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I never got finished writing up the solution for this one...
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"Forest Rings" - March 11, 2021
- ricky
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Deadline: Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 12 PM EST
- ricky
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Explanation:
We're looking for something that lives in the woods. Title is "Forest Rings."
Each one of the theme entries contains a kind of forest animal, split by (ringing?) a single letter:
ANTS
MOLES
MOTHS
MICE
DEER
The letters the animal names wrap around are I G U N F, which when rearranged spell FUNGI - a group of living things that is ubiquitous in the forest.
Animals don't organize themselves in rings, but mushrooms do - in what are known as fairy rings:
https://herbarium.usu.edu/fun-with-fungi/fairy-rings
We're looking for something that lives in the woods. Title is "Forest Rings."
Each one of the theme entries contains a kind of forest animal, split by (ringing?) a single letter:
ANTS
MOLES
MOTHS
MICE
DEER
The letters the animal names wrap around are I G U N F, which when rearranged spell FUNGI - a group of living things that is ubiquitous in the forest.
Animals don't organize themselves in rings, but mushrooms do - in what are known as fairy rings:
https://herbarium.usu.edu/fun-with-fungi/fairy-rings