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  • October 30, 2025 at 3:56 pm #312774
    Nick R
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    You might know of The Atlantic’s daily nested clues quiz, Bracket City.

    They’ve just released a tool called the Bracket City Suburb Builder, which lets anyone make quizzes in the same format.

    I’ve used it to make one with a (mostly) Red Dwarf theme:
    https://suburbs.bracket.city/4J381I

    Give it a try and post your score! Or make your own and share it here!

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  • October 30, 2025 at 4:36 pm #312775
    Ian Symes
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    I had no idea what I was doing, but enjoyed it, and got a score of 78. My main mistake was, not knowing how it worked, trying to be clever and skipping ahead once I’d figured out where each bracket was heading.

    October 30, 2025 at 5:09 pm #312776
    Flap Jack
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    Fun stuff. I got so many wrong answers because I kept trying to answer for segments that hadn’t had all their clues revealed yet (plus a couple instances of me using synonyms rather than the actual words). I got through the whole quiz without understanding the order I was supposed to answer things, but that’s my fault for never playing the quiz format this was based on. Final score: 33.

    I got embarassingly stuck on the penultimate clue of

    [@’s [average [“nivello” is Esperanto for “_”] of cruelty]ing]

    because I just wasn’t expecting cryptic clues.

    October 30, 2025 at 9:24 pm #312783
    Warbodog
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    98 with 1 mistake, after seeing the explanation here that you have to do the highlighted parts first, and cheating just the once by looking up which translation it was in the Smega-Drive because that’s Series VII knowledge I don’t have.

    October 31, 2025 at 2:16 am #312793
    RunawayTrain
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    Score: 0.0
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    ❌ Wrong guesses: 60
    👀 Clues peeked: 7
    🛟 Answers revealed: 2
    Score breakdown
    Base score: 100.0
    Wrong guess penalty: -120.0
    Peek penalty: -35.0
    Reveal penalty: -40.0
    Final score: 0.0
    Total keystrokes: 467
    Minimum keystrokes needed: 145
    Excess keystrokes: 322
    I still don’t understand how it worked!  Most of those ‘wrong guesses’ were correct words just in the wrong place … I have no idea where it even started.  About 5 of those peeks were because I realised it let me type there 😅  Fun though!  Thanks for making it.
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