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Ok, I won't say anything else for 100000000 minutes, unless you tell me to !speak. I will continue to star/unstar clues as I'm able, and I'll still keep track of the game.

Gareth McCaughan

8:05 PM

contact 72

ManyPinkHats

72: AVOGADRO'S NUMBER

Mithrandir

note to self: find a way to have it shutup on startup

John Dvorak

72 ✔️

Gareth McCaughan

3,4. Responsible for increase in the sale of Wensleydale cheese

John Dvorak

73 Not a city with a famous enclave

Locutus of Borg

8:07 PM

5: Where the frostfrost brige goes

John Dvorak

c5

Mithrandir

...i don't know why it's not starring. i give up

ManyPinkHats

5: ASGARD?

John Dvorak

u5

Locutus of Borg

5: ASGARD is correct.

John Dvorak

8:09 PM

74 She invented backtracking for a monster hunter

ManyPinkHats

why is it so much easier to guess clues as a fellow attacker than as a defender? :P

John Dvorak

:P

75 The big one, curving downwards

Gareth McCaughan

5. Best avoided if you have phenylketonuria

John Dvorak

76 Island prison that got shut down eventually

ManyPinkHats

76: ALCATRAZ

Gareth McCaughan

8:11 PM

contact 76

Mithrandir

7: not a cactus

John Dvorak

77 Island prison that succeeded too well?

76 ✔️

Gareth McCaughan

^^^ VTC too broad, practically everything is not a cactus

ManyPinkHats

TBH, same for 73

Quintec

So the answer is obviously ANYTHING

Gareth McCaughan

8:12 PM

contact 77 maaaaybe

ManyPinkHats

7: ANYTHING EXCEPT A CACTUS :P

Mithrandir

@GarethMcCaughan VTRO: has an objectively "best" answer

Gareth McCaughan

yeah, I expect it does

Mithrandir

7: ANYTHING EXCEPT A CACTUS, is, as expected, incorrect.

ManyPinkHats

pass 77

Quintec

8:13 PM

@Mithrandir VTRC: Objectively best is subjective :P

Gareth McCaughan

my unconfident guess is that 77 is AZKABAN from the Harry Potter books

John Dvorak

Nope

Quintec

that was an island?

Gareth McCaughan

ah well, sorry

yes, it's an island

Mithrandir

@Quintec it was

John Dvorak

8:14 PM

I didn't think it was an island

ManyPinkHats

I, too, did not remember that it was an island

Gareth McCaughan

so anyway what was 77?

Mithrandir

Sirius has to swim after slipping through the bars as a dog

John Dvorak

Australia

Gareth McCaughan

ah!

much better answer than mine

Quintec

8:15 PM

Wait, but Australia doesn't exist

Gareth McCaughan

neither does Azkaban

Mithrandir

Too many island prisons...

Quintec

Fair point

Gareth McCaughan

though at least Azkaban only has dementors, and not funnelweb spiders and drop bears

John Dvorak

Apparently not giving people a road to walk on is a great way to keep people from just walking away.

Mithrandir

8:16 PM

fearsome drop bears, feasting on noodles from the noodle trees, the tree octopods, and the unsuspecting tourist

Quintec

But not giving them water to swim in is a great way to keep them from swimming away!

John Dvorak

78 River full of boxes

Gareth McCaughan

contact 78

Mithrandir

11: gave a new definition to "a splitting headache" with their birth

Gareth McCaughan

contact 11

John Dvorak

8:18 PM

c11

ManyPinkHats

11: ATHENA

Mithrandir

11: ATHENA is correct.

ManyPinkHats

78: AMAZON?

John Dvorak

11': Fatal case of a polymorph curse

78 ✔️

Mithrandir

12: Wingfoot

12': Wingfoot's father

12'': Wingfoot's wife

ManyPinkHats

8:19 PM

11': ARIADNE?

John Dvorak

11' x

ManyPinkHats

11': ARACHNE

it was one of the spider-y names

John Dvorak

11' ✔️

Gareth McCaughan

contact 12, 12', 12''

ManyPinkHats

12: ARAGORN

Quintec

8:20 PM

Ariadne is a human iirc

ManyPinkHats

12': ARATHORN?

Mithrandir

12: ARAGORN is correct.

12': ARATHORN is correct.

ManyPinkHats

shoot

Gareth McCaughan

bang

ManyPinkHats

i'm trying to remember the elf's name

GentlePurpleRain

8:20 PM

c12''

Mithrandir

13: stuck in a labyrinth

John Dvorak

79 Verb found in a merry-go-round

contact 13?

79: CAROUSE

contact 79

8:21 PM

@ManyPinkHats A

ManyPinkHats

I totally forgot :P

79: AROUSE

John Dvorak

79 ✔️

70 maps vOv

ManyPinkHats

nice that ROUSE, AROUSE, and CAROUSE are all verbs though

Quintec

And USE! Sadly not OUSE

Gareth McCaughan

OUSE is however the name of a river

ManyPinkHats

8:22 PM

OUSE is a river somewhere though, I think

yeah

12: ARWEN

AHA

Gareth McCaughan

you mean 12'' but never mind

ManyPinkHats

I have bested your LotR ways

Quintec

lol

Mithrandir

12'': ARWEN is correct.

11: Middle-earth

Gareth McCaughan

contact 11

John Dvorak

8:23 PM

71 Coined a word while running naked through a city

ManyPinkHats

and yeah, sorry I intended the ''; just got excited at finally getting a LotR clue, as they've often been my downfall

71: ARCHIMEDES

Mithrandir

12: Pallando and...

Gareth McCaughan

11'. Middle-earth

John Dvorak

71 ✔️

ManyPinkHats

11': ART ?

Gareth McCaughan

8:24 PM

(note: despite my 11' I am in no doubt as to the answer to 11)

yes, 11' was ART

ManyPinkHats

I don't think I know 11

pass 11

11. ARDA

11: ARDA is correct.

rats

(I had a more obscure Tolkien one lined up in case that one didn't work. Shouldn't boast.)

Mithrandir

8:25 PM

(I had another Tolkien clue lined up as well)

Quintec

(Meanwhile I'm completely lost)

ManyPinkHats

I was just proud of myself for recognizing Wingfoot

Gareth McCaughan

I might have failed to get Mithrandir's tougher one, but I doubt he would have failed to get mine.

Mithrandir

(12 is also a LotR clue BTW)

ManyPinkHats

and being able to recall Arathorn and Arwen

Gareth McCaughan

8:26 PM

yeah, pretty sure 12 is too hard for me.

ManyPinkHats

well, it's time for a second letter, and probably the death of many clues

defending A L

Gareth McCaughan

5 dies; was ASPARTAME

Mithrandir

12 lives

Quintec

ono

John Dvorak

70 dies, Atlas

75 dies, Aorta

Gareth McCaughan

8:27 PM

2 dies; was AA (the scrabbling in question was the sort done with a board and tiles)

13 dies; ARIADNE

74 dies, Ariadne

7 lives

73 dies, A-roma

1 dies; was ANDROPOV

3,4 die: were AARDMAN ANIMATION, creators of Wallace & Gromit

Quintec

8:28 PM

5. not quite an illness

Gareth McCaughan

contact 5 maybe

ManyPinkHats

so we're left with something that's not a cactus, and the LotR clue that Gareth has already professed not to know

Mithrandir

and now star-bot decided to live

Gareth McCaughan

1. Saddened by world shortage

John Dvorak

71 For these, European Union has created a list of 13 categories and required the respective numbers used in certain places

ManyPinkHats

8:30 PM

1: ALACK?

Gareth McCaughan

1 is not ALACK.

(neither is it ALAS)

3. Impressively married Viennese

Mithrandir

2: Seen starting similarly

ManyPinkHats

2: ALLITERATIVE

Gareth McCaughan

2 is nice

Mithrandir

2: ALLITERATIVE is correct.

ManyPinkHats

8:32 PM

Yeah

waiting on the 2' clue though

Mithrandir

:)

John Dvorak

72 Mountain animal not actually named after a mountain range

Gareth McCaughan

contact 72

I think

ManyPinkHats

72: ALPACA?

in that it begins with ALP

John Dvorak

72 ✔️

Gareth McCaughan

8:33 PM

2. Companion of Beth

John Dvorak

c2

ManyPinkHats

2: ALEPH

Gareth McCaughan

yes, 2 is ALEPH (too easy but I enjoyed it)

4. Unexpectedly named Brian

Mithrandir

6: your foster mother... at school

John Dvorak

73 Nut

Gareth McCaughan

8:35 PM

contact 73

c73

73: ALMOND

73 ✔️

what's contacted?

8: If you switch an L and R somewhere, you could be donating body parts for charity!

ManyPinkHats

8:37 PM

8: ALMS

Mithrandir

8: ALMS is correct.

Gareth McCaughan

I have a contact on 5

ManyPinkHats

pass 5

John Dvorak

8: donation of guns switching sides

Gareth McCaughan

so I think 5 might be ALIMENT which is not quite AILMENT

Quintec

8:38 PM

5✔️

Gareth McCaughan

phew

ManyPinkHats

ah, I was too literal, dang; I even thought of AILMENT

defending A L L

71 lives

7 dies; ALOE

nice

8:38 PM

1 dies; was ALEXANDER THE GREAT who supposedly cried at having "no more worlds to conquer"

Mithrandir

12 dies; ALATAR

Gareth McCaughan

4 dies; was ALBUS PERCIVAL WULFRIC BRIAN DUMBLEDORE

GentlePurpleRain

8: Extended metaphor

Mithrandir

6 dies; ALMA MATER

Quintec

contact 8

ManyPinkHats

8:39 PM

8: ALLEGORY

GentlePurpleRain

8: y

Gareth McCaughan

3 dies; was ALMA MAHLER GROPIUS WERFEL

ManyPinkHats

? I don't get 3 at all

Quintec

8': Indirect reference

PotatoLatte

ooh contacts

ManyPinkHats

8:40 PM

8': ALLUSION

Quintec

8' ✔️

Gareth McCaughan

Alma Somethingorother married three of the biggest artistic names in Europe of her day. Gustav Mahler, composer; Walter Gropius, architect; Franz Werfel, poet. She had most of the other big names as lovers, supposedly.

Tom Lehrer wrote a funny song about her.

1: see ya later,

c1

c1

8:41 PM

contact 1

ManyPinkHats

1: ALLIGATOR