Dowsle

embecile, 10 months ago in Dowsle #423

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First hint
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it’s not a double green

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Number of letters:
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one less than the main word

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Number of letters in common:
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six

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Part of speech:
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same as main word

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Starting letter:
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same as main word

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same overarching category as main word, but in a different subcategory
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embecile, 10 months ago in Dowsle #417

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Gem hints below….
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four more than main word

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seven

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Wait a minute….
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yeah, the gem contains the main word

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it’s not a word I’ve ever heard and I had to use a word finder. If there are too many and you don’t feel like trying them all, the last hint is: categorize.

olaceyj, 10 months ago in Dowsle #411

I gave up on the gem. Now that we can see the answer it makes a lot of sense, in a rather gruesome way. 🦴

embecile, 10 months ago

So gruesome! I thought for sure it was gonna be a noun.

embecile, 11 months ago in Dowsle #409

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same as main word

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same as main word

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three

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Meaning hint:
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something you can put on your main word

Melancholia, 11 months ago

Yay I was able to find the gem with your hints

olaceyj, 11 months ago

Still can't find the gem. lol. I'll step away and try again with fresh eyes and brain.

✅ I solved Dowsle #409 in 41 guesses with no hints 🏅. Try it?
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embecile, 11 months ago

I can add some more hints below.

Hopefully it’s not too much at once, I tried to make it so you could look away if you wanted before seeing the next.

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Letters in common
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the three letters are in the same place as main word

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the last two letters are the same

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in addition to the three letters common, there’s also a duplicate letter in the gem (that is one of the letters in common). So four of the letters in the gem appear in the main word, it’s just one of them appears twice in the gem but only once in the main.

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Meaning hint:
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furniture

embecile, 11 months ago in Dowsle #401

Found the gem! If anyone hops over here and wants hints, post or maybe message me and I'll share.

mcssglx, 11 months ago

Yes! I’d be glad to have hints! maybe in this thread, with just some spoiler warning then a space? / maybe worded obliquely and I will just discern what I can? :) Thank you A LOT for taking the initiative and effort to make this “magazine” thread here!!

embecile, 11 months ago

Of course!!

Gem spoilers below! I'll put some whitespace lines to help make it less likely someone will read too much by accident.

I suppose I could just fill the page with a series of special characters (&& and shove the hints inside walls of text, but that might be a bit much.

It also seems like after a certain amount of lines, the comment forces you to scroll down and it hides things, so let me try that.

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////////////////////////////////////////////TRYING TO BURY THEM UNDER A SET OF TWO DOWN ^^s/////////////////////////////////////

Hopefully this buries them all.

EDIT: It didn't hide everything for me, but hopefully this works for people.

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.......same as main word

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....five

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......same as main word

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.....something you might call someone who is a nice, considerate person, always thinking of others and generally kind

If you want more hints, I can add another reply with additional hints!

embecile, 8 months ago in Dowsle #498

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Letters: one more than main word
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Letters in common: six
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Part of speech: noun
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Meaning hint: like the main word, it’s another type of role you see in the military

embecile, 8 months ago in Dowsle #495

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Letters: same as main word
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Letters in common: three
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Part of speech: noun
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Three letters occur in the same order and position as they do in the main word
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Meaning hint: like the main word, it’s another kind of emotion/feeling

embecile, 8 months ago in Dowsle #494

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Letters: one less than main word
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Letters in common: four + one dupe from the main word that’s in the gem twice but only in the main word once
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Part of speech: verb
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Three letters occur in the same order as they do in the main word (but not the same position)
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Meaning hint: maybe go treat yourself to a spa day

embecile, 8 months ago in Dowsle #493

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Part of speech: adjective and verb (gem is a homograph with two meanings, spelled the same and pronounced slightly differently (at least in the US)
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Additional hint:

Online forums often have people assigned to keep the peace…

embecile, 8 months ago in Dowsle #491

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Meaning hint:

You might <gem> at a <main word> coming at you.

embecile, 8 months ago in Dowsle #486

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one more letter than main word
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A <gem> could be used to harness the power of a <main word> in order to convert it into usable energy

embecile, 8 months ago in Dowsle #484

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Letter position: all three letters in common occur in the same order and same relative location (counting from the end) in both words.

embecile, 8 months ago in Dowsle #483

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if the main word is a subportion of some kind of item that falls under category X, then the gem is an item itself that falls under category X.
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plural
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if you’re all bundled up, your <main words> are quite possibly touching your <gem>.

embecile, 8 months ago in Dowsle #482

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it’s an adjective that doesn’t have as much in common with the main word as you might think. Both the gem and main word can be used to describe a state that food might be in, although the gem is broader as many different kinds of things can be <gem> that are not food.
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first letter is the same one beginning this line of text that you’re reading right now

embecile, 8 months ago in Dowsle #478

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last three letters are the same, first two letters are not in the main word at all
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it’s an adjective that doesn’t have as much in common with the main word as you might think. Total distance is 99. There’s a double green at 101 distance, sticky, that seems much closer in meaning than the gem. The gem isn’t a word that describes the characteristics of a surface like the main word. For a meaning hint, think viscosity.