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Joe Ross wrote: Tue Feb 13, 2024 3:30 pm
hoover wrote: Tue Feb 13, 2024 12:58 pm
Joe Ross wrote: Tue Feb 13, 2024 11:02 am Thrice Game #197 → PASS
🎲: Question #1 answered correctly in first attempt.
Did you give a one-word answer?
2, but switched.
Mine was accepted with 3.
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Thrice Game #198 → 9 points!
🎲: 2️⃣2️⃣2️⃣❌3️⃣
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hoover wrote: Tue Feb 13, 2024 3:46 pm
Joe Ross wrote: Tue Feb 13, 2024 3:30 pm
hoover wrote: Tue Feb 13, 2024 12:58 pm

Did you give a one-word answer?
2, but switched.
Mine was accepted with 3.
I entered CHILDREN'S HIGHLIGHTS for 1st, then I took my ball and went home when it wasn't accepted.
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Joe Ross wrote: Wed Feb 14, 2024 12:12 pm
hoover wrote: Tue Feb 13, 2024 3:46 pm
Joe Ross wrote: Tue Feb 13, 2024 3:30 pm

2, but switched.
Mine was accepted with 3.
I entered CHILDREN'S HIGHLIGHTS for 1st, then I took my ball and went home when it wasn't accepted.
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hoover wrote: Wed Feb 14, 2024 12:30 pm
Joe Ross wrote: Wed Feb 14, 2024 12:12 pm
hoover wrote: Tue Feb 13, 2024 3:46 pm

Mine was accepted with 3.
I entered CHILDREN'S HIGHLIGHTS for 1st, then I took my ball and went home when it wasn't accepted.
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You don't have to show me. My parents subscribed from its beginning & I read every issue through 1970, at least.

The problem was that my 2nd choice was completely unrelated since my incorrect, CHILDREN'S HIGHLIGHTS wasn't accepted.
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Joe Ross wrote: Wed Feb 14, 2024 12:44 pm The problem was that my 2nd choice was completely unrelated since my incorrect, CHILDREN'S HIGHLIGHTS wasn't accepted.
Ohhhh sadness. My first guess was MAD, and I spent a few seconds debating whether to try MAD MAGAZINE.
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Thrice Game #198 → 11 points!
🎲: 2️⃣1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣3️⃣
https://thricegame.com
Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC) is a bundle of 16 metapuzzles created to help raise money for cancer-related charities. It is available at CrosswordsForCancer.com.
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Yikes. I really don't want to share today's results... :lol:
Thrice Game #199 → 6 points!
🎲: 2️⃣1️⃣❌2️⃣1️⃣
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Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC) is a bundle of 16 metapuzzles created to help raise money for cancer-related charities. It is available at CrosswordsForCancer.com.
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I didn't want to believe that's where they were going...

Thrice Game #199 → 10 points!
🎲: 3️⃣2️⃣2️⃣2️⃣1️⃣
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Quibble with question #2. That wasn't a state in 1840. When answering the first time, I eliminated current states that weren't yet states in 1840.

Thrice Game #200 → 11 points!
🎲: 2️⃣2️⃣2️⃣2️⃣3️⃣
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Thrice Game #200 → 10 points!
🎲: 2️⃣❌2️⃣3️⃣3️⃣
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Bleh...
Thrice Game #200 → 8 points!
🎲: ❌2️⃣2️⃣2️⃣2️⃣
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Bleh is right:

Thrice Game #200 → 8 points!
🎲: 3️⃣1️⃣❌2️⃣2️⃣
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Nicely symmetrical.

Thrice Game #201 → 12 points!
🎲: 2️⃣3️⃣2️⃣3️⃣2️⃣
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Thrice Game #201 → 12 points!
🎲: 2️⃣3️⃣2️⃣3️⃣2️⃣
Glad @hoover is back so I have someone's answers to peek at ;)
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KayW wrote: Sat Feb 17, 2024 11:11 am Thrice Game #201 → 12 points!
🎲: 2️⃣3️⃣2️⃣3️⃣2️⃣
Glad @hoover is back so I have someone's answers to peek at ;)
:lol: :ugeek:
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Thrice Game #202 → 13 points!
🎲: 3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣2️⃣2️⃣
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Thrice Game #202 → 12 points!
🎲: 3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣❌
https://thricegame.com

Wouldn't you just know it?
(Answer to above: I didn't, obviously. :lol: )
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Thrice Game #202 → 11 points!
🎲: 2️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣❌

LOL me neither - but at least I didn't have a perfect score to ruin :lol:
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Thrice Game #202 → 13 points!
🎲: 3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣1️⃣

Got lucky with wobbly deduction for last.
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