Solution for Today's Cluely, Oct-22-2024, #8

 

Solution, notes, and explanations

Theme: Cards

This is indeed a mini-Cluely : Only 6x6 (the usual is 8x8).  And the theme is a familiar one: Cards!

   

Clues

• Picture top left: Clubs. 
• Picture top right: Heart.   
• Picture middle left: Spade. 
• Picture bottom right: (not a clue, but the missing suit:) Diamond.
• Theme clue bottom left: Tarot.

Some other interesting clues:

• MLS - Major League Soccer (MLB stands for Major League Baseball).
• NBA - National Basketball Association.
• AT - Rarest element. Astatine is the rarest naturally appearing element, as it occurs only as a decay product of heavier elements. The half-life time of the stablest isotope of Astatine is 8 hours. Appropriately, the name is derived from "Astatos", which means "unstable" in Greek.

Levels

The levels relate to the hierarchy of bidding suits in Bridge:

• Club
• Diamond
• Heart
• Spade
• No Trump - This is not a political statement! The highest level of bidding in Bridge is no-trump, which means none of the suits can trump. 

How hard was it?

Admittedly, AT might be hard, and also MLS was difficult for many. BUT, for AT you could find all letters in other ways, and MLS is similar enough to MLB to allow guessing.

Overall, it was a mini-Cluely, on familiar topic. We'll give it 1-laps around the block .

'till the next one,

 Zachi (waddling along).

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