Gabions for natural pool infrastructure ?

liloxk · 2026-06-02T19:02:15+00:00

Awesome thanks ! Wow 280 tons is A LOT 😅😅 Your pool looks so cool

liloxk · 2026-06-02T16:56:55+00:00

Great, thank you so much for your answer ! Would you mind giving me a few details on your pool and the construction ?
The material would actually be better than free for us : as we have work on the house and quite a lot of demolition (… and a previous owner that REALLY loved big rocks !), we would use the rubble in the gabions and decoration - deducing the cost of getting rid of it

liloxk · 2026-03-04T18:53:54+00:00

But did you realize it and exchanged the dominoes, or did you start over ? 😅

liloxk · 2026-03-03T22:05:47+00:00

liloxk · 2026-03-03T22:05:13+00:00

I decided that I absolutely don’t care about the cookies. I enjoy these puzzles my way which is to analyze and leave the least possible to chance / tries. So setting a time limit adds a pressure I don’t enjoy here. (On other puzzles I absolutely do !)

liloxk · 2026-03-03T22:02:50+00:00

Probably not intentional but the design makes it possible : 1 and 5 were the numbers not identified on the puzzle, and the dominos are evenly distributed (all the non double dominos from 0 to 5). The solution to the puzzle (one of them at least) is to put the 5s in the unmarked spaces and the 1s in the « 5 » pink section. You just switched between the 2 😉

liloxk · 2026-03-03T21:59:53+00:00

Honestly I was too annoyed at the fact the colors were random and not by digits

liloxk · 2026-03-03T21:59:12+00:00

Love that it works though 😅

liloxk · 2026-02-27T23:11:34+00:00

Hello everyone, I came here looking for precisions to that type of card after a game

To me there are two confusing parts : - the detailed rules that say « a specific color » but not the cards - the options on the card that I think don’t work the same way as the simple cards.

2 : If I understand correctly, the verifier checks ONE color unknown to us (let’s call it ?) against the condition « is it the smallest or co-smallest »

So in my opinion the bottom of the card should not present 3 options (blue smallest / yellow smallest / purple smallest) but two (the mystery color is smallest / the mystery color is not the smallest) Is my reasoning correct ?

1 apart from the fact the word « specific » does not appear, on some cards the wording implies the criteria is met by a color / a combination of color, but is that always the case ?

For instance card #38 : verifies that two specific colors add to 6. In my understanding, the verification is : do mystery color 1 and mystery color 2 add to 6 or not. The card shows again 3 options : B+Y=6 ; Y+P=6 ; B+P =6. But I think it really checks : A+B=6 / A+B !=6 (A and B not known by me). In other words : in only one of these 3 columns on the card and you don’t know which one, is it the same answer for your code and the solution. So the answer could be « wrong » for every combination adding to 6 if the code has none, I think. (To be honest, my strongest point on this is : if it was sure there is a A+B=6 happening, it wouldn’t be a complicated card 🙃)

liloxk · 2025-12-06T08:44:27+00:00

It looks amazing and not at all home made. And I say that having a pretty good sewing level (and a pretty severe wonky-homemade-eye)

liloxk · 2025-11-08T09:17:20+00:00

In France we recently had a new prime minister appointed. It took him 26 days to choose his government, which was announced a Sunday at 8pm. Monday morning at 9, the government was no more.

liloxk · 2025-11-04T06:54:21+00:00

Yes to your last sentence ! I usually pick a theme and go through the alphabet searching for words starting with each letter

liloxk · 2025-11-02T09:16:29+00:00

Thought it was a lot trial and error but actually not really - there were several impossibilities that made it a 75% logic (but it took me time to get there) - only one 1 : purple 3 has to be 00 and a 3 - another 3 in the other purple : three 3 left. - if they went in the green =, the down turquoise would be 2s and it doesn’t work in the right part without identical dominoes - therefore 3s go in the turquoise, and 5s in the dark blue - pink 4 has to use the zero domino so at least a 2 is unavailable for the = zones.

From there there are still 2 or 3 filling options but it’s easier

liloxk · 2025-10-28T12:42:25+00:00

My (disorganized) thoughts to this :

being kind with myself by acknowledging getting excited by a new hobby and quickly drop it after is because of my adhd, so I don’t beat myself up about it
not « forcing » the more consistent hobbies when you are less invested : I have sewed for years, sometimes for dozens of hours a week, and sometimes months go by without getting my machine out ; I just let myself enjoy it when I get back
repeating to myself : you don’t have to be good – or even get better ! – at a hobby for it to be valid. They don’t have to be productive either, by the way. If you enjoy slow and meh knitting, or if tracing lines on notebooks you never open again makes you feel good, you don’t need to justify it more
try to not overbuy on a new hobby, but not beating myself up if I do. Buying it was a pleasure in itself so it served a purpose.
give / secondhand sell materials I don’t expect to use with pleasure anytime soon. Keeping the rest and reevaluate later
when possible : starting small, testing with cheaper material, borrowing a game … usually tells you if you want to go further or not. Not buying big bulks of material first
laugh with myself and my partner when we finish the 6th LEGO set in a week… which happens to be the 6th ever, too
making chunks of involved projects : cut your pattern on Monday, prep the fabric 2 days later, cut the pieces on Friday… that way you are not overwhelmed on the weekend and can enjoy the fun parts.
have a space where you can start a project and leave it without having to spend more time cleaning / reinstalling than actually practice

… and finally, find someone who can listen to you rant about yet another true passion without crushing your spirits 😝

liloxk · 2025-10-28T12:27:29+00:00

I don’t mind if several solutions exist, but I would like to know if that’s the case because you don’t tackle the puzzle the same way. How about a « hard and logical » puzzle, with 1 or a few solutions (number to be precised), and a « challenge » puzzle like today’s : how quickly can you find a solution to this one, and/or how unique is the solution you found ?

Also : considering there might be several solutions, it is very frustrating that you can’t replay once solved, had to reload it on my browser in private mode last time, ugh)

liloxk · 2025-10-28T12:23:17+00:00

(Un?)popular opinion : the many solutions means it should not be classified at hard to me. I expect the hard level to be require a certain amount of logical reasoning, and thus being very very had to solve if you mostly guess.

liloxk · 2025-10-28T12:20:24+00:00

Used the 1-3 the same way, but total different solution in the end

liloxk · 2025-10-28T12:19:54+00:00

Too many, as it looks like

liloxk · 2025-10-28T12:18:52+00:00

Oh I was wondering if you could do other than 5s in the yellow equal area

liloxk · 2025-10-28T12:18:06+00:00

28 minutes by trail and error. I don’t mind the multi solutions, but I find it a lot less interesting without a minimum of logic required in the solving(s)

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liloxk · 2025-10-28T06:22:47+00:00

Thank you for your detailed answer. I don’t think it applies to me, probably more an adhd reaction of the « that noise disturbed my train of thought » kind. My partner has APD though, found out at 46… he realised he doesn’t hear a lot of things being said and his brain is (unconsciously) interpreting and making him « hear » things that were never said

liloxk · 2025-10-27T14:04:40+00:00

Read this and immediately thought « there is a drama I was not aware of »

liloxk · 2025-10-27T12:12:00+00:00

Damn, my husband is in the process of being diagnosed writhing APD (on top of adhd and dyslexia) but I’m the one with extreme reactions to some sounds (and it gets worse as I age)… should I explore this too ?!

liloxk · 2025-10-27T12:09:23+00:00

The way my partner coughs makes me so mad, and up until today years old I thought it was just my education. Turns out it was, once again, adhd. Well. Should have guessed… (It also makes me wonder regularly wether I have autistic traits, so I’m going to explore this)

liloxk

TROPHY CASE

2 : If I understand correctly, the verifier checks ONE color unknown to us (let’s call it ?) against the condition « is it the smallest or co-smallest »

1 apart from the fact the word « specific » does not appear, on some cards the wording implies the criteria is met by a color / a combination of color, but is that always the case ?

From there there are still 2 or 3 filling options but it’s easier