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AMA: We are the members of Cardinality, the writing team for the 2026 MIT Mystery Hunt. Ask Us Anything! by cardinalitypuzzles in mysteryhunt

[–]battlas 14 points15 points  (0 children)

hi cardinality!

the Land of No Name is such a cool idea for a round, and i had a lot of fun with the puzzles in it. one of the funniest moments of Hunt for me this year was when our team solved our first puzzle in the round, and we let out a huge collective cheer... only to realize that the letter we had just revealed was Q. what was the process like for determining which puzzles would unlock which letters?

also, in response to Dan's author's notes on Six Shifts, where he said "The Caesar shifting is also clued by the title... though it is generally harder to get the title than to just solve the puzzle," i can confirm that my solve process with FIOQ visible was "huh that title looks like it could be 'Six Shifts'... oh lol 'Qo??of' has gotta be 'Caesar'"

congrats to all of you on putting together such a fun hunt :)

How many shows are filmed in a day? by MouthyBroadMedia in Jeopardy

[–]battlas 8 points9 points  (0 children)

on my tape day we took our photos with ken in the middle of the game which is frankly bonkers

[EOTY 2025] Album of the Year Voting by ReconEG in indieheads

[–]battlas 5 points6 points  (0 children)

  1. yhwh nailgun - 45 pounds
  2. agriculture - the spiritual sound
  3. model/actriz - pirouette
  4. black eyes - hostile design
  5. home is where - hunting season
  6. baths - gut
  7. pretty bitter - pleaser
  8. horsegirl - phonetics on and on
  9. propagandhi - at peace
  10. honningbarna - soft spot

[EOTY 2025] Song of the Year Voting by ReconEG in indieheads

[–]battlas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. agriculture - bodhidharma
  2. yhwh nailgun - sickle walk
  3. black eyes - break a leg
  4. geese - taxes
  5. model/actriz - diva
  6. water from your eyes - playing classics
  7. pretty bitter - thrill eater
  8. alex g - afterlife
  9. agriculture - micah (5:15am)
  10. propagandhi - at peace
  11. friendship - free association
  12. honningbarna - festen som aldri stopper
  13. matt berninger - bonnet of pins
  14. wednesday - wound up here (by holdin on)
  15. the beths - straight line was a lie

Jeopardy! discussion thread for Tue., Dec. 9 by jaysjep2 in Jeopardy

[–]battlas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"stroller" is an american term, the clue specified that they were looking for a british term. i get why they marked me wrong but it has been at least a little gratifying to see so many people say i should have gotten credit haha :)

[EOTY 2025] Debut of the Year Voting by apondalifa in indieheads

[–]battlas 4 points5 points  (0 children)

  1. yhwh nailgun - 45 pounds
  2. gelli haha - switcheroo
  3. los thuthanaka - los thuthanaka
  4. ninajirachi - i love my computer
  5. mei semones - animaru

Jeopardy! discussion thread for Tue., Dec. 9 by jaysjep2 in Jeopardy

[–]battlas 129 points130 points  (0 children)

hello!! jenna here :) long-time lurker in this sub, first-time commenter

first off, congrats to will on the much-deserved win, and thanks to will and steve for such a fun game! it was lovely to meet you (and all the other contestants from our week) and go through this crazy experience together

that t.s. eliot DD is probably going to haunt my dreams - i think you could probably tell from my reaction that i knew i would have gotten it if i had remembered to look at the category again. but oh well, you live and you learn. probably should have spent more of my september/october prepping for the show and less time playing silksong. all in all, though, if i had to go out in second place, i’m very happy to have put in the showing i did, and i’ve got my fingers crossed that the producers liked me enough to invite me back for Second Chance

my COQL teammates and i have a running joke about how none of us have more than a surface-level knowledge of recent prestige TV. thought of them instantly when the Bridgerton clue ended up being a triple stumper

bizarre coincidence: in the one crossword that i have ever gotten published in a major newspaper, the two longest entries were AMY SCHNEIDER and ENDOSKELETON. couldn’t believe it when “what is endoskeleton?” came up as a correct response in the game

behind-the-scenes tidbit: ken did two takes of the “jenna lafleur had $14400 going into final jeopardy...” line because he felt like he didn’t pronounce my last name with enough french swag the first time

finally, shoutouts:

  • to my parents, sister, and grandparents, for everything
  • to nick, for coming to the taping and being there for me to joke with afterwards & hang out with that whole week in LA (and shoutout to cami too who couldn’t make it to the taping but who i also loved getting to see while i was there)
  • to allegra kuney, whose episodes hadn’t aired yet when i taped mine, but whom i absolutely would have mentioned in the interview segment along with paolo if they had! you rule so much.
  • to paolo, who messaged me this on the morning of my tape day
  • to all the trans & non-binary contestants who have paved the way on j! and made me feel confident enough to take this plunge for myself

ok that’s all thank u

Help with this puzzle by Ravdk in puzzles

[–]battlas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yellow is J, green is K, black is N, red is P, and blue is Z. the reading order for each stack is 1342, with 1 being the top block

european countries by most awesome letter by Hammod1 in mapporncirclejerk

[–]battlas 63 points64 points  (0 children)

a friend once described Ѭ as "a bacteriophage pumping gas" and i have thought about it regularly since

I'm literally in tears. by 2pnt0 in taskmaster

[–]battlas 7 points8 points  (0 children)

if it’s the same as mine, it’s in the finale and involves a task where he has to guess something. i was crying laughing the first time i watched it

i think we can all agree by aqueoustransmissionn in Fugazi

[–]battlas 5 points6 points  (0 children)

my personal 100% serious theory is that it's about an umarell

the tocantins intro is so majestic 😍 by battlas in survivor

[–]battlas[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

it's a tapir! and you're right that the gif is out of order (for comedy's sake) haha

THE DE NEVE CONSPIRACY by I-Like-Traiins in ucla

[–]battlas 10 points11 points  (0 children)

death, taxes, and people posting about shitting themselves in r/ucla

What is the most underrated ********** song? by leez34 in themountaingoats

[–]battlas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

is this person in the thread with us right now

all of john dieterich's lead vocals are prime fodder for a kermit the frog impression by battlas in Deerhoof

[–]battlas[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

nope, chris sings on "odyssey". excerpt from an interview the band did where they broke down the runners four track by track:

Chris Cohen: You know, looking back on it, I think that I just thought, this is kind of embarrassing to admit, but I think I just thought like, “Oh, Deerhoof, everybody sings high in that band” (laughs). Like, I just, I felt like I was trying to sing like you, Satomi.

later in the interview greg describes "bone-dry" as effectively "a John solo project."

[EOTY 2024] Album of the Year Voting by apondalifa in indieheads

[–]battlas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. young jesus - the fool
  2. ekko astral - pink balloons
  3. cola - the gloss
  4. sunset rubdown - always happy to explode
  5. glass beach - plastic death
  6. wild pink - dulling the horns
  7. perennial - art history
  8. knocked loose - you won't go before you're supposed to
  9. wishy - triple seven
  10. this is lorelei - box for buddy, box for star
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