c870b69801843ecfedae34c40b38fc016b7a65001cdf
The drawing is as follows:
+-----+
| |
| | | |
| o |
| |
| | | |
| o |
| |
+-----+
The subject is an object, the word has *10* characters, pick alphabets from:
C H T A P R J E G B X L S E C Z K D E N
What is the word?
~xwindows
The drawing is as follows:
'_"
;-_,-,
(0) %(0)
Subject is an object, the word has *7* letters, pick alphabets from:
C R F D I W E P Y C G V L B
What is the word?
~xwindows
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-space no-newline ASCII form has following SHA-256 checksum:
29e5b381f3dab136860b82bcf6bca4f895c1ee8e59171524c21b8b9bcf2763de
The drawing is as follow:
. | ' . .
' . .
| . ^_-_^ | . '
- -
| /_o - o_\ |
. " > < "
| ..... | . '
| , . . . |
. ||,. ..||
. \`. .'/ |.
v -_______- v
The subject is a film, its name has *6* characters, pick alphabets from:
U L O O N O B F T M T R
What is this film?
~xwindows
I know it is an outlet, but cannot figure out what the 10 character name
is supposed to be
,-_
(`--)
\| |
_ ,) |
--.''__'`.
| ' |
`--____-'
R O D H S A K Y C I T X U J L B* * * * * * * *
Now that it is more than one month passed without answer,
I suppose everyone would like to know what the heck is this already...
On Mon, 19 Jul 2021, xwindows wrote:
,-_
(`--)
\| |
_ ,) |
--.''__'`.
| ' |
`--____-'
The answer is "JOYSTICK", and its letters usage is as follows:
R O D H S A K Y C I T X U J L B* * * * * * * *
I'm really... puzzled that no one managed to figure this out.
What object you guys originally thought it was, anyway?
Regards,
~xwindows
New category, and I'm now aiming to make the ASCII art as small
as it could still be legible. The drawing is as follows:
_,-=._ ,
< * E _XE|
''-=" '
Subject is an animal, which its common name has *4* letters,
pick alphabets from:
H B F V I E S Q
What is this animal?
~xwindows
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-space no-newline ASCII form has following SHA-256 checksum:
44864ee65edd56c0fcfa7ff97b88563969d5099faf5d2f0e1a89a8252370f819
The drawing is as follows:
-e-
Subject is a celesial body, which its name has *6* letters,
pick alphabets from:
R T U A J P H W N G S B
Which celesial body is this?
~xwindows
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-space no-newline ASCII form has following SHA-256 checksum:
8773d16dc4f4ab66865e3f881576ff51177102366a6952cb27a3986dadf9344d
Now that it is more than one month passed without answer,
I suppose everyone would like to know what the heck is this already...
On Mon, 19 Jul 2021, xwindows wrote:
,-_
(`--)
\| |
_ ,) |
--.''__'`.
| ' |
`--____-'
The answer is "JOYSTICK", and its letters usage is as follows:
R O D H S A K Y C I T X U J L B* * * * * * * *
I'm really... puzzled that no one managed to figure this out.
What object you guys originally thought it was, anyway?
Regards,
~xwindows
On Fri, 20 Aug 2021, ~unbeatable101 wrote:
I know it is an outlet, but cannot figure out what the 10 character name
is supposed to be
It is a more... clinical-sounding word that means the same thing.
Hint: Look at English Wikpedia article on this topic.
Regards,
~xwindows
On 8/28/2021 8:56 PM, xwindows wrote:What is that supposed to mean?
On Fri, 20 Aug 2021, ~unbeatable101 wrote:
I know it is an outlet, but cannot figure out what the 10 character name >>> is supposed to be
It is a more... clinical-sounding word that means the same thing.
Hint: Look at English Wikpedia article on this topic.
Regards,
~xwindows
//ryrpgevpny bhgyrg//
On 2021-08-30 20:43, stern wrote:
On 8/28/2021 8:56 PM, xwindows wrote:What is that supposed to mean?
On Fri, 20 Aug 2021, ~unbeatable101 wrote:
I know it is an outlet, but cannot figure out what the 10 character name >>>> is supposed to be
It is a more... clinical-sounding word that means the same thing.
Hint: Look at English Wikpedia article on this topic.
Regards,
~xwindows
//ryrpgevpny bhgyrg//
//ryrpgevpny bhgyrg//
The drawing is as follows:
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/ _ r. \
| |_'o'J |
\ (_\ /
-_____-
| |
_-' '-_
"--'''--"
Subject is an object, the word has *3* letters, pick alphabets from:
N K M G A F
What is the word?
~xwindows
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-space no-newline ASCII form has following SHA-256 checksum:
3afd7a9948548cb73413042a584703da635a14e0844364c6236e6b21a1098e4b
,-----.
| . |
| C|F |
| -|- |
| -|- |
| -|- |
| -|- |
| @ |
| |
`-----'
The drawing is as follows:
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'- '---' - ) --' |
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'--__----===
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. -=, , .
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_|n |_|n"/'______.____
Subject is a film, which its title has *7* letters, pick alphabets from:
T S N E T I U W R A P M D L
What film is this?
~xwindows
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-space no-newline ASCII form has following SHA-256 checksum:
5821b45f63025434c4d05902b53c9a4c5dec98e4e3b924534c1cd5474e065795
GJVFGRE
/ / / /
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C S L E R Y U J A L N P* * * * * *
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`__'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'____'
I R I H F D Q M* * * *
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The drawing is as follows:
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| ,# ## | ___
'u/\ ## __ /\ ; ;
|n| -- uu"|; ` | |
||| ||| | |
'-'_` `-'_` '___'
Subject is food or drinks, which its name has *4* letters,
pick alphabets from:
L M R B I O N K
Which food or drink is this?
~xwindows
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-space no-newline ASCII form has following SHA-256 checksum:
382f260f0c0b9a255befde3f14be45964c13c534cff3d5419da857f8930f17b0
zvyx
though for some reason my hashes won't match up.
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-space no-newline ASCII form has following SHA-256 checksum:
382f260f0c0b9a255befde3f14be45964c13c534cff3d5419da857f8930f17b0
$ printf "%s" "zvyx" | rot13 | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' | sha256sum -c <(echo \
'382f260f0c0b9a255befde3f14be45964c13c534cff3d5419da857f8930f17b0 *-')-: OK
$
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R E S Y C M B M I E V L D Q U H T N T F* * * * * * * * * *
+-----+
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+-----+
C H T A P R J E G B X L S E C Z K D E N* * * * * * * * * *
The drawing is as follows:
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Subject is an object, the word has *6* letters, pick alphabets from:
E R W O A J U Z Z S L B
What is the word?
~xwindows
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-space no-newline ASCII form has following SHA-256 checksum:
fb0f468338ae83b62a5372a8559acdd6bedc0505109a09ba7eb5827de86430ef
The drawing is as follows:
_----n----_
:-____n____-:
\ \ /
\ \ /,
`-___-\/
The subject is an object, the word has *4* letters, pick alphabets from:
O L V X I U A P
What is the word?
~xwindows
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-space no-newline ASCII form has following SHA-256 checksum:
2d2cd97a22b020a97a16d9252475b8715029be137a85d95a4bcd05b437798a73
P.P.S. Yes, I will say up front now that this is another case
of "I picked yet another obscure term just to make people squirm".
(*evil laugh*) [1]
[1] As you might have seen in "Re: ASCII Of? [Object]" [2021-07-20T04:24:21Z]
<news:b8b0c7b8-80d2-87d1-9ae-af2a7752504@tilde.club>
<nntp://news.tilde.club/tilde.art.ascii/166>
which is finally got revealed in "Re: ASCII Of? [Object] *revealed*"
[2021-11-03T08:15:06Z]
<news:7da8e359-ff4c-a913-da97-2ba027cc129a@tilde.club>
<nntp://news.tilde.club/tilde.art.ascii/345>
_----n----_
:-____n____-:
\ \ /
\ \ /,
`-___-\/
The drawing is as follows:
_----n----_
:-____n____-:
\ \ /
\ \ /,
`-___-\/
The subject is an object, the word has *4* letters, pick alphabets from:
O L V X I U A P
What is the word?
~xwindows
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-space no-newline ASCII form has following SHA-256 checksum:
2d2cd97a22b020a97a16d9252475b8715029be137a85d95a4bcd05b437798a73
xwindows wrote:
_----n----_
:-____n____-:
\ \ /
\ \ /,
`-___-\/
Nice CNVY drawing! Along with a QVCCRE, those are what you need for
cleaning, cleansing, and bathing in Southeast Asia. :D
The answer is: "PAIL" and this provides the correct hash:
$ printf "PAIL" | sha256sum 2d2cd97a22b020a97a16d9252475b8715029be137a85d95a4bcd05b437798a73 -
/|
/ '
/ /
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,._G--__/-()
'--___++"|\
|| ' \
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The drawing is as follows:
_____
-"'. .`"-
,'. .`.
/ \
|. .|
| ,/O) |
|. .'' .|
\ ,'_ _ _ _ _ /
'[|0|9|9|9|9|]'
'---------'
Subject is an object. The word has *8* letters. Pick alphabets from:
G O Y M C Z T I E R K O H D L E
What is the word?
What is this place?
The drawing is as follows:
- _ n-^
\_ [_] _/
\ | | _____ / 1
'_l_:=='''''===___' \
- . . . -
/ \ . . . /
' |' . . . '| _--.
\' . . . '/-' \
/ ` - |, . . . .| ;
l \-"""""-/
' . [*#$8!] . [ \
| _-'@@@@@`-_
,-"/////|\\\\\"-.
'%$\/\//##\=$$%=$%`
What is this place?
The drawing is as follows:
_---------_
/ (O) \
+====/_\====+
| |
+-----------+
The drawing is as follows:
.
//
// .
// ,//'
// .//'
// //'
// .//
// ,//
// //'
// ,/"
/; ,/
/' ,/'
'("/'
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'--'
On 2021-11-10 01:48, xwindows wrote:
What is this place?
A yvoenel,
The drawing is as follows:
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The drawing is as follows:
,~.
/E/
/-'
/ .__,
' / \
'____'
The subject is an object, the word has *5* letters, pick alphabets from:
C I U O L Q G H L N
[snip]
c5924fae93560d14aac075b10d3439131ad462e5fa6ef949ba4d24de4d63b4d2
xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> wrote:
/|
/ '
/ /
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,._G--__/-()
'--___++"|\
|| ' \
|| \_\
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||
I've got a bunch of JVAQGHEOVARs just down the road, and even a
plan for one on my wall (I overheard someone say that people could
take the print-outs at the community consultation meeting, so I
came out with one of each :) ).
Now I've also got the following aliases in my .bashrc:
alias rot13enc='tr A-MN-Za-mn-z N-ZA-Mn-za-m'
alias rot13dec='tr N-ZA-Mn-za-m A-MN-Za-mn-z'
I had to resort to my tilde account for the checksum though.
Compiling sha256sum for this PC would be a pain - I'm still an
MD5er myself.
--
- The Free Thinker | gopher://aussies.space/1/%7efreet/
The drawing is as follows:
/|
/ '
/ /
,____ /;'
,._G--__/-()
'--___++"|\
|| ' \
|| \_\
|| \'
||
Subject is an object, the word has *11* letters, pick alphabets from:
U T H F Q L N Y S I B V I E W R K N G C X D
What is the word?
~xwindows
I'll try one of these myself. It's mercilessly hard though:
_
/ \ | |
| O | ---| |---
\ _ / | |
The answer is *3* letters.
Using letters from this alphabet:
R C D V E N
Answer in all uppercase with no trailing newline checksum (MD5 not
SHA256 because it's my preference):
085aed3f5be3c71f9c1217deb1a28bcb
I'll try one of these myself. It's mercilessly hard though:
_
/ \ | |
| O | ---| |---
\ _ / | |
Hint: The letters in the answer are alphabetically adjacent.
With those out of the way, //RPQ// (//Ryrpgeba Pncgher Qrgrpgbe//) appeared to be the first apparent answer, which the ASCII art looked quite like
a third-angle drawing of this device. [1]
But the challenge's title said it is supposed to be... a "Technical Standard" isn't it? This answer looked like it should have belonged to the
"Object" category instead.
So, that means the second possible answer: the obscure
//PRQ// (//Pncnpvgnapr Ryrpgebavp Qvfp//) home video format from RCA [2]; which Alec of Technology Connections YouTube channel did a whole
documentary video series about it [3] that I haven't watched yet.
In the end, I let the checksum decide: and it chose the second answer;
so I guess I'll have to find time to watch those videos to find out
what cylinder-on-spindle on the right is suppoed to mean.
yvoenel
sadly my local one has been mostly closed throughout covid.
qnz
don't swim too close!
,----------.
|,========.|
|[] ||
|| (@)||
|[] ||
|'========'|
'=========='
What is the word?
~xwindows
,=====.
// \\
/| |\
|| ||
|| ||
\| |/
`\ /'
\ /
,===.
|| 1 ||
`==='
What is the word?
~xwindows
The drawing is as follows:
,-.
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|_| >-'
On 2021-11-13 00:32, xwindows wrote:
,=====.
// \\
/| |\
|| ||
|| ||
\| |/
`\ /'
\ /
,===.
|| 1 ||
`==='
What is the word?
~xwindows
A first-place zrqny, have you bitten it yet?
Funny, I thought this had to be a Gun Chronograph, if only it could
be described with so few letters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chronographa.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_chronograph
.
/ \
\ /
_--'.`--_
/__-' '-__\
_------_
/"_.-+--._"\
/ /###| \ \
| T^^^^____l |
\ \ |###/ /
\.`-__l_-'./
"-_____"
(@ (@
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/ +"
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The drawing is as follows:
,_______________________________________. |,-------------------------------------.|
|| +-----------------+ ||
|| | = | ||
|| |=_. __--=--__ ._=| ||
|| | .-"__--=--__"-. | ||
|| | |-":_--=--_:"-| | ||
|| | |-" __-=-__ "-| | ||
|| | \-" _'=`_ "-/ | ||
|| | -_" = "_- | ||
|| | = | ||
|| | _.=._ | ||\
|| +-----------------+ ||-` |._____________________________________|| +---------------------------------------+
Subject is an occupation, which its name has *11* letter.
Pick alphabets from:
O I J E N L D P H X G I M R V T W O S Q K A
What is this occupation?
e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855
The drawing is as follows:
______
_/'
-___---____
_---___--. \
'''
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.
The drawing is as follows:
| |
' .| | | '| .| .
| \\\, --:|.| '| '. '.| |;\'--
| `( ) | | | | |
| \ \ ' |
_-^. ,--,--------.| | | ,
/ _-' '--[__________] / | / \/
/ | || / | (O
- -___ || ___- /
The drawing is as follows:
+------------+=.
| __---__ |o|
| / _ \ |/|
| | ' ` .- |
| | `_' T'| |
| \_ _/ |
| `---' |
+--------------+
'--------------'
The drawing is as follows:
,_________.
+-__---__-+
|/ \|
|\ /|
| \ / |
`_-+===+-_'
:-_ ( ) _-:
\ -___- /
\ /
-___-
__. ___
_-'" __'" ';'
_-'~-~,'__ ./
_- | ;. '-.'
<_ ,' \#\/'
'--|-____="
S G Y C A L O E P T R U* * * * * *
Many months have passed, I guess some of you might want to know
what it is supposed to be now...
On Sun, 29 Aug 2021, xwindows wrote:
__. ___
_-'" __'" ';'
_-'~-~,'__ ./
_- | ;. '-.'
<_ ,' \#\/'
'--|-____="
The answer is "PARCEL". Its letter usage is as follows:
S G Y C A L O E P T R U* * * * * *
I wonder what you people originally think it was?
Or was it just too... ambiguous?
The drawing is as follows:
+ -':
. / / +
\_`'__,
___., `-"'
+ ,_,=/___-'
,;=' \
// / | \ .
|| / | \
|| / | \ .
||
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|| | / \
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___||______________|_______ _____ ____ ,, .. . .
The drawing is as follows:
- +
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,-|------------|-+-' ###\
( @ : t #T#|
`-|----------------,_ $##/
| '-'
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Subject is about chemistry. The word has *8* letters. Pick alphabets from:
The drawing is as follows:
/\
/ \
| / /\ \ |
|\ / |__| \ /|
|_\/________\/_|
/ / \ \
/ / \ \
\/ \/
Subject is an icon of a video game (series), the phrase has *2* words
and *7* letters, pick alphabets from:
E F O N A Y X P Z I S R Q T
What is this video game (series)?
~job
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-space no-newline ASCII
form has following SHA-256 checksum:
255683d0b2b2e409e8d822ea1dd6ed5f6e8628ede384dd0957f404e2aad8d172
Job Bautista wrote:
The drawing is as follows:
/\
/ \
| / /\ \ |
|\ / |__| \ /|
|_\/________\/_|
/ / \ \
/ / \ \
\/ \/
Subject is an icon of a video game (series), the phrase has *2* words
and *7* letters, pick alphabets from:
E F O N A Y X P Z I S R Q T
What is this video game (series)?
~job
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-space no-newline ASCII
form has following SHA-256 checksum:
255683d0b2b2e409e8d822ea1dd6ed5f6e8628ede384dd0957f404e2aad8d172
Last call! If nobody posts the correct answer in 3 days, I will reveal it.
The drawing is as modified:
_________.~._________
--(*)-(*)- o -(*)-(*)--
. `='
- . n-^
\_ ./. .@. _/
\ | | _____ | | / 1
'_l_:=='''''==:_|_' \
- . . . -
/ \ . . . /
' |' . . . '| _--.
\' . . . '/-' \
/ ` - |, . . . .| ;
l \-"""""-/
' . [*#$8!] . [ \
| _-'@@@@@`-_
,-"/////|\\\\\"-.
'%$\/\//##\=$$%=$%`
Subject is a film, which has *10* letters. Pick alphabets from:
P X U S E D T R J C Z S Y M B Q L A I W
Uppercase, no-space, no-newline, MD5 checksum: 28f39a8588982a3ce7417069f49409ab
_____
=| |=
=| |=
=| |=
=| (#) |=
=| |=
=| |=
=|_____|=
O M V I D R E P H W* * * * *
/\
/ \
| / /\ \ |
|\ / |__| \ /|
|_\/________\/_|
/ / \ \
/ / \ \
\/ \/
The correct answer is Star Fox. I wonder what you guys thought it was?
RYRPGEBA
I tend to think of RYRPGEBAs as belonging to the domain of physics
rather than chemistry, but I got there in the end. The diagram is
of a CRT, I take it.
Subject is a technical standard, which its name has 2 words and *10* letters.
Subject is a technical standard, which its name has 2 words and *9* letters.
. ,`,`(`(
( ) ,`,`-I \ \
_) (___,``.______) )
/_____,____________/
That is a drawing of an //RCEBZ// chip,
a memory technology which its heyday
predated my experience with {micro,personal }computers and electronics tinkering- so I haven't yet used it in person.
On Fri, 28 Jan 2022, The Free Thinker wrote:
. ,`,`(`(
( ) ,`,`-I \ \
_) (___,``.______) )
/_____,____________/
My first though was it being a DPST knife switch, but letter count didn't fit.
After serveral glances, I thought of a certain woodworking tool
which I didn't know an English name of, so I looked it up;
turned out it has a name which spelled like a certain high-speed
airborne vehicle: //CYNAR//
It is one of the woodworking tools that I don't currently have in my house.
_________.~._________
--(*)-(*)- o -(*)-(*)--
. `='
- . n-^
\_ ./. .@. _/
\ | | _____ | | / 1
'_l_:=='''''==:_|_' \
- . . . -
/ \ . . . /
' |' . . . '| _--.
\' . . . '/-' \
/ ` - |, . . . .| ;
l \-"""""-/
' . [*#$8!] . [ \
| _-'@@@@@`-_
,-"/////|\\\\\"-.
'%$\/\//##\=$$%=$%`
The drawing is as follows:
____ .____
_-'' '`-_ . . . | \ -r--r--r--
/ \ . | | backup1.tar.gz
/ .--. \ . |____|
| ( () ) | .
\ `--' . / .
\ ./ ___ . .____
`-__ __-'. /. _\____ . | \ lrwxrwxrwx
"""" . . . | / / . . . . | | backup -> backup1.tar.gz
|/_____/ |____|
dr-xr-xr-x
1994-07-08/
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The drawing is as follows:
.,----.
.'/|\ \'.
,' /_l_\____\,',
The drawing:
| |
| |
| /=====\ |
| /=====\ |
| /=====\ |
| /=====\ |
| /=====\ /=====\ |
.----` |
/ |
/ /=====\ |
/ /=====\ |
/ |
/ /| |
/ /=====\ / | /=====\ |
/ / | |
/ / | /=====\ |
. / | |
, .____L____________________________L_____
\ , , ,
\ || || ||
\ || || ||
\ ` ` `
\_____________________________________________
| /=====\ |
| |
| /=====\ /=====\ |
| |
| /=====\ |
Subject is a film, which has 14 letters. Pick alphabets from:
K I X E M U T P T Z I Y J S N G R R A W L O O D H C F R
Uppercase, no-space, no-newline, SHA256 checksum: 3734b091ceb8ff743af54f5ab72bdeb0cbaae779cd36b9870f7d9cb286337307
The drawing:
__________,, ,,_________
|;;| | | | |
_|;;|_____|, ,|_________
,
, >--o
| | *'
|i|
------------------------------
| | | | | | | |
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Subject is a video game, which has *13* letters. Pick alphabets
from:
I S C J G Y N N 3 O T Z V R K P E H Q W U F D M E L
Uppercase, no-space, no-newline, SHA256 checksum: 99bf55714974dccb4838eaecd438cf749b1fc6c93d4a79a98812d96791a7b326
The Free Thinker <freet@aussies.space> wrote:
The drawing:Last call! I'll post the answer some time this weekend.
| |
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| /=====\ |
| /=====\ |
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/ |
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/ /=====\ |
/ |
/ /| |
/ /=====\ / | /=====\ |
/ / | |
/ / | /=====\ |
. / | |
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\ ` ` `
\_____________________________________________
| /=====\ |
| |
| /=====\ /=====\ |
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The Free Thinker <freet@aussies.space> wrote:
The drawing:Last call! Answer will be posted this weekend.
__________,, ,,_________
|;;| | | | |
_|;;|_____|, ,|_________
,
, >--o
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The drawing is as follows:
_______________
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/ ,-. +--. // -//)
/ / / / / // =///
/ / / ,--. == #///
(_(_(_'__'_((__(//
Subject is an object, which its name has *9* letters.
Pick alphabets from:
S E J P L W R K B T A X P N E Q Z Y
What is the word?
The drawing is as follows:
. ,
. ,
. , , '
' ' , '
,-. . '
| | -- ' . ' . . .
`-' .
/ . \ . ,
. . . +------+ +------+ +------+ /|
. . /------//_/------//_/------// ----' /===/
. . /------// /------// /------//`.~|@#|| |/
. . /------// /------// /------// | | || '
+------+'_+------+'_+------+'--' ----'----------->
Subject is an object, which its name has 2 words with 9 letters total.
Pick alphabets from:
The drawing shows a scene from the game - stats bar down the
bottom, pistol projecting in front of the game view, 3D hallway
ahead, dead Nazi on the right bleeding gruesomely, and a distinctly flat-looking door in the wall on the left.
The answer is MINORITYREPORT (MINORITY REPORT, 2002).
[...]
It's supposed to show the futuristic city transport system with all
the little capsules moving along horizontal an vertical highways,
The drawing is as follows:
TT +
|| + *
. / \ + * =======+==, +
| | x / + . //
,---. | * | * / //
l---1 | | / + //|
| +| | | / // |
'-_-' '-__-' /_________//__|
What is this material?
The drawing is as follows:
__
""#\>
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""":. $l
==. ". \#.
0 |: |; |#'
Subject is a technical standard, which its name has *4* letters.
Pick alphabets from:
T W D M V O A C
What technical standard is this?
~xwindows
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-space no-newline ASCII form has following SHA-256 checksum:
939f34238170826d249f0103a04e8d7406da30abd2dad9a8dc92702e31165ff5
The drawing is as follows:
_+----------+_ _
/_l__________l_\ /
[|______--______|]
/ ############ \
/ ############## \
|_____========_____]
Subject is an object. The word has 10 letters. Pick alphabets from:
P R C W T N O I R X H Y Z T D L E B S E
What is the word?
~xwindows
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-space no-newline ASCII form has following SHA-256 checksum:
1d3ed6fee66172c283af4cc4b22f89c797cd40f7ff19c1e4d82c367b98fa1b7e
The drawing is as follows:
_+----------+_ _
/_l__________l_\ /
[|______--______|]
/ ############ \
/ ############## \
|_____========_____]
Subject is an object. The word has 10 letters. Pick alphabets from:
P R C W T N O I R X H Y Z T D L E B S E
What is the word?
~xwindows
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-space no-newline ASCII form has following SHA-256 checksum:
1d3ed6fee66172c283af4cc4b22f89c797cd40f7ff19c1e4d82c367b98fa1b7e
The drawing is as follows:
_-_
," ".
/^\| |/^\
| ||,`^',|| |
| ||| ||| |
| ||| ||| |
| ||| ||| |
| /'| |`\ |
|' | | '|
/___| . |___\
| |/_[|]_\| |
/___\ /___\
The subject is a vehicle, with two words, and 12 letters in total.
Pick alphabets from:
U E K Q S H A Z N V R F E T M W P J C S G I T L
Since one month is already passed without anyone being able to come up
with an answer; this means a reveal time...
On Thu, 15 Jul 2021, xwindows wrote:
c ~..~....)
c~... .~- +-----+
. / | |
)\ / . o | | |u|
/r\\ ` -- </\_ |[===[| --'
( // / /\ | |
.._' ... - / |_____|
The correct answer is "FIRE EXIT", elements in this picture are as follows:
- On the left, there are flames
- On top-left, there is smoke cloud
- At the middle, there is a person running toward the right
- At the right, there is a fire exit door, with crashbar at the middle
- At the far right (next to the door), there is a fire alarm's pull station
("IN CASE OF FIRE, PULL DOWN" red switch)
Letters usage is as follow:
J U F D E M I Z E Q I T X V H R* * * * * * * *
What do you people originally guessed it to be?
Cheers,
~xwindows
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| \v/ || |
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\_______/
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The drawing is as follows:
+======+
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|| || |
+====n=+"
--^--
Subject is an object. The word has *7* letters. Pick alphabets from:
O U H I R O M L S B N T G K
,
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/ "' '" \
| v v |
| . ^ , |
\ v^v^v /
'_"___"_'
unyybjrra
unyybjrra
The drawing is as follows:
_________
/ _____ /,
/ /____/ //
/ //
/ ___ //
/________//
\========'
The drawing is as follows:
.-c=(@)
: |
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Subject is an occupation, which its name has *6* letters.
Pick alphabets from:
R X N V O T G Y Q I S E
What occupation is this?
The drawing is as follows:
. ~
( .~
. ;
._____,
| |=====
'-----'
--|\&&&/|--
Subject is an occupation, which its name has *4* letters.
Pick alphabets from:
D C K F O R X O
What occupation is this?
The drawing is as follows:
.
,--. r'^`, /$@%..
/ ,. \ / _ l /$%&+$/
\ `' / r" / '-_"^!/
'--' / - ; '-'
r" /
'_-'
Subject is an occupation, which its name has *5* letters.
Pick alphabets from:
A X M B P R I K Y E
What occupation is this?
The drawing is as follows:
.-------.____
_| _ _ |----'
| |_/ ~ .-' |
| `---==<) |
:-------------:
|_____________|
Subject is an occupation, which its name has *7* letters.
Pick alphabets from:
C W J R H K B E T U M L A X
What occupation is this?
The drawing is as follows:
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I M A W Z R T U Q B P F Y S C O H T
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Subject is an object, two words *15* letters.
Pick letters from this alphabet:
B T E Y R N D L N O J M H Z K V U X C S Q G A F P T I W I I
Answer in all uppercase with no trailing newline SHA256 checksum: 6102ac0b68e1b5fad8f7aae0d27c11ebbf4b1d2a1ea7c10cff0f38b7e49034fb
The drawing is:
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Subject is a device, one word *10* letters.
Pick letters from this alphabet:
S N L X V K G H C F O I H J R P U E Q A
Answer in all uppercase with no trailing newline SHA256 checksum: c040c288e24061c064cba70f66bca741d77dd3074219810d37107a7311c0e490
The Free Thinker <freet@aussies.space> wrote:
The drawing is:
|D-.
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Subject is an object, two words *15* letters.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *B T E Y R N D L N O J M H Z K V U X C S Q G A F P T I W I I
The Free Thinker <freet@aussies.space> wrote:
The drawing is:This one is pretty tricky, so here's a hint: It's a very early
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Subject is a device, one word *10* letters.
example of solar power.
* * * * * * * * * *S N L X V K G H C F O I H J R P U E Q A
Well the answer is INSPECTION LIGHT.
The picture is supposed to show one 'off duty', hanging down from
a post sticking out from a wall, which all of the cord has been
hung around. A very practical workshop design has a power point
nearby so that it can be left plugged in and ready for use.
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X E S A R Z W R V Y E B
What is this occupation?
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so well done!
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~xwindows--
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L H Z P R Q U E B M T Y E V
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The drawing is as follows:
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Subject is an object, which its name has two words and *12* letters total. Pick alphabets from:
L M C R L R Y O A S T L P G P I U D H A Z B E W
What is this object?
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-space no-newline ASCII form has following SHA-256 checksum:--
58caada80a061a24b843fd1acb562e8f294c9c861a77b18deab2a459a8ddcac0
The drawing is as follows:
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'____'-------------'____'
Subject is a technical standard, which its name has *5* alphanumeric characters total; pick them from:
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G N O K L R M D V H S U I O M Q
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M C I Z A L R Q T Y U H A T
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no-space no-newline ASCII form has following SHA-256 checksum:
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On 2022-11-15 Tue 08:08 GMT, xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> wrote:
It's a bireurnq cebwrpgbe.
I wonder whether being a little bit past the first flush of youth is
helpful here? I remember these being in common use but I'd have guessed
they must be about extinct by now?
The drawing is as follows:
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and *20* letters total. Pick alphabets from:
I Q Z A K E A F A U C R I D H P O G N S P B L L R O M W X V J T Y E I
What is this electronics component?
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M G A T N S N E A X N C V I
PBGGBAPNAQL
Better known in Australia as snvel sybff.
Believe it or not I've got a snvel sybff machine in the next room,
which I started building at school but didn't quite finish. Lately
I've started working on it again
Great drawing, by the way!
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Pick alphabets from:
O D E A T M R Y Z I
On Wed, 16 Nov 2022, The Free Thinker wrote:
Better known in Australia as snvel sybff.
Never heard of that term before; sounded a bit too fantasy
for my ear, but kids might like that.
Believe it or not I've got a snvel sybff machine in the next room,
which I started building at school but didn't quite finish. Lately
I've started working on it again
I'm curious, which kind of "spinning apparatus" you used for "squirting"
out the melted bits of sugar? Off-the-shelf food grade one,
or some exciting DIY dubious-grade thingamajig you jerry-rigged up?
That part is still a mystery to me, because I have only seen
this kind of machines in action, which means it was spinning
too fast fast to make out of any detail on its construction.
Great drawing, by the way!
(*Bows*)
I have recently discovered that using "Fixed" console font
of 16px line height on a 720x400 framebuffer console (90x25
character matrix on 16:9 screen) with pallete rigged for yellowish
white text, makes quite a decent environment to drawn an ASCII art under.
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Subject is an object, which its name has 2 words and *15* letters total.
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R O K F M S E A Y D R M I T C G B L Q V
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The answer is "SPIRIT HOUSE", which its letters usage is as follows:
J P R Y I A T L Q W U E V N S H B C O S X I* * * * * * * * * * *
It is a common thing where I'm from (SE Asia), but people from the west
are unlikely knowing of it. I will let Wikipedia explain:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_house> <gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/Spirit%20house>
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Subject is an object, which its name has *6* letters.
I L A M W S L O P E K J* * * * * *
The correct answer is "LOUDSPEAKER", which its letter usage is as follow:
I'm curious, I thought this one was straightforward,
but apparently no one answered; how come?
The correct answer is "PILLOW", and its letters usage is as follows:
I see this one as a *very* straightforward entry with no tricks
whatsoever. I wonder what do you guys thought it was?
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Subject is a toy, which its name has *3* letters.
Pick alphabets from:
P S U T J O
What is this toy?
~xwindows
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-punctuation-mark
no-space no-newline ASCII form has following SHA-256 checksum:
07b4ed8e4e4eadcc7ffe05d41b5717255ae72a4881893e1d69e13889631c846f
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I'll give only single hint for this one: it is a common toiletries item. Giving anything more than this would basically reveal the answer.
C J T E O P H A V T D T X S I Q W O K N* * * * * * * * * *
On Thu, 1 Dec 2022, xwindows wrote:
[#]
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On Mon, 11 Sep 2023, xwindows wrote:
What did you guys think the object was when you all were looking at it?
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Subject is an object, which its name has *8* letters.
Pick alphabets from below:
I G H W D L S N C X U P O L T K E E
What object is this?
~xwindows
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-punctuation-mark
no-space no-newline ASCII form has following SHA-256 checksum:
3e0d982a081fed897253bc837fb53a2e1cb21f98499284fd8ca14d269287dd1c
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VAFGNAGABBQYR
RADAR
Yep, like ~barnold just answered.
Subject is aviation. The word has 7 letters.
Pick alphabets from:
R D S A H O N P U Z L C I E
F L T I G I M P H A W R K S
D P Y M U B Y K Q A A L
Who is ~barnold anyway? Is it a bot?
Who is ~barnold anyway? Is it a bot?
On 2024-07-12 Fri 09:10 GMT, vort3 <vort3@tilde.club> wrote:
Who is ~barnold anyway? Is it a bot?
I am not a bot, fellow human.
I am not a bot, fellow human.
I am not a bELOOPTOOMANY process killed
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What name is this?
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What name is this?
Subject is computer-related, two words *12* letters.
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On 2024-10-29 Tue 12:30 GMT, xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> wrote:
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Does QEBCCRE make a tiny splash of success?
On 2024-10-30, barnold <barnold@tilde.club> wrote:
On 2024-10-29 Tue 12:30 GMT, xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> wrote:
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Does QEBCCRE make a tiny splash of success?
Its pee.
FBHAQOYNFGRE
What... the!? Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
I spent so many hours and many times pulling my hair over this
challenge,
and you just told me it was an item on the top of my retroprogramming to-learn list!?
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( )
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Subject is an object. The word has *5* letters.
Z P L U K O E W R Q* * * * *
VAQVN
On Thu, 16 Jan 2025, keyboardan wrote:
VAQVN
That's right, and here is your prize:
** DLC UNLOCKED! *******************************************
** **
** THREAD SOUNDTRACK: **
** PIERRE-JEAN, BRICE DUFFOUR; "BIRYANI" **
** [00:04:21 / 25,668,901 BYTES] **
** <https://archive.org/download/SitaSingsTheBluesSoundtrack/sstb-03-biryani.flac>
** <https://archive.org/details/SitaSingsTheBluesSoundtrack>
** <https://www.sitasingstheblues.com/> **
** YEAR: 2004 **
** LICENSE: CC-BY-SA 3.0 UNPORTED **
** ** ************************************************************
Cheers,
~xwindows
The drawing is as follows:
________________
[ G ] | Wait for me! |
.=====. |______________|
| | | V
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[ G ]
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| | | (v)
| | |
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RYRINGBE
OERNQ
FNHPR
Good to see "ASCII Of?" revived, thanks.
Let's do something different again...
The drawing is as follows:
4 6
. ' .
. ,-"""""-,
/ / \ '
2 . | | . 8
| |
. \ / .
`-_____-'
' '
0 10
Subject is a concept. The word has *6* letters.
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;: \ / :;
|| \ / ||
|| |::::| ||
|| _l____l__ ||
|| /-----------\ ||
\\,'=============`.//
/ .".".".".".".".". \
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'-----------------------`
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'-_| .:_|
_.-'\_ .-"\
/_ / . \ ;
| "--. / ""| /
`"--__| \ --'
`'
On Wed, 15 Jan 2025, xwindows wrote:
Let's do something different again...
=20
The drawing is as follows:
=20
4 6
. ' .=20
. ,-"""""-,
/ / \ '
2 . | | . 8=20
| |
. \ / .
`-_____-'
' '
0 10
=20
=20
Subject is a concept. The word has *6* letters.
Since this one has been sitting still for half a year now,
time for some hints:
- By "Let's do something different again", I was trying to hint
that this challenge is a symbolic puzzle/word pun;
which mean the ASCII art doesn't directly represent the word asked.
- You might think this is look like an analog user interface
to control something; and you're right. But the question is:
what thing[s] this kind of interface would control?
- When conidering things eligible for the last point, there would be
one item that could mean different things when taken
in different fields of science. That one is the answer.
The drawing is as follows:
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Subject is an academic subject, which its name has *7* letters.
Pick alphabets from:
O N G J S M C I E D E C Q P
What is this object?
~xwindows
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-punctuation-mark
no-space no-newline ASCII form has following SHA-256 checksum:
61a21419c120442d8dab931b3a2f33e724496c64cd44bb3dee41a0b794f6cd34
P.S. I figure some people might get a weird feeling of deja'vu right now;
so I'll say it up front that it's not just you: I'm pulling this ASCII-copypasta challenge on-purpose. HoW uNCrEAtiVe...
The drawing is as follows:
,---.
/ /" \|
'-_| .:_|
_.-'\_ .-"\
/_ / . \ ;
| "--. / ""| /
`"--__| \ --'
`'
Subject is science. The word has *7* letters.
Pick alphabets from:
L R S J E M C A C K D Y P E
What is the word?
~xwindows
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-punctuation-mark
no-space no-newline ASCII form has following SHA-256 checksum:
2e6474381aebb9ec0614d6c865eb496c24f5569c81b65dedfab24760348c815a
xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> writes:
On Wed, 15 Jan 2025, xwindows wrote:
Let's do something different again...
The drawing is as follows:
4 6
. ' .
. ,-"""""-,
/ / \ '
2 . | | . 8
| |
. \ / .
`-_____-'
' '
0 10
Subject is a concept. The word has *6* letters.
Since this one has been sitting still for half a year now,
time for some hints:
- By "Let's do something different again", I was trying to hint
that this challenge is a symbolic puzzle/word pun;
which mean the ASCII art doesn't directly represent the word asked.
- You might think this is look like an analog user interface
to control something; and you're right. But the question is:
what thing[s] this kind of interface would control?
- When conidering things eligible for the last point, there would be
one item that could mean different things when taken
in different fields of science. That one is the answer.
Pump the /IBYHZR/ up!
--
The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that
refuse military service. ~ Albert Einstein
xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> writes:
The drawing is as follows:
,=.
||
,/ |
| /.\
`== ||
" `||)
=====||
, ||
/. ||
=='===|
Subject is an academic subject, which its name has *7* letters.
Pick alphabets from:
O N G J S M C I E D E C Q P
What is this object?
~xwindows
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-punctuation-mark
no-space no-newline ASCII form has following SHA-256 checksum:
61a21419c120442d8dab931b3a2f33e724496c64cd44bb3dee41a0b794f6cd34
P.S. I figure some people might get a weird feeling of deja'vu right now;
so I'll say it up front that it's not just you: I'm pulling this
ASCII-copypasta challenge on-purpose. HoW uNCrEAtiVe...
This is definitely a microscope.
But I can't figure out the name... :-P .
--
The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that
refuse military service. ~ Albert Einstein
The drawing is as follows:
___ ___ +---+
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| . , | | |
| | ||| | "-l | |
|+----'.||,|'+.||'.| |`"-o |
| '| |'| | | | |
| ' | | |
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"""' `""" +---+
Subject is geology. The word has *10* letters.
Pick alphabets from:
K W A S P T R H Z L Y Q D E V E A M O U
What is the word?
~xwindows
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-punctuation-mark
no-space no-newline ASCII form has following SHA-256 checksum:
0920f1bea7f1339c028cb99ba20dc8e6cac82369378f9fe63cd192f438071ead
xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> writes:
The drawing is as follows:
,=.
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,/ |
| /.\
`== ||
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ERPLPYR
Recycle
RNEGUDHNXR
seriously, nice ascii-drawing!
(^@_>^@)
Subject is a person's name, which has *5* letters.
The drawing is as follows:
,====.
// \\
|| ||
__ll____ll__
| |
| |
| |
: ;
\__________/
Subject is an apparel, which its name has *4* letters.
Pick alphabets from:
T I E U N O T R
What apparel is this?
~xwindows
P.S. The correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-punctuation-mark
no-space no-newline ASCII form has following SHA-256 checksum:
17e51383206c63f97fa11ec00c5132445425a518d0edfcf13fe45fd85708127a
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Without further ado, there is the current round-up of unanswered
ASCII Off? challenges...
--- 2023-01-29 ---
Object, 9 letters <news:tr4g2l$kn7n$6@tilde.club>
[...]
No matter how straightforward it is, this is definitely going to be
the cheekiest ASCII Of? challenge I have ever posted so far...
if not counting the even cheekier one I have in my drafts queue.
The drawing is as follows:
.
Subject is computing. The word has *5* letters.
Pick alphabets from:
U E D X L Y Z P S I
xwindows:
Without further ado, there is the current round-up of unanswered
ASCII Off? challenges...
--- 2023-01-29 ---
Object, 9 letters <news:tr4g2l$kn7n$6@tilde.club>
[...]
These identifiers are not searchable. The actual Message-
Id: is:
<748b06a1-af3f-4fcd-835f-c33b00c2ce11@tilde.club>
(without the `news:' prefix)
ant:
xwindows:
Object, 9 letters <news:tr4g2l$kn7n$6@tilde.club>
[...]
These identifiers are not searchable. The actual Message-
Id: is:
<748b06a1-af3f-4fcd-835f-c33b00c2ce11@tilde.club>
(without the `news:' prefix)
Maybe not to you.
For me, they work. And I suspect for others, they work too.
Object, 9 letters <news:tr4g2l$kn7n$6@tilde.club>
[...]
These identifiers are not searchable.
[2] I was about to include Emacs Gnus in this list-of-shame, but I thenLs
realized that my previous tests I asked ~yeti to do only spelled out
the [lack of] ability for user to manually enter these netnews URI/UR=
in-UI. It didn't say anything about its ability in linkifying
or following links bearing these schemes in existing netnews message--
which ~keyboardan just confirmed that it could.
On Mon, 28 Jul 2025, ant wrote:
Object, 9 letters <news:tr4g2l$kn7n$6@tilde.club>
[...]
These identifiers are not searchable.
They are supposed to; it's just that your newsreader doesn't support it.
*Inside* the angle bracket is actually a `news:` URI link.
A format of this URI is Message-ID identifier, with angle bracket
removed, then prefixed with `news:`. This URI scheme is for
linking to a specific netnews message by its unique Message-ID header value.
And when you access this link, a program supporting it
(not necessarily a newsreader, mind you) would make a request to
system's default news server (or its own configured one) for an article [1] bearing this Message-ID, and display it to you. For example, when running:
NNTPSERVER=news.tilde.club lynx 'news:tr4g2l$kn7n$6@tilde.club'
Lynx would show ~freet's age-old tough-nut challenge I linked to
in the round-up.
-----
`news:` is actually one of the earliest URI schemes in the existence, specified since the first Uniform Resource Locator specification: <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1738.html>
The actual problem in this case is many newsreaders (Sylpheed
and Claws Mail included) somehow "forgot" to implement `news:` and `snews:`, as well as `nntp://` and `nntps://` URL schemes;
for some braindead reason.
Sometimes in other clients, they were implemented in horrendously
buggy way-- like Opera Classic 11.51 which recognized `news:` and offer
to open it using current newsreading account, but then go nowhere
after its newsreading view activated.
To date, I have yet to see *any* newsreading-capable program which properly support all these 4 schemes at the same time *and* including ability
for user to launch itself with them; despite how old these specs are.
And the sadder part is: it is even _more common_ to see netnews-capable program NOT supporting any of these URL schemes.
(TIN, SLRN, Thunderbird; I'm looking at you too [2])
This is very unfortunate, if you ask me.
The only thing I can do is to provide multiple styles of URI/URL
for each link; in hope that newsreader reading it would support
at least one of them. That's why I provide both `news:` and `nntp://` link for each entry. That still doesn't help with Sylpheed of course,
because it's not supporting any kind of to-article netnews links.
-----
For workarounds in Claws Mail, you can either:
A. Go to the search panel sandwiched between messages list and message view;
change the search type to "Extended", paste the entire `news:` stuff
into the query field (including its angle-bracket),
then remove the `news:` part, then prepend "i " at the front
of query field, and press Enter-- it would filter
current messages list to show only the target message.
Click "Clear" button on that panel when you finished.
Or...
B. Go to Edit > Search Folder, enable the Extended Search checkbox,
then in Condition field, start the query with:
header "Message-ID" match "
then followed by the entire news: link (including its angle bracket)
but remove the `news:` part; then end the query with a closing
double-quote; and click "Find all" button-- which would
select the target message in the messages list.
Click "Close" button when you finished.
I have no idea which approach is available under Sylpheed however.
But to add insult on top of the injury, Claws Mail has problem
in approach A which make it (silently) unable to search for any message ID that have dollar sign in it; so I would have to work around by either
using approach B, or using the more-convenient approach A. but search
just for the longest part between dollar signs.
That's what I could say about the depressing state of affair.
I won't say "use a better newsreader", because it's not always an option--
I myself am still using Claws Mail, thus the workarounds.
Regards
~xwindows
-----
[1] If you're curious about how exactly this gets done, run:
nc tilde.club 119
Then type the following line:
ARTICLE <tr4g2l$kn7n$6@tilde.club>
And press Enter-- the server would respond with the article in question.
Type "QUIT" and press Enter to exit.
[2] I was about to include Emacs Gnus in this list-of-shame, but I then
realized that my previous tests I asked ~yeti to do only spelled out
the [lack of] ability for user to manually enter these netnews URI/URLs
in-UI. It didn't say anything about its ability in linkifying
or following links bearing these schemes in existing netnews message--
which ~keyboardan just confirmed that it could.
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For completion's sake, I'll add that:
- I'm using alpine (from tilde.club) to read both these newsgroups and
the ones from the wider usenet
- alpine seems to understand the 'nntp://' links (not so much the news:
ones)
- but they have the downside that, being on the same group
(tilde.art.ascii), I can then not navigate back to this thread
- not easily, this is. If I go "back" I'll be in an (unfiltered) list of
tilde.art.ascii messages
Anyway, that's my 2 cents :)
Do we have a list of "desktop" news readers? So far, claws, thunderbird
and sylpheed have been mentioned (I've setup sylpheed at my linux
desktop to read news occasionally), but those seem to be "mail" clients
that support news. Is there any (linux) desktop 'news' client out there?
CVKRY
- I'm using alpine (from tilde.club) to read both these newsgroups and
the ones from the wider usenet
- alpine seems to understand the 'nntp://' links (not so much the news:
ones)
Do we have a list of "desktop" news readers? So far, claws, thunderbird
and sylpheed have been mentioned (I've setup sylpheed at my linux
desktop to read news occasionally), but those seem to be "mail" clients
that support news. Is there any (linux) desktop 'news' client out there?
Package: pan[...]
Version: 0.139-2
Description-en: newsreader based on GTK2, which looks like Forte Agent
Pan is a newsreader, loosely based on Agent and Gravity, which attempts to be
pleasant to use for new and advanced users alike. It has all the typical
features found in newsreaders and also supports offline newsreading,
sophisticated filtering, multiple connections, and a number of extra features
for power users and alt.binaries fans.
Homepage: http://pan.rebelbase.com/
(^@_>^@)
Subject is a person's name, which has *5* letters.
E B O W N L Y Q P N* * * * *
On Wed, 15 Jan 2025, xwindows wrote:
(^@_>^@)=20=20=20=20
=20
=20
Subject is a person's name, which has *5* letters.=20=20
The answer is LENNY, and its letters usage is as follows:
E B O W N L Y Q P N* * * * *
I thought the lennyface kaomoji symbol was well-known and this would be
a relative easy challenge to answer; but it turned out not to be the case,
or my ASCII approximation was terrible...
I'm curious, which name (or just word) you guys though of
when looking at this ASCII art the first time?
Or it wasn't recognizable at all?
Subject is an object, which its name has *4* letters.
Subject is an object, which its name has *10* letters.
This is definitely going to be the cheekiest ASCII Of? challenge
I have ever posted...
The drawing is as follows:
Subject is computing. The word has *4* letters.
Pick alphabets from:
L U B C L K A N
xwindows:
This is definitely going to be the cheekiest ASCII Of? challenge
I have ever posted...
The drawing is as follows:
Subject is computing. The word has *4* letters.
Pick alphabets from:
L U B C L K A N
Should have been IBVQ .
AHYY
On Sun 31 Aug 2025, keyboardan wrote:
AHYY
Correct!
However, had I know it would get answered this fast,
maybe I would have omitted the programming-language hint
and filed it under a more-generic "Concept" category instead.
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