What's this?
o
/
/
+---------------------------+
| +-+ +-+ |
| | | | | |
+-+-+-------------------+-+-+
O O O O
-----------------------------------

Three possible answers accepted, of 4, 7 or 9 letters.
Pick letters from:

M X L E T C R Q A F S E R L O B T Y F

A correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-punctuation-mark
no-space no-newline ASCII form has one of these SHA-256 checksums:

9c52acf20fcaa82279d698bc0226112d69bd1a1e700db3840943cb52933c9991 0351709ca90f5f7948b88506c64a5d212ae1dc864e7ca62fcb2fabb24ef0d0e2 c113a8472f0c2c0ff495e80185b29bc8df674c58493d5561d38e1fd3a79dac3e
--
barnold
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
-- John Mason Brown, drama critic
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On Sun, 21 May 2023, barnold wrote:

Three possible answers accepted, of 4, 7 or 9 letters.
Pick letters from:

M X L E T C R Q A F S E R L O B T Y F

A correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-punctuation-mark
no-space no-newline ASCII form has one of these SHA-256 checksums:

9c52acf20fcaa82279d698bc0226112d69bd1a1e700db3840943cb52933c9991 0351709ca90f5f7948b88506c64a5d212ae1dc864e7ca62fcb2fabb24ef0d0e2 c113a8472f0c2c0ff495e80185b29bc8df674c58493d5561d38e1fd3a79dac3e

An off-thread challenge? Nevermind, I'll try anyway...

That would be //GENZ//, //FGERRGPNE//, and //GEBYYRL//.
Honestly, when mentioning the last word, the first thing
I thought of was not this vehicle, but rather something
someone would push around when walking and buying things
in a big cool-air building where tons of things are displayed
and sold.

Cheers,
~xwindows
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On 2023-05-22 Mon 15:48 GMT, xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> wrote:

On Sun, 21 May 2023, barnold wrote:

Three possible answers accepted, of 4, 7 or 9 letters.

An off-thread challenge? Nevermind, I'll try anyway...

Oh! Have I committed an ascii art faux pas?

That would be //GENZ//, //FGERRGPNE//, and //GEBYYRL//.

I could say I waited for the answer and then three arrived at once, but
that might seem ungrateful. You score the hat-trick of course!

Honestly, when mentioning the last word, the first thing
I thought of was not this vehicle, but rather something
someone would push around when walking and buying things
in a big cool-air building where tons of things are displayed
and sold.

Yes, it isn't the term I'm familiar with myself. The one true English,
which is of course British English, prefers the first answer, but I
didn't want to exclude the disadvantaged ;-)

Cheers,
~xwindows

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barnold
Man belongs wherever he wants to go.
-- Wernher von Braun
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So the funny thing is, I'm NOT British but //GEBYYRL// is the only one I
could guess. The American word I came up with didn't pass hash check.

On Sun, 21 May 2023, barnold wrote:

What's this?
o
/
/
+---------------------------+
| +-+ +-+ |
| | | | | |
+-+-+-------------------+-+-+
O O O O
-----------------------------------

Three possible answers accepted, of 4, 7 or 9 letters.
Pick letters from:

M X L E T C R Q A F S E R L O B T Y F

A correct answer in an ALL-UPPERCASE no-punctuation-mark
no-space no-newline ASCII form has one of these SHA-256 checksums:

9c52acf20fcaa82279d698bc0226112d69bd1a1e700db3840943cb52933c9991 0351709ca90f5f7948b88506c64a5d212ae1dc864e7ca62fcb2fabb24ef0d0e2 c113a8472f0c2c0ff495e80185b29bc8df674c58493d5561d38e1fd3a79dac3e

--
barnold
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
-- John Mason Brown, drama critic

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On 2023-05-26 Fri 13:44 GMT, ultrachip@tilde.club <ultrachip@tilde.club> wrote:

So the funny thing is, I'm NOT British but //GEBYYRL// is the only one I could guess. The American word I came up with didn't pass hash check.

Oh, I hope I didn't get the digest wrong. I found the other two words
by searching for the short British word in wikipedia. What was the
American word you tried?
--
barnold
I'm enthralled by combine harvesters. In fact, I yearn to have one --
as a pet.
-- "The Day of the Jackal"
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I hope it's ok to say it in plain-text since it seems to be the wrong
answer anyway, but I tried CART, as in a shopping cart. Got a hash of:

f5fd62fe0af28c6203a6e6fa691f56971a742cb7f44a75c758dbdfd163509e70


On Fri, 26 May 2023, barnold wrote:

On 2023-05-26 Fri 13:44 GMT, ultrachip@tilde.club <ultrachip@tilde.club> wrote:

So the funny thing is, I'm NOT British but //GEBYYRL// is the only one I
could guess. The American word I came up with didn't pass hash check.

Oh, I hope I didn't get the digest wrong. I found the other two words
by searching for the short British word in wikipedia. What was the
American word you tried?
--
barnold
I'm enthralled by combine harvesters. In fact, I yearn to have one --
as a pet.
-- "The Day of the Jackal"

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On 2023-05-31 Wed 00:46 GMT, ultrachip@tilde.club <ultrachip@tilde.club> wrote:

I hope it's ok to say it in plain-text since it seems to be the wrong
answer anyway, but I tried CART, as in a shopping cart.

Oh, that's OK, no it wasn't meant to look like a shopping cart. Not
that I'm claiming any ascii-art skill.

Thanks
--
barnold
"When it comes to humility, I'm the greatest."
-- Bullwinkle Moose
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Ha, I got it! The other two answers are //GENZ// and //FGERRGPNE//!

But //GEBYYRL// is actually what they're normally called in America too,
at least in the few towns I've been to that still have them.

On Wed, 31 May 2023, barnold wrote:

On 2023-05-31 Wed 00:46 GMT, ultrachip@tilde.club <ultrachip@tilde.club> wrote:

I hope it's ok to say it in plain-text since it seems to be the wrong
answer anyway, but I tried CART, as in a shopping cart.

Oh, that's OK, no it wasn't meant to look like a shopping cart. Not
that I'm claiming any ascii-art skill.

Thanks
--
barnold
"When it comes to humility, I'm the greatest."
-- Bullwinkle Moose

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On 2023-06-01 Thu 01:17 GMT, ultrachip@tilde.club <ultrachip@tilde.club> wrote:

Ha, I got it! The other two answers are //GENZ// and //FGERRGPNE//!

Yes to both!

But //GEBYYRL// is actually what they're normally called in America too,
at least in the few towns I've been to that still have them.

The only place with such things that I spent some time in was San
Francisco, there it was FGERRGPNE if my memory isn't playing a cruel
trick.
--
barnold
You will forget that you ever knew me.
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FGERRGPNE is a term here but it's sort of the more formal term? As much as something like this can be considered "formal". Maybe it's different in SanFran but at least where I'm at on the East Coast GEBYYRL is the
"common" term.

We even had a popular children's show here back in the day that featured
one, and it was referred to as a GEBYYRL.

On Thu, 1 Jun 2023, barnold wrote:

On 2023-06-01 Thu 01:17 GMT, ultrachip@tilde.club <ultrachip@tilde.club> wrote:

Ha, I got it! The other two answers are //GENZ// and //FGERRGPNE//!

Yes to both!

But //GEBYYRL// is actually what they're normally called in America too,
at least in the few towns I've been to that still have them.

The only place with such things that I spent some time in was San
Francisco, there it was FGERRGPNE if my memory isn't playing a cruel
trick.
--
barnold
You will forget that you ever knew me.

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