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13:17
@MartinBüttner The only thing I can think of for the Star Wars puzzle is maybe following the arrows formed by each word, end to end, in word list order (e.g. ALDERAAN is leftwards, so it means go left 7 spaces and take that letter, then AMIDALA means go down-left six spaces then ...)
Otherwise I don't see what the word list order has to do with anything, and the ambiguity between the two COUNTs is kinda confusing
Or maybe another one of these?
Hmm don't think anything the encoding for EWOKS is in there though...
13:54
@Sp3000 I checked that, but I don't think it's long enough.
Hmm k...
@Sp3000 this wouldn't make use of the starting positions in the grid
I was thinking maybe if it was possible to move each arrow so it starts and ends at two starting positions
Just trying to make sense of what could possible fit the clues, really
(I think some of the letters are too far from others for that to work though)

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