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

[Warbodog]

He wears it in Future Echoes too.

[Dave]

10/07/2022 

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The colours gave it away. 

[Unrumble]

Guessed Parallel Universe, thinking he was stood next to the bunk.

Next square revealed the jigsaw, so yeah. 

10/07/2022 

[International Debris]

Another example of FOLLOW YOUR FIRST INSTINCTS YOU WAZZOCK YOU COULD HAVE GOT IT IN ONE. Decided against it and went with Confidence & Paranoia because of the bed sheet.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 10/07/2022 

Thankfully I have a pretty good memory. 

Though granted I thought this was a scene from later in the episode when Rim er is dancing around in unkempt clothes after having woken up with Lister’s memories. But I was basically going entire from the first square and the blanket on the bunk so it’s probably very similar.

[RunawayTrain]

@Unrumble I *wish* my head could be retuned!

10/07/2022 

[Warbodog]

11/07/2022

It was eventually vaguely familiar as being from that episode.

[clem]

11/07/2022 

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Phew. Just guessing until that metal food container gave me the faintest idea that it might be the scene where Lister gets the stuff from Bob in the ceiling.

[RunawayTrain]

11/07/2022

Sheer guesswork, which is always hairy with VIII having more episodes than potential Smegle attempts.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 11/07/2022 

Cassandra as an initial guess. Then thought it might be the scene where they discover Baxter’s Hooch.  We’ll just before that. Then recognised it for what it was. 

[Unrumble]

11/07/2022 

[Dave]

 11/07/2022 

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Orange and lilac gave away Series VIII immediately, but beyond that no clue.

[cwickham]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 11/07/2022 

I presume I don’t need to explain what happened with that second one

[Dave]

I presume I don’t need to explain what happened with that second one

I don’t think Red Dwarf has enough episodes that begin with “Back”.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

S01E01 – Back to Earth

S01E02 – Back to the Future

S01E03 – Back to Beliving

S01E04 – Back to School

S01E05 – Back to Health

S01E06 – Back to Back

[Dave]

S02E01 – Back After Only Two Minutes

S02E02 – Back To Rhyl-ity

S02E03 – Back Of My Mind

S02E04 – Back In The Red: Part 0

S02E05 – Backed Into A Corner

S02E06 – Backwards Attitudes 

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

S01E01 – Back to Earth
S01E02 – Back to the Future
S01E03 – Back to Beliving
S01E04 – Back to School
S01E05 – Back to Health
S01E06 – Back to Back

I change my mind. S01E06 should be ‘Back Up’ … works on two levels then.  It’s Rimmer’s back up, and also he is back up and running again

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

S03E01 – Backwards

S03E02 – B[l]ack Holes

S03E03 – 

S03E04 – I Want Me Body Back

S03E05 – Back in Timeslides

S03E06 – Back in the Box

Polymorph has stumped me

[Dave]

S04E01 – Back To Mine?

S04E02 – Back To Humanity

S04E03 – Back Behind Bars

S04E04 – Back To Being Brilliant

S04E05 – Back A Year

S04E06 – Back To The Front

[Dave]

Polymorph has stumped me

Back in the clean underpants drawer.

[Dave]

I change my mind. S01E06 should be ‘Back Up’ … works on two levels then.  It’s Rimmer’s back up, and also he is back up and running again

And also, Rimmer’s double gets his back up

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

S04E01 – Back To Mine?
S04E02 – Back To Humanity
S04E03 – Back Behind Bars
S04E04 – Back To Being Brilliant
S04E05 – Back A Year
S04E06 – Back To The Front

I was thinking

S04E01 – Back into a Blob.

[Warbodog]

12/07/2022

That was a confusing colour until it was as obvious as it should have been all along.

[cwickham]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 12/07/2022 

Felt stupid when I realised what series it was really

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 12/07/2022 

Cats belt is a dead giveaway. But I fell into a trap at the start of not believing it’d be an viii episode two days in a row and thinking maybe the colour was something else. 

[Warbodog]

thinking maybe the colour was something else. 

I thought it might be Polymorph lighting or some kind of mid-90s video effect I couldn’t place. I didn’t want to accept the truth.

[Dave]

But I fell into a trap at the start of not believing it’d be an viii episode two days in a row and thinking maybe the colour was something else. 

Me too.

12/07/2022 

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[Unrumble]

But I fell into a trap at the start of not believing it’d be an viii episode two days in a row and thinking maybe the colour was something else. 

Me too.

Me three. The series was undeniable once the jumpsuit was revealed, but even seeing Kryten and Listers faces, my choice of OTG was really only an educated guess.

Seeing the whole thing, I know the scene, but don’t think I’d have necessarily been sure which episode it was from. 

12/07/2022 

[RunawayTrain]

12/07/2022

 

Sheer fluke, couldn’t remember whether they even wore those uniforms in that episode!

[Smeg4Brains]

I went with Ouroboros at first… I thought it might be Listers dressing gown

[clem]

12/07/2022 

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Just as well I got the series right straight away, unlike yesterday, because after that I was just guessing really, though as it’s an eight-episode series it was still brown trousers time.

[International Debris]

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Apparently I forgot to do it yesterday so my streak is now 1. Fuck.

[Dave]

1. Fuck.

[clem]

13/07/2022 

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Can of Worms, Twentica. 

[RunawayTrain]

13/07/2022

Thought it might be the Rimmer monster emerging.

[Warbodog]

Went for the old Promised Land gambit first, though it should have clearly been XI/XII colours.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 13/07/2022 

Time Wave > Can if Worms > Officer Rimmer

anything with lots of pink in to start. Even though I could tell that was lightning ore than anything else. Should have got it in two really but didn’t clock it was that Captain dude. 

[Dave]

13/07/2022 

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I thought it was the Pac-Man screen so lucked into the right episode.

[Unrumble]

Time Wave > Can if Worms > Officer Rimmer anything with lots of pink in to start. 

Same re: the pink. Then I recognised it from the shoulder 

#RedDwarf #Smegle 13/07/2022 

[International Debris]

Quite dark so I thought maybe Samsara first.

[loadoftottnumb]

OH COME ON!!!!!

#RedDwarf #Smegle 14/07/2022 

[RunawayTrain]

14/07/2022

[Warbodog]

Another tribute to the banana squares.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 14/07/2022 

Got series 2 immediately from the blue rivets. Guessed Parallel Universe as the yellow could have been Rimmer’s cycle outfit. Then had a stab with a random Thanks for the Memory before being drawn to Queeg. 

[Dave]

14/07/2022 

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Pretty generic series 2 image, could have been any of them really.

[Unrumble]

Got series 2 immediately from the blue rivets. Guessed Parallel Universe as the yellow could have been Rimmer’s cycle outfit.

I guessed Stasis Leak, as I thought it might be is past self’s orange jumpsuit. Then I went Kryten, as I thought that’s the tiny bit of Cat’s shirt from that episode. 

Then I went with Queeg as it was seemingly Rimmer looking at the sleeping quarters viewscreen. 

 14/07/2022 

[Flap Jack]

Heh, this one beat me. I thought the top of Rimmer’s hair was some sort of creature, so didn’t get the right series until Guess 3.

[Flap Jack]

https://smegle.ganymede.tv/casual/e078d4d0076166a7bb489ca3b3a583ab

[International Debris]

Could have been any of them, really.

[Smeg4Brains]

Thank cloister for the banana, only reason I knew it was going to be S2 from the start

[Author]

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