A simple black-and-white two-panel comic. In the top panel, a small green alien in a robe calmly paints its nails bright pink at a small table and says, “Polish Nail remover, it is.” A human in simple armor stands beside him, frowning and thinking. In the bottom panel, the human imagines a rough-looking worker in front of a sign reading “Janusz & Son,” angrily pulling nails from wood with a hammer and shouting “KURWAAA!” The nail polish is the only colorful element in the comic.
Idioms or common phrases (American/English) are represented by the position, shape or arrangement of words in or around the puzzle frame.
Can you figure out this week's wordie? It would be wicked wonderful if you can.
Please use CW to submit your answers, thanks. Give everybody the chance to guess.
Hint: 24/7
Created with the Free Software SVG editor #Inkscape
Wicked Wonderful Wordies
a visual idiom puzzle
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description
a ring of the word "clock" repeated around the centered word "the"
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Explanation:
Typically, some kind of text is arranged inside, or somewhere around a square frame. The arrangement can be significant, and might be the key to recognizing the idiom.
The puzzle can be difficult to solve because the idiom or common phrase may not be common to the person trying to solve the puzzle.
Sometimes there is an "AhHa!" moment, though.
Answers and an archive of the puzzles is available at http://runeman.org/wordies.
Idioms or common phrases (American/English) are represented by the position, shape or arrangement of words in or around the puzzle frame.
Can you figure out this week's wordie? It would be wicked wonderful if you can.
Please use CW to submit your answers, thanks. Give everybody the chance to guess.
Hint: Chill!
Created with the Free Software SVG editor #Inkscape
Wicked Wonderful Wordies
a visual idiom puzzle
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description
In the frame is the word "let's"
To the right, outside the frame the word "hang" is written vertically.
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Explanation:
Typically, some kind of text is arranged inside, or somewhere around a square frame. The arrangement can be significant, and might be the key to recognizing the idiom.
The puzzle can be difficult to solve because the idiom or common phrase may not be common to the person trying to solve the puzzle.
Sometimes there is an "AhHa!" moment, though.
Answers and an archive of the puzzles is available at http://runeman.org/wordies.
Embroidery #Wordplay is a #SundaySillies#wordsearch#puzzle with one answer. Start with one of the letters with a gray background and move to the next letter, but only horizontal or vertical from where you start. No diagonals - each square just once.
Use DM or CW for answers to let everyone enjoy the search!
Starting with one of the letters in a
gray square, find the longest word.
Next letter horizontal or vertical from
the first. No diagonals.
No square may be used again.
Minimum 7 letters
Embroidery Wordplay
a one-word word search puzzle
hint: LEAD
difficulty: medium
Letter grid:
O* V E R
R N G L
B I T Y
R A H* C
letters marked with an asterisk indicate the potential starting points for the word. The image shows them with a gray background.
Cartoon style drawing of a round/curvy creature made of dumpling. It has a shape of lying/sitting unicorn, dumpling edge is making its mane and spiral horn. There is a big description "Pierożec" above its head.
After I switched Monster Hunter Rise language to English (easier to coordinate group materials farming in random lobbies when everyone uses English names :neocat_melt_happy_256:) I found some animals and insects on maps have funny names. Something like Butterflame for example. And this later inspired me to create this...
(maybe together with my bitter mood :blobcatjoy: )
Cartoon style drawing of humanoid butterfly, standing with arms crossed and angry facial expression. This butterfly has gray body and orange wings with purple patterns and smaller yellow dots. There is a big text "bitterfly" above its head.
The OP on Lemmy doesn't matter in this context but it's referring to a skin condition. I covered their names for privacy reasons but every single comment is made by a different person lol.
A screenshot of a Lemmy post showing a long thread of comments, each one a response to the one above it (as opposed to being separate, individual comments to the OP):
This appears to be a lack of melatonin. When you get sun, there should at least be some pigment.
Melatonin is what makes people sleep
You’re thinking of melinoma
Melinoma is what makes people have cancer
You’re thinking of melancholy
Melancholy is what Hamlet had, I think you mean Melania
Melania is what turns people orange. You’re thinking of mitochondria
Mitochondria is the power house of the cell, you’re thinking of Mephistopheles
Mephistopheles is Hell’s Messenger, you’re thinking of malaria
Malaria is a mosquito-borne pathogen. You’re thinking of maltodextrin.
Maltodextrin is a highly processed, white powder carbohydrate derived from starches. You’re thinking of Malenia, Blade of Miquella.
Malenia is a Elden Ring character. You’re thinking of megakaryocytopoiesis
Megakaryocytopoiesis is part of the process of forming platelets in the blood. You’re thinking of midichlorians.
Midichlorians are what give people the ability to move objects with their minds.
You’re thinking of Miranda-class
It’s #NewstodonFriday once again, where we share stories from independent newsrooms and journalists, plus one or two from our editorial desks. We have two equally good, but very different pieces about the perils of confidence, a fantastic
@ProPublica interview with Abigail Dillen (president of Earthjustice), about the new hostility towards environmentalists, a sobering story about deaths in custody in Texas, and a guide to boycotts. We’ve also got our own idea about who should buy Fyre Festival, and a helpful reminder about the importance of gratitude. We’re grateful for independent media — check out the thread, comment, like, follow their accounts and subscribe to their publications. ⤵️
Speaking of confidence … is that the only thing AI has going for it? It’s not funny – that’s for sure. For @aftermath[email protected], Riley Macleod writes about how you can ask Google’s AI search to define any made-up idiom, and it will go ahead and make something up. Some that people have tried include, “you can’t lick a badger twice,” “don’t touch my mother’s goats” and “two cars short of a Winnebago.” It’s very silly, but, says Macleod, that doesn’t mean we should laugh at it.