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Alenanno

00:49

@GarethMcCaughan Well, even weirder than that!

6 hours later…

Rosie F

06:54

@GarethMcCaughan SOWPODS has these words which anagram to aemot+1: amoret camote comate matoke moated omenta (pl. of omentum) omerta osmate. But none of these fits any of the clues as far as I can see.

2 hours later…

Gareth McCaughan

08:54

@RosieF Thanks for checking. I thought of "osmate", should have thought of "omenta" and "omerta" (and maybe the ugly "moated") but didn't, and have never heard of the others. The ones I do know certainly don't seem to fit any of the clues.

Rosie F

@GarethMcCaughan You're welcome. A moated castle/manor?

2 hours later…

Gareth McCaughan

11:23

Yeah, that's clearly what it means and how it would be used, but it's ugly. (I don't deny that it's a word.)

user189275

I want my hours back. I spend 14 hours trying to find something stenographied in Emrakul's profile text:

user189275

Emrakul ♦

7.7k 4 34 78

user189275

It occured me very recently to google up, and here's what I found:

user189275

user189275

Here

ffao

16:15

It would maybe be useful to check for words containing PNG, since that's not a common combination

I tried, but I don't know the meaning of 90% of the words that came up

I never read that text in Emrakul's profile because I'm not a big fan of the standard fantasy setting, but I'm now glad you forced me to, Kangaroo :P

Rosie F

16:40

@ffao Any clues as to the corresponding 3 hidden letters? Last time I looked, nobody had posted any suggestions as to the text spelt out by the hidden letters.

@ffao SOWPODS has 132, of which 86 also contain I (ING being a common combo, of course), and I'm not going to check them all!

2 hours later…

Beastly Gerbil

18:13

I have to say, this fortnightly challege has gone down a storm :/

Alenanno

@BeastlyGerbil What do you mean?

Beastly Gerbil

We haven't had a single puzzle so far (I was being sarcastic)

Alenanno

18:35

@BeastlyGerbil Ah ok lol

3 hours later…

Puzzling Meta

21:16

Q: Is this puzzle like a mathematics exercise?

The rainbow mystery below was readily understood by two posters and two other commenters as the puzzle it was meant to be. The two posted answers presented astutely-targeted partial solutions based on clues, well before “off topic” voting began and led to closure even though this puzzle was off t...