Solution for Today's Cluely, Jan-28-2025, #18

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Theme: Seven Wonders of the New World   

In 2007, after a process of 7 years polling, the list was compiled. I am sure there are people who will want to add more places, but you do have to admit these are remarkable.

How many have you visited?

 

Clues

• Uz - The Book of Job opens with "[1] There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil."
• Neap - Neap tide is after the first or third quarter of the moon, and it has the smallest difference between high and low tides.

 

Levels

• Local
• Traveler
• World Traveler
• Explorer
• Marco Polo

How hard was it?

Seems like the parts around the ESP, NEAP (tide), and ANONYM were a little hard for many. Also UZ was unfamiliar to many, but you could get the U from AUM. We'll give it a  10K Race .

'till the next one,

 Zachi (waddling along).

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Solution for Today's Cluely, Jan-21-2025, #17

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Theme: Baby Animals   

Who can resist a baby animal? Some have special names, so let's see how many we get right.

 

Clues

• Cygnet - Turns out this was the hardest, partially because of the spelling. Many tried 'S'.
• EOL - It's a little obscure reference, but Line-Feed + Carriage-Return are the ASCII symbols used to end a line, which is also called EOL. If you move files around from Mac to PC, or in and out of excel sheets, you've seen these many times.
• H and O - Water has two atoms of H and one of O.

 

Levels

• Egg
• Larve
• Pupa
• Adult
• Monarch Butterfly

How hard was it?

Woeful was a little hard for some to get. Maybe because SEK (Swedish Krona) was hard as well. We'll give it a  5K Race .

'till the next one,

 Zachi (waddling along).

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Solution for Today's Cluely, Jan-16-2025, #16

 

  

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Theme: Flags of the world!   

We had this a theme already, but there are so many flag still to cover.

  

Clues

• Logo of GE is, well, not a flag.  

 

Levels

•      🇱🇷(Liberia, 1 star)
•       🇰🇳(Saint Kitts, 2 stars)
•       🇭🇳(Honduras, 5 stars)
•       🇺🇸(USA, 50 stars)
•       Vexillologist (Scholar of flags)

How hard was it?

Overall, it was mostly about the theme (and some greek letters). But flags can be tricky. We'll give it a  10K Jog .

'till the next one,

 Zachi (waddling along).

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Solution for Today's Cluely, Jan-15-2025, #15

 

  

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Theme: "Land of the Palms" (Brazil)   

Yes, sometimes a person deserves their own them! Enjoy.

Clues

• The non-clue image at the bottom right is "Christ the redeemer" statue overlooking Rio de Janeiro.

 

Levels

• Gisele Bündchen
• Paulo Coelho
• Ayrton Senna
• Pelé

How hard was it?

You did need to know how a Toucan look like, and recognize Sao-Paulo. Neither is trivial. We'll give it a  5K race.

'till the next one,

 Zachi (waddling along).

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Solution for Today's Cluely, Jan-14-2025, #14

 

  

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Theme: Taylor Swift   

Yes, sometimes a person deserves their own them! Enjoy.

  

Clues

• The image next to Taylor's on the top left: Tin man, from "The wizard of Oz".  

 

Levels

• You Belong with Me
• All Too Well
• Love Story
• Blank Space
• Swiftie

How hard was it?

Overall, it was mostly about the theme. W in Whet was the only one with no two clues leading to it... We'll give it a  5K Jog .

'till the next one,

 Zachi (waddling along).

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Solution for Today's Cluely, Jan-13-2025, #13

 

  

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Theme: Geometry

This was made as a farewell to my geometry class. Enjoy.

   

Clues

• Top left image: Johnny  Depp , from "Pirates of the Caribbean" 

 

Levels

• Point
• Line
• Triangle
• Square
• Pentagon

How hard was it?

Overall, it was mostly about the theme (did you notice the Hypotenuse, Acute angle, Right angle and Obtuse angles? Choux pastry might have been tricky (not if you are an avid watcher of the GBB), as well as Rhea. We'll give it a  5K Jog .

'till the next one,

 Zachi (waddling along).

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Solution for Today's Cluely, Jan--12-2024, #12

 

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Theme: "Imagine"

We all need a break sometime for the daily trials and tribulations. We need to "Imagine".

This cluely is a tribute to John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Imagine".

And as the repeating chorus goes (in different variations):

"Imagine all the people,

Livin' life in peace" 

 

Clues

• Top left image: John Lennon and Yoko Ono. This is actually from their "Bed peace" and "Hair peace" protest.
• Top right image: United -Nations.
• Top right, not a clue, image: The dove carrying an olive branch, to signify peace on earth after the deluge.
• Bottom left image: Cover of the album Imagine, by John Lennon.
• Bottom right: Peace symbol, with Tie-die colors.

We did have again partial clue:  GRE, and RE.

And one letter clues: B and S-curves.

You did need to know your roman numerals: M=1000, D=500, (C=100), L=50, and I=1. So 1551=MDLI.

Last but not the least: "Leave the gun, take the CANNOLI." is the famous line from "God Father" (the first one).

 

Levels

• Support
• Advocate
• Contribute
• Activist
• Dreamer - from "Imagine" - "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. And maybe one day you'll join us, and the world will be as one."

How hard was it?

Well, it is 11x11, so it takes time to complete. And then, you needed to know your Roman numbering. 

Overall, not as hard as last week's, and a little long to do. We'll give it 5K race grade.

'till the next one (which will be NEXT year!!),

 Zachi (waddling along).

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