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[Johnny Lunchbucket]

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[Frayed Knot]

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Puzzle #218
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I was clueless there for a while, then pulled it out with no errors remaining.

[kcmets]

Jesus, Mary and Giuseppe...

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[Methead]

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[dgwphotography]

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[whippoorwill]

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[Johnny Lunchbucket]

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Puzzle #219
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[metirish]

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[whippoorwill]

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Puzzle #219
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Did anyone else immediately grab a calculator?

[Methead]

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[kcmets]

No, really...

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[Frayed Knot]

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Ummm, what letter is an upside-down H supposed to represent? I mean aside from the same one that a right side up H represents, I reckon.

[whippoorwill]

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Ummm, what letter is an upside-down H supposed to represent? I mean aside from the same one that a right side up H represents, I reckon.

Don’t you remember, when you were a kid, writing 7734 on a piece of paper and turning it over and giggling with your friends?

[kcmets]

I remember the answer to 71077345 being SHELL OIL but don't
remember the joke or gag. Was probably during the gas shortage
days in the late 70's when I first could drive. Odd and even plates.

[whippoorwill]

7734 (if you made the 4 right) was hell, and of course if a teacher came near we quickly added a 0 to make it 07734 so it would be hello

Like teachers never had an evil thought in their heads

[Frayed Knot]

Don’t you remember, when you were a kid, writing 7734 on a piece of paper and turning it over and giggling with your friends?

Sure.
But it was a popular thing right about the same time CB radios were so it's a bit surprising to see it coming up in a puzzle
nearly 1/4 of the way through the 21st century. And I guess I missed the idea that a lower case h looks somewhat
like a 4 but of course in the puzzle the H was upper case so upside down it looked like ... an H

My point is that it wasn't a very good category. I had no idea what the connection was except by process of elimination and
even then only after I read their explanation. I doubt there have been many overturned calculators being passed around
in classrooms over the last three decades.

[dgwphotography]

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[batmagadanleadoff]

My point is that it wasn't a very good category. I had no idea what the connection was except by process of elimination and
even then only after I read their explanation

I agree. It was an extremely obscure category, even by the standards of the game itself. I solved it only because it was the last unsolved category left and so it solved itself, I guess.

I like this game very much, in general. The only flaw that I can think of is that you really don't have to solve for four categories -- just three. Once you've solved three categories, the fourth category is automatically solved without any more effort on the player's part.

[whippoorwill]

Exactly! And sometimes the answer flashes by so fast that you have to re-enter the puzzle to see it.

But I really do enjoy them; usually I’m still in bed when I do them haha

[kcmets]

And sometimes the answer flashes by so fast that you have to re-enter the puzzle to see it.

I have no idea what any of this means lol...

[Frayed Knot]

Once you solve the fourth and final group the game flashes up the 'connection' between those final four ... but that screen then
disappears so quickly that you usually don't have the time to read what that final connection was.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

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[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Once you solve the fourth and final group the game flashes up the 'connection' between those final four ... but that screen then
disappears so quickly that you usually don't have the time to read what that final connection was.

Just hit the x in the top corner.

Not that it matters but I got the last-- purple -- category before revealing it to myself

[metirish]

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Yikes

[whippoorwill]

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Totally stumped

But thanks for that X at the top tip!