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rat?

phillip1882 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 03, 2025 3:42 pm how do you go from beautiful to typo? i didn't spell it wrong.

If you type "Print('hello')" in Python (which is a typo), you get a beautiful error (roughly "never heard of 'Print'"). Bit of an obscure association, to be fair.

knife

tennis

nope

somitomi?

typo

You get anijsmelk.

I insert the (broken) anijsmelk tablet machine.

mulch

Becoming your own ancestor - 2
Butterfly effect - 15 --
Future person comes back to fix what caused their bad future - 6
Meeting a historical figure - 15 ++
Meeting your own future self - 8
Stable time loop - 10
Time paradox - 11

citrus

Solving the puzzle felt like more effort than I could convince my brains to invest (so I ended up not really trying). That being said, I did like the puzzle and still kind of want to solve it. I haven't read the spoilers yet for that reason.

As far as I'm concerned, by all means do more of these.

Holy cow! There's a bubble in the oil in the bell on the shell of the snail on the tail of the frog on the bump on this log that I found in a hole in the bottom of the sea!

band

nope beyond infinity

Suzaku, please

You get tau.

I insert e.

Becoming your own ancestor - 4 --
Butterfly effect - 14
Future person comes back to fix what caused their bad future - 8
Meeting a historical figure - 14 ++
Meeting your own future self - 8
Slow path (getting back to your own time by waiting) - 2
Stable time loop - 10
Time paradox - 11

even more nope

Suzaku?!?

gauge

You get hours of fun.

I insert a cooking timer.

Becoming your own ancestor - 6 --
Butterfly effect - 13
Future person comes back to fix what caused their bad future - 8
Meeting a historical figure - 13 ++
Meeting your own future self - 8
Slow path (getting back to your own time by waiting) - 4
Stable time loop - 10
Time paradox - 11

Nope.

Suzaku now?

You get ruined paper.

I insert a caligrapher.

penultimate (ninja'd)

hoolahoop

Becoming your own ancestor - 8
Butterfly effect - 12
Future person comes back to fix what caused their bad future - 8
Meeting a historical figure - 12 ++
Meeting your own future self - 8 --
Slow path (getting back to your own time by waiting) - 6
Stable time loop - 10
Time paradox - 11

no⁵

Fred?

shears