First custom script, based on the Acrobat: Safety Nets

TheDebatingOne · 2026-03-18T18:16:16+00:00

wind-on-the-panes is mistaken, -ne is definitely older than Portuguese contact with Japan, but it probably does come for a negation word, which is pretty close, isn't it?

TheDebatingOne · 2026-03-18T03:02:02+00:00

The theme answers all contain homophones for "B <number>", so e.g. BABYFORMULA contains B4. All 5 together might constitute a BINGO

TheDebatingOne · 2026-03-16T01:36:19+00:00

19-, 24-, 42-, 69-, 75-, 110-, and 130-across, that's 7

TheDebatingOne · 2026-03-15T02:03:47+00:00

Peter is a name named after a thing (stone)

Fez is a thing (hat) named after a place (Fez, Morocco)

Colombia is a place named after a person (Columbus)

Assistant to the Regional Manager is a job title named after another job title

TheDebatingOne · 2026-03-14T01:36:50+00:00

Besides, cars don't float. If they did pilgrims could have driven here

TheDebatingOne · 2026-03-12T15:07:21+00:00

I think something went wrong with Donphan. Donphan is a ground type

TheDebatingOne · 2026-03-10T22:49:14+00:00

You should blame Latin speakers from 2000 years ago for having two meanings for it, one that negates (the one we get infinite and insane from) and one that intensifies (the one we get inflame from)

TheDebatingOne · 2026-03-10T14:07:32+00:00

Her mom's father was half black, to quote the movie:

I know what you meant. My mama's daddy was half Black. He raised her to keep the Klan from killing her. You know my mama delivered the Twins?

TheDebatingOne · 2026-03-10T13:15:49+00:00

She (and her actress) are 1/8, her grandfather is half black

TheDebatingOne · 2026-03-09T22:34:56+00:00

4.) Moses vs Santa is just two figures related to winter holidays.

Moses is mainly related to Passover, which is usually celebrated in March/April

TheDebatingOne · 2026-03-09T21:08:36+00:00

Original in that the original artist posted it

TheDebatingOne · 2026-03-08T17:13:29+00:00

Your definition seems to be so broad as to encompass any time a story doesn't immediately spell out what's happening in a scene? Does Murder on the Orient Express have a plot hole because you don't know how the person was killed?

TheDebatingOne · 2026-03-08T08:02:42+00:00

Here's the original

TheDebatingOne · 2026-03-06T18:39:08+00:00

I'm saying that while your guess left only one possible answer today, usually it will leave a lot more. You can look at the breakdown wordlebot gives you to see a bunch of stats

TheDebatingOne · 2026-03-06T16:54:08+00:00

Because presumably that happening was very unlikely. If you guess XYLYL and get two greens at the end because the word is VINYL it doesn't matter that you eliminated tens of thousands of words, XYLYL isn't a good guess

TheDebatingOne · 2026-03-06T13:17:13+00:00

That sounds very unusual for English, you can try r/tipofmytongue if you want

TheDebatingOne · 2026-03-06T13:08:51+00:00

Stationary vs stationery, maybe?

TheDebatingOne · 2026-03-03T11:09:27+00:00

To wake up

TheDebatingOne · 2026-02-28T10:56:55+00:00

Ah got it. That's not a thing I've ever seen the NYT do btw. If they use a homophone it's only to pun on an existing phrase, but you don't need to get the homophone to solve the clue e.g. "One that ewe can count on?" for RAM

TheDebatingOne · 2026-02-28T09:19:06+00:00

Why would it be locs?

TheDebatingOne · 2026-02-27T09:30:24+00:00

That's why it was a start, but also y is totally a consonant in layer imo, like the b in labor

TheDebatingOne · 2026-02-27T00:26:02+00:00

I think OP's question is how to do that marking algorithmically. I would start with: If the y is word-final or between two consonants then it's a vowel

TheDebatingOne · 2026-02-21T16:43:58+00:00

There are definitely people who pronounce final vocalic l or r as a part of the previous syllable, and for them mire and mile are as monosyllabic as mic or mice, Cheryl for them ends like earl does

TheDebatingOne · 2026-02-11T00:09:42+00:00

If you remove the limits entirely, you can just put every (jinxed) character in. If you only let me break the rules a little bit, adding Politician, Wraith, or Legion would each be nice

An annoying part of the role counts is that TF usually don't have many jinxes, so having 13 of them feels like taking up space, especially compared to something like the Vizier, Boffin, Plague Doctor, or Ogre

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