uh... still not sure what kinds of hints to give. It's not a particularly obscure word, and the wordplay doesn't involve anything weird or nonstandard. What types of hints would people want?
Most often, hints are either a letter, or a bit of info about (say) some set of words that group together in the wordplay. i.e. Machine (breaks, core) collects rust ...
or even e.g. "collects is not an indicator"
Having no idea how this parses, cuz I've tried a lot of things to no avail, I've no idea what would be a useful hint and what would be a dead giveaway, so we're a bit at your mercy :)
hm, I'm trying to find the "characters that can be blackened". best I've found is the S in CLUCKS/ENCAGES, which obviously isn't very likely. so far I haven't found any that are consistent with their clues after blackening a letter, even if the crossing entry isn't a real word anymore
I've also considered changing letters into squares containing the entire word BLACK (e.g. [W]HOLE --> BLACK HOLE or [S]LIGHT --> BLACKLIGHT), but haven't found any words in the grid that would let me do that
You are John McLane, and Simon Gruber is back in town.
This time he booby trapped 50 nuclear power plants across the US, and sent you a laptop he prepared, along with the following note:
Any attempt to breach any rule will trigger the fireworks. Don't test me.
you can only run mic...
I overheard this conversation from a couple sitting at the next table in a lunch restaurant.
"That was wrong, Bernie?"
"Yes. You cannot ---(INAUDIBLE) -in the kitchen Mary."
"What if I ----- (inaudible)"
"No Honey, you cannot ---- in the kitchen either. You are not allowed in t...
This recipe does not make any sense but each step has its own by-product.
Add a letter and you'll have the shortest and the most ambiguous answer.
Add a letter and you'll have 47 machine-guns.
Add a letter and you'll have a software that goes beyond.
Add a letter and you'll be splitting logs.
A...
@sousben maybe - but I think it will probably be more like 'something to do with buttons - shack' as it sort of indicates it should be instead of radio. It might not actually be part of the puzzle though, I've asked for confirmation on whether it is or not...
@ffao Indeed on our second game we were already getting taught conventions our friends used and it was clear how much more it helped. One of my friends claims a really good success rate with 5 people though, but I'm guessing strategies and difficulty vary with the number of players?
Can you guess the name of this famous company in this rebus puzzle?
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You are John McLane, and Simon Gruber is back in town.
This time he booby trapped 50 nuclear power plants across the US, and sent you a laptop he prepared, along with the following note:
Any attempt to breach any rule will trigger the fireworks. Don't test me.
you can only run mic...
I overheard this conversation from a couple sitting at the next table in a lunch restaurant.
"That was wrong, Bernie?"
"Yes. You cannot ---(INAUDIBLE) -in the kitchen Mary."
"What if I ----- (inaudible)"
"No Honey, you cannot ---- in the kitchen either. You are not allowed in t...
This recipe does not make any sense but each step has its own by-product.
Add a letter and you'll have the shortest and the most ambiguous answer.
Add a letter and you'll have 47 machine-guns.
Add a letter and you'll have a software that goes beyond.
Add a letter and you'll be splitting logs.
A...
