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Daily Puzzles: April 16

Here are my results for the various daily puzzles. Feel free to post your results in the comments section. (View my Set score history here.)

SET PUZZLE: 0:32.
SECRET WORD: 7 guesses.
SCRAMBLED WORD: 19 clicks (avg.: 28.4 clicks).

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Comments

1.

nice time on the Set! I would gladly accept epsilon cents for each time someone said "I got the first five quickly, then spent a long time on the last one..." 3:04

2.

Good job, Debra! I sure would've done as well, if I hadn't spent so long on that last one...

2:23
6 Guesses
23 Clicks

3.

Yeah, that's what they all say....

Actually, I was really surprised at my score, because it didn't feel all that fast as I was doing it.

4.

Set: 30 seconds on the first five, !:34 for the last one.
Secret Word: 5 guesses
Scrambled Word: 17 clicks




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About the blogger: Debra is the mother of two preternaturally attractive girls and the author of Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece. She writes and blogs from her subterranean lair in North Haven, CT. Read more.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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