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

[Moonlight]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 06/05/2026 

The cyan tone gave it away.

[clem]

06/05/2026 

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 06/05/2026 

Timewave, Skipper, M-Corp

[cwickham]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 06/05/2026 

G&T, Skipper, M-Corp

[Dave]

06/05/2026 

[FutureEchoes]

07/05/2026 

Samsara, Give & Take, Can of Worms, Officer Rimmer 

[clem]

07/05/2026 

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 07/05/2026 

Can of Worms

[Moonlight]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 07/05/2026 

Cured 

[Dave]

07/05/2026 

[Unrumble]

07/05/2026 

G&T, COW 

[Ben Saunders]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 07/05/2026 

TPL

3

G&T, COW 

How to get kicked out a bar

[Dave]

How to get kicked out a bar

I laughed.

[Turk Thrust]

I really can’t remember which episodes are in XI and XII.

#RedDwarf #Smegle 07/05/2026 

[cwickham]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 07/05/2026 

TPL, COW

[Unrumble]

08/05/2026 

Duct Soup, Polymorph, BOP

[Ben Saunders]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 08/05/2026 

DNA, Rimmerworld, Beyond a Joke

[clem]

08/05/2026 

Gunmen, Tikka, Krytie TV

[Moonlight]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 08/05/2026 

Beyond a Joke, Emohawk, DNA

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 08/05/2026 

Stoke, Emohawk, DNA

[Dave]

08/05/2026 

Polymorph, White Hole, Psirens. 

[Ian Symes]

So basically, nobody had a fucking clue for the first three guesses, until the fourth clue made it really obvious.

[Dave]

[Turk Thrust]

My memory really is shot to bits.

#RedDwarf #Smegle 08/05/2026 

[cwickham]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 08/05/2026 

Justice, Psirens, Beyond a Joke

[Unrumble]

09/05/2026 

Terrorform, DNA, Bodyswap 

[Ben Saunders]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 09/05/2026 

Marooned, DNA, Quarantine, I don’t recognise it at all so it must be Series IIIIIIII

5

[FutureEchoes]

09/05/2026 

Pete Part I, Pete Part II 

I thought the squares were so yellow it might be Canary uniforms.

[Moonlight]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 08/05/2026 

Ouroboros (the box maybe), Bodyswap (idk), Terrorform (the corridor the taranshula is crawling through?)

[clem]

09/05/2026 

 

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 09/05/2026 

[Dave]

09/05/2026 

[Moonlight]

Picking this episode feels like a scam to out its apologists, who will recognize it immediately.

[Dave]

Mine was a bit of a fluke based on orange = VIII.

[Moonlight]

I spent the whole time thinking “What the fuck scene has this much orange?!” until more details were revealed.

[Flap Jack]

I got it in one as well, and the thought was just “Yellow… Canaries?”.

[cwickham]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 09/05/2026 

R, M, T, BITR3

[Turk Thrust]

Perfection!

#RedDwarf #Smegle 09/05/2026 

[FutureEchoes]

10/05/2026 

Justice, DNA

[Ben Saunders]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 10/05/2026 

6

[Turk Thrust]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 10/05/2026 

[Moonlight]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 10/05/2026 

Complete and utter total absolute failure. I could not for the life of me remember where there’s a bowl of soup in the show and the most obvious possible clue was always hidden.

[Dave]

10/05/2026 

BitR2, Blue, Emohawk, Dimension Jump, oh it’s soup.

[Unrumble]

10/05/2026 

Started to sweat. Seemed obvious it was some kind of liquid/food/slime, don’t know why i didn’t figure it out sooner.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 10/05/2026 

I had no idea what I was looking at. I could see it was soup or jelly but I couldn’t place it. It’s only now seeing Camille’s arm it makes sense. 

[Ian Symes]

[clem]

10/05/2026 

[Unrumble]

11/05/2026 

BTE1, TPL

[Ben Saunders]

#RedDwarf #Smegle 11/05/2026 

Entangled

7

[FutureEchoes]

11/05/2026 

Fathers & Subs, Dear Dave, Entangled

[Author]

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