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[Hint] Ladder Drills

The puzzle Ladder Drills has now been out for a week. If you’re looking for some help, check out the hint below.

Once you’ve finished that, check out the new puzzle Circles Within Circles. Are you dizzy yet?

The clues were given in alphabetical order. In ladder order, they are:

First name
Northwestern French seaport
Hoopoe feature
Treasure box
Carlsen’s game
Masticates
Puppy foods
Performances
Exhibited, as a house
Wool-less
Coastline
Hobbit home
Gleam
Leg fronts
Bottoms of faces
Metal money
Cures beef with salt
Like a dad joke
Midway worker
Lug around
Magician Houdini
Hirsute
_____ tale
Ren _____
Last name

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[Puzzle] Circles Within Circles – 19 October 2026

The hint for last week’s Ladder Drills is now up. The solution to the the puzzle from two weeks ago, Bigger Isn’t Better, has been posted as well.

The final regular puzzle for this set is Circles Within Circles. Come back next week for the September-October metapuzzle.

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    [Solution] Hog Confinements

    Each of the connected groups of fence can be separated into a series of letters in the pigpen cipher, with pigs acting as dots. In reading order, these are:

    Using the standard pigpen cipher, this translates to ACCORDING TO ADAGE, WHAT SPORT SHOULD YOU AVOID DOING WITH PIGS? (THREE NINE). The numbers given at the end are the length of the words in the answer. The clue phrase refers to a frequently quoted saying, variously attributed to many people, along the lines of “Never wrestle with a pig – you both get dirty and the pig enjoys it.” The answer is MUD WRESTLING.

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    [Puzzle] Ladder Drills – 12 October 2026

    The hint for last week’s Bigger Isn’t Better is now up. The solution to the the puzzle from two weeks ago, Hog Confinements, has been posted as well.

    The new puzzle for this week is Ladder Drills. Time to get that conditioning in.

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      [Solution] Bless You

      Each of the sneezes is an anagram of a common allergen with one additional letter added:

      • RAGWEED + H
      • BEE STING + I
      • LATEX + S
      • PENICILLIN + T
      • DANDER + A
      • DUST MITES + M
      • POLLEN + I
      • TREE NUTS + N
      • SHELLFISH + E

      The extra letters spell the answer HISTAMINE.

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      [Hint] Hog Confinements

      The puzzle Hog Confinements has now been out for a week. If you’re looking for some help, check out the hint below.

      Once you’ve finished that, check out the new puzzle Bigger Isn’t Better. Just a teensy little puzzle this week.

      Hog confinements? Swine enclosures? What else could you call them? Each connected group is one word, and the numbers tell how long each word of the answer is.

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      [Puzzle] Bigger Isn’t Better – 5 October 2026

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

      The new puzzle for this week is Bigger Isn’t Better. Nobody told these clues.

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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.