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Enjoy, sickos
Credit: Dan Gulotta, based on an idea by Palmer Mebane (Mystery Hunt 2013) https://devjoe.appspot.com/huntindex/puzzle/mit2013601
(link includes an answer key! Thanks to @zarfeblong for linking the original author)
Johannes 
@refreshingapathy thats impressive and disgusting at the same time
Hugo Slabbert ⚠️@refreshingapathy you monster
Rob Amos (Bok)@refreshingapathy can't look away...
gws@refreshingapathy oh I'm /S|MM|HHH/, alright
ꙮ@refreshingapathy what the fuck
Michael Bacon
Gorgeous na Shock!@refreshingapathy This... actually seems like fun!
École des Bro-Arts@refreshingapathy this has undone me 🤣
High Mome Djecibel Aester@refreshingapathy omg why are you like this?
David BruchmannSpare my poor aging but obsessive brain, these aren't real dictionary words, correct? I'm trying to make sure I'm not misunderstanding the regexes but I can't think of or find many words with "CCC" or "RHH" in them? (I mean with or without regexes, making an open hex crossword with real words would be a ridiculously impressive accomplishment. . .)
@MichaelTBacon I solved a few squares last night before my eyes went completely crossed and none of my solutions were dictionary words
Aubrey ♀@MichaelTBacon @refreshingapathy these are not dictionary words. One of the clues is [CR]*, basically a string of C and R with no vowels
@Aubrey @MichaelTBacon that’s correct - the solutions are not dictionary words. I posted the answer key as a reply to the original if you want to check your work.
Tom@refreshingapathy You want more? Enjoy! https://regexcrossword.com/
Caroline Bell 
Andrew Plotkin@refreshingapathy @chrisamaphone Credit: Dan Gulotta, based on an idea by Palmer Mebane
(Mystery Hunt 2013)
@zarfeblong @chrisamaphone THANK YOU - been trying to find the answer key this morning and couldn’t!
Henryk Plötz@refreshingapathy Wait a second. Has this been designed to have a solution or is it a random joke?
The field at the bottom left is covered by `.` from all three directions.
The field at the bottom left is covered by `.` from all three directions.
@henryk it is real and has real solutions (though not dictionary words) - @zarfeblong was kind enough to link to the original creator's site https://devjoe.appspot.com/huntindex/puzzle/mit2013601
@refreshingapathy @zarfeblong
I'm impressed. I wrote some code to solve it and it both does have a unique solution and at the same time doesn't appear to be overspecified, e.g. all the regexes are necessary.
I'm impressed. I wrote some code to solve it and it both does have a unique solution and at the same time doesn't appear to be overspecified, e.g. all the regexes are necessary.
@henryk @refreshingapathy MIT Puzzle Hunt has very well-developed design practice of paying attention to stuff like that!
gkrnours@henryk @refreshingapathy @zarfeblong I'm wondering if the regexes have to cover the whole lines? Like on the top row, if I understand correctly, I have to place 2 H. If regex cover the full lines, only cells 2 and 7 can be an H but cell 2 can also only be C or M? But if regexes don't have to cover the whole line, why put stuff like the second row which is equivalent to .* or not use .? ?
@henryk @refreshingapathy @zarfeblong hmmm, my regexes skill might be rusty, I went with ^ inside [...] means start of line but that's not it "^^
@gkrnours Yes, regexea are implicitly anchored at start and end. BUT: .* means "anything", so it can be length 0, and it also can also include H. So the top line is "at least two H, anywhere".
smolwaffle@refreshingapathy
Is this a fresh one? I know I did one of these in the past couple of years, maybe at Mystery Hunt or in some other puzzle hunt.
@epw
Is this a fresh one? I know I did one of these in the past couple of years, maybe at Mystery Hunt or in some other puzzle hunt.
@epw
@smolwaffle not a fresh one, its from the Mystery Hunt
Mike@refreshingapathy “.*” 😂😭
Swift@refreshingapathy iirc my company internal repos have a solver for these somewhere, because we have enough of That Type of Nerd.
@swift whatever coworkers wrote that has my respect, admiration, and pity all at once
@refreshingapathy they didn't choose the puzzle life, the puzzle life chose them
Paul Cantrell
okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin@refreshingapathy
Sickos laughing "Yes".
Sickos laughing "Yes".
Alan Langford 🇨🇦🧤🧊摏@refreshingapathy I have to block this before either a) solving it manually, or b) writing a recursive descent reverse regex string generator and applying it to compute a solution.
Spoiler: I'm more likely to try option b first.
@alan the solution to regex is... more regex!
@refreshingapathy Well, yeah. What else? I mean seriously, half my career to date has revolved around regexes... including a regex library I wrote decades ago when no parser was available for the language I was working in (Pascal, IIRC).
Then I used that to parse FORTRAN programs and extract documentation and generate cross-references for variables.
Oh god, I am old. 😂
arclight@alan @refreshingapathy I had a little fun a few years ago writing lo-res Fortran source code visualizers: draw a bitmap that shows the shape of code and color-codes statements, line labels, continuation marks, comments, and stray marks past column 72. A different one to convert GOTO logic to a Graphviz digraph. I was curious what you could learn by looking only at shape and structure without the text. F66, F77, and F90 have very distinct patterns.
Brad Larsen@refreshingapathy when I see something like this, my first inclination is not to done it by hand, but to write a program that would solve it 🤷🏼♂️
Advanced Persistent Teapot
UrsaThanks, I hate it.
Halligan@refreshingapathy Blocked and reported!
shimst3r is now on famichiki@dodecahedron this sounds like something you might enjoy :D
christa@refreshingapathy there was an app on F-droid for Regex crosswords too and I still dont understand how to even start xD
Itoshi no FoxyDonuts 🏳️⚧️@refreshingapathy Oh God... This thing again
Benjamin Dumke-von der Ehe@refreshingapathy This was fun!
Aleksei � Matiushkin@refreshingapathy that’s great, thanks!
At the first glance it seems that the bottom-left corner gives it a good spin.
⁂iwein⁂@refreshingapathy the easy solution is to write an algo to generate these kinds of torture devices 🤣
Leon Cowle@refreshingapathy @kimvanwyk Had a lot of fun completing this one 10+ years ago (I forget exactly when). Yes, I am a regex geek, why do you ask? LOL.
Kim van Wyk@leoncowle @refreshingapathy good to know, thanks. I too am a regex geek ( presumably not what most people mean when they declare themselves a regular guy) so I'm looking forward to do this one.
James Smith 💾@refreshingapathy done it! That was a LOT of fun. I may be a sicko.
trenchworms