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[Puzzle] Pungent Puns – 17 February 2025

A hint for last week’s puzzle, Everything Must Go!, has now been posted, as has the solution to Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, the puzzle from two weeks ago.

This week brings the final regular puzzle for this puzzle set, Pungent Puns. Come back next week for the first metapuzzle of 2025.

Reminder that Grant Fikes is continuing his ninth season of Kevin’s Puzzles at Home. These puzzles run to the easier side, and for every solve, he donates to a food bank. There are only a few weeks remaining, so go check out the puzzles!

Please enter your answer below, leaving out all punctuation.

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    [Solution] Short-Changed

    Each of the clues leads to an two or three-letter abbreviation. Solvers will quickly notice that the abbreviations on the left and right are reflections of each other. Connecting the pairs of reversed abbreviations gives this:

    From top to bottom, the letters crossed by the lines spell out INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER. The abbreviation for this is ISP, which can be reversed to make the answer, PSI, short for Pounds per Square Inch.

    It would not be unreasonable for somebody to think the answer could be ISP, Pounds per Square Inch, or even Internet Service Provider. Fortunately, there is no penalty for guessing a couple options. Were the answer checker more sophisticated, I would have had it respond with confirm all three of those options as close.

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    [Puzzle] Everything Must Go! – 10 February 2025

    A hint for last week’s puzzle, Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, has now been posted, as has the solution to Short-Changed, the puzzle from two weeks ago.

    This week’s puzzle is on clearance! Everything Must Go! Selected entries are 50% off!

    Reminder that Grant Fikes is continuing his ninth season of Kevin’s Puzzles at Home. These puzzles run to the easier side, and for every solve, he donates to a food bank. There are six puzzles up so far – go check them out!

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      [Solution] Betrayal!

      Each of the given fictional characters famously betrays one or more other characters The names of these characters fit in the given blanks. The betrayer/betrayed pairs are:

      • Stinky Pete – WOODY (Toy Story 2)
      • Iago – OTHELLO – (Othello)
      • Peter Pettigrew – JAMES & LILY POTTER (Harry Potter)
      • Brutus – JULIUS CAESAR (Julius Caesar)
      • Lando Calrissian – HAN SOLO (Star Wars)
      • Hans – ANNA (Frozen)
      • Ernesto – HÉCTOR (Coco)

      A few of the characters betray larger groups, but the principal target of their betrayal is the one given. The boxed letters from the answers spell out DELILAH. In the Bible, in the book of Judges, Delilah betrays SAMSON to the Philistines.

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      [Puzzle] Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia – 3 February 2025

      The solution to Betrayal! has now been posted. As well, the hint is up for last week’s puzzle, Short-Changed.

      The new puzzle for this week is Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. Don’t let that frighten you though!

      Reminder that Grant Fikes is halfway-through his ninth season of Kevin’s Puzzles at Home. These puzzles run to the easier side, and for every solve, he donates to a food bank. There are five puzzles up so far – go check them out!

      Please enter your answer below, leaving out all punctuation.

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        [Solution] Evolutionary Theory

        This word search contains the names of thirty Pokémon from the first generation of games. The completed grid looks like this:

        The leftover letters spell out the phrase FULLY-EVOLVED FORM OF MISSING THREE-STAGE EVOLUTION IN GEN ONE. In the first generation of Pokémon games, there are sixteen three-stage evolutionary lines, ranging from Bulbasaur-Ivysaur-Venusaur to Dratini-Dragonair-Dragonite. Each of the names hidden in the puzzle comes from one of these lines, and in fact, the thirty Pokémon consist of two Pokémon from each of fifteen of the sixteen evolutionary lines.

        The one missing line which does not appear in the word search is Weedle-Kakuna-Beedrill. The fully-evolved Pokémon in this set is BEEDRILL.

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        [Hint] Betrayal!

        The puzzle Betrayal! has been out for a week now. If you’re struggling, check out the hint below.

        Once you’ve finished that, check out this week’s new puzzle, Short-Changed. It’s like looking in a mirror.

        Once you find the characters who were betrayed, repeat the process one more time. This puzzle includes three characters from animated Disney movies, and two from Shakespeare plays.

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        [Puzzle] Short-Changed – 27 January 2025

        The solution to Evolutionary Theory has now been posted. As well, the hint is up for last week’s puzzle, Betrayal!

        Short-Changed is the new puzzle for this week. Are you tired of answers which just go on and on? Then this puzzle is for you!

        Reminder that Grant Fikes is running his ninth season of Kevin’s Puzzles at Home. These puzzles run to the easier side, and for every solve, he donates to a food bank. There are four puzzles up so far – go check them out!

        Please enter your answer below, leaving out all punctuation.