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Good strategies Narya. Is the word the same for everyone on any given day?
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I don't know. We could compare notes. :D

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Yeah, I got it yesterday. I tried FORGE, which failed, and if GORGE turned out to be wrong, I was going to try LORGE. Which should be in the dictionary if you ask me. :spin:
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narya wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 10:18 pm I don't know. We could compare notes. :D

Today's word, for me, is
Hidden text.
QUERY
That's what I got, too.
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elengil wrote: ↑Tue Jan 11, 2022 12:21 am
narya wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 10:18 pm I don't know. We could compare notes. :D

Today's word, for me, is
Hidden text.
QUERY
That's what I got, too.
Me three. :)
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Trying to solve the below this week:

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Oh my.. that looks complicated.
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Inanna wrote: ↑Tue Jan 11, 2022 2:30 am Trying to solve the below this week:

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Do acronyms count? As in APIS, plural of Application Programming Interface?

Edit: ignore the question, I figured it out
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What about Italian words that are used by English musicians, like "lento"?
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If you exclude all borrowed English words, there won't be a language left.
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:rofl: конечно
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Eh, Russian is even worse. It's got Slavic roots, but then Nordic, Turk, and later German and French all piled in. And now English.

Someone once read through a Russian dictionary and claimed they were a couple pages in before they came across a word of Slavic origin.

It was акула, shark.
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I've solved the whole thing, except for three letters.

I don't suppose "ecity" is a word?
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You’ve solved the whole thing???? Holy cow.

Don’t tell me!
Tell me just one.

Ecity might be fine.
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The apis one is Apid, right? That’s what I have.
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For that one, I have EPIC / EXEC.

I'm still missing three letters.
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Huh. Let me try EPIC then and see if I can get further.

Grumble, Apid is a cool word.
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If "ecity" is a word, that works with "empty", and gives me "tents" and "totts" going down. But is "totts" a real word?

If ecity and totts are legit, then I've solved the whole thing. But I don't think they are.
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No I don’t think so either. Def not totts.
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What do you mean? It's totts legit! :P
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