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Q: Previously published puzzles where provided answers appear to be incorrect or the puzzle appears to be unsolvable

SilverfishPuzzles available online or in books often come with provided answers that are unsatisfactory in some way. The social aspect of Puzzling SE means it provides a good home for such questions to be re-asked (with correct attribution) if the published solution was unhelpfully terse, or worse, a multi...

 
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Q: What is a Heavenly Word™?

pocoInspired by JLee's original Word™/Phrase™ puzzles. If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Heavenly word. Use the examples to find the rule: Heavenly Words™ Non-Heavenly Words™ behead decapitate alabaster gypsum paywalls purchase inverse contrary unjoin detached Wolfr...

 
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Q: Triangular Connect Wall + Colouring In

happystarYour task is to divide the 15 words shown into five categories and assign each word the correct colour. Each category has a different number of words between 1 and 5. All words within the same category must be the same colour. Different categories do not necessarily have different colours. The to...

 
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Q: Maximize an Nx7 rectangle of words step-by-step

Benjamin WangIn Scrabble, you score points for each new word you make on your turn. Therefore, on a board of AIRLINE and holding a rack of FLOATED, instead of playing FLOATED AIRLINE to score only the points for FLOATED and DA, you should play the seven-letter overlap FLOATED AIRLINE because you score...

 
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@DanielS Correct! (Sorry for the delay in responding.)
It's technically not a standard clue, since is a ddef as well as a hidden word clue (a "cross-brace" is a thwart and to "baffle" someone can mean to thwart them).
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Q: Playing Mastermind against an angel and the devil

quaragueThis puzzle is based on a card game. The are 7 suspects and 3 of them committed a crime. The game contains 35 cards that contain the 35 possible choices of 3 out of the 7 suspects. One card is drawn at random and hidden from you, these are the 3 criminals you are supposed to identify. You are the...

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CCCC: Red setter’s difficulty behind famous fields. (10, 3)
@GentlePurpleRain I liked it, the hidden word felt so natural that it completely slipped under the radar the first few times.
@juicifer ITYM 😉
 
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I can't get these fields out of my mind. (C and R are likelier to appear than Q here.) But I hope this clue doesn't need such technical knowledge
Sep 18 at 16:22, by juicifer
@GentlePurpleRain from my understanding capitalization is important iff the original word is capitalized
18:09
@GentlePurpleRain well, in that particular clue, it wasn't, and I'm not familiar enough with Daniel's clues to know whether or not he adheres to those same rules
in any case, JUSTIN (or EARTHA, or any other person with that name) wasn't really a serious line of thinking, just something that popped into my head
 
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A difficulty is a JAM, and putting it behind famous STRAWBERRY fields yields STRAWBERRY JAM, which is red and sets as it's being made, hence a red setter. @DanielS
 
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21:36
@msh210 Spot on!
Clever wording for that definition.
CCCC: Sister to my last several C4s: this is an easy one (4,4)
ha, this is DUCK SOUP (something that is easy), which is also the name of a marx brothers film like several earlier answers!
@Jafe precisely so
(specifically, my preceding 7 answers — starting with Animal Crackers — were Marx Bros. film titles)
a day at the races, horse feathers, go west, monkey business, a night at the opera, room service, animal crackers
yeah
nicely done
thanks
21:48
CCCC: Aussie singer involved in tragic love story (6)
22:03
@Jafe CLOVES
(hidden word)
@DanielS sheesh, that's two in a row
@msh210 both nice surfaces too.
that's right
CCCC: Red setter not available (illness). (10)
i think this is SCARLET (red) + I (setter) + N/A (not available) = SCARLETINA (illness) - but this would be misspelt as the illness is actually SCARLATINA
22:12
@TakingNotes Double points; you’re right and I’m wrong!
lol - it's a weird one because i thought it was spelt with an E as well until i searched it up
CCCC: Infer the answer to a metapuzzle hidden in my prior nineteen clues? (4, 7, 3, 5)
@juicifer scar Latina? (1,6,4,3)
@msh210 ayo
jeez how many metas have been going on
I think the first one is "Observed type of dash with 12 points (in printing) surrounding 77 and 50 (9)".
22:15
meta? no I haven't
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actually i feel i should specify that the meta is hidden in the answers, not the clues
EMPIRICAL, MOVIE INDUSTRY, LIAISON, DID I DO THAT, LIBIDO, DIE-IN, AMBITIOUS, KIWI, E-I-E-I-O, MASHIE IRON, PINING, QUIT IT YOU TWO, ANNIHILATED, FOLIE IMPOSEE, UMBILICAL CORD, MMXXIII, DAY'S FINISH, PIE IN THE SKY, IS IT NEARLY OVER
@msh210 All have two I’s
(except MMXXIII)
and the letters between them spell "read between the lines"
one letter between the two i's, i suppose
22:19
oh wow
aha!
very nicely done
V NICE
@msh210 yep!
yeah, that was beautiful, @TakingNotes
I half-think GPR should take the next one… but for his archive, we'd be lost :-)
22:21
hehe
in constructing this i discovered there were a lot less IEI phrases than i would've hoped
I also like that the final one is “IS IT NEARLY OVER”
@Jafe an interesting question
CCCC: Sting operation player?! (9)
23:06
a beekeeper might be involved in a sting operation, and a keeper is a type of player... hmm
23:48
oh actually maybe it's POLICE (Sting operation) + MAN (player) = POLICEMAN &lit (someone who can be involved in a sting operation)

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