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

[clem]

04/09/2025 

Justice, Only the Good, Epideme, Psirens

[Ben Saunders]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 04/09/2025 

OtG, Epideme, Quarantine, Terrorform

I didn’t think I’d actually get it

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 04/09/2025 

⬛🟨🟨🟩

Me2, Holoship, Inquisitor

[Dave]

04/09/2025 

Better Than Life, Emohawk, Demons & Angels.

[cwickham]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 04/09/2025 

Emohawk, Duct Soup, Quarantine

[RunawayTrain]

04/09/2025 

I was all over the place, I thought it was hair in a bun until I realised it was Rimmer after the fourth guess!

[Unrumble]

05/09/2025 

⬛🟩

The End 

[clem]

05/09/2025 

Me2, Stasis Leak

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 05/09/2025 

⬛⬛🟩

Legion, Timeslides

[Dave]

05/09/2025 

Confidence & Paranoia, Better Than Life.

[Ben Saunders]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 05/09/2025 

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Epideme, BitR I, BtL

[clem]

06/09/2025 

Krytie TV, Tikka, White Hole

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 06/09/2025 

⬛⬛🟨🟨🟩

DJ, Legion, BTL, Kryten

[Dave]

06/09/2025 

Gunmen, BitR1, BaJ.

The colour scheme screamed 1-2 but the image looked far too sharp to be one of the early series. One where the Blu-Ray clean-up has made a difference perhaps?

[Unrumble]

06/09/2025 

⬛⬛⬛🟩

Rimmerworld, DNA, BAJ

[Ben Saunders]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 06/09/2025 

🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨

I don’t want to talk about it

[Dave]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 06/09/2025 

I don’t want to talk about it

[Unrumble]

07/09/2025 

⬛🟨🟩

DNA, Rimmerworld 

[Dave]

07/09/2025 

Rimmerworld, Emohawk.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 07/09/2025 

⬛⬛🟩

Beyond, The End

[Ben Saunders]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 07/09/2025 

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Timeslides, Nanarchy

[clem]

07/09/2025 

Backwards, Rimmerworld

[RunawayTrain]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 06/09/2025 

I don’t want to talk about it

If it’s any consolation, me too.

07/09/2025 

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 08/09/2025 

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

[Dave]

08/09/2025 

The Beginning, The Promised Land, Can of Worms.

[Unrumble]

 08/09/2025 

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Officer Rimmer, The Beginning, Krysis, M-Corp

[cwickham]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 08/09/2025 

TPL, Krysis, Trojan, M-Corp

[Ian Symes]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 08/09/2025

That shouldn’t even be possible with a widescreen episode.

[Flap Jack]

Some people have aspect ratio blindness.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Some people have aspect ratio blindness.

I also have complete blindness to what episodes are what series. And I play as soon as I wake up so don’t put a huge amount of brain power to it 

Fathers and Suns, Samsara, Krysis, TPL, Officer Rimmer

apparently completely missed anything from XII

But though Craig’s suit was Rimmer’s uniform at one point.

[Flap Jack]

I wonder if guessing the same wrong series 3 times in the same game is a record?

[Dave]

[Ben Saunders]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 08/09/2025 

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shocking.

[clem]

08/09/2025 

[Unrumble]

 But though Craig’s suit was Rimmer’s uniform at one point.

Yeah, I thought it might be his dressing gown get-up for a while, but couldn’t think which episodes it definitely appeared in.

[RunawayTrain]

08/09/2025 

1

I also thought it was Rimmer’s suit but that was a fortunate guess.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 09/09/2025 

🟩

[Dave]

09/09/2025 

Duct Soup, Confidence and Paranoia. 

[Unrumble]

09/09/2025 

⬛🟩

Kryten 

[Ben Saunders]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 09/09/2025 

🟨🟨🟩

Future Echoes, Balance of Power

[Ben Saunders]

Duct Soup?!

[Dave]

Duct Soup?!

The lighting weirdly looked like it matched the scenes when Lister and Kochanski are having the heart-to-heart in the vents.

Like Quinn I play first thing in the morning and don’t dwell on my choices, I just go with what feels right.

[clem]

09/09/2025 

Me2, BOP

[RunawayTrain]

09/09/2025 

TFTM, Future Echoes

1

[Unrumble]

 10/09/2025 

🟨🟩

Psirens

[Ben Saunders]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 10/09/2025 

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Back to Reality, Justice, Psirens

2

[Dave]

10/09/2025 

Psirens, Rimmerworld, Legion.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 10/09/2025 

🟨🟩

Psirens 

[clem]

10/09/2025 

Rimmerworld, Psirens, Legion

[Dave]

11/09/2025 

Timewave, Mechocracy, Skipper.

[Author]

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