Smugle or Strugle? – Dispatches From Smegle

[Flap Jack]

Howdy doodly do, folks! As we’ve now had 2 weeks of the Difficult Daily, I thought it might be prudent to move discussions of the day’s puzzle and our scores to a dedicated thread, so we’re not just bloating the comments of the “Reintroducing Smegle” post all the time. Let that be for more general feedback (or bug reports).

And of course, if you get any share-worthy frames in Casual Continuous, feel free to post those here too!

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To start us off,

01/05/2022

5/6

Somewhat tricky, but once I’d got the right series I felt confident I could narrow it down enough not to fail.

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Also, what do you think: should this thread be spoiler-free, or not? I’m leaning towards not – because I generally prefer to do the Difficult Daily myself before hearing about others’ scores anyway, and it would be cool to speak openly without having to wait until the next day – but only if there’s consensus on it.

Topic

[Unrumble]

 I can’t see how anyone needs more than one wrong guess to get that

03/06/2024 

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Mechocracy, Give & Take, TPL. 

Should’ve got it at least one sooner. 

[RunawayTrain]

03/06/2024 

19

[Unrumble]

04/06/2024 

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[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 04/06/2024 

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Can of Worms, TPL, Timewave

[Dave]

04/06/2024 

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Good job I started on the right series. Everything except Siliconia.

[cwickham]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 04/06/2024 

Officer Rimmer, Cured, Mechocracy

[clem]

04/06/2024 

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Can of Worms, TPL (thought that was Rodon’s hair), Mechocracy  

[Unrumble]

05/06/2024 

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First two guesses, no idea (Quarantine, Blue), then Stasis Leak, then BITR 1, 2, 3

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 05/06/2024 

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The End, Kryten, Nanarchy, BitR 1, 2, 3

[Dave]

05/06/2024 

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Backwards, Parallel Universe, Nanarchy, BITR 1,2 3

[Flap Jack]

First two guesses, no idea (Quarantine, Blue), then Stasis Leak, then BITR 1, 2, 3

Nearly identical attempt from me, but I tried The Inquisitor instead of Quarantine.

Who knew that the Holly watch was in Pete Part 2??? I should have remembered really, given how much memorable and funny dialogue Holly has in it, and how essential he was to the story.

[cwickham]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 05/06/2024 

Back to Reality, Emohawk, Nanarchy obviously, Back in the Red Part One, remembered his only line in Part Two is a voiceover so didn’t put that, Part Three, then of the five left it can’t be Cassandra because he’s on the monitor in the prison cell in his only scene there, so what’s another episode where he’s on the watch and not a monitor of some kind…

[clem]

05/06/2024 

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BaJ, Back to Reality, BITR 1, 2, 3, Krytie TV 

so what’s another episode where he’s on the watch and not a monitor of some kind…

[RunawayTrain]

Okay well I feel slightly better about missing a day now, since some others didn’t get today’s.  I nearly didn’t.

05/06/2024 

Terrorform (yes yes, I know, I was just completely stumped), Emohawk, BITR I-III, exceedingly fortunate guess.

1

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 06/06/2024 

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Back to Reality, Holoship, The Inquisitor

[Dave]

06/06/2024 

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Initially thought it was a scene from Parallel Universe with both Hollies.

[Unrumble]

06/06/2024 

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Dimension Jump, then even though I recognised the exact scene, Holoship 

[Flap Jack]

Got it in 1 guess, 1 day after breaking my streak.

[Ben Saunders]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 06/06/2024 

I just went through V episodes where Holly does next to nothing in my head (most redundant statement)

[RunawayTrain]

06/06/2024 

Mildly embarrassing it took so many guesses.

2

[clem]

06/06/2024 

🟩

[Ben Saunders]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 07/06/2024 

White Hole (pool with planets), Balance of Power (eating the cake), Parallel Universe, Thanks for the Memory, Kryten, Parallel Universe (tried it again just to be sure it seems)

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 07/06/2024 

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Duct Soup, Future Echos, Queeg, Thanks for the Memory

[Dave]

07/06/2024 

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Bodyswap, The End, all of 2 except Kryten and Queeg.

[Unrumble]

 07/06/2024 

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Backwards, then seemed a logical choice based on the bunk photo of Fiji and the lighting

[clem]

07/06/2024 

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[RunawayTrain]

07/06/2024 

Nooooo :(

[Ben Saunders]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 08/06/2024 

Give & Take, Samsara, Krysis, Can of Worms… there was only one episode left it could reasonably be

[clem]

08/06/2024 

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Entangled, TPL, G&T 

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 08/06/2024 

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TPL, M-Corp

[Unrumble]

08/06/2024 

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Skipper, TPL, G&T

[Dave]

08/06/2024 

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The Beginning, TPL.

[cwickham]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 08/06/2024 

CoW, S, G&T

[RunawayTrain]

08/06/2024 

The Beginning, BTE III, TPL.

1

[Unrumble]

09/06/2024 

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C&P, Rimmerworld 

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 09/06/2024 

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Legion, White Hole, Timeslides but I meant Bodyswap

[cwickham]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 09/06/2024 

Legion, Timeslides, Polymorph, Backwards

[Dave]

09/06/2024 

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Demons & Angels, Waiting For God, White Hole, Polymorph.

[Ben Saunders]

09/06/2024 

Legion, White Hole, Quarantine, The Last Day

[clem]

09/06/2024 

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Balance of Power, White Hole, Last Day

[RunawayTrain]

09/06/2024 

*sigh* today is not a day for braining of any kind.

[Ben Saunders]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 10/06/2024 

Kryten

[clem]

10/06/2024 

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Pete 2, Holoship 

[Dave]

10/06/2024 

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Parallel Universe, Better Than Life. 

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 10/06/2024 

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Psirens

[cwickham]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 10/06/2024 

Psirens, Terrorform, oh right it’s the Hologrammatic Projection Cage

[Unrumble]

10/06/2024 

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Inquisitor 

[Turk Thrust]

10/06/2024 

[RunawayTrain]

10/06/2024 

Psirens, White Hole, oh look it’s the cage.

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[Dave]

oh look it’s the cage.

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