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Post by balzaccom on Jan 12, 2024 19:33:43 GMT -8
Anyone else here like to do cryptic crosswords? The clues are always some kind of play on words and letters. Here's an example:
Weird holy man found next to mountains. (7 letters)
If anyone else likes these, I'm happy to continue this thread along the lines of where are we now...tkaing turns solving the riddles and posing the next ones.
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Post by rebeccad on Jan 13, 2024 8:22:05 GMT -8
Where do you find the puzzles? I haven’t messed with them much, though the NYT has taken to letting cryptic-like clues in here and there. OTOH, I have no idea about the answer to your clue above, so obviously would need to start small until my head gets wrapped around how the clues work.
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Post by Sleeping Bag Man! on Jan 13, 2024 8:30:22 GMT -8
Weird holy man found next to mountains. (7 letters) ”Marmotstew”? |
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Post by reuben on Jan 13, 2024 9:36:44 GMT -8
Weird holy man found next to mountains. (7 letters) ”Marmotstew”? orygawn? |
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Cryptics?
Jan 13, 2024 10:46:41 GMT -8
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Post by Sleeping Bag Man! on Jan 13, 2024 10:46:41 GMT -8
Ahhh, but I can no longer be found next to mountains!
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Jan 13, 2024 12:25:14 GMT -8
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Post by balzaccom on Jan 13, 2024 12:25:14 GMT -8
The Atlantic used to have one in every issue. The Guardian posts one a week, at various levels of complexity.
So far, nobody's close to the solution.
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Jan 13, 2024 12:47:32 GMT -8
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Post by marmotstew on Jan 13, 2024 12:47:32 GMT -8
Yodeler. No idea, maybe they are religious. Definitely weird.
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Post by Sleeping Bag Man! on Jan 13, 2024 13:57:34 GMT -8
Weird holy man found next to mountains. (7 letters) Wait wait! I got it! " trinity "? |
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Post by Sleeping Bag Man! on Jan 13, 2024 14:02:52 GMT -8
Nahh...he's not weird. Back to the drawing board.
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Jan 13, 2024 14:25:56 GMT -8
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Post by marmotstew on Jan 13, 2024 14:25:56 GMT -8
Wonder if “holy” doesn’t mean religious. Maybe it means they have holes in their clothes? Or holes in their head or live in holes? This is cryptical.
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Post by trinity on Jan 13, 2024 18:50:38 GMT -8
 I'm a lot weirder than I am holy.
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Post by rebeccad on Jan 13, 2024 19:06:13 GMT -8
I don’t know the answer, but I know y’all are being too literal. I sort of know who the things work, and nothing, but NOTHING is what it seems.
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Post by reuben on Jan 14, 2024 3:28:04 GMT -8
I'm a lot weirder than I am holy. Welcome to being human.  |
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Post by reuben on Jan 14, 2024 3:29:06 GMT -8
I sort of know who the things work Eh? Say what? What things are working who? :D |
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Post by bluefish on Jan 14, 2024 3:32:24 GMT -8
NOTHING is what it seems. Is it in a different dimension? Are we talking worm holes? |
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