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8:15 PM

whoosh i got pinged about a few hours ago lol

welp.

If nobody objects, I'd be willing to continue from here with my own word not already ruled out by guesses

I'm leaving like right now so not in

2 was COVFEFE (obviously)

well. there's like 2 people here besides me so

I guess we let this one go.

hello!

or ... not?

Not sure if @Randal'Thor went away - not answering in TSL so I suspect so

8:23 PM

@n_palum

@Avantgarde

Hey :)

@BeastlyGerbil

What's up?

Hm?

summoning people for a game

8:24 PM

I will be playing for the first time. I'm in.

If we are continuing C...

2: Me rn

continuing C

contact 2

wait, who is defending then

GentlePurpleRain

Rubio

8:25 PM

Rubio is

GentlePurpleRain

Are we clearing out the old clues?

Just the ones from Rand, who's gone

If we advance a letter with no rand I'll kill them

or, not

:)

contact 2

am I the only one here who has no idea what that clue means?

8:27 PM

apparently so

PASS on 2. This is a little embarrassing.

CRYING

^

("rn" means "right now")

oh geez.

Sorry about your drawing man

Rubio defending: C L

GentlePurpleRain

8:28 PM

5: Deusovi's phobia

which one?

GentlePurpleRain

The one that starts CL___

5: It's not stupid people, Vigenere ciphers, random marsupials, or CLOWNS.

GentlePurpleRain

5: correct

I'm not actually crying.. but yes I am upset it's ruined

8:29 PM

I'm not afraid of any of those other things.

well. ok, point taken :)

Deus is afraid of bad puzzles

There's a difference between being afraid of things and annoyed by them.

... and being deeply annoyed by them.

GentlePurpleRain

How's that for big words?

I'm an idiot

8:33 PM

huh

CR instead of CL?

wow, that was a quick change of tone

GentlePurpleRain

Or I just have trouble reading past the first letter of C L.

I wanted that to be Edison. ;)

GentlePurpleRain

@Deusovi Yes.

8:33 PM

what was that anyway?

GentlePurpleRain

CRAPPER

Sir Thomas Crapper, apocryphal inventor of the toilet.

hm

it's not crawl ?!

GentlePurpleRain

2: ✔ (not the best clue, I know)

we're on CL though

GentlePurpleRain

I just keep reading that L as an R.

Wait.

Nix all my clues. They are all CR.

8:39 PM

You have hemisphere issues apparently :)

Ha!

4: CROW

GentlePurpleRain

4: ✔

5. Influence

GentlePurpleRain

contact 5

No wonder. I was going nuts trying to think of CL words for those and getting nowhere :)

GentlePurpleRain

8:40 PM

This is a real issue for me.

Not sure why.

2: GPR ... not GPR

GentlePurpleRain

1: This

1: It's not CLUE

5: It's not CLOUT ?

GentlePurpleRain

1: ✔

5 is indeed CLOUT

7. Geological term that sounds naughty

8:42 PM

contact 7

GentlePurpleRain

4: Stiff-arm

7: It's not CLEAVAGE probably

yup :P

contact 4

3: Followed by backed partnership

8:43 PM

4: It's not CLUB perhaps

GentlePurpleRain

4: no

Gareth McCaughan

1. Attribute of a ghanta

Egads, curse my internet connection!

5. Black, like some Christmas lights, animated mouse, and?

oh, you're back!

contact 1

8:45 PM

1: It's not CLANGING i hope

Gareth McCaughan

1 is not CLANGING

1: It's not CLANGOR?

Gareth McCaughan

yes, 1 is CLANGOR (from Hugh Meyers's steganographic puzzle)

the ghanta's clangor among us

Gareth McCaughan

yup

GentlePurpleRain

8:46 PM

7: Split segment near beginning (6)

Gareth McCaughan

(his ghanta's...)

the "the" part wasn't a quotation :P

Gareth McCaughan

ah

I wish Sp were here. He'd get 5. :c

4: It's not CLIP or CLOUT ?

8:46 PM

6: Sellers' Inspector

GentlePurpleRain

4: no

Gareth McCaughan

contact 6 @Sconibulus

GentlePurpleRain

contact 6

6: It's not CLOUSEAU or however it's spelled

6: yes

8:47 PM

hm. PASS on 4

4: Clothesline

GentlePurpleRain

4: ✔

Gareth McCaughan

wat

Rubio defending: C L A

5 dies :c

GentlePurpleRain

8:48 PM

7 dies. CLOVEN

2 dies, was CLEVER

3 dies, was CLOUD

any ideas for 5, or did you all not bother?

...ouch

heh. I was going to guess CLEVER for 2, but thought that was mean :)

GentlePurpleRain

I looked, but didn't get anywhere.

8:48 PM

didn't have any good ideas

The "and?" is throwing me off

Gareth McCaughan

I didn't give it much thought (am doing something else at the same time), I'm afraid

I got nowhere on 5

Gareth McCaughan

I notice that the initial letters of "Christmas ..." look almost like they might spell something out but only almost

would it be easier if I said Brain's partner instead of animated mouse?

8:48 PM

GPR was constantly flicking between "look at this great clue" and "I'm dumb, that is CR"

Gareth McCaughan

well, that identifies the second item as Pinky, IIRC

CLYDE?

@MikeQ yup!

Ah.

INKY, BLINKY, PINKY, and?

8:49 PM

Sue

the names of the Pacman ghosts are those and CLYDE

Gareth McCaughan

I fear this is a cultural reference that has passed me by

ah

You may have passed it by :)

it was Sue in Mrs. Pac-Man :)

GentlePurpleRain

CLA. CLA. <-- Just reminding myself...

8:50 PM

well, Sue doesn't start with CL

Gareth McCaughan

I also mis-parsed the clue (though that may have been deliberate) -- as "black / like A,B,C" rather than as "black / like A / B / C".

4: Partita sound

hah

that was not deliberate, unfortunately

we're never going to get away from Partita are we

4: It's not CLANGING, CLANKING, or CLANGOR again

8:51 PM

Partitas for days

4 Nope!

...

Gareth McCaughan

1. Mad poet

1: It's not a CLARINET ?

5: Boulder Scrambling

Gareth McCaughan

8:52 PM

1 is not CLARINET and I wonder whether you meant a different number

contact 5

if Gareth did not contact the partita clue, we might as well give up

Gareth McCaughan

I can think of a couple of somewhat-plausible answers to the partita clue but wonder whether I'm missing something cleverer.

6. The kyojin may have one of these

contact 6

Gareth McCaughan

8:53 PM

3. Musical or painterly impressionist

GentlePurpleRain

2: Furtive tribe purpose (11)

I appreciate the multi-layer pop culture reference deus

@MikeQ shhh

Gareth McCaughan

7. I

8: Man of the city city

8:53 PM

contact 2

5: It's not CLAMBERING or CLAWING maybe

5: Clambering

Gareth McCaughan

for the avoidance of doubt, since these things can be typographically tricky: my clue 7 is a capital letter I rather than a lowercase L or a digit 1 or a vertical bar.

there are serifs, you're fine

contact 7?

8:55 PM

6: It's not a CLAN, maybe??

(though that didn't stop people when I used a lowercase L as a capital I in a cryptic clue :P )

2: It's not CLANDESTINE

Nope, not a CLAN.

Gareth McCaughan

it varies with web browser etc. E.g., there are no serifs for me.

5: Keys possibly found in a partita

8:55 PM

@GarethMcCaughan Wait, really? Huh.

GentlePurpleRain

2:✔

Gareth McCaughan

contact 5 @MikeQ probably

PASS on 6, I have no idea

@MikeQ?

6 is CLASH (kyojin = titans = clash of the titans)

8:56 PM

yup

Never heard of kyojin. What's that from?

"kyojin" means "titans" (as you may, but probably don't, know from the anime Attack On Titan, and its original name Shingeki No Kyojin)

and then of course, "clash of the titans" is a thing

Rubio defending: C L A R

8 lives

Yeah, the latter I get. The former, I don't.

8:57 PM

unlike Rubio, I only got the kyojin part

4 dies (CLASSICAL MUSIC) and 5 dies (CLAVICHORD)

Heh, that's funny. At least Mike got both parts.

Gareth McCaughan

1 lives; 3 dies (CLAUDE, Monet or Debussy); 7 dies (CLAUDIUS, as in Robert Graves)

9: Horn Sound?

oh. I Claudius. hah!

8:58 PM

10: Kal-El

pass 9

Gareth McCaughan

contact 9 @Sconibulus

ahh, thought 7 might be Classicist

GentlePurpleRain

contact 10

Gareth McCaughan

CLARION

8:58 PM

9: yes

CLARION was my word.

Gareth McCaughan

boom! or rather honk!

8, and presumably 10 was CLARK KENT

Ah, city city = metropolis

Gareth McCaughan

@MikeQ I'd been guessing either CLAVIER or CLAVICHORD for 4, more likely the latter, and either CLAVIER or CLAVICHORD for 5, more likely the former. Oh well.

8:59 PM

meh-TRAW-sih-tee

Gareth McCaughan

1 was John CLARE.

... who?

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