u/bskceuk

Does Jan play Pokecryptic?

I only watch YT. I sometimes see MinuteCryptic snippets from the stream, but was wondering if he plays the Pokemon themed one since it seems extremely up his alley. I spot checked some VODs and didn't see it

Disclaimer: I sometimes set for Pokecryptic so I guess this is somewhat self promo, but I honestly think he'd like it. pokecryptic.com

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u/bskceuk — 12 days ago

He's an ally

Sharing this for the 1 person here who likes both smash and cryptic crosswords

"Trans rights are human rights!" rebutted child (4)

>!Ness!<

Explanation for those who don't know wtf this is:
>!A cryptic crossword clue has 2 parts - a definition like you'd see in a normal crossword, and wordplay that also describes the answer. The job of the solver is to identify where these things are in the clue and then correctly parse them. Here, the definition is "child", and the wordplay is "Trans rights are human rights rebutted" (note that the punctuation is ignored). Here the parsing for the wordplay is "take the rightmost letters (rights) of the words TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN -> SSEN, and then that is reversed (rebutted) -> NESS. I will say that the wordplay is usually a bit more precise, but the surface (the apparent meaning of the clue) was too good to mess with!<

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u/bskceuk — 1 month ago