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[Solution] Color Coded

Half of the clues give a two-word answer beginning with the name of a color, and the other half give those same answers without the color name:

  • Origin
  • Elephant
  • WHITE Elephant
  • Wings
  • BLACK Pudding
  • Pudding
  • GOLDEN Years
  • RED Wings
  • PURPLE Emperor
  • GREEN Lantern
  • CORAL Gables
  • BROWN Algae
  • Ladies
  • Seals
  • Algae
  • Lantern
  • PINK Ladies
  • Emperor
  • BLUE Origin
  • NAVY Seals
  • Gables
  • Years

In order of the colors given at the bottom of the puzzle, the answers are:

  • GOLDEN Years
  • WHITE Elephant
  • GREEN Lantern
  • PINK Ladies
  • BLUE Origin
  • RED Wings
  • BLACK Pudding
  • BROWN Algae
  • CORAL Gables
  • PURPLE Emperor
  • NAVY Seals

In this order, the first letters of the non-color words spell out the answer YELLOW PAGES.

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[Puzzle] Hog Confinements – 28 September 2026

The hint for last week’s Bless You is now up. The solution to the the puzzle from two weeks ago, Color Coded, has been posted as well.

The new puzzle for this week is Hog Confinements. My hogs keep running in circles! ERRATA: The wily hogs are running rampant. The puzzle had an extra hog and was missing a fence! It has now been updated. This picture shows the location of the two corrections. Thank you to Jason Boomer for letting me know!

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    [Puzzle] Bless You – 21 September 2026

    The hint for last week’s Color Coded is now up. The solution to the the first puzzle of the month, A Shift in Perspective, has been posted as well.

    The new puzzle for this week is Bless You. Ah – ah – choooo!

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      [Solution] Plenty of Fish

      The flavor text is a line from Dr. Seuss’s book One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. The book begins:

      “One fish
      two fish
      old fish
      new fish.
      Black fish
      blue fish
      old fish
      new fish.
      This one has a little star.
      This one has a little car.
      Say! what a lot of fish there are.”

      Each of the answers to the regular puzzles in this set has a word from one of these lines in it, which provides an order for the answers. (Blue appears twice, so the answer BRITISH BLUE must also be used twice.)

      • FORMULAONE
      • FIRSTWORLD
      • HUNDRED
      • BRITISHBLUE
      • CHICAGOBLACKHAWKS
      • BRITISHBLUE
      • OLDTESTAMENT
      • NEWDELHI
      • CORNSTARCH

      Reading down the diagonal (taking the first letter of the first answer, the second letter of the second answer, and so on) gives the solution FINTASTIC.

      Some solvers reported getting misled by one of the top Google results for the text of the book switching the lines “This one has a little star” and “This one has a little car”. I made the same mistake when initially writing the puzzle, and didn’t discover my error until the week Tired Clues came out.

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      [Puzzle] Color Coded – 14 September 2026

      The hint for last week’s A Shift in Perspective is now up. The solution to the July-August metapuzzle, Plenty of Fish, has also been posted. Congratulations to all fourteen people who solved it!

      The new puzzle for this week is Color Coded. As the name suggests, this one involves color.

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