It's not a Ford Tempo or Hyundai Sonata. Maybe I'm not smart enough to figure this out this week?Q: Think of a musical instrument. Add two letters at the end, and you'll get the names of two popular automobile models reading left to right. What musical instrument is this?
Edit: I was hinting at the added letters, IQ.
A: ACCORDION --> (Honda) ACCORD, (Hyundai) IONIQ
Think of a different musical instrument whose first letters are the surname of a person who behaves like what the last 2 letters can describe when used as the initial letters of a French phrase that describes a child no one would want to be around.
ReplyDeleteMais oui!
DeleteGreetings from Indianapolis, where I’m attending the Final Four. Yesterday, I met and shook hands with Michelle Obama’s brother, Craig Robinson. Imagine that.
ReplyDeleteYou have to be smart to get this puzzle, but I’m in agreement that the extra two letters may not be necessary. A fun and clever puzzle. Congrats, again, Cap!
To those who celebrate, Happy Easter!
Go, UConn!
Huskymania!
DeleteBe sure to stop at Shapiro's
DeleteWe walked past it yesterday.
DeleteAnd we’re eating there now!
DeleteBest corned beef!
DeleteRemove five letters of the instrument to get a classic American musician. Remove five different letters to get a classic American car.
ReplyDeleteACCORDION -- DION, CORD
DeleteRemove the first three letters from the instrument, rearrange, and you get somewhere I am right now.
ReplyDeleteI can feel your pain.
DeleteAutocorrect, or correct auto?
ReplyDeleteI just realized I never got back on here to explain this comment. The Hyundai Ioniq might be autocorrected for some people to be spelled ionic, which is a word, but not a car.
DeleteSomeone in this group ought to have no trouble with this one.
ReplyDeleteThat's true. The typo wasn't mine
DeleteI was thinking of Enya&WierdAlFan.
DeleteApparently, I don't know how to spell WEIRD.
Delete"left or right" or "left to right"?
ReplyDelete"left to right"
DeleteThanks. I fixed it here, but the NPR intern will have to fix it on the website. 😜
DeleteOkay, I guess my answer is the intended one -- Blaine's clue confirms it. But I didn't think the second model was well-known.
ReplyDeleteI see them every day.
DeleteRemove three letters from the instrument, rearrange the remaining letters, and get the surname of a renowned 20-century philosopher.
ReplyDeleteIf I'm thinking of the right one, he was also connected to music.
DeleteRight you are, sir.
DeleteI Kant find the music connection.
DeleteThank you, Dr. K and Nodd, your exchange confirmed I had the intended answer.
DeleteSeveral people have commented on the cleverness of this puzzle. I agree.
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ReplyDeleteClue: Monopoly
ReplyDeleteI once saw a Yugo transfigured into the instrument, in Grand Central Station, in NYC. Pix on Thursday.
ReplyDeleteIt was weird!
DeleteFrom last week and continuing on:
ReplyDeleteWord WomanSun Apr 05, 04:56:00 AM PDT
Well, I have a whole treatise on women named Sarah at car shows describing the new models from either direction ;-).
"A bidirectional text contains two text directionalities, right-to-left (RTL) and left-to-right (LTR). It generally involves text containing different types of alphabets, but may also refer to boustrophedon, which is changing text direction in each row.
An example is the RTL Hebrew name Sarah: שרה, spelled sin (ש) on the right, resh (ר) in the middle, and heh (ה) on the left. Many computer programs failed to display this correctly, because they were designed to display text in one direction only.
Some so-called right-to-left scripts such as the Persian script and Arabic are mostly, but not exclusively, right-to-left—mathematical expressions, numeric dates and numbers bearing units are embedded from left to right. That also happens if text from a left-to-right language such as English is embedded in them; or vice versa, if Arabic is embedded in a left-to-right script such as English."
This was worth the price of admusdion!
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Word WomanSun Apr 05, 04:57:00 AM PDT
Um, admission. But I am carefully considering adding "admusdion" to the lexicon. ;)
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Admusdion: to amuse the god, Dionysus, god of wine, joy, theatre and madness, including this celestial body. (my nod to this lunacy is my clue this week).
Would you please clarify the correct pronunciation of admusdion?
DeleteIs it ad-MUSE-dee-un?
Is it ad-muss-DIE-on?
Something else?
Ad muse Die on, me thinks.
DeleteIf you have it as an appetizer, it's an Ad muse Bouche.
When we give our dog scraps or other treats, we call them "Amuse Pooch.' Which has nothing to do with this week's quiz.
DeleteBy the way, my pin and kyanite arrived today. Thanks!
DeleteI received my lapel pin. Thank you for the lapel pin and kyanite. By the way, your "admusdion" post is a hint because "admusdion" sounds like "accordion".
Delete😀💗 Thank you, Word Woman! You are wonderful and appreciated. The lapel pin is truly fabulous and so excellent! It was a delight to receive this. You bring much Joy to this world. Sending gratitude your way. 😀💗
DeleteThanks, Eileen! Lovely to be appreciated, especially for such a fun afternoon of packing, selecting , and shipping.
DeleteI also spent time today at ddfl with Mr. Grrumpy and Oliver. That is truely a fine activiyu
💗 Word Woman, you are wonderful and appreciated! I hope infinite joys and best always flow your way. Thank you for your beautiful heart and kind light. This group is lucky to have you and this world is better because of you. 😀
DeleteI was going to stick with my first answer: BUGLE (Bug+Leaf), but after a hot cup of brain lubricant, I found the intended answer. Happy Resurrection Day to all here who are humble enough to accept the greatest gift ever offered! Thank you, Jesus!
ReplyDeleteAs one whose first two cars were Volkswagen beetles, I would say that BUGLE is a fine alternate answer.
DeleteMy first two cars were Peugeots. No musical instruments there, but they do make salt and pepper grinders of some fame. Their bicycles were made by Automoto.
DeleteAgree -- BUG-LE-AF is an alternative!
Delete'67 Squareback was my first. There was more Bondo than metal on that car.
DeleteSafe to say the VW Bug (Beetle) was (is?) a "popular" model, but is the same true for the Nissan Leaf?
DeleteNot since it reached the autumn of its years and fell from grace.
DeleteIt does have a big trunk, though.
DeleteI play this instrument! My mother made me take lessons all thru high school! This isn’t a hint, merely a comment.
ReplyDeleteI feel like that almost gives it away! :D
DeleteCongrats to CAP (in ALL CAPS!). 'Tis a capital puzzle challenge.
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Thanks Lego
ReplyDeleteThis puzzle is elementary.
ReplyDeleteElementary is like elements, which can be used to make ionic compounds. Ioniq sounds like ionic.
DeleteIt helps to be bright to solve this one.
ReplyDeleteAnd speaking of blue
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/why-there-was-no-word-for-blue-in-ancient-greece-and-how-homer-and-aristotle-perceived-colors
have folks gotten their lapel pins and kyanite crystals yet?
Not yet. Maybe Monday.
DeleteSame. We'll let you know, though. Thanks for all your efforts here, WW!
DeleteNot yet, but I'll be watching for them!
DeleteGot mine!
DeleteMy lapel pin arrived today! (Along with some remnant of the planet Krypton, I think... ;) Thanks again, WW! I have a wedding to attend in a couple of weeks which means I will actually have a lapel on which to wear it!
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DeleteCorrection: I came home from Indianapolis to find my lapel pin had arrived today. Wonderful! Thank you again, Word Woman, for all your effort. But as for the kyanite, shouldn’t Cap be protected from exposure?
DeleteYou are welcome, Dr K! Glad to hear things arrived intact. I believe that's kryptonite not kyanite. ;)Anything as strikingly beautiful and blue as kyanite surely must be restorative not destructive?
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DeleteWord Woman, I just looked carefully at the stamps. Sylvester and Tweety!
DeleteFunny, I can think of an instrument that doesn't need two letters added to have two car models in it. (And note the wording of the puzzle, "models.")
ReplyDeleteGot it! I found the right two letters to add, which gave me the right model. (The one I first had in mind has been out of production anyway.)
Delete(That would have been the Saturn Ion, of course.)
DeleteSmart car?
ReplyDeleteI agree with many of the observations above. I also didn’t know the origin of one of the model names until researching it. Congrats CAP!
ReplyDeleteSince he said "automobile," it could be a van, and could probably do some damage
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DeletePicture the two vehicles in a double impact!
DeleteThere are a lot of car models that people have fond and not so fond memories about. Edsel, Gremlin, Pinto, Corvair, Thing, K-Car, Yugo etc.
ReplyDeleteToo bad there isn't an answer using the BMW Isetta. The front door single seater had a 9.5hp engine, got 78mpg and could go from zero to 30mph in 30 seconds. The epitome of efficiency!
A musical group that features this instrument in one of their songs has a member who plays an instrument that is also the name of a different car model.
ReplyDeleteSea snail
ReplyDeleteThis week's answer relates to last week's.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking something similar.
DeleteIn my favorite movie featuring someone playing this instrument, the most memorable scene in which this character appears does not use this instrument in the score.
ReplyDeleteAnd going further down the rabbit hole, one of the most famous directors of the 20th Century regularly cast the brother of another famous director in minor parts so that he could entertain the cast and crew by playing this instrument in between shots. But you never heard this instrument being played in the film itself.
ReplyDeleteDidn't take me long—which isn't really a brag!
ReplyDeleteIn alphabetical lists of musical instruments, "accordion" is often first.
DeleteOkay, it's time now for something different.
ReplyDeleteWe are all aware there are standard size musical instruments, such as a grand piano, which has a smaller version called a baby grand. Guitars have a smaller version in the ukulele, as does the flute with the diminutive piccolo. Which brings me to the question most music lovers must have wondered about over time. And that is, when the more adult musical instruments go out on the town for the evening, who watches over their younger counterparts?
Baby sitars?
DeleteYou got it!
DeleteNote to Lancek: I am a bit concerned... You are beginning to think a bit like skydiveboy! If I were you I would bip this in the nud!
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I almost settled on "baby zithers." I thought of "baby sitars" just before I posted the reply. Thanks for the puzzle, sdb, and thanks for the kudos, Lego!
DeleteMy pin has also arrived. Thanx W2!
ReplyDeleteYay, SuoerZee. I had a momentary flash of uh oh when the pin sent to a friend locally cane back with $6.71 postage due! Phew?,.Guess ot was just a fluke.
DeleteFloundering?
DeleteSeason 3, episode 20 of this classic series.
ReplyDeleteStrange puzzle. I got the answer by consulting Al.
ReplyDeleteI had the answer and checked with Chatgpt. Chat got the answer in a second.
DeleteWell, the first car and the instrument were familiar. The second car I had to consult a list to recognize. Ironic.
ReplyDeleteWW - Guess what arrived in the mail today! And two for the price of one?
ReplyDeleteNice stamps, bat woman.
DeleteLorenzo, the Twofer special! Tickled you liked the bats. I thought you would.
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DeleteBobby, did you get your two pins? _You_ are the reason for all of this, after all. -Word Womsn,
😀💗 Thank you, Word Woman! You are wonderful and appreciated. The lapel pin just arrived and is truly fabulous! I told Bobby these are so beautiful and excellent. It was a delight to receive this. You bring much Joy to this world. Oh, and I loved the cool stamps! I hope we can meet you in person one day. 😀💗 (p.s. Bobby wrote a note higher up in this thread. I will copy here: BobbyThu Apr 09, 12:07:00 PM PDT
DeleteI received my lapel pin. Thank you for the lapel pin and kyanite. By the way, your "admusdion" post is a hint because "admusdion" sounds like "accordion".
I got mine in the mail today! Thank you, Word Woman!
DeleteIt's so nice to be reminded that Blainesville is full of actual human people! Yay!
Ben, it is isnt it?
DeleteAnd with all the cursive floloopiness I could muster to counteract this >>>
https://historyfacts.com/arts-culture/article/why-dont-we-write-in-cursive-anymore/
MilitaryTimes and Yahoo removed my comment below from an article about U.S. citizens being required to register for the draft:
ReplyDelete" I am so proud I joined the army in 1963 in order to stay out of Viet Nam, by staying one additional year and getting to choose Europe as my assignment after training to be stationed. I then spent 2 1/2 years stationed in Germany and learned to hate this country for all its lies. When I returned and was required to join the reserves I instead, burned my draft card and that is what I am justly proud of. Citizens of this, my home and birth country, are a bunch of stupid, ignorant fools. Wake up now!"
So much for freedom of speech. Again, I say, Wake Up!
Thank you for your service, SDB. In all ways!
DeleteACCORDION + IQ—> ACCORD, IONIQ
ReplyDeleteHint: “You have to be smart to get this puzzle, but I’m in agreement that the extra two letters may not be necessary.”
“smart” —> IQ
“agreement” —> ACCORD
(The puzzle could have been simply “Accord” + “Ion.”)
Hint: “Remove three letters from the instrument, rearrange the remaining letters, and get the surname of a renowned 20-century philosopher.”
—> ACCORDION -C -C -I —> Adorno
Well done, Nodd.
Thanks, Dr. K, but I confess I had to look it up, despite having taken a bunch of college courses that featured great philosophers.
DeleteACCORDION --> ACCORD, IONIQ
ReplyDelete> I once saw a Yugo transfigured into the instrument, in Grand Central Station, in NYC. Pix on Thursday.
At "Yugo Next," an exhibition by students and alumni of School of Visual Arts' 3D design program, in 1995.
(And yeah, I know that it's properly called Grand Central Terminal, unless you're talking about the post office.)
> It was weird!
As in, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
ACCORDIAN + IQ >>> (HONDA) ACCORD + (HYUNDAI) IONIQ
ReplyDeleteWhen I say, “I agree,” this puzzle is clever I allude French for, “I agree,” being, d'ACCORD.
The alternate puzzle (no added letters) posed by Feinstee and splainit solves as: ACCORDIAN >>> (HONDA) ACCORD + (SATURN) ION, has IMO, “…a certain, ring to it.”
I'd forgotten about my early comment:
Delete"Knowing how to spell helps"
I immediately thought of the instrument containing ACCORD, and was scanning a list of automobile models looking for something starting with IAN when IONIQ presented itself.
accordiən
DeleteACCORDIAN >>> ACCORD & IONIQ
ReplyDeleteAccordion->Accord, Ioniq
ReplyDeleteAdd IQ to get Honda Accord and Hyundai Ioniq.
We are proud and pleased-as-punch to present the puzzling preeminence of our good friend Tortitude (aka "Tortie" or Laura Kozma) on this week's edition of Puzzleria! Laura's always popular (and challenging) "Tortie's Slow But Sure Puzzles" package this time feature a quintet of posers titled:
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~ “Fish ‘n’ Frescohos;
~ April Apparel & “AroMays”;
~ Two explosions need be chosen; and
~ Golden-State-plated baby booties?
Soooo.... Very soon this very afternoon... that 's when we shall upload Puzzleria!
Also on our menus this week:
a Schpuzzle of the Week titled “Double-M’s and Jelly Beans”;
a Lessons In Anatomy & Geography Hors d’Oeuvre titled “Part with a part of a part to name a nation”;
a Renaissance Slice titled “Awake! Faraday, Dickens, Degas, Burton, Kant, ^^/^ ^/ !”;
a “Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back To The Auntie’s” Dessert titled “Merle, Pearl, Earl, Wade & Jade in Palisades”; and
And, at least seven riffs of this week's NPR Puzzle, titled “Musical Chairs.”
Remember "Slow but Sure" wins the race... So pace yourselves. But never give up!
LegoSays"That'sJustAboutWhatIt'sAllAbout...InA"TurtleShell!"
Season 3, episode 20. Leave it to Beaver. "Beaver's Accordion".
ReplyDeleteWhen I referred to "my favorite movie featuring someone playing this instrument," I meant "Pennies From Heaven," which features a dance by the character known only as The Accordion Man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXiFutPUaI8. Not the most eye-popping scene in this movie, but one of the best.
ReplyDeleteAnd my reference to one of the most famous directors of the 20th Century who cast the brother of another famous director to play the accordion on set was John Ford and Danny Borzage, younger brother of Oscar-winning Frank Borzage. But I was wrong to say that you never heard Danny playing the accordion in any of these films: you can hear a few bars of "Red River Valley" after Ma Joad delivers her speech at the end of "Grapes of Wrath" and some other snippets in other Ford movies, such as "My Darling Clementine."
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ACCORDIAN, ACCORD, IONIQ
ReplyDeleteNote that Saturn also produced a car called the ION (2003-2007)
My clue was MONOPOLY because I'm a musician. Many musicians know our motto by heart "play an ACCORDION, go to jail!"
I DID NOT get the call this week -- but I just got an AMAZING pin from Word Woman, celebrating membership at Blainesville!
What a GREAT JOB, Word Woman! Thank you.
You're welcome, Ben. It was one of the most fun projects and choosing the stamps from my dad's collection was so sweet and connecting. It was my joy.
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DeleteMy clue was "sea snail." Specifically, whelk. Lawrence Welk was, among other things, an accordionist. The Lawrence Welk Show was a Saturday night tradition at our house six months out of every year, when my Grandma came to 'visit'. I fondly remember Grandma, but not so much Lawrence Welk. 😂
ReplyDeleteI had never heard of an Ioniq, but I admit they are very popular. Huh.
ReplyDeleteVery good clues this week -- I'd thought of Weird Al, but didn't want to add another Weird Al clue since as they build up they threaten to be collectively TMI.
Last Sunday I said, “It helps to be bright to solve this one.” Bright --> high ionIQ
ReplyDeleteACCORDIAN, ACCORD, IONIQ
ReplyDeleteFrom last week and continuing on:
Word WomanSun Apr 05, 04:56:00 AM PDT
Well, I have a whole treatise on women named Sarah at car shows describing the new models from either direction ;-).
"A bidirectional text contains two text directionalities, right-to-left (RTL) and left-to-right (LTR). It generally involves text containing different types of alphabets, but may also refer to boustrophedon, which is changing text direction in each row.
An example is the RTL Hebrew name Sarah: שרה, spelled sin (ש) on the right, resh (ר) in the middle, and heh (ה) on the left. Many computer programs failed to display this correctly, because they were designed to display text in one direction only.
Some so-called right-to-left scripts such as the Persian script and Arabic are mostly, but not exclusively, right-to-left—mathematical expressions, numeric dates and numbers bearing units are embedded from left to right. That also happens if text from a left-to-right language such as English is embedded in them; or vice versa, if Arabic is embedded in a left-to-right script such as English."
This was worth the price of admusdion!
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Word WomanSun Apr 05, 04:57:00 AM PDT
Um, admission. But I am carefully considering adding "admusdion" to the lexicon. ;)
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Admusdion: to amuse the god, Dionysus, god of wine, joy, theatre and madness, including this celestial body. (my nod to this lunacy is my clue this week). As in IO, THE MOON OF JUPITER.
JAWSSun Apr 05, 08:06:00 AM PDT
Would you please clarify the correct pronunciation of admusdion?
Is it ad-MUSE-dee-un?
Is it ad-muss-DIE-on?
Something else?
Word WomanSun Apr 05, 11:12:00 AM PDT
Ad muse Die on, me thinks.
If you have it as an appetizer, it's an Ad muse Bouche.
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ZenoCosiniSun Apr 05, 08:47:00 PM PDT
When we give our dog scraps or other treats, we call them "Amuse Pooch.' Which has nothing to do with this week's quiz.
JAWSMon Apr 06, 01:35:00 PM PDT
By the way, my pin and kyanite arrived today. Thanks!
BobbyThu Apr 09, 12:07:00 PM PDT
I received my lapel pin. Thank you for the lapel pin and kyanite. By the way, your "admusdion" post is a hint because "admusdion" sounds like "accordion".
Yay, Bobby, glad it arrived!
My post - “ I agree with many of the observations above.” was (also) a reference to “accord”.
ReplyDeleteTherefor it would be impossible to have a meaningful disagreement with someone while riding in one. I say this because they would both be in Accord.
DeleteBetter version:
DeleteSix relatives sat comfortably in a Honda as it sped down the freeway. Three were lifelong liberal Democrats, and the others were hopelessly MAGA Republicans. Yet they seemed to get along wonderfully without any squabbling at all. After all they were all in Accord.
From the "Why a duck?" scene in "The Cocoanuts" (1929):
DeleteHammer: Look... Suppose you were out horseback riding and you came to the stream and wanted to ford over there, you couldn't make it. Too deep.
Chico: But what do you want with a Ford when you gotta horse?
My comment was "This week's answer relates to last week's." Last week's answer was The Last Supper, and this week's answer reminded me of the joke that the Apostles drove a Honda, because Acts 2:1 said they were all in one Accord.
ReplyDeleteBut remember, God drives a Plymouth. Somewhere it says He drove them out of the valley in his Fury.
DeleteI feel it's inappropriate to make jokes about someone who died Ferrari-ternal salvation.
DeleteACCORDION, (Honda)ACCORD, (Hyundai)IONIQ
ReplyDeletepjbSaysCountYourBlessingsItWasn'tOperationEpicFury!
Hi folks,
ReplyDeleteIf you live in a big metropolitan area, like Seattle or Philly, it's possibly your big USPS ways have determined that the <2 ounces packadesabout $÷0
Whoops about $6.00 additional postage. Sorry folks! Let me know if this happened with your package. Glad that most pins got there despite this stupid "uneven" rule. Gaak!
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ReplyDeleteBut! I had the most fun ever teaching 5 year olds about kyanite, andalusite, and sillimanite today. We went two hours instead of one. THEY SAW the 2 aluminum foil strips were Al2 for the smooth direction of kyanite (hardness of 4) Si for the beach sand in the middle for the rough cross direction *hardness 7" and 5 leaves for oxiginating O5.
And what is that all together?
Al2SiO5! Like H20 only longer.
Look at the formula here for Kyanite Al2SiO5
Then Andalusite Al2SiO5
Then Sillimanite Al2SiO5.
What do you notice?
They are THEY SAME!
Except what is different?
.
Pressure, yes?
And ?
And temperature and pressure changes.
Which makes these three minerals?
Poly (many)
Morphs (shapes)..
It was a lesson I've been thinking about for decades.
And it was better than I hoped.
And each kid got to pick a beautful blue kyanite crystal to keep and to cherish.
Still savoring the delight in their eyes. Their joy in holding a crystal they now understand. One kid said, Ms Stephanie, I like learning all this but it makes my brai tired.
I wish I could hear the dinner conversations tonight@
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DeleteLove this!
DeleteWhen Archie, age 5, said THEY ARE THE SAME, it just about broke me. They truly understood what polymorphs are.
DeleteAt 5.
I was twenty when I grasped that concept.
And hearing a kindegartner saying "bidirectional hardnessnof 7 and 4" is pure magic.
This week's challenge comes from Benita Rice, of Salem, Ore. Name a famous foreign landmark (5,4). Change the eighth letter to a V and rearrange the result to make an adjective that describes this landmark. What landmark is it?
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DeleteGot it. Ooh, nice.
ReplyDeleteI bet our Word Woman will get it quickly.
ReplyDeleteD'aww
DeleteCute!
ReplyDeleteA clever puzzle that I solved like a Boss.
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