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]

 29/03/2026 

Entangled 

[Dave]

29/03/2026 

TPL.

[Dave]

OK, did you get it one go, or did you guess Justice? … or did you say “Justice” because you felt it was justice to get it in one go?

I suspect this may have been a Casual Continuous sneaking in.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 29/03/2026 

Fathers and Suns

[clem]

29/03/2026 

[Moonlight]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 29/03/2026 

Entangled

[FutureEchoes]

30/03/2026 

Pete Part I, Cassandra, Pete Part II, Only the Good

[Moonlight]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 30/03/2026 

I was bound to get it eventually.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 30/03/2026 

I didn’t recognise that as an VIII uniform u til the very end. Then hit Back to Earth rather than BitR

[Dave]

30/03/2026 

Pete 1, BitR3, Pete 2, Only The Good.

[cwickham]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 30/03/2026 

Petes, Cassandra, Krytie TV

[Ben Saunders]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 30/03/2026 

Cassanda, BitR3, Krytie TV, OtG, Pete I

[Unrumble]

 30/03/2026 

[clem]

30/03/2026 

Last Day, BITR2, Pete 1

[Unrumble]

 31/03/2026 

Gunmen, DNA, Kryten

[FutureEchoes]

31/03/2026 

Terrorform

[Ben Saunders]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 31/03/2026 

🟩

[Moonlight]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 31/03/2026 

I was wrong about the specific shot but I knew the scene.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 31/03/2026 

Thanks for the Memory, Beyond a Joke

[Dave]

 I was wrong about the specific shot but I knew the scene.

This.

31/03/2026 

[clem]

31/03/2026 

[FutureEchoes]

01/04/2026 

Terrorform, Polymorph, Future Echoes

[clem]

01/04/2026 

[Moonlight]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 01/04/2026 

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 01/04/2026 

April Fools!

[Dave]

01/04/2026 

Meltdown, Stasis Leak, Future Echoes.

[Unrumble]

01/04/2026 

Meltdown, Future Echoes, The End 

[cwickham]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 01/04/2026 

Meltdown, Balance of Power, Waiting for God

[Ian Symes]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 01/04/2026 

April Fools!

This is genuinely unintentional. We have manually selected frames for certain days in the past, but this was picked at random. I go through the random selections and make sure they’re neither too easy nor impossible, and I remember clearing this one, but didn’t clock which day it was attached to. Basically, I think the Smega-Drive is becoming self aware. 

[Ben Saunders]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 01/04/2026 

⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨

DNA, Stasis Leak, The End, Future Echoes, Balance of Power

Reading the thread, I thought oh ffs of COURSE it’s THAT scene. Hearing that it wasn’t that intentionally… that’s too much of a coincidence. Shut down the Smega-Drive NOW

[Veeva]

Assuming all of the ‘Meltdown’ guesses believed it was this frame, as did I.

[Unrumble]

[Unrumble]

02/04/2026 

[clem]

02/04/2026 

[FutureEchoes]

02/04/2026 

White Hole, BiTR Part III, Terrorform

Current streak – 7 days

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 02/04/2026 

BitR pt2

[Dave]

02/04/2026 

BitR1.

[Ben Saunders]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 02/04/2026 

⬛🟩

Cassandra, I thought it was when they show all the freaks who stay in the tank

[cwickham]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 02/04/2026 

[Veeva]

[Unrumble]

03/04/2026 

Camille

[clem]

03/04/2026 

Polymorph

[Ben Saunders]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 03/04/2026 

Dimension Jump, Bodyswap

2

[Moonlight]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 03/04/2026 

Lucky guess after DNA.

[Dave]

03/04/2026 

One of those rare ones where I knew exactly what I was looking at. 

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 03/04/2026 

Camille, Holoship

[cwickham]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 03/04/2026 

DJ

[FutureEchoes]

04/04/2026 

G&T, BtE Part I, BtE Part III

[Moonlight]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 04/04/2026 

There is only one shot in the entire show that color could indicate.

[Unrumble]

04/04/2026 

G&T, M-Corp, TPL, BTE I

[Author]

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