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OliveSheep

@ OliveSheep @lemmy.world

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  • Piñones - March 31, 2025 - Undesirable quality in a balloon

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  • Sorry for putting puzzle in the main text today, it was not letting me submit my post with it in the URL field for some reason?

  • Piñones - March 28, 2025 - Explains all the invasions

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  • Another incredible time! Interesting, I think I need to spend more time diving into difficulty because by the way you're all going maybe this should have been a Monday puzzle!

  • Piñones - March 28, 2025 - Explains all the invasions

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  • 2:39?! Wow, things must have clicked together for you really nicely! Phenomenal time for Friday!

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    Piñones - March 28, 2025 - Explains all the invasions

    app.pinones.io /puzzles/explains-all-the-invasions
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    Piñones - March 26, 2025 - Irish wristwatch

    app.pinones.io /puzzles/irish-wristwatch

  • Piñones - March 24, 2025 - Gambles on tails

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  • Excellently done!! The first of many I hope 🙂

  • Piñones - March 24, 2025 - Gambles on tails

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  • My thought process for the title is that you shouldn't be able to solve the puzzle directly from it, but that it makes sense in retrospect and is an attempt to create that "aha!" moment when you solve the anagram and can validate your thinking with the puzzle title. I know I don't always knock that out of the park, but in this case you're completely on the money.

    !A salamander dropping its tail is, in my mind, a gamble that the predator will be distracted/sated with the tail so that the salamander can get away instead of being eaten, and the title itself allows for a bit of obfuscation in the sense that people can bet on coin flips or "gamble on heads or tails".!<

  • Piñones - March 24, 2025 - Gambles on tails

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  • Yikes! Fixed the clues, thanks for that flag! Very pleased to hear you're enjoying them 🙂

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    OliveSheep @lemmy.world

    Piñones - March 24, 2025 - Gambles on tails

    app.pinones.io /puzzles/gambles-on-tails
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    Piñones - March 21, 2025 - Grass in the vaccine depot?

    app.pinones.io /puzzles/grass-in-the-vaccine-depot

  • Piñones - March 17, 2025 - Source of legends

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  • That's completely fair! Because there are so few clues, I tend to try and combine some easier clues with more obfuscated ones. With games like Wordle, I feel like when I solve it in 20-30 seconds it feels underwhelming, so I try to include a few clues that give pause for thought and a bit more of a sense of accomplishment when solved. I think this one was a touch heavy on the trickier clues though.

    The hardest thing about making these puzzles is being so restricted by the letters I can use for each puzzle. I used to include three-letter country codes in my grids, but eventually deemed them a bit unfair for the average solver. That said, I eventually want to be able to let people opt in to obscure knowledge that they know, so I can provide puzzles I've only been able to create that have those obscure acronyms and terms in them!

  • Piñones - March 19, 2025 - How to reach the moon by folding paper (optional cryptic clues)

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  • Now that's an impressive time for a 14-letter puzzle!

  • Piñones - March 19, 2025 - How to reach the moon by folding paper (optional cryptic clues)

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  • I really love setting cryptic clues, and by no means am I that proficient at them, but it's not a huge group who can solve them - though it's one of my long-term goals to foster more of a love for cryptics!

    For 3 down >!I'm being a little sneaky with a Master's degree, which is denoted by "Ma", so two "Masters" would be MaMa!<!

  • Piñones - March 17, 2025 - Source of legends

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  • The answer I was going for there is that >!since there are two of them, they are both "Eds" and so it's a plural on the name "Ed".< I do that for a few >!two- or three-letter names!< - do you think that's too unfair an answer though?

  • Piñones - March 17, 2025 - Source of legends

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  • I think this one stumped a good chunk of people! I think I can see why though and will try to avoid for future puzzles!

  • Piñones - March 19, 2025 - How to reach the moon by folding paper (optional cryptic clues)

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  • I DM'd you a picture of the solved grid 🙂

  • Piñones - March 19, 2025 - How to reach the moon by folding paper (optional cryptic clues)

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  • 😬

  • Piñones - March 19, 2025 - How to reach the moon by folding paper (optional cryptic clues)

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  • 11 minutes while also figuring everything out is still a solid time, but yes, desktop will significantly reduce that time!

  • Piñones - March 19, 2025 - How to reach the moon by folding paper (optional cryptic clues)

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  • Would love to know how the cryptic went!

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    Piñones - March 19, 2025 - How to reach the moon by folding paper (optional cryptic clues)

    app.pinones.io /puzzles/how-to-reach-the-moon-by-folding-paper

  • Piñones - March 17, 2025 - Source of legends

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  • The trouble with some anagram solvers is that they don't take into account >!plurals!<, which is what I suspect you're coming up against here. The final phrase is >!anecdotes!< and I did worry that it being >!plural!< might cause some issues 😅

  • Piñones - March 17, 2025 - Source of legends

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  • I'll post the solution today! What do you think would have been most useful to you when attempting to solve? Things like a different title clue hint, more letters locked in, ability to check individual letter placements in the anagram?