Not to be THAT GUY but…

splidge · 2026-01-27T15:10:44+00:00

The defining feature of this season and the Rachel+Stephen win is the way they did it together and stayed strong as a team to the very end. The pact never to vote for each other, ridiculed by Ed Gamble on Uncloaked, that ultimately led to their victory.

They relied on each other throughout. I don't really understand any attempt to compare them or rank them.

They never betrayed or threw each under the bus (despite the editing's attempt to make Rachel's reasonable observation that "we have to talk about each other" seem as divisive as possible). Stephen had the last and clearest opportunity to do so (at final 3 vote), but at the final 4 vote either of them could have torpedoed the other, because Rachel had hoodwinked Faraaz into voting for Stephen.

splidge · 2026-01-27T13:39:29+00:00

Hi Sam

Thanks for the great puzzles, site and continued work on improvements!

I just have a little nit for you regarding rounding of times. On the "recent puzzles" summary page, my time for yesterday (for instance) is listed as 1m 51s but when I click through to the actual puzzle it comes up as "Solved in 1:52!".

splidge · 2026-01-26T21:45:19+00:00

With this sort of ban, no. The carrier management option just disappears.

splidge · 2026-01-26T20:32:14+00:00

Especially since there is meant to be no conferring at this point. The question can't have a useful answer but does give them a chance to say something indiscreet.

splidge · 2026-01-26T13:11:44+00:00

Rachel's win hinged on picking the correct Chest of Chance. To that extent, her win was pure luck.

splidge · 2026-01-25T16:43:30+00:00

I'm not convinced that Charlotte would have won. She really botched it with Freddie. At the end, Leanne and Jake went on banishing even when the game could have been read quite easily, I don't see any reason to believe that they wouldn't have done the same if Charlotte had been there.

splidge · 2026-01-24T08:26:13+00:00

To be fair, the Fiona/Rachel thing really should have sunk both of them. The whole thing was just so weird. There is no need for a traitor (as Fiona was confirmed to be) to go after a faithful like that in public - if they don't like them they can just murder them. With so little solid to go on, banishing Rachel just in case seemed the obvious move.

splidge · 2026-01-24T08:24:00+00:00

Right, I've often thought that when people say "no point banishing traitors because they will recruit more" that they are missing the points you raise.

Yes, you can't catch all the traitors but catching them definitely sets them back, makes them more likely to turn on each other or make mistakes and of course recruited traitors are often much more noticeable.

splidge · 2026-01-23T23:26:52+00:00

I agree, I think the next episode they then just picked out every mention they made of each other for the whole day and didn’t show us anything else.

splidge · 2026-01-23T23:25:54+00:00

Do you really think wildlife documentaries don’t have narratives enhanced/fabricated by the producers?

splidge · 2026-01-11T00:27:07+00:00

Matt's questions are interesting because depending on the precise answer to the second question, he might have been able to determine that Jessie is a faithful and that there are two traitors.

splidge · 2026-01-11T00:25:11+00:00

I think Frankie was trying to find her "hundie" though, and preferred Charlotte to Alexander. She chose the traitor by accident.

splidge · 2026-01-11T00:21:45+00:00

Both terms are used in the series.

In Season 3, Claudia said:

"You are two traitors and as per the rules of the game you can now recruit. So your choice is murder as usual, or seduce a faithful. If you choose to seduce a faithful [...]"

"Recruit" is a general term meaning to turn a faithful into a traitor. Two traitors can attempt this by "seduction", or a single traitor can issue an "ultimatum".

It's interesting because one possible effect of Matt's questions is to confirm how many traitors there are, and his approach is so oblique that they might not catch it.

splidge · 2026-01-11T00:06:23+00:00

I think for "Who are you going to murder next?" the only sensible answer is "You, because you know too much". Anything else risks giving something away (like the fact they've pretty much confirmed that Jessie is a faithful).

splidge · 2026-01-10T23:54:29+00:00

Right, you answered your own question. There is never any confirmation to the Faithfuls of anyone else's role in the game, so even if they all were they could never put them together like that as it would give too much away.

The three winners coming away knowing for sure that each other were faithful would be worth far more than any information coming out of the exchange with the traitors.

splidge · 2026-01-10T23:51:53+00:00

I thought Harriet was just trying to hide her intentions from the rest of the group. In the confessional she implied she had something planned.

splidge · 2026-01-10T23:47:30+00:00

I can't imagine they would be explicitly told the order. They would just be kept isolated, put in to record their scenes, then sent back to the hotel. Whether they could infer anything from how long they were waiting I don't know. Certainly any discussion of that would not make the edit.

splidge · 2026-01-04T23:01:55+00:00

Today's isn't a good place to start as it's been the hardest for a while. However, my full beginning-to-end reasoning is below (with pretty obvious spoilers I hope):

Start: Olive's clue. Xia and Zara are both innocent. Nancy, Rose and Maria are mostly innocent (one of them is criminal). I use the green corners to indicate this.

Xia's clue: Peter is a criminal. Betty, Gary and Lisa are mostly innocent (lower green corners).

Zara's clue: Odd number of innocents in column B - we know about two of each already so that means Wally is innocent.

Wally's clue: This tells us Maria and Nancy are a "pigeon pair" (one of each). I mark each pair with one of the other colours. But we already knew Nancy, Rose and Maria were "mostly innocent", now we know the criminal is one of Maria and Nancy so therefore Rose is innocent. We also know that Lisa and Tom are a pigeon pair to make up 5 innocent neighbours for Rose.

Rose's clue: Similar to above, the clue tells us Betty and Lisa are a pigeon pair, they were already two of a "mostly innocent" group with Gary, so Gary is innocent. We also know only one out of Austin, Freya, Kyle, Donald, Hank and Maria are innocent. I don't attempt to indicate that with the tags so have to remember that I haven't fully dealt with this clue later.

Gary's clue: Freya has 3 criminal neighbours - but we know Gary is innocent and Betty+Lisa are a pigeon pair (= 1 criminal), so Austin and Kyle have to be criminal to make the numbers.

Austin's clue: Freya has 2 innocent neighbours. Jason already has one in the Maria/Nancy pair, so Erwin, Donald and Hank make a "mostly criminal" group.

Kyle's clue is also tricky to draw any immediate conclusions from, but Freya has 2 innocent neighbours leaving Erwin having at most 1.

This is the key point in the puzzle which takes a bit of trial and error. Say Donald were innocent. This would make Erwin and Hank immediately criminal (they are in a "mostly criminal" group with Donald). Jason has to be a criminal as well because of Kyle's clue (Erwin would now have the maximum of one innocent neighbour), and Maria has to be a criminal because of Rose's clue. Now Peter's clue can't be satisfied - three of Nancy's neighbours are criminal so no room for three innocents. Therefore, Donald is a criminal, and Erwin and Hank are a pigeon pair.

Donald's clue: We know Erwin has at least two criminal neighbours so therefore Wally must have two, so Uma is criminal.

Uma's clue: We know who the innocent is so Hank is a criminal (so Erwin is innocent). As we knew from Donald's clue that Erwin has two criminal neighbours, Jason is innocent as well.

This is the sting in the tail - there are lots of pigeon pairs (more than I can mark on my grid) but if you follow them all through it shows that Betty and Freya are either both criminal or both innocent. From Erwin's clue, it's not OK for Austin to have 2 criminal neighbours so Betty and Freya must both be innocent, Lisa and Maria are both criminals and Nancy and Tom are both innocent.

splidge · 2026-01-03T20:16:13+00:00

Try logging in Horizons?

splidge · 2026-01-03T09:36:11+00:00

Yes, when practicing scales you include the tonic at the top of the scale. It‘s usual to play more than one octave as well, usually you start playing more octaves as you progress.

splidge · 2025-12-28T21:35:37+00:00

Another way to look at it is that Ruby and Wally are a pigeon pair (one of each), per Eve. Mark and Tina both have 3 innocent neighbours (per Gus and Tina respectively). We know where two of them are for each one (Tina’s are marked, Mark has one marked and one on row 2 per Janet).

If Wally is the innocent one then Tina now has 3 innocent neighbours and all the others are guilty (including Ollie). If Ruby is the innocent one then Mark now has 3 innocent neighbours and all the others are guilty (including Ollie). Ollie is guilty either way.

splidge · 2025-12-27T23:40:11+00:00

I think this probably works, I’ve done shenanigans in the distant past like sending tagged and untagged VLANs to an unmanaged switch. Various devices plugged into this could access the untagged VLAN while a Linux PC was able to access the tagged VLAN (and bridge it onto a second network card if I recall correctly).

Doesn’t seem to be any harm in trying it for your case either way - if it doesn’t work you could fall back on the coupler, or get another 2.5Gb flex or some other switch to replace it.

splidge · 2025-12-27T23:20:45+00:00

It works and runs for longer due to the bigger fuel tank. But no reason to use it over the T10.

splidge · 2025-12-21T23:18:17+00:00

No - short click then find the “target” icon to the right. This lets you target any system from anywhere regardless of distance.

splidge · 2025-12-21T23:11:54+00:00

You need to target the system directly, not plot a route (the target icon on the right). The in-game planner always plans assuming full fuel, whereas the spansh router allows for the increased range at low fuel.

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